List of University of Wisconsin–Madison people in academics

List of University of Wisconsin–Madison notable alumni in academics:

Stephen E. Ambrose

Carl Djerassi

Anne O. Krueger

A. Starker Leopold

Luna Leopold

George A. Lundberg

Robert Serber

Victor A. Tiedjens

Frederick Jackson Turner

Charles Van Hise

Edward Witten

• Julia Adams (sociologist), Professor, Yale University
• Robert Adair, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Yale University
• David Adamany, former President of Temple University
• Colin Adams, Professor of Mathematics, Williams College
• Paul C. Adams, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Texas-Austin
• Julius Adler
• Madeleine Wing Adler, former President, West Chester University
• Sarita Adve, Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Michael A'Hearn, astronomer
• Julie Ahringer, Senior Research Fellow, Gurdon Institute, Cambridge University
• Anastasia Ailamaki, Professor of Computer Science, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, Professor Emerita of Physics, University of Pennsylvania; taught at Haverford College
• Robert A. Alberty, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, MIT
• F. King Alexander, President of California State University, Long Beach
• Gar Alperovitz, author, economist, historian, and former fellow at Cambridge University
• Sanford Soverhill Atwood - scientist, Provost of Cornell University, President of Emory University
• Alice Ambrose, former Professor of Philosophy, Smith College
• Stephen E. Ambrose, author and historian
• Marc A. Anderson, environmental chemist
• Arthur Irving Andrews, former Professor of Diplomacy, Charles University in Prague
• Thomas G. Andrews, historian
• Nancy Armstrong, Professor of English, Duke University
• Marilyn Arnold, Professor Emeritus of English, Brigham Young University
• Richard Arratia, Professor of Mathematics, University of Southern California
• Michael Aschbacher, Professor of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
• David Audretsch, Professor of Economics, Indiana University
• Nina Auerbach, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania
• John D. Axtell, former Professor of Agronomy, Purdue University
• Oliver Edwin Baker, geographer
• Tania A. Baker, Professor of Biochemistry, MIT
• Ira Baldwin, bacteriologist
• Clinton Ballou, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley
• David P. Barash, Professor of Psychology, University of Washington
• Thomas P.M. Barnett, military and security strategist, former professor at the Naval War College
• Michael Barnsley, Professor of Mathematics, Australian National University
• Henry H. Barschall, physicist
• Florence Bascom, geologist at Bryn Mawr College
• Carolyn Baylies, former Reader in Sociology, University of Leeds
• Charles L. Beach, President of the University of Connecticut
• Jesse Beams, former Professor of Physics, University of Virginia
• Carl L. Becker, former Professor of History, Cornell University
• David T. Beito, author and historian
• Richard Bellman, mathematician and inventor of dynamic programming
• Frank Bencriscutto, former Professor of Music, University of Minnesota
• Ernst Benda, former Professor of Law, University of Freiburg
• William H. Bennett, Professor of Agronomy, Utah State University
• Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland
• Bruce C. Berndt, Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• William T. Bielby, former Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
• Ray Allen Billington, former Professor of History, Oxford University and Northwestern University
• Thomas Binford, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Stanford University
• Robert Byron Bird, chemical engineer
• Kenneth O. Bjork, former Professor of History, Saint Olaf College
• David W. Blight, Professor of History, Yale University; taught at Amherst College
• Leonard Bloomfield, former Professor of Linguistics, Yale University
• Herbert Eugene Bolton, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and University of California, Berkeley
• George Boyer, Professor of Economics, Cornell University
• Carol Breckenridge, anthropologist
• Patricia Flatley Brennan, Professor of Engineering
• Arthur Louis Breslich, President of German Wallace College and Baldwin-Wallace College
• Ernest J. Briskey, Dean of Agricultural Science, Oregon State University
• David H. Bromwich, Professor of Geography, Ohio State University
• Morton Brown, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Michigan
• Norman O. Brown, scholar of Classics
• Christopher Browning, Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Robert X. Browning, Associate Professor of Political Science, Purdue University
• Mari Jo Buhle, Professor Emerita of History, Brown University
• Paul Buhle, activist and lecturer, Brown University
• R. Carlyle Buley, former Professor of History, Indiana University
• Mary Bunting, former President, Radcliffe College
• Robert H. Burris, biochemist
• Frederick H. Buttel, former Professor of Sociology
• Lester J. Cappon, historian, documentary editor, and archivist for Colonial Williamsburg
• Claudia Card, Emma Goldman (WARF) Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Margery C. Carlson (M.S. 1920, Ph.D. 1925), Professor of Botany, Northwestern University
• John Casida, Professor of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley
• Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Professor of Mathematical Biology, Arizona State University
• Edward Castronova, Professor of Telecommunications, Indiana University
