The following is a partial list of Northwestern University faculty, including current, former, ''
emeritus
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'', and deceased faculty, and administrators at
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world.
Charte ...
.
Presidents
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Clark T. Hinman, DD
(1853—54)
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Henry S. Noyes, MA
(1854—56) °
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Randolph S. Foster, DD, LLD
(1856—60)
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Henry S. Noyes, MA
(1860—67)°
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David H. Wheeler, DD
(1867—69)°
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Erastus O. Haven, DD, LLD
(1869—72)
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Charles H. Fowler, DD, LLD
(1872—76)
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Oliver Marcy, LLD
(1876—81)°
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Joseph Cummings, DD, LLD
(1881—90)
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Oliver Marcy, LLD
(1890)°
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Henry Wade Rogers
Henry Wade Rogers (October 15, 1853 – August 16, 1926) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Education and career
Born on October 10, 1853, in Holland Patent, New York, Rogers receive ...
, LLD
(1890—1900)
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Daniel Bonbright, MA, LLD
(1900—02)°
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Edmund J. James
Edmund Janes James (May 21, 1855 – June 17, 1925) was an American academic, president of the University of Illinois from 1904 to 1920, and the primary founder, first president and first editor for the American Academy of Political and Social Sc ...
, PhD, LLD
(1902—04)
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Thomas F. Holgate, PhD, LLD
(1904—06)°
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Abram W. Harris, ScD, LLD
(1906—16)
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Thomas F. Holgate, PhD, LLD
(1916—19)°
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Lynn H. Hough, DD
(1919—20)
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Walter Dill Scott
Walter Dill Scott (May 1, 1869 – September 24, 1955) was one of the first applied psychologists. He applied psychology to various business practices such as personnel selection and advertising.
Early life
Scott was born in Cooksville, Illin ...
, PhD, LLD
(1920—39)
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Franklyn Bliss Snyder
Franklyn Bliss Snyder (July 26, 1884 – May 11, 1958) was the 18th President of Northwestern University (1939–1949) and an American scholar of Scottish literature.
Personal life
Snyder was the son of a Congregational minister, Peter Miles Snyd ...
, PhD, LLD
(1939—49)
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J. Roscoe Miller, MD, LLD, ScD
(1949—70)
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Robert H. Strotz
Robert Henry Strotz (September 26, 1922 – November 9, 1994) was an American economist who served as the 13th President of Northwestern University from 1970 to 1984. During his tenure, Northwestern grew in terms of faculty and student, "made cap ...
, PhD, LLD
(1970—84)
*
Arnold R. Weber
Arnold Robert Weber (September 20, 1929 – August 20, 2020) was the president of Northwestern University from 1984–1994. His tenure at Northwestern was marked by stabilizing the university's finances and enhancing the Evanston, Illinois, Ev ...
, PhD
(1984—94)
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Henry S. Bienen
Henry Samuel Bienen (born 1939) is an American academic and administrator. He was named President of the Poetry Foundation in 2015, and is President Emeritus of Northwestern University, where he served from 1995 to 2009.
Life and career
Bienen re ...
, PhD
(1995—2009)
*
Morton O. Schapiro
Morton Owen Schapiro (born July 13, 1953) is an American economist and the former president of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Before assuming the Northwestern presidency in 2009, he served as president of Williams College for nine ...
, PhD
(2009–present)
° - interim/acting president
Notable faculty
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Jan D. Achenbach, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering, engineering sciences and applied mathematics, and mechanical engineering; National Medal of Science
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Luis Amaral
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, professor of chemical engineering
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Guillermo Ameer, professor of biomedical engineering, surgery
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Vadim Backman, professor of biomedical engineering, medicine (hematology/oncology), biochemistry and molecular genetics
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Ted Belytschko
Ted Bohdan Belytschko (January 13, 1943 – September 15, 2014) was an American mechanical engineer. He was Walter P. Murphy Professor and McCormick Professor of Computational Mechanics at Northwestern University. He worked in the field of comp ...
