List of University of Chicago faculty

This list of University of Chicago faculty contains administrators, long-term faculty members, and temporary academic staffs of the University of Chicago. The long-term faculty members consists of tenure/tenure-track and equivalent academic positions, while that of temporary academic staffs consists of lecturers (without tenure), postdoctoral researchers, visiting professors or scholars (visitors), and equivalent academic positions. Summer visitors are also generally excluded from the list (unless summer work yielded significant end products) since summer terms are not part of formal academic years; the same rule applies to the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies, the extension school of the university.

Business
For a more comprehensive list, see List of University of Chicago Booth School of Business faculty.

Graduate Library School (1928–1989)

This school, established with funding from the Carnegie Foundation, so important to the development of U.S. librarianship in the 20th century, was closed in 1989. For details see: Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, 1928-1989.

Literature
  • Frederick A. de Armas – Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities and professor of Spanish and comparative literature; chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
  • Saul Bellow (X. 1939) – former Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and English; winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature
  • Lauren Berlant – George M. Pullman Professor of English
  • David Bevington – editor, scholar of the work of William Shakespeare
  • Homi K. Bhabha – former professor of English
  • Allan Bloom – author of The Closing of the American Mind; former professor in the Committee on Social Thought
  • Wayne C. Booth – George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
  • Kenneth Burke – philosophy, aesthetics, criticism and rhetorical literary theorist
  • Chicago School of literary criticism – group of faculty members at the University of Chicago (R.S. Crane, Elder Olson, Wayne Booth) who founded neo-Aristotelianism[note 1]
  • John Maxwell Coetzee – 2003 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature; distinguished professor in the Committee on Social Thought
  • T.S. Eliot – influential poet, dramatist and literary critic; member of the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought
  • Ralph Ellison – National Book Award winner for Invisible Man
  • Leela Gandhi – postcolonial theorist and British English professor
  • Gerald Graff (A.B. 1959) – former professor of English and Education
  • Daryl Hine – poet and translator; MacArthur Fellow in 1986
  • James R. Lawler – Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures (1979–97)
  • Norman Maclean – author of A River Runs Through It
  • Thomas Pavel – Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Departments of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature
  • Robert Pinsky – poet-critic; former assistant professor of the humanities
  • A.K. Ramanujan – poet and scholar of Indian literature; MacArthur Fellow in 1983
  • Mark Strand – former professor in the Committee on Social Thought; Pulitzer Prize winner
  • David E. Wellbery – chair of the department of Germanic Studies
  • Thornton Wilder – professor (1930–1937); winner of the National Book Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize
  • Eleanor Wilner – poet
  • A.B. Yehoshua – Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright
  • Adam Zagajewski – member of the Committee on Social Thought

