This list of Brown University faculty includes notable current and former professors, lecturers, fellows, and administrators of Brown University, an Ivy Leagueuniversity located in Providence, Rhode Island. Among the awards received by faculty, fellows, and staff are six Nobel Prizes, nine Pulitzer Prizes, and 17 MacArthur Fellowships.
Vernon L. Smith, Nobel laureate (2002, Economic Sciences), for developing empirical and scientific methods into economic research; Professor of Economics (1967–68)
George Snell, Nobel laureate (1980, Physiology or Medicine), for discovering the genetic bases of immunological reactions; Instructor in Biology
George Stigler, Nobel laureate (1982, Economic Sciences), on the influence of government regulation on the economy; Professor of Economics (1946–47)
MacArthur Fellows
Susan E. Alcock – Professor of Classics, Director of the Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World;MacArthur Fellow (2000)
David Estlund – Lombardo Family Professor of the Humanities
James L. Fitzgerald – St. Purander Das Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classics
Carlos Fuentes – Professor-at-Large in the Department of Hispanic Studies; widely considered the most influential author of the Spanish-speaking world since Jorge Luis Borges
Leela Gandhi – John Hawkes Professor of the Humanities and English
Dwight B. Heath – Research Professor of Anthropology; foremost anthropological researcher and scholar in field of alcohol studies
Stephen Houston – Dupee Family Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology
Adrienne Keene – Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor of American Studies; Native American academic and activist
David Konstan – John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classics and of Comparative Literature (1987–2010)
Hans Kurath – Professor of Germanics and Linguistics (1931–46); known for publishing the first linguistic atlas of the US Linguistic Atlas of New England, recipient of the Loubat Prize
Jacob Neusner – Professor of Judaic Studies (1968–89)[8]
Adi Ophir – Mellon Visiting Professor of Humanities and Middle East Studies
Peter van Dommelen – Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology
Africana studies
Chinua Achebe – David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies, Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic; author of Things Fall Apart, the most widely read book in modern African literature
Ama Ata Aidoo – Visiting Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts (2004–09); Ghanaian novelist and playwright, one of Africa's best-known female writers[9][10]
George Houston Bass – Professor of Theater Arts and Afro-American Studies[11]
Keisha N. Blain – Professor of Africana Studies and of History
B. Anthony Bogues – Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Professor of Africana Studies, Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Michael Eric Dyson – Assistant Professor of American Civilization and Afro-American Studies (1993–95)[12]
Lewis Gordon – Professor of Africana Studies (1997–2004)
Judy Richardson – Distinguished Visiting Lecturer of Africana Studies
Noliwe Rooks – L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Africana Studies
Tricia Rose (A.M. 1987, Ph.D. 1993) – Chancellor's Professor of Africana Studies, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
Greg Tate – Visiting Professor of Africana Studies (2012)
Tony Cokes – Professor of Modern Culture and Media
Joan Copjec – Professor of Modern Culture and Media
Mary Ann Doane – George Hazard Crooker Professor of Modern Culture and Media
Bonnie Honig – Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science
Robert Scholes – Research Professor of Modern Culture and Media; President, Modern Language Association; author, The Rise and Fall of English; co-author, The Nature of Narrative
Leslie Thornton – Professor Emerita of Modern Culture and Media
David Berson – Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, discovered third photoreceptor in the eye (in addition to rods and cones)
Elizabeth L. Brainerd – Robert P. Brown Professor of Biology and Professor of Medical Science
David E. Cane – Vernon K. Krieble Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry
Anne Fausto-Sterling (Ph.D. 1970) – Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Emerita of Biology
Judy Liu – Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Kenneth R. Miller (Sc.B. 1970) – Professor of Biology; supporter of evolution involved in numerous public debates and trials about the teaching of intelligent design in schools
Wally Snell – Assistant Professor of Botany (1920–21); Associate Professor of Botany (1921–42); Stephen T. Olney Professor of Botany (1942–45); Athletic Director (1943–47); Professor of Natural History (1945–59)[19]
Neuroscience
John Donoghue (Ph.D. 1979) – Henry Merritt Wriston Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Engineering
Michael J. Frank – Edgar L. Marston Professor of Psychology, Director of the Center for Computational Brain Science
Leigh Hochberg (B.Sc. 1990) – L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Engineering
William H. Warren – Chancellor's Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences
Earth sciences
Kim Cobb – Professor of Environment and Society and Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Karen M. Fischer – Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor of the Geological Sciences
Meredith G. Hastings – Professor of Environment and Society and Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
James W. Head (Ph.D. 1969) – Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Geological Sciences
Timothy D. Herbert – Henry L. Doherty Professor of Oceanography, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
John Imbrie – Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences
Amanda Lynch – Sloan Lindemann and George Lindemann, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Environment and Society and Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
James M. Russell – Chair of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Peter H. Schultz – Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Medicine and public health
Eli Y. Adashi – Professor of Medical Science, 5th Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences
Megan Ranney (M.P.H. 2010) – Warren Alpert Endowed Professor of Department of Emergency Medicine and Academic Dean of the School of Public Health (2008–2023)
Eli Upfal – Rush Hawkins Professor of Computer Science
Andries van Dam – Thomas J. Watson Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science, Vice President for Research (2002–06); computer graphics and hypertext pioneer
Nadje Sadig Al-Ali – Robert Family Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies
J. Brian Atwood – Visiting Scholar in International and Public Affairs
Thomas J. Biersteker – Director of the Watson Institute for International Studies and Henry R. Luce Professor of Transnational Organizations (1992–2006)
Richard Boucher – Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs; former deputy secretary-general of the OECD
Galina Starovoitova – Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor 1994–1998; member of Russian Duma; leader of reformist Democratic Russia party; assassinated November 20, 1998[28]
J. Ann Tickner– Visiting Scholar (1997); Visiting Adjunct Professor (2004–09)
Ashutosh Varshney – Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences
Margaret Weir – Wilson Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science
Darrell M. West – John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy (2000–08), vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution;[29]
Economics
Anna Aizer – Maurice R. Greenberg Professor of Economics
Mark Blyth – William R. Rhodes '57 Professor of International Economics and Director of the Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
Dennis Wrong– Assistant Professor of Sociology (1956–61); during his tenure, Wrong published “The Oversocialized Conception of Man in Modern Sociology”
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