, professor of mechanical engineering, computational mechanics
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Arthur Bronwell, professor of electrical engineering
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Arthur Butz
Arthur R. Butz is an associate professor of electrical engineering at Northwestern University and a Holocaust denier, best known as the author of the pseudohistorical book ''The Hoax of the Twentieth Century''. He achieved tenure in 1974 and curr ...
, associate professor of electrical engineering and
Holocaust denier
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* ...
*
Justine Cassell
Justine M. Cassell (born March 19, 1960) is an American professor and researcher interested in human-human conversation, human-computer interaction, and storytelling. Since August 2010 she has been on the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon Human Compu ...
, professor of communication studies and electrical engineering and computer science
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Stephen H. Davis
Stephen Howard Davis (September 7, 1939 – November 12, 2021) was an American applied mathematician working in the fields of fluid mechanics and materials science. Davis was the McCormick School Institute Professor and the Walter P. Murphy Prof ...
, professor of engineering sciences and applied mathematics
*
Ken Forbus
Kenneth D. "Ken" Forbus is an American computer scientist working as the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Education at Northwestern University.
Education
Forbus earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science, M ...
, computer science and artificial intelligence
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Robert Fourer
Robert Fourer (born September 2, 1950) is a scientist working in the area of operations research and management science. He is currently President of AMPL Optimization, Inc and is Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering and Management Science ...
, professor of industrial engineering and management sciences, designer of
AMPL
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It was developed ...
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Mitra Hartmann, professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering
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Michael Honig, professor of electrical engineering and computer science
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Chad Mirkin
Chad Alexander Mirkin (born November 23, 1963) is an American chemist. He is the George B. Rathmann professor of chemistry, professor of medicine, professor of materials science and engineering, professor of biomedical engineering, and profess ...
, professor of chemistry, materials science and engineering, chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering
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Milan Mrksich, professor of biomedical engineering, chemistry, cell and molecular biology
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Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi, professor of physiology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, biomedical engineering
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Donald A. Norman
Donald Arthur Norman (born December 25, 1935) is an American researcher, professor, and author. Norman is the director of The Design Lab at University of California, San Diego. He is best known for his books on design, especially ''The Design ...
, computer science and cognitive science
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Monica Olvera de la Cruz, professor of materials science and engineering, chemistry, chemical and biological engineering, and by courtesy, physics and astronomy
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Joseph Schofer, professor of civil and environmental engineering, director of the
Infrastructure Technology Institute, and Associate Dean
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Samuel I. Stupp, Board of Trustees professor of materials science and engineering, chemistry, medicine, biomedical engineering
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Allen Taflove
Allen Taflove (June 14, 1949 - April 25, 2021) was a full professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, since 1988. Since 1972, he pioneered basic theoretical approaches, n ...
, professor of electrical engineering
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Ajit Tamhane, professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
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Teresa Woodruff
Teresa K. Woodruff is an American medical researcher in human reproduction and oncology, with a focus on ovarian biology, endocrinology, and women's health. She joined Michigan State University as the Provost and Executive Vice President for Ac ...
, professor of biomedical engineering
Medill School of Journalism
*Douglas Foster, former editor-in-chief of ''
Mother Jones'' magazine
*
John Lavine
John Lavine is a United States journalist and educator and currently the chief executive officer of StrategicMediaGroup.com. Previously, he was a media company publisher and editor, and then professor and Dean of Northwestern University's Medill ...
, dean
*
Jon Petrovich, former CNN and Sony Television executive, founder of
CNN.com
*
Michele Weldon, author and former managing editor of ''Northshore'' magazine
School of Communication
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TJ Billard, assistant professor of communication studies and sociology, founding
executive director
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The title is widely used in North American and European not-for-profit organizations, though ...
of the
Center for Applied Transgender Studies, and founding editor of the
''Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies''
*
Frank Galati
Frank Joseph Galati (November 29, 1943 – January 2, 2023) was an American director, writer, and actor. He was a member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company and an associate director at Goodman Theatre. He taught at Northwestern University for many ...
