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

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]}
J. M. Coetzee – 2003 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature; distinguished professor in the Committee on Social Thought
Anna Crone – linguist and literary theorist on Slavic languages
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 (1979–1997)
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
Theodore Silverstein - scholar of medieval literature and poetry
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

Douglas Baird – former dean of the 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
Richard H. Helmholz – legal historian
Elena Kagan – former professor and dean of Harvard Law School; now a US Supreme Court Justice
Karl Llewellyn – major figure in the school of legal realism
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; taught constitutional law (1992-2004)
Richard Posner – jurist and economist; United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School
Roberta Cooper Ramo – first woman president, American Bar Association
Antonin Scalia – United States Supreme Court justice; professor at the Law School (1977–1982)
Michael H. Schill – president of the University of Oregon, former dean and the Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Chicago Law School
Geoffrey R. Stone – First Amendment scholar, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law
Cass Sunstein – Legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics.
James Boyd White – founder of "Law and Literature" movement
Diane Wood – judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (formerly the Oriental Institute)

Miguel Civil – professor emeritus of Sumerology
Fred Donner – professor of Islamic history
Peter Dorman – professor emeritus of Egyptology
Norman Golb – Ludwig Rosenberger Professor in Jewish History and Civilization
Janet Johnson – professor of Egyptology
Walter Kaegi – professor of Byzantine-Islamic Studies
Albert T. Olmstead - professor of Assyriology
Robert K. Ritner – professor of Egyptology
Martha Roth – professor of Assyriology; editor, Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
Gil Stein – director of the then-Oriental Institute (2013-2017)
Matthew Stolper – professor of Assyriology and Achaemenid Empire; director of Persepolis Fortification Project; member of the American Institute of Iranian Studies, American Oriental Society, and British School of Archaeology in Iraq
Edward F. Wente – professor emeritus of Egyptology
K. Aslihan Yener – professor of ancient Anatolian archeology; director of the Amuq Valley Regional Projects in Antioch (Antakya, Turkey)

Mathematics

Abraham Adrian Albert – developer of Albert algebra
László Babai – known for work in computer science and discrete mathematics, especially for his work on interactive proof systems; Gödel Prize winner
Walter Lewis Baily, Jr. – known for work in algebraic geometry, Baily-Borel compactification.
Alexander A. Beilinson – researches representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics; Wolf Prize winner
Gilbert Ames Bliss – worked on calculus of variations, won Chauvenet Prize
Oskar Bolza – German mathematician known for research on calculus of variations
Luis Caffarelli – world leader in the field of partial differential equations
Alberto Calderón – co-founded the Chicago school of mathematical analysis; winner of Bôcher Memorial Prize, the Wolf Prize, and the National Medal of Science
Ngô Bảo Châu – Fields Medal winner
Shiing-shen Chern – one of the most influential figures in differential geometry; famous for Chern classes; National Medal of Science and Wolf Prize winner
Arthur Byron Coble – President of the American Mathematical Society (1933-1934)
Leonard Eugene Dickson – first recipient of the Cole Prize in algebra
Vladimir Drinfeld – Fields Medal winner
Charles Fefferman – received full professorship at the University of Chicago at age 22, making him the youngest ever appointed in the United States; Fields Medal winner
Victor Ginzburg – known for his works in geometric representation theory
George Glauberman – works on finite simple groups, proved the ZJ theorem and Z* theorem
Paul Halmos – mathematician and mathematical expositor
Israel Herstein – worked in algebra, including ring theory
Lars Hörmander – Fields Medal winner
Irving Kaplansky – President of the American Mathematical Society (1985-1986)
John L. Kelley – taught for one year in Chicago before moving to the University of California, Berkeley
Serge Lang – known for work in number theory and for textbooks; spent most of career at Yale University
Greg Lawler – best known for work on Schramm-Loewner evolution; winner of Wolf Prize
William Lawvere – known for his work in category theory, topos theory, and the philosophy of mathematics
Saunders Mac Lane – co-founder of category theory
J. Peter May – algebraic topologist
Paul Meier – statistician, promoter of randomized trials in medicine
E. H. Moore – first head of the Mathematics department
Andrei Okounkov – former Dickson Instructor in Mathematics and the college; Fields Medal winner
David Pingree – MacArthur Fellow in 1981
Daniel Quillen – former Dickson Instructor in Mathematics and the college; Fields Medal winner
Alexander Razborov – Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Computer Science
Paul Sally – mathematics educator
Irving Segal – worked on theoretical quantum mechanics; shares credit for Segal-Shale-Weil representation
Stephen Smale – Fields Medal and Wolf Prize winner
Robert Soare – known for work in mathematical logic
Norman Steenrod – topologist
Marshall Stone – contributed to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and Boolean algebras; President of the American Mathematical Society (1943-1944)
Karen Uhlenbeck – MacArthur Fellow in 1983
André Weil – known for seminal work in number theory and algebraic geometry; leader of influential Bourbaki group; Wolf Prize winner
Efim Zelmanov – Fields Medal winner, first female winner of the Abel Prize
Antoni Zygmund – one of the most influential mathematicians in the field of analysis in the 20th century; co-founder, with student Calderón, of the Chicago school of mathematical analysis

