List of University of Chicago faculty


This list of University of Chicago faculty contains administrators, long-term faculty members, and temporary academic staffs of the University of Chicago. The long-term faculty members consists of tenure/tenure-track and equivalent academic positions, while that of temporary academic staffs consists of lecturers, postdoctoral researchers, visiting professors or scholars, and equivalent academic positions. Summer visitors are also generally excluded from the list since summer terms are not part of formal academic years; the same rule applies to the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies, the extension school of the university.

Graduate Library School (1928–1989)

This school, established with funding from the Carnegie Foundation, so important to the development of U.S. librarianship in the 20th century, was closed in 1989. For details see: Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, 1928–1989.

Literature

Law School

Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (formerly the Oriental Institute)

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Mathematics

History

Classics

  • Danielle Allen – Dean of the Division of Humanities; MacArthur Fellow
  • Clifford Ando – professor of Roman Empire history; author of Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, and The Matter of the Gods ; editor of Roman Religion and co-editor, with Jörg Rüpke, of Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome
  • Shadi Bartsch – professor of gender issues in antiquity and in Roman literature and culture; Quantrell Teaching Award and Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
  • Jonathan M. Hall – professor of Greek history; chair of Classics Department; author of Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity ; APA's Goodwin Award; 2004 Gordon J. Laing Prize; Quantrell Teaching Award; Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service
  • Amy Judith Kass (née Apfel) – professor of classic texts in the College of the University of Chicago
  • James M. Redfield – Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor of Classics
  • Peter White – professor of Roman poetry, comedy and satire and Greco-Roman historiography; Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs; author of Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome; APA's Goodwin Award; Quantrell Teaching Award

Philosophy

  • Hannah Arendt – former professor in the Committee on Social Thought
  • Rudolf Carnap – professor of philosophy; leading member of the Vienna Circle
  • Stanley Cavell – visiting lecturer on philosophy
  • Arnold Davidson – professor of the Philosophy of Religion in the Divinity School; also in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Committee on Historical and Conceptual Studies of Science, and the college
  • Donald Davidson – professor of philosophy
  • John Dewey – former professor of philosophy
  • Burton Dreben – logician, became an instructor in 1955
  • Charles Hartshorne – former professor of philosophy
  • John Haugeland – David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy
  • Anthony Kenny – visiting professor of philosophy
  • Charles Larmore – Chester D. Tripp Professor and the Raymond W. & Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor
  • Jonathan Lear – John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy
  • Jean-Luc Marion – professor of the Philosophy of Religion and Theology in the Divinity School; also in the Department of Philosophy and the Committee on Social Thought
  • George Herbert Mead – former professor of philosophy
  • Martha Nussbaum – Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Divinity School; also in the Law School, the Department of Philosophy, and the college
  • Robert B. Pippin – Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the college
  • Paul Ricoeur – John Nuveen Professor Emeritus in the Divinity School
  • Bertrand Russell – visiting professor of philosophy
  • Howard Stein – philosopher and historian of science
  • Leo Strauss – professor of political philosophy
  • Paul Johannes Tillich – professor of religion
  • James Hayden Tufts – former professor of philosophy

Religion

  • Richard T. Antoun – professor ; professor emeritus of anthropology at Binghamton University; stabbed to death by student in 2009
  • J. A. B. van Buitenen – George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
  • Wendy Doniger – Historian of Religions
  • Mircea Eliade – Sewell Avery Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, best known for his "myth of the Eternal Return" and his book The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
  • Joseph Kitagawa – historian of religions
  • Hans Küng – Catholic priest, theologian, and author
  • Bruce Lincoln – historian of religions
  • Martin Marty – Lutheran religious scholar
  • David Tracy – professor emeritus of theology ; leading figure in theological hermeneutics and proponent of theological pluralism in works such as Plurality and Ambiguity
  • Joachim Wach – historian of religions
  • Christian K. Wedemeyer – associate professor of the history of religions; MacArthur Fellow in 1987

Science

Medicine and health policy

Social sciences

Arts and entertainment