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New Professorship Honors Walter LaFeber

Tom Pepinsky on Cornell campus
March 23, 2021

Tom Pepinsky to serve as inaugural Walter F. LabFeber Professor

A professorship has been established in the College of Arts & Sciences to honor Walter LaFeber, the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, who died March 9 at the age of 87.

Tom Pepinsky, a Tisch University Professor in government, will be the inaugural Walter F. LaFeber Professor.

The professorship was created thanks to a gift from Andrew H. Tisch ’71 and Ann Rubenstein Tisch.

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