History

Rachel Fulton Brown – American medievalist and Associate Professor of Medieval History and Fundamentals
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, 1969–1982; 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
Neil Harris – historian, former director of the National Humanities Institute and chairman of the American Council of Learned Societies
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
Ada Palmer - Associate Professor of Early Modern European History and the College, author of the Terra Ignota series
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)
Howard Stein – philosopher and historian of science
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 – Lutheran religious scholar
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 (1944–1955)
Christian K. Wedemeyer – associate professor of the history of religions; MacArthur Fellow in 1987

Science

Warder Clyde Allee – ecologist and professor of zoology
Zonia Baber – geographer and geologist
Myrtle Bachelder – chemist and Women's Army Corps officer; noted for her secret work on the Manhattan Project atomic bomb program, and for the development of techniques in the chemistry of metals
R. Stephen Berry – physical chemist; MacArthur Fellow in 1983
J Harlen Bretz - professor of geology
Ralph Buchsbaum – invertebrate zoologist
John T. Cacioppo – biological psychologist, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor
Marcela Carena – particle physicist
John Carlstrom – astrophysicist; MacArthur Fellow
Sean M. Carroll – cosmologist
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin – geologist; developed planetesimal theory
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – 1983 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics
Fay-Cooper Cole – witness at the Scopes Monkey Trial
Arthur Compton – physicist who discovered the Compton effect and oversaw the Manhattan Project
Jerry Coyne – professor emeritus; specialist in speciation and evolutionary genetics
Andrew M. Davis – professor of astronomy and geophysical sciences; developed resonant ionization mass spectrometry
Savas Dimopoulos – particle physicist
Michael Dickinson – bioengineer and neuroscientist
Enrico Fermi – 1938 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics
James Franck – Nobel laureate
Karl Freed – physical chemist
Daniel Friedan – theoretical physicist; MacArthur Fellow in 1987
T. Theodore Fujita – atmospheric scientist and renowned tornado expert; developer of Fujita scale
Murray Gell-Mann – 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics
Henry A. Gleason – ecologist, botanist, and taxonomist
Maria Goeppert-Mayer – developed model for nuclear shell structure at the University of Chicago, for which she received a Nobel in Physics in 1963
George Ellery Hale – solar astronomer, best known for his discovery of magnetic fields in sunspots
James Hartle – theoretical physicist at the Enrico Fermi Institute
Ronald Wilbert Harris – professor of physics and department chair, astronomer, photographer
Chuan He – professor of chemistry; chemical biologist
Gerhard Herzberg – 1971 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry
Edwin Hubble – astronomer, observational cosmologist
Clyde A. Hutchison Jr. - physical chemist
Ole J. Kleppa – pioneer in high temperature thermochemistry; inventor of the Kleppa Calorimeter
Edward W. Kolb – cosmologist
Martin Kreitman – geneticist; MacArthur Fellow in 1991
Bruce Lahn – professor of human genetics
Richard Lewontin – pioneered use of molecular biology on questions of evolution and genetic variation
Albert J. Libchaber – physicist; recipient of Wolf Prize in Physics in 1986; MacArthur Fellow in 1986
Frank Rattray Lillie – embryologist and zoologist
Joseph Lykken – particle physicist
Dario Maestripieri - behavioural biologist
Joseph Edward Mayer – physical chemist
Martha McClintock – biological psychologist
Albert A. Michelson – first American Nobel laureate in the sciences; known for the Michelson-Morley experiment, a cornerstone of relativity theory; measured the speed of light
Robert Millikan – Nobel laureate in Physics; known for his measurement of the charge of the electron and the photoelectric effect; performed famed oil-drop experiment at the University of Chicago's Ryerson Laboratory, which has been designated a historic physics landmark by the American Physical Society
Robert S. Mulliken – 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; 1983 Priestley Medal
John Keith Moffat – Louis Block Professor in Biochemistry, Molecular, and Cell Biology; former Deputy Provost for Research; and Guggenheim Fellow noted for Time resolved crystallography
Yoichiro Nambu – winner of Sakurai Prize, Wolf Prize, Nobel Prize in Physics, and the National Medal of Science; considered founder of string theory; known for "color charge" in quantum chromodynamics and work on spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics
C. Robert O'Dell – astrophysicist, Project Scientist for Hubble Space Telescope

