ThisUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison people in academics consists of notable people who graduated or attended theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison.

• Robert Adair, professor emeritus of physics,Yale University
• David Adamany, former president ofTemple University
• Colin Adams, professor of mathematics,Williams College
• Julia Adams, professor,Yale University
• Paul C. Adams, associate professor of geography,University of Texas-Austin
• Julius Adler
• Madeleine Wing Adler, former president,West Chester University
• Sarita Adve, professor of computer science,University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Michael A'Hearn, astronomer
• Julie Ahringer, senior research fellow,Gurdon Institute,Cambridge University
• Anastasia Ailamaki, professor of computer science,École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, professor emerita of physics,University of Pennsylvania; taught atHaverford College
• Robert A. Alberty, professor emeritus of chemistry,MIT
• Daniel Aldrich, founding chancellor,University of California, Irvine
• F. King Alexander, president ofCalifornia State University, Long Beach
• Gar Alperovitz, author, economist, historian, and former fellow atCambridge University
• Alice Ambrose, former professor of philosophy,Smith College
• Stephen E. Ambrose, author and historian
• Michael Amiridis, president of theUniversity of South Carolina
• Marc A. Anderson, environmental chemist
• Arthur Irving Andrews, former professor of diplomacy,Charles University in Prague
• Thomas G. Andrews, historian
• Nancy Armstrong, professor of English,Duke University
• Marilyn Arnold, professor emeritus of English,Brigham Young University
• Richard Arratia, professor of mathematics,University of Southern California
• Michael Aschbacher, professor of mathematics,California Institute of Technology
• Peter J. Aschenbrenner, historian,Purdue University
• Sanford Soverhill Atwood, scientist, provost ofCornell University, president ofEmory University
• David Audretsch, professor of economics,Indiana University
• Nina Auerbach, professor of comparative literature,University of Pennsylvania
• John D. Axtell, former professor of agronomy,Purdue University
• Oliver Edwin Baker, geographer
• Tania A. Baker, professor of biochemistry,MIT
• Ira Baldwin, bacteriologist
• Clinton Ballou, professor emeritus of Biochemistry,University of California, Berkeley
• David P. Barash, professor of psychology,University of Washington
• Thomas P.M. Barnett, military and security strategist, former professor at theNaval War College
• Michael Barnsley, professor of mathematics,Australian National University
• Henry H. Barschall, physicist
• Florence Bascom, geologist atBryn Mawr College
• Carolyn Baylies, former reader in sociology,University of Leeds
• Charles L. Beach, president of theUniversity of Connecticut
• Jesse Beams, former professor of physics,University of Virginia
• Carl L. Becker, former professor of history,Cornell University
• David T. Beito, author and historian
• Richard Bellman, mathematician and inventor ofdynamic programming
• Frank Bencriscutto, former professor of music,University of Minnesota
• Ernst Benda, former professor of law,University of Freiburg
• William H. Bennett, professor of agronomy,Utah State University
• Ira Berlin, distinguished university professor,University of Maryland
• Bruce C. Berndt, professor of mathematics,University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Steven Berry, professor of Economics,Yale University
• William T. Bielby, former professor of sociology,University of Pennsylvania
• Ray Allen Billington, former professor of history,Oxford University andNorthwestern University
• Thomas Binford, professor emeritus of computer science,Stanford University
• Robert Byron Bird, chemical engineer
• Kenneth O. Bjork, former professor of history,Saint Olaf College
• David W. Blight, professor of history, Yale University; taught atAmherst College
• Leonard Bloomfield, former professor of linguistics, Yale University
• Herbert Eugene Bolton, professor of history at theUniversity of Texas at Austin andUniversity of California, Berkeley
• Ronald T. Borchardt, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry,University of Kansas
• George Boyer, professor of economics, Cornell University
• Carol Breckenridge, anthropologist
• Patricia Flatley Brennan, professor of engineering
• Arthur Louis Breslich, president ofGerman Wallace College andBaldwin-Wallace College
• Ernest J. Briskey, dean of agricultural science,Oregon State University
• David H. Bromwich, professor of geography,Ohio State University
• Morton Brown, professor emeritus of Mathematics,University of Michigan
• Norman O. Brown, scholar of Classics
• Christopher Browning, professor of history,University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Robert X. Browning, associate professor of political science,Purdue University
• Mari Jo Buhle, professor emerita of history,Brown University
• Paul Buhle, activist and lecturer,Brown University
