sentences:  He would hold this position from 1958–1992, then becoming Hancock Professor Emeritus.Cross was Curator of the Harvard Semitic Museum from 1958–1961 and Director of the Museum from 1974–1987.Cross was a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (1971–1972), a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1978–1979), a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Member of the American Philosophical Society.