List of York University People - Noted Faculty

Noted Faculty

• Irving Abella, history
• William Phillips, Professor of Economics, notable for his contribution in Economics with the Phillips Curve
• Louise Arbour, Professor of Law, currently UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Harry Arthurs, law and former President of York University
• Paul Axelrod, education
• Joel Bakan, law, author of The Corporation
• Richard Wellen, Business and Society
• Shannon Bell, performance philosopher, political scientist, feminist
• Heather Monroe-Blum, currently the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University
• Hédi Bouraoui, French and English literature
• Rob Bowman, ethnomusicology
• Ed Broadbent (1960s) – former leader of the federal New Democratic Party
• Jean-Gabriel Castel – Professor Emeritus of Law
• Jerome Ch'en – Professor Emeritus of History
• G. Ramsay Cook – Professor Emeritus of History
• Neil Leon Rudenstine, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, former president of Harvard University
• Andrea Davis – Professor of Humanities, Latin American Caribbean Studies, History, English
• Christopher Dewdney – author, Professor of English Literature
• Lynne Fernie – film studies
• Stephen Gill – Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
• Barbara Godard – Professor of English and the Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian Literature.
• Jack Granatstein – Professor Emeritus of History
• Leslie Green, Professor, Law, Philosophy, and Social and Political Thought, permanent Chair in Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford
• Christopher D. Green, Professor of Psychology and Philosophy, President-elect of the Society for the History of Psychology (APA Division 26)
• John Greyson – film director
• Peter Hogg – Professor Emeritus of Law, constitutional expert, former Dean of Osgoode
• Michiel Horn – Professor Emeritus of History, University Historian
• Ali Kazimi – filmmaker
• Gabriel Kolko – Professor Emeritus of History
• Paul Laurendeau – Professor, Department of French Studies, linguist and language philosopher
• James Laxer – author, columnist and commentator, Professor of Canadian Politics
• Irving Layton – poet
• Jack Layton – leader of the New Democratic Party
• Lee Lorch – Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, civil rights activist, member of Cuban Academy of Sciences
• Edelgard Mahant, political science
• Patrick J. Monahan – Professor of Law
• Jonathan Nitzan – Professor of Political Economy
• David F. Noble – Historian of Technology
• Michael Ondaatje – author and filmmaker, Professor of English Literature
• Leo Panitch – Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science (Canada Research Chair in Political Economy), editor of the Socialist Register
• Andreas Papandreou – Greek Prime Minister, Economics Professor (1969–1974)
• Sergei M. Plekhanov – Professor of Political Science, member of Soviet Academy of Sciences
• B. W. Powe – Professor of English
• Trichy Sankaran – Indian carnatic percussionist
• John Ridpath – Objectivist philosopher and retired Associate Professor of Economics and Intellectual History
• Paul Roazen – Professor Emeritus of Social and Political Science, founder of meta-psychotherapy
• Anne E. Russon – Professor of Psychology, expert on Orangutan innovation and intelligence
• J.T. Saywell – Professor Emeritus of History
• David N. Stamos – Professor of Philosophy
• Grant Strate – founder of York's Dance department and first resident choreographer of National Ballet of Canada
• Orest Subtelny Professor of History
• Priscilla Uppal – professor of creative writing nominated for Griffin Poetry Prize
• Mary Vaughan – world renowned geneticist
• Ellen Wood – historian and critic of political theory
• Neal Wood – historian
• Robin Wood – Professor Emeritus of Film and Video, famous film critic
• James Alcock – Psychology Professor, author, and noted parapsychology skeptic