List of New York University faculty
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Following is a partial list of notable faculty (either past, present or visiting) of New York University. Another partial list of notable New York University faculty is available on NNDB website: New York University faculty. As of 2014, among NYU's past or present faculty, there are at least 159 Guggenheim Fellows.[1]
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Contents
- 1 Nobel laureates
- 2 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 3 Members of the National Academy of Sciences
- 4 Members of the National Academy of Engineering
- 5 Guggenheim Fellows
- 6 MacArthur Fellows
- 7 National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation, Arts and Humanities recipients
- 8 Abel Prize recipients
- 9 College of Arts and Science (undergraduate and graduate)
- 10 Tandon School of Engineering
- 11 Stern School of Business
- 12 Tisch School of the Arts
- 13 Professor emeriti and other notable faculty
- 14 New York University Presidents
- 15 New York University Founders
- 16 See also
- 17 References
Nobel laureates
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Gérard Ben Arous[25]
- Marsha Berger[26]
- Jeff Cheeger[27]
- Percy Deift[28]
- Peter Lax[29]
- Fang-Hua Lin[30]
- Andrew J. Majda[31]
- David McLaughlin[32]
- Henry McKean[33]
- Cathleen Morawetz[34]
- Charles Newman[35]
- Louis Nirenberg[36]
- Charles Peskin[37]
- Jalal Shatah[38]
- K. R. Sreenivasan[39]
- Margaret Wright[40]
- Lai-Sang Young[41]
- Samuel Morse
- Leslie Greengard[42]
- Yusef Komunyakaa[43]
- Trevor Morrison[44]
- Debraj Ray[45]
- Christopher Wood[46]
Members of the National Academy of Sciences
- Marsha Berger[47] Courant
- Jeff Cheeger[48] Courant
- Percy Deift[49] Courant
- Leslie Greengard[50] Courant, Tandon School of Engineering
- Mikhael Gromov[51] Courant
- Peter Lax[52] Courant
- Andrew Majda[53] Courant
- Henry McKean[54] Courant
- David McLaughlin[55] Courant
- Cathleen Morawetz[56] Courant
- Charles Newman[57] Courant
- Louis Nirenberg[58] Courant
- Charles Peskin[59] Courant
- K. R. Sreenivasan[60] Courant, Tandon School of Engineering
- S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan[61] Courant
- Margaret Wright[62] Courant
- George Bugliarello Tandon School of Engineering
- Elliott Waters Montroll Tandon School of Engineering
- David Harker Tandon School of Engineering
- Paul M. Doty Tandon School of Engineering
Members of the National Academy of Engineering
- Marsha Berger[63] Courant
- Leslie Greengard[64] Courant, Tandon School of Engineering
- K. R. Sreenivasan[65] Courant, Tandon School of Engineering
- Margaret Wright[66] Courant
- Dante C. Youla[67] Tandon School of Engineering
- Arthur A. Oliner[68] Tandon School of Engineering
- David Goodman[69] Tandon School of Engineering
- George Bugliarello Tandon School of Engineering
- Ernst Weber (engineer) Tandon School of Engineering
- Tsuneo Nakahara Tandon School of Engineering
- Nathan Marcuvitz Tandon School of Engineering
- Jack Wolf Tandon School of Engineering
- Jerome Swartz Tandon School of Engineering
- Paul Horn (computer scientist) Courant, Tandon School of Engineering
- Nicholas J. Hoff Tandon School of Engineering
Guggenheim Fellows
Name | Relation to NYU | Notability | Reference |
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Jack Wolf | professor 1963–1965, NYU Courant Institute, 1965–1973, NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow (1979) | |
K. R. Sreenivasan | professor at NYU Courant Institute and NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Leopold B. Felsen | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Ivan Frisch | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow | [70] |
Paul Peter Ewald | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow | |
David J. Pine | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Elliott Waters Montroll | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Joseph Wood Krutch | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Eugene Genovese | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Herbert Freeman | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Nicholas J. Hoff | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Paul M. Doty | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Jeff Cheeger | professor, NYU Courant Institute | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Lai-Sang Young | professor, NYU Courant Institute | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Percy Deift | professor, NYU Courant Institute | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Michael Heidelberger | professor 1964–1991, NYU School of Medicine | In 1934 and 1936 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship | |
