List of Cornell University faculty

This list of Cornell University faculty includes notable current and former instructors and administrators of Cornell University, an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York.

Cornell's faculty for the 2005–06 academic year included three Nobel laureates, a Crafoord Prize winner, two Turing Award winners, a Fields Medal winner, two Legion of Honor recipients, a World Food Prize winner, an Andrei Sakharov Prize winner, three National Medal of Science winners, two Wolf Prize winners, four MacArthur award winners, four Pulitzer Prize winners, two Eminent Ecologist Award recipients, a Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion recipient, four Presidential Early Career Award winners, 20 National Science Foundation CAREER grant holders, a recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research, a recipient of the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, a recipient of the Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, three Packard Foundation grant holders, a Keck Distinguished Young Scholar, two Beckman Foundation Young Investigator grant holders, and two NYSTAR (New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research) early career award winners.

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Nobel laureates [edit]

Physics

Richard Feynman (Physics faculty, 1945–50) – Physics 1965

Hans Bethe

Hans Bethe (John Wendell Anderson Professor of Physics, 1935–2005) – Physics 1967
Hannes Alfvén (Distinguished Professor in Engineering) – Physics 1970
John Robert Schrieffer (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1969–75) – Physics 1972
Kenneth G. Wilson (Professor of Physics and Nuclear Studies, 1963–88) – Physics 1982
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1977–83) and Bethe Lecturer in Physics, 1989–90) – Physics 1991
David Lee (Professor of Physics) – Physics 1996
Robert Coleman Richardson (Floyd R. Newman Professor of Physics) – Physics 1996

Peace, Literature, or Economics

Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution

Norman Borlaug (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1982–88) – Peace 1970
Wole Soyinka (Senior Fellow, Society for the Humanities, 1985) – Literature 1986
Octavio Paz (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1972–74) – Literature 1990
Amartya Sen (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1978–84) – Economics 1998

Chemistry

Peter Debye (Professor of Chemistry, 1940–50; Department Chair) – Chemistry 1936
James B. Sumner (Professor, 1929–55 and Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry/Nutrition) – Chemistry 1946
Vincent du Vigneaud (Professor of Biochemistry, Medical College, 1938–67), Professor of Chemistry, 1967–75) – Chemistry 1955
Manfred Eigen (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1965–76) – Chemistry 1967
Paul Flory (Chemistry faculty, 1948–57) – Chemistry 1974
Roald Hoffmann (Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor in Humane Letters) – Chemistry 1981
Henry Taube (Assistant Professor, 1944–46) – Chemistry 1983
Richard R. Ernst (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1996–2002) – Chemistry 1991

Physiology or Medicine

Herbert Spencer Gasser (Medical College, 1931–34) – Physiology or Medicine 1944
Fritz Albert Lipmann (Research Associate, Medical College, 1939–1941) – Physiology or Medicine 1953
Peter Medawar (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1965–71) – Physiology or Medicine 1960
Haldan Keffer Hartline (Associate Professor, Medical College, 1940–41) – Physiology or Medicine 1967
Robert W. Holley (Ph.D. 1947 Organic Chemistry; Professor and Department Chair in Biochemistry, 1948–64) – Physiology or Medicine 1968
Har Gobind Khorana (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1974–80) – Physiology or Medicine 1968
Robert F. Furchgott (Assistant Professor of biochemistry, Research Associate, Medical College, 1941–49) – Physiology or Medicine 1998
Paul Greengard (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1981–87) – Physiology or Medicine 2000

MacArthur awards [edit]

Archie Randolph Ammons (Professor of Creative Writing, 1964–98) – Poetry 1981
Alice Fulton (Professor of Creative Writing) – Poetry 1991
Paul Ginsparg (Professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science) - Physics 2002
Stephen Lee (Professor of Solid State Chemistry) - Chemistry 1993
Michal Lipson (Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering) - Optical Physics 2010

Natural sciences and related fields [edit]

Mathematics [edit]

