List of University of Chicago faculty

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This list of University of Chicago faculty contains past and current instructors and administrators at the University of Chicago.

Business

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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

Law School

  • Gerhard Casper – former Dean of the Law School and Provost at the University of Chicago; President Emeritus of Stanford University
  • Ronald Coase – Professor Emeritus of Law; Nobel laureate in Economics; co-founder of law and economics movement, arguably the most influential intellectual movement in legal scholarship in the second half of the 20th century
  • Aaron Director – played a central role in the development of the law and economics movement; founded the Journal of Law and Economics, which he co-edited with Ronald Coase
  • Frank Easterbrook – judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals
  • Richard Epstein – currently the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law
  • Elena Kagan – former Professor and Dean of Harvard Law School; now a US Supreme Court Justice
  • Leon Kass
  • Karl Llewellyn – major figure in the school of legal realism
  • Catharine MacKinnon – feminist
  • Michael W. McConnell – federal judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; leading constitutional originalist
  • Martha Nussbaum – philosopher and public intellectual, currently Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics
  • Barack Obama – President of the United States of America
  • Richard Posner – helped start law and economics movement
  • Roberta Cooper Ramo – first woman President, American Bar Association
  • Antonin ScaliaUnited States Supreme Court justice; professor at the Law School (1977–1982)
  • Cass Sunstein
  • James Boyd White – founder of "Law and Literature" movement
  • Diane Wood – judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Oriental Institute

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Mathematics

History

  • 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
  • James Henry Breasted – Professor of Egyptology and Oriental History
  • Bruce Cumings – Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College
  • Fred M. Donner – Professor of Near Eastern History; Guggenheim Fellow (2007)
  • Sheila Fitzpatrick – Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of History; ground-breaking historian of modern Russian and Soviet history; mentor to several established and up-and-coming "revisionist" historians of the Soviet Union, constituting a "Fitzpatrick School of 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)[2]
  • Marshall G. S. Hodgson – pioneer in Islamic Studies and global history, member of the Committee on Social Thought
  • 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 journal Byzantinische Forschungen; 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)
  • William Hardy McNeill
  • 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Charles Hartshorne – former Professor of Philosophy
  • John Haugeland – David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bruce Lincoln – Historian of Religions
  • 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 – Historian of Religions (2003– )

Science

Medicine and health policy

  • Harold Pollack – professor and Chair of the Center for Health Administration Studies
  • Mark Siegler – Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics

Social sciences

  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Morton A. Kaplan – Professor of Political Science
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Robert E. Park – Professor of Sociology (1914–1936)
  • 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 economics professor, former Provost at Princeton, advisor to President Gerald Ford
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Iris Marion Young – former Professor of Political Science

Arts and entertainment

University Presidents

See also: The Presidents of the University of Chicago, University of Chicago Presidential Search Committee
President Life Tenure
William Rainey Harper 1856–1906 1891–1906
Harry Pratt Judson 1849–1927 1906–1923
Ernest DeWitt Burton 1856–1925 1923–1925
Max Mason 1877–1961 1925–1928
Robert Hutchins 1899–1977 1929–1951
Lawrence A. Kimpton 1910–1977 1951–1960
George Wells Beadle 1903–1989 1961–1968
Edward H. Levi 1911–2000 1968–1975
John T. Wilson 1914–1990 1975–1978
Hanna Holborn Gray born 1930 1978–1993
Hugo F. Sonnenschein born 1941 1993–2000
Don Michael Randel born 1940 2000–2006
Robert J. Zimmer born 1947 2006–present

Board of trustees

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