List of University of California, Berkeley alumni in academia

This page lists notable alumni and students of the University of California, Berkeley. Alumni who also served as faculty are listed in bold font, with degree and year.

Notable faculty members are in the article List of UC Berkeley faculty.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

See also: University of California, Berkeley School of Law

Chancellors and Presidents

• Douglas J. Bennet, M.A. 1960 – President of Wesleyan University (1995–2007); former CEO of National Public Radio (1983–1993)
• Wen-Tsuen Chen, M.S. 1973, Ph.D. 1976 – President of National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (2006–2010), Distinguished Chair Professor of National Tsing Hua University, Distinguished Research Fellow of Academia Sinica, Lifelong National Chair of the Ministry of Education (Taiwan), Fellow of the IEEE, winner of the Taylor L. Booth Education Award
• G. Wayne Clough, Ph.D. 1969 – President of Georgia Tech (1994–2008)
• Robert E. Connick, Ph.D. 1942 – Professor of Chemistry, Dean of the College of Chemistry, Vice-Chancellor, UC Berkeley
• Dale R. Corson, Ph.D. 1938 – President of Cornell University (1969–1977)
• Dave Frohnmayer, J.D. 1967 – President of the University of Oregon (1994–2009)
• Geoffrey Gamble, Ph.D. 1975 – President, Montana State University (2000-2009)
• Michael J. Garanzini, S.J., Ph.D. 1986 (joint degree with GTU-Berkeley) – President of Loyola University of Chicago (2001–present)
• David P. Gardner, M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1966 – 15th President of the University of California
• Andrew Gonzalez, Ph.D. 1970 – President of De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines (1979–1991, 1994–1998)
• Bruce F. Grube, B.A. 1964 – President of St. Cloud State University (1995-1999), President of Georgia Southern University (1999-2009), president Emeritus (2010–present)
• Sam Karunaratne, 1967 – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa (1995–1999), Chancellor of the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (1999–present)
• Robert Kelley, 11th president of the University of North Dakota
• Robert Kennedy, Ph.D. 1974 – President of the University of Maine (2005–2011)
• Clark Kerr, Ph.D. 1939 – Professor of Industrial Relations, Chancellor of UC Berkeley (1952–58), President of the University of California (1958–67)
• Lawrence J. Lau, M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1969 – Vice-Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) (2004–2010)
• Shirley A. R. Lewis, B.A. 1960 – first female President of Paine College
• C. Daniel Mote, Jr., B.S. 1959, M.S. 1960, Ph.D. 1963 – President of the University of Maryland, College Park (1998–present)
• Emil M. Mrak, B.S. 1926, M.S, Ph.D. 1936 – former Chancellor of the University of California, Davis
• David W. Oxtoby, Ph.D. 1975 – President of Pomona College (2003–present)
• Kenneth Pitzer, Ph.D. 1937 – Dean of the College of Chemistry (1951–60), Professor of Chemistry; President of Rice University (1961–1968) and Stanford University (1969–1971)
• William C. Powers, Jr., B.A. 1967 – President of the University of Texas, Austin (2006–present)
• Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, B.A. 1898 – President of Mills College (1916–1943)
• Timothy Sands, B.S. 1980, M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1984 – President of Virginia Tech (2014–present), Acting President of Purdue University (2012–2013), Provost of Purdue University (2010–2014)
• Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D. 1937 – Chancellor, Berkeley campus (1958–1961) (also listed in the section Nobel laureates)
• Samuel H. Smith, B.S. 1961, Ph.D. 1965 – eighth President of Washington State University, former Chair of the executive committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
• Patricia Meyer Spacks, Ph.D. 1955 – President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001–present); Edgar F. Shannon Professor Emerita of English, University of Virginia
• Robert Sproul, B.S. 1913 – President of the University of California, Berkeley (1930–1958)
• F. Jay Taylor, B.A. – President of Louisiana Tech University at Ruston (1962–1987)
• Timothy W. Tong, M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1980 – President of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Poly U) (2009–present)
• John Philip Wernette, A.B. 1924 – President of the University of New Mexico (1945-1948)
• Timothy P. White, Ph.D. 1977 – President of the University of Idaho (2004–2008); Chancellor, University of California, Riverside (September 1, 2008–present)
• O. Meredith Wilson, Ph.D. 1943 – President of the University of Oregon (1954-1960) and the University of Montana (1960-1967)

Deans, directors, department heads

• Asad Abidi, M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1981 – Dean of the Lahore University of Management Sciences, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Steven Bachrach, Ph.D.– Dean of Science at Monmouth University, previously the Dr D. R. Semmes Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas
• Barry C. Barish, B.A. 1957, Ph.D. 1962 – Maxine and Ronald Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Caltech, member of the National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the AAAS, Director of the International Linear Collider, Director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
• Katharine T. Bartlett, J.D. 1975 – Dean and A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law (Dean, 2000–2007)
• Eran Ben-Joseph, B.A. 1982, Ph.D. 1995 – Professor and Department Head of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Robert O. Briggs, BA 1951 – former Director of the University of California Marching Band (1973–1995)
• Robert Calonico, BA 1976 – current Director of the University of California Marching Band (1996– )
• Anantha P. Chandrakasan, BS EECS 1989, MS EECS 1990 and Ph.D. EECS 1994 – Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering, Head of Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT (2011– )
• Constance J. Chang-Hasnain, Ph.D. 1987 – John R. Whinnery Chair Professor, electrical engineering and computer sciences department; Chair, nanoscale science and engineering graduate group, University of California, Berkeley; fellow of the IEEE, OSA and IEE
• Leonard K. Cheng, M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1980 – Dean of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology School of Business and Management (Dean, 2007– )
• Michael J. Cima, B.S. 1982, Ph.D. 1986 – Director of the MIT Ceramics Processing Research Laboratory and Sumitomo Electric Industries Chair Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• David Culler, B.A. 1980 – Chair of the Department of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, associate Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (UC Berkeley), and Associate CIO of the College of Engineering (UC Berkeley); co-founder of smart grid monitoring company Arch Rock (acquired by Cisco Systems), founding Director of Infel Research, UC Berkeley, Faculty Director of i4Energy (also listed in Founders and co-founders)
• Lee Balstad Davis, M.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1988 – Chair of the California Studies Department at San Francisco State University; Assistant Director of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution; Professor Emerita, San Francisco State University
• Persis Drell, Ph.D. 1983 – Dean of the School of Engineering at Stanford University; Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) (2007-2012)
• Faye Duchin, Ph.D. 1973 – Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1996 – 2002), Professor of Economics at RPI (1992– ), Director of the Institute for Economic Analysis at New York University (1985 – 1996)
• Robert W. Dutton, B.S. 1966, M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1970 – Director of Research in the Center for Integrated Systems at Stanford University, Guggenheim Fellow (1988), winner of the 1987 IEEE J. J. Ebers Award, winner in 1996 of the Jack A. Morton Award, recipient in 2000 of the C & C Prize from the Foundation for Communication and Computer Promotion in Japan
• Deborah Estrin, B.S. 1980 – Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, Director of the UCLA Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), Fellow of the ACM, Fellow of the IEEE, and Fellow of the AAAS
• Peter Fisher, B.S. 1983 – MIT Professor of Physics and Head of the Department of Physics at MIT; former Head of the Particle and Nuclear Experimental Physics Division at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• George Gerbner, B.A. 1942 – former dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania; founder of cultivation theory
• Christian Gout, 1996 – Director of Research and Valorisation, French Institute of Applied Sciences (Normandie Université, INSA Rouen, France) since 2014; Chairman of the Math Lab at INSA Rouen since 2010; Professor of Mathematics, INSA Rouen
