List of University of Michigan faculty and staff

As of fall 2023, the University of Michigan employs 8,189 faculty members, including 44 living members of the National Academy of Sciences, 63 living members of the National Academy of Medicine, 28 living members of the National Academy of Engineering, 98 living members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and 17 living members of the American Philosophical Society.^[1]

Current faculty

A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning

Eric J. Hill, professor of practice in architecture

College of Engineering

Sushil Atreya, Professor of atmospheric and space sciences; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
Ellen Arruda, Maria Comninou Collegiate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Tim Manganello / Borg Warner Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering
Don Chaffin, Richard G. Snyder Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Stephen Forrest, Peter A. Franken Distinguished University Professor of Engineering
Robert D. Gregg, bioengineer
Sharon Glotzer, Stuart W. Churchill Professor of Chemical Engineering. Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics and Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Yoram Koren, James J. Duderstadt University Professor of Manufacturing and Paul G. Goebel Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Ronald G. Larson, George Granger Brown Professor of Chemical Engineering
Emmett Leith, created the first working hologram in 1962
Jason Mars, conversational AI researcher, founder of ClincAI
Joaquim Martins, Pauline M. Sherman Collegiate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering
Panos Papalambros, Donald C. Graham Professor Emeritus of Engineering
Lutgarde Raskin, Altarum/ERIM Russell O’Neal Professor and Vernon L. Snoeyink Distinguished University Professor
Elliott J. Rouse, mechanical engineer, roboticist
Kamal Sarabandi, Rufus S. Teesdale Professor of Engineering, director of Radiation Laboratory, Department of Electrical Entering and Computer Science; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
Nadine Sarter, Richard W. Pew Collegiate Professor Emeritus
Dawn Tilbury, Herrick Professor of Engineering
Leung Tsang, Robert J. Hiller Professor of Engineering
Fawwaz Ulaby, R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
A. Galip Ulsoy, C.D. Mote Jr. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and the William Clay Ford Professor Emeritus of Manufacturing; co-inventor of the Reconfigurable Manufacturing System; deputy director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
Juris Upatnieks, created the first working hologram in 1962

School for Environment and Sustainability

Arun Agrawal, Samuel Trask Dana Professor
Rosina Bierbaum, Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy
Andrew Hoffman, an expert in environmental pollution and sustainable enterprise; Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise
Maria Carmen Lemos, Professor; Associate Dean for Research and Engagement
Jonathan Overpeck, William B. Stapp Collegiate Professor of Environmental Education
Ivette Perfecto, Bunyan Bryant Collegiate Professor of Environmental Justice

School of Information

Daniel E. Atkins, Professor Emeritus of Information
Elizabeth Yakel, professor and senior associate dean for academic affairs, specializing in digital archives and digital preservation

Institute for Social Research

Vincent Hutchings, Hanes Walton Jr. Collegiate Professor of Political Science
Donald R. Kinder, Philip E. Converse Professor

Law School

Theodore J. St. Antoine, James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor Emeritus of Law; labor arbitrator
Reuven Avi-Yonah, Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law
Karima Bennoune, Lewis M. Simes Professor of Law
Rebecca S. Eisenberg, Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor of Law
Daniel Halberstam, Eric Stein Collegiate Professor of Law
James R. Hines Jr., L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law
Ellen D. Katz, Ralph W. Aigler Professor of Law
Vikramaditya Khanna, William W. Cook Professor of Law
Jessica Litman, John F. Nickoll Professor of Law
Leah Litman, Professor of Law
Kyle D. Logue, Douglas A. Kahn Collegiate Professor of Law
Catharine MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law; feminist legal theorist
William Ian Miller, Thomas G. Long Professor of Law; author of The Anatomy of Disgust
Aaron Perzanowski, Thomas W. Lacchia Professor of Law
John A. E. Pottow, John Philip Dawson Collegiate Professor of Law
Richard Primus, Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor of Law
Steven R. Ratner, Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law
Rebecca J. Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law
Ekow Yankah, Thomas M. Cooley Professor of Law