Thomas A. Abercrombie | professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Paul Horwich | professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Frances Kamm | professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Mark L. Gertler | professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Kristin Ross | professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Darin Strauss | professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Rebecca Goldstein | professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | Guggenheim Fellow | |
Krishna Palem | professor, NYU Courant Institute | Guggenheim Fellow |
- Simeon M. Berman[71] Courant
- Sylvain Cappell[72] Courant
- Steve Childress[73] Courant
- Richard J. Cole[74] Courant
- Cathleen Morawetz[75] Courant
- Charles Newman[76] Courant
- Louis Nirenberg[77] Courant
- Lyle Ashton Harris[78] Steinhardt
- Sue de Beer[79] Steinhardt
- Anna Deavere Smith[80] Tisch
- Kathleen Gerson[81] College of Arts and Science
- Deborah Landau[82]
- Amanda Petrusich[83] Gallatin School of Individualized Study
- Troy Duster
- Debraj Ray
MacArthur Fellows
Name | Relation to NYU | Notability | Reference |
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Arthur G. Amsterdam | Professor of Law | 1989 MacArthur Fellow | |
Harold Bloom | Berg Professor of English | 1985 MacArthur Fellow | |
Rebecca Goldstein | Professor of English | 1996 MacArthur Fellow | |
Joan Breton Connelly | Professor of Art History | 1996 MacArthur Fellow | |
Faye D. Ginsburg | Professor of Anthropology | 1994 MacArthur Fellow | |
Fritz John | Professor of Mathematics | 1984 MacArthur Fellow | |
Galway Kinnell | Professor of Creative Writing | 1984 MacArthur Fellow | |
Sylvia A. Law | LAW 1968, J.D.; professor | 1983 MacArthur Fellow | |
David Levering Lewis | Professor of History | 1999 MacArthur Fellow | |
Ruth Watson Lubic | Adjunct Professor | 1993 MacArthur Fellow | |
Paule Marshall | Professor of English | 1992 MacArthur Fellow | |
Deborah Meier | Research Scholar, Steinhardt | 1987 MacArthur Fellow | |
Chudnovsky brothers | Math professors, Poly | MacArthur Fellows | |
George Perle | GSAS 1956, Ph.D.; professor of music | 1974 MacArthur Fellow | |
Charles S. Peskin | Professor of Mathematics | 1983 MacArthur Fellow | |
Robert Shapley | Professor of Neurology | 1986 MacArthur Fellow | |
Anna Deavere Smith | Professor of Performance Studies | 1996 MacArthur Fellow | |
Deborah Willis | Professor of Photography | 2000 MacArthur Fellow | |
Rita P. Wright | Professor of Anthropology | 1988 MacArthur Fellow | |
Horng-Tzer Yau | Professor of Mathematics | 2000 MacArthur Fellow |
National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation, Arts and Humanities recipients
Name | Relation to NYU | Notability | Reference |
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Kurt O. Friedrichs | professor 1938–1974 at NYU Courant Institute | 1976 National Medal of Science recipient | |
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan | professor at NYU Courant Institute | 2010 National Medal of Science recipient | |
Louis Nirenberg | professor at NYU Courant Institute | 1995 National Medal of Science recipient | |
Joseph Keller | professor at NYU Courant Institute | 1988 National Medal of Science recipient | |
Cathleen Synge Morawetz | professor at NYU Courant Institute | 1998 National Medal of Science recipient | |
Michael Heidelberger | professor 1964–1991 at NYU School of Medicine | 1967 National Medal of Science recipient | |
Severo Ochoa | professor 1942–1974 at NYU School of Medicine | 1979 National Medal of Science recipient | |
Herman Francis Mark | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | 1979 National Medal of Science recipient | |
Rudolph A. Marcus | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | 1989 National Medal of Science recipient | |
