List of Brown University faculty

Nobel laureates

• Leon Neil Cooper, Nobel laureate, father of superconductivity, and developer of the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity in neuroscience; Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Physics
• Peter Howitt, Nobel Laureate, co-originator of the Schumpeterian Paradigm with Philippe Aghion, Professor Emeritus of Economics
• John M. Kosterlitz, Nobel laureate, for the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition ; Harrison E. Farnsworth Professor of Physics
• Lars Onsager, Nobel laureate, for discovering Onsager reciprocal relations, Research Instructor in Chemistry
• Vernon L. Smith, Nobel laureate, for developing empirical and scientific methods into economic research; Professor of Economics
• George Snell, Nobel laureate, for discovering the genetic bases of immunological reactions; Instructor in Biology
• George Stigler, Nobel laureate, on the influence of government regulation on the economy; ''Professor of Economics''

  MacArthur Fellows

• Susan E. Alcock – Professor of Classics, Director of the Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World; MacArthur Fellow
• Shirley Brice Heath – Professor-at-Large; MacArthur Fellow
• Mari Jo Buhle – Professor Emerita of American Studies; MacArthur Fellow
• Benedict Gross – Associate Professor of Mathematics ; MacArthur Fellow
• John Imbrie – Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences; MacArthur Fellow
• Ieva Jusionyte – Watson Family University Professor of International Security and Anthropology; MacArthur Fellow
• Jacqueline Jones – Clare Boothe Luce Visiting Professor ; MacArthur Fellow
• Stephen Houston – Dupee Family Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology; MacArthur Fellow
• Robert Kates – University Professor Emeritus; MacArthur Fellow
• John Keene – Visiting Assistant Professor ; MacArthur Fellow
• Ibram X. Kendi – Visiting Scholar and Visiting ''Assistant Professor of Africana Studies ; MacArthur Fellow
• Deborah Meier – Senior Fellow, Annenberg Institute; MacArthur Fellow
• David Mumford – Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, recipient of the Fields Medal, MacArthur Fellow
• David Pingree – University Professor and Professor of the History of Mathematics and of Classics, MacArthur Fellow
• Gregory Schopen – Rush C. Hawkins Professor of Religious Studies, MacArthur Fellow
• Jesse Shapiro – George S. and Nancy B. Parker Professor of Economics ;'' MacArthur Fellow
• John Edgar Wideman – Asa Messer Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies and Literary Arts; MacArthur Fellow
• C. D. Wright – Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English; MacArthur Fellow

  Pulitzer Prize recipients

• Bernard Bailyn – Charles K. Colver Lecturer ; recipient of the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for History and 1987 Pulitzer Prize for History; recipient of the 2010 National Humanities Medal
• Richard Eberhart – Phi Beta Kappa Poet ; recipient of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• Forrest Gander – Professor of English and Comparative Literature; recipient of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Be With
• David Kertzer – Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science; recipient of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, The Pope and Mussolini
• Philip Levine – Visiting Writer ; recipient of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, The Simple Truth
• Amy Lowell – Marshall Woods Lecturer ; recipient of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, What's O'Clock
• Paula Vogel – Adele Kellenberg Seaver ’49 Professor of Creative Writing ; recipient of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, How I Learned to Drive
• Gordon S. Wood – Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History; recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History, ''The Radicalism of the American Revolution''

  Applied sciences

• Linda Abriola – Joan Wernig and E. Paul Sorensen Professor of Engineering
• Vicki Colvin – Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry and Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering
• Tejal A. Desai – Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering
• Alan Needleman – Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures
• Arto Nurmikko – L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Engineering
• Michael Ortiz – Professor of Engineering
• Christopher Rose – Professor of Engineering
• Subra Suresh – Professor of Engineering ; current President of Nanyang Technological University, former President of Carnegie Mellon University and former Director of the NSF
• Rob B. Phillips – ''Professor of Engineering''

  Humanities

• Amanda Anderson – Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities
• Shadi Bartsch –W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics
• Shahzad Bashir – Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities
• Shaye J. D. Cohen – Samuel Ungerleider Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies
• Rey Chow – Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities
• Peter van Dommelen – Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World and Anthropology
• Beshara Doumani – Mahmoud Darwish Professor of Palestinian Studies, President of Birzeit University
• David Estlund – Lombardo Family Professor of the Humanities
• James L. Fitzgerald – St. Purander Das Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classics
• Carlos Fuentes – Professor-at-Large in the Department of Hispanic Studies; widely considered the most influential author of the Spanish-speaking world since Jorge Luis Borges
• Leela Gandhi – John Hawkes Professor of the Humanities and English
• Dwight B. Heath – Research Professor of Anthropology; foremost anthropological researcher and scholar in field of alcohol studies
• Stephen Houston – Dupee Family Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology
• Adrienne Keene – Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor of American Studies; Native American academic and activist
• David Konstan – John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classics and of Comparative Literature
• Hans Kurath – Professor of Germanics and Linguistics ; known for publishing the first linguistic atlas of the US Linguistic Atlas of New England, recipient of the Loubat Prize
• Jacob Neusner – Professor of Judaic Studies
• Adi Ophir – Mellon Visiting Professor of Humanities and Middle East Studies
• Dom Illtyd Trethowan – Visiting Professor in Theology
• Peter van Dommelen – ''Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology''

  Africana studies

• Chinua Achebe – David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies, Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic; author of Things Fall Apart, the most widely read book in modern African literature
• Ama Ata Aidoo – Visiting Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts ''; Ghanaian novelist and playwright, one of Africa's best-known female writers
• George Houston Bass – Professor of Theater Arts and Afro-American Studies
• Keisha N. Blain – Professor of Africana Studies and of History
• B. Anthony Bogues – Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Professor of Africana Studies, Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Professor of History of Art and Architecture
• Michael Eric Dyson – Assistant Professor of American Civilization and Afro-American Studies
• Lewis Gordon – Professor of Africana Studies
• Matthew Pratt Guterl – Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies
• Wyclef Jean – Visiting Fellow in Africana Studies
• Ibram X. Kendi – Visiting Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
• Adrienne Kennedy – Visiting Associate Professor
• George Lamming – Visiting Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts; Barbadian author, In the Castle of My Skin, Natives of My Person
• Judy Richardson – Distinguished Visiting Lecturer of Africana Studies
• Noliwe Rooks – L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Africana Studies
• Tricia Rose – Chancellor's Professor of Africana Studies, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
• Greg Tate – Visiting Professor of Africana Studies
• John Edgar Wideman – Asa Messer Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies and Literary Arts''; two-time PEN/Faulkner Award winner

  English and Literary Arts

• Robert Coover – T.B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts
• Robert Creeley – Professor of English; poet associated with the Black Mountain poets
• Brian Evenson – Professor of Literary Arts
• Forrest Gander – Professor of English and Comparative Literature; recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
• Michael S. Harper – Professor of English; first Poet Laureate of the State of Rhode Island
• John Hawkes – Professor of English ; author, The Blood Oranges, Second Skin
• Edwin Honig – Professor of English and Comparative Literature
• Michael Ondaatje – Visiting Professor
• Elizabeth Rush – Assistant Professor of the Practice, Nonfiction Writing Program; Pulitzer Prize nominee
• Barbara Herrnstein Smith – Distinguished Professor of English
• Paula Vogel – Adele Kellenberg Seaver ’49 Professor of Creative Writing ; Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright
• Rosmarie Waldrop – Visiting Scholar of Literary Arts
• C. D. Wright – Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English; MacArthur Fellow
• Arnold Weinstein – ''Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature''