List of Columbia University People - Notable Faculty

Notable Faculty

See also above at Nobel Laureates ("Alumni" and "Faculty") for separate listing of 41 notable faculty

• Alfred Aho—Canadian computer scientist widely known for his co-authorship of the AWK programming language
• Hattie Alexander—Professor of Pediatrics, microbiologist
• Dimitris Anastassiou—Professor of Electrical Engineering, developer of MPEG-2 technology
• Karen Barkey—Professor of Sociology
• Charles A. Beard—Historian and co-author of The Development of Modern Europe
• Peter Bearman—Professor of Sociology
• Daniel Bell—Professor of Sociology
• J. Bowyer Bell—Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, and Research Associate at the Institute of War and Peace Studies
• Steven M. Bellovin—Professor of Computer Science
• Jagdish Bhagwati—Economics professor, author of In Defense of Globalization
• Franz Boas—Father of American Anthropology
• Lee Bollinger—University President/law professor, First Amendment scholar, Affirmative Action advocate
• Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen—Professor of Germanic languages
• Ronald Breslow—University Professor of chemistry, biology, pharmacology, and engineering.
• Alan Brinkley—Professor of American history and University Provost; son of newscaster David Brinkley
• Zbigniew Brzezinski—National Security Advisor under the Carter Administration, taught Foreign Affairs
• Richard Bulliet—History professor and Middle East scholar, author of Kicked to Death by a Camel
• John Burgess—Founder of modern political science
• Santiago Calatrava—(Honorary Doctorate, 2007), world renowned architect, sculptor and structural engineer, designer of Montjuic Communications Tower and World Trade Center Transportation Hub
• Charles F. Chandler—American chemist, first Dean of Columbia University's School of Mines
• Partha Chatterjee—Anthropologist and scholar of postcolonial nationalism
• Hamid Dabashi—Cultural and literary critic
• Samuel J. Danishefsky—Professor of Chemistry, winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1995/96
• Arthur Danto—Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy emeritus, renowned art critic
• William Theodore de Bary—scholar and translator of East Asian texts, particularly the classical Chinese canon
• Andrew Delbanco—2012 National Humanities Medal; Director of American Studies at Columbia University
• Emanuel Derman—Professor and Director of Columbia's financial engineering program, co-authors of the Financial Modelers' Manifesto
• Donald Dewey—Former Economics professor
• John Dewey—Former Philosophy professor
• Nicholas Dirks—10th chancellor-designate, University of California, Berkeley; professor, anthropology, history, and Dean, faculty of arts and sciences
• Theodosius Dobzhansky—Researcher in population genetics
• Andrew Dolkart—architectural historian
• John R. Dunning—physicist who played key roles in the development of the atomic bomb
• Samuel Eilenberg—winner of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1986
• Arnold Eisen—Chancellor-elect, Jewish Theological Seminary of America
• Jon Elster—Robert Merton Professor of Social Science, leading theorist of rational choice theory, Marxism, and social theory
• William Maurice Ewing—Earth scientist and pioneer
• Awi Federgruen, Affiliate Professor of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
• Enrico Fermi—Manhattan Project member, founder of Fermilab, Nobel laureate
• Eric Foner—Noted historian, authority on Reconstruction
• Miloš Forman—Film director, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt, two Academy Awards
• David Freedberg—Art historian
• Ferdinand Freudenstein—Higgins Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering
• Fred W. Friendly—Pioneering CBS News producer and distinguished media scholar
• Erich Fromm—Noted psychologist
• Herbert J. Gans—Professor of Sociology; author of Popular Culture and High Culture
• Kristine Gebbie—Professor of Nursing and Bill Clinton's first AIDS Czar
• Frank Gehry—Pritzker Prize-winning architect
• Benjamin Graham—Father of value investing, mentor of Warren Buffett
• Brian Greene—Mathematics and Physics professor, researcher and popular author in String Theory
• Sunil Gulati—Professor of economics and chair of the U.S. Soccer Federation
• Joan Dye Gussow, food policy expert
• Cyril M. Harris—Professor of Electrical Engineering and architect
• Ross Hassig—anthropologist and Mesoamerica scholar
• Richard Hofstadter—Noted historian
• Ralph Holloway—Physical Anthropologist
• Carl Hovde (1926–2009), professor and Dean during the Columbia University protests of 1968.
• Andreas Huyssen—Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature
• David Ignatow—Poet, Bollingen Prize-winner
• Kenneth T. Jackson—Preeminent historian of New York City
• Eric Kandel—Neuroscientist, 2000 Nobel laureate; Biophysicist, uncovered secrets of synapses. Professor Physicians & Surgeons (1974-); research with the Biomedical Engineering department
• Thomas Christian Kavanagh—Professor of civil engineering
• Donald Keene—Japanese studies expert
• James Kent—first professor of law at Columbia College (1793–98), legal scholar and jurist, author of seminal "Commentaries on American Law", highly respected in England and America; the "Commentaries" treated state, federal, and international law, and the law of personal rights and property
• Rashid Khalidi—Middle East historian
• Philip Kim—Professor of Applied Physics and Mathematics
• Grayson L. Kirk—former president and instrumental in the founding of the United Nations Security Council
• Kenneth Koch—Poet
• Klaus Lackner—Professor of Environmental Engineering
• Jaron Lanier—visiting scholar at the Computer Science department
• Leon M. Lederman—Nobel Laureate, discoverer of muon neutrino '62, bottom quark '77. Professor (1951–1989); M.A., Ph.D. Columbia
• Tsung Dao Lee—Physics professor, Nobel laureate
• Konrad Lorenz—Psychology professor, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1973)
• Walther Ludwig—Classical Studies professor
• Nicholas F. Maxemchuk—Professor of Electrical Engineering
