Robert A. McCaughey—Schools and Jobs

1945-50 – Lincoln Avenue Primary School. Pawtucket, Rhode Island – K -5
1950-51 – J.C. Potter School, Pawtucket — 6^th grade
1951-52 – Goff Junior High School, Pawtucket – 7^th grade
1953-55 – The British American High School, Kiffissia, Greece – 8^th and 9^th grade
1955-57 – St. Raphael’s  Academy, Pawtucket – 10^th through 12^th grade

1957-61 – University of Rochester, Rochester New York
on a NROTC scholarship; majored in history; graduated summa cum laude

1961-65 – United States Navy; Ensign to Lieutenant, USN Supply Corps
Supply Corps School, Athens, Georgia July 1961 – December 1961
Supply Officer, USS Tracer AGR 15, based in San Francisco,
January 1962 – July 1963
Assistant Professor of Naval Science, NROTC Unit, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina —  August 1963-June 1965
MA student, American Studies, UNC – 1963-65; MA  degree June 1965
Resigned regular commission US Navy June 1965 upon completion of 4-years’service

1965-1969 – NDEA Fellowship in American History, Harvard University
Summer 1966 – NSF-funded program in quantitative history, Cornell University
1967-69 —  Section man for Donald Fleming in American intellectual history
Completed and submitted PhD dissertation in August 1969

1969- 2020 – Member of the Barnard College Faculty
1969-1972 – Assistant professor of American history
1972-73 – Charles Warren Fellow in American History, Harvard University
1975 – Promoted to associate professor with tenure
1976 – Elected member of the Columbia History Department
1976-77 – Simon Guggenheim Fellow, in residence at Teachers College
1980 – Promoted to full professor
1983 – Founding member and Director of the Freshman Seminar Program
1985 – 1987 —  Chair of the Barnard History Department

1987-1994 – Dean of the Faculty, Barnard College

Summer 1995 – NEH Fellow at Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Ct.
1996-1999 – Chair of the Barnard History Department
2000 –Named Janet Robb Professor of History and Social Science
2000-2007 – Director of the Mellon-Foundation funded Barnard Electronic Archive
and  Teaching Laboratory  (BEATL)
2002-03 – Gilder-Lehrman Fellow at the New-York Historical Society

2020 – Retired to become Robb Professor of History Emeritus
2021, 2022 – Taught one seminar each fall as member of the Barnard
contingent faculty