Jerome Swartz | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | 1999 National Medal of Technology recipient | |
Ernst Weber | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | 1987 National Medal of Science recipient | |
Gregory Breit | professor at NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | 1967 National Medal of Science recipient | |
Peter Lax | professor at NYU Courant Institute | 1986 National Medal of Science recipient | |
Zelda Fichandler | professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts | 1996 National Medal of Arts recipient | |
Anna Deavere Smith | professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts | 2013 National Humanities Medal recipient | |
Rebecca Goldstein | professor at NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | 2015 National Humanities Medal recipient | |
Bernard Brodie (biochemist) | professor at NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | 1968 National Medal of Science recipient |
Abel Prize recipients
College of Arts and Science (undergraduate and graduate)
Name | Relation to NYU | Notability | Reference |
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Suketu Mehta | Associate professor, journalism, current | writer, Maximum City | [84] |
Tandon School of Engineering
- Stephen Arnold
- Boris Aronov, Sloan Research Fellow
- Dan Bailey – fly-shop owner, innovative fly developer and staunch Western conservationist
- Barouh Berkovits - invented the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker[85]
- Maureen Braziel
- George Bugliarello - Chairman of the Board of Science and Technology for International Development of the National Academy of Sciences; of the National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation Committee; and of the National Academy of Engineering Council’s International Affairs Committee
- Charles Camarda
- Ju-Chin Chu – Chemical engineer and father of Steven Chu. He became a Academia Sinica member in 1964.
- Edwin F. Church – namesake of Edwin F. Church Medal
- John Colagioia - creator of programming language Thue
- Francis Crick – co-discoverer of DNA structure; awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
- Paul M. Doty – emeritus Harvard Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry; specialized in the physical properties of macromolecules; involved in peace and security policy issues
- R. Luke DuBois – composer, performer, conceptual new media artist, programmer, record producer, pedagogue
- Paul Peter Ewald – inventor of X-ray diffraction method for determination of molecular structure; Physics Department chair until 1957
- Leopold B. Felsen
- Antonio Ferri - leader of a team that created the first practical hypersonic tunnel heater, used to heat air for dischage into a wind tunnel[86]
- R. M. Foster – Bell Labs mathematician whose work was of significance regarding electronic filters for use on telephone lines.
- Herbert Freeman
- Eugene D. Genovese – historian of the American South and slavery
- Gordon Gould – former Polytechnic professor; inventor of the laser
- David and Gregory Chudnovsky – mathematicians who held the record for number of digits of pi in 1989; now run the Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing at Polytechnic
- Leslie Greengard[87]
- S. L. Greitzer – mathematician; founding chairman of the US Mathematical Olympiad; publisher of the pre-college mathematics journal Arbelos
- Charles William Hanko – historian and politician
- David Harker – physicist; X-ray crystallographer; discoverer of the Donnay-Harker law and Harker-Kasper inequalities
- Paul Horn[88]
- Jerry MacArthur Hultin
- Katherine Isbister
- Myles Jackson
- Andrew Kalotay
- Maurice Karnaugh – inventor of Karnaugh Maps (K-Maps) while at Bell Labs; professor at the Westchester campus 1980-1999; retired
- Edward Kimbark – power engineer
- Parke Kolbe
- Joseph Wood Krutch – writer, critic, and naturalist
- Erich E. Kunhardt
- Yann LeCun[87]
- Paul Levinson – author of The Plot To Save Socrates; media commentator on The O'Reilly Factor; Visiting Professor at the Philosophy and Technology Study Center at Polytechnic, 1987–1988
- Frederick B. Llewellyn – electrical engineer
- Rudolph Marcus – former Polytechnic professor; Nobel Prize in chemistry; National Medal of Science winner.
