Members of the Faculty Ex Officio

University Professors

University Professors Emeritus/Emerita

Jacques Barzun. University Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Columbia, 1932

Caroline W. Bynum. University Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Harvard, 1969

Louis Henkin. University Professor Emeritus and Special Service Professor; B.A., Yeshiva, 1937; LL.B., Harvard, 1940; L.H.D., Yeshiva, 1963

Donald Keene. University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature; B.A., Columbia, 1942; M.A., 1947; M.A., Cambridge, 1949; Ph.D., Columbia, 1951; D.Litt., Cambridge, 1978

Fritz R. Stern. University Professor Emeritus; B.A., Columbia, 1946; M.A., 1948; Ph.D., 1953

John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University Emeritus

Wm. Theodore deBary. John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus of the University and Special Service Professor; B.A., Columbia, 1941; M.A., 1948; Ph.D., 1953; D.Litt., St. Lawrence, 1968; L.H.D., Loyola (Chicago), 1970

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Anthropology				Back to Top
Nadia Abu El-Haj : Associate Professor (Barnard) , Ph.D. , Duke , 1995 Interests: Social cultural anthropology, anthropology of science, colonialism, race; Middle East
Lila Abu-Lughod : Professor , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1984 Interests: Social anthropology, gender, popular culture and oral literature, self and emotion, Third World media, social transformation, politics of scholarship, Islam; Middle East
Alexander Alland Jr. (Part-time faculty) : Professor Emeritus , Ph.D. , Yale , 1963 Interests: Evolutionary theory, art and society, symbolic anthropology, French anthropology; Africa, western Europe
Partha Chatterjee : Professor , Ph.D. , Rochester , 1971 Interests: Nation and state, political theory, political economy, colonialism, religion, agrarianism, globalization; South Asia
Myron L. Cohen : Professor , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1967 Interests: Social organization, political organization, complex societies, peasant societies; China; East Asia
Elaine Combs-Schilling : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , California (Berkeley) , 1981 Interests: Symbolic anthropology, political anthropology; nation-state formation; gender; sexual politics; North Africa; Middle East
Zoë Crossland : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Michigan , 2001 Interests: Historical archaeology, forensic archaeology, semeiotics; Madagascar Argentina
Terence N. D'Altroy : Professor , Ph.D. , California (Los Angeles) , 1981 Interests: Archaeology; comparative study of early empires; archaeological method and theory, research design; Andean South America
E. Valentine Daniel : Professor , Ph.D. , Chicago , 1979 Interests: Semiotic anthropology, refugees, states of violence, critical theory; South Asia
Nicholas De Genova : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Chicago , 1999 Interests: Sociocultural anthropology and Latino studies, U.S.-Mexico migration and transnational social processes, racialization, labor and class formation, the production of urban space, nationalism, the politics of citizenship and immigration law and the politics of ethnographic research practice
Nicholas De Genova : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Chicago , 1999 Interests: Sociocultural anthropology and Latino studies; U.S.-Mexico migration and transnational social process, racialization, labor and class formation, the production of urban space, nationalism, the politics of citizenship and immigration law, and the politics of ethnographic research practice
Nicholas B. Dirks : Vice President for Arts and Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Professor of History , Ph.D. , Chicago , 1981 Interests: Historical anthropology, history of anthropology, philosophy of history, colonialism; British Empire, South Asia
Severin M. Fowles : Assistant Professor (Barnard) , Ph.D. , Michigan , 1998 Interests: Archaelogical theory, religion and ritual, theocracy, landscape, village societiesoral history, archaeology and ethnography of American Southwest
Steven Gregory : Professor , Ph.D. , New School , 1986 Interests: Urban studies, environmental justice, cultural race theory, African-American political activism, cultural studies
Ralph L. Holloway : Professor , Ph.D. , California (Berkeley) , 1964 Interests: Physical anthropology; evolution of brain and behavior; paleoanthropology
Marilyn Ivy : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Cornell , 1988 Interests: Critical theory, history, anthropology of modernity, literature and textuality; Japan
Paul Kockelman : Assistant Professor (Barnard) , Ph.D. , Chicago , 2002 Interests: Linguistic anthropology, personhood and developmental disorders; Guatemala and urban U.S.
Brian Larkin : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , New York University , 1998 Interests: Media, Islam, contemporary cultural theory, globalization; urban Africa
Brian Larkin : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , New York , 1998 Interests: Media, Islam, contemporary cultural theory, globalization; urban Africa
