Following is a partial list of notable faculty (either past, present or visiting) of New York University. As of 2014, among NYU's past and present faculty, there are at least 159 Guggenheim Fellows, over 7 Lasker Award winners, and more than 200 are currently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Nobel laureates
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Susan C. Antón, professor at the College of Arts and Science
- K. Anthony Appiah, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Rachel E. Barkow, professor at School of Law
- Gérard Ben Arous, professor at Courant
- Thomas Bender, professor emeritus at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Marsha Berger, professor at Courant
- John Brademas, president emeritus
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Jeff Cheeger, professor at Courant
- Percy Deift, professor at Courant
- Paul DiMaggio, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- George W. Downs, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Paula England, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Miranda Fricker, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- David W. Garland, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Linda Gordon, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Leslie Greengard, professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering
- Jonathan Haidt, professor at Stern School of Business
- Andrew D. Hamilton, president emeritus, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Russell Hardin, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Stephen Taylor Holmes, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Jennifer Homans, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Michael Hout, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Perri Klass, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Yusef Komunyakaa, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Steven Koonin, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
- Peter Lax, professor at Courant
- Fang-Hua Lin, professor at Courant
- Beatrice Longuenesse, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Rudolph Marcus, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
- James McBride, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Henry McKean, professor at Courant
- Cathleen Morawetz, professor at Courant
- Trevor Morrison, professor at School of Law
- Samuel Morse, professor at Tandon School of Engineering, Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Fred Moten, professor at Tisch School
- Charles Newman, professor at Courant
- Louis Nirenberg, professor at Courant
- Charles Peskin, professor at Courant
- Adam Przeworski, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Claudia Rankine, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Debraj Ray, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Renato Rosaldo, professor emeritus at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Eero Simoncelli, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- K. R. Sreenivasan, professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering, Graduate School of Arts and Science
- David Stasavage, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Thomas J. Sugrue, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Jeremy Waldron, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Barbara Weinstein, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Deborah Willis, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science and Tisch School
- Margaret Wright, professor at Courant
- Lai-Sang Young, professor at Courant
Members of the National Academy of Sciences
Members of the National Academy of Engineering
Guggenheim Fellows
MacArthur Fellows
Rhodes Scholars
National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation, Arts and Humanities recipients
Abel Prize recipients
College of Arts and Science (undergraduate and graduate)
Tandon School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic School of Engineering)
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
This is a small selection of Courant's famous faculty over the years and a few of their distinctions:
Stern School of Business
Tisch School of the Arts
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
- Sinan Antoon, Iraqi Novelist and Poet
- Taylor Antrim, Novelist and Journalist
- Mitchell Joachim, Sustainable Design, TED Senior Fellow
- Myles Jackson, Historian of Science and Technology
- John Sexton, President of NYU teaches the seminar "Baseball as a Road to God"
- E. Frances White, former Dean, historian of Africa, African American Studies
- Frank Leon Roberts, writer, commentator, activist
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
School of Law
NYU Law has the second highest number of faculty who are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences with 19 inductees, behind only Harvard.
Notable professors include:
- Alberto Alemanno (European Union law)
- William Allen (corporate law, chancellor of Delaware)
- Philip Alston (human rights)
- Anthony Amsterdam (criminal law, capital punishment)
- Kwame Anthony Appiah (legal philosophy)
- Deborah Archer (racial justice, civil rights)
- Rachel Barkow (administrative law, criminal law and procedure)
- Robert Bauer (law and politics, political reform)
- Dorit Beinisch (national security law)
- Jerome A. Cohen (Chinese law)
- Lawrence Collins (transnational litigation)
- Richard Epstein (law and economics, torts, health law & policy)
- Cynthia Estlund (labor law, employment law, property)
- Samuel Estreicher (labor law, employment law, administrative law)
- Tali Farhadian (criminal law)
- Barry Friedman (constitutional law, criminal law)
- David W. Garland (criminal law, sociology)
- Stephen Gillers (legal ethics)
- Douglas H. Ginsburg (administrative law)
- Stephen Holmes (liberal democracy)
- Samuel Issacharoff (procedure, democracy)
- Sally Katzen (administrative law)
- Benedict Kingsbury (international law)
- John Koeltl (constitutional litigation)
- Theodor Meron (international law)
- Arthur R. Miller (civil procedure, copyright, and privacy)
- Trevor Morrison (dean, constitutional law)
- Melissa Erica Murray (constitutional law)
- Thomas Nagel (legal philosophy)
- Burt Neuborne (evidence, Holocaust litigation expert)
- Richard Pildes (constitutional law, election law)
- Richard Revesz (environmental law)
- Samuel Scheffler (legal philosophy)
- John Sexton (civil procedure)
- Catherine Sharkey (tort law, empirical legal studies)
- Linda J. Silberman (conflict of laws, civil procedure, international arbitration)
- Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Christopher Jon Sprigman (intellectual property, torts, antitrust, comparative constitutional law)
- Bryan Stevenson (criminal law, capital punishment)
- Jeremy Waldron (legal philosophy)
- Joseph H. H. Weiler (international law)
- Joan Wexler (born 1946), dean and president of Brooklyn Law School
- Katrina Wyman (environmental law, property law)
- Kenji Yoshino (constitutional law, LGBT rights)
Grossman School of Medicine
Silver School of Social Work
NYU Abu Dhabi
Notable faculty include:
NYU Shanghai
Professor emeriti and other notable faculty
New York University Presidents
New York University founders
Founders of NYU include:
See also
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