Eugene Parker – astrophysicist, known for his work on the solar wind
Stuart Rice – chemist; National Medal of Science winner
Howard Taylor Ricketts – pathologist
Bernard Roizman – virologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Clemens C. J. Roothaan – physicist and chemist
Lanny D. Schmidt - Inventor and researcher, member of the National Academy of Engineering
Florence B. Seibert – biochemist, winner of the Garvan–Olin Medal; member of the National Women's Hall of Fame
Stephen Shenker – theoretical physicist, string theorist; MacArthur Fellow in 1987
Paul Sigler – former professor; worked out the structure of the RNA molecule responsible for the initiation of protein synthesis^[1]
Maria Spiropulu – particle physicist
Otto Struve – astronomer
Leo Szilard - physicist
Lucy Graves Taliaferro - parasitologist
Edward Teller – "Father of the hydrogen bomb"
Michael S. Turner – cosmologist
Russell Tuttle – primate morphologist
Harold Urey – 1934 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry
Robert M. Wald – gravitational physicist
Carlos E.M. Wagner – particle physicist
Frank Wilczek – theoretical physicist, mathematician; 2004 Nobel Prize laureate
Sewall Wright – National Medal of Science winner; one of the founders of population genetics
Ian Foster - computer scientist, pioneer of Grid Computing

Medicine and health policy

Susan L. Cohn – professor of pediatrics and dean for clinical research^[2]
Nellie X. Hawkinson (1886– 1971) – professor in nursing education^[3]
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
Olufunmilayo Olopade – Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Human genetics; MacArthur Fellow
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
Darrel Waggoner – director of Human Genetics^[4]

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
Manasi Deshpande – labor economist and 2023 Sloan Fellow
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
Eve Ewing – Associate Professor Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
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

Walter Blair – English professor
Jan Chiapusso – piano pedagogue
John Eaton – composer; MacArthur Fellow in 1990
Roger Ebert (X. 1970) – film critic and lecturer at Graham School; winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Cécile Fromont – art historian
Philip Gossett – musicologist and scholar of 19th-century Italian opera
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle – MacArthur Fellow in 2001
Paul B. Moses – art historian
Shulamit Ran – William H. Colvin Professor of Music, 1973–present; winner of the Pulitzer Prize; student of Ralph Shapey
Ralph Shapey – composer; MacArthur Fellow in 1982
Jacqueline Stewart – film history
Jessica Stockholder – sculptor, Arts Department Chair

University Presidents

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	1941–2021	1993–2000
Don Michael Randel	born 1940	2000–2006
Robert J. Zimmer	born 1947	2006 - 2021
Paul Alivisatos	born 1959	from 2021

Notes

^ Chicago School of literary criticism
^ MacArthur Fellow list of winners

References

^ "Paul Sigler obituary". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-01-14.
^ "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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[1] Chicago School of literary criticism

[Mac-2] MacArthur Fellow list of winners

[3] "Paul Sigler obituary". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-01-14.

[4] "Susan Cohn receives AACR-Joseph H. Burchenal Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cancer Research". www.uchicagomedicine.org. Retrieved 2019-12-22.

[5] "Chicago U. Selects Miss Hawkinson as Nursing Professor". Chicago Tribune. 1934-10-04. p. 13. Retrieved 2024-05-06.

[6] University of Chicago. "Darrel Waggoner". Retrieved 13 December 2013.

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