List of Vanderbilt University People - Notable Faculty

Notable Faculty

• Virginia Abernethy, Professor emerita of psychiatry and anthropology, noted population expert and immigration reduction advocate
• Camilla Benbow, Dean of Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, noted scholar on education of gifted youth
• George Arthur Buttrick, Christian scholar.
• Kenneth C. Catania, neurobiologist, MacArthur Fellows Program award winner
• Stanley Cohen, biochemist, discoverer of cellular growth factors, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Alain Connes, mathematician, Fields Medal Winner (1982)
• Max Delbruck, pioneering molecular biologist, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Arthur Demarest, Ingram Professor of Anthropology, Mesoamerican scholar
• Tony Earley, Noted American novelist
• Charlotte Froese Fischer, prominent chemist and mathematician responsible for the development of the multi-configurational self-consistent field of computational chemistry
• Jim Foglesong, Member of the Country Music Hall of Fame
• Harold Ford, Jr., Former U.S. Congressman, candidate for Senate
• Bill Frist, Majority Leader (2002–2007), U.S. Senate (1995–2007), former transplant surgeon
• Ellen Goldring, education scholar
• Ernest William Goodpasture, pioneering virologist, invented the method of growing viruses in fertile chickens' eggs.
• F. Peter Guengerich, Director of the Center in Molecular Toxicology
• Elijah Embree Hoss, Chair of Ecclesiastical History, Church Polity and Pastoral Theology (1885–90), later a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
• Bill Ivey, Director of the National Endowment for the Arts during the Clinton Administration, director of the Curb Center at Vanderbilt
• Mark Jarman, American poet and critic often identified with the New Narrative branch of New Formalism
• John Lachs, noted philosopher and pragmatist
• David Lubinski, psychology professor known for his work in applied research, psychometrics, and individual differences
• Richard C. McCarty, professor of psychology and provost of Vanderbilt University
• Roy Neel, Campaign Manager for Howard Dean, Deputy Chief of Staff for Bill Clinton and Chief of Staff for Al Gore
• Michael Alec Rose, Composer, author, and Professor of Music Composition at the Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music
• Julia Sears, mathematician, pioneering feminist
• Margaret Rhea Seddon, astronaut
• Ronald Spores, archaeologist, ethnohistorian and Mesoamerican scholar
• Hans Stoll, Research revolutionized the field of financial derivatives and market microstructure.
• Earl Sutherland, physiologist, discoverer of hormonal second messengers, winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Douglas C. Schmidt, well-known computer scientist
• Carol Miller Swain, professor of Political Science and Law