Law School

Oriental Institute

Mathematics

History
  • Muzaffar Alam – George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations
  • Robert Bartlett – professor of medieval history (1984–1992), and currently Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History, University of St. Andrew's; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and author of many books, including The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Social Change (Princeton University Press, 1994)
  • Daniel Boorstin – professor at the University of Chicago for 25 years; Pulitzer Prize winner (1974); Librarian of Congress
  • John W. Boyer – dean of the college and the Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of History
  • James Henry Breasted – professor of Egyptology and Oriental history
  • John Leonard Clive– historian, winner of the National Book Award for Biography and History
  • Herrlee G. Creel (Ph.B. 1926, A.M. 1927, Ph.D. 1929) – sinologist
  • Ioan P. Culianu – historian of religion
  • Bruce Cumings – Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the college
  • Lorraine Daston – visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought
  • Shannon Lee Dawdy – associate professor, MacArthur Fellow
  • Fred M. Donner – professor of Near Eastern history; Guggenheim Fellow (2007)
  • Stanley Elkins – American historian, best known for his influential, yet controversial, comparison of slavery in the United States to Nazi concentration camps
  • Sheila Fitzpatrick – Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of History; historian of modern Russian and Soviet history
  • Cornell Fleischer – Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies; MacArthur "Genius" Fellow (1988)
  • John Hope Franklin – pioneering scholar of African-American history; civil rights leader; professor of history from 1964; John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, 1969–82; resident of the American Historical Association (1979); winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Pulitzer Prize
  • Ramón A. Gutiérrez – Preston & Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of United States History; director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture; author of award-winning book When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991); MacArthur Fellow (1983)[note 2]
  • Jan E. Goldstein – intellectual historian of modern Europe, co-editor of the Journal of Modern History
  • Gustave E. von Grunebaum – historian and Arabist
  • Marshall G. S. Hodgson – pioneer in Islamic Studies and global history, member of the Committee on Social Thought
  • Thomas C. Holt – James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History; MacArthur Fellow in 1990
  • Akira Iriye – professor of history until 1989; now Charles Warren Professor Emeritus of American History at Harvard; leading diplomatic and international historian, specializing in U.S.-Japan relations during the 20th century; Guggenheim Fellow (1974) and president of the American Historical Association (1988)
  • Walter Kaegi – professor of Byzantine and late Roman history; co-founder of the Byzantine Studies Conference; editor of the Byzantinische Forschungen journal; voting member of Oriental Institute, Chicago; author of many books, including Byzantium and the Decline of Rome (Princeton, 1968) and "Byzantine Military Unrest 471–843: An Interpretation (Amsterdam: 1981)
  • Leszek Kołakowski – philosopher and historian of ideas; MacArthur Fellow in 1983
  • William Hardy McNeill – Professor Emeritus of History
  • Eric McKitrick – American historian, recipient of the 1994 Bancroft Prize
  • Arnaldo Momigliano – historiographer; MacArthur Fellow in 1987
  • David Nirenberg – Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Medieval History and Committee on Social Thought
  • Francesca Rochberg – Assyriologist, historian of science
  • Hans Rothfels – professor of history (1946–1951)
  • Bernadotte E. Schmitt – winner of the Pulitzer Prize
  • Noel Swerdlow – winner of a Macarthur Fellowship
  • James Westfall Thompson – professor of history (1895–1933), leading American historian of the European Middle Ages and early modern period; president of the American Historical Association, 1941 (died in office)
  • Karl Weintraub – professor of history (1954–2004) and leading scholar of European cultural history and the history of autobiography
  • John Woods – professor of Iranian and Central Asian history

Classics
  • Danielle Allen – Dean of the Division of Humanities; MacArthur Fellow
  • Clifford Ando – professor of Roman Empire history; author of Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire (2000) (which won APA's Goodwin Award in 2003), and The Matter of the Gods (2008); editor of Roman Religion (2003) and co-editor, with Jörg Rüpke, of Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (2006)
  • Shadi Bartsch – professor of gender issues in antiquity and in Roman literature and culture; Quantrell Teaching Award and Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
  • Jonathan M. Hall – professor of Greek history; chair of Classics Department; author of Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge, 1997); APA's Goodwin Award; 2004 Gordon J. Laing Prize; Quantrell Teaching Award; Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service
  • Amy Judith Kass (née Apfel) – professor of classic texts in the College of the University of Chicago
  • James M. Redfield – Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor of Classics
  • Peter White – professor of Roman poetry, comedy and satire and Greco-Roman historiography; Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs; author of Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome; APA's Goodwin Award; Quantrell Teaching Award

Philosophy
  • Hannah Arendt – former professor in the Committee on Social Thought
  • Rudolf Carnap – professor of philosophy; leading member of the Vienna Circle
  • Stanley Cavell – visiting lecturer on philosophy
  • Arnold Davidson – professor of the Philosophy of Religion in the Divinity School; also in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Committee on Historical and Conceptual Studies of Science, and the college
  • Donald Davidson – professor of philosophy (1976–1981)
  • John Dewey – former professor of philosophy
  • Burton Dreben – logician, became an instructor in 1955
  • Charles Hartshorne – former professor of philosophy
  • John Haugeland – David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy
  • Anthony Kenny – visiting professor of philosophy
  • Charles Larmore – Chester D. Tripp Professor and the Raymond W. & Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor
  • Jonathan Lear – John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy
  • Jean-Luc Marion – professor of the Philosophy of Religion and Theology in the Divinity School; also in the Department of Philosophy and the Committee on Social Thought
  • George Herbert Mead – former professor of philosophy
  • Martha Nussbaum – Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Divinity School; also in the Law School, the Department of Philosophy, and the college
  • Robert B. Pippin – Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the college
  • Paul Ricoeur – John Nuveen Professor Emeritus in the Divinity School (1971–1991)
  • Bertrand Russell – visiting professor of philosophy (1938–1939)
  • Leo Strauss – professor of political philosophy (1949–1967)
  • Paul Johannes Tillich – professor of religion (1962)
  • James Hayden Tufts – former professor of philosophy