• R. Carlyle Buley, former professor of history,Indiana University
• Mary Bunting, former president,Radcliffe College
• Robert H. Burris, biochemist
• Frederick H. Buttel, former professor of sociology
• Kenneth Neill Cameron, literary scholar
• Lester J. Cappon, historian, documentary editor, and archivist forColonial Williamsburg
• Claudia Card, Emma Goldman (WARF) Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Margery C. Carlson (M.S. 1920, Ph.D. 1925), professor of botany,Northwestern University
• John Casida, professor of entomology,University of California, Berkeley
• Carlos Castillo-Chavez, professor of mathematical biology,Arizona State University
• Edward Castronova, professor of telecommunications,Indiana University
• Kwang-Chu Chao, chemical engineer atPurdue University
• Arthur B. Chapman, geneticist
• Peter Charanis, former professor of history,Rutgers University
• Vivek Chibber, sociologist,New York University
• Edith Clarke, former professor of electrical engineering,University of Texas-Austin
• W. Wallace Cleland, biochemist
• John H. Coatsworth, provost,Columbia University
• Alan Code, professor of philosophy,Stanford University
• Stephen P. Cohen, senior fellow,Brookings Institution
• Betsy Colquitt, professor of literature and creative writing,Texas Christian University
• Timothy E. Cook, former professor of political science atWilliams College andLouisiana State University
• Vincent Cooke,S.J. (Ph.D. philosophy 1971), academic administrator, president ofCanisius College (1993–2010)^[1]
• Arthur C. Cope, former professor of chemistry,MIT
• Brian Coppola, professor of chemistry,University of Michigan
• Giovanni Costigan, former professor of history,University of Washington
• May Louise Cowles, home economics instructor and lecturer
• Richard H. Cracroft, professor of English,Brigham Young University
• Joanne V. Creighton, interim president,Haverford College; former president,Mount Holyoke College
• Kimberlé Crenshaw, professor of law at Columbia University andUCLA
• Tim Cresswell, professor of geography,University of London
• William Cronon (1976), environmental historian
• Harold Marion Crothers, professor of electrical engineering,South Dakota State University
• Chicita F. Culberson, senior research scientist in Biology,Duke University
• Chris Cuomo, former professor of ethics,University of Cincinnati
• Richard N. Current, historian
• John T. Curtis, botanist
• Edward Cussler, professor of chemical engineering,University of Minnesota
• Thomas Daniel, professor of biology,University of Washington
• Stephen Daniels, professor of cultural geography,University of Nottingham
• Richard Danner, professor of law,Duke University
• Kelvin Davies, professor of gerontology,University of Southern California
• W. R. Davies, president (1941–1959),University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
• James A. Davis, sociologist
• Kenneth S. Davis, historian
• Dick de Jongh, professor emeritus of Logic and Mathematics,University of Amsterdam
• Brady J. Deaton, chancellor,University of Missouri
• Steven John DeKrey, professor and academic administrator
• Peter Dervan, professor of chemistry,California Institute of Technology
• Matthew Desmond, professor of sociology,Princeton University
• Frans Dieleman, former professor of geography,Utrecht University
• John Louis DiGaetani, professor of English,Hofstra University
• Hasia Diner, historian
• Robert Disque, president,Drexel Institute of Technology
• Carl Djerassi, professor of chemistry,Stanford University
• Soedradjad Djiwandono, professor of international economics,Nanyang Technological University
• John Dollard, former professor of psychology, Yale University
• J. Kevin Dorsey, dean,Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
• Eliza T. Dresang (PhD, 1981), professor and researcher in literacy, library and information sciences, media and technology
• Lee A. DuBridge, former president,California Institute of Technology
• Wendell E. Dunn, president of theMiddle States Association of Colleges and Schools
• Nancy Dye, former president,Oberlin College
• William G. Dyer, dean,Marriott School of Management atBrigham Young University
• Anne Haas Dyson, 1972, College of Education, professor and researcher in literacy
• Olin J. Eggen, astronomer
• Marc Egnal, professor of history,York University
• Jean Bethke Elshtain, professor of divinity and philosophy,University of Chicago
• Conrad Elvehjem, former president,University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Michael Engh, president ofSanta Clara University
• David Estlund, Lombardo Family Professor of the Humanities,Brown University
• John Eyler, professor emeritus of history,University of Minnesota
• John K. Fairbank, former professor of history,Harvard University
• Etta Zuber Falconer, professor of mathematics,Norfolk State University andSpelman College
• Joseph Felsenstein, professor of biology,University of Washington
• Peter Edgerly Firchow, professor emeritus of English,University of Minnesota
• Erica Flapan, professor of mathematics,Pomona College
• Robben Wright Fleming, former president,University of Michigan