Eugene Dynkin (Professor) – Mathematics
Walter Feit (Professor, 1952–64) – Mathematician, co-author of the Feit–Thompson theorem
Allen Hatcher (Professor, 1985–) – Mathematics
John Irwin Hutchinson (Professor of Mathematics, 1894–?) – American mathematician
Saunders Mac Lane (Professor) – Developer of algebra's category theory
Anil Nerode (Goldwin Smith Professor of Mathematics) – Mathematician
Piergiorgio Odifreddi (Professor) – Mathematician
Paul Olum (Professor) – Mathematics, President of the University of Oregon 1980–89
Steven Strogatz (Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1994–) – Mathematician
Éva Tardos (Professor of Computer Science) – Mathematician, Guggeinheim fellow, winner of the Fulkerson Prize, 1988
William Thurston (Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, 2003–) – Mathematics; Fields medal winner
Charles F. Van Loan (Chair of the Department of Computer Science) – Mathematician

Physics [edit]

Freeman Dyson

Robert Bacher (Professor, 1935–1949) – Manhattan Project leader and member of Atomic Energy Commission
Dale R. Corson (Professor, 1947-1969, President 1969-1977, Chancellor, 1977-1980) - As President, defused riots and armed stand-off in 1969
Harold Craighead (Charles W. Lake Professor of Engineering, 1989-) Applied physicist
Persis Drell (Professor, 1988–2002) – American particle physicist
Freeman Dyson (Professor, 1951–53) – Physics, mathematics
Mitchell Feigenbaum (Professor) – Physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constant
Peter Goldreich (Thomas Gold Lecturer, 1987) – Astrophysicist
Brian Greene (Professor, 1990–95) – Theoretical Physicist and Author – specializing in String Theory
Arthur Kantrowitz (Professor, 1946–56) – Physicist and engineer
Boyce McDaniel (Professor, 1946–1985) – Manhattan Project physicist and synchotron designer
Paul McEuen (Professor, 2001–) – Physicist, specializes in carbon nanotube
Yuri Orlov (Researcher of Physics, 1986–) – Nuclear physicist, former Soviet dissident and human rights activist
Dennis William Sciama (Professor) – Physicist
George Paget Thomson (Non-resident Lecturer, 1929–30) – Nobel Prize, Physics 1937
Kip Thorne (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1986–92) – Astrophysicist
Robert R. Wilson (Professor) – Youngest group leader on the Manhattan Project, first director of Fermilab

Astronomy [edit]

Carl Sagan

Thomas Gold (John L. Wetherill Professor of Astronomy, 1959–2004) – Astrophysicist, coined the term "magnetosphere"
Jean-Luc Margot (Assistant Professor) – Astronomer, awarded the H. C. Urey Prize by the American Astronomical Society, 2004
Carl Sagan (David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences, 1968–96) – Space Sciences
Edwin Ernest Salpeter (James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical Sciences Emeritus, 1948–2008) – Astronomer
Aleksander Wolszczan (Professor) – Discoverer of first extrasolar planets and pulsar planets.

Chemistry [edit]

Wilder Dwight Bancroft (Professor, 1895–?) – Physical chemist
James Crafts (Professor of Chemistry, 1868–97) – President of MIT, 1897–1900
John Gamble Kirkwood (Professor) – Chemist
Stephen Lee (Professor of Solid State Chemistry) – MacArthur Award and Sloan Fellow
Robert A. Plane – President of Wells College

Computer science and Engineering [edit]

Paul Ginsparg at Cornell University

Paul Ginsparg (Professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science, 2001–) – Developer of the arXiv e-print archive, MacArthur Award
Joseph Halpern (Professor of Computer Science) – Computer scientist
Juris Hartmanis (Professor, 1965–) – Computer scientist; Turing Award recipient, 1993
John Hopcroft (IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science) – Turing Award recipient, 1986
Michal Lipson (Assistant Professor, Engineering) MacArthur Award, research into nanotech applications to optics
Trevor Pinch (Chair of Science and Technology Studies Department) – Chair of the Science and Technology Studies department
Theodore Paul Wright (Acting President, 1951) – U.S. aeronautical engineer and educator

Biology, ecology, botany, nutrition [edit]

