Historian Niall Ferguson Will Leave Harvard for Stanford

The Crimson

By MARIEL A. KLEIN and MEG P. BERNHARD, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
October 8, 2015

Harvard History professor and famed Henry Kissinger biographer Niall C. Ferguson will leave Cambridge for Stanford’s Hoover Institution after 12 years, following several other of Harvard’s esteemed academics in moves out West.

In a post to his Facebook page Wednesday afternoon, Ferguson broke the news of his departure, writing that he will become a full-time senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, an American public policy think tank. Ferguson has served as an adjunct senior fellow there for more than a decade.