• Neil Fligstein, professor of sociology,University of California, Berkeley
• George T. Flom, former professor of Scandinavian languages,University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Karl Folkers, biochemist
• Michael J. Franklin, professor of computer science, University of California, Berkeley
• Shane Frederick, associate professor of management, Yale University
• Daniel Z. Freedman, professor of physics,MIT
• Joseph S. Freedman, professor of education atAlabama State University
• Frank Freidel, former professor of history at Harvard University and theUniversity of Washington
• Linda P. Fried, dean of public health, Columbia University
• Joseph G. Fucilla, former professor of Romantic languages,Northwestern University
• D.R. Fulkerson, former professor of mathematics, Cornell University
• Ellen V. Futter, former president ofBarnard College
• William A. Gahl, geneticist,NIH
• John Gallagher III, astronomer
• Fernando García Roel, rector,Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
• Lloyd Gardner, historian of U.S. foreign relations
• Johannes Gehrke, professor of computer science, Cornell University
• Judy Genshaft, president ofUniversity of South Florida
• Mark Gertler, professor of economics,New York University
• Paul Gertler, professor of economics and business, University of California, Berkeley
• Arnold Gesell, former professor of psychology, Yale University
• Reza Ghadiri, professor of chemistry,Scripps Research Institute
• Jacquelyn Gill, assistant professor of climate science,University of Maine
• Donna Ginther, professor of economics,University of Kansas
• G. N. Glasoe, former professor of physics, Columbia University; associate director,Brookhaven National Laboratory
• George Glauberman, professor of mathematics,University of Chicago
• Helen Iglauer Glueck, director of the Coagulation Laboratory,University of Cincinnati
• Harvey Goldberg, activist and historian
• Gerson Goldhaber, professor emeritus of physics, University of California, Berkeley; researcher,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Brison D. Gooch, historian
• Ann Dexter Gordon, historian, editor of TheElizabeth Cady Stanton andSusan B. Anthony Papers Project at Rutgers University
• Myron J. Gordon, professor emeritus of Finance,University of Toronto
• Richard K. Green, professor of business,University of Southern California
• William Greene, professor of economics,New York University
• Michael Gribskov, professor of biological sciences,Purdue University
• Paul J. Griffiths, professor of theology,Duke University
• Erik Gronseth, former professor of sociology,University of Oslo
• David L. Gross, professor of history at University of Colorado at Boulder
• James A. Gross, labor historian at Cornell University
• Jennifer Guglielmo, associate professor of history and women's studies, Smith College
• Ernst Guillemin, electrical engineer and computer scientist,MIT, recipient of theIEEE Medal of Honor
• Ramón A. Gutiérrez, professor of history,University of Chicago
• Herbert Gutman, professor of history,City University of New York
• Jeffrey K. Hadden, former professor of sociology,University of Virginia
• Usha Haley, former professor of international business,University of New Haven
• Joseph M. Hall, Jr., professor of American history,Bates College
• Helena Hamerow, professor of medieval archaeology,Oxford University
• Gordon Hammes, professor emeritus of Biochemistry,Duke University
• Jo Handelsman, professor of biology and medicine, Yale University
• Pat Hanrahan, professor of computer science and electrical engineering,Stanford University
• Alvin Hansen, former professor of economics, Harvard University; presidential advisor
• John W. Harbaugh, professor of geological and environmental sciences,Stanford University
• Cole Harris, geographer; professor at theUniversity of Toronto
• Daniel Hartl, professor of biology,Harvard University
• Arthur D. Hasler, ecologist and zoologist
• Darren Hawkins, professor of political science,Brigham Young University
• James Edwin Hawley, professor of mineralogy,Queen's University; namesake ofHawleyite
• Patrick J. Hearden, professor of history,Purdue University
• Margaret Hedstrom, professor of information,University of Michigan
• D. Mark Hegsted, former professor of nutrition at Harvard University
• Walter Heller, former professor of economics,University of Minnesota; chair,Council of Economic Advisors
• Joseph M. Hellerstein, professor of computer science, University of California, Berkeley
• Frederick Hemke, professor of saxophone,Bienen School of Music atNorthwestern University
• Ralph D. Hetzel, former president,Pennsylvania State University
• Howard Hibbard, former professor of Italian Baroque art,Columbia University
• Elfrieda "Freddy" Hiebert, literacy advocate
• Ammon Hillman, fringe classicist
• Thomas Hines, professor emeritus,UCLA
• Ralph Hirschmann, former professor of chemistry,University of Pennsylvania
• Ho Ping-sung, former historian atPeking University andBeijing Normal University
• Michael A. Hoffman, professor of earth sciences and resources,University of South Carolina