,
Tony Award
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-winning director and professor of performance studies
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Dilip Gaonkar
Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar (born 1944) is a Professor in Rhetoric and Public Culture and the Director of Center for Global Culture and Communication at Northwestern University. He is also Executive Director of the Center for Transcultural Studies, ...
, rhetorical theorist
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Rebecca Gilman
Rebecca Gilman (born 1965 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American playwright.
Education
She attended Middlebury College, graduated from Birmingham-Southern College, and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop at the Univer ...
, professor and playwright of ''
Spinning into Butter''
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E. Patrick Johnson, professor of performance studies
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Eric Patrick, professor of radio/television/film, experimental filmmaker, and 2006 Guggenheim Fellow
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Madhu Reddy, professor
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Todd Rosenthal
Todd Rosenthal is an American scenic designer. He won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design and the 2009 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design for Steppenwolf Theatre Company's '' August: Osage County''.
A native of Longmeadow, Massachu ...
,
Tony Award
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-winning scenic designer
*
Anna Shapiro
Anna Davida Shapiro (born March 10, 1966) is an American theater director, was the artistic director of the Steppenwolf Theater Company, and a professor at Northwestern University. Throughout her career, she has directed both the Steppenwolf Th ...
, professor and director at the
Steppenwolf Theatre
*
Lynn Spigel
Lynn Spigel is the Frances E. Willard Professor of Screen Cultures at the School of Communication at Northwestern University. She has written extensively on numerous topics including post-war culture and popular media. She has also edited numer ...
, scholar of television and American culture
*
Winifred Louise Ward, founded the field of Creative Drama
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James G. Webster
James G. Webster (born 1951) is a professor and audience researcher at Northwestern University. Webster's publications have documented patterns of audience behavior, sometimes challenging widely held misconceptions. He has also made foundational ...
, professor and audience researcher
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David Zarefsky, authority on rhetoric and forensics
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Mary Zimmerman
Mary Zimmerman (born August 23, 1960) is an American theatre and opera director and playwright from Nebraska. She is an ensemble member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company, the Manilow Resident Director at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinoi ...
,
Tony Award
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-winning director and professor of performance studies
School of Professional Studies
*
Chris Abani
Christopher Abani (born 27 December 1966) is a Nigerian-American and Los Angeles- based author. He says he is part of a new generation of Nigerian writers working to convey to an English-speaking audience the experience of those born and rai ...
,
Nigerian
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author
*
Stuart Dybek, writer
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Reginald Gibbons, poet, fiction writer, translator, literary critic, artist
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Ed Roberson, poet
Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
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J. Michael Bailey, professor of psychology
*
Myron L. Bender, professor of chemistry
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Martha Biondi
Martha Biondi is an American historian. She is the Lorraine H. Morton Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University.
Biography
Biondi was raised in Connecticut. She received her B.A. from Barnard Coll ...
, professor of African American studies
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T.H. Breen, historian of colonial America
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Souleymane Bachir Diagne, professor of African and Islamic philosophy
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Stuart Dybek, author of ''The Coast of Chicago'' and ''I Sailed With Magellan''
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Jesús Escobar
Jesús Escobar is a professor of art history at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Escobar specializes in the art, architecture, and urbanism of early modern Spain and Italy and has published articles and reviews in journals of art h ...
, professor of art history
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Ward V. Evans, chemist and
Oppenheimer security hearing panel member
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Enectalí Figueroa-Feliciano, physicist
*
Gary Alan Fine, sociologist of culture
*
Benjamin Frommer
Benjamin Frommer (born 1969) is an American historian, focused on history of Central Europe in 20th century. His work has concerns topics of genocide and ethnic cleansing, collaboration and resistance, transitional justice, and Central/Eastern E ...