- Nathan Marcuvitz – electrical engineering pioneer
- Herman F. Mark – founder of the Polymer Research Institute; National Medal of Science winner.
- Phil Maymin - Assistant Professor of Finance and Risk Engineering; Libertarian Party House candidate in Connecticut
- Warren L. McCabe - American chemical engineer and is considered as one of the founding fathers of the profession of chemical engineering
- David Miller
- Elliott Waters Montroll – scientist and mathematician
- Samuel Morse – co-inventor of the Morse code; contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs
- J. H. Mulligan, Jr. – namesake of IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal
- Tsuneo Nakahara
- Donald Othmer – co-author of Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology; inventor of the Othmer Still, a laboratory device for vapor-liquid equilibrium measurements
- Charles G. Overberger
- Athanasios Papoulis – pioneer in the field of stochastic processes
- Leonard Peikoff – former philosophy professor; founder of the Ayn Rand Institute
- David J. Pine[89]
- John R. Ragazzini
- Theodore Rappaport
- John Howard Raymond
- Hans Reissner – German aeronautical engineer
- Murray Rothbard – former economics professor; key figure in libertarian movement
- Michael Shelley – Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Samuel Sheldon - IEEE president[90]
- Joshua W. Sill – Professor of Mathematics; became the youngest General in the Civil War; namesake of Fort Sill
- Aleksandra Smiljanić
- Joel B. Snyder – IEEE president
- K. R. Sreenivasan
- Torsten Suel – pioneer of search engine algorithms
- Jerome Swartz - developed early optical strategies for barcode scanning technologies
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb – epistemologist author of The Black Swan; works in the risk engineering department
- James Tenney – composer; music theorist
- John G. Truxal
- Ernst Weber – founder of the Microwave Research Institute; first IEEE President; National Medal of Science winner.
- Jack Keil Wolf – researcher in information theory and coding theory
- Ta-You Wu – nuclear physicist; President of Academia Sinica
- Dante C. Youla – namesake of Youla–Kucera parametrization in control theory
- Louis Zukofsky – second-generation American modernist poet
- David Lefer
- Robert Ubell
- Beth Simone Noveck
- Nicholas J. Hoff, award-winning engineer specializing in aeronautics and astronautics
- Henrik Ager-Hanssen, Norwegian nuclear physicist
- Nikhil Gupta (scientist)
- Mark M. Green, chemist
- Steven E. Koonin, theoretical physicist, former faculty and provost of California Institute of Technology
Stern School of Business
Name | Relation to NYU | Notability | Reference |
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Vincent Bastien | Professor, current | TRIUM Global Executive MBA Professor | |
Jennifer N. Carpenter | Professor, current | Associate Professor of Finance | |
Aswath Damodaran | Professor, current | Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education | |
Ed Elton | Professor, current | Nomura Professor of Finance; Academic Director of Stern Doctoral Program | |
Ken Froewiss | Professor, current | Clinical Professor of Finance and Academic Director of Executive Programs | |
Dan Gode | Professor, current | Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting | |
Jonathan Haidt | Professor, current | Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership | |
Peter Blair Henry | Professor, current | Dean, NYU Stern; Dean Richard R. West Professorship in Business; William R. Berkley Professor of Economics & Finance | |
Ernest Kurnow | Professor, current | Business Statistics professor; on NYU faculty since 1948 | |
Alexander Ljungqvist | Professor, current | Research Professor of Finance; Ira Rennert Professor of Entrepreneurship; Research Director, Berkley Center | |
Sonia Marciano | Professor, current | Clinical Associate Professor of Management and Organizations | |
Michael Posner | Professor, current | Professor of Business and Society | |
Thomas Pugel | Professor, current | Vice Dean of Executive Programs and Professor of Economics and Global Business | |
Paul Romer | Professor, current | Professor of Economics | |
Nouriel Roubini | Professor, current | Professor of Economics and International Business | |
Thomas Sargent | Professor, current | William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business | |
