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CHARLES HOMER HASKINS PRIZE LECTURE FOR 2012 A Life of Learning Joyce Appleby ACLS OCCASIONAL PAPER, No. 69 ACLS The 2012 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture was presented at the ACLS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, on May 11, 2012. © 2012 by Joyce Appleby CONTENTS On Charles Homer Haskins iv Haskins Prize Lecturers v Brief Biography of vi Joyce Appleby Introduction ix by Pauline Yu A Life of Learning 1 by Joyce Appleby ON CHARLES HOMER HASKINS Charles Homer Haskins (1870-1937), for whom the ACLS lecture series is named, was the first chairman of the American Council of Learned Societies, from 1920 to 1926. He began his teaching career at the Johns Hopkins University, where he received the B.A. degree in 1887 and the Ph.D. in 1890. He later taught at the University of Wisconsin and at Harvard, where he was Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History at the time of his retirement in 1931, and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1908 to 1924. He served as president of the American Historical Association in 1922, and was a founder and the second president of the Medieval Academy of America (1926). A great American teacher, Charles Homer Haskins also did much to establish the reputation of American scholarship abroad. His distinction was recognized in honorary degrees from Strasbourg, Padua, Mancheste