• Barbara J. Grosz, M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1977 – Dean, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study (2008–present); Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences, Harvard University; first tenured female professor at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; elected to National Academy of Engineering (2008)
• Larry G. Harris, Ph.D. 1970 – Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at University of New Hampshire, Professor of Zoology
• Robert Harvey, Ph.D. 1988 – Chair, Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, Stony Brook University
• Ivan M. Havel, Ph.D. 1971 – Director of the Center for Theoretical Study, Prague, Czech Republic; younger sibling of former dissident and Czech President Václav Havel
• Dan Fenno Henderson, doctorate (1955), founder of the University of Washington Asian law program
• Giles Henderson, Fulbright Scholar 1966–67 – Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
• Harry C. Katz, AB 1973, Ph.D. 1977 – current Dean of Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
• John P. Longwell, B.S. 1940 – Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Associate Director of its Center for Environmental Health Services, developed the well-stirred reactor, member of the National Academy of Engineering, President of The Combustion Institute and recipient of its Sir Alfred C. Egerton Medal in 1974
• Richard Luthy, B.S. 1967, M.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1976 – Chairman of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Stanford University, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Abbas Milani, B.A. 1970 – Hamid and Christian Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University
• Clark Nguyen, BS EECS 1989, MS EECS 1991, Ph.D. 1994 – Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley, co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center
• Un-Chul Paek, B.S. 1965, Ph.D. 1969 – Dean of the Faculty at the Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Kwangju, Korea, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Daniel A. Rascher, Ph.D. 1997 – Dept. Head and Professor of Sport Management, University of San Francisco
• Shawna Yang Ryan, B.A. 1998 – Director and Professor of Creative Writing, University of Hawaii at Manoa
• Charles Shank, B.S. 1965, M.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1969 – Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1990–2005)
• Jane Shaw, Ph.D. 1994 – Dean of Divinity, New College, Oxford since 2001 and formerly Dean, Regent's Park College, Oxford
• Kirk R. Smith, B.A. 1968, M.P.H. 1972, Ph.D. 1977 – Director of Global Health and Environment Program and Professor of Environmental Health Science, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health; elected to National Academy of Sciences in 1997; shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize; awarded the 2012 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
• Leland Smith, BA and MA – professor emeritus of music theory at Stanford University, co-founder of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford
• Jonathan P. Stewart, B.S. 1990, M.S. 1992, Ph.D. 1996 – Professor and Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering department at UCLA
• Robert I. Sutton, B.A. 1977 – Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization at Stanford University, faculty member of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
• Kon-Well Wang, Ph.D. 1985 – Tim Manganello/BorgWarner Department Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
• Frederick Wedge, 1928 – Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Pasadena College
• Carline Winnett, MBA 1990 – Executive Director of UC Berkeley startup accelerator SkyDeck
• Bruce A. Wooley, B.S. 1966, M.S. 1968, Ph.D. 1970 – Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Fellow of the IEEE and the President of the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society, IEEE Fortescue Fellow
• Shlomo Zilberstein, Ph.D. 1993 – Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Engagement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Professors with endowments or named chairs

