List of Amherst College People - Notable Faculty

Notable Faculty

• Wande Abimbola, Scholar in Residence (Comparative Religious Ethics), in the early 1980s and 1990s
• Charles Baker Adams 1834, Prof. of Astronomy, Zoology, and Natural Sciences, 1847–1853
• Hadley Arkes, Prof. of Political Science since 1966
• Clarence Edwin Ayres, Prof. of Economics, 1920–1923, principal thinker of the Texas school of Institutional Economics
• Theodore Baird, Prof. of English, 1927–1969
• Elso Sterrenberg Barghoorn, Prof. of Paleobotany and Paleontology, 1941–1946
• Amrita Basu, Prof. of Political Science (South Asian politics, Women's Studies), 1981–1987, 1989–present
• David W. Blight, Prof. of History, 1990–2003, winner of Bancroft Prize, Lincoln Prize
• George B. Churchill 1889, Prof. of English Literature, 1898–1925
• Henry Steele Commager, Prof. of History, 1956–1992
• Benjamin DeMott, Prof. of Humanities, 1950–1990, 1990-2005 (Emeritus)
• Lawrence Douglas, Prof. of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought since 1991
• Jamal J. Ellias, Prof. of Religion since _(?)
• Benjamin Kendall Emerson 1865, Prof. of Geology, 1872-1917 (appears above)
• Robert Frost, Prof. of English, 1916–1938, winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and the Bollingen Prize
• Norton Garfinkle, Prof. of Economics and Economic History, c. 1957-1967
• Alexander George, Prof. of Philosophy since _(?)
• Edward Hitchcock, noted geologist and the third President of Amherst College (1845–1854)
• George Kateb, Prof. of Political Science, 1957–1987
• Nicholas Kurti, former Distinguished Visiting Prof. of Physics, a leading experimental physicist in his era
• Anthony Lake, Prof. of International Relations, 1981–1984, former National Security Advisor
• Archibald MacLeish, Prof. of English, 1963–1967, winner of three Pulitzer Prizes; the National Book Award; the Bollingen Prize; an Academy Award (screenplay); Librarian of Congress; Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Jim Mauldon, Walker Professor of Mathematics (retired 1990)
• Hermann J. Muller, Prof. of Biology, 1940–1945, winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Roland Merullo, Prof. of Creative Writing 2002-2003, novelist and memoirist
• Austin Sarat, Prof. of Political Science and Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought since 1974
• Eric Sawyer, Prof. of Music (composition and theory) since 2002, award-winning composer
• Anita Shreve, Prof. of Creative Writing in the 1990s, award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction
• Henry Preserved Smith 1869, Prof. of Religion, 1897–1906
• Lewis Spratlan, Prof. of Music, 1970–2006, 2006 (Emeritus), winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in music
• Ilan Stavans, Prof. of Spanish since 1993
• William Taubman, Prof. of Political Science since _(?), winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in biography and the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in biography
• Robert Thurman, Prof. of Religion, 1973–1988, selected by Time magazine as one of the 25 most influential Americans
• Ronald Tiersky, Prof. of Political Science since 1973
• Jim Ostendarp, head football coach 1959-1991, president of the American Football Coaches Association 1982.
• David Peck Todd 1875, Prof. of Astronomy, 1881–1917, 1917 (Emeritus) (appears above)
• William Seymour Tyler, 1830, Prof. of Latin, Greek, and Greek literature, 1836–1893
• Stark Young, Prof. of English, 1915–1921, Order of the Crown of Italy
• Colston Warne, Prof. of Economics, 1930–1969, co-founder of Consumers Union, and president of its board of directors 1936-1979
• Perez Zagorin, Prof. of History, 1947–1949