Life Sciences Institute

Roger D. Cone, Mary Sue Coleman Director of the Life Sciences Institute and the Vice Provost for the Biosciences Initiative
Janet L. Smith, Rita Willis Professor of the Life Sciences and Center for Structural Biology Faculty Director

College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Afroamerican and African Studies

Angela D. Dillard, Earl Lewis Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies

American Culture

Kristin Ann Hass, professor in the Department of American Culture

Anthropology

Ruth Behar, Professor at the Department of Anthropology
Kent Flannery, James B. Griffin Distinguished University Professor of Anthropological Archaeology
Judith Irvine, Edward Sapir Distinguished University Professor
Conrad Phillip Kottak, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology
Joyce Marcus, Professor of anthropology
Erik Mueggler, Katherine Verdery Collegiate Professor of Anthropology
Milford Wolpoff, Professor of anthropology
Henry Wright, Professor of anthropology

Astronomy

Edwin Bergin, Professor of Astronomy
Nuria Calvet, Helen Dodson Prince Collegiate Professor of Astronomy
Sally Oey, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor

Chemistry

Julie Biteen, Janine Maddock Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and of Biophysics
Charles L. Brooks III, Cyrus Levinthal Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics; Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Chemistry
Brian Coppola, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
Theodore Goodson III, Richard Barry Bernstein Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Robert Kennedy, Hobart H Willard Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacology
Adam J. Matzger, Charles G. Overberger Collegiate Professor of Chemistry, and Macromolecular Science & Engineering
Anne McNeil, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
Alison R. H. Narayan, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Research Associate Professor, Life Sciences Institute
Vincent L. Pecoraro, John T. Groves Collegiate Professor of Chemistry; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
James Penner-Hahn, George A Lindsay Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics
Melanie Sanford, Moses Gomberg Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
Nils G. Walter, Francis S Collins Collegiate Professor of Chemistry, Biophysics, and Biological Chemistry
John P. Wolfe, Professor of Chemistry and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies

Comparative Literature

Anton Shammas, professor of comparative literature and modern Middle Eastern literature

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Joel D. Blum, Gerald J Keeler Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Catherine E. Badgley, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; director of the residential college
Aimée Classen, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; director of the University of Michigan's Biological Station (UMBS)
Meghan Duffy, Susan S. Kilham Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Lacey Knowles, Robert B. Payne Collegiate Professor
John Vandermeer, Asa Gray Distinguished University Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor

Economics

Kathryn M. Dominguez, Professor of Economics and Director of Undergraduate Honors
James R. Hines Jr., Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor of Economics
Amanda Kowalski, Gail Wilensky Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy
Joel Slemrod, David Bradford Distinguished University Professor of Economics
Melvin Stephens Jr., Professor of Economics
Linda Tesar, Alan V. Deardorff Collegiate Professor of Economics
Toni Whited, Professor of Economics
Justin Wolfers, Professor of Economics

English Language and Literature

Linda Gregerson, Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor at University of Michigan
Laura Kasischke, Theodore Roethke Professor of English Language and Literature
Khaled Mattawa, Professor of English Language and Literature
Thylias Moss, Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature; developed Limited Fork Poetics

History

Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History; notable for his weblog "Informed Comment", covering events in the Middle East
Derek Peterson, professor in the departments of History and Afroamerican and African Studies
Rebecca J. Scott, Professor of History, won the 2006 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery
Heather Ann Thompson, professor of American history; for her book on the Attica Prison uprising of 1971.

