List of University of Chicago faculty

This list of University of Chicago faculty contains past and current instructors and administrators at the University of Chicago.

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

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: Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, 1928-1989.

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 – literary theorist
• 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 (A.B. 1959) – former Professor of English and Education
• Daryl Hine – poet and translator; MacArthur Fellow in 1986
• Mark Strand – former professor in the Committee on Social Thought; Pulitzer Prize winner
• 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
• 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
• David E. Wellbery – chair of the department of Germanic Studies
• A.B. Yehoshua – Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright
• Adam Zagajewski – member of the Committee on Social Thought
• 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^[1]

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
• Leon Kass
• Karl Llewellyn – major figure in the school of legal realism
• Catharine MacKinnon – feminist
• 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 – helped start law and economics movement
• Roberta Cooper Ramo – first woman President, American Bar Association
• Antonin Scalia – United States Supreme Court justice; professor at the Law School (1977–1982)
• Geoffrey R. Stone – First Amendment scholar, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law
• Cass Sunstein
• 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
• 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 (Antakya, Turkey)

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
• 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

• 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
• 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 (2007)
• Sheila Fitzpatrick – Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of History; ground-breaking historian of modern Russian and Soviet history; mentor to several established and up-and-coming "revisionist" historians of the Soviet Union, constituting a "Fitzpatrick School of Soviet History"
• Cornell Fleischer – Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies; MacArthur "Genius" Fellow (1988)
• 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 (1979); 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 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991); MacArthur Fellow (1983)^[2]
• Jan E. Goldstein – intellectual historian of modern Europe, co-editor of the Journal of Modern History
• 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 (1974) and President of the American Historical Association (1988)
• Walter Kaegi – professor of Byzantine and late Roman history; co-founder of the Byzantine Studies Conference; editor of the journal Byzantinische Forschungen; voting member of Oriental Institute, Chicago; author of many books, including Byzantium and the Decline of Rome (Princeton, 1968) and "Byzantine Military Unrest 471–843: An Interpretation (Amsterdam: 1981)
• Leszek Kołakowski – philosopher and historian of ideas; MacArthur Fellow in 1983
• William Hardy McNeill – Professor Emeritus of History
• 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 (1946–1951)
• Bernadotte E. Schmitt – winner of the Pulitzer Prize
• Noel Swerdlow – winner of a Macarthur Fellowship
• James Westfall Thompson – Professor of History (1895–1933), leading American historian of the European Middle Ages and early modern period; president of the American Historical Association, 1941 (died in office)
• Karl Weintraub – Professor of History (1954–2004) 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 (2000) (which won APA's Goodwin Award in 2003), and The Matter of the Gods (2008); editor of Roman Religion (2003) and co-editor, with Jörg Rüpke, of Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (2006)
• 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 (Cambridge, 1997); APA's Goodwin Award; 2004 Gordon J. Laing Prize; Quantrell Teaching Award; Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service
• 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
• 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 (1976–1981)
• 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
• 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 (1971–1991)
• Bertrand Russell – Visiting Professor of Philosophy (1938–1939)
• Leo Strauss – Professor of Political Philosophy (1949–1967)
• Paul Johannes Tillich – Professor of Religion (1962)
• James Hayden Tufts – former Professor of Philosophy

Religion

• Richard T. Antoun – professor (1989); Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Binghamton University; stabbed to death by student in 2009
• Wendy Doniger – Historian of Religions (1978– )
• Mircea Eliade – Sewell Avery Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions (1958–1986), 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
• Bruce Lincoln – Historian of Religions
• David Tracy – Professor Emeritus of Theology (1970–); leading figure in theological hermeneutics and proponent of theological pluralism in works such as Plurality and Ambiguity (University of Chicago Press, 1986)
• Joachim Wach – Historian of Religions (1944–55)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Gerhard Herzberg – 1971 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry
• Edwin Hubble – astronomer, observational cosmologist
• 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
• 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
• 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^[3]
• 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
• 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

Medicine and health policy

• Raphael Carl Lee – surgeon, medical researcher, biomedical engineer; MacArthur Fellow in 1981
• 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

• Arjun Appadurai (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1976) – former Professor of Anthropology
• Gary Becker (A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) – University Professor in Economics, Graduate School of Business, and Sociology
• Chris Blattman – economist, political scientist, member of the Pearson Institute
• Leonard Bloomfield – linguist who led the development of structural linguistics
• Donald Bogue (A.M., Ph.D.) – 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 (1960–1970)
• 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 (B.A. 1941, Ph.D. 1951) – Professor of Sociology
• Karin Knorr-Cetina – George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Sociology
• Lawrence Kohlberg (A.B. 1949, Ph.D. 1958) – Professor in the Committee on Human Development (1962–1968)
• 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
• Steven Levitt – Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics
• Mark Lilla – Professor in the Committee on Social Thought (1999–2007)
• John A. List – economist, pioneer in the field of experimental economics
• Robert Lucas Jr. (A.B. 1959, Ph.D. 1964) – 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 (Ph.D. 1988) – Professor of Political Science
• Vivian Paley – early childhood education researcher; MacArthur Fellow in 1989
• Robert E. Park – Professor of Sociology (1914–1936)
• 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
• Kenneth Prewitt – Director of the Census Bureau from 1998-2001, appointed Assistant Professor in 1965
• Alfred Radcliffe-Brown – Professor of Anthropology (1931–1937); developed theory of Structural Functionalism
• Robert Redfield – Professor of Anthropology (1927–1958)
• 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 (1998–2007)
• David M. Schneider – Professor of Anthropology (1960–1986)
• 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 (1981–1986); 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
• William I. Thomas (Ph.D. 1896) – Professor of Sociology (1896–1918)
• 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 (1892–1906)
• Stephen Walt – former Professor (1989–1999) and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences (1996–1999); 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 (1972–1996)
• 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 (Ph.D. 1929) – 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 (X. 1970) – film critic and lecturer at Graham School; winner of the Pulitzer Prize
• 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

