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.
Presidents
- Clark T. Hinman, DD
- Henry S. Noyes, MA °
- Randolph S. Foster, DD, LLD
- Henry S. Noyes, MA °
- David H. Wheeler, DD °
- Erastus O. Haven, DD, LLD
- Charles H. Fowler, DD, LLD
- Oliver Marcy, LLD °
- Joseph Cummings, DD, LLD
- Oliver Marcy, LLD °
- Henry Wade Rogers, LLD
- Daniel Bonbright, MA, LLD °
- Edmund J. James, PhD, LLD
- Thomas F. Holgate, PhD, LLD °
- Abram W. Harris, ScD, LLD
- Thomas F. Holgate, PhD, LLD °
- Lynn H. Hough, DD
- Walter Dill Scott, PhD, LLD
- Franklyn Bliss Snyder, PhD, LLD
- J. Roscoe Miller, MD, LLD, ScD
- Robert H. Strotz, PhD, LLD
- Arnold R. Weber, PhD
- Henry S. Bienen, PhD
- Morton O. Schapiro, PhD
Notable faculty
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
- 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
- Ted Belytschko, professor of mechanical engineering, computational mechanics
- 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
- Michael Honig, professor of electrical engineering and computer science
- 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
- Samuel I. Stupp, Board of Trustees professor of materials science and engineering, chemistry, medicine, biomedical engineering
- Allen Taflove, professor of electrical engineering
- Teresa Woodruff, professor of biomedical engineering
Medill School of Journalism
- 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
- Elmo Scott Watson, journalism professor, 1924–1947; specialist on the American West
- Michele Weldon, author and former managing editor of Northshore magazine
School of Communication
- Frank Galati, Tony Award-winning director and professor of performance studies
- Dilip Gaonkar, rhetorical theory
- Rebecca Gilman, professor and playwright of Spinning into Butter
- 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
- T.H. Breen, historian of colonial America
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- Stuart Dybek, author of The Coast of Chicago and I Sailed With Magellan
- Ward V. Evans, chemist and Oppenheimer security hearing panel member
- Enectalí Figueroa-Feliciano, physicist
- Gary Alan Fine, sociologist of culture
- 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
- Jürgen Habermas, contemporary philosopher
- John Hagan, sociologist of crime and human rights
- Erich Heller, essayist, philosopher, and literature scholar
- Aleksandar Hemon, author of the National Book Award-nominated The Lazarus Project
- Darlene Clark Hine, historian of African-American women
- Brian M. Hoffman, chemist
- Bonnie Honig, political theorist
- 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
- 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 Stae 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
- 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
- Garry Wills, Pulitzer Prize, winning historian and religious scholar
- Eleanor Wilner, poet and editor
Feinberg School of Medicine
- Sarah A. Connolly, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Microbiology-Immunology
- Nathan Smith Davis, Jr., Dean
- Wyndham Lathem, Associate Professor of Microbiology-Immunology
- Michael E. Newcomb, Assistant professor and clinical psychologist
- David Gius, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Pharmacology
Kellogg School of Management
- Philip Kotler, author of Marketing Management, named #4 management guru of all time by Financial Times
- Barry Nelson, system simulations
- Stanley Reiter, economics, author of Designing Economic Mechanisms
- Don E. Schultz, marketing and advertising
School of Law
- Ronald J. Allen, the John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law
- Andrew Koppelman, John Paul Stevens Professor of Law
- Steven Lubet, Edna B. and Ednyfed H. Williams Memorial Professor
- Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, author of Killing the Black Body
School of Music
- David Bilger, Principal Trumpet, Philadelphia Orchestra
- Peter Martin, jazz pianist
- David McGill, Retired Principal Bassoon, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Sherrill Milnes, Retired Professor Emeritus of voice and opera
- Michael Mulcahy, Second Trombone, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and senior lecturer of trombone
- Ursula Oppens, pianist
- Gene Pokorny, Principal Tuba, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Thomas Rolfs, Principal Trumpet, Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Michael Sachs, Principal Trumpet, Cleveland Orchestra
- W. Stephen Smith, professor of voice and opera
- Mallory Beth Thompson, Director of Bands and professor of wind conducting
- Amnon Wolman, composer of electronic music
- Gail Williams, brass department chair and professor of horn
- Victor Yampolsky, Director of Orchestral Activities and professor of orchestral conducting
- Jay Alan Yim, composer
Other
- Ross Atkinson, librarian
- Arthur Charles Lewis Brown, expert on Arthurian legend
- Beth Combs, head women's basketball coach at Northwestern from 2004 to 2008
- Lindsey Durlacher, wrestling coach
- Robert Hess, President of Brooklyn College
- Vladimir Ipatieff, Russian expert on catalysis whose laboratory at Northwest eventually led to the formation of the Center for Catalysis and Surface Science