Religion
  • Richard T. Antoun – professor (1989); professor emeritus of anthropology at Binghamton University; stabbed to death by student in 2009
  • J. A. B. van Buitenen – George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
  • Wendy Doniger – Historian of Religions (1978– )
  • Mircea Eliade – Sewell Avery Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions (1958–1986), best known for his "myth of the Eternal Return" and his book The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
  • Joseph Kitagawa – historian of religions
  • Hans Küng – Catholic priest, theologian, and author
  • Bruce Lincoln – historian of religions
  • Martin Marty
  • Frank Reynolds
  • David Tracy – professor emeritus of theology (1970–); leading figure in theological hermeneutics and proponent of theological pluralism in works such as Plurality and Ambiguity (University of Chicago Press, 1986)
  • Joachim Wach – historian of religions (1944–55)
  • Christian K. Wedemeyer – associate professor of the history of religions; MacArthur Fellow in 1987

Science


Medicine and health policy
  • Susan L. Cohn – professor of pediatrics and dean for clinical research[2]
  • Raphael Carl Lee – surgeon, medical researcher, biomedical engineer; MacArthur Fellow in 1981
  • Nathaniel Kleitman – physiologist and sleep researcher, recognized as the father of modern sleep research
  • Harold Pollack – professor and chair of the Center for Health Administration Studies
  • Mark Siegler – director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
  • Daniel Sulmasy – medical ethicist
  • Olufunmilayo Olopade – Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Human genetics; MacArthur Fellow

