Comments on: Nominations for Chairs

By: Phoenician in a time of Romans

Phoenician in a time of Romans — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:39:21 +0000

The Saddam Hussein Chair in Political Analysis.
The Karl Rove Chair in Communication Ethics.
The Albert Gore Chair of Electoral Security Systems.

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:57:51 +0000

I vote the prize for the “Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature.” I don’t know if it’s so funny because its real or just the idea of someone being officially declared a weary professor.

By: ogmb

ogmb — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:57:16 +0000

Until he moved to UCSD this year Keith Poole held the Kenneth L. Lay chair in political science at the University of Houston. Afaik the chair (endowed by Enron) still exists.

By: glenn olsen

glenn olsen — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:46:15 +0000

The Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi Chair of Democratization Studies

By: Jonathan Dresner

Jonathan Dresner — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:26:40 +0000

Truth may be at least as strange as satire: I just learned that Harvard has a “Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature”….

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 06:24:37 +0000

The George W. Bush Chair in Climate Change
The Dan Rather Chair in Document Forensics
The William Gates Chair in Anti-Trust Law
The Kim-Jong Il Chair in International Relations

By: snuh

snuh — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:40:05 +0000

the samuel walton chair of (inter alia) industrial relations, community relations, workplace relations, gender studies, multicultural studies, antitrust studies and first amendment law.

By: Matt Singer

Matt Singer — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 01:04:28 +0000

The Michael Jackson Chair in Identity Theory
The Hugh Hewitt Chair in Blogger Triumphalism
The Glenn Reynolds Chair in Library Science

By: Uncle Kvetch

Uncle Kvetch — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:23:58 +0000

“The Robert Novak Chair in Mimetic Herpetology”
I think we have a winner.

By: Sonny Jim

Sonny Jim — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:30:32 +0000

The John Payne Collier Chair in Book History and Literary Detection.
Or how about the Mark Hofmann Chair in Manuscript Studies and Ordinance Engineering?

By: MisterBS

MisterBS — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:02:44 +0000

The Robert Novak Chair in Mimetic Herpetology The Darl McBride Chair in Patent Law The Armstrong Williams Chair in Public Accountability

By: Paul Gowder

Paul Gowder — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:44:15 +0000

The Clarence Thomas Chair in Constitutional Theory
The Bernard Kerik Chair in Public Administration
The Richard Nixon Chair in Democratic Values

By: jlw

jlw — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:52:07 +0000

Morbidly:
The Thomas A. Edison Chair for Criminal Deterence—or, more obscurely:
The Christopher Pike Chair for Binary Communication.

By: jan

jan — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:47:10 +0000

tony blair chair of canine studies

By: mrjauk

mrjauk — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:28:50 +0000

The Abraham Lincoln Chair of Southern Culture
The Paris Hilton Chair of Modern Communications Security