Anthony Saunders | Professor, current | John M. Schiff Professor of Finance | |
Michael Spence | Professor, current | William R. Berkley Professor in Economics & Business | |
Raghu Sundaram | Professor, current | Professor of Finance; Yamaichi Faculty Fellow | |
Arun Sundararajan | Professor, current | Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences; NEC Faculty Fellow | |
Richard Sylla | Professor, current | History of Financial Institutions and Markets professor | |
Lawrence J. White | Professor, current | Robert Kavesh Professor of Economics | |
Eitan Zemel | Professor, current | Vice Dean for Strategic Initiatives and the W. Edwards Deming Professor of Quality and Productivity | |
Larry Zicklin | Professor, current | Clinical Professor at Stern; Neuberger Berman’s Chairman of the Board |
Tisch School of the Arts
Name | Relation to NYU | Notability | Reference |
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D. B. Gilles | Teaches screenwriting | four plays published by Dramatists Play Service | [91] |
Marketa Kimbrell | Taught directing and acting | taught film directing and acting from 1970 to 2006; founder of the New York Street Theater Caravan | [92] |
Susan Sandler | Teaches screenwriting and directing | wrote plays and screenplays including Crossing Delancey | [93] |
Professor emeriti and other notable faculty
Name | Relation to NYU | Notability | Reference |
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Steven E. Koonin | Professor | Former provost of California Institute of Technology | |
Jeffrey S. Lehman | Professor | Former president of Cornell University | |
Alfred Bloom | Professor | Former president of Swarthmore College | |
Yusef Komunyakaa | Professor | Pulitzer Prize winner | |
Christopher L. Eisgruber | Professor | 20th and current President of Princeton University | |
Jack Lew | Professor | 76th United States Secretary of the Treasury | |
Martin Hairer | Professor | Fields Medal winner | |
Frances E. Allen | Professor | Turing Award winner | |
Louis Nirenberg | Professor | Abel Prize winner | |
Thomas A. Abercrombie | Professor, current | winner of the 2004–2005 Guggenheim Fellowship | |
Martin Davis | Professor Emeritus | Davis is the co-inventor of the Davis–Putnam algorithm and the DPLL algorithms. He is also known for his model of Post–Turing machines. | |
Philip Alston | Professor, current | John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law; the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary executions | |
David Copperfield (illusionist) | Professor | Taught a course in magic | |
Edward Altman | Professor, 1977 – | inventor of the "Z-Score" | |
Yehuda Amichai | Poet in residence | awarded the 1969 Brenner Prize, 1976 Bialik Prize, and 1982 Israel Prize | |
Awam Amkpa | Professor, current; director of NYU's Africana studies | drama professor and professor | |
Jacob M. Appel | Visiting faculty, current | bioethicist, authority on euthanasia | [94] |
Roger S. Bagnall | Visiting Professor | Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at NYU | |
Henry Martyn Baird | B.A. 1850, Professor 1859–1906 | historian of the Huguenots | |
William Baumol | professor | member of National Academy of Science | |
Saul Bellow | Professor | 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature | |
Baruj Benacerraf | Professor 1956–1968 | 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
Marsha Berger | Professor | member of National Academy of Science | |
Ben Bernanke | Visiting Professor 1993 | Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board | |
Carl Bernstein | Professor | 1973 Pulitzer Prize (Watergate) | |
Ned Block | Professor 1996– | contributed to matters of consciousness and cognitive science | |
Paul Boghossian | Professor, current | Professor of Philosophy | |
Richard Bona | Professor, current | jazz bassist and composer | |
Steven Brams | Professor 1969 – | known for his research on voting systems and approval voting | |
McGeorge Bundy | Professor of History (1979–1989) | National Security Advisor under John F. Kennedy | |
John Canemaker | Professor, current | Academy Award-winning independent animator, animation historian | |
Norman Cantor | Professor 1978–2004 | medievalist | |
Jorge Castañeda | Visiting Professor | Secretary of State of Mexico | |