, historian
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Anupam Garg
Anupam Garg is a professor in the department of Physics & Astronomy at Northwestern University, Illinois. He received his Ph.D. in 1983 from Cornell University. In 2012, he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) thanks to his work ...
, physicist, author of ''Classical Electromagnetism in a Nutshell''
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Reginald Gibbons, professor of English and Classics, 2008
National Book Award
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The Nat ...
nominee for poetry
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Robert J. Gordon, economist
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Samuel Goudsmit
Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (July 11, 1902 – December 4, 1978) was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925.
Life and career
Goudsmit was born in The Hague, Nethe ...
(1902–1978),
Dutch-American
Dutch Americans ( nl, Nederlandse Amerikanen) are Americans of Dutch descent whose ancestors came from the Netherlands in the recent or distant past. Dutch settlement in the Americas started in 1613 with New Amsterdam, which was exchanged with ...
physicist
*
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas (, ; ; born 18 June 1929) is a German social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addresses communicative rationality and the public sphere.
Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas's wo ...
, contemporary philosopher
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John Hagan, sociologist of crime and human rights
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Leslie M. Harris
Leslie Maria Harris is an American historian and scholar of African American Studies. She is a professor of History and African American Studies at Northwestern University. Harris studies the history of African Americans in the United States. Sh ...
, professor of African American studies
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Erich Heller
Erich Heller (27 March 1911 – 5 November 1990) was a British essayist, known particularly for his critical studies in German-language philosophy and literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Biography
Heller was born at Chomutov ...
, essayist, philosopher, and literature scholar
*
Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Xeмoн; born September 9, 1964) is a Bosnian-American author, essayist, critic, television writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels '' Nowhere Man'' (2002) and '' The Lazarus Pr ...
, author of the
National Book Award
The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors.
The Nat ...
-nominated ''The Lazarus Project''
*
Darlene Clark Hine
Darlene Clark Hine (born February 7, 1947) is an American author and professor in the field of African-American history. She is a recipient of the 2014 National Humanities Medal.
Early life and education
Darlene Clark was born in Morley, Missouri ...
, historian of African-American women
*
Brian M. Hoffman, (bio)chemist
*
Bonnie Honig
Bonnie Honig (born 1959), is a political, feminist, and legal theorist specializing in democratic theory. In 2013-14, she became Nancy Duke Lewis Professor-Elect of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science at Brown University, succeeding Ann ...
, political theorist
*
Daniel Immerwahr, historian
*
Vicky Kalogera, astrophysicist, Director of CIERA
*
Richard Kieckhefer
Richard Kieckhefer (born 1946) is an American medievalist, religious historian, scholar of church architecture, and author. He is Professor of History and John Evans Professor of Religious Studies at Northwestern University.
Education
After an un ...
, professor of Religion, author of ''Magic in the Middle Ages'' and ''Theology in Stone''
*
Mary Kinzie
Mary Kinzie (born September 30, 1944) is an American
American(s) may refer to:
* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals ...
, professor of English and creative writing, author of ''A Poet's Guide to Poetry''
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Laura Kipnis, professor and author of bestselling ''Against Love''
*
Alex Kotlowitz
Alex Kotlowitz (born March 31, 1955) is an American journalist, author, and filmmaker. His 1991 book '' There Are No Children Here'' was a national bestseller and received the Christopher Award and Helen Bernstein Award. He is a two-time recipi ...
, author of ''There Are No Children Here'' and ''The Other Side of the River''
*
Richard Kraut
Richard Kraut is the Charles and Emma Morrison Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University. , philosopher
*
Carole LaBonne, professor and chair of Molecular Biosciences
*
Jennifer Lackey, professor of philosophy
*
Peter Ludlow, John Evans Professor in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy
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Nancy MacLean, historian, author of ''Behind the Mask of Chivalry''
*
Yuri Manin
Yuri Ivanovich Manin (russian: Ю́рий Ива́нович Ма́нин; born 16 February 1937) is a Russian mathematician, known for work in algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry, and many expository works ranging from mathematical log ...
