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 (1853—54)
• Henry S. Noyes, MA (1854—56) °
• Randolph S. Foster, DD, LLD (1856—60)
• Henry S. Noyes, MA (1860—67)°
• David H. Wheeler, DD (1867—69)°
• Erastus O. Haven, DD, LLD (1869—72)
• Charles H. Fowler, DD, LLD (1872—76)
• Oliver Marcy, LLD (1876—81)°
• Joseph Cummings, DD, LLD (1881—90)
• Oliver Marcy, LLD (1890)°
• Henry Wade Rogers, LLD (1890—1900)
• Daniel Bonbright, MA, LLD (1900—02)°
• Edmund J. James, PhD, LLD (1902—04)
• Thomas F. Holgate, PhD, LLD (1904—06)°
• Abram W. Harris, ScD, LLD (1906—16)
• Thomas F. Holgate, PhD, LLD (1916—19)°
• Lynn H. Hough, DD (1919—20)
• Walter Dill Scott, PhD, LLD (1920—39)
• Franklyn Bliss Snyder, PhD, LLD (1939—49)
• J. Roscoe Miller, MD, LLD, ScD (1949—70)
• Robert H. Strotz, PhD, LLD (1970—84)
• Arnold R. Weber, PhD (1984—94)
• Henry S. Bienen, PhD (1995—2009)
• Morton O. Schapiro, PhD (2009–present)

° - interim/acting president

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
• 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
• Donald A. Norman, computer science and cognitive science
• Joseph Schofer, professor of civil and environmental engineering, director of the Infrastructure Technology Institute, and Associate Dean
• Allen Taflove, professor of electrical 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
• Todd Rosenthal, Tony Award-winning scenic designer
• Anna Shapiro, professor and director at the Steppenwolf Theatre
• Lynn Spigel, scholar of television and American culture
• David E. Tolchinsky, screenwriter, Chair of the Department of Radio-TV-Film, and Director of the MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage
• 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

• Ken Alder, historian of science, author of The Measure of All Things and The Lie Detectors
• J. Michael Bailey, professor of psychology
• Myron L. Bender, professor of chemistry
• T.H. Breen, historian of colonial America
• Micaela di Leonardo, cultural anthropologist
• Souleymane Bachir Diagne, professor of African and Islamic philosophy
• Stuart Dybek, author of The Coast of Chicago and I Sailed With Magellan
• Dyan Elliott, historian of Medieval Europe
• Betsy Erkkila, Henry Sanborn Noyes Professor of American Literature, Walt Whitman scholar
• 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
• Peter Hayes, scholar of German industry during the Holocaust
• Erich Heller, essayist, philosopher, and literature scholar
• Aleksandar Hemon, author of the National Book Award-nominated The Lazarus Project
• T.W. Heyck, professor of British and Irish history
• Darlene Clark Hine, historian of African-American women
• Bonnie Honig, political theorist
• Vicky Kalogera, astrophysicist, Director of CIERA
• John Ketterson, physicist
• 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
• 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 Newsweek's "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
• Michael Sherry, Bancroft Prize-winning military historian
• 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
• Andrew Baruch Wachtel, former dean of The Graduate School, Slavic Literatures scholar
• Samuel Weber, Avalon Professor of the Humanities, critical theory
• Irwin Weil, scholar of Soviet history, music, and literature
• Jon Widom, biochemistry and molecular biology
• Garry Wills, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and religious scholar

Feinberg School of Medicine

• David Baker, Chief of General Internal Medicine
• Nathan Smith Davis, Jr., Dean
• Fred M. Levin, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
• Patrizia LoPresti, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

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

• Peter Martin, jazz pianist
• Ursula Oppens, pianist
• W. Stephen Smith, professor of voice and opera
• Amnon Wolman, composer of electronic music
• Jay Alan Yim, composer

Other

• Ross Atkinson, librarian
• Beth Combs, head women's basketball coach at Northwestern from 2004 to 2008
• Lindsey Durlacher, wrestling coach
• Vladimir Ipatieff, Russian expert on catalysis whose laboratory at Northwest eventually led to the formation of the Center for Catalysis and Surface Science