Linguistics

Sarah Thomason, William H. Gedney Professor of Linguistics

Mathematics

Silas D. Alben, Professor; Sloan Research Fellow
Alexander Barvinok, Professor; works on the combinatorics and computational complexity of polytopes with symmetry
Hyman Bass, Samuel Eilenberg Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Mathematics Education; known for algebraic K-theory, commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, algebraic groups, and Riemann zeta function; awarded the Cole Prize for his paper, Unitary algebraic K-theory, Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics, volume 343, 1973
Lydia Bieri, Professor; Simons Fellow
Andreas Blass, Professor Emeritus; works in mathematical logic, particularly set theory, and theoretical computer science
Liliana Borcea, Peter Field Collegiate Professor of Mathematics; works in scientific computing and applied mathematics
Richard Canary, Professor; working on low-dimensional topology
Dmitry Chelkak, Keeler Professor; worked with Fields medalist Stanislav Smirnov on the Ising models of statistical mechanics
Igor Dolgachev, Professor Emeritus; known for Dolgachev surface
Sergey Fomin, Richard P. Stanley Distinguished University Professor; introduced Cluster algebra with Andrei Zelevinsky; mentored Fields medalist June Huh
William Fulton, Oscar Zariski Distinguished University Professor Emeritus; received the Steele Prize for mathematical exposition for his text Intersection Theory
Robert L. Griess, John Griggs Thompson Distinguished University Professor of mathematics; known for Classification of sporadic groups (Happy Family and pariahs), Construction of the Fischer–Griess Monster group, Gilman–Griess theorem, and Griess algebra
Melvin Hochster, Jack E. McLaughlin Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics; commutative algebraist; Guggenheim fellow; awarded the Cole Prize for his paper Topics in the homological theory of commutative rings, CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics, Number 24, American Mathematical Society, 1975.
Trachette Jackson, Professor; works in mathematical oncology
Lizhen Ji, Professor; Simons Fellow
Sarah Koch, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; works in complex analysis, complex dynamics, and Teichmüller theory
Robert Krasny, Arthur F Thurnau Professor; working in the field of scientific computing
Jeffrey Lagarias, Harold Mead Stark Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics; disproved Keller's conjecture in dimensions at least 10
Hugh L. Montgomery, Professor Emeritus; known for Analytic number theory
Mircea Mustata, algebraic geometer; mentored Fields medalist June Huh
Karen E. Smith, William Fulton Distinguished University Professor; awarded the Satter Prize for her outstanding work in commutative algebra
Ralf J. Spatzier, Professor; specialising in differential geometry, dynamical systems, and ergodic theory
Sijue Wu, Robert W. and Lynne H. Browne Professor of Mathematics; awarded the Satter Prize for her work on a long-standing problem in the water wave equation
Virginia R. Young, Cecil J. and Ethel M. Nesbitt Professor of Actuarial Mathematics; actuary

Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Daniel J. Klionsky, Professor, MCDB; Alexander G Ruthven Professor of Life Sciences

Philosophy

Elizabeth S. Anderson, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies
Allan Gibbard, Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus
David Manley, Associate Professor
Peter Railton, Gregory S. Kavka Distinguished University Professor
Laura Ruetsche, Louis Loeb Collegiate Professor; Department Chair
Tad Schmaltz, Professor of Philosophy
Lawrence Sklar, William K. Frankena Collegiate Professor and Professor of Philosophy, Guggenheim fellow 1974
Brian Weatherson, Marshall M. Weinberg Professor

Physics

Fred Adams, Ta-You Wu Collegiate Professor of Physics
Christine Aidala, Professor of Physics
Timothy E. Chupp, Professor of Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Steven Cundiff, Harrison M. Randall Collegiate Professor of Physics
Henriette Elvang, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
David Gerdes, Chair of Physics Department; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics
Gordon Kane, Victor Weisskopf Collegiate Professor of Physics
Timothy A. McKay, Interim Dean, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics, Astronomy, Education, and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
Roberto Merlin, Peter A. Franken Collegiate Professor of Physics
Mark Newman, Anatol Rapoport Distinguished University Professor of Complex Systems and Physics
Jianming Qian, David M. Dennison Collegiate Professor of Physics
Ctirad Uher, C. Wilbur Peters Collegiate Professor of Physics
James D. Wells, Professor of Physics
Leopoldo Pando Zayas, professor of physics, specializing in string theory