Claudio Lomnitz : Professor of Anthropology and Director of Center for Study of Ethnicity and Race , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1987 Interests: Anthropology and history of Latin America, historical anthropology, political anthropology, anthropology of corruption and death, historicity and crisis in contemporary societies, cultural geography, intellectuals, ethnography of the state, public culture; Mexico, Latin America
Mahmood Mamdani : Herbert Lehman Professor of Government (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of International and Public Affairs) , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1974 Interests: Reproduction of political identities, institutional reproduction of knowledge, particularly in what is called "African Studies"
Brinkley Messick : Professor , Ph.D. , Princeton , 1978 Interests: Cultural theory, historical anthropology, law, ethnography of writing, political economy; Middle East, North Africa
Hlonipha Mokoena : Assistant Professor , Ph.D. , Cape Town , 2005 Interests: Zulu intellectual history, colonialism, missionaries, public spheres; South Africa
Rosalind Morris : Professor , Ph.D. , Chicago , 1994 Interests: Mass media, visuality, theory of modernity, social theory, gender and sexuality; Southeast Asia, South Africa
Neni Panourgiá : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Indiana , 1992 Interests: Sociocultural anthropology, anthropological theory, history of anthropology, anthropology of medicine, death, myths, anthropology and classics, concentration camps, the European Left; Europe, Greece
John Pemberton : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , Cornell , 1989 Interests: Colonial/postcolonial studies, historiography, politics, discourse, ritual practice, translation; Java, Indonesia
Elizabeth A. Povinelli : Professor , Ph.D. , Yale , 1991 Interests: Language, culture and power, subjectivity and sexuality, critical theory, liberalism and multiculturalism, indigenous and human rights; Australia, U.S.
Nan A. Rothschild : Ann Whitney Olin Professor Emerita (Barnard) , Ph.D. , New York , 1975 Interests: Urban and historic archaeology, colonial encounters, archaeology and social organization, museum anthropology; North America, U.S.
David Scott : Professor , Ph.D. , New School , 1989 Interests: Colonialism, postcolonialism, politics, cultural theory; Sri Lanka, Caribbean
Karen Seeley : Lecturer , Ph.D. , Pennsylvania , 1997 Interests: Psychological anthropology, cultural psychology, cultural psychotherapy, comparative human development, psychoanalysis
Lesley A. Sharp : Professor (Barnard) , Ph.D. , California (Berkeley) , 1990 Interests: Medical anthropology, symbolics of the body, biotechnologies, trans-cultural psychiatry, religion, anthropology of work, migration, gender and youth, theory of methods, Africa, Indian Ocean, U.S.
Michael Taussig : Professor , Ph.D. , London School of Economics , 1974 Interests: Theory, colonialism, shamanism, terror, folk healing, mimesis, magicalities of the state, secrecy, experimental ethnography; Latin America
Paige West : Associate Professor (Barnard) , PhD , Rutgers , 2000 Interests: Environmentalism, globalization, critical anaylses of conservation and development, bioethics, consumption; Melanesia Pacific
Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics				Back to Top
William E. Bailey : Associate Professor of Materials Science (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics , Ph.D. , Stanford , 1999 Interests: nanoscale magnetic films & heterostructures, materials issues in spin-polarized transport, materials engineering of magnetic dynamics
Guillaume Bal : Associate Professor , Ph.D. , University of Paris , 1977 Interests: applied mathematics, wave propagation in random media & applications to time reversal, inverse problems with applications to medical imaging and earth science
Allen H. Boozer : Professor , Ph.D. , Cornell University , 1970 Interests: plasma theory, theory of magnetic confinement for fusion energy, nonlinear dynamics
Mark A. Cane : Professor (Earth and Environmental Sciences);G. Unger Vetlesen Professor, Earth and Climate Sciences, Applied Physics, Applied Mathematics , Ph.D. , MIT , 1975 Interests: climate dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics;Impacts of Climate on Society, E l Niño forecasting
Barbara E. Carlson : Adjunct Professor , co-sponsor, Ph.D. , SUNY Stony Brook , 1984 Interests: radiative transfer modeling, analysis & interpretation of remote sensing data, cloud physics, & tropospheric chemistry
Siu-Wai Chan : Professor of Materials Science (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics , Sc.D. , MIT , 1985 Interests: nanoparticles, electronic ceramics, grain boundaries and interfaces, oxide thin films
Chia Kun Chu : Professor Emeritus (Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics) , Ph.D. , Courant Institute (New York University) , 1959 Interests: applied mathematics, large-scale scientific computing, fluid dynamics
