This is a list of notable George Washington University faculty, including both current and past faculty at the
Washington, D.C. school, as well as university officials. As of 2007,
The George Washington University employs approximately 1,130 full-time, in addition to part-time, faculty members across its
three campuses.
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Presidents
John Quincy Adams and
Ulysses Grant served on the board of trustees. Professors have been government officials, leading scientists, and others.
Edward Teller, a
physicist considered the father of the
hydrogen bomb taught at GW.
Frank Sesno, a
CNN Special Correspondent, currently teaches in that field and, from 2009 to 2020, was the director of the
School of Media and Public Affairs. The current President of the University is
Ellen Granberg.
Current faculty
Business
Humanities
Hossein Nasr, University Professor of Islamic studies, is a leading Iranian Islamic philosopher.
International affairs
Journalism and public affairs
Law
Mathematics
Medicine
Political Management
Political Management
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Mark Kennedy – business executive,
congressman, presidential appointee, introduced shapeholders to business strategy
Public Policy and Public Administration
Sciences
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Lisa Bowleg - Professor of Applied Social Psychology
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Valerie Hu - professor of biochemistry and molecular biology
Others
Past faculty
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Moudud Ahmed – former
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
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Ruth Aaronson Bari – mathematician known for her work in
graph theory and
homomorphisms
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Stephen Biddle – scholar and author on U.S. defense strategy
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Chrystelle Trump Bond – former lecturer of dance, choreographer, dance historian, and author
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Judith Butler – former professor of philosophy
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David Josiah Brewer – former
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
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Letitia Woods Brown – (1971–1976) historian
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Robert J. Callahan – current Ambassador to
Nicaragua, former SMPA professor
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Vikram Chandra – author of
Sacred Games and winner of the
Commonwealth Writers Prize
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Nathaniel C. Comfort – former researcher in the Department of History
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William J. Crowe – former professor of international affairs,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
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Thomas J. Dodd Jr. – former adjunct professor, former
United States Ambassador to Uruguay and to
Costa Rica
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Willis Van Devanter – former
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
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George Gamow (1934–1954) –
physicist and
cosmologist
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Waldemar J. Gallman – former
United States Ambassador to Iraq and
United States Ambassador to Poland
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Gregory G. Garre – law professor, former
United States Solicitor General
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Alan Grayson – lecturer in Government Contracts Program, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
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John Marshall Harlan – former
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
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Howard Lincoln Hodgkins – University president, 1921–1923
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Cecil Jacobson – rogue fertility doctor
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Edward P. Jones –
Pulitzer Prize-winning author
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Christopher Kojm – chairman of the
National Intelligence Council
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William Kovacic – chairman of the
Federal Trade Commission, former professor of government contracts law
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Albert Freeman Africanus King – professor of
obstetrics
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S. M. Krishna – current
Minister of External Affairs of India
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Ken Lay – former assistant professor, former Chairman and CEO of
Enron
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Joseph LeBaron – former Elliott School faculty, current Ambassador to
Qatar, former Ambassador to
Mauritania
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Blake R. Van Leer – president of
Georgia Tech, U.S. Army colonel, inventor, and civil rights advocate
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John Logsdon – member of
Columbia Accident Investigation Board,
NASA Advisory Council
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William H. Luers – former visiting lecturer, former Ambassador to
Venezuela, to
Czechoslovakia
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Michelle McMurry-Heath – Immunologist and former CEO of the
Biotechnology Innovation Organization
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Josiah Meigs – professor of experimental philosophy in the early 19th century
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William Matthew Merrick – former congressman from
Maryland, former professor of law
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Andrew A. Michta
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John Miller – former congressman from Washington
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Charles Munroe – former chair of the Department of Chemistry, discoverer of the
Munroe effect
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Stanton J. Peelle – former Congressman from
Indiana and chief justice of the
United States Court of Claims, former professor of law
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Randall R. Rader – former law professor, current
federal judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
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Walter Reed – Medical School instructor, leading disease researcher and physician
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James N. Rosenau – former president of the
International Studies Association
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Pedro Rossello – professor of global health, former governor of
Puerto Rico
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Howard Sachar –
Jewish historian
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Dr. Thomas Sewall – anatomist and founding member of medical department
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Lee Sigelman – former editor of the
American Political Science Review
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Peter Plympton Smith – former Congressman from
Vermont, former Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development
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John W. Snow – former
United States Secretary of the Treasury, former professor of law, as well as graduate
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Stephen Solarz – former congressman from New York
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William Strong – former
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
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Edward Teller (1935–1941) –
nuclear
physicist and father of the
hydrogen bomb
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Vincent du Vigneaud –
biochemist who headed the Biochemistry Department at the
George Washington University School of Medicine, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955
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Lowell P. Weicker Jr. – former U.S. senator from
Connecticut and former professor of law
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Robert Work –
Undersecretary of the Navy
Board of trustees
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Josiah Meigs – original member
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Return J. Meigs Jr. – former
Governor of Ohio, former
US Senator, original member
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Thomas Sewall – original member and Professor
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Luther Rice – original member
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Burgiss Allison –
Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, original member
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Spencer Houghton Cone –
Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, original member
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Obadiah B. Brown –
Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, original member
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Amos Kendall – former
United States Postmaster General, former President of the Board
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John Quincy Adams – former
President of the United States, former member
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Ulysses S. Grant – former
President of the United States, honorary, former member
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Alexander Graham Bell – inventor, former member
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Ulysses S. Grant III –
Major General in the
United States Army, grandson of
President of the United States
Ulysses S. Grant, former university Vice President and Trustee
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William Wilson Corcoran – former
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Bennett Champ Clark – alumnus, former
U.S. Senator, former member
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Lewis Strauss – former
United States Secretary of Commerce, former member
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Phil Graham – former co-owner of
The Washington Post, former member
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J. Edgar Hoover – alumnus, 1st
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, former member
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Margaret Truman – alumna, daughter of
United States President
Harry Truman, former member
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Melville Bell Grosvenor – former president of the
National Geographic Society and editor of
National Geographic Magazine, former member
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Jacob Burns – alumnus, former member
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David M. Kennedy – alumnus, former
United States Secretary of Treasury, former member
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Melvin R. Laird – former
United States Secretary of Defense, former member
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Sharon Percy Rockefeller – wife of
U.S. Senator
Jay Rockefeller, former member
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Eric Holder –
Attorney General of the United States, former member
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John Warner – former
U.S. Senator, former member
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Mark Warner – alumnus,
U.S. Senator, former member
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Daniel Inouye – alumnus,
U.S. Senator, former member
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Robert H. Smith – former member
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Charles Taylor Manatt – alumnus, former Ambassador to the
Dominican Republic, former
Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, former Chairman of the Board
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Ted Lerner – alumnus, billionaire developer and owner of the
Washington Nationals, former member
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Randy Levine – alumnus, President of the
New York Yankees, current member
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Robert Tanenbaum – owner of the
Washington Nationals, current member
Presidents
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