List of University of Chicago Alumni - Social Sciences

Social Sciences

• Janet L. Abu-Lughod (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1950) - Professor Emerita of Sociology at the New School for Social Research.
• Guillermo Algaze (A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1986) - MacArthur Fellow (2003); Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego.
• Anne Allison (A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1986) - Robert O. Keohane Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University.
• Elijah Anderson (A.M. 1972) - William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Yale University.
• Arjun Appadurai (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1976) - Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University.
• Robert Axelrod (A.B. 1964) - MacArthur Fellow (1990); Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
• Howard S. Becker (Ph.B. 1946, A.M. 1949, Ph.D. 1951) - Former Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
• Walter Berns (A.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1953) - National Humanities Medal (2005); John M. Olin University Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University.
• Lorenzo Bini Smaghi (Ph.D. 1988) - Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank; economist.
• Michael Burawoy (Ph.D. 1976) - Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.
• Lynton K. Caldwell (A.B. 1934, Ph.D. 1943) - Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington
• Gregory Chow (A.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1955) - Professor of Economics, Emeritus, and Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, at Princeton University.
• Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (A.B. 1960, Ph.D. 1965) - C.S. and D.J. Davidson Professor of Psychology and Management, Claremont Graduate University; pioneer of the concept of flow.
• Nicholas de Genova (A.B. 1982, Ph.D. 1989) - Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University.
• Claudia Goldin (Ph.D. 1972) - Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University
• Eugene Fama (Ph.D. 1964) - Father of efficient market theory. Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago.
• Alexander L. George (A.M. 1941, Ph.D. 1958) - MacArthur Fellow (1983); Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations, Emeritus, Stanford University; pioneering scholar in political psychology and foreign policy.
• Erving Goffman (A.M. 1949, Ph.D. 1953) - Former Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania.
• Zvi Griliches (A.M. 1955, Ph.D. 1957) - John Bates Clark Medalist (1965); economist.
• Sanford J. Grossman (A.B. 1973, A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1975) - John Bates Clark Medalist (1987); economist.
• Charles V. Hamilton (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1964) - Civil rights leader and Professor in Political Science, Columbia University.
• Edward C. Hayes (Ph.D. 1902) - President of the American Sociological Association.
• Susanna Hecht (A.B. 1972) - Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA; a founder of "Political Ecology" approach to forestry; Guggenheim Fellow (2008).
• Ukshin Hoti (1943-1999?) professor of international law at the University of Pristina
• Samuel P. Huntington (A.M. 1948) - Albert J. Weatherhead Professor of Government at Harvard University; author of The Clash of Civilizations (1998).
• Robert Kates (A.M. 1960, Ph.D. 1962) - MacArthur Fellow (1981); Professor Emeritus of Geography and Director Emeritus of the World Hunger Program at Brown University.
• V. O. Key, Jr. (Ph.D. 1934) - taught at UCLA, Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Alfred Cowles Professor of Government at Yale University, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government at Harvard University
• Bruce M. King (Ph.D. 1978) -- psychologist and professor at Clemson University
• Frederick B. Lindstrom (Ph.D. 1950) --sociologist and historian of the Chicago School of sociology
• Antonio Martino (Ph.D. 1968) - Professor of Economics at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, former Italian Ministry of Defense
• Adeline Masquelier (Ph.D 1993) - Cultural Anthropologist at Tulane University
• Tracey Meares (J.D. 1991) - Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law, Yale Law School; first African-American women hired at Yale's law school; authority on race, crime, and law based on empirical research.
• Richard Thacker Morris (Ph.D) - Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Los Angeles
• John V. Murra (A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1956); anthropologist and researcher of the Inca Empire.
• Kevin M. Murphy (Ph.D. 1986) - John Bates Clark Medalist (1997); George J. Stigler Professor of Economics, University of Chicago.
• Marc Leon Nerlove (A.B. 1952) - John Bates Clark Medalist (1969); economist.
• Esther Newton (A.M. 1964, Ph.D. 1968) - Kempner Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology at SUNY; pioneer in gender and sexuality studies; author of Mother Camp.
• Harold L. Nieburg (Ph.B. 1947, A.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1960) - Professor of Political Science at SUNY; author of In the Name of Science.
• Anne Norton (A.B. 1977, A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1982) - Alfred L. Cass Term Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania; author of Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire (2004).
• Sherry Ortner (A.M. 1966, Ph.D. 1970) - MacArthur Fellow (1990); Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Paul Rabinow (A.B. 1965, A.M. 1967, Ph.D. 1970) - Robert H. Lowie Distinguished Chair in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
• James M. Redfield (A.B. 1954, Ph.D. 1961) - Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (1976–present).
• Philip Rieff (A.B. 1946, A.M. 1947, Ph.D. 1954) - Benjamin Franklin Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania; author of Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959); noted sociologist.
• Philip Carl Salzman (Ph.D. 1972) - Professor of Anthropology, McGill University.
• Paul Samuelson (A.B. 1935) - Institute Professor, MIT. Bank of Sweden Prize in Econonomics in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1970.
• Ritch Savin-Williams (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1977) - Professor of developmental psychology at Cornell University; prolific sexual orientation researcher.
• Richard Sennett (A.B. 1964) - Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, Bemis Adjunct Professor of Sociology at MIT, and Professor of Humanities at New York University.
• Orin Starn (A.B. 1982) - Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University.
• Edwin Sutherland (Ph.D. 1913) - Former Professor of Sociology at Indiana University.
• Robert Thompson (A.B. 1981) - Director of Syracuse University's Center for the Study of Popular Television.
• Jonathan Turley (A.B. 1983) - professor of law at The George Washington University Law School.
• Sudhir Venkatesh (A.M. 1992, Ph.D. 1997) - William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology, Columbia University.
• Loïc Wacquant (A.M. 1986, Ph.D. 1994) - MacArthur Fellow (1997); Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.
• John B. Watson (Ph.D. 1903) - established behaviorism and pioneered rat-in-maze laboratory research.
• James Q. Wilson (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1959) - Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (2003).
• Michael Woodford (A.B. 1977) - MacArthur Fellow (1981); Professor of Economics, Princeton University.
• Henry Tutwiler Wright (A.M. 1965, Ph.D. 1967) - MacArthur Fellow (1983); Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Archaeology, University of Michigan.
• Charles Miller Leslie (M.A., Ph.D. in Anthropology)- Notable Anthropologist in Medical Anthropology.