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==Oriental Institute==
==Oriental Institute==
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{{Main|Oriental Institute, Chicago}}
* [[Robert Biggs]] - Professor Emeritus of [[Assyriology]]
* [[John Brickman]] - Charles H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of [[Mesopotamia|Mesopotamian]] History
* [[Miguel Civil]] - Professor Emeritus of [[Sumerology]]
* [[Stuart Creason]] -Lecturer, [[Classical Hebrew]]
* [[Fred Donner]] - Professor of [[Muslim History|Islamic History]]
* [[Peter Dorman]] - Professor Emeritus of [[Egyptology]]
* [[Walter Farber]] - Professor of Assyriology
* [[McGuire Gibson]] - Professor of [[Archaeology]]
* [[Petra Goedegebuure]] - Assistant Professor of [[Hittitology]]
* [[Norman Golb]] - Ludwig Rosenberger Professor in [[Jewish History|Jewish History and Civilization]]
* [[Gene Gragg]] - Professor Emeritus of [[Near East|Near Eastern]] Languages
* [[Rebecca Hasselbach]] - Assistant Professor of Comparative [[Semitic Languages|Semitics]]
* [[Harry A. Hoffner, JR.]] - John A. Wilson Professor Emeritus of Hittitology
* [[Janet Johnson]] - Professor of Egyptology
* [[Walter Kaegi]] - Professor of [[Byzantinology|Byzatine]]-Islamic Studies
* [[Nadine Moeller]] - Assistant Professor, Egyptian Archaeology
* [[Dennis Pardee]] - Professor of Northwest Semitic Philology
* [[Seth Richardson]] - Assistant Professor of [[Ancient History]]
* [[Robert Ritner]] - Professor of Egyptology
* [[Martha Roth]] - Professor of Assyriology; Editor, [[Chicago Assyrian Dictionary]]
* [[David Schloen]] - Associate Professor of [[Syro-Palestinian Archaeology]]
* [[Andrea Seri]] - Assistant Professor of Assyriology
* [[Gil Stein]] - Director, Oriental Institute
* [[Matthew Stolper]] - Professor of [[Assyriology]] and [[Achaemenid Empire]]. He is directing [[Persepolis Fortification Archive|Persepolis Fortification Project]]. He is member of [[American Institute of Iranian Studies]], [[American Oriental Society]], [[British Institute of Persian Studies]], and [[British School of Archaeology in Iraq]]. His primary concentration also includes [[Elam|Elamite]] political history, [[Babylonian Empire|Babylonian]] political and social history, [[Akkadian Empire|Akkadian]] historical and legal texts.
* [[Matthew Stolper]] - Professor of [[Assyriology]] and [[Achaemenid Empire]]. He is directing [[Persepolis Fortification Archive|Persepolis Fortification Project]]. He is member of [[American Institute of Iranian Studies]], [[American Oriental Society]], [[British Institute of Persian Studies]], and [[British School of Archaeology in Iraq]]. His primary concentration also includes [[Elam|Elamite]] political history, [[Babylonian Empire|Babylonian]] political and social history, [[Akkadian Empire|Akkadian]] historical and legal texts.
* [[Theo Van Den Hout]] - Professor of Hittitology; Editor, [[Chicago Hittite Dictionary]]
* [[K. Aslihan Yener]] - Professor of Ancient Anatolian Archeology. She is specialized in Ancient Mining and Metal Technolgy and the Rise of Complex Industries. Director of the [[Amuq Valley|Amuq Valley Regional Projects]] in [[Antioch]] ([[Antakya]], [[Turkey]]). She is researching [[Tell Atchana]] ([[Alalakh|ancient Alalakh]]) the capital city of the Kingdom of Mukish (the Amuq) during the [[Hittite Empire|Hittite]] period (Late Bronze Age c. 2000-1200 B.C.) She has directed are Kestel tin mine, Goltepe and Tell Kurdu.
* [[Edward Wente]] - Professor Emeritus of Egyptology
* [[Chistopher Woods]] - Associate Professor of Sumerology
* [[K. Aslihan Yener]] - Professor of [[Ancient Anatolia|Ancient Anatolian]] Archeology. She is specialized in Ancient Mining and Metal Technolgy and the Rise of Complex Industries. Director of the [[Amuq Valley|Amuq Valley Regional Projects]] in [[Antioch]] ([[Antakya]], [[Turkey]]). She is researching [[Tell Atchana]] ([[Alalakh|ancient Alalakh]]) the capital city of the Kingdom of Mukish (the Amuq) during the [[Hittite Empire|Hittite]] period (Late Bronze Age c. 2000-1200 B.C.) She has directed are Kestel tin mine, Goltepe and Tell Kurdu.


==Mathematics==
==Mathematics==

Revision as of 09:02, 18 February 2011

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

Business

Literature

Law School

Oriental Institute

Mathematics

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.
  • 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.
  • 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 -
  • 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.
  • Bruce Lincoln -
  • Shailer Matthews - Professor of New Testament Studies and Dean of the Divinity School (1894–1941); leading modernist theologian and advocate of historical criticism of the Bible.
  • David Tracy - Professor 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).
  • Jeremiah Wright - Former pastor of Barack Obama

Science

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.
  • 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.
  • Karin Knorr-Cetina - George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Sociology.
  • 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; a leading scholar in studies of Eastern Europe, linguistic anthropology, and gender.
  • Clifford Geertz - Professor of Anthropology (1960–1970).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 - One of the most important International Relations theorists; his seminal book Politics Among Nations defined the International Relations field.
  • Robert Pape (Ph.D. 1988) - Professor of Political Science.
  • Robert E. Park - Professor of Sociology (1914–1936).
  • Alfred Radcliffe-Brown - Professor of Anthropology (1931–1937); developed theory of Structural Functionalism.
  • Robert Redfield - Professor of Anthropology (1927–1958).
  • Marshall Sahlins - Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology.
  • Edward Sapir - Creator of Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, Sapir is 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).
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Frederic Thrasher - Notable sociologist and prominent member of the Chicago School of Sociology
  • Iris Marion Young - Former Professor of Political Science

History

Arts and Entertainment

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 b. 1930 1978–1993
Hugo F. Sonnenschein b. 1941 1993–2000
Don Michael Randel b. 1940 2000–2006
Robert J. Zimmer b. 1947 2006–present

Board of trustees

Notes

  1. ^ Chicago School of literary criticism
  2. ^ [1] Paul Sigler Obituary
  3. ^ MacArthur Fellow List of winners