List of University of Michigan Faculty and Staff - Notable Faculty: Past and Present

Notable Faculty: Past and Present

• Madeleine K. Albright, visiting scholar. Albright served as United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001 and at the time was the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. From 1993 to 1997, Albright was the United States' Permanent Representative to the United Nations and a member of President Clinton's Cabinet and National Security Council.
• W. H. Auden, poet
• Charles Baxter, former director of the MFA program in creative writing; novelist, poet, and essayist; author of 2000 National Book Award finalist The Feast of Love.
• Ruth Behar (born Havana, Cuba, 1956) is a Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, poet, and writer who teaches at the University of Michigan. MacArthur Foundation award winner.
• R. Stephen Berry (born 1931 in Denver, Colorado) is a U.S. professor of physical chemistry. MacArthur Foundation award winner. He is the James Franck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago and Special Advisor to the Director for National Security, at Argonne National Laboratory. He joined the Chicago faculty in 1964, having been an Assistant Professor at Yale University and, between 1957 and 1960, an Instructor at the University of Michigan.
• William Bolcom, composer. In 2006 he was awarded four Grammy Awards for his composition "Songs of Innocence and Experience": Best Classical Album, Best Choral Performance, Best Classical Contemporary Composition and Producer of the Year, Classical.
• Kenneth Boulding, noted economist and faculty member 1949–1967
• Richard Brauer Accepted a position at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1948. In 1949 Brauer was awarded the Cole Prize from the American Mathematical Society for his paper "On Artin's L-series with general group characters".
• Mark Burns, Carlos Mastrangelo, and David Burke invented a DNA analysis "lab on a microchip."
• Evan H. Caminker: Dean of Law School
• Anne Carson (born Toronto, Ontario June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, and translator, as well as a professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan.MacArthur Foundation award winner.
• Carl Cohen, notable for using Michigan Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 1996 to identify U-M's policy of racial categorization in admissions, leading to the Grutter and Gratz v. Bollinger lawsuits. Professor of Philosophy specializing in ethics for 50 years as of 2006, civil rights activist, proponent and founder of Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, and author of books on affirmative action and animal rights issues.
• Wilbur Joseph Cohen (June 10, 1913, Milwaukee, Wisconsin – May 17, 1987, Seoul, South Korea) was an American social scientist and federal civil servant. He was one of the key architects in the creation and expansion of the American welfare state and was involved in the creation of both the New Deal and Great Society programs.
• Juan Cole, notable for his weblog "Informed Comment", covering events in the Middle East
• Christopher Chetsanga, (full professor 1979), discovered two enzymes that repair DNA after x-irradiation. Pro Vice Chancellor 1991–1992 and acting Vice Chancellor 1992–1993 University of Zimbabwe.
• Arthur Copeland, mathematician
• Brian Coppola, professor of chemistry, who was recognized as a 2009 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
• Michael Daugherty (born April 28, 1954) is an American composer, pianist, and teacher. Michael Daugherty went home with three awards from the 2011 Grammys. His “Metropolis Symphony,” inspired by the Superman comics, won for best classical contemporary composition, best orchestral performance (along with the composer’s “Deus ex Machina,” performed by the Nashville Symphony) and best engineering.
• Michael Duff gained his PhD in theoretical physics in 1972 at Imperial College, London, under Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam. In September 1999 he moved to the University of Michigan, where he is Oskar Klein Professor of Physics. In 2001, he was elected first Director of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics and was re-elected in 2004. He has since become the Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences at Imperial College London in Spring 2005.
• Francis Collins led the Human Genome Project and is the current Director of the National Institutes of Health.
• Horace W. Davenport a gastric physiologist whose research explained how the stomach is able to digest food, but not itself. Davenport is also was the author of three best selling textbooks, and a former president of the American Physiological Society.
• John Dewey, co-founder of pragmatism. During his time at Michigan, Dewey twice won the all-campus euchre tournament.
• Igor Dolgachev, mathematician
• Sidney Fine (historian) and longest serving faculty member. Chief biographer of Frank Murphy.