• Nicholas Argyres, Ph.D. 1993 – Vernon W. and Marion K. Piper Professor of Strategy, Washington University in St. Louis
• Sanjeev Arora, Ph.D. 1994 – Charles Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
• Shadi Bartsch, M.A. 1989, Ph.D. 1991 – Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor of Classics, The University of Chicago
• Stacey Bent, BS Chemical Engineering 1987 – Jagdeep and Roshini Singh Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University
• Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D. 1993 – T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
• Stephen P. Boyd, Ph.D. EECS 1985 – Samsung Professor of Engineering at Stanford University
• William B. Bridges, B.S. 1956, M.S. 1957, Ph.D. 1962 – Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, Caltech
• Stanley Cavell, B.A. 1947 – Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard University
• Sunney I. Chan, B.S. 1957, Ph.D. 1961 – George Grant Hoag Professor of Biophysical Chemistry, Caltech
• Anantha Chandrakasan, B.S. 1989, M.S. 1990, Ph.D. 1994 – Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professorship in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Y. Austin Chang, B.S., Ph.D. – Wisconsin Distinguished Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Andrew Cleland, BS 1983, Ph.D. 1991 – leader of the team that built the first quantum machine (which received the 2010 "Breakthrough of the Year" award from American Association for the Advancement of Science Science Magazine, John A. MacLean Sr. Professor for Molecular Engineering Innovation and Enterprise at the University of Chicago
• John H. Cochrane, Ph.D. 1986 – AQR Capital Management Professor of Finance, The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
• Lizabeth Cohen, M.A. 1981, Ph.D. 1986 – Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
• Randall Collins, Ph.D. 1969 – Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
• Michael Dawson, B.A. 1982 – John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago
• Mark C. Elliott, Ph.D. 1993 – Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University, a leader in the "New Qing History"
• Arturo Escobar, Ph.D. 1987 – Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Paula Findlen, M.A. 1985, Ph.D. 1989 – Ubaldo Pierotti Professor in Italian History, Stanford University
• Robert H. Frank, M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1972 – Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics, Cornell University, monthly contributor to the "Economic Scene" column of The New York Times
• Benny D. Freeman, Ph.D. 1988 – Kenneth A. Kobe and Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek & American Petrofina Foundation Centennial Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
• Susan Gal, M.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1976 – Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, The University of Chicago
• Kristen R. Ghodsee, M.A. 1997, Ph.D. 2002 – John S. Osterweis Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Bowdoin College
• Jeff Gore, Ph.D. 2005 – Latham Family Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics at MIT
• Mor Harchol-Balter, Ph.D. 1996 – McCandless Associate Professor of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University
• Hopi Hoekstra, B.A. 1994 – Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Harvard University
• Roger Howe, Ph.D. 1984 – William E. Ayer Professor in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
• Marcia Inhorn, M.A. 1985, M.P.H. 1988, Ph.D. 1991 – William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, Yale University
• Erich Ippen, MS EE 1965, Ph.D. 1968 – Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Physics at MIT
• Alice Kaplan, B.A. 1975 – Gilbert, Louis and Edward Lehrman Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University
• Joseph Koerner, Ph.D. 1986 – Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
• Stephen Kotkin, M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1988 – Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Princeton University
• Teresa H. Meng, Ph.D. 1988 – co-founder of NASDAQ-listed wireless networking semiconductor company Atheros Communications (acquired by Qualcomm for $3.2 billion); member, National Academy of Engineering, Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, IEEE Fellow
• Stephen G. Monismith, BS 1977, MS 1979, Ph.D. 1983, all in Civil Engineering – Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University
• John Warwick Montgomery, B.L.S., 1954, M.A., 1958 – lawyer, theologian and academic known for his work in the field of Christian Apologetics; Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Christian Thought at Patrick Henry College
• Marion Nestle, B.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1968, M.P.H. 1986 – Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University, author of award-winning book Food Politics (2002) and Safe Food (2003); Lifetime Achievement Award from the James Beard Foundation, the food industry's highest honor, in 2003
• Katherine S. Newman, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1979 – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
• Ronald Numbers, Ph.D. 1969 – Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Nell Irvin Painter, B.A. 1964 – Edwards Professor Emerita of American History, Princeton University
• Thomas Sargent, B.A. 1964 – Berkley Professor of Economics and Business, New York University
• William H. Sewell, Jr., M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1971 – Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science, The University of Chicago
• Paul M. Sniderman, Ph.D. 1972 – Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor of Public Policy, Stanford University
• Sidney Tarrow, Ph.D. 1965 – Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology, Cornell University
• Kon-Well Wang, Ph.D. 1985 – Stephen P. Timoshenko Collegiate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
• James L. Watson, Ph.D. 1972 – Fairbanks Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
• Paul Frederick White, B.S. 1970, Ph.D. 1976, M.D. 1977 – Margaret Milam McDermott Distinguished Chair of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Rosalind Williams, M.A. 1967 – Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology, MIT; President, Society for the History of Technology (2005–07)
• Robert Wuthnow, Ph.D. 1975 – Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
• Amnon Yariv, B.S. 1954, M.S. 1956, Ph.D. 1958 – Martin and Eileen Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, Caltech
• Wen-hsin Yeh, Ph.D. 1984 – Richard H. and Laurie C. Morrison Chair Professor in History, University of California, Berkeley

