List of University of California, Santa Barbara faculty

This page lists notable faculty (past and present) of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

This is an incomplete list that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Nobel laureates

• David Gross, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2004
• Alan Heeger, Nobel Prize recipient, Chemistry, 2000
• Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize recipient, Chemistry, 1998
• Herbert Kroemer, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2000
• Finn Kydland, Nobel Prize recipient, Economics, 2004
• Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2014
• John Robert Schrieffer, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 1972

Pulitzer Prize

• Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize for History recipient, 2013
• N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction recipient, 1969

Anthropology

• Napoleon Chagnon, pioneer of biologically based interpretation of human reproductive and aggressive behavior.^[1]
• Brian Fagan ^[2]
• Stuart Tyson Smith, best known for his reconstruction of the ancient Egyptian language for the films Stargate and The Mummy.^[3]
• John Tooby, pioneer of evolutionary psychology.^[4]
• Garrett Hardin, served as Professor of Human Ecology from 1963 until his (nominal) retirement in 1978 and was most known for his papers, The Tragedy of the Commons and Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor.

Art

• Kip Fulbeck^[5]

Botany

• Katherine Esau

Chemical engineering

• Jacob Israelachvili ^[6]

Chemistry and biochemistry

• Thomas C. Bruice, Coined the term "Bio-organic Chemistry", member of National Academy of Science.^[7]
• Craig Hawker ^[8]
• Bruce H. Lipshutz, Professor, made significant contributions to copper catalyzed organic reactions.^[9]
• Ralph G. Pearson, Emeritus, Coined the concepts of Hard and Soft for Acids and Bases.^[10][11]
• Galen D. Stucky, An early researcher in the field of Materials Chemistry ^[12]

Chicano Studies

• Luis Leal

Computer science

• Tao Yang^[13]

Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology

• Shane R. Jimerson, 2003 co-recipient of the Lightner Witmer Award from the American Psychological Association; noted for his work in school psychology and traumatic stress^[14]

East Asian languages and cultural studies

• John Nathan^[15]

Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology

• William W. Murdoch, Population ecologist known for his research in population regulation and predator-prey relationships ^[16]

Electrical and computer engineering

• Lawrence Rabiner^[17]
• Petar V. Kokotovic^[18]

English

• Hugh Kenner, noted literary critic
• Marvin Mudrick, noted literary scholar
• Shirley Geok-lin Lim, noted poet and literary scholar

Film and media studies

• Dick Hebdige^[19]

Geography

• Reginald Golledge, pioneer in behavioral geography.
• Michael Frank Goodchild, most known for work on GIS, or computer mapping.^[20]
• Waldo R. Tobler, known for his first law of geography.^[21]

Geology

• Tanya Atwater, instrumental in the development of the theory of plate tectonics.^[22]
• George R Tilton, pioneer in the measurement and application of isotopes to geology.

Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies

• Laurence Rickels

Global and International Studies

• Mark Juergensmeyer
• Paul Orfalea, founder of the copy-chain Kinko's

History

• Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
• C. Warren Hollister
• Nelson Lichtenstein
• Albert Lindemann
• Harold Marcuse^[23]
• W. Patrick McCray
• Milan St. Protić
• David Rock

Linguistics

• Mary Bucholtz
• Wallace Chafe
• Bernard Comrie
• Stefan Th. Gries
• Marianne Mithun
• Sandra A. Thompson

Materials

• Arthur Gossard^[24]
• Shuji Nakamura^[25]

Mathematics

• Michael G. Crandall, Winner, the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research
• Glen Culler, early innovator in the development of the interactive computing and ARPAnet

Mechanical engineering

• Henry T. Yang, Chancellor^[26]

Media arts and technology

• Curtis Roads^[27]

Music

• John Dearman, Grammy Award-winning classical guitarist, member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ), and the Director of Guitar Studies
• Alejandro Planchart, Emeritus, professor of musicology, expert on Guillaume Dufay.
• Julia Banzi, Ph.D. Ethnomusicology, member of the Al-Andalus Ensemble,^[28] expert on Andalusian music and women's ensembles of the Arab world.

Philosophy

• C. Anthony Anderson^[29]
• Nathan Salmon^[30]

Physics

• David Awschalom, best known for his work in spintronics in semiconductors.^[31]
• James Hartle, together with Stephen Hawking, proposed the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction of the Universe - a specific solution to the Wheeler-deWitt equation meant to explain the initial conditions of the Big Bang cosmology.^[32]
• James S. Langer
• Joseph Polchinski^[33]

Political Science

• Benjamin Cohen (professor), leading scholar in field of International Political Economy.

Psychological & Brain Sciences

• Leda Cosmides, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology.^[34]
• Michael Gazzaniga, pioneer of cognitive neuroscience.^[35]

Religious studies

• Walter Capps
• J. Gordon Melton
• Birger A. Pearson
• Ann Taves

Sociology

• Donald Cressey
• Ralph Larkin
• France Winddance Twine
• Howard Winant

See also

• List of University of California, Santa Barbara alumni

References

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