Political Science

Christian Davenport, Professor of Political Science; Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen, Jr., Professor for the Study of Human Understanding
Vincent Hutchings, Hanes Walton, Jr. Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies
Barbara Koremenos, Professor of Political Science
Mika LaVaque-Manty, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Professor
Walter Mebane, Professor of Political Science
James D. Morrow, A.F.K. Organski Professor of World Politics
George Tsebelis, Anatol Rapoport Collegiate Professor, Political Science
Nicholas Valentino, Donald R. Kinder Collegiate Professor of Political Science

Psychology

Kent C. Berridge, James Olds Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
David Dunning, first described the Dunning-Kruger effect
William Gehring, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Psychology
Patricia Gurin, Nancy Cantor Professor (emerita) of Psychology and Women's Studies
Marita Inglehart, Inaugural University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor
Ethan Kross, professor of psychology and management
Catherine Lord, Professor Emerita of Psychology and Psychiatry
Vonnie C. McLoyd, professor of psychology and research scientist at the Center for Human Growth and Development
David E. Meyer, Clyde H. Coombs and J. E. Keith Smith Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Psychology and Cognitive Science
Richard Nisbett, Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor, psychology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
Robert Sellers, James S. Jackson Distinguished University Professor of Psychology
Henry Wellman, Harold W. Stevenson Collegiate Professor Emeritus of Psychology

Sociology

Erin Cech, Associate Professor
Fatma Müge Göçek, Professor of Sociology
Alexandra Killewald, Professor of Sociology
Mark Mizruchi, Robert Cooley Angell Collegiate Professor of Sociology
Jeffrey Morenoff, Professor of Sociology
Pamela Smock, Professor of Sociology
George Steinmetz, Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Germanic Languages and Literatures
Paige L. Sweet, Assistant Professor
Geneviève Zubrzycki, William H. Sewell Jr. Collegiate Professor of Sociology

Statistics

Moulinath Banerjee, Professor of Statistics
Elizaveta Levina, Chair and Vijay Nair Collegiate Professor of Statistics
Naisyin Wang, Professor of Statistics

Medical School

Huda Akil, Gardner C. Quarton Professor of Neurosciences in psychiatry, professor of psychiatry and co-director and senior research scientist of the U-M Mental Health Research Institute; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
James P. Bagian, Director, Center for Risk Analysis Informed Decision Engineering
Robert Bartlett, Professor Emeritus of Surgery
Edward Bove, head, Section of Cardiac Surgery
Arul Chinnaiyan, S.P. Hicks Endowed Professor of Pathology
Kathleen R. Cho, Peter A. Ward Professor of Pathology
Eric Fearon, Emanuel N Maisel Professor of Oncology
Eva Feldman, James W Albers Distinguished University Professor of Neurology
Daniel Fisher, Claude W. Hibbard Collegiate Professor of Paleontology, professor of geological sciences, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and curator of paleontology; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
Sid Gilman, William J. Herdman Professor of Neurology
Lori L. Isom, Maurice H. Seevers Collegiate Professor of Pharmacology
Eve A. Kerr, Kutsche Memorial Chair of Internal Medicine
Theodore Lawrence, Professor of Radiation Oncology
Anna Suk-Fong Lok, Dame Sheila Sherlock Distinguished University Professor of Hepatology and Internal Medicine
George Mashour, Robert B. Sweet Professor of Anesthesiology
Rowena G. Matthews, G. Robert Greenberg Distinguished University Professor, biological chemistry
Michael Mulholland, Professor Emeritus of Surgery
Karin Muraszko, Professor of Neurosurgery
Lisa M. Meeks, specialist in disabilities
Gilbert S. Omenn, professor of internal medicine & Human genetics, and of public health
Henry L. Paulson, Lucile Groff Professor of Neurology for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
Stanley Watson, Ralph Waldo Gerard Professor of Neurosciences
James Woolliscroft, Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine and Professor Emeritus of Learning Health Sciences
Weiping Zou, Charles B de Nancrede Professor of Surgery, Immunology and Biology; director for translational research

School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Michael Daugherty, Professor of Composition at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Aaron Dworkin, fellow and founder and president of Detroit-based Sphinx Organization
Bright Sheng, professor of composition and music theory