Jane Goodall

Louis Agassiz (Lecturer) – American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist
Liberty Hyde Bailey (Professor) – Botanist, early progenitor of the 4-H movement, namesake of Bailey Hall
Joan Jacobs Brumberg (Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow; Professor of History, Human Development, and Gender Studies, 1979–) – Scholar in adolescence, body image and eating disorders, and related fields
T. Colin Campbell (Professor) – Nutritionist, director of the China Project, and author of The China Study
Robert F. Chandler (Professor) – Winner of the World Food Prize, 1988
Thomas Eisner (Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology) – Pioneer of chemical ecology
Barton Warren Evermann (Lecturer, 1900–03) – American ichthyologist
Jane Goodall (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1996–2002) – Naturalist
Charles Frederick Hartt (Professor, 1868–?) – Canadian-American geologist, paleontologist and naturalist who specialized in the geology of Brazil
Harold Hill Smith (Professor) – American geneticist
Graham Kerr (Professor, 1973) – Chef, "The Galloping Gourmet"
Rebecca J. Nelson (Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding and International Agriculture) – MacArthur Fellow, 1998); researcher in crop disease resistance
Karl J. Niklas Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor in the Department of Plant Biology
Katharine Payne (Researcher at Bioacoustics Research Program, Lab of Ornithology) – Whale and elephant researcher
David Peakall (1968–1975 Laboratory of Ornithology, senior research associate in the Section of Ecology and Systematics in the Biological Sciences Division)
Benoît Roux (Professor) – Molecular biologist; winner of the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry, 1998) from the Royal Society of Canada
John C. Sanford (Professor, 1980–98) – Inventor of the gene gun
Steven D. Tanksley (Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding, 1985–) – Plant breeding and agronomy researcher
Helen Turley – winemaker
Herbert John Webber (Professor, 1907–12) – American plant physiologist, developed the citrange
Robert Whittaker (Professor) – American vegetation ecologist
Burt Green Wilder (Professor of Neurology and Vertebrate Zoology, 1867–1910) – American comparative anatomist
Charles Edward Stevens (Chairman of Physiology, Biology and Pharmacology, 1961–1979) – Fulbright Scholar and internationally recognized expert in the field of comparative physiology and digestive systems.

Medicine [edit]

James Ewing (Professor of Clinical Pathology, 1899–1939) – American pathologist; discovery of a form of malignant bone tumor that later became known as Ewing's Sarcoma
Juan Rosai (James Ewing Alumni Professor of Pathology (1991–1999), currently Adjunct Professor of Pathology at the Weill Cornell Medical College) – Author and editor of a main textbook in surgical pathology and discoverer of several entities such as Rosai-Dorfman disease and Desmoplastic small round cell tumor
Robert Foster Kennedy (Professor of Neurology) – One of the first to use electroconvulsive treatment to treat psychosis; first to link shell shock and hysteria
Georgios Papanikolaou (Researcher at Department of Anatomy, Medical College, 1913–?) – Inventor of the Pap smear test for cervical cancer
Stephen J. Roberts, Chairman of the Department of Large Animal Medicine, Obstetrics and Surgery from 1965 to 1966, and from 1969 to 1972.
Tom Shires (Chair of Surgery, 1975–91) – trauma surgeon; use of saline solution in shock
Daniel Stern (Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College) - Studied early child development
Ashutosh Tewari (Professor of Urology and Public Health)

Geology and geography [edit]

Heinrich Ries (Professor, 1898–?) – American economic geologist
Ralph Stockman Tarr (Professor, 1897–?) – American geographer

Social sciences [edit]

Economics [edit]

Francine D. Blau (Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics since 1995) - received her B.S. in industrial and labor relations in 1966 from Cornell
Kaushik Basu (Professor of Economics) – Indian economist
George M. von Furstenberg (Assistant Professor of Economics) – Economist best known for monetary policy, free trade policy and international finance
John D. Kasarda earned a bachelor of science degree in applied economics from Cornell in 1967 and masters of business administration degree in Organizational Theory from Cornell in 1968, developer of the aerotropolis concept, which defines the role of airports and aviation-driven economic development in shaping 21st-century urban growth and form; directs the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School.
James Laurence Laughlin (Professor, 1890–92) – Founded the Federal Reserve System
Emmett J. Rice (Professor, 1954-60) - Former Governor of the Federal Reserve System
Thomas Sowell (Professor, 1965–1969) – Economist
Holbrook Working (Professor) – Economic theorist on hedging, futures prices, market maker behavior, and storage