Domingo Cavallo | Guest Lecturer | former Minister of Finance, Republic of Argentina | |
Paul Chaikin | professor, current | physicist | |
Herrick Chapman | Professor since 1992 | historian of France | |
Jeff Cheeger | Professor | member of National Academy of Science | |
Stephen F. Cohen | Professor | scholar of history and foreign relations of Russia | |
Dalton Conley | Professor, current | sociologist | |
Joan Breton Connelly | Professor, current | classical archaeologist and Professor of Classics and Art History at New York University; appointed to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee by President George W. Bush in 2003; awarded MacArthur Fellowship in 1996 | |
David Copperfield | Professor | taught a course on magic at the age of sixteen | |
Richard Courant | Professor | noted for the development of the finite element method | |
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita | Professor, current | political scientist | |
E. L. Doctorow | Professor | author of Ragtime | |
Denis Donoghue | Professor, current | Irish literary critic; Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University | |
Norman Dorsen | Professor, current | former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, 1976-1991 | |
John William Draper | Professor, 1840–1881 | founder and former president of the Medical School | |
Peter F. Drucker | Professor, 1950–1972 | major contributor to management theory | |
Troy Duster | Professor, current | sociologist | |
Ronald Dworkin | Professor, -2013 | clerked for Judge Learned Hand of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; winner of the 2007 Holberg International Memorial Prize | |
William Easterly | Professor 2003– | economist | |
Robert F. Engle | Professor 1999– | 2003 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics | |
Niall Ferguson | Professor | author of Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World | |
Zelda Fichandler | Professor, current | National Medal of Arts winner in 1996; inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1999 | |
Hartry Field | Professor, current | philosopher | |
Kit Fine | Professor, current | Silver Professor of Philosophy | |
Joel Fink | Professor, former | Associate Dean of Roosevelt University | |
Erich Fromm | Professor of psychiatry 1962–1974 | German-American psychologist and philosopher | |
Mark L. Gertler | Professor, current | macroeconomist; Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Economics at New York University; Guggenheim Fellowship | |
Carol Gilligan | Professor | known for her work on ethical community and ethical relationships | |
Vivien Goldman | Professor, Clive Davis School of Recorded Music | wrote the first biography of Bob Marley | |
Stephen Jay Gould | Vincent Astor Visiting Professor | known for his development of the evolutionary biology theory of punctuated equilibrium and his scientific writings | |
Percy Grainger | Professor, 1932–1940 | inventor of the Free Music Machine, the forerunner of the synthesizer | |
Rinne Groff | Professor, Tisch School of the Arts | recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award in 2005 for plays | |
Mikhail Gromov | Jay Gould Professor of Mathematics | made major contributions to metric geometry and symplectic geometry | |
David Heeger | Professor, current | neuroscientist; son of Nobel laureate chemist Alan J. Heeger | |
Daniel Webster Hering | Dean | credited with taking the first human x-ray in the United States | |
Avram Hershko | Adjunct Professor 1998– | 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
Sidney Hook | Professor, 1927–1972 | philosopher who championed pragmatism | |
Paul Horwich | Professor, current | philosopher, Guggenheim Fellowship | |
Natalie Jeremijenko | Professor, current | photographer, founder of xDesign Environmental Health Clinic | |
Jotham Johnson | Chairman of Classics | archaeologist; former President of Archaeological Institute of America | [95] |
Boyan Jovanovic | Professor, current | economist, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | |
Tony Judt | Professor | director of Erich Maria Remarque Institute; author of Postwar | |
Frances Kamm | Professor | philosopher, winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship | |
Eric Kandel | Professor | former faculty member at the New York University Medical School; winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