Social sciences
  • James A. Robinson – The Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies and University Professor at Harris School of Public Policy
  • Arjun Appadurai (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1976) – former professor of anthropology
  • Gary Becker (A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) – University Professor in Economics, Graduate School of Business, and Sociology
  • Katherine Baicker – Health economist, Dean and Emmett Dedmon Professor at Harris School of Public Policy
  • Chris Blattman – economist, political scientist, member of the Pearson Institute
  • Leonard Bloomfield – linguist who led the development of structural linguistics
  • Donald Bogue (A.M., Ph.D.) – current professor of sociology at the University of Chicago
  • Dipesh Chakrabarty – Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History and South Asian Languages & Civilizations
  • Ronald Coase – Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics, The Law School
  • Constantin Fasolt – professor of Early Modern European history
  • Robert Fogel – Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions
  • John Hope Franklin – John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in History
  • Milton Friedman – Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Economics
  • Susan Gal – Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics; leading scholar in studies of Eastern Europe, linguistic anthropology, and gender
  • Clifford Geertz – professor of anthropology (1960–1970)
  • Matthew Gentzkow – Richard O. Ryan Professor of Economics and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow
  • Susan Goldin-Meadow – Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Comparative Human Development, the college, and the Committee on Education
  • Chauncy Harris – pioneering geographer at the University of Chicago in the first department of geography in the United States
  • Friedrich Hayek – former professor in the Committee on Social Thought
  • James Heckman – winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2000
  • Hans Joas – visiting professor of sociology and social thought and a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago
  • Morton A. Kaplan – professor of political science
  • Evelyn M. Kitagawa (B.A. 1941, Ph.D. 1951) – professor of sociology
  • Karin Knorr-Cetina – George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Sociology
  • Lawrence Kohlberg (A.B. 1949, Ph.D. 1958) – professor in the Committee on Human Development (1962–1968)
  • Maynard C. Krueger – socialist vice-presidential candidate and professor of economics 1933? – ??
  • Harold Lasswell – one of the most influential political scientists of the 20th century
  • Karl Lashley – gestaltist psychologist
  • Steven Levitt – Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics
  • Mark Lilla – professor in the Committee on Social Thought (1999–2007)
  • John A. List – economist, pioneer in the field of experimental economics
  • Robert Lucas Jr. (A.B. 1959, Ph.D. 1964) – John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor in Economics
  • Jacob Marschak – economist, leader of the Cowles Commission
  • Raven I. McDavid, Jr. – linguist, dialectologist
  • John Mearsheimer – R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science
  • Charles Edward Merriam – founder of the behavioral approach to political science
  • Merton H. Miller – Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Business
  • Hans Morgenthau – international relations theorist; his book Politics Among Nations defined the international relations field
  • Robert Pape (Ph.D. 1988) – professor of political science
  • Vivian Paley – early childhood education researcher; MacArthur Fellow in 1989
  • Robert E. Park – professor of sociology (1914–1936)
  • Henry Paulson – fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies and the chairman of the Paulson Institute; 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury
  • William R. Polk – established the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, serving as Founding Director
  • Kenneth Prewitt – director of the Census Bureau from 1998 to 2001, appointed assistant professor in 1965
  • Alfred Radcliffe-Brown – professor of anthropology (1931–1937); developed theory of Structural Functionalism
  • Robert Redfield – professor of anthropology (1927–1958)
  • Albert Rees – former University of Chicago and Princeton University economics professor, former Provost at Princeton, advisor to President Gerald Ford
  • Carl Rogers – one of the founders of humanistic psychology
  • Marshall Sahlins – Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
  • Edward Sapir – creator of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, arguably the most influential figure in American linguistics
  • Saskia Sassen – Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology (1998–2007)
  • David M. Schneider – professor of anthropology (1960–1986)
  • Michael Schudson – journalism expert (1976–1980)
  • Richard Shweder – Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development in the Department of Comparative Human Development
  • Michael Silverstein – Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of anthropology, linguistics, and psychology; MacArthur Fellow in 1982
  • Theda Skocpol – former professor of sociology (1981–1986); now Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard
  • George Stigler – Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and Graduate School of Business
  • Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah – specialised in studies of Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Tamils, as well as the anthropology of religion and politics
  • William I. Thomas (Ph.D. 1896) – professor of sociology (1896–1918)
  • Frederic Thrasher – sociologist and prominent member of the Chicago School of Sociology
  • Victor Turner – former professor in the Committee on Social Thought
  • Thorstein Veblen – professor of political economy (1892–1906)
  • Stephen Walt – former professor (1989–1999) and deputy dean of social sciences (1996–1999); dean of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government after tenure at the University of Chicago
  • Naomi Weisstein – professor of psychology; Guggenheim fellow
  • William Julius Wilson – Lucy Flower University Professor of Sociology (1972–1996)
  • Albert Wohlstetter – awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom; influenced prominent neoconservatives, including Paul Wolfowitz; prominent theorist of the Cold War
  • Dali Yang – William Claude Reavis Professor in the Department of Political Science, Faculty Director of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing
  • Theodore O. Yntema (Ph.D. 1929) – economist, director of the Cowles Commission
  • Iris Marion Young – former professor of political science
  • Raghuram Rajan - Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business, Former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund, Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and former Chief Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of India. Author of Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists with Luigi Zingales, Fault Lines, I Do What i Do and The Third Pillar

Arts and entertainment

University Presidents
PresidentLifeTenure
William Rainey Harper1856–19061891–1906
Harry Pratt Judson1849–19271906–1923
Ernest DeWitt Burton1856–19251923–1925
Max Mason1877–19611925–1928
Robert Hutchins1899–19771929–1951
Lawrence A. Kimpton1910–19771951–1960
George Wells Beadle1903–19891961–1968
Edward H. Levi1911–20001968–1975
John T. Wilson1914–19901975–1978
Hanna Holborn Grayborn 19301978–1993
Hugo F. Sonnenscheinborn 19411993–2000
Don Michael Randelborn 19402000–2006
Robert J. Zimmerborn 19472006–present

Notes
  1. Chicago School of literary criticism
  2. MacArthur Fellow list of winners

References
  1. Paul Sigler obituary
  2. "Susan Cohn receives AACR-Joseph H. Burchenal Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cancer Research". www.uchicagomedicine.org. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
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