Sheldon Hackney
Sheldon Hackney is a native Alabamian. A student of C. Vann Woodward at Yale, Hackney taught at Princeton University, served as president of Tulane University (1975-1980) and the Univerrsity of Pennsylvania (1981-1993). In 1993 he was appointed by President Clinton as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities where he served until 1997. After his NEH service he returned to the University of Pennsylvania as Boies professor of United States history.