School of Nursing

Christopher Friese, Elizabeth Tone Hosmer Professor of Nursing
Lori J. Pierce, Professor of Radiation Oncology
Kathleen Potempa, Dean Emerita, School of Nursing
Marita G. Titler, Professor Emerita, School of Nursing

School of Public Health

Gonçalo Abecasis, Felix E. Moore Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics
Michael Boehnke, Richard G. Cornell Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics
F. DuBois Bowman, Dean, School of Public Health
Arline Geronimus, Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Roderick J. A. Little, Richard D. Remington Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics
Bhramar Mukherjee, Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Robert Axelrod, Arthur W. Bromage Distinguished University Professor of Political Science & Public Policy
Sheldon Danziger, Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Public Policy; political scientist, President of the Russell Sage Foundation
James S. House, Angus Campbell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Survey Research, Public Policy, and Sociology
Paula Lantz, James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy
Kenneth Lieberthal, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Political Science and William Davidson Professor of Business Administration; China expert and member of the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration
Arthur Lupia, Professor of political science, research professor at the Institute for Social Research, and principal investigator of the American National Election Studies; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
Andrei Markovits, political scientist who has written on, among other things, sports culture, nationalism, Anti-Americanism, and the European left

Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Barry Klarberg, professional business and wealth manager for athletes, entertainers and high-net-worth individuals
Noel Tichy, professor of business; adviser for over 30 CEO transitions, including General Motors
Dave Ulrich, professor of business; co-founder of The RBL Group

Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design

Heidi Kumao, professor of art
Rebekah Modrak, associate professor of art
Thylias Moss, professor of English, also Professor of Art & Design (2006)
Endi E. Poskovic, professor of art and design
David C. Turnley, professor of art and design; photography, for images of the political uprisings in China and Eastern Europe

Former faculty

American Culture

Tiya Miles, professor in American Culture, History, Afroamerican & African Studies, Native American Studies, and Women’s Studies (2002-2018)

Anthropology

Susan Alcock, professor of classical anthropology and classics
Raymond C. Kelly, cultural anthropologist and ethnologist
Sherry B. Ortner, professor of anthropology and women's studies
Milford H. Wolpoff, leading proponent of the multiregional hypothesis for human evolution
Richard Wrangham, professor of anthropology

Architecture

William Le Baron Jenney, architect and engineer
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, architect

Art

Gerome Kamrowski, artist at the forefront of the development of American Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism

Astronomy

William Hussey, professor of astronomy and fifth director of the Detroit Observatory

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science

Thomas M. Donahue, Edward H. White II Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Planetary Science

Biological Chemistry

Christopher Chetsanga, discovered two enzymes that repair DNA after x-irradiation
Jack E. Dixon, Minor J. Coon Professor of Biological Chemistry, chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
Kun-Liang Guan, biochemist and associate professor of biological chemistry and senior research associate at the Institute of Gerontology
Martha L. Ludwig, research biophysicist and J. Lawrence Oncley Distinguished Professor, department of biological chemistry
Michael Marletta, biochemist and John Gideon Searle Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy in the College of Pharmacy and professor of biological chemistry in the Medical School

Botanical Gardens

Pierre Dansereau, Canadian ecologist known as one of the "fathers of ecology"
Daniel Hunt Janzen, evolutionary ecologist, naturalist, and conservationist

Business

Gary Hamel, visiting professor of international business; co-Author "The Core Competence of the Corporation"
Gerald Meyers, professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business School, former chairman of American Motors Corporation
C.K. Prahalad, Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy

Center for Human Growth and Development

Anne C. Petersen, research professor

Chemistry

Seymour Blinder, professor emeritus of chemistry and physics
Moses Gomberg, professor of chemistry
Stephen Lee, solid state chemist
Frederick George Novy, Henry L. Russell Lecturer