Morton B. Friedman : Professor (Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics) , D.Sc. , NYU , 1953 Interests: applied mathematics and mechanics, numerical analysis, parallel computing;Mathematics, System Analysis, Parallel Processing Algorithms, Probability and Statistics
Timothy M. Hall : Adjunct Professor , co-sponsor, Ph.D. , Cornell , 1991 Interests: atmosphere & ocean dynamics, transport of geophysical tracers, ocean carbon uptake
Irving P. Herman : Professor , Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1977 Interests: Nanocrystals, optical spectroscopy of nanostructured materials, laser diagnostics of thin film processing, physics of solids at high pressure, plasma processing of materials
John L. Humm : Adjunct Associate Professor , co-sponsor, Ph.D. , Polytechnic of the South Bank (U.K.) , 1978 Interests: Nuclear imaging physics, positron emission tomography, radionuclide dosimetry
James S. Im : Professor of Materials Science (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics , Ph.D. , MIT , 1989 Interests: laser-induced crystallization of thin films, phase transformations and nucleation in condensed systems
David E. Keyes : Professor , Ph.D. , Harvard , 1984 Interests: applied & computational mathematics for PDEs, computational science, parallel numerical algorithms, parallel performance analysis, PDE-constrained optimization
Michael E. Mauel : Professor , Sc.D. , MIT , 1983 Interests: plasma physics, waves & instabilities, fusion & equilibrium control, space physics, plasma processing
Ron L. Miller : Adjunct Professor , co-sponsor, Ph.D. , MIT , 1990 Interests: climate dynamics, aerosols & climate
Gerald A. Navratil : Professor , Ph.D. , University of Wisconsin (Madison) , 1976 Interests: plasma physics, plasma diagnostics, fusion energy science
Gertrude Neumark : Howe Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1951 Interests: material science and physics of semiconductors with emphasis on optical and electrical properties of wide bandgap semiconductors and light emitting devices
Ismail C. Noyan : Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics , Ph.D. , Northwestern University , 1984 Interests: characterization and modeling of mechanical and micromechanical deformation; residual stress analysis and nondestructive testing; x-ray and neutron diffraction, microdiffraction analysis
Stephen P. O'Brien : Associate Professor, Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics , D.Phil. , Oxford University , 1998 Interests: inorganic materials science, synthesis of novel nanocrystals, molecule-based nanoscale design
Richard M. Osgood Jr. : Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics , Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1973 Interests: Surface physics, optical and laser physics and devices, integrated optics
Thomas S. Pedersen : Associate Professor, Applied Physics , Ph.D. , MIT , 2000 Interests: plasma physics, magnetic confinement, fusion energy, non-neutral plasmas, positron-electron plasmas, plasma turbulence
Aron Pinczuk : Professor, Physics and Applied Physics , Ph.D. , Pennsylvania , 1969 Interests: Condensed matter physics, spectroscopy of semiconductors and insulators, quantum structures and interfaces, electrons in systems of reduced dimensions, electron quantum fluids
Lorenzo M. Polvani : Professor, Applied Mathematics and Earth and Environmental Sciences , Ph.D. , MIT , 1988 Interests: atmospheric, oceanic, and planetary science, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational fluid mechanics. passive and active global
Malvin A. Ruderman : Centennial Professor, Physics , Ph.D. , California Institute of Technology , 1951 Interests: Theoretical astrophysics, neutron stars, pulsars, early universe, cosmic gamma rays
Stephen A. Sabbagh : Adjunct Professor , co-sponsor, Ph.D. , Columbia , 1990 Interests: plasma physics, experimental MHD equilibrium reconstruction stability analysis, parallel computing, passive global mode stabilization physics
Christopher H. Scholz : Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics , Ph.D. , MIT , 1967 Interests: experimental and theoretical rock mechanics, especially friction, fracture, hydraulic transport properties, nonlinear systems, mechanics of earthquakes and faulting
Amiya K. Sen : Professor, Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics , Ph.D. , Columbia , 1963 Interests: plasma physics, fluctuations and anomalous transport in plasmas, control of plasma instabilities, transport in nanostructures;Plasma physics and controlled thermonuclear fusion, Plasma waves and instabilities and their feedback control, Plasma turbulence and anomalous transport
Adam H. Sobel : Associate Professor, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Environmental Sciences , Ph.D. , MIT , 1998 Interests: atmospheric science, geophysical fluid dynamics, tropical meteorology, climate dynamics
Marc W. Spiegelman : Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics , Ph.D. , Cambridge University (U.K.) , 1989 Interests: coupled fluid/solid mechanics, reactive fluid flow, solid earth & magma dynamics, scientific computation/modeling
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