Timeline
- 1948 receives BA degree from Amherst College
- 1948 marries Nancy Davidson
- 1955 publishes first book, The Yalta Conference
- 1956 receives PhD from Harvard University
- 1957 joins the University of Rochester’s Political Science Department
- 1959 PhD dissertation “The President’s Cabinet” is published by Harvard University Press
- 1970-78 named the Don Alonzo Watson Professor of History and Political Science
- 1974 named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1976 awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1978 Home Style is published
- 1979 Home Style wins the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the “best book published in the United States in 1978 in government, politics or international affairs.”
- 1980 Home Style wins the D.B. Hardeman Prize, from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, for “the best book on the United States Congress in the Twentieth Century,” written between 1976-78.
- 1975-80 serves as Chairman, Selection Committee and Advisory Committee, American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship Program
- 1978 named the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science
- 1983 elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- 1984-85 serves as President of the American Political Science Association
- 1985 named “Distinguished University Professor”
- 1986 the American Political Science Association’s Legislature Studies Section establishes the Richard F. Fenno Prize for best book on legislative studies
- 1989 elected member of the American Philosophical Society
- 1994 Lewis and Nancy Kaplan establish the Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Fund to purchase material related to political science for the University of Rochester Libraries
- 1997 Conference celebrates 40th anniversary as professor at UR; participants are all former graduate students
- 2001 Congress at the Grassroots wins the V. O. Key Award for best book on Southern politics, 2001
- 2005 Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Seminar Room dedicated in Harkness Hall