Economics

Henry Carter Adams, professor of political economy and finance
Kenneth Boulding, noted economist and faculty member 1949–1967
Edward Gramlich, professor of economics and member, Federal Reserve Board
Paul McCracken, economist. Chairmen emeritus: President's Council of Economic Advisers
James N. Morgan, professor emeritus of economics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts

Engineering

Linda M. Abriola, professor of civil and environmental engineering
Dennis Assanis, former Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Lynn Conway, professor of electrical engineering and computer science
Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, second dean of the College of Engineering
Elmer G. Gilbert, professor of aerospace engineering and of electrical engineering & computer science
John Henry Holland, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, College of Engineering; professor of psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Donald Katz, professor emeritus of chemical engineering
Emmett Leith, Schlumberger Professor of Engineering
Gerard A. Mourou, A.D. Moore Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering & and Computer Science
Nicholas Negroponte (visiting), founder of MIT's Media Lab
Chia-Shun Yih, Stephen P. Timoshenko Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Fluid Mechanics

Evolutionary Biology

Richard D. Alexander, Theodore H. Hubell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Biology
William Donald "Bill" Hamilton, Professor of Evolutionary Biology

Geology

William Herbert Hobbs, professor of Geology

History

Sidney Fine, professor of history; longest serving faculty member; chief biographer of Frank Murphy
Cécile Fromont, assistant professor of art history
Ann Ellis Hanson, visiting associate professor of Greek and Latin
Thomas C. Holt, professor of history, director of Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
Adrienne Koch, historian, specialist in American history of the 18th century
Barbara D. Metcalf, Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History
Tiya Miles, professor of American culture, Afroamerican & African studies, history, and Native American studies
Claude H. Van Tyne, professor and chairman of the history department; American History, for The War of Independence.
Andrew Dickson White, professor of English and history, co-founder of Cornell University

Internal medicine and human genetics

Francis Collins, professor in internal medicine and human genetics; led the Human Genome Project and is the current director of the National Institutes of Health

Journalism

Will Potter, author, civil liberties advocate^[2]
Leland Stowe, professor of journalism; correspondence, for his work as a reporter on the foreign staff of the New York Herald Tribune

Law

Henry Billings Brown, instructor in law, later US Supreme Court justice
Evan H. Caminker: Dean of Law School
Thomas M. Cooley, law professor, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan

Linguistics

Alton L Becker, professor of linguistics^[3]
Kenneth Pike, professor emeritus of linguistics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts

Literature

W. H. Auden, poet
Charles Baxter, former director of the MFA program in creative writing; novelist, poet, and essayist
Joseph Brodsky, professor of Slavic languages and literature
Anne Carson, Canadian poet, essayist, and translator
Robert Frost, Michigan Poet-in-Residence
Alice Fulton, professor of English from 1983 to 2001, won the Library of Congress Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry in 2002
Donald Hall, English professor and United States Poet Laureate 2006–2007
Francis Kelsey, professor of Latin
Dirk Obbink, papyrologist, 2001 MacArthur Fellowship winner for his work at both Oxyrhynchus and Herculaneum
Aisha Sabatini Sloan, assistant professor of creative writing and literature and English language and literature

Mathematics

Raoul Bott, mathematician and winner of the Wolf Prize in mathematics
Richard Brauer Accepted a position at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1948. In 1949, he was awarded the Cole Prize
Arthur Copeland, mathematician
Samuel Eilenberg, cofounder of category theory together with Saunders MacLane, whom he met at Ann Arbor; winner of the Wolf Prize in mathematics
Frederick Gehring, T.H. Hildebrandt Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics
Herman Heine Goldstine, mathematician
Thomas Hales solved a nearly four-century-old problem called the Kepler conjecture
Paul Halmos, mathematician specializing in functional analysis
Anatol Rapoport, author of Two-Person Game Theory (1999) and N-Person Game Theory (2001)
Kannan Soundararajan, awarded the 2004 Salem Prize, joint winner of the 2005 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
Raymond Louis Wilder, work focused on set-theoretic topology, manifolds and use of algebraic techniques
Trevor D. Wooley, Department Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan. Salem Prize, 1998. Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1993–1995