Professors

• Odd Aalen Ph.D. 1976 – Professor of Bioscience, University of Oslo
• Scott Aaronson Ph.D. 2004 – Assistant Professor of Computer Science, MIT
• Asad Abidi, M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1981 – Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Irma Adelman, Ph.D. 1955 – Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
• Maynard Amerine, Ph.D. 1935 – Professor Emeritus of Viticulture and Enology at the University of California, Davis, "made the most singularly significant contributions of any one individual to the California wine industry"
• Venkatachalam Anantharam, Ph.D. 1986 – Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
• Dana Angluin, BA 1969, Ph.D. 1976 – Professor of Computer Science at Yale University
• Arthur Aron, BA 1967, MA 1968 – Professor of Psychology at State University of New York, Stony Brook, creator of "36 Questions" for personal relationships
• Özalp Babaoğlu, Ph.D. 1981 – Professor of Computer Science, University of Bologna (Italy)
• James David Bales, 1915–1995 (PhD, 1944), conservative commentator and professor of Christian doctrine at Harding College
• Klaus-Jürgen Bathe, Ph.D. 1971 – pioneer in finite analysis, professor of engineering at MIT
• Richard Beeman, A.B. 1968 – John Walsh Centennial Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
• Regina Bendix, B.A. 1982 – Professor of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Göttingen (Germany)
• Nitza Ben-Dov, Ph.D. 1984 – Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of Haifa Israel
• Eran Ben-Joseph, B.A. 1982, Ph.D. 1995 – Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Ziva Ben-Porat, Ph.D. – Professor of Poetry and Comparative Literature, Tel Aviv University
• Abraham Bers, B.S. 1953 – Professor of Electrical Engineering Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and principal investigator in its Research Laboratory of Electronics
• Mario Biagioli, M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1989 – Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
• João Biehl, Ph.D. 1999 – Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
• Candy Dawson Boyd, Ph.D. 1982 – Director of Reading and Language Arts, Saint Mary's College of California
• Stephen Bronner, Ph.D. 1975 – political theorist, professor, Rutgers University
• William Craft Brumfield, Ph.D. 1973 – Professor of Slavic Studies, Tulane University
• Carlos Bustamante, PhD. 1981 – Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
• James Cahill, BA 1950 – UC Berkeley professor (1956-1994) of Chinese art
• Elisabeth Camp, PhD. 2003 – Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University
• Sherwin Carlquist, B.A. 1952, Ph.D. 1956 – Professor of Botany, Claremont Graduate University and Pomona College
• W. Craig Carter, B.S. 1983, M.S. 1987, Ph.D. 1989 – Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Andrew C.F. Chan, JP (Traditional Chinese: 陳志輝), M.B.A. – Professor of Marketing and Director of EMBA Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK); Former Chairman, Consumer Council, Hong Kong
• Ching S. Chang, PhD. 1976 – Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• George W. Chang, PhD. 1967 – Associate Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, UC Berkeley
• John J. Clague, M.A. 1969 – Emeritus Scientist of the Geological Survey of Canada, Professor of Earth Sciences at Simon Fraser UniversityVenkata
• Dalton Conley, B.A. 1990 – University Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, New York University
• Stephanie Coontz, B.A. 1966 – Professor of History and Family Studies at Evergreen State College, author of the award-winning books The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (1992) and Marriage, A Social History (2005)
• Robert Corruccini, Ph.D. 1975 – anthropologist, work on the theory of malocclusion, author, distinguished professor, and Smithsonian Fellow
• LaWanda Cox, Ph.D. 1941 – Professor of History, Hunter College, noted historian of slavery and reconstruction
• Ernest G. Cravalho, B.S. 1961, M.S. 1962, Ph.D. 1967 – MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Van Buren N. Hansford Faculty Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Michael Dietler, Ph.D. 1990 – Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago
• Claudio Donoso, B.S. 1969 – professor of forestry and forest ecology, Universidad Austral de Chile
• Said Easa, Ph.D. 1980 – Professor of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University
• Richard S. Elman, Ph.D. 1972 – Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles
• Robert D. English, B.A. 1980 – Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California
• Cynthia Enloe, M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1967 – Research Professor of International Development and Women's Studies, Clark University
• Amitai Etzioni, Ph.D. 1958 – University Professor, George Washington University
• Ben Finney, B.A. 1955 – University of Hawaii professor of anthropology, co-founder of the Polynesian Voyaging Society
• Rodrigo Fonseca, Ph.D. 2008 – Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Brown University
• Andrew A. Frank, B.S. 1955, M.S. 1958 – Professor of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, UC Davis; the father of modern plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV)
• John K. Frost, B.S. and M.D. – founding head of the division of Cytopathology at Johns Hopkins University
• Sandra M. Gustafson, Ph.D. 1993 – Professor of English, University of Notre Dame
• Peter J. Hadreas, Ph.D. 1975 - Professor of Philosophy, San Jose State University
• Kenneth J. Hagan, B.A. 1958, M.A. 1964 – Professor of History, United States Naval Academy
• Lynne Hanley, Ph.D. – literary critic
• Robert Harvey, B.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1988 – Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook University
• Susanna Hecht, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1982 – Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA; a founder of "political ecology" approach to forestry; Guggenheim Fellow (2008)
• George M. Homsy, B.S. 1965 – Professor of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Sally P Horn, Ph.D. 1986 – professor, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• John Keith Irwin (1929–2010), Ph.D. – author and professor of sociology at San Francisco State University