• Kwang-Chu Chao, chemical engineer at Purdue University
• Arthur B. Chapman, geneticist
• Peter Charanis, former Professor of History, Rutgers University
• Vivek Chibber, sociologist, New York University
• Edith Clarke, former Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas-Austin
• W. Wallace Cleland, biochemist
• John H. Coatsworth, Provost, Columbia University
• Alan Code, Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University
• Stephen P. Cohen, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
• Betsy Colquitt, Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Texas Christian University
• Timothy E. Cook, former Professor of Political Science at Williams College and Louisiana State University
• Vincent Cooke, S.J., (Ph.D. philosophy 1971), academic administrator, President of Canisius College (1993–2010)[1]
• Arthur C. Cope, former Professor of Chemistry, MIT
• Brian Coppola, Professor of Chemistry, University of Michigan
• Giovanni Costigan, former Professor of History, University of Washington
• May Louise Cowles, home economics instructor and lecturer
• Richard H. Cracroft, Professor of English, Brigham Young University
• Joanne V. Creighton, Interim President, Haverford College; former President, Mount Holyoke College
• Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Professor of Law at Columbia University and UCLA
• Tim Cresswell, Professor of Geography, University of London
• William Cronon (1976), environmental historian
• Harold Marion Crothers, Professor of Electrical Engineering, South Dakota State University
• Chicita F. Culberson, Senior Research Scientist in Biology, Duke University
• Chris Cuomo, former Professor of Ethics, University of Cincinnati
• Richard N. Current, historian
• John T. Curtis, botanist
• Edward Cussler, Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota
• Thomas Daniel, Professor of Biology, University of Washington
• Stephen Daniels, Professor of Cultural Geography, University of Nottingham
• Richard Danner, Professor of Law, Duke University
• Kelvin Davies, Professor of Gerontology, University of Southern California
• W. R. Davies, President (1941–1959), University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
• James A. Davis, sociologist
• Kenneth S. Davis, historian
• Dick de Jongh, Professor Emeritus of Logic and Mathematics, University of Amsterdam
• Brady J. Deaton, Chancellor, University of Missouri
• Peter Dervan, Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
• Matthew Desmond, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
• Frans Dieleman, former Professor of Geography, Utrecht University
• John Louis DiGaetani, Professor of English, Hofstra University
• Hasia Diner, historian
• Robert Disque, President, Drexel Institute of Technology
• Carl Djerassi, Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University
• John Dollard, former Professor of Psychology, Yale University
• J. Kevin Dorsey, Dean, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
• Eliza T. Dresang (PhD, 1981), professor and researcher in literacy, library and information sciences, media and technology
• Lee A. DuBridge, former President, California Institute of Technology
• Wendell E. Dunn, President of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
• Nancy Dye, former President, Oberlin College
• William G. Dyer, Dean, Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University
• Anne Haas Dyson 1972 College of Education - professor and researcher in literacy
• Olin J. Eggen, astronomer
• Marc Egnal, Professor of History, York University
• Jean Bethke Elshtain, Professor of Divinity and Philosophy, University of Chicago
• Conrad Elvehjem, former President, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Michael Engh, President of Santa Clara University
• David Estlund, Lombardo Family Professor of the Humanities, Brown University
• John Eyler, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Minnesota
• John K. Fairbank, former Professor of History, Harvard University
• Etta Zuber Falconer, Professor of Mathematics, Norfolk State University and Spelman College
• Joseph Felsenstein, Professor of Biology, University of Washington
• Peter Edgerly Firchow, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Minnesota
• Erica Flapan, Professor of Mathematics, Pomona College
• Robben Wright Fleming, former President, University of Michigan
• Neil Fligstein, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
• George T. Flom, former Professor of Scandinavian Languages, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Karl Folkers, biochemist
• Michael J. Franklin, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
• Shane Frederick, Associate Professor of Management, Yale University
• Daniel Z. Freedman, Professor of Physics, MIT
• Joseph S. Freedman, Professor of Education at Alabama State University
• Frank Freidel, former Professor of History at Harvard University and the University of Washington
• Linda P. Fried, Dean of Public Health, Columbia University
• Joseph G. Fucilla, former Professor of Romantic Languages, Northwestern University
• D.R. Fulkerson, former Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University
• Ellen V. Futter, former President of Barnard College
• William A. Gahl, geneticist, NIH
• John Gallagher III, astronomer
• Fernando García Roel, Rector, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
• Lloyd Gardner, historian of U.S. foreign relations
• Johannes Gehrke, Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
• Judy Genshaft, President of University of South Florida
• Mark Gertler, Professor of Economics, New York University