Medical School

Mathew Alpern, professor emeritus of physiological optics
Francis S. Collins, professor of internal medicine; professor of human genetics
Jerome Conn, Louis Harry Newburgh university Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine
Minor J. Coon, Victor C. Vaughn Distinguished University Professor of Biological Chemistry
Elizabeth Crosby, professor of anatomy
David E. Kuhl, professor of internal medicine; professor of radiology
Martha L. Ludwig, professor of biological chemistry
Howard Markel, George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine and director of the Center for the History of Medicine
Vincent Massey, professor of biological chemistry
James Neel, Lee R. Dice Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Human Genetics; discovered that defective genes cause sickle cell anemia
Reed M. Nesbit, urologist, pioneer of transurethral resection of the prostate
J. Lawrence Oncley, professor emeritus of biological chemistry
June Osborn, professor of epidemiology; professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases
Jonas Salk, assistant professor of epidemiology
Alan R. Saltiel, elected in 2005 to The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, John Jacob Abel Collegiate Professor in Life Sciences and Professor of Internal Medicine and Physiology
Thomas L. Schwenk, professor of family medicine
Peter Ward, Godfrey D. Stobbe Professor of Pathology
Aldred Scott Warthin, professor of pathology
Yukiko Yamashita, assistant professor of cell & developmental biology

Music

Leslie Bassett, professor of music; music, for Variations for Orchestra.^[4]
Judith Becker, Glenn McGeoch Professor (emeritus) of Music^[5]
William Bolcom, professor of music composition; music, for Twelve New Etudes for Piano
Aaron Dworkin, fellow and founder and president of Detroit-based Sphinx Organization
Ross Lee Finney, professor of music; music, for a string quartet
William P. Malm, professor (emeritus) of music
Artur Schnabel, Pianist and classical composer; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow

Near Eastern Studies

George E. Mendenhall, professor emeritus: Department of Near Eastern Studies

Nursing

Ada Sue Hinshaw, dean, School of Nursing

Pharmacy

Henry Kraemer, professor of pharmacy

Philosophy

Carl Cohen, professor of philosophy at the residential college; notable for using Michigan Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 1996 to identify the university's policy of racial categorization in admissions, leading to the Grutter and Gratz v. Bollinger lawsuits
John Dewey, co-founder of pragmatism
William Frankena, moral philosopher
Dewitt H. Parker, professor of philosophy
Robert Mark Wenley, professor of philosophy

Physical chemistry

R. Stephen Berry, professor of physical chemistry

Physics

H. Richard Crane, George P. Williams Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Physics
Michael Duff, Oskar Klein Professor of Physics
Katherine Freese, George E. Uhlenbeck Professor Emerita of Physics
Samuel Goudsmit, conceived – with George Uhlenbeck – the idea of Quantum Spin
Lawrence W. Jones, professor emeritus, Department of Physics
Oskar Klein, first work in Ann Arbor dealt with the anomalous Zeeman effect
Margaret Murnane, professor of physics
Stephen Timoshenko, created the first US bachelor's and doctoral programs in engineering mechanics
George Uhlenbeck, with fellow student Samuel Goudsmit at Leiden, proposed the idea of electron spin in 1925, Professor: University of Michigan (1939–43); Max Planck Medal 1964 (with Samuel Goudsmit); American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
Martinus Veltman, John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics

Psychology

Brad Bushman, professor of psychology
Clyde Coombs, professor emeritus of psychology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
Erich Fromm, psychologist
Susan Gelman, Heinz Werner Professor of psychology and linguistics
James S. Jackson, Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and director, Institute for Social Research; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
Robert L. Kahn, professor emeritus of psychology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
Catherine Lord, professor (emerita) of psychology and psychiatry
James Olds, professor of psychology
Daphna Oyserman, Edwin J.Thomas Professor of Social Work
Walter Bowers Pillsbury, professor of psychology
Ovide Pomerleau, professor (emeritus) of psychology
Marilyn Shatz, Professor Emerita of Psychology and Linguistics
Claude Steele, professor of psychology
Elliot Valenstein, professor (emeritus) of psychology

