List of University of Chicago faculty

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

Business

Graduate Library School (1928–1989)

• Lester Asheim
• Lee Pierce Butler
• Leon Carnovsky
• Herman H. Fussler
• Frances E. Henne
• Carleton B. Joeckel
• Jesse Shera
• Don R. Swanson
• Peggy Sullivan
• Douglas Waples
• Louis Round Wilson
• Victor Yngve

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 – literary theorist
• John Maxwell Coetzee – 2003 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature; Distinguished Professor in the Committee on Social Thought
• 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
• Mark Strand – former professor in the Committee on Social Thought; Pulitzer Prize winner
• 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
• 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
• David E. Wellbery – chair of the department of Germanic Studies
• A.B. Yehoshua – Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright
• Adam Zagajewski – member of the Committee on Social Thought
• 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^[1]

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
• 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 Scalia – United States Supreme Court justice; professor at the Law School (1977–1982)
• Geoffrey R. Stone – First Amendment scholar, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law
• Cass Sunstein
• James Boyd White – founder of "Law and Literature" movement
• Diane Wood – judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals

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
• Walter Kaegi – Professor of Byzantine-Islamic Studies
• Robert K. Ritner – Professor of Egyptology
• Martha Roth – Professor of Assyriology; Editor, Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
• Gil Stein – Director, Oriental Institute
• 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
• László Babai – known for work in computer science and discrete mathematics, especially for his work on interactive proof systems; Gödel Prize winner
• Alexander A. Beilinson
• Gilbert Ames Bliss
• Oskar Bolza
• 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
• 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
• Paul Halmos – mathematician and mathematical expositor
• Israel Herstein
• Lars Hörmander – Fields Medal winner
• Irving Kaplansky
• John L. Kelley
• Serge Lang
• Greg Lawler
• 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
• Robert Lee Moore
• 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
• Stephen Smale – Fields Medal and Wolf Prize winner
• Robert Soare – known for work in mathematical logic
• Norman Steenrod – topologist
• Marshall Stone
• 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
• 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

• 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; 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]
• Jan E. Goldstein – intellectual historian of modern Europe, co-editor of the Journal of Modern History
• 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 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)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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)
• 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
• 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 – 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
• Ralph Buchsbaum – invertebrate zoologist
• R. Stephen Berry – physical chemist; MacArthur Fellow in 1983
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Gerhard Herzberg – 1971 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry
• Edwin Hubble – astronomer, observational cosmologist
• 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
• Ernest Lawrence – 1939 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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^[3]
• Maria Spiropulu – particle physicist
• Otto Struve – astronomer
• Edward Teller – "Father of the hydrogen bomb"
• Michael S. Turner – cosmologist
• Russell Tuttle – primate morphologist
• Harold Urey – Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 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

Medicine and health policy

• Raphael Carl Lee – surgeon, medical researcher, biomedical engineer; MacArthur Fellow in 1981
• 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
• Olufunmilayo Olopade – Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Human genetics; MacArthur Fellow

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
• Chris Blattman – economist, political scientist, member of the Pearson Institute
• Leonard Bloomfield – linguist who led the development of structural linguistics
• 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)
• 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
• 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 1998-2001, 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)
• 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

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
• Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle – MacArthur Fellow in 2001
• 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
• Jessica Stockholder – sculptor, Arts Department Chair

University Presidents

See also: The Presidents of the University of Chicago, University of Chicago Presidential Search Committee