, mathematician
*
Charles Manski
Charles Frederick Manski (born November 27, 1948 in Boston), is Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, an econometrician in the realm of rational choice theory, and an innovator in the arena of parameter identification.Charles Mansk ...
, economist and social policy analyst
*
Tobin J. Marks, professor of chemistry
*
Charles Mills, philosophy professor
*
Chad Mirkin
Chad Alexander Mirkin (born November 23, 1963) is an American chemist. He is the George B. Rathmann professor of chemistry, professor of medicine, professor of materials science and engineering, professor of biomedical engineering, and profess ...
, nanomedicine and chemistry
*
Joel Mokyr, historian of science and economics, author of ''The Lever of Riches''
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Richard I. Morimoto, Cell and Molecular Biology
*
Aldon Morris, sociologist and author of ''The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement''
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Gary Saul Morson, Russian literature, scholar of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
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Dale Mortensen,
Nobel Prize
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Laureate in Economics
*
Charles Moskos
Charles Constantine Moskos, Jr. (May 20, 1934 – May 31, 2008) was a sociologist of the United States military and a professor at Northwestern University. Described as the nation's "most influential military sociologist" by ''The Wall Street Jour ...
, military sociologist, former advisor to President
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again ...
*
Adilson E. Motter, physicist
*
Edward Muir, Renaissance historian
*
Barbara Newman
Barbara Jane Newman is an American medievalist, literary critic, religious historian, and author. She is Professor of English and Religion, and John Evans Professor of Latin, at Northwestern University. Newman was elected in 2017 to the American P ...
, 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
Edward Francis Paschke (June 22, 1939 – November 25, 2004) was an American painter of Polish descent. His childhood interest in animation and cartoons, as well as his father's creativity in wood carving and construction, led him toward a caree ...
, artist and Chicago Imagist
*
Mary Pattillo, urban sociologist, named one of ''Newsweek''s "Women of the 21st Century"
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John Pople
Sir John Anthony Pople (31 October 1925 – 15 March 2004) was a British theoretical chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Walter Kohn in 1998 for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry.
Early ...
, late
Nobel Prize
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-winning chemistry professor
*
Janice Radway Janice Radway (born January 29, 1949) is an American literary and cultural studies scholar.
Education
Radway holds a BA from Michigan State University, 1971, and an MA from State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1972. She earned her PhD fro ...
, professor of communications studies
*
Mark Ratner, professor of chemistry
*
Jennifer Richeson, professor of psychology and
MacArthur Fellow
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*
George C. Schatz, professor of chemistry
*
Heidi Schellman, professor of physics and department head at
Oregon Stae University
*
Richard Bruce Silverman
Richard Bruce Silverman (born May 12, 1946) is the Patrick G. Ryan/Aon Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. His group's main focus is basic and translational research into central nervous system disorders and cancer. He is known f ...
, professor of chemistry
*
Lynn Spigel
Lynn Spigel is the Frances E. Willard Professor of Screen Cultures at the School of Communication at Northwestern University. She has written extensively on numerous topics including post-war culture and popular media. She has also edited numer ...
, Frances Willard Professor of Screen Cultures, cultural history of television
*
James Fraser Stoddart
Sir James Fraser Stoddart (born 24 May 1942) is a British-American chemist who is Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry and head of the Stoddart Mechanostereochemistry Group in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University in ...
, Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry
*
Stuart Struever
Stuart McKee Struever (born 1931) is an American archaeologist and anthropologist best known for his contributions to the archaeology of the Woodland Period in the US midwest and for his leadership of archaeology research & education foundations. ...