• John E Jayne, B.A. 1965 – Professor, Department of Mathematics, University College London; founder and President of the IMC International Mathematics Competition for University Students (1994 –present))
• Chalmers Johnson, B.A. 1953, M.A. 1957, Ph.D. 1961 – author, professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego, president, and co-founder of the Japan Policy Research Institute
• David Julius, Ph.D. 1983 – recipient of the 2010 Shaw Prize in life science and medicine for “his seminal discoveries of molecular mechanisms by which the skin senses painful stimuli and temperature and produces pain hypersensitivity”, professor at the University of California, San Francisco
• Steven G. Kellman, M.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1972 – Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Texas at San Antonio; film critic; author of Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth (2005) and Perspectives on Raging Bull (1994)
• Christos Kozyrakis, Ph.D. CS 2002 – Associate Professor of EECS at Stanford University
• Matthew Kroenig, M.A., Ph.D. – Associate Professor of Government and Foreign Service and Georgetown University
• Henry Lagorio, BA 1944, MA 1945 – Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley for 43 years
• Phillip Levis, Ph.D. 2005 – Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
• Martin C. Libicki, professor at the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, California
• Elizabeth Lloyd, B.A. 1991 – Senior Lecturer ICT in Education, Kingston University, London
• Sharon Lloyd – Professor of Philosophy, Law, and Political Science at the University of Southern California
• Clifford Lynch, Ph.D. – formerly with University of California Office of the President; currently director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI); adjunct faculty with the UC Berkeley iSchool
• Brian MacWhinney, B.A. 1965, M.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1974 – Professor of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University; leading researcher in the field of language acquisition
• Peter Marcuse, Ph.D. 1972 – Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University, son of Herbert Marcuse
• Yoky Matsuoka, B.S. 1993 – Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle; a leader in emerging field of neurobotics, which has led to pioneering developments in rehabilitation and prosthetics; MacArthur Fellow (2007)
• Ethan L. Miller, Ph.D. 1995 – Professor of Computer Science University of California, Santa Cruz
• Michael Mitzenmacher, Ph.D. 1996 – Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
• Ethan V. Munson, Ph.D. 1994 – Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
• Geoffrey S. Nathan, B.A. 1985 – Lecturer of Roman History, University of New South Wales
• Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, B.S. 1970, M.S. 1972, Ph.D. 1975 MSE – Professor of Metallurgy and Geo-Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• James Lon Penner, B.A. 1988 – Associate Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico; author of Pinks, Pansies and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity and American Literary Culture (2011); editor of Timothy Leary: The Harvard Years (2014)
• Charles B. Perrow, B.A. 1953, M.A. 1955, Ph.D. 1960 – Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Yale University
• James Petras, M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1967 – Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Binghamton University and political activist
• Marshall Poe (M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1993) – Associate Professor of Russian and World History, University of Iowa; co-founder and former editor of academic journal Kritika; author of popular history book Everyone Knows Everything: The Rise of WikiWorld and the Democratization of Knowledge (2008)
• T. Pradeep, Ph.D. 1991 – Professor of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
• Noha Radwan, Associate Professor of Arabic and comparative literature, University of California, Davis
• Dana Randall, Ph.D., Computer Science, 1994 – Professor of Computing and Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
• Gretchen Reydams-Schils, Ph.D, Classics – Professor of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame
• Jed E. Rose, B.A. 1973 – professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University; co-inventor of the nicotine patch; President and CEO of the Rose Research Center
• Josiah Royce, B.A. 1875 – philosopher, professor at Harvard University
• Klaus E. Schauser, Ph.D. 1994 – Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Srinivasan Seshan, B.S. 1990, Ph.D. 1995 – Associate Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
• Alexander Shishin, B.A. 1971 – Professor of English, Kobe Women's University, Japan; utopian novelist
• Stephen H. Sosnick, B.A 1950, Ph.D. 1954 – Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of California, Davis
• Susan Stryker, Ph.D. 1992 – Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona
• Deborah Tannen, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1979 – Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University
• Max Tegmark, MA 1992, Ph.D. 1994 – professor of physics at MIT, specializing in precision cosmology
• Augustine Thompson, O.P., Ph.D. 1988 – Professor of History, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology and Graduate Theological Union
• Carl E. Thoresen, B.A. 1955 – Professor of Education, and by Courtesy, Psychology, and Psychiatry (Emeritus) at Stanford University
• Yi-Fu Tuan, Ph.D. 1957 – Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• France Winddance Twine, Ph.D. 1995- Professor of Sociology University of California Santa Barbara
• Wayne S. Vucinich, B.A. 1936, M.A. 1937, Ph.D. 1941 – a "founding father" of Russian and East European Studies, Professor of History, Stanford University
• Ray Wolfinger, BA – professor of political science at UC Berkeley
• Alan C. L. Yu, B.A. 1998, M.A. 1999, Ph.D. 2003 – Professor of Linguistics, University of Chicago
• David Zuckerman, Ph.D. 1991 – Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin

See also

• List of UC Berkeley faculty