Board of trustees

• Andrew M. Alper (A.B. 1980, M.B.A. 1981) – President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation
• David G. Booth (M.B.A. 1971) – Chairman and CEO of Dimensional Fund Advisors
• John H. Bryan – former Chairman and CEO of Sara Lee Corporation
• Thomas A. Cole (J.D. 1975) – Chairman of the Executive Committee and Partner of Sidley Austin LLP, the sixth-largest law firm in the world
• E. David Coolidge III – Vice Chairman of William Blair & Company, LLC
• Jon Corzine (M.B.A. 1973) – Governor of New Jersey
• James S. Crown – President of Henry Crown and Company
• Katharine Darrow (A.B. 1965) – former Senior Vice President of The New York Times Company
• Erroll B. Davis, Jr. (M.B.A. 1967) – Chancellor of the University of Georgia
• Jamie Dimon – President and COO of JPMorgan Chase & Co.
• Strachan Donnelley – President of the Center for Humans and Nature
• Craig J. Duchossois – CEO of Duchossois Industries
• James S. Frank – President and CEO of Wheels, Inc.
• Jack W. Fuller – former president of the Tribune Company
• Eric J. Gleacher (M.B.A. 1967) – Chairman of Gleacher & Co.
• Stanford J. Goldblatt (Lab 1954, X. 1958) – partner of Winston & Strawn
• Mary Louise Gorno (M.B.A. 1976) – Vice President and Global Account Director of A.T. Kearney
• Kathryn C. Gould (M.B.A. 1978) – founder and General Partner of Foundation Capital
• Sanford J. Grossman (A.B. 1973, A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1975) – Chairman of Quantitative Financial Strategies, Inc.
• King W. Harris – Chairman of Harris Holdings, Inc.
• Kenneth M. Jacobs (A.B. 1980) – CEO of Lazard North America and Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of Lazard LLC
• Valerie Jarrett – Managing Director and Executive Vice President of the Habitat Company
• Karen L. Katen (A.B. 1970, M.B.A. 1974) – Executive Vice President of Pfizer, Incorporated and President of Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals
• Dennis J. Keller (M.B.A. 1968) – Chairman of DeVry Inc
• Arthur L. Kelly (M.B.A. 1964) – Managing Partner of KEL Enterprises, L.P.
• James M. Kilts, Jr. (M.B.A. 1974) – Chairman, President, and CEO of Gillette Company
• Michael J. Klingensmith (A.B. 1975, M.B.A. 1976) – Executive Vice President of Time Inc.
• Michael L. Klowden (A.B. 1967) – President and CEO of Milken Institute
• Sherry Lansing (Lab 1962) – CEO of the Sherry Lansing Foundation
• John Martin (S.M. 1975, Ph.D. 1978) – President and CEO of Gilead Sciences
• Walter E. Massey – President of Morehouse College until 2007
• Peter W. May (A.B. 1964, M.B.A. 1965) – President and COO of Triarc Companies, Inc.
• John W. McCarter, Jr. – President and CEO of the Field Museum
• Joseph Neubauer (M.B.A. 1965) – Chairman and CEO of Aramark
• Emily Nicklin (A.B. 1975, J.D. 1977) – Partner of Kirkland & Ellis
• Harvey B. Plotnick (A.B. 1963) – President of Paradigm Holdings Inc.
• Thomas J. Pritzker (M.B.A. 1976, J.D. 1976) – Chairman and CEO of Hyatt Corporation
• George A. Ranney, Jr. (J.D. 1966) – President and CEO of Chicago Metropolis 2020
• John W. Rogers, Jr. (Lab 1976) – Chairman and CEO of Ariel Capital Management
• Andrew M. Rosenfield (J.D. 1978) – President and CEO of Leaf Group LLC
• Steven G. Rothmeier (M.B.A. 1972) – Chairman and CEO of Great Northern Capital
• Richard P. Strubel – Vice Chairman of UNext, Inc.
• Byron D. Trott (A.B. 1981, M.B.A. 1982) – Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs
• Marshall I. Wais, Jr. (A.B. 1963) – CEO of Marwais International LLC
• Paula Wolff (A.M. 1969, Ph.D. 1972) – Senior Executive of Chicago Metropolis 2020
• Paul G. Yovovich (A.B. 1974, M.B.A. 1975) – President of Lake Capital
• Francis T.F. Yuen (A.B. 1975) – Deputy Chairman of PCCW Limited
• Robert J. Zimmer – President of the University of Chicago

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