• LaVahn Hoh, professor of drama,University of Virginia
• Karen Holbrook, former president,Ohio State University
• Charles H. Holbrow, physicist, Charles A. Dana Professor of physics, emeritus,Colgate University
• Lori L. Holt, associate professor of psychology,Carnegie Mellon University
• Olga Holtz, associate professor of mathematics, University of California, Berkeley; professor of applied mathematics,Technische Universität Berlin
• Renate Holub, philosopher and interdisciplinary theorist, University of California, Berkeley
• Robert C. Holub, currentchancellor of theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst (2008–present)
• Vasant Honavar, professor in biomedical data sciences and artificial intelligence,Pennsylvania State University
• Earnest Hooton, former professor of anthropology, Harvard University
• Calvin B. Hoover, former professor of economics,Duke University
• William O. Hotchkiss, president ofMichigan Technological University andRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Mark Huddleston, president,University of New Hampshire
• Clark L. Hull, psychologist of motivation at Yale University
• William Hunter, statistician
• William Edwards Huntington, president ofBoston University
• Lloyd Hustvedt, former professor of Norwegian,Saint Olaf College
• Jacquelyne Jackson, sociologist and academic
• William Jaco, professor of mathematics,Oklahoma State University-Stillwater
• Russell Jacoby, professor of history,UCLA
• James Alton James, former professor of history,Northwestern University
• Henry Jenkins, professor of communication arts,University of Southern California
• Merrill Jensen, historian
• Carleton B. Joeckel, former librarian
• Peter Johnsen, vice president for academic affairs,Bradley University
• Emory Richard Johnson, former dean of business,University of Pennsylvania
• Michael D. Johnson, dean of hotel administration, Cornell University
• Charles O. Jones, former professor of political science, University of Wisconsin-Madison andUniversity of Virginia and former president,American Political Science Association
• Jacqueline Jones, professor of history,University of Texas-Austin
• Kenneth Judd, senior fellow,Hoover Institution
• Ellsworth Kalas, president ofAsbury Theological Seminary
• Vytautas Kavolis, sociologist
• Homayoon Kazerooni, professor of mechanical engineering, University of California, Berkeley
• Edmond Keller, professor of political science,UCLA
• George L. Kelling, professor of social welfare, Rutgers University
• Ben Kerkvliet, professor of political science,Australian National University
• Corey Keyes, sociologist atEmory University
• Margaret Keyes, former professor of home economics,University of Iowa
• Spencer L. Kimball, former dean of law, University of Wisconsin-Madison; former professor of law,University of Chicago andUniversity of Michigan
• Robin Wall Kimmerer, professor of environmental of forest biology,State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
• Gary King, professor of government, Harvard University; taught atNew York University andOxford University
• Nicole King, assistant professor of genetics, genomics, and development; University of California, Berkeley
• Ronold W. P. King, former professor of physics, Harvard University
• Willford I. King, former professor of economics,New York University
• John W. Kingdon, professor emeritus of political science,University of Michigan
• David Kinley, former president,University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Grayson L. Kirk, former president, Columbia University
• Charles Kittel, former professor of physics, University of California, Berkeley
• Anne C. Klein, professor of religious studies,Rice University
• William J. Klish, professor of pediatrics, gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition;Baylor College of Medicine
• J. Martin Klotsche, first chancellor of theUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
• Clyde Kluckhohn, former professor of anthropology, Harvard University
• Anne Kelly Knowles, professor of geography,Middlebury College
• Kenneth Koedinger, professor of psychology,Carnegie Mellon University
• Henry Koffler, former vice president,University of Minnesota
• Gabriel Kolko, historian
• Arnold Krammer, historian, retired fromTexas A&M University
• Thomas R. Kratochwill, psychologist
• Konrad Bates Krauskopf, former professor of geology,Stanford University
• James E. Krier, professor of law,University of Michigan; taught at Harvard University,Oxford University,Stanford University, andUCLA
• Leo Kristjanson, president,University of Saskatchewan
• Lawrence Kritzman, professor of French,Dartmouth College
• Anne O. Krueger, professor of economics,Johns Hopkins University; taught atStanford University
• Harold J. Kushner, professor emeritus of Applied Mathematics,Brown University
• Philip Kutzko, professor of mathematics,University of Iowa
• Walter LaFeber, historian of U.S. foreign relations at Cornell University
• Max G. Lagally, engineer and professor
• James A. Lake, professor of biology and genetics,UCLA