, anthropologist and archaeologist, former president of the
Society for American Archaeology
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*
Andrei Suslin
Andrei Suslin (russian: Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Су́слин, sometimes transliterated Souslin) was a Russian mathematician who contributed to algebraic K-theory and its connections with algebraic geometry. He was a Trustee ...
, 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
Mayda Velasco is a physicist and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University. She works in experimental particle physics and is a leading member of the CMS Collaboration at the CERN LHC. She foundeCOFIand is ...
, physicist and Director of COFI
*
Samuel Weber
Samuel M. Weber (born 1940, in New York City) is the Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University, as well as a professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Weber began PhD studies at Yale Universit ...
, Avalon Professor of the Humanities, critical theory
*
Irwin Weil
Irwin Weil (born 1928) is a Professor Emeritus in thDepartment of Slavic Languages and Literatureat Northwestern University.
He is noted for his work in promoting cultural exchange and mutual understanding between
the USA and the USSR/Russia,
and ...
, scholar of Soviet history, music, and literature
*
Rudolph H. Weingartner, American philosopher and academic administrator, former dean of the college and later provost of the
University of Pittsburgh
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*
Garry Wills
Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934) is an American author, journalist, political philosopher, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Genera ...
,
Pulitzer Prize
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, winning historian and religious scholar
*
Eleanor Wilner, poet and editor
*
Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, scholar of judaism and Talmudic literature
*
Wendy Griswold, sociologist
*
Christopher Udry
Christopher R. Udry is an economist who currently serves as King Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. Udry is the co-founder (with Dean Karlan) and current co-director of thGlobal Poverty Research Labat the Kellogg School of Managemen ...
, economist
Feinberg School of Medicine
*
Guillermo Ameer, Professor of Surgery
*
Rinad Beidas, Chair and Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor of Medical Social Sciences
*
Robert Bonow, Max and Lilly Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Cardiology, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
*
Serdar Bulun, Chair and John J. Sciarra Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
*
William T. Bovie
William T. Bovie (September 11, 1882 – January 1, 1958) was an American scientist and inventor. He is credited with conceptualizing the field of biophysics and with inventing a modern medical device known as the Bovie electrosurgical generator. ...
, Chair, Department of Biophysics
*
Daniel Brat, Chair, Department of Pathology, Magerstadt Professor of Pathology
*
Sarah A. Connolly, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Microbiology-Immunology
*
Nathan Smith Davis, Jr., former Dean
*
David Gius, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Pharmacology
*
Robert D. Goldman, Chair of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
*
Eva Gottwein, Associate Professor of Microbiology-Immunology
*
Jordan Graffman, Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
*
Kathleen J. Green,Joseph L. Mayberry Professor of Pathology and Toxicology and Professor of Dermatology
*
Maha H. Hussain, Genevieve E. Teuton Professor of Medicine and deputy director of the Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University
*
Ravi Kalhan, Professor of Preventive Medicine
*
Kristen Knutson, Associate Professor of Neurology
*
Wyndham Lathem
Wyndham Willoughby Lathem (born August 10, 1974) is an American microbiologist and convicted murderer. He is a former associate professor at Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, a specialist in pathogenic bacteria.
On July 27, 2 ...
, former Associate Professor of Microbiology-Immunology
*
Donald Lloyd-Jones, Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine, Eileen M. Foell Professor, Professor of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology), Medicine (Cardiology) and Pediatrics
*
Laszlo Lorand, professor emeritus in cell and molecular biology
*
Elizabeth M. McNally, Director of the Center for Genetic Medicine, Elizabeth J. Ward Professor of Genetic Medicine Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
*
Chad Mirkin
Chad Alexander Mirkin (born November 23, 1963) is an American chemist. He is the George B. Rathmann professor of chemistry, professor of medicine, professor of materials science and engineering, professor of biomedical engineering, and profess ...
, Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry and professor of Medicine
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Michael E. Newcomb
Michael E. Newcomb is an American clinical psychologist. His researched focuses on health disparities in LGBT youth, HIV/AIDS, and mental health problems. He is an assistant professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in ...
