Andrew Fleming West Chair

The Andrew Fleming West Chair in Classics is an endowed chair for the teaching of classics at Princeton University.^[1]

Established by a gift of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in honor of Andrew Fleming West, long-serving Giger Professor of Latin and inaugural Dean of the Princeton University Graduate School, the chair originally functioned as a distinguished visiting professorship, beginning with Sir Denys Page in 1938.^[2] Its current holder is Roman historian Harriet I. Flower.

List of Andrew Fleming West Professors

• Denys Page (1938–1939)
• Ivan Mortimer Linforth (1939–1940)
• John V.A. Fine (1940–1941)
• Henry W. Prescott (1941–1943)
• Allan C. Johnson (1943–1949)
• Whitney J. Oates (1949–1962)
• Samuel D. Atkins (1962–1978)
• W. Robert Connor (1978–1989)
• André Laks (1993–1995)
• Fritz Graf (2000–2002)
• Brent Shaw (2003–2017)
• Harriet I. Flower (2017–)

See also

• Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, University of Oxford
• Giger Professor of Latin, Princeton University
• Kennedy Professor of Latin, University of Cambridge
• Professor of Latin, University College London
• Sather Professorship of Classical Literature, University of California, Berkeley

References

1. "Professorships". dof.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
2. "PRINCETON TO OPEN 192D YEAR TUESDAY". The New York Times. Princeton, NJ. 25 September 1938. Retrieved 20 November 2025.