Professor
Charles Ernest Rosenberg
Harvard University
Historian; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
History
Elected
1986
Professor Charles Ernest Rosenberg is a Professor of the History of Science and the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences at Harvard University, who specializes in the history of medicine. He received his B.A. in 1956 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, later attending Columbia University for his M.A. and Ph.D. Before coming to Harvard University, Professor Rosenberg taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 2001. He has written numerous books, including his best known works, Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 (Chicago, 1962, new edition, 1987); The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau. Psychiatry and Law in the Gilded Age (Chicago, 1968); No Other Gods. On Science and American Social Thought(Johns Hopkins, 1976, new and expanded edition, 1997); The Care of Strangers. Professor Rosenberg is the recipient of the William H. Welch Medal and George Sarton Medal.
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