, Assistant professor and clinical psychologist
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Anna Christina Nobre, Adjunct Professor of Neurology
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Susan Quaggin, Charles Horace Mayo Professor of Medicine, Director of the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute and chief of the Division of Nephrology
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June K. Robinson, Research Professor of Dermatology
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John A. Rogers, Professor of McCormick School of Engineering, Dermatology and Neurological Surgery
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Karla Satchell, Professor of Microbiology-Immunology
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Ali Shilatifard, Robert Francis Furchgott Professor and Chairman of the department of biochemistry and molecular genetics, and the director of the Simpson Query Institute for Epigenetics
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Melissa Simon, George H. Gardner, MD professor of clinical gynecology, vice-chair of clinical research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, professor of preventive medicine and medical social sciences
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Dinee Simpson, Assistant Professor of Surgery
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Sara Solla
Sara A. Solla is an Argentine-American physicist and neuroscientist whose research applies ideas from statistical mechanics to problems involving neural networks, machine learning, and neuroscience. She is a professor of physics and of physiology ...
, Professor of Neuroscience
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D. James Surmeier, Nathan Smith Davis Professor and Chair in the Department of Neuroscience
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Linda Suleiman, Assistant Dean of Medical Education and Director of Diversity and Inclusion
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Robert L. Sufit, professor of neurology
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Clyde Yancy, Vice Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, Chief of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine, Magerstadt Professor, Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Medical Social Sciences
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Phyllis Zee
Phyllis C. Zee is the Benjamin and Virginia T. Boshes Professor in Neurology, the director of the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine (CCSM) and the chief of the Division of Sleep Medicine (neurology) at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northw ...
, the Benjamin and Virginia T. Boshes Professor in Neurology, the director of the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine (CCSM) and the chief of the Division of Sleep Medicine (neurology)
Kellogg School of Management
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Donald Haider
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Philip Kotler
Philip Kotler (born May 27, 1931) is an American marketing author, consultant, and professor emeritus; the S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University ...
, author of ''Marketing Management'', named #4 management guru of all time by ''Financial Times''
*Barry Nelson, system simulations
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Stanley Reiter
Stanley Reiter (April 26, 1925 – August 9, 2014) was an American author, economist, and Emeritus Professor at Northwestern University. Reiter was a leading pioneer in the field of mechanism design.
In 2006, he and the 2007 Nobel prize-winning ...
, economics, author of ''
Designing Economic Mechanisms
''Designing Economic Mechanisms'' is a 2006 book by economists Leonid Hurwicz and Stanley Reiter. Hurwicz received the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson for their work on mechanism design. In thi ...
''
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Don E. Schultz, marketing and advertising
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Dean Karlan
Dean Karlan is an American development economist. He is Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University where, alongside Christopher Udry, he co-founded and co-directs the Global Poverty Research Lab at Kellogg School of Management ...
, development economist
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Brian Uzzi, Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership. He is best known for his work in the fields of sociology, network science, the science of science, and complex systems.
School of Law
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Ronald J. Allen, the John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law
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Andrew Koppelman
Andrew Koppelman (born August 29, 1957 in Nyack, New York) is the John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and professor of political science at Northwestern University. He is the recipient of the 2015 Walder Award for Research Excellence. The main focu ...
, John Paul Stevens Professor of Law
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Steven Lubet
Steven Lubet is a legal scholar and author. Lubet is the Edna B. and Ednyfed H. Williams Memorial Professor of Law at Northwestern University.
Lubet has been noted for his commentary on controversial issues such as the appointment of scholar Ste ...
, Edna B. and Ednyfed H. Williams Memorial Professor
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Dorothy Roberts
Dorothy E. Roberts (born March 8, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American sociologist, law professor, and social justice advocate. She is the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, George A. Weiss University Professor, and inaugural Raymond Pac ...
