List of New York University faculty

Nobel laureates

• Nobel laureates Daniel Kahneman, Myron Scholes and Robert A. Mundell gave lectures at New York University Tandon School of Engineering as part of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Lynford Lecture Series.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

• Susan C. Antón, professor at the College of Arts and Science
• K. Anthony Appiah, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Rachel E. Barkow, professor at School of Law
• Gérard Ben Arous, professor at Courant
• Thomas Bender, professor emeritus at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Marsha Berger, professor at Courant
• John Brademas, president emeritus
• Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Jeff Cheeger, professor at Courant
• Percy Deift, professor at Courant
• Paul DiMaggio, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• George W. Downs, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Paula England, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Miranda Fricker, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• David W. Garland, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Linda Gordon, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Leslie Greengard, professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering
• Jonathan Haidt, professor at Stern School of Business
• Andrew D. Hamilton, president emeritus, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Russell Hardin, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Stephen Taylor Holmes, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Jennifer Homans, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Michael Hout, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Perri Klass, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Yusef Komunyakaa, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Steven Koonin, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
• Peter Lax, professor at Courant
• Fang-Hua Lin, professor at Courant
• Beatrice Longuenesse, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Rudolph Marcus, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
• James McBride, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Henry McKean, professor at Courant
• Cathleen Morawetz, professor at Courant
• Trevor Morrison, professor at School of Law
• Samuel Morse, professor at Tandon School of Engineering, Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Fred Moten, professor at Tisch School
• Charles Newman, professor at Courant
• Louis Nirenberg, professor at Courant
• Charles Peskin, professor at Courant
• Adam Przeworski, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Claudia Rankine, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Debraj Ray, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Renato Rosaldo, professor emeritus at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Eero Simoncelli, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• K. R. Sreenivasan, professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering, Graduate School of Arts and Science
• David Stasavage, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Thomas J. Sugrue, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Jeremy Waldron, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Barbara Weinstein, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Deborah Willis, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science and Tisch School
• Margaret Wright, professor at Courant
• Lai-Sang Young, professor at Courant

MacArthur Fellows

Rhodes Scholars

• Peter Blair Henry, professor at Stern School of Business
• John Brademas, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
• Sujit Choudhry, professor at School of Law. He also served as the Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, and as Associate Dean of the University of Toronto
• James McNaughton Hester, former professor and Dean of both undergraduate and graduate schools of arts and science at NYU. He became 11th President of NYU.

Abel Prize recipients

• Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, professor at Courant
• Peter Lax, professor at Courant
• Louis Nirenberg, professor at Courant
• S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan, professor at Courant

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Gallatin School of Individualized Study

• Sinan Antoon, Iraqi Novelist and Poet
• Taylor Antrim, Novelist and Journalist
• Mitchell Joachim, Sustainable Design, TED Senior Fellow
• Myles Jackson, Historian of Science and Technology
• John Sexton, President of NYU teaches the seminar "Baseball as a Road to God"
• E. Frances White, former Dean, historian of Africa, African American Studies
• Frank Leon Roberts, writer, commentator, activist

School of Law

• Alberto Alemanno
• William Allen
• Philip Alston
• Anthony Amsterdam
• Kwame Anthony Appiah
• Deborah Archer
• Rachel Barkow
• Robert Bauer
• Dorit Beinisch
• Jerome A. Cohen
• Lawrence Collins
• Richard Epstein
• Cynthia Estlund
• Samuel Estreicher
• Tali Farhadian
• Barry Friedman
• David W. Garland
• Stephen Gillers
• Douglas H. Ginsburg
• Stephen Holmes
• Samuel Issacharoff
• Sally Katzen
• Benedict Kingsbury
• John Koeltl
• Theodor Meron
• Arthur R. Miller
• Trevor Morrison
• Melissa Erica Murray
• Thomas Nagel
• Burt Neuborne
• Richard Pildes
• Richard Revesz
• Samuel Scheffler
• John Sexton
• Catherine Sharkey
• Linda J. Silberman
• Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Bryan Stevenson
• Jeremy Waldron
• Joseph H. H. Weiler
• Joan Wexler, dean and president of Brooklyn Law School
• Katrina Wyman
• Kenji Yoshino

Silver School of Social Work

• James Jaccard, Professor of Social Work

NYU Abu Dhabi

NYU Shanghai

• Chen Jian (academic), visiting professor from Cornell University, Chinese history and international relations
• Jeffrey Lehman, former president of Cornell, Dean of University of Michigan law school
• Joanna Waley-Cohen, former head of the NYU New York History department
• Eitan Zemel, associate Chancellor for Strategy and Dean of Business
• Lin Fanghua, associate Provost for the Quantitative Disciplines, also Silver Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
• Yu Lizhong, former president of East China Normal University

Professor emeriti and other notable faculty

• Michel Sebastiani, Olympic fencing coach and member of the US Fencing Association Hall of Fame, his NYU women's team won the 1971 National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association championship.

New York University Presidents

New York University founders

• Morgan Lewis (governor)
• Albert Gallatin