• Paul Gertler, Professor of Economics and Business, University of California, Berkeley
• Arnold Gesell, former Professor of Psychology, Yale University
• Reza Ghadiri, Professor of Chemistry, Scripps Research Institute
• Jacquelyn Gill, Assistant professor of climate science, University of Maine
• Donna Ginther, Professor of Economics, University of Kansas
• G. N. Glasoe, former Professor of Physics, Columbia University; Associate Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory
• George Glauberman, Professor of Mathematics, University of Chicago
• Helen Iglauer Glueck, Director of the Coagulation Laboratory, University of Cincinnati
• Harvey Goldberg, activist and historian
• Gerson Goldhaber, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of California, Berkeley; researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Brison D. Gooch, historian
• Ann Dexter Gordon, historian, editor of The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project at Rutgers University
• Myron J. Gordon, Professor Emeritus of Finance, University of Toronto
• Richard K. Green, Professor of Business, University of Southern California
• William Greene, Professor of Economics, New York University
• Michael Gribskov, Professor of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
• Paul J. Griffiths, Professor of Theology, Duke University
• Erik Gronseth, former Professor of Sociology, University of Oslo
• James A. Gross, labor historian at Cornell University
• Jennifer Guglielmo, Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies, Smith College
• Ernst Guillemin, electrical engineer and computer scientist, MIT, recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor
• Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Professor of History, University of Chicago
• Herbert Gutman, Professor of History, City University of New York
• Jeffrey K. Hadden, former Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
• Usha Haley, former Professor of International Business, University of New Haven
• Joseph M. Hall, Jr., Professor of American History, Bates College
• Helena Hamerow, Professor of Medieval Archaeology, Oxford University
• Gordon Hammes, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Duke University
• Jo Handelsman, Professor of Biology and Medicine, Yale University
• Pat Hanrahan, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
• Alvin Hansen, former Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Presidential advisor
• John W. Harbaugh, Professor of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
• Robert Harms, Professor of History, Yale University
• Cole Harris, geographer; professor at the University of Toronto
• Daniel Hartl, Professor of Biology, Harvard University
• Arthur D. Hasler, ecologist and zoologist
• Darren Hawkins, Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University
• James Edwin Hawley, Professor of Mineralogy, Queen's University; namesake of Hawleyite
• Patrick J. Hearden, Professor of History, Purdue University
• Margaret Hedstrom, Professor of Information, University of Michigan
• D. Mark Hegsted, former Professor of Nutrition at Harvard University
• Walter Heller, former Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota; Chair, Council of Economic Advisors
• Joseph M. Hellerstein, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
• Frederick Hemke, Professor of Saxophone, Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University
• Ralph D. Hetzel, former President, Pennsylvania State University
• Elfrieda "Freddy" Hiebert, literacy advocate
• Thomas Hines, Professor Emeritus, UCLA
• Ralph Hirschmann, former Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
• Ho Ping-sung, former historian at Peking University and Beijing Normal University
• Michael A. Hoffman, Professor of Earth Sciences and Resources, University of South Carolina
• LaVahn Hoh, Professor of Drama, University of Virginia
• Karen Holbrook, former President, Ohio State University
• Charles H. Holbrow, physicist, Charles A. Dana Professor of physics, emeritus, Colgate University
• Lori L. Holt, Associate Professor of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
• Olga Holtz, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley; Professor of Applied Mathematics, Technical University Berlin
• Renate Holub, philosopher and interdisciplinary theorist, University of California, Berkeley
• Robert C. Holub, current chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2008–present)
• Vasant Honavar, Professor of Computer Science, Iowa State University (1990-2013); Professor and Edward Frymoyer Chair of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University (2013–present)
• Earnest Hooton, former Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
• Calvin B. Hoover, former Professor of Economics, Duke University
• William O. Hotchkiss, President of Michigan Technological University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Mark Huddleston, President, University of New Hampshire
• Clark L. Hull, psychologist of motivation at Yale University
• William Hunter, statistician
• William Edwards Huntington, President of Boston University
• Charlie D. Hurt, former provost and Professor of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
• Lloyd Hustvedt, former Professor of Norwegian, Saint Olaf College
• William Jaco, Professor of Mathematics, Oklahoma State University-Stillwater
• Russell Jacoby, Professor of History, UCLA
• James Alton James, former Professor of History, Northwestern University
• Henry Jenkins, Professor of Communication Arts, University of Southern California
• Merrill Jensen, historian
• Carleton B. Joeckel, former librarian
• Peter Johnsen, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Bradley University
• Emory Richard Johnson, former Dean of Business, University of Pennsylvania
• Michael D. Johnson, Dean of Hotel Administration, Cornell University
• Charles O. Jones, former Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Virginia and former President, American Political Science Association
• Jacqueline Jones, Professor of History, University of Texas-Austin
• Kenneth Judd, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
• Gerald Kaiser, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Lowell
• Ellsworth Kalas, President of Asbury Theological Seminary
• Vytautas Kavolis, sociologist
• Homayoon Kazerooni, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
• Edmond Keller, Professor of Political Science, UCLA
• George L. Kelling, Professor of Social Welfare, Rutgers University
• Ben Kerkvliet, Professor of Political Science, Australian National University
• Corey Keyes, sociologist at Emory University
• Margaret Keyes, former Professor of Home Economics, University of Iowa
• Spencer L. Kimball, former Dean of Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison; former Professor of Law, University of Chicago and University of Michigan
• Robin Wall Kimmerer, Professor of Environmental of Forest Biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
• Gary King, Professor of Government, Harvard University; taught at New York University and Oxford University
• Nicole King, Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Development; University of California, Berkeley
• Ronold W. P. King, former Professor of Physics, Harvard University
• Willford I. King, former Professor of Economics, New York University
• John W. Kingdon, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Michigan
• David Kinley, former President, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Grayson L. Kirk, former President, Columbia University
• Charles Kittel, former Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
• Anne C. Klein, Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University
• William J. Klish, Professor of Pediatrics, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition; Baylor College of Medicine
• J. Martin Klotsche, first chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
• Clyde Kluckhohn, former Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
• Anne Kelly Knowles, Professor of Geography, Middlebury College
• Kenneth Koedinger, Professor of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
• Henry Koffler, former Vice President, University of Minnesota
• Gabriel Kolko, historian
• Arnold Krammer, historian, retired from Texas A&M University
• Thomas R. Kratochwill, psychologist
• Konrad Bates Krauskopf, former Professor of Geology, Stanford University
• James E. Krier, Professor of Law, University of Michigan; taught at Harvard University, Oxford University, Stanford University, and UCLA
• Leo Kristjanson, President, University of Saskatchewan
• Lawrence Kritzman, Professor of French, Dartmouth College
• Anne O. Krueger, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University; taught at Stanford University
• Harold J. Kushner, Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
• Philip Kutzko, Professor of Mathematics, University of Iowa
• Walter LaFeber, historian of U.S. foreign relations at Cornell University
• Max G. Lagally, engineer and professor
• James A. Lake, Professor of Biology and Genetics, UCLA
• Janja Lalich, Professor of Sociology, California State University, Chico
• Henry A. Lardy, biochemist
• Edward Larson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history
• Mark Lautens, Professor of Chemistry, University of Toronto
• Traugott Lawler, Professor of English, Yale University
• Michael Ledeen, security strategist at American Enterprise Institute and Foundation for Defense of Democracies
• Winfred P. Lehmann, former Professor of German, University of Texas-Austin
• Charles Kenneth Leith, geologist
• John Leonora, Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, Loma Linda University
• A. Carl Leopold, Graduate Dean, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• A. Starker Leopold, son of Aldo Leopold; former Professor of Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley
• Luna Leopold, son of Aldo Leopold; former Professor of Geology, University of California, Berkeley
• Herb Levi, former Professor of Biology, Harvard University
• Robert Lieber, Professor, Department of Government and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
• Gene Likens, ecologist
• Mary Ann Lila, former Professor of Nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Bernard J. Liska, food scientist at Purdue University
• Timothy P. Lodge, Professor of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
• Timothy M. Lohman, Professor of Medicine, Washington University
• Roberto Sabatino Lopez, former Professor of History at Yale University
• Max O. Lorenz, economist and statistician
• Daryl B. Lund, former Dean of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Cornell University
• George A. Lundberg, sociologist at the University of Washington
• Karl Mahlburg, mathematician
• Tak Wah Mak, Professor of Biophysics and Immunology, University of Toronto
• Howard Malmstadt, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Daniel R. Mandelker, Professor of Law, Washington University
• James G. March, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Stanford University
• Carolyn "Biddy" Martin, President, Amherst College
• Abraham Maslow (PhD 1934), groundbreaking humanist psychologist, "hierarchy of needs;" former professor at Brandeis University
• Max Mason, former President, University of Chicago
• Thomas Mathiesen, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Oslo
• Lola J. May, mathematics educator
• Thomas J. McCormick, scholar of international relations
• Thomas K. McCraw, Professor Emeritus of Business, Harvard University
• Frederick Merk, former Professor of Government and History, Harvard University
• Alan G. Merten, President of George Mason University
• Gerald Meyer, Professor of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University
• Joseph C. Miller, Professor of History, University of Virginia
• Renée J. Miller, Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
• C. Wright Mills, sociologist and professor at Columbia University
• Lawrence Mishel, President, Economic Policy Institute
• Olivia S. Mitchell, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
• Jason Mittell, Professor of American Studies and Film, Middlebury College
• Pornchai Mongkhonvanit, President of Siam University, President Emeritus of International Association of University Presidents
• Florence M. Montgomery, art historian
• Clark A. Murdock, Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• John E. Murdoch, former historian and philosopher of science, Harvard University
• John Murray, Jr., Chancellor and Professor of Law, Duquesne University
• Daniel J. Myers, Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame
• Mark Myers, geologist
• Jeffrey Naughton, computer scientist
• Richard Nelson, cultural anthropologist
• Maurice F. Neufeld, professor emeritus, Cornell University
• David Newbury, Professor of African Studies, Smith College
• Barbara W. Newell, former President, Wellesley College
• Carl Niemann, former Professor of Biochemistry, California Institute of Technology
• David W. Noble, Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota
• Mark Nordenberg, Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh
• Olaf M. Norlie, former Dean, Hartwick College
• Gerald North, climatologist
• Russel B. Nye, former Professor of English, Michigan State University
• Alton Ochsner, UW medical professor and cancer researcher; co-founded the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans
• Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, anthropologist
• Bertell Ollman, Professor of Politics, New York University
• Scott E. Page, Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
• Thomas Palaima, Professor of Classics, University of Texas-Austin
• Ann C. Palmenberg, biochemist
• Bernhard Palsson, Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego
• John Parascandola, medical historian
• Gil-Sung Park, Korean sociologist
• W. Robert Parks, former President, Iowa State University
• Michael Quinn Patton, former Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota
• John Allen Paulos, Professor of Mathematics, Temple University; author of books about the consequences of mathematical illiteracy
• John Vernon Pavlik, Professor of Journalism, Rutgers University
• Donald E. Pearson, former Professor of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University
• Joseph A. Pechman, former Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; former President, American Economic Association
• John Pemberton, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
• Selig Perlman, economist and labor historian
• August Herman Pfund, former Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University
• Andrew C. Porter, former president, AERA; former professor, Vanderbilt University; Dean of Education, University of Pennsylvania
• Alejandro Portes, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
• Philip S Portoghese, Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota
• Benjamin Arthur Quarles, historian
• Matthew Rabin, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
• Marian Radke-Yarrow, psychologist, National Institute of Mental Health
• Ronald Radosh, activist and historian
• Douglas W. Rae, Professor of Political Science, Yale University; author of Equalities
• Jim Ranchino, late Professor of Political Science, Ouachita Baptist University
• John Rapp, Professor of Political Science, Beloit College
• George Rawick, historian
• Robert A. Rees, former Professor of English, UCLA
• Thomas Reh, Professor of Biology, University of Washington
• J. Wayne Reitz, Professor of Agricultural Economics; fifth President of the University of Florida (1955-1967)
• Frank J. Remington, former Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Justin Rhodes, Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Lori Ringhand, Professor of Law, University of Georgia
• Walter Ristow, librarian
• Temario Rivera, Professor of Political Science, International Christian University
• Anita Roberts, former biochemist, National Cancer Institute
• Arthur H. Robinson, geographer
• Stuart Rojstaczer, former Professor of Geophysics, Duke University
• Gerhard Krohn Rollefson, former Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
• Ediberto Roman, Professor of Law, Florida International University College of Law and Florida International University
• Jia Rongqing, Professor of Mathematics, University of Alberta
• Charles E. Rosenberg, historian of science at Harvard University
• Milton J. Rosenberg, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Chicago
• Nathan Rosenberg, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Stanford University; taught at Cambridge University
• George C. Royal, microbiologist
• Lee Albert Rubel, former Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• David S. Ruder, former Dean of Law, Northwestern University
• Mary P. Ryan, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University and Professor Emerita of History, University of California, Berkeley
• Joseph F. Rychlak, Professor of Humanistic Psychology, Loyola University Chicago
• Herbert J. Ryser, former Professor of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology and Ohio State University
• Yuriko Saito, Professor of Philosophy, Rhode Island School of Design
• Theodore Saloutos, former Professor of History, UCLA
• Warren Samuels, economist
• Austin Sarat, Professor of Political Science, Amherst College
• Richard J. Saykally, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
• George Schaller, biologist and conservationist
• Richard Scheller, former Professor of Biochemistry, Stanford University
• Steven Schier, Professor of Political Science, Carleton College
• Bernadotte Everly Schmitt, former President, American Historical Association; former Professor of History, University of Chicago
• Mark Schorer, former Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
• Joan Wallach Scott, Professor of History, Institute for Advanced Study
• Michael L. Scott, Professor of Computer Science, University of Rochester
• John Searle, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
• Robert Serber, former Professor of Physics, Columbia University; scientist on the Manhattan Project
• Jim G. Shaffer, Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
• Cosma Shalizi, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
• Steven Shapin, historian of science, Harvard University
• Ira Sharkansky, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Lauriston Sharp, former Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University
• Victor Shoup, Professor of Mathematics, New York University
• Daniel L. Simmons, Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Cancer Research Center, Brigham Young University
• Brooks D. Simpson, Professor of History, Arizona State University
• Louis B. Slichter, former Professor of Geophysics, MIT and UCLA
• Sumner Slichter, former Professor of Economics, Harvard University
• Ronald Smelser, former Professor of History (University of Utah), Holocaust educator and author of The Myth of the Eastern Front
• William Cunningham Smith, literature scholar
• David R. Soll, Professor of Biology, University of Iowa
• Robert Soucy, Professor Emeritus of History, Oberlin College
• Roy Spencer, Principal Research Scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville
• Clint Sprott, physicist
• Janet Staiger, Professor of Communication, University of Texas-Austin
• George Stambolian, former Professor of French, Wellesley College
• Kenneth M. Stampp, former Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley; taught at Harvard University, Oxford University, University of London, and University of Munich
• Leon C. Standifer, Professor of Horticulture, Louisiana State University
• Michael Starbird, Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas-Austin
• Stephen C. Stearns, Professor of Biology, Yale University
• Harry Steenbock, biochemist and Vitamin D researcher
• George Steinmetz (academic), Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
• Christopher H. Sterling, Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University
• C. Eugene Steuerle, Institute Fellow, Urban Institute
• Robert Stickgold, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University
• Philip Stieg, Professor and Chairman of Neurosurgery and Weill Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Medical Center
• Gilbert Stork, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Columbia University
• Murray A. Straus, Sociologist and professor University of New Hampshire, creator of the Conflict tactics scale
• Jon Strauss, former President of Harvey Mudd College
• Robert P. Strauss, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
• Philip Taft, former Professor of Economics at Brown University
• Sol Tax, former Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago
• Henry Charles Taylor, former Professor of Economics at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Lily Ross Taylor, former Professor of Classics, University of California, Berkeley and Institute for Advanced Study
• Paul Schuster Taylor, former Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
• Larry Temkin, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University (starting in 2011)
• Albert M. Ten Eyck, agriculturist and agronomist
• Earle M. Terry, physicist
• Victor A. Tiedjens, agricultural scientist at Rutgers University
• Virginia Tilley, Chief Research Specialist, Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa)
• Ignacio Tinoco, Jr., Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
• Steve Tittle, Associate Professor of Composition and Theory, Dalhousie University
• Andrew P. Torrence (M.A. 1951; Ph.D. 1954), President of Tennessee State University (1968-1974); executive vice president and provost of Tuskegee University (1974-1980).[2]
• Sidney Dean Townley, former Professor of Astronomy, Stanford University
• Paul M. Treichel, chemist
• Glenn Thomas Trewartha, geographer
• Susan Traverso, President of Thiel College, former Provost of Elizabethtown College
• Jim Trier, Professor of Education, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Arleen Tuchman, Professor of History at Vanderbilt University
