University of Chicago

John W. Boyer

"Gregorian Chant as Splendor Formae of the Liturgy"

John W. Boyer is Senior Advisor to the President and the Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History. He served as Dean of the College from 1992 through June 2023.

Prof. Boyer received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1975 and joined the faculty in the same year. He is the author of several books, including The University of Chicago: A History and Culture and Political Crisis in Vienna: Christian Socialism in Power, 1897-1918.

In 2004 Prof. Boyer was awarded the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class, by the Republic of Austria. He received the 2006 Austrian State Prize for Modern History. He is a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna in 2015, in recognition of his scholarly work on the Habsburg Empire.