Gerhard Casper

Gerhard Casper
9th President of Stanford University
In office
September 1, 1992[1] – August 31, 2000
Preceded byDonald Kennedy
Succeeded byJohn L. Hennessy
Personal details
Born (1937-12-25) December 25, 1937 (age 86)
Hamburg, Germany
Alma materUniversity of Hamburg (LLB)
Yale University (LLM)
University of Freiburg (PhD)
ProfessionPolitical Scientist

Gerhard Casper (born December 25, 1937)[2] is a political scientist who is a former president of Stanford University from 1992 to 2000, a former Dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 1979 to 1987, and a former provost of the University of Chicago from 1989 to 1992.[3] Casper was president of the American Academy in Berlin from July 2015 through July 2016; from August 2019 to January 24, 2020, he served as the institution's trustee-in-residence.[4][5][6]

Casper is also a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford, and served as the institute's director between September 2012 and June 2013.[7] Casper is also the Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education, emeritus, and is a professor with emeritus status at Stanford Law School.

  1. ^ O'Toole, Kathleen (March 18, 1992). "Chicago's Gerhard Casper named Stanford's ninth president". Stanford News. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
  2. ^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  3. ^ "History | Office of the Provost".
  4. ^ "Gerhard Casper Homepage". gcasper.stanford.edu. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Stanford President Emeritus Gerhard Casper named president of American Academy in Berlin". 4 December 2014.
  6. ^ "Zwist in der American Academy: Präsident McCarthy gibt nach wenigen Monaten auf". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). 22 May 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2022. referring to Gerhard Casper's renewed tenure at the American Academy in Berlin
  7. ^ "Gerhard Casper". Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Stanford University. Retrieved 27 September 2022.