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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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)
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]
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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)
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]
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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