• William Frankena, moral philosopher; Department of Philosophy 1937–78, Chair 1947–61; "renowned for his learning in the history of ethics"; "played an especially critical role in defense of fundamental academic freedoms during the McCarthy era."
• Erich Fromm, psychologist
• Robert Frost Michigan Poet-in-Residence.
• Alice Fulton, United States poet, author, and feminist.She received her undergraduate degree in creative writing in 1976 from Empire State College and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Cornell University in 1982. In 1991, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship for her poetry. She taught creative writing at University of Michigan from 1983 to 2001.
• Susan Gelman, psychologist
• Herman Heine Goldstine, a mathematician, a winner of the National Medal of Science, worked on the ENIAC, as the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was code named. Taught at the University of Michigan but left when war broke out to become a ballistics officer in the Army.
• Samuel Goudsmit also known as Samuel Abraham Goudsmit. Was a Professor at the University of Michigan between 1927–1946. Conceived – with George Uhlenback – the idea of Quantum Spin. During WWII he performed research at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, but most importantly served as the chief of the ALSOS group for the Manhattan Project, charged with assessing the German ability to build an atomic bomb.
• Edward Gramlich, Professor of Economics and Member, Federal Reserve Board
• Linda Gregerson is the Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor at University of Michigan. Among her collections of poetry are ‘’Waterborne" (2002)’’, ‘’The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep’’ (1996) and ‘’Fire in the Conservatory’’ (1982). She has won many awards and fellowships, among them Guggenheim, Mellon and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Isabel MacCaffrey Award.
• Robert L. Griess is a mathematician working on finite simple groups. He constructed the monster group using the Griess algebra.
• William Donald "Bill" Hamilton, F.R.S. (August 1, 1936 — 7 March 2000) was a British evolutionary biologist, considered one of the greatest evolutionary theorists of the 20th century. Worked with Robert Axelrod on the Prisoner's Dilemma.
• Donald Hall, English Professor and current (as of October 2006) poet laureate of the USA.
• Thomas Hales solved a nearly 4-century-old problem called the Kepler conjecture. Hales is now at the University of Pittsburgh.
• Paul Halmos, mathematician specializing in functional analysis.
• Eric J. Hill, Professor of Practice in Architecture.
• Melvin Hochster, commutative algebraist. Among his many honors, received the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra in 1980; received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982. In 1992, he was elected to the both the American Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
• Andrew Hoffman, an expert in environmental pollution and sustainable enterprise. Professor Hoffman is co-director of the MBA'MS Corporate Environmental Management Program.
• Daniel Hunt Janzen(b. 1939 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) is an evolutionary ecologist, naturalist, and conservationist. Before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania he taught at the University of Kansas (1965–1968), the University of Chicago (1969–72) and at the University of Michigan. MacArthur Foundation award winner.
• Gerome Kamrowski, worked in New York in the 1930s and early 1940s with such artists as William Baziotes, Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock, and was at the forefront of the development of American Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. His work from this period is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, The Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and other major museums worldwide. Faculty, University of Michigan School of Art 1948–82 (Emeritus)
• Gordon Kane, Victor Weisskopf Collegiate Professor of Physics
• H. David Hume, inventor of the human nephron filter ("HNF"), or the artificial kidney.
• Peter J. Khan, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and as Head of the Microwave Solid-State Circuits Group of the Cooley Electronics Laboratory. Now a member of the Universal House of Justice, the nine-person international elected body which coordinates the activities of the Baha'i Faith throughout the world.
• Chihiro Kikuchi, professor of nuclear engineering, developed in 1957 the ruby maser, a device for amplifying electrical impulses by stimulated emission of radiation
• Oskar Klein assumed a post at the University of Michigan, a post he won through the generosity and intervention of his friend Niels Bohr. His first work in Ann Arbor dealt with the anomalous Zeeman effect.
• Adrienne Koch, historian, specialist in American history of the eighteenth century
• Yoram Koren - James J. Duderstadt University Professor of Manufacturing and Paul G. Goebel Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering, inventor of the Reconfigurable Manufacturing System and Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
• Kenneth Lieberthal, China expert and member of the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration.