Richard Kayne | Professor of Linguistics, current | developed the theory of antisymmetry | |
Elias Khoury | Professor | Lebanese writer and critic | |
Israel Kirzner | Professor emeritus, current | economist, leading proponent of the Austrian School of Economics. | |
Jason King | Professor, Artistic Director of NYU's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music | writer, pop critic, music manager | |
Galway Kinnell | Professor, 1993 – | 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry | |
Stewart Krentzman | Instructor | CEO of Oki Data Americas, Inc. | |
Carol Herselle Krinsky | Professor | architectural historian | [96] |
Mattias Kumm | Professor, current | holds a Research Professorship on "Globalization and the Rule of Law" at the Social Science Research Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, WZB) and Humboldt University in Berlin | |
Saul Krugman | Professor | developed first vaccine against hepatitis B | |
Peter Lax | Professor, current | member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences; awarded the National Medal of Science in 1986, the Wolf Prize in 1987 and the Abel Prize in 2005 | |
Joseph E. LeDoux | Professor, current | neuroscientist | |
Spike Lee | Film professor in the Tisch School of the Arts, current | actor, director, producer, social activist | |
Wassily Leontief | Professor, 1975–1999 | 1973 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics | |
Pierre N. Leval | Professor | Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit | |
David Levering | Professor, current | Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History | |
Otto Loewi | Professor 1940–1961 | 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
Gary Marcus | Professor, Current Psychology | Robert L. Fantz award, cognitive development | |
Colin McLeod | Professor, 1941–1970 | established that genes are made of DNA | |
Theodor Meron | Professor | President, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia | |
Cheryl Mills | Current Senior Vice President for Operations and Administration | former Deputy Counsel to President Bill Clinton; lead defense attorney in his 1999 Senate Impeachment | |
Cathleen Synge Morawetz | Professor, current | mathematician, winner of the National Medal of Science in 1983 and 1988 | |
Samuel F. B. Morse | Professor, 1832–? | inventor of Morse Code | |
Brian Morton | Professor, current | academic and novelist | |
Robert S. Mulliken | Professor, 1926–1928 | 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |
Gunnar Myrdal | Visiting professor | 1974 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics | |
Thomas Nagel | Professor | scholar, philosophy of mind | |
Marion Nestle | Professor, current | nutritionist | |
Ronald K. Noble | Professor of law | Interpol Secretary General 2000–present | |
Conor Cruise O'Brien | Professor | Irish politician and academic | |
Severo Ochoa | Professor, 1942–1974 | winner of 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
Sharon Olds | Professor, current | English creative writing teacher | |
Bertell Ollman | Full professor | ||
Henry Bamford Parkes | Professor | author of Gods and Men, The Origins of Western Culture and A History of Mexico | |
Cyrus Patell | Professor, current | American literature and cultural critic | |
Adam Penenberg | Professor | uncovered the journalistic fraud of The New Republic reporter Stephen Glass | |
F. E. Peters | Professor, 1961– | pioneer in comparative study of Judaism, Christianity and Islam | |
Amir Pnueli | Professor of Computer Science, current | winner of the 1996 Turing Award | |
Martin Pope | Professor Emeritus | physical chemist, winner of the 2006 Davy Medal | |
Neil Postman | 1959–2003 | author of Amusing Ourselves to Death; founder of media ecology program | |
Mary Louise Pratt | Professor, current | Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures | |
Joseph Ransohoff | Professor, 1962–1992 | physician | |
Debraj Ray | Professor, current | economist | |
Richard Revesz | Professor, current | Dean of New York University School of Law | |
Robert Rosenblum | Professor | art historian and curator | |
Kristin Ross | Professor, current | professor of comparative literature, recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship from 1999 to 2000 | |