University Presidents

See also: The Presidents of the University of Chicago, University of Chicago Presidential Search Committee

President	Life	Tenure
William Rainey Harper	1856–1906	1891–1906
Harry Pratt Judson	1849–1927	1906–1923
Ernest DeWitt Burton	1856–1925	1923–1925
Max Mason	1877–1961	1925–1928
Robert Hutchins	1899–1977	1929–1951
Lawrence A. Kimpton	1910–1977	1951–1960
George Wells Beadle	1903–1989	1961–1968
Edward H. Levi	1911–2000	1968–1975
John T. Wilson	1914–1990	1975–1978
Hanna Holborn Gray	born 1930	1978–1993
Hugo F. Sonnenschein	born 1941	1993–2000
Don Michael Randel	born 1940	2000–2006
Robert J. Zimmer	born 1947	2006–present

Board of trustees

• Andrew M. Alper (A.B. 1980, M.B.A. 1981) – President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation
• David G. Booth (M.B.A. 1971) – Chairman and CEO of Dimensional Fund Advisors
• John H. Bryan – former Chairman and CEO of Sara Lee Corporation
• Thomas A. Cole (J.D. 1975) – Chairman of the Executive Committee and Partner of Sidley Austin LLP, the sixth-largest law firm in the world
• E. David Coolidge III – Vice Chairman of William Blair & Company, LLC
• Jon Corzine (M.B.A. 1973) – Governor of New Jersey
• James S. Crown – President of Henry Crown and Company
• Katharine Darrow (A.B. 1965) – former Senior Vice President of The New York Times Company
• Erroll B. Davis, Jr. (M.B.A. 1967) – Chancellor of the University of Georgia
• Jamie Dimon – President and COO of JPMorgan Chase & Co.
• Strachan Donnelley – President of the Center for Humans and Nature
• Craig J. Duchossois – CEO of Duchossois Industries
• James S. Frank – President and CEO of Wheels, Inc.
• Jack W. Fuller – former president of the Tribune Company
• Eric J. Gleacher (M.B.A. 1967) – Chairman of Gleacher & Co.
• Stanford J. Goldblatt (Lab 1954, X. 1958) – partner of Winston & Strawn
• Mary Louise Gorno (M.B.A. 1976) – Vice President and Global Account Director of A.T. Kearney
• Kathryn C. Gould (M.B.A. 1978) – founder and General Partner of Foundation Capital
• Sanford J. Grossman (A.B. 1973, A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1975) – Chairman of Quantitative Financial Strategies, Inc.
• King W. Harris – Chairman of Harris Holdings, Inc.
• Kenneth M. Jacobs (A.B. 1980) – CEO of Lazard North America and Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of Lazard LLC
• Valerie Jarrett – Managing Director and Executive Vice President of the Habitat Company
• Karen L. Katen (A.B. 1970, M.B.A. 1974) – Executive Vice President of Pfizer, Incorporated and President of Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals
• Dennis J. Keller (M.B.A. 1968) – Chairman of DeVry Inc
• Arthur L. Kelly (M.B.A. 1964) – Managing Partner of KEL Enterprises, L.P.
• James M. Kilts, Jr. (M.B.A. 1974) – Chairman, President, and CEO of Gillette Company
• Michael J. Klingensmith (A.B. 1975, M.B.A. 1976) – Executive Vice President of Time Inc.
• Michael L. Klowden (A.B. 1967) – President and CEO of Milken Institute
• Sherry Lansing (Lab 1962) – CEO of the Sherry Lansing Foundation
• John Martin (S.M. 1975, Ph.D. 1978) – President and CEO of Gilead Sciences
• Walter E. Massey – President of Morehouse College until 2007
• Peter W. May (A.B. 1964, M.B.A. 1965) – President and COO of Triarc Companies, Inc.
• John W. McCarter, Jr. – President and CEO of the Field Museum
• Joseph Neubauer (M.B.A. 1965) – Chairman and CEO of Aramark
• Emily Nicklin (A.B. 1975, J.D. 1977) – Partner of Kirkland & Ellis
• Harvey B. Plotnick (A.B. 1963) – President of Paradigm Holdings Inc.
• Thomas J. Pritzker (M.B.A. 1976, J.D. 1976) – Chairman and CEO of Hyatt Corporation
• George A. Ranney, Jr. (J.D. 1966) – President and CEO of Chicago Metropolis 2020
• John W. Rogers, Jr. (Lab 1976) – Chairman and CEO of Ariel Capital Management
• Andrew M. Rosenfield (J.D. 1978) – President and CEO of Leaf Group LLC
• Steven G. Rothmeier (M.B.A. 1972) – Chairman and CEO of Great Northern Capital
• Richard P. Strubel – Vice Chairman of UNext, Inc.
• Byron D. Trott (A.B. 1981, M.B.A. 1982) – Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs
• Marshall I. Wais, Jr. (A.B. 1963) – CEO of Marwais International LLC
• Paula Wolff (A.M. 1969, Ph.D. 1972) – Senior Executive of Chicago Metropolis 2020
• Paul G. Yovovich (A.B. 1974, M.B.A. 1975) – President of Lake Capital
• Francis T.F. Yuen (A.B. 1975) – Deputy Chairman of PCCW Limited
• Robert J. Zimmer – President of the University of Chicago

Notes

1. Chicago School of literary criticism
2. MacArthur Fellow list of winners
3. Paul Sigler obituary