• Janja Lalich, professor of sociology,California State University, Chico
• Henry A. Lardy, biochemist
• Edward Larson, winner of thePulitzer Prize in history
• Mark Lautens, professor of chemistry,University of Toronto
• Traugott Lawler, professor of English, Yale University
• Michael Ledeen, security strategist atAmerican Enterprise Institute andFoundation for Defense of Democracies
• Winfred P. Lehmann, former professor of German,University of Texas-Austin
• Charles Kenneth Leith, geologist
• John Leonora, professor of physiology and pharmacology,Loma Linda University
• A. Carl Leopold, graduate dean,University of Nebraska–Lincoln
• A. Starker Leopold, son ofAldo Leopold; former professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley
• Luna Leopold, son ofAldo Leopold; former professor of geology, University of California, Berkeley
• Herb Levi, former professor of biology,Harvard University
• Jingjing Liang, 2005 PhD in philosophy; forest ecologist atPurdue University
• Robert Lieber, professor, department of government and school of foreign service,Georgetown University
• Gene Likens, ecologist
• Mary Ann Lila, former professor of nutrition,University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Bernard J. Liska, food scientist atPurdue University
• Timothy P. Lodge, professor of chemistry,University of Minnesota
• Timothy M. Lohman, professor of medicine,Washington University School of Medicine atWashington University in St. Louis
• Roberto Sabatino Lopez, former professor of history at Yale University
• Max O. Lorenz, economist and statistician
• Daryl B. Lund, former dean of agricultural and life sciences, Cornell University
• George A. Lundberg, sociologist at theUniversity of Washington
• Tak Wah Mak, professor of biophysics and immunology,University of Toronto
• Howard Malmstadt, professor emeritus of chemistry,University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Daniel R. Mandelker, professor of law,Washington University School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis
• James G. March, professor emeritus of psychology,Stanford University
• Carolyn "Biddy" Martin, president,Amherst College
• Abraham Maslow (PhD 1934), groundbreaking humanist psychologist, "hierarchy of needs;" former professor atBrandeis University
• Max Mason, former president,University of Chicago
• Thomas Mathiesen, professor emeritus of Sociology,University of Oslo
• Lola J. May, mathematics educator
• Thomas J. McCormick, scholar of international relations
• Thomas K. McCraw, professor emeritus of business, Harvard University
• Daniel Merfeld, professor of Otolaryngology at The Ohio State University
• Frederick Merk, former professor of government and history, Harvard University
• Alan G. Merten, president ofGeorge Mason University
• Gerald Meyer, professor of chemistry,Johns Hopkins University
• James Henry Meyer, chancellor of theUniversity of California, Davis 1969–1987
• Joseph C. Miller, professor of history,University of Virginia
• Renée J. Miller, professor of computer science,University of Toronto
• C. Wright Mills, sociologist and professor at Columbia University
• Lawrence Mishel, president,Economic Policy Institute
• Olivia S. Mitchell, professor of economics,University of Pennsylvania
• Jason Mittell, professor of American studies and film,Middlebury College
• Pornchai Mongkhonvanit, president ofSiam University, president emeritus ofInternational Association of University Presidents
• Florence M. Montgomery, art historian
• Stephen S. Morse, professor of epidemiology,Columbia University
• Clark A. Murdock, senior adviser,Center for Strategic and International Studies
• John E. Murdoch, former historian and philosopher of science, Harvard University
• John Murray, Jr., chancellor and professor of law,Duquesne University
• Daniel J. Myers, professor of sociology,University of Notre Dame
• Mark Myers, geologist
• Jeffrey Naughton, computer scientist
• Richard Nelson, cultural anthropologist
• Maurice F. Neufeld, professor emeritus, Cornell University
• David Newbury, professor of African studies, Smith College
• Barbara W. Newell, former president,Wellesley College
• Carl Niemann, former professor of biochemistry,California Institute of Technology
• David W. Noble, professor of American studies,University of Minnesota
• Mark Nordenberg, chancellor,University of Pittsburgh
• Olaf M. Norlie, former dean,Hartwick College
• Gerald North, climatologist
• Sarah Nusser, statistician and vice president for research,Iowa State University
• Russel B. Nye, former professor of English,Michigan State University
• Alton Ochsner, UW medical professor and cancer researcher; co-foundedthe Ochsner Clinic inNew Orleans
• Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, anthropologist
• Bertell Ollman, professor of politics,New York University
• Scott E. Page, professor of economics,University of Michigan
• Thomas Palaima, professor of classics,University of Texas-Austin
• Ann C. Palmenberg, biochemist
• Dr. Tim Palmer, professor of French and Japanese film studies at theUniversity of North Carolina Wilmington.