Psychology [edit]

Daryl Bem (Professor of Psychology) – Social psychologist, creator of self-perception theory
Sandra Bem (Professor) – Psychologist, created Bem Sex Role Inventory, studies gender roles
Gilbert J. Botvin (Professor of Psychology in Public Health and Psychiatry, 1980-2012), Weill Cornell Medical College -- seminal research in adolescent health promotion/disease prevention, founding editor of the journal Prevention Science
Stephen J. Ceci (Professor) - Researcher of children's courtroom testimony
Thomas Gilovich (Professor of Psychology) – Researcher of decision making and behavioral economics
Paulina Kernberg (Professor of Psychiatry, 1978–2006) – American child psychiatrist and authority on personality disorders
Kurt Lewin (Professor) – Founder of modern social psychology
Ulrich Neisser (Professor) -Studied intelligence and memory
Ritch Savin-Williams (Professor) – prolific sexual orientation researcher
Edward B. Titchener (Professor) – Inventor of structuralism, founder of first psychology lab in U.S. (at Cornell University) <-- This statement is incorrect. G.. Stanley Hall founded the first psychology laboratory in America in 1883. Frank Angell founded the 12th psychology laboratory at Cornell in 1891, and recommended Titchener an year later (1892) to take his position when he left to start psychology on the West Coast at Stanford University (Benjamin, 2007).

Law [edit]

G. Robert Blakey professor of law and director of the Cornell Institute on Organized Crime (1973–80) – author of the RICO statute and chief counsel to House Select Committee on Assassinations
Milton R. Konvitz – head of Liberian codification project
Lynn Stout - Distinguished Professor of Corporate & Business Law

Anthropology, sociology, other social science [edit]

John Adair (Professor, 1948–1960) – Anthropologist
Fred Buttel (Professor of Rural Sociology) – Sociologist
John Collier (anthropologist) - Visual anthropologist
Dian Fossey (Visiting Research Associate, 1980) – Anthropologist whose murder was recreated as the film Gorillas in the Mist
Rose Goldsen – pioneer in studying the effects of television and popular culture
Jay Jasanoff (Professor, 1978–1998) – Indo-European linguistics specialist
Bronisław Malinowski (Lecturer, 1933) – Founder of social anthropology
Robert B. McGinnis – originator of the "Cornell Mobility Model" for studying social mobility
John V. Murra (1968–82) — professor of anthropology, with a focus on the Inca Empire
Richard Swedberg (Professor of Sociology, 2002–) – Swedish economic sociologist
Sidney Tarrow (Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology) – Researcher of comparative politics, social movements, and political sociology
James D. Thompson (Professor) – Sociologist
Bassam Tibi (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 2004–) – Political scientist of Islamic countries
Meredith Small (Professor, 1998–) – Anthropologist and primatologist, author of several books on child development including Our Babies, Ourselves.
Adam T. Smith (Professor, 2011–) – Anthropologist researching the history and societies of the South Caucasus

Humanities [edit]

Philosophy [edit]

Kwame Anthony Appiah (Professor, 1986–89) – African Studies philosopher and novelist
Max Black
Allan Bloom (Professor, 1963–70) – Philosophy and Government, author of Closing of the American Mind
Richard Boyd (Professor) – Philosopher
Edwin Arthur Burtt (Professor) Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy in 1941, author of numerous works on philosophy
Harold F. Cherniss (Professor) – Author and expert on the philosophy of Ancient Greece
Morris Raphael Cohen (Lecturer) – Jewish philosopher, lawyer and legal scholar
James Edwin Creighton (Professor) – American philosopher
Terence Irwin
Anthony Kenny
Norman Kretzmann
Norman Malcolm (Professor, 1947–58) – Ludwig Wittgenstein scholar
Evander Bradley McGilvary (Susan Linn Sage Professor of Ethics, 1899–1905) – American philosophical scholar
John Rawls (Professor) – Philosopher, author of A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism, and The Law of Peoples
Sydney Shoemaker (Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy) – Philosopher and metaphysician
Jason Stanley
Brian Weatherson (Associate Professor of Philosophy) – Philosopher, metaphysician

Literature [edit]

Betty Friedan

M.H. Abrams Author of the Mirror and the Lamp, acclaimed literary critic
Frederick Ahl (Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature) – Classics scholar
Archie Randolph Ammons (Professor of Creative Writing, 1964–98) – Poet, MacArthur Award
Benedict Anderson (Professor Emeritus of International Studies) – Author of Imagined Communities
Charles Edwin Bennett (Goldwin Smith Professor of Latin, 1892–?) – Classicist
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (Professor of North European Languages, 1874 to 1880) – Author
Hiram Corson (Professor) – Professor of literature
Jonathan Culler (Professor) - Literary critic and theorist
Louis Dyer (Acting Professor of Greek, 1895–96) – American educator and author
Max Farrand (Professor) – Author of American historical subjects
Betty Friedan (Professor) – Feminist, author of "The Feminine Mystique"
Alice Fulton (Professor of Creative Writing) – Poet, fiction writer, MacArthur Award
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Professor, 1985–90) – Afro-American Studies scholar
Victor Lange (Professor) – Professor of modern languages
Alison Lurie (Professor of Creative Writing, 1968-) – Fiction writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Paul de Man (Professor) – Professor of Comparative Literature
Vladimir Nabokov (Professor of European and Russian Literature, 1948–58) – Author of the novel Lolita
Adrienne Rich (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1981–87) – Feminist poet
Nathaniel Schmidt (Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures) – American orientalist
William De Witt Snodgrass (Professor, 1955–57) – Poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Melanie Thernstrom (Professor) – Author and freelance journalist
Alvin Toffler (Professor) – American writer, sociologist, and futurist, Future Shock
Helena Maria Viramontes (Professor of English) – Chicana fiction writer
Wendy Wasserstein (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 2005–06) – Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright

History [edit]

Goldwin Smith

Felix Adler (Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature, 1874–76) – Early 20th century Jewish rationalist and social reformer
Glenn C. Altschuler, Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies, a Weiss Presidential Fellow, and the Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at Cornell University.
Carl L. Becker (John Wendell Anderson Professor of History, 1917–41) – Historian, namesake of Carl Becker House
David Brion Davis (Professor of History, 1957–69?) – 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner—scholar of slavery and American intellectual history
Anthony Grafton (Professor) – One of the leading scholars of the Renaissance
D.G.E. Hall - Emeritus Professor of Southeast Asian History
Donald Kagan (Professor) – Classicist
Michael Kammen (Professor of History) – 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Constitution scholar
Walter LaFeber (Steven Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow of History, 1958–2006) – U.S. foreign policy historian
Goldwin Smith (Professor of English and Constitutional History, 1868–71) – Historian, University Reformer, namesake of Goldwin Smith Hall
Carl Stephenson (Professor of Medieval history, 1930–54?) – Influential early 20th century medievalist.
John Szarkowski (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1983–89) – Influential photography curator, historian, and critic
Herbert Tuttle, 19th-century historian, author, (Professor of international law)
O. W. Wolters, Twentieth-century historian of early Southeast Asia

Music [edit]

Malcolm Bilson (Professor) – Music historian
David Borden (Director, Digital Music Program) – American composer of minimalist music
Donald Byrd^[1] - jazz trumpeter and educator
Adolf Dahm-Petersen – Voice specialist and teacher of artistic singing
Karel Husa (Professor, ?-1992) – Composer best known for Music for Prague 1968, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
James Thomas Quarles – American organist and music educator
Hunter Johnson (Professor) – American composer
Roberto Sierra – Puerto Rican composer and Pulitzer Prize finalist
Steven Stucky – Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer

Architecture and design [edit]