Public Health

Noreen M Clark, dean, Marshall H. Becker Professor of Public Health
Avedis Donabedian, Sinai Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Health
Stanley M. Garn, professor emeritus of nutrition
David R. Williams, Harold W. Cruse Collegiate Professor of Sociology; professor of epidemiology

Public Welfare Administration

Wilbur Joseph Cohen, professor of Public Welfare Administration

School of Natural Resources & the Environment

Warren H. Wagner, professor emeritus of botany

Sociology

Philip Converse, Robert Cooley Angell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Sociology & Political Science, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
Charles Horton Cooley, professor of sociology; taught the university's first sociology class in 1899
Ronald Freedman, Roderick D. McKenzie Professor Emeritus of Sociology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts, professor emeritus of physics, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
Ronald C. Kessler, professor of sociology
Horace Miner, professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology

Zoology

Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, professor of zoology

Former administrators

Nancy Cantor, provost, now chancellor of Syracuse University
Walter Harrison, vice president, now at University of Hartford
J. Bernard "Bernie" Machen, provost, later president of the University of Florida
Frank H. T. Rhodes, vice president, later president of Cornell University
Edward A. Snyder, senior associate dean, later dean at University of Chicago Business School
B. Joseph White, dean, Ross School, later president of the University of Illinois
Linda Wilson, vice president, later president of Radcliffe College

Nobel Laureates

Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize, Literature 1987
Donald A. Glaser, professor of physics, developed in 1954 the world's first liquid bubble chamber to study high-energy subatomic particles and won the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention in 1960
Charles B. Huggins, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1966
Lawrence R. Klein, '30 alumnus; a member of the economics department and the Institute for Social Research. Won the 1980 Nobel Prize in economics for his econometric models forecasting short-term economic trends and policies.
Gérard Mourou, co-winner of Nobel Prize, Physics, 2018
Wolfgang Pauli (visiting), winner of Nobel Prize, Physics, 1945
Martin L. Perl, Physics Nobel Prize 1995
Norman F. Ramsey (visiting), Physics Nobel Prize 1989
Peyton Rous, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1966
Hamilton O. Smith Nobel Prize, for Physiology or Medicine, 1978
Charles H. Townes, Nobel Prize for Physics, 1964
Martinus Veltman, professor emeritus, John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics. 1999 Nobel Prize for Physics
Carl Wieman, one of three scientists who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics

References

^ "Chapter 6 Faculty & Staff" (PDF). obp.umich.edu. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
^ "Storytelling and Public Engagement: A Conversation with Will Potter, Senior Academic Innovation Fellow". Academic Innovation. May 7, 2018. Retrieved August 5, 2018.
^ "Memoir of Alton L. Becker". Regents of the University of Michigan. c. 1994. Retrieved August 2, 2014.
^ Bassett, Noel (February 10, 2016). "Obituary: Leslie Raymond Bassett". The University Record. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
^ "Judith Becker tribute". University of Michigan. Retrieved August 2, 2014.

External links

Faculty and staff at the University of Michigan
UM Faculty and staff resources
UM Faculty and staff services
The Michigan Daily Salary Supplement lists the salaries of UM faculty and staff

[1] "Chapter 6 Faculty & Staff" (PDF). obp.umich.edu. Retrieved December 22, 2023.

[2] "Storytelling and Public Engagement: A Conversation with Will Potter, Senior Academic Innovation Fellow". Academic Innovation. May 7, 2018. Retrieved August 5, 2018.

[umich.regents.alton.becker3-3] "Memoir of Alton L. Becker". Regents of the University of Michigan. c. 1994. Retrieved August 2, 2014.

[bassett.obituary-4] Bassett, Noel (February 10, 2016). "Obituary: Leslie Raymond Bassett". The University Record. Retrieved May 29, 2020.

[umich.music.judith.becker3-5] "Judith Becker tribute". University of Michigan. Retrieved August 2, 2014.

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