• Bernhard Palsson, professor of bioengineering,University of California, San Diego
• John Parascandola, medical historian
• Gil-Sung Park, Korean sociologist
• W. Robert Parks, former president,Iowa State University
• Michael Quinn Patton, former professor of sociology,University of Minnesota
• Rhea Paul, founding chair of department of communication disorders at Sacred Heart University
• John Allen Paulos, professor of mathematics,Temple University; author of books about the consequences of mathematical illiteracy
• John Vernon Pavlik, professor of journalism, Rutgers University
• Donald E. Pearson, former professor of chemistry,Vanderbilt University
• Joseph A. Pechman, former senior fellow,Brookings Institution; former president,American Economic Association
• John Pemberton, associate professor of anthropology, Columbia University
• Selig Perlman, economist and labor historian
• August Herman Pfund, former professor of physics,Johns Hopkins University
• Andrew C. Porter, former president,AERA; former professor, Vanderbilt University; dean of education,University of Pennsylvania
• Warren P. Porter, biophysical ecologist, environmental toxicologist, and an academic
• Alejandro Portes, professor of sociology,Princeton University
• Philip S Portoghese, professor of medicinal chemistry,University of Minnesota
• Catherine Prendergast, professor of English atUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• L. Fletcher Prouty, former professor of air force science and tactics,Yale University
• Benjamin Arthur Quarles, historian
• Matthew Rabin, professor of economics, University of California, Berkeley
• Marian Radke-Yarrow, psychologist,National Institute of Mental Health
• Ronald Radosh, activist and historian
• Douglas W. Rae, professor of political science, Yale University; author ofEqualities
• Jim Ranchino, late professor of political science,Ouachita Baptist University
• John Rapp, professor of political science,Beloit College
• George Rawick, historian
• Joan Redwing, professor of materials science and engineering and electrical engineering,Pennsylvania State University
• Robert A. Rees, former professor of English,UCLA
• Thomas Reh, professor of biology,University of Washington
• J. Wayne Reitz, professor of agricultural economics; fifth president of theUniversity of Florida (1955–1967)
• Frank J. Remington, former professor of law, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Justin Rhodes, professor of psychology,University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Lori Ringhand, professor of law,University of Georgia School of Law atUniversity of Georgia
• Walter Ristow, librarian
• Temario Rivera, professor of political science,International Christian University
• Anita Roberts, former biochemist,National Cancer Institute
• Arthur H. Robinson, geographer
• Stuart Rojstaczer, former professor of geophysics,Duke University
• Gerhard Krohn Rollefson, former professor of chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
• Ediberto Roman, professor of law,Florida International University College of Law andFlorida International University
• Jia Rongqing, professor of mathematics,University of Alberta
• Charles E. Rosenberg, historian of science at Harvard University
• Milton J. Rosenberg, professor emeritus of psychology,University of Chicago
• Nathan Rosenberg, professor emeritus of economics,Stanford University; taught atCambridge University
• George C. Royal, microbiologist
• Lee Albert Rubel, former professor of mathematics,University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• David S. Ruder, former dean of law,Northwestern University
• Mary P. Ryan, professor of history,Johns Hopkins University and professor emerita of history, University of California, Berkeley
• Joseph F. Rychlak, professor of humanistic psychology,Loyola University Chicago
• Herbert J. Ryser, former professor of mathematics,California Institute of Technology andOhio State University
• Yuriko Saito, professor of philosophy,Rhode Island School of Design
• Theodore Saloutos, former professor of history,UCLA
• Warren Samuels, economist
• Austin Sarat, professor of political science,Amherst College
• Richard J. Saykally, professor of chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
• George Schaller, biologist and conservationist
• Richard Scheller, former professor of biochemistry,Stanford University
• Steven Schier, professor of political science,Carleton College
• Patrick Schloss, psychologist, author, researcher, and former president ofNorthern State University andValdosta State University
• Bernadotte Everly Schmitt, former president,American Historical Association; former professor of history,University of Chicago
• Mark Schorer, former professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