Bristow Adams (Professor, 1914–45) – American journalist, professor, forester, and illustrator
Buckminster Fuller (Professor) – Architect and inventor, famous for work with geodesic domes
Colin Rowe (Professor, 1970s) – Architectural historian and theoritician.
Romaldo Giurgola (Professor) – Architect, winner of the AIA Gold Medal
Oswald Mathias Ungers (Professor, 1968–1976) – Architect

Fine arts and photography [edit]

Michael Ashkin – Sculptor
Jacqueline Livingston (Professor of Photography and Art (?-1978) – Feminist photographer
Alison Lurie (Professor of Literature, 1970–) – Pulitzer Prize winning author

John Cleese

Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes

Media [edit]

Journalism, film, television, theatre [edit]

John Cleese (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1999–2006; Provost’s Visiting Professor, 2006–) – Comedian and actor
John Pilger (Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor, 2003–06) – Left-wing journalist

Government, law, business [edit]

Iajuddin Ahmed (Visiting Professor, 1984) – President of Bangladesh, 2002–09
Alfred C. Aman, Jr. (Professor, 1977–91) – Dean of Suffolk University Law School and Indiana University School of Law
Lloyd Blankfein (Board of Overseers, Medical College) – President and CEO, Goldman Sachs, 2006–present
Andrew Hacker (Professor) – Political scientist, questioned race, class, and gender in American society
E. Roland Harriman (Established the Irving Sherwood Wright Professorship in Geriatrics, Medical College) – Financier and philanthropist
Charles Evans Hughes (Professor, Law School, 1891–93) – Governor of New York, 1907–10, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice, 1910–16), U.S. Presidential candidate, 1916), U.S. Secretary of State, 1921–25), U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, 1930–41
Irving Ives (Trustee; Dean of Industrial & Labor Relations, 1945–47) – U.S. Senator from New York, 1947–59, namesake of Ives Hall
Robert Jarrow (Ronald P. and Susan E. Lynch Professor of Investment Management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management) – Expert on derivative securities; co-developer of Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework and Jarrow-Turnbull model
George McTurnan Kahin (Professor of Government, 1951–88) – Expert on Southeast Asia and critic of the Vietnam War
Alfred E. Kahn (Robert Julius Thorne Professor Emeritus of Political Economy; Trustee; Dean of Arts & Sciences) – Advisor to President Jimmy Carter on deregulation; economist
Cynthia McKinney (Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor, 2003–06) – U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1993–2003, 2005–present
Edwin Barber Morgan (Trustee, 1865–74) – U.S. Representative from New York, 1853–59); Director of American Express
Robert Parris Moses (Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor, 2006–) – Civil rights leader, creator of the Algebra Project, MacArthur "genius"
Frances Perkins (Lecturer of Industrial & Labor Relations (?-1965) – U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1933–45), first female U.S. Cabinet member
Richard Neustadt (Professor of Public Administration, 1952?–54?) – political scientist specializing in the United States presidency. Advised American Democratic presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton.
Clinton Rossiter (Professor of Government, 1946–70) – Political scientist
Frederick A. Sawyer (Professor) – Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1873–74; Senator from South Carolina, 1968–73
Martin Shefter (Professor of Government, 1986–) – Political scientist

Education [edit]

Sarah Gibson Blanding (Dean of Human Ecology, 1941–46) – President of Vassar College, 1946–1964
Alan G. Merten (Dean of the Johnson School) – President of George Mason University
Don Michael Randel (University Provost, Dean of Arts & Sciences) – President of the University of Chicago, 2000–2006
Benjamin Ide Wheeler (Professor of Greek and Comparative Philology) - President of the University of California, 1899–1919

Athletics [edit]

Bob Blackman (Head Coach, Football, 1977–82) – Member of the College Football Hall of Fame
Charles E. Courtney (Head Coach, Rowing, 1883–1920) – Noted rower and rowing coach
Melody Davidson (Head Coach, Women's Ice Hockey) – Head coach of the Canadian national women's hockey team and the Canadian 2006 Winter Olympics women's hockey team
Edward Moylan (Head Coach, Tennis and Squash, 1962–72) – Tennis player
Michael Slive (Director of Athletics) – Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, 2002–present
Phil Sykes (Interim Head Coach, Field Hockey, 2003) – U.S. Olympic field hockey defender

References [edit]

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