,
Kirkland & Ellis
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is an American multinational law firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1909, Kirkland & Ellis is the largest law firm in the world by revenue and the seventh-largest by number of attorneys, and was the first la ...
Professor of Law, author of ''Killing the Black Body''
School of Music
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David Bilger, Principal Trumpet,
Philadelphia Orchestra
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Peter Martin, jazz pianist
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David McGill, Retired Principal Bassoon,
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) was founded by Theodore Thomas in 1891. The ensemble makes its home at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and plays a summer season at the Ravinia Festival. The music director is Riccardo Muti, who began his tenure ...
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Sherrill Milnes
Sherrill Milnes (born January 10, 1935) is an American dramatic baritone most famous for his Verdi roles. From 1965 until 1997 he was associated with the Metropolitan Opera. His voice is a high dramatic baritone, combining good legato with an inc ...
, Retired Professor Emeritus of voice and opera
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Michael Mulcahy, Second Trombone, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and senior lecturer of trombone
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Ursula Oppens
Ursula Oppens (born February 2, 1944) is an American classical concert pianist and educator. She has received five Grammy Award nominations.
Biography
Ursula Oppens was born on February 2, 1944, in New York City into a highly musical family fr ...
, pianist
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Gene Pokorny, Principal Tuba, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Thomas Rolfs, Principal Trumpet,
Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the second-oldest of the five major American symphony orchestras commonly referred to as the " Big Five". Founded by Henry Lee Higginson in 1881, ...
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Michael Sachs
Michael Yechiel Sachs (; 3 September 1808 – 31 January 1864) was a Prussian rabbi from Groß-Glogau, Silesia.
Life
He was one of the first Jewish graduates from the modern universities, earning a Ph.D. degree in 1836. He was appointed Rabbi i ...
, Principal Trumpet,
Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra, based in Cleveland, is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the " Big Five". Founded in 1918 by the pianist and impresario Adella Prentiss Hughes, the orchestra plays most of its concerts at Sev ...
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W. Stephen Smith, professor of voice and opera
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Mallory Beth Thompson, Director of Bands and professor of wind conducting
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Amnon Wolman, composer of electronic music
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Gail Williams, brass department chair and professor of horn
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Victor Yampolsky, Director of Orchestral Activities and professor of orchestral conducting
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Jay Alan Yim
Jay Alan Yim (born April 24, 1958) is an American composer of Chinese American, Chinese descent and recipient of a 1994 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Early life and education
Yim was born into a Chinese family in St. Louis, Missouri on April 24, 195 ...
, composer
Other
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Ross Atkinson, librarian
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Arthur Charles Lewis Brown, expert on Arthurian legend
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Beth Combs, head women's basketball coach at Northwestern from 2004 to 2008
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Lindsey Durlacher
Lindsey Durlacher (September 14, 1974 – June 4, 2011) was an American Greco-Roman wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestler whose career highlight was a bronze medal at the 2006 FILA Wrestling World Championships at 121 pounds. He was among ...
, wrestling coach
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Robert Hess (1938-1994), President of
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus.
Being New York City's first publ ...
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Vladimir Ipatieff
Vladimir Nikolayevich Ipatieff (also Ipatyev; russian: Владимир Николаевич Ипатьев); (November 21, 1867 (November 9 OS) – November 29, 1952) was a Russian and American chemist. His most important contributions are in the ...
, Russian expert on catalysis whose laboratory at Northwest eventually led to the formation of the Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
References
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Northwestern University faculty
Northwestern or North-western or North western may refer to:
* Northwest, a direction
* Northwestern University, a private research university in Evanston, Illinois
** The Northwestern Wildcats, this school's intercollegiate athletic program
** No ...
Northwestern University faculty
Northwestern or North-western or North western may refer to:
* Northwest, a direction
* Northwestern University, a private research university in Evanston, Illinois
** The Northwestern Wildcats, this school's intercollegiate athletic program
** No ...