List of University of Chicago faculty

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.

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Graduate Library School (1928–1989) Lester Asheim Lee Pierce Butler Leon Carnovsky Herman H. Fussler Frances E. Henne Carleton B. Joeckel Jesse Shera Peggy Sullivan Don R. Swanson 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 University of Chicago Graduate Library School.

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 – philosophy, aesthetics, criticism and rhetorical literary theorist 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 J. M. Coetzee – 2003 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature; distinguished professor in the Committee on Social Thought Anna Crone – linguist and literary theorist on Slavic languages 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 James R. Lawler – Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures (1979–1997) 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 Theodore Silverstein – scholar of medieval literature and poetry Mark Strand – former professor in the Committee on Social Thought; Pulitzer Prize winner David E. Wellbery – chair of the department of Germanic Studies 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 Eleanor Wilner – poet A.B. Yehoshua – Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright Adam Zagajewski – member of the Committee on Social Thought

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 Karl Llewellyn – major figure in the school of legal realism 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; taught constitutional law (1992–2004) Richard Posner – jurist and economist; United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School Roberta Cooper Ramo – first woman president, American Bar Association Antonin Scalia – United States Supreme Court justice; professor at the Law School (1977–1982) 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 James Boyd White – founder of "Law and Literature" movement Diane Wood – judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (formerly the 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 Janet Johnson – professor of Egyptology Walter Kaegi – professor of Byzantine-Islamic Studies Albert T. Olmstead – professor of Assyriology Robert K. Ritner – professor of Egyptology Martha Roth – professor of Assyriology; editor, Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Gil Stein – director of the then-Oriental Institute (2013–2017) 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)

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Muhammad S. Eissa – professor of Arabic

Mathematics Abraham Adrian Albert – developer of Albert algebra László Babai – known for work in computer science and discrete mathematics, especially for his work on interactive proof systems; Gödel Prize winner Walter Lewis Baily, Jr. – known for work in algebraic geometry, Baily-Borel compactification Alexander A. Beilinson – researches representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics; Wolf Prize winner Gilbert Ames Bliss – worked on calculus of variations, won Chauvenet Prize Oskar Bolza – German mathematician known for research on calculus of variations 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 – president of the American Mathematical Society (1933–1934) 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 – works on finite simple groups, proved the ZJ theorem and Z* theorem Paul Halmos – mathematician and mathematical expositor Israel Herstein – worked in algebra, including ring theory Lars Hörmander – Fields Medal winner Irving Kaplansky – president of the American Mathematical Society (1985–1986) John L. Kelley – taught for one year in Chicago before moving to the University of California, Berkeley Serge Lang – known for work in number theory and for textbooks; spent most of career at Yale University Greg Lawler – best known for work on Schramm-Loewner evolution; winner of Wolf Prize 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 – first head of the Mathematics department 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 – worked on theoretical quantum mechanics; shares credit for Segal-Shale-Weil representation Stephen Smale – Fields Medal and Wolf Prize winner Robert Soare – known for work in mathematical logic Norman Steenrod – topologist Marshall Stone – contributed to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and Boolean algebras; President of the American Mathematical Society (1943–1944) Karen Uhlenbeck – MacArthur Fellow in 1983, first female winner of the Abel Prize 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 Rachel Fulton Brown – medievalist and associate professor of Medieval History and Fundamentals Muzaffar Alam – George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations Kenneth Pomeranz – professor of Chinese and world history, considered a leading figure in the California School of economic history, and former president of the American Historical Association 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