Ann Blair Named Cabot Fellow at Harvard University

Harvard University recently named 10 scholars as 2011 Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences honored the 10 faculty members for distinguished scholarship.

There was only one woman among the 10 new Cabot Fellows. Ann M. Blair, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, was honored for her book, Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age (Yale University Press).

Professor Blair is a summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College. She earned a master’s degree at Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in history at Princeton University. She has been on the Harvard faculty since 1996. Previously, she taught at the University of California at Irvine.