• Konrad Tuchscherer, Associate Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies at St. John's University
• David Tulloch, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Rutgers University
• Melvin Tumin, former Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
• Frederick Jackson Turner (1884, MA 1888), historian and professor, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Joseph Tussman, former Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
• Michael Uebel, professor, author
• Ruth Hill Useem, former Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University
• Edwin Vedejs, former professor of chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Michigan[3]
• Victor Vacquier, former Professor of Geophysics, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
• Bonita H. Valien, PhD, former professor of Sociology at Fisk University, author of books about school desegregation.[4]
• Preston Valien, PhD, former professor of Sociology at Fisk University and Brooklyn College; cultural attache in Nigeria.[5]
• Robert van de Geijn, Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas-Austin
• Andrew H. Van de Ven, Professor of Organizational Innovation, University of Minnesota
• Charles Van Hise, former President, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Martha Vicinus, Professor of Women's Studies, University of Michigan
• Julia Grace Wales, former Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison; taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of London
• Cody Walker, Lecturer in English, University of Michigan
• John Charles Walker, plant pathologist
• Hubert Stanley Wall, former mathematician at Northwestern University and the University of Texas-Austin
• Martin Walt, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
• David Der-wei Wang, Professor of East Asian Languages, Harvard University
• David Ward, former President, American Council on Education
• Arthur Waskow, former Resident Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies
• John Watrous, Associate Professor of Computer Science, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo
• Oliver Patterson Watts, chemical engineer
• John Carrier Weaver, former Professor of Geography; former Vice President for Academic Affairs, Ohio State University; former President, University of Wisconsin System
• Warren Weaver, mathematician, Rockefeller Institute
• Lee-Jen Wei, Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard University
• I. Bernard Weinstein, former Professor of Medicine, Columbia University
• Herman B Wells, former President, Indiana University
• Norman Wengert, political scientist and professor
• Peter Wenz, Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Springfield
• Mark Wessel, former Dean, Carnegie Mellon University
• Wyatt C. Whitley, Professor of Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology
• John Wilce, former Professor of Medicine, Ohio State University
• John D. Wiley, former Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Dallas Willard, former Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California
• T. Harry Williams, historian
• William Appleman Williams, historian of U.S. foreign relations
• Greg Williamson, Lecturer in English, Johns Hopkins University
• Linda S. Wilson, President Emerita, Radcliffe College; former Vice President, University of Michigan
• Christopher Winship, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
• Edward Witten, Professor of Physics, Institute for Advanced Study
• Lawrence S. Wittner, Professor of History, University at Albany, SUNY
• Julian Wolpert, Professor Emeritus of Geography, Public Affairs, and Urban Planning, Princeton University
• David Woodward, geographer
• James Wright, 16th president of Dartmouth College
• Yang Guanghua, Chinese engineer
• Y. Lawrence Yao, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University
• Stephen Yenser, Professor of English, UCLA
• John Milton Yinger, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Oberlin College
• Allyn Abbott Young, former Professor of Economics, Harvard University and the University of London
• Brigitte Young, Professor Emerita of Political Science, University of Münster
• Hugh Edwin Young, former Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison; former President, University of Wisconsin System
• Nicholas S. Zeppos, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University
• Valdis Zeps, former linguist
• Zheng Xiaocang, Chinese academic administrator
• Maung Zarni, Burmese educator, academic, and human rights activist noted for his opposition to the violence in Rakhine State and Rohingya genocide
• Andrew Zimbalist, Professor of Economics, Smith College
• Norton Zinder, Professor of Microbiology, Rockefeller University
• Jane Zuengler, Professor of English; linguist
• Robin Nash, English teacher; therapist

See also

• List of University of Wisconsin–Madison people

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References

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2. "Dr. Andrew Torrence, 3rd TSU President, Dies". The Tennessean. June 12, 1980. pp. 6, 18 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Edwin Vedejs 1941–2017" (PDF). Organic Syntheses. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 May 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
4. "Valien, Bonita (1912-2011)". Armistead Research Center. Tulane University. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
5. "Valien, Preston (1914-1995)". Armistead Research Center. Tulane University. Retrieved July 24, 2018.