• John Anthony McGuckin—Professor of Byzantine Christian Studies
• Margaret Mead—Professor of Anthropology
• Don Melnick—Professor of Environmental Biology and advisor to the UN on environmental issues
• Edward Mendelson—Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities
• Robert K. Merton—Professor of Sociology; founder of sociology of science; National Medal of Science
• Jacob Millman—Professor of Electrical Engineering, creator of Millman's Theorem
• C. Wright Mills—Professor of Sociology
• Eben Moglen—Law and the Internet Society, General Counsel of FSF
• Sidney Morgenbesser—John Dewey Professor of Philosophy
• Robert Mundell—Economics professor, 1999 Nobel laureate in Economics
• Tristan Murail—Professor of Music Composition, French composer
• Mira Nair—Director of Monsoon Wedding, film studies professor
• Franz Leopold Neumann—Political science professor, Communist spy in Redhead group
• Gertrude Fanny Neumark—one of the world's leading experts on doping wide-band semiconductors
• John Ordronaux—Civil War army surgeon, a professor of medical jurisprudence, pioneering mental health commissioner
• Victor Perlo—Economics professor, Soviet spymaster involved in Harold Ware spy ring and Perlo group as shown in Venona list of suspected subversives in the U.S.
• Edmund Phelps—economist and Nobel laureate
• Lorenzo da Ponte—first professor of Italian language and literature at Columbia; librettist to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Charles Lane Poor—Astronomer
• Frank Press—Geophysicist, work in seismic activity and wave theory, counsel to four Presidents. M.A., Ph.D. Columbia, and researcher
• Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin—Professor, Serbian physicist and physical chemist whose inventions include the Pupin coil
• Isidor Isaac Rabi—Professor, Ph.D. from Columbia (1927), Nobel Laureate, Discoverer of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.—Professor (1940–1947) (B.A. 1935, Ph.D. 1940, Columbia); 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics, IEEE Medal of Honor, Discovery of deuteron electric quadrupole moment, molecular beam spectroscopy
• Michael Riffaterre—University Professor, French & Romance Philology, Semiotician
• Mary Robinson—7th President of Ireland, Professor of Practice in International Affairs
• Jeffrey Sachs—Head of the United Nations Millennium Project to end poverty, author of The End of Poverty.
• Edward Said—University Professor, professor of English and Comparative Literature, Palestinian activist, author of Orientalism, widely considered founder of Postcolonial studies
• Mario Salvadori—Architect, Structural Engineer, Professor (1940's-1990's), consultant on Manhattan Project, inventor of thin concrete shells
• Andrew Sarris—Film Studies professor and auteur theorist
• Simon Schama—History Professor
• James Schamus—Film Studies professor, co-president of Focus Features, three time Academy Award nominated and BAFTA Award-winning film screenwriter and producer
• Judge Sonia Sotomayor—Lecturer-in-Law, Columbia Law School (1999-); nominated by President Barack Obama, on May 26, 2009, to be a Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak—English professor
• Henry Spotnitz—Affiliate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Clifford Stein—Professor of operations research and industrial engineering
• Julian Steward—Anthropologist, authority of Cultural ecology
• Joseph Stiglitz—Economics professor, 2001 Nobel laureate in Economics
• Gilbert Stork—winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1995/6
• Horst Ludwig Störmer—I.I. Rabi professor of physics and applied physics, winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Mark Strand—Poet, former U.S. Poet Laureate, Bollingen and Pulitzer Prize-winner
• Man-Chung Tang—professor of civil engineering and former chairman of American Society of Civil Engineers
• Robert Thurman—Je Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, first American Tibetan Buddhist monk, father of actress Uma Thurman
• Charles Tilly—Professor of Sociology
• Charles Hard Townes—professor and an American Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped to invent the laser
• Joseph F. Traub—Founding chairman of the computer science department at Columbia
• Lionel Trilling—Literary scholar
• Harold Clayton Urey—Professor, Nobel Laureate (1934), extensive development in the Manhattan Project, discoverer of Deuterium
• Charles Van Doren—English professor whose national disgrace was the subject of the Oscar-nominated film Quiz Show
• Mark Van Doren—Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
• Vladimir Vapnik—Professor of Computer Science and co-developer of Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory
• Kenneth Waltz—Political Science professor and noted neorealism scribe
• Duncan Watts—Professor of Sociology and author of "Six Degrees" and "Small Worlds"
• Sheldon Weinig—Professor of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering and founder of Materials Research Corporation
• Nancy Wexler—Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology
• Harrison White—Professor of Sociology
• Enos Wicher—Professor and Soviet spy named in Venona list of suspected subversives in the U.S., stepfather of State Department Soviet spy Flora Wovschin
• Peter Woit—Mathematics professor, skeptic of string theory
• Chien-Shiung Wu—Physics professor, first woman to head the American Physical Society and the winner of the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1978
• Mihalis Yannakakis—Professor of Computer Science, scholar noted for his work in the fields of Computational complexity theory, Databases
• Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi—Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History at Culture and Society
• Shou-Wu Zhang, Mathematics professor; specializes in number theory and arithmetical algebraic geometry; winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009 and Fields Medal finalist
• Theodore Zoli—adjunct professor of civil engineering and structural engineer