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university located in
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. It includes faculty at its related graduate schools and programs, including the
Tuck School of Business The Tuck School of Business (also known as Tuck, and formally known as the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance) is the graduate business school of Dartmouth College, a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Founded ...
, the
Thayer School of Engineering Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth (Dartmouth Engineering) offers graduate and undergraduate education in engineering sciences at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The school was established in 1867 with funds from C ...
, and
Geisel School of Medicine The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth is the graduate medical school of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The fourth oldest medical school in the United States, it was founded in 1797 by New England physician Nathan Smith. It is o ...
. , Dartmouth employs 597 tenured or tenure-track faculty members, 366 of whom are in the undergraduate Arts & Sciences division. More than 90% of the faculty hold a
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or equivalent degree. Dartmouth faculty were at the forefront of such major academic developments as the Dartmouth Conferences, the
Dartmouth Time Sharing System The Dartmouth Time-Sharing System (DTSS) is a discontinued operating system first developed at Dartmouth College between 1963 and 1964. It was the first successful large-scale time-sharing system to be implemented, and was also the system for wh ...
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Dartmouth BASIC Dartmouth BASIC is the original version of the BASIC programming language. It was designed by two professors at Dartmouth College, John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. With the underlying Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS), it offered an inte ...
, and
Dartmouth ALGOL 30 Dartmouth ALGOL 30 was a 1960s-era implementation, first of the ALGOL 58 programming language and then of ALGOL 60. It is named after the computer on which it ran: a Librascope General Precision (LGP-30) desk-size computer acquired by Dartmouth C ...
. , sponsored project awards to Dartmouth faculty research amounted to $169 million. This list also includes the "Wheelock Succession", the eighteen men who have served as president of Dartmouth College. Active faculty members are highlighted in green.


Faculty of Arts & Sciences

In this section, faculty are categorized by their primary department's academic division, as defined by the dean of the faculty. Former faculty who taught in now-defunct departments or subject areas are grouped in the most appropriate division, or in the "Other" section.


Arts and humanities


Interdisciplinary studies


Sciences


Social sciences


Other


Geisel School of Medicine


Thayer School of Engineering


Tuck School of Business


Wheelock Succession of Dartmouth Presidents


Notes

*The dean of the faculty currently identifies four academic divisions as follows: **Arts & Humanities Division: Art History, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, Classics, English, Film and Television Studies, French and Italian, German Studies, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese, Studio Art, Theater. **Interdisciplinary Studies Division: African and African American Studies, Asian and Middle-Eastern Studies, Comparative Literature, Environmental Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies, Linguistics & Cognitive Sciences, Mathematics and Social Sciences, Native American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Writing Program. **Sciences Division: Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Earth Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Environmental Studies Program, Mathematics, Physics & Astronomy. **Social Sciences Division: Anthropology, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Economics, Education, Geography, Government, History, Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies, Mathematics and Social Sciences, Native American Studies, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Sociology.


See also

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Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College The Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College is the governing body of Dartmouth College, an Ivy League university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. , the Board includes twenty-three people. The current Chair of the Board is Stephen Ma ...
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List of Dartmouth College alumni This list of alumni of Dartmouth College includes alumni and current students of Dartmouth College and its graduate schools. In addition to its undergraduate program, Dartmouth offers graduate degrees in nineteen departments and includes three g ...


References


External links


Dartmouth Faculty Directory

Dean of the Faculty


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