Dean Bundy Names Three Full Professor Promotions

Dean Bundy yesterday announced the promotion of three associate professors of History to full professorships. Myron P. Gilmore, Oscar Handlin, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 will assume their new positions Feb. 1.

Gilmore, an authority on the Ranaissance, heads the Committee on History and Literature, His courses include History of the Renaissance and Reformation in Europe. A graduate of Amherst, he did his graduate work at the University, where he received his doctorate in 1935.

Handlin is an authority on both the history of Massachusetts and immigration into the United States. In 1952, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his book, "The Uprooted," a study of the immigrant in America. He was awarded the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association in 1942 following the publication of his book. "Boston's Immigrants."

In collaboration with his wife, he published another book, "Commonwealth," and he is the author of "The World of Humanism, 1452-1517."

Although he, too, did not graduate from the College, he also received his Ph.D. from the University.

Schlesinger, whose field is the social and intellectual history of the United States, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for his history. "The Age of Jackson", he is now working on another, "The Age of Roosevelt."

In 1946, he was chosen one of the outstanding young men of the country by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, and he received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in the same year.

A graduate of Harvard and a Henry Fellow at Cambridge University, he was appointed a junior fellow of the Society of Fellows at the University, and later held a Guggenheim Fellowship.