List of Northwestern University faculty

The following is a partial list of Northwestern University faculty, including current, former, emeritus, and deceased faculty, and administrators at Northwestern University.

Notable faculty Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

V. S. Subrahmanian, Walter P. Murphy Professor of computer science and Buffet Faculty Fellow Jan D. Achenbach, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering, engineering sciences and applied mathematics, and mechanical engineering; National Medal of Science Luis Amaral, professor of chemical engineering Guillermo Ameer, professor of biomedical engineering, surgery Vadim Backman, professor of biomedical engineering, medicine (hematology/oncology), biochemistry and molecular genetics Ted Belytschko, professor of mechanical engineering, computational mechanics Arthur Bronwell, professor of electrical engineering Arthur Butz, associate professor of electrical engineering and Holocaust denier Justine Cassell, professor of communication studies and electrical engineering and computer science Stephen H. Davis, professor of engineering sciences and applied mathematics Ken Forbus, computer science and artificial intelligence Robert Fourer, professor of industrial engineering and management sciences, designer of AMPL Mitra Hartmann, professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering Mark Hersam, Walter P. Murphy Professor of materials science and engineering and electrical and computer engineering and chemistry Michael Honig, professor of electrical engineering and computer science Prem Kumar, professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Director of the Center for Photonic Communication and Computing (CPCC) and the AT&T Professor of Information Technology Chad Mirkin, professor of chemistry, materials science and engineering, chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering Milan Mrksich, professor of biomedical engineering, chemistry, cell and molecular biology Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi, professor of physiology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, biomedical engineering Donald A. Norman, computer science and cognitive science Monica Olvera de la Cruz, professor of materials science and engineering, chemistry, chemical and biological engineering, and by courtesy, physics and astronomy Joseph Schofer, professor of civil and environmental engineering, director of the Infrastructure Technology Institute, and Associate Dean David N. Seidman, Walter P. Murphy Professor emeritus of materials science and engineering Samuel I. Stupp, Board of Trustees professor of materials science and engineering, chemistry, medicine, biomedical engineering Allen Taflove, professor of electrical engineering Ajit Tamhane, professor of industrial engineering and management sciences Chris Wolverton, Frank C. Engelhart Professor of materials science and engineering Teresa Woodruff, professor of biomedical engineering

Medill School of Journalism

Neil Chase, CEO of CalMatters Douglas Foster, former editor-in-chief of Mother Jones magazine John Lavine, dean Jon Petrovich, former CNN and Sony Television executive, founder of CNN.com Jacob Scher, late journalist, lawyer and authority on access to public information Michele Weldon, author and former managing editor of Northshore magazine

School of Communication TJ Billard, associate professor of communication studies and sociology, founding executive director of the Center for Applied Transgender Studies, and founding editor of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies Frank Galati, Tony Award-winning director and professor of performance studies Dilip Gaonkar, rhetorical theorist Rebecca Gilman, professor and playwright of Spinning into Butter Kyle Henry, professor of radio/television/film, independent filmmaker and editor E. Patrick Johnson, professor of performance studies Eric Patrick, professor of radio/television/film, experimental filmmaker, and 2006 Guggenheim Fellow Madhu Reddy, professor Todd Rosenthal, Tony Award-winning scenic designer Anna Shapiro, professor and director at the Steppenwolf Theatre Lynn Spigel, scholar of television and American culture Winifred Louise Ward, founded the field of Creative Drama James G. Webster, professor and audience researcher David Zarefsky, authority on rhetoric and forensics Mary Zimmerman, Tony Award-winning director and professor of performance studies

School of Professional Studies Chris Abani, Nigerian author Stuart Dybek, writer Reginald Gibbons, poet, fiction writer, translator, literary critic, artist Ed Roberson, poet

Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

J. Michael Bailey, professor of psychology Myron L. Bender, professor of chemistry Martha Biondi, professor of African American studies T.H. Breen, historian of colonial America Souleymane Bachir Diagne, professor of African and Islamic philosophy Stuart Dybek, author of The Coast of Chicago and I Sailed With Magellan Jesús Escobar, professor of art history Ward V. Evans, chemist and Oppenheimer security hearing panel member Enectalí Figueroa-Feliciano, physicist Gary Alan Fine, sociologist of culture Benjamin Frommer, historian Anupam Garg, physicist, author of Classical Electromagnetism in a Nutshell Reginald Gibbons, professor of English and Classics, 2008 National Book Award nominee for poetry Robert J. Gordon, economist Samuel Goudsmit (1902–1978), Dutch-American physicist Jürgen Habermas, contemporary philosopher John Hagan, sociologist of crime and human rights Leslie M. Harris, professor of African American studies Larry V. Hedges, professor of Statistics Erich Heller, essayist, philosopher, and literature scholar Aleksandar Hemon, author of the National Book Award-nominated The Lazarus Project Melville J. Herskovits, anthropologist Darlene Clark Hine, historian of African-American women Brian M. Hoffman, (bio)chemist Bonnie Honig, political theorist Daniel Immerwahr, historian Vicky Kalogera, astrophysicist, Director of CIERA Richard Kieckhefer, professor of Religion, author of Magic in the Middle Ages and Theology in Stone Mary Kinzie, professor of English and creative writing, author of A Poet's Guide to Poetry Laura Kipnis, professor and author of bestselling Against Love Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here and The Other Side of the River Richard Kraut, philosopher Yanna Krupnikov, political scientist Carole LaBonne, professor and chair of Molecular Biosciences Jennifer Lackey, professor of philosophy Peter Ludlow, John Evans Professor in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy Nancy MacLean, historian, author of Behind the Mask of Chivalry Yuri Manin, mathematician Charles Manski, economist and social policy analyst Tobin J. Marks, professor of chemistry Charles Mills, philosophy professor Chad Mirkin, nanomedicine and chemistry Joel Mokyr, historian of science and economics, author of The Lever of Riches Richard I. Morimoto, Cell and Molecular Biology Aldon Morris, sociologist and author of The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement Gary Saul Morson, Russian literature, scholar of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky Dale Mortensen, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics Charles Moskos, military sociologist, former advisor to President Bill Clinton Adilson E. Motter, physicist Edward Muir, Renaissance historian Barbara Newman, scholar of Medieval religion and female spirituality Monica Olvera de la Cruz, professor of materials science and engineering and professor of chemistry Robert Orsi, professor of American religious history Ed Paschke, artist and Chicago Imagist Mary Pattillo, urban sociologist, named one of Newsweeks "Women of the 21st Century" John Pople, late Nobel Prize-winning chemistry professor Janice Radway, professor of communications studies Mark Ratner, professor of chemistry Jennifer Richeson, professor of psychology and MacArthur Fellow George C. Schatz, professor of chemistry Heidi Schellman, professor of physics and department head at Oregon State University Richard Bruce Silverman, professor of chemistry Lynn Spigel, Frances Willard Professor of Screen Cultures, cultural history of television James Fraser Stoddart, Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry Stuart Struever, anthropologist and archaeologist, former president of the Society for American Archaeology Andrei Suslin, mathematician Charles Taylor, philosopher, author of Sources of the Self Fred W. Turek, Director of the Center for Sleep & Circadian Biology and the Charles & Emma Morrison Professor of Biology in the Department of Neurobiology Mayda Velasco, physicist and Director of COFI Samuel Weber, Avalon Professor of the Humanities, critical theory Irwin Weil, scholar of Soviet history, music, and literature Rudolph H. Weingartner, American philosopher and academic administrator, former dean of the college and later provost of the University of Pittsburgh Garry Wills, Pulitzer Prize, winning historian and religious scholar Eleanor Wilner, poet and editor Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, scholar of judaism and Talmudic literature Wendy Griswold, sociologist Christopher Udry, economist

Feinberg School of Medicine

Guillermo Ameer, Professor of Surgery Rinad Beidas, Chair and Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor of Medical Social Sciences Robert Bonow, Max and Lilly Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Cardiology, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) Serdar Bulun, Chair and John J. Sciarra Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology William T. Bovie, Chair, Department of Biophysics Daniel Brat, Chair, Department of Pathology, Magerstadt Professor of Pathology Sarah A. Connolly, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Microbiology-Immunology Nathan Smith Davis, Jr., former Dean David Gius, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Pharmacology Robert D. Goldman, Chair of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology Eva Gottwein, Associate Professor of Microbiology-Immunology Jordan Graffman, Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Kathleen J. Green, Joseph L. Mayberry Professor of Pathology and Toxicology and Professor of Dermatology Maha H. Hussain, Genevieve E. Teuton Professor of Medicine and deputy director of the Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University Ravi Kalhan, Professor of Preventive Medicine Kristen Knutson, Associate Professor of Neurology Wyndham Lathem, former Associate Professor of Microbiology-Immunology Donald Lloyd-Jones, Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine, Eileen M. Foell Professor, Professor of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology), Medicine (Cardiology) and Pediatrics Laszlo Lorand, professor emeritus in cell and molecular biology Constantine Mavroudis, former Willis J. Potts Professor of Surgery. Elizabeth M. McNally, Director of the Center for Genetic Medicine, Elizabeth J. Ward Professor of Genetic Medicine Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Chad Mirkin, Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry and professor of Medicine Michael E. Newcomb, assistant professor and clinical psychologist Anna Christina Nobre, adjunct professor of neurology Susan Quaggin, Charles Horace Mayo Professor of Medicine, Director of the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute and chief of the Division of Nephrology June K. Robinson, Research Professor of Dermatology John A. Rogers, Professor of McCormick School of Engineering, Dermatology and Neurological Surgery Karla Satchell, Professor of Microbiology-Immunology Ali Shilatifard, Robert Francis Furchgott Professor and Chairman of the department of biochemistry and molecular genetics, and the director of the Simpson Query Institute for Epigenetics Melissa Simon, George H. Gardner, MD professor of clinical gynecology, vice-chair of clinical research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, professor of preventive medicine and medical social sciences Dinee Simpson, Assistant Professor of Surgery