• Emmett Leith and Juris Upatnieks (COE: MSE EE 1965) created the first working hologram in 1962
• Catharine MacKinnon, feminist legal theorist.
• Paul McCracken, Economist. Chairmen Emeritus: President's Council of Economic Advisers
• George E. Mendenhall, Professor Emeritus: Department of Near Eastern Studies and author.
• Gerald Meyers, professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business School, former chairman of American Motors Corporation
• William Ian Miller, legal and social theorist; author of The Anatomy of Disgust.
• Hugh L. Montgomery, Number Theorist. In 1975, with Robert Charles Vaughan, showed that "most" even numbers were expressible as the sum of two primes.
• Thylias Moss developed Limited Fork Poetics, is Professor of English and Art & Design, author of Tokyo Butter (2006), Slave Moth (2004), and is a MacArthur Foundation award winner.
• Professor Gérard A. Mourou, Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Ultrafast Optical Science. With students D. Strickland, S. Williamson, P. Maine, and M. Pessot, demonstrated the technique known as Chirped pulse amplification or ("CPA").
• James V. Neel professor of human genetics, in 1940s discovered that defective genes cause sickle cell anemia
• Nicholas Negroponte also known as Nicholas P Negroponte. Founder of MIT’s Media Lab.
• Dirk Obbink, papyrologist, 2001 MacArthur Fellowship winner for his work at both Oxyrhynchus and Herculaneum. Holds appointments at both Oxford University and the University of Michigan
• James Olds neuroscientist, co-discovered the Brain's Pleasure Center.
• Anatol Rapoport, From 1955 to 1970 Rapoport was Professor of Mathematical Biology and Senior Research Mathematician. He is the author of over 300 articles and of Two-Person Game Theory (1999) and N-Person Game Theory (2001), among many other well-known books on fights, games, violence and peace. His autobiography, Certainties and Doubts: A Philosophy of Life, was released in 2001. A founding member, in 1955, of the Mental Health Research Institute (MHRI) at the University of Michigan.
• Arthur Rich, professor of physics, developed in 1988 with research investigator James C. Van House first positron microscope
• Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, Architect
• Jonas Salk, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (deceased)
• Vojislav Šešelj, Serbian political scientist and nationalist leader.
• Anton Shammas, professor of comparative literature and modern Middle Eastern literature; Poet, playwright, essayist, and translator of Arab-Christian descent; acclaimed author of the novel Arabesques.
• Lawrence Sklar, William K. Frankena Collegiate Professor and Professor of Philosophy, Guggenheim fellow 1974. Author of "Space, Time, and Spacetime".
• Andrea Smith Cherokee activist and author
• Elliot Soloway, software teaching tools, founder of GoKnow
• Kannan Soundararajan was awarded the 2004 Salem Prize,joint winner of the 2005 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
• Theodore J. St. Antoine, law school dean and labor arbitrator
• Stephen Timoshenko created the first US bachelor's and doctoral programs in engineering mechanics. His 18 textbooks have been published in 36 languages.
• Amos Tversky Deceased. Behavioral economist and frequent co-author with Daniel Kahneman 2002 Nobel Prize
• A. Galip Ulsoy - C.D. Mote, Jr. Distinguished University Professor and William Clay Ford Professor of Manufacturing in the College of Engineering, co-inventor of the Reconfigurable Manufacturing System, and Deputy Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
• Douglas E. Van Houweling, President and CEO of Internet2
• Raymond Louis Wilder, began teaching at the University of Michigan in 1926, where he remained until his retirement in 1967. Wilder's work focused on set-theoretic topology, manifolds and use of algebraic techniques.
• Milford H. Wolpoff, professor of anthropology and adjunct associate research scientist, UM Museum of Anthropology; recognized globally as the leading proponent of the multiregional hypothesis for human evolution.
• Trevor D. Wooley Department Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan. Salem Prize, 1998. Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1993–1995.