List of Tufts University People - Notable Faculty

Notable Faculty

  • Tadatoshi Akiba, mathematics professor (1972–1986), Japanese politician and activist
  • Nalini Ambady, social psychologist, famous for pioneering and coining thin-slicing
  • Jody Azzouni, logician, philosopher of mathematics
  • Lawrence S. Bacow, economist
  • Hugo Adam Bedau, ethicist, editor of Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice (1969) and specialist on the ethical implications of the death penalty
  • Stephen W. Bosworth, Dean of the Fletcher School, currently serving as Secretary of State Clinton's Special Representative for North Korea Policy
  • Jay Cantor, author, screenwriter
  • Lauro Cavazos, former U.S. Secretary of Education and president of Texas Tech University
  • Antonia Chayes, Professor of International Politics and Law, former United States Under Secretary of the Air Force
  • Allan M. Cormack (1924–1998), physicist, Nobel Prize recipient, inventor of the CAT scan
  • Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher, author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Consciousness Explained
  • John J. Donovan, entrepreneur, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (1973–1983)
  • Daniel W. Drezner, Professor of International Politics, regular featured columnist in Foreign Policy Magazine
  • Lee Edelman, English professor, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
  • Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, history professor
  • John Galvin (1995–2000), General and former Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
  • Frank Pierrepont Graves, noted historian of education
  • Margaret Henderson Floyd, art historian and author of Henry Hobson Richardson and other books on architectural history
  • Joseph Igersheimer German, *1879 †1965, ophthalmologist, famous in Turkey
  • Ayesha Jalal, historian of South Asia, MacArthur fellow, Carnegie scholar
  • Ray Jackendoff, linguist, author of Foundations of Language
  • Sheldon Krimsky
  • Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Poet Laureate of the United States 1981-1982
  • Alfred Church Lane, geologist
  • Louis Lasagna, former Dean of the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and Academic Dean of the School of Medicine, known for introducing the modern Hippocratic Oath
  • Philip Levine, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and National Book Award recipient.
  • Franklin M. Loew, former Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine
  • William C. Martel – Associate Professor of International Security Studies
  • William Green Miller, Professor and Associate Dean, United States Ambassador to Ukraine from 1993 to 1998
  • William Moulton Marston, died 1947, taught briefly at Tufts in the 1920s, creator of Wonder Woman
  • Haruki Murakami, Japanese author
  • Adil Najam, international negotiation and diplomacy
  • Vali Nasr, Iranian-American academic and scholar, as well as Associate Chair of Research at the Department of National Security Affairs of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Author of The Shia Revival. Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
  • Raymond S. Nickerson, psychologist and author
  • Martin Sherwin, Walter S. Dickson professor of English and American History, Pulitzer Prize winner for biography on J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Robert Sternberg, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and eminent psychologist, President of the APA
  • John H. Sununu, former Dean of the College of Engineering, conservative U.S. politician
  • Barry Trimmer, professor of Biology, invented (with David Kaplan) the world's first soft bodied robot
  • Alexander Vilenkin, leading theoretical physicist
  • Jonathan Wilson, author
  • Wayne Winterrowd (1941–2010), horticulturist and author known for his lush gardens in Southern Vermont.

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