• Joan Wallach Scott, professor of history,Institute for Advanced Study
• Michael L. Scott, professor of computer science,University of Rochester
• John Searle, professor of philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
• Robert Serber, former professor of physics, Columbia University; scientist on theManhattan Project
• Ione Genevieve Shadduck (1923–2022), educator, women's rights activist, and attorney
• Jim G. Shaffer, professor of anthropology,Case Western Reserve University
• Cosma Shalizi, assistant professor of statistics,Carnegie Mellon University
• Steven Shapin, historian of science,Harvard University
• Ira Sharkansky, professor emeritus of political science,Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Lauriston Sharp, former professor of anthropology, Cornell University
• Spencer Shaw, former professor of library science,University of Washington
• Jerome Lee Shneidman, former professor of history atAdelphi University, specialist in psychohistory
• Victor Shoup, professor of mathematics,New York University
• Tobin Siebers, Co-chair of the Initiative on Disability Studies and V.L. Parrington Collegiate Professor,University of Michigan
• Mona L. Siegel, professor of history,California State University, Sacramento
• Daniel L. Simmons, professor of chemistry and director of the Cancer Research Center,Brigham Young University
• Brooks D. Simpson, professor of history,Arizona State University
• Louis B. Slichter, former professor of geophysics,MIT andUCLA
• Sumner Slichter, former professor of economics, Harvard University
• Ronald Smelser, former professor of history (University of Utah),Holocaust educator and author ofThe Myth of the Eastern Front
• William Cunningham Smith, literature scholar
• David R. Soll, professor of biology,University of Iowa
• Robert Soucy, professor emeritus of history,Oberlin College
• Roy Spencer, principal research scientist,University of Alabama in Huntsville
• Clint Sprott, physicist
• Janet Staiger, professor of communication,University of Texas-Austin
• George Stambolian, former professor of French,Wellesley College
• Kenneth M. Stampp, former professor of history, University of California, Berkeley; taught at Harvard University,Oxford University,University of London, andUniversity of Munich
• Leon C. Standifer, professor of horticulture,Louisiana State University
• Michael Starbird, professor of mathematics,University of Texas-Austin
• Stephen C. Stearns, professor of biology, Yale University
• Harry Steenbock, biochemist andVitamin D researcher
• George Steinmetz, professor of sociology,University of Michigan
• Christopher H. Sterling, professor of media and public affairs,George Washington University
• C. Eugene Steuerle, Institute Fellow,Urban Institute
• Robert Stickgold, associate professor of psychiatry, Harvard University
• Philip Stieg, professor and chairman of neurosurgery atWeill Medical College andNew York-Presbyterian Medical Center
• Gilbert Stork, professor emeritus of chemistry at Columbia University
• Murray A. Straus, sociologist and professorUniversity of New Hampshire, creator of theConflict tactics scale
• Jon Strauss, former president ofHarvey Mudd College
• Robert P. Strauss, professor of economics and public policy,Carnegie Mellon University
• Philip Taft, former professor of economics atBrown University
• Sol Tax, former professor of anthropology,University of Chicago
• Henry Charles Taylor, former professor of economics atNorthwestern University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Lily Ross Taylor, former professor of classics, University of California, Berkeley andInstitute for Advanced Study
• Paul Schuster Taylor, former professor of economics, University of California, Berkeley
• Larry Temkin, professor of philosophy,Princeton University (starting in 2011)
• Albert M. Ten Eyck, agriculturist and agronomist
• Earle M. Terry, physicist
• Victor A. Tiedjens, agricultural scientist at Rutgers University
• Virginia Tilley, chief research specialist,Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa)
• Ignacio Tinoco, Jr., professor of chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
• Steve Tittle, associate professor of composition and theory,Dalhousie University
• Andrew P. Torrence (M.A. 1951; Ph.D. 1954), president ofTennessee State University (1968–1974); executive vice president and provost ofTuskegee University (1974–1980)^[2]
• Sidney Dean Townley, former professor of astronomy,Stanford University
• Susan Traverso, president ofThiel College, former provost ofElizabethtown College
• Paul M. Treichel, chemist
• Glenn Thomas Trewartha, geographer
• Konrad Tuchscherer, associate professor of history and director of Africana studies atSt. John's University
• David Tulloch, associate professor of landscape architecture, Rutgers University
