Established in 1982 by the University in memory of Herbert Baxter Adams
The University's first professor of history, HERBERT BAXTER ADAMS came to Hopkins during its first year of operation in 1876 as a teaching fellow and went on to chair the History and Political Science Department. A foremost scholar of American history, he was a leader in the creation of the American Historical Association. Dr. Adams, who was known to quietly lend money to students in need, believed that the main principle of historical training was "to encourage independent thought and research." Among his students were Frederick Jackson Turner, A&S 1890 (Ph.D.), who went on to become a prominent historian--the first to assert the importance of the frontier in forming the American character--and Woodrow Wilson, A&S 1886 (Ph.D.), who became the 28th president of the United States. Dr. Adams died in 1901.
A.J.R. RUSSELL-WOOD, the Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of History, is a specialist on colonial Latin America and the Portuguese-influenced world. His wide-ranging interests are reflected in his publications on economics, society, administrative and urban history, the history of art, institutions, medicine, epidemiology and public health, technology, the family, women, race and ethnicity, comparative slavery, and historiography. Dr. Russell-Wood has authored or edited eight books, the most recent being Government and Governance of European Empires, 1450-1800, (2001). He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1971 and has served as chair of the Departments of History and of Hispanic and Italian Studies (acting). His contributions to scholarship have been recognized by prizes, by the government of Portugal, and by election as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Geographical Society (London), and of the Instituto Historico e Geografico Brasileiro (Rio de Janeiro).
The University's first professor of history, HERBERT BAXTER ADAMS came to Hopkins during its first year of operation in 1876 as a teaching fellow and went on to chair the History and Political Science Department. A foremost scholar of American history, he was a leader in the creation of the American Historical Association. Dr. Adams, who was known to quietly lend money to students in need, believed that the main principle of historical training was "to encourage independent thought and research." Among his students were Frederick Jackson Turner, A&S 1890 (Ph.D.), who went on to become a prominent historian--the first to assert the importance of the frontier in forming the American character--and Woodrow Wilson, A&S 1886 (Ph.D.), who became the 28th president of the United States. Dr. Adams died in 1901. 
A.J.R. RUSSELL-WOOD, the Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of History, is a specialist on colonial Latin America and the Portuguese-influenced world. His wide-ranging interests are reflected in his publications on economics, society, administrative and urban history, the history of art, institutions, medicine, epidemiology and public health, technology, the family, women, race and ethnicity, comparative slavery, and historiography. Dr. Russell-Wood has authored or edited eight books, the most recent being Government and Governance of European Empires, 1450-1800, (2001). He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1971 and has served as chair of the Departments of History and of Hispanic and Italian Studies (acting). His contributions to scholarship have been recognized by prizes, by the government of Portugal, and by election as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Geographical Society (London), and of the Instituto Historico e Geografico Brasileiro (Rio de Janeiro).