This article lists notable faculty (past and present) of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Nobel laureates
Current faculty
- Michel Devoret, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2025
- David Gross, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2004
- Alan Heeger, Nobel Prize recipient, Chemistry, 2000
- Finn Kydland, Nobel Prize recipient, Economics, 2004
- John M. Martinis, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2025
- Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2014
Former faculty
- Edward C. Prescott, Nobel Prize recipient, Economics, 2004
- Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize recipient, Chemistry, 1998
- Herbert Kroemer, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2000
- John Robert Schrieffer, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 1972
- Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2004
Pulitzer Prize
Anthropology
Art
Botany
Chemical engineering
Chemistry and biochemistry
Chicano studies
Computer science
Counseling, clinical, and school psychology
- Shane R. Jimerson, 2003 co-recipient of the Lightner Witmer Award from the American Psychological Association; noted for his work in school psychology and traumatic stress
- Tania Israel expert in LGBTQ intervention research and dialogue across political disagreement
East Asian languages and cultural studies
Ecology, evolution, and marine biology
Electrical and computer engineering
English
Feminist studies
Film and media studies
Geography
Geology
Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic studies
Global and international studies
History
- James F. Brooks, Professor of History and Anthropology, Native American history
- Alexander DeConde, professor emeritus of History, US diplomatic history
- Dimitrije ÃÂorÃÂeviÃÂ, late Professor of History, Modern Balkan History
- Mary O. Furner, Professor of History, 20th century US
- Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Professor of History, Russian and Soviet history
- C. Warren Hollister, late Professor of History, Medieval Europe
- Immanuel C. Y. Hsu, late Professor of Chinese history
- Wilbur Jacobs, late Professor of History, Native American and Frontier History
- Nelson Lichtenstein, Professor of History, US Labor
- Albert Lindemann, professor emeritus of History, Modern European history
- Harold Marcuse, Associate Professor, Modern European history
- Joachim Remak, late Professor of History, Modern European History
- W. Patrick McCray, Professor of History, History of Science
- David Rock, professor emeritus of History, Latin American history
- Jeffrey Burton Russell, professor emeritus of History, Medieval European history
- Paul Spickard, Professor of History, 20th-century US, world, and ethnic history
- Jeffrey C. Stewart an American Professor of Black Studies
Linguistics
Materials
Mathematics
Mechanical engineering
Media arts and technology
Molecular and cellular biology
Music
- Annie Mottram Craig Batten (1883âÂÂ1964), singer, vocal instructor, and composer. Taught in the State Teachers' College, Santa Barbara (today, UCSB) during summer session, 1921; head of the Music Department, 1922.
- John Dearman, Grammy Award-winning classical guitarist, member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ), Director of Guitar Studies
- Alejandro Planchart, Emeritus, professor of musicology, expert on Guillaume Dufay
Philosophy
Physics
Political science
Psychological and brain sciences
Religious studies
Sociology
See also
References