List of Hofstra University Faculty

This is a list of Hofstra University faculty of both the past and present.

• Dr. James A. Berger, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow for American Literature
• Dr. Meena Bose, holder of the Peter S. Kalikow Chair for Presidential Studies
• Dr. Frank Bowe, Schloss Distinguished Professor
• Aline Crenshaw Desbonnet, French Professor
• Herbert A. Deutsch, composer, Director of Sales and Marketing for Moog Music, Inc. His interest in electronic music led him to collaborate in 1964 with Robert A. Moog on the development of the first Moog Synthesizer (Hofstra Alum)
• Dr. Simon R. Doubleday, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in Medieval History, editor of Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies
• Dr. Carolyn Dudek, Fulbright Scholar
• Silvia Federici, Autonomist Marxist-feminist
• Monroe Freedman, Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics. Former HLS Dean 1973-77 Author of "Lawyer's Ethics in an Adversarial System" (1975)the seminal work on Lawyer-client privilege.
• Sleiman R. Ghorayeb, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Electrical Engineering, Director of Research and Development
• Dr. Gary Gruber, Ph.D., professor, author, testing expert, physicist, educator
• Oscar Hijuelos, best selling author, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Dr. Laurie Johnson, Fulbright Scholar
• Dr. Sharryn Kasmir, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow for Anthropology.
• John Louis Kern, Fulbright Scholar
• David Jung-Kuang Chiu, Former Professor, Dean of University Advisement and Director of Asian Studies
• Dr. Robert A. Leonard, Ph.D, Linguistics. Fulbright fellow. Noted linguist of Swahili; one of four main translators in the United States. Co-Founder and one time lead singer of the sixties group Sha Na Na.
• Dr. Paul Levinson, author of The Plot to Save Socrates, media commentator on The O'Reilly Factor and other TV and radio
• Harvey J. Levin, former University Research Professor, first holder of Augustus B. Weller Chair in Economics at Hofstra, founder of Hofstra's Public Policy Workshop; internationally recognized pioneer, author and government consultant in communications economics, honored by Hofstra Archives' Harvey J. Levin Collection.
• Phillip Lopate, essayist and film critic.
• Rustin Carey McIntosh, Fulbright Scholar
• Martha McPhee, novelist nominated for the National Book Award
• Dr. Lisa Merrill, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow for Theater History and Criticism
• Etheleen Renee Shipp, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
• Grant Saff, Ph.D, Professor and Chair of Global Studies and Geography. Elected as a Regional Councilor of the Association of American Geographers, 2012-15.
• Robert Sobel, professor and author

• Stuart Rabinowitz, J.D., President, Andrew M. Boas and Mark Claster Distinguished Professor of Law
• Herman A. Berliner, Ph.D, Provost, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of Faculties, Lawrence Herbert Distinguished Professor
• M. Patricia Adamski, J.D., Senior Vice President for Planning and Administration, Adolph J. and Dorothy R. Eckhardt Distinguished Professor of Corporate Law
• Richard V. Guardino Jr., J.D., Vice President for Business Development, Executive Dean of the Wilber F. Breslin Center for Real Estate Studies
• Sina Y. Rabbany, Ph.D., Nerken Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Director of Bioengineering
• Liora P Schmelkin, Ph.D., Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Dean of Graduate Studies, Leo A. Guthart Distinguished Professor
• Bernard J. Firestone, Ph.D., Dean of the Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (HCLAS), Professor of Political Science
• Salvatore F. Sodano, BS, M.B.A., Dean of the Frank G. Zarb School of Business
• Charles Merguerian, Ph.D., Geology Department Contributor to Regional Geology investigations, NYC Water Tunnel Project Contributor (see New York City Water Tunnel No. 3)