Ariel Rubinstein | Professor, current | Israeli economist | |
Curt Sachs | Professor, 1937–1953 | co-author of the Sachs-Hornbostel scheme | |
Naomi Sager | Professor, 1965-1995 | pioneer in computational linguistics; Director of the Linguistic String Project | |
Paul A. Samuelson | Visiting professor | winner of 1970 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics | |
Thomas Sargent | Professor | one of the leaders of the rational expectations revolution; Berkeley Professor of Economics and Business | |
Peter Sarnak | Professor, 2001–2005 | mathematician | |
Mary Schmidt | Professor, current | Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | |
John Scofield | Professor, current | jazz fusion guitarist and composer | |
Richard Sennett | Professor, current | Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Royal Society of Literature; founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities | |
Bob Shrum | Professor | Democratic political consultant | |
Richard Sieburth | Professor, current | translator, essayist and editor | |
Alan Sokal | Professor | known for the Sokal Affair | |
Darin Strauss | Adjunct Professor, 2000–present | author of Chang & Eng and The Real McCoy; 2005 teaching award winner; 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship | |
Marti G. Subrahmanyam | Professor, current | Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business | |
Edward Sullivan | Professor | taught English as a Second Language at New York University for 15 years | |
Henry Philip Tappan | Professor of philosophy | first President of the University of Michigan | |
Allen Tate | Professor, 1948–1951 | author, Ode to the Confederate Dead | |
Ngugi wa Thiongo | Visiting professor | Kenyan activist | |
Lewis Thomas | Dean, NYU School of Medicine | ||
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan | Professor, current | mathematician, 2007 winner of the Abel Prize | |
Akshay Venkatesh | Professor, current | mathematician, winner of the 2007 Salem Prize | |
Ludwig von Mises | Professor, 1945–1969 | leader of the Austrian School of Economics | |
Lawrence Weschler | Professor, current | Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities | |
Suzanne Weyn | Guest instructor, 1988–1989 | author of over forty novels | |
Thomas Wolfe | author | ||
Lawrence Wright | Professor, current | Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law, author of The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 | |
Robert J.C. Young | Professor, current | postcolonial theorist, writer and historian | |
Ronald W. Zweig | Professor, current | Israeli historian, member of the Historical Advisory Panel to the National Archives in Washington, D.C. | |
Eero P. Simoncelli | Professor, current | Won a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award | [97] |
New York University Presidents
Name | Relation to NYU | Years | Reference |
---|---|---|---|
James M. Matthews | 1st President | 1831–1839 | |
Theodore Frelinghuysen | 2nd President | 1839–1850, U.S. Senator | [98] |
Isaac Ferris | 3rd President | 1853–1870 | |
Howard Crosby | 4th President | 1870–1881 | |
John Hall | 5th President | 1881–1891 | |
Henry Mitchell MacCracken | 6th President | 1891–1911, developer of the University Heights Campus | |
Elmer Ellsworth Brown | 7th President | 1911–1933 | |
Harry Woodburn Chase | 8th President | 1933–1951 | |
James Loomis Madden | Acting Chancellor | 1951–1952 | |
Henry Townley Heald | 9th President | 1952–1956 | |
Carroll Vincent Newsom | 10th President | 1956–1962 | |
James McNaughton Hester | 11th President | 1962–1975 | |
John C. Sawhill | 12th President | 1975–1980 | |
Ivan Loveridge Bennett | Acting President | 1980–1981 | |
John Brademas | 13th President | 1981–1991, United States House of Representatives | |
L. Jay Oliva | 14th President | 1991–2002 | |
John Sexton | 15th President | 2003–2015 | |
Andrew D. Hamilton | 16th President | 2016–present |
New York University Founders
Founders of NYU include:
See also
- List of New York University alumni
- List of New York University staff
- List of NYU Stern people
- List of NYU Tandon School of Engineering people
- List of NYU Courant Institute people
- List of NYU GSAS people
- List of NYU Law School people
- List of NYU School of Medicine people
- List of NYU Tisch School of the Arts people
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