• Melvin Tumin, former professor of sociology,Princeton University
• Frederick Jackson Turner (1884, MA 1888), historian and professor, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Joseph Tussman, former professor of philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
• Michael Uebel, professor, author
• Ruth Hill Useem, former professor of sociology,Michigan State University
• Victor Vacquier, former professor of geophysics,Scripps Institute of Oceanography,University of California, San Diego
• Bonita H. Valien, PhD, former professor of sociology atFisk University, author of books about school desegregation^[3]
• Preston Valien, PhD, former professor of sociology atFisk University andBrooklyn College; cultural attache in Nigeria^[4]
• Robert van de Geijn, professor of computer science,University of Texas-Austin
• Andrew H. Van de Ven, professor of organizational innovation,University of Minnesota
• Charles Van Hise, former president, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Edwin Vedejs, former professor of chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison andUniversity of Michigan^[5]
• Martha Vicinus, professor of women's studies,University of Michigan
• Anna Augusta Von Helmholtz-Phelan, assistant professor emeritus of English,University of Minnesota
• Julia Grace Wales, former professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison; taught at theUniversity of Cambridge and theUniversity of London
• Cody Walker, lecturer in English,University of Michigan
• John Charles Walker, plant pathologist
• Hubert Stanley Wall, former mathematician atNorthwestern University and theUniversity of Texas-Austin
• Martin Walt, professor of electrical engineering,Stanford University
• David Der-wei Wang, professor of East Asian languages, Harvard University
• David Ward, former president,American Council on Education
• Arthur Waskow, former resident fellow,Institute for Policy Studies
• John Watrous, associate professor of computer science,David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at theUniversity of Waterloo
• Oliver Patterson Watts, chemical engineer
• John Carrier Weaver, former professor of geography; former vice president for academic affairs,Ohio State University; former president,University of Wisconsin System
• Warren Weaver, mathematician,Rockefeller Institute
• Lee-Jen Wei, professor of biostatistics, Harvard University
• I. Bernard Weinstein, former professor of medicine, Columbia University
• Herman B Wells, former president,Indiana University
• Norman Wengert, political scientist and professor
• Peter Wenz, professor of philosophy,University of Illinois at Springfield
• Mark Wessel, former dean,Carnegie Mellon University
• Wyatt C. Whitley, professor of chemistry,Georgia Institute of Technology
• John Wilce, former professor of medicine,Ohio State University
• John D. Wiley, former chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Dallas Willard, former professor of philosophy,University of Southern California
• T. Harry Williams, historian
• William Appleman Williams, historian of U.S. foreign relations
• Greg Williamson, lecturer in English,Johns Hopkins University
• Linda S. Wilson, president emerita,Radcliffe College; former vice president,University of Michigan
• Christopher Winship, professor of sociology, Harvard University
• Edward Witten, professor of physics,Institute for Advanced Study
• Lawrence S. Wittner, professor of history,University at Albany, SUNY
• Julian Wolpert, professor emeritus of geography, public affairs, and urban planning,Princeton University
• Joseph Wong, vice president, international atUniversity of Toronto
• David Woodward, geographer
• James Wright, 16th president ofDartmouth College
• Yang Guanghua, Chinese engineer
• Y. Lawrence Yao, professor of mechanical engineering, Columbia University
• Stephen Yenser, professor of English,UCLA
• John Milton Yinger, professor emeritus of Sociology atOberlin College
• Allyn Abbott Young, former professor of economics, Harvard University and theUniversity of London
• Brigitte Young, professor emerita of political science,University of Münster
• Hugh Edwin Young, former chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison; former president,University of Wisconsin System
• Maung Zarni, Burmese educator, academic, and human rights activist noted for his opposition to the violence inRakhine State andRohingya genocide
• Nicholas S. Zeppos, chancellor of Vanderbilt University
• Valdis Zeps, former linguist
• Zheng Xiaocang, Chinese academic administrator
• Andrew Zimbalist, professor of economics, Smith College
• Norton Zinder, professor of microbiology,Rockefeller University
• Jane Zuengler, professor of English; linguist

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