List of University of Chicago faculty

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

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 – 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 who founded neo-Aristotelianism
• 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 – 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
• 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
• 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 ; 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 of America
• 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
• 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

  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
• 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

  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
• Walter Lewis Baily, Jr. – known for work in algebraic geometry, Baily-Borel compactification.
• 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, 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
• Daniel Boorstin – professor at the University of Chicago for 25 years; Pulitzer Prize winner ; 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 – 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
• 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; historian of modern Russian and Soviet history
• Cornell Fleischer – Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies; MacArthur "Genius" Fellow
• 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 ; 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 ; MacArthur Fellow
• Jan E. Goldstein – intellectual historian of modern Europe, co-editor of the Journal of Modern History
• Gustave E. von Grunebaum – historian and Arabist
• 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 and president of the American Historical Association
• Walter Kaegi – professor of Byzantine and late Roman history; co-founder of the Byzantine Studies Conference; editor of the Byzantinische Forschungen journal; voting member of Oriental Institute, Chicago; author of many books, including Byzantium and the Decline of Rome and "Byzantine Military Unrest 471–843: An Interpretation
• 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
• Bernadotte E. Schmitt – winner of the Pulitzer Prize
• Noel Swerdlow – winner of a Macarthur Fellowship
• James Westfall Thompson – professor of history, leading American historian of the European Middle Ages and early modern period; president of the American Historical Association, 1941
• Karl Weintraub – professor of history 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 , and The Matter of the Gods ; editor of Roman Religion and co-editor, with Jörg Rüpke, of Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome
• 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 ; APA's Goodwin Award; 2004 Gordon J. Laing Prize; Quantrell Teaching Award; Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service
• Amy Judith Kass – professor of classic texts in the College of the University of Chicago
• 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
• 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
• Anthony Kenny – visiting 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
• Bertrand Russell – visiting professor of philosophy
• Leo Strauss – professor of political philosophy
• Paul Johannes Tillich – professor of religion
• James Hayden Tufts – former professor of philosophy

  Religion

• Richard T. Antoun – professor ; 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
• Mircea Eliade – Sewell Avery Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, 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
• Martin Marty
• Frank Reynolds
• David Tracy – professor emeritus of theology ; leading figure in theological hermeneutics and proponent of theological pluralism in works such as Plurality and Ambiguity
• Joachim Wach – historian of religions
• 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
• Arthur Compton – physicist who discovered the Compton effect and oversaw the Manhattan Project
• 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
• Karl Freed – physical chemist
• 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
• Ronald Wilbert Harris – professor of physics and department chair, astronomer, photographer
• Chuan He – professor of chemistry; chemical biologist
• Gerhard Herzberg – 1971 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry
• Edwin Hubble – astronomer, observational cosmologist
• Clyde A. Hutchison Jr. - physical chemist
• 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
• Joseph Edward Mayer - physical chemist
• 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
• Clemens C. J. Roothaan – physicist and chemist
• Lanny D. Schmidt - Inventor and researcher, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• 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
• 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
• Robert M. Wald – gravitational physicist
• 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
• Ian Foster - Computer Scientist, pioneer of Grid Computing

  Medicine and health policy

• Susan L. Cohn – professor of pediatrics and dean for clinical research
• Raphael Carl Lee – surgeon, medical researcher, biomedical engineer; MacArthur Fellow in 1981
• Nathaniel Kleitman – physiologist and sleep researcher, recognized as the father of modern sleep research
• 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

• James A. Robinson – The Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies and University Professor at Harris School of Public Policy
• Arjun Appadurai – former professor of anthropology
• Gary Becker – University Professor in Economics, Graduate School of Business, and Sociology
• Katherine Baicker – Health economist, Dean and Emmett Dedmon Professor at Harris School of Public Policy
• Chris Blattman – economist, political scientist, member of the Pearson Institute
• Leonard Bloomfield – linguist who led the development of structural linguistics
• Donald Bogue – 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
• 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 – professor of sociology
• Karin Knorr-Cetina – George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Sociology
• Lawrence Kohlberg – professor in the Committee on Human Development
• 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
• Karl Lashley – gestaltist psychologist
• Steven Levitt – Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics
• Mark Lilla – professor in the Committee on Social Thought
• John A. List – economist, pioneer in the field of experimental economics
• Robert Lucas Jr. – 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 – professor of political science
• Vivian Paley – early childhood education researcher; MacArthur Fellow in 1989
• Robert E. Park – professor of sociology
• 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 to 2001, appointed assistant professor in 1965
• Alfred Radcliffe-Brown – professor of anthropology ; developed theory of Structural Functionalism
• Robert Redfield – professor of anthropology
• 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
• David M. Schneider – professor of anthropology
• Michael Schudson – journalism expert
• 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 ; 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 – professor of sociology
• 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
• Stephen Walt – former professor and deputy dean of social sciences ; 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
• 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 – 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 – film critic and lecturer at Graham School; winner of the Pulitzer Prize
• Philip Gossett – musicologist and scholar of 19th-century Italian opera
• 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
• Jacqueline Stewart – film history
• Jessica Stockholder – sculptor, Arts Department Chair

  University Presidents