Social Sciences
- Arjun Appadurai (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1976) – Former Professor of Anthropology.
- Gary Becker (A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) – University Professor in Economics, Graduate School of Business, and Sociology.
- Donald Bogue (A.M., Ph.D.)- Current professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.
- Dipesh Chakrabarty – Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History and South Asian Languages & Civilizations.
- Ronald Coase – Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics, The Law School.
- Karin Knorr-Cetina – George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Sociology.
- Constantin Fasolt – Professor of Early Modern European History.
- Robert Fogel – Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions.
- John Hope Franklin – John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in History.
- Milton Friedman – Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Economics.
- Susan Gal – Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics; a leading scholar in studies of Eastern Europe, linguistic anthropology, and gender.
- Clifford Geertz – Professor of Anthropology (1960–1970).
- Chauncy Harris – Pioneering geographer at the University of Chicago in the first department of geography in the United States.
- Friedrich Hayek – Former Professor in the Committee on Social Thought.
- James Heckman – Winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2000.
- Morton A. Kaplan – Professor of Political Science
- Lawrence Kohlberg (A.B. 1949, Ph.D. 1958) – Professor in the Committee on Human Development (1962–1968).
- Maynard C. Krueger Socialist Vice-Presidential Candidate and Professor of Economics 1933? – ??
- Harold Lasswell – One of the most influential political scientists of the 20th century.
- Steven Levitt – Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics.
- Mark Lilla – Professor in the Committee on Social Thought (1999–2007).
- John A. List economist, pioneer in the field of experimental economics
- Robert Lucas Jr. (A.B. 1959, Ph.D. 1964) – John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor in Economics.
- Raven I. McDavid, Jr., linguist, dialectologist
- John Mearsheimer – R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science.
- Charles Edward Merriam – Founder of the behavioral approach to political science.
- Merton H. Miller – Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Business.
- Hans Morgenthau – One of the most important International Relations theorists; his seminal book Politics Among Nations defined the International Relations field.
- Robert Pape (Ph.D. 1988) – Professor of Political Science.
- Robert E. Park – Professor of Sociology (1914–1936).
- Alfred Radcliffe-Brown – Professor of Anthropology (1931–1937); developed theory of Structural Functionalism.
- Robert Redfield – Professor of Anthropology (1927–1958).
- Marshall Sahlins – Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology.
- Edward Sapir – Creator of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, Sapir is arguably the most influential figure in American linguistics.
- Saskia Sassen – Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology (1998–2007).
- David M. Schneider – Professor of Anthropology (1960–1986).
- Theda Skocpol – Former Professor of Sociology (1981–1986). Now Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard.
- George Stigler – Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and Graduate School of Business.
- William I. Thomas (Ph.D. 1896) – Professor of Sociology (1896–1918).
- Victor Turner – Former Professor in the Committee on Social Thought.
- Thorstein Veblen – Professor of Political Economy (1892–1906).
- Stephen Walt – Former Professor (1989–1999) and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences (1996–1999). Dean of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government after tenure at the University of Chicago.
- William Julius Wilson – Lucy Flower University Professor of Sociology (1972–1996).
- Albert Wohlstetter – Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom. Influenced prominent neoconservatives, including Paul Wolfowitz. Prominent theorist of the Cold War.
- Frederic Thrasher – Notable sociologist and prominent member of the Chicago School of Sociology
- Iris Marion Young – Former Professor of Political Science
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