List of University of Michigan faculty and staff

As of fall 2023, the University of Michigan employs 8,189 faculty members, including 44 living members of the National Academy of Sciences, 63 living members of the National Academy of Medicine, 28 living members of the National Academy of Engineering, 98 living members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and 17 living members of the American Philosophical Society.

Current faculty

A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning

• Eric J. Hill, professor of practice in architecture

College of Engineering

• Sushil Atreya, Professor of atmospheric and space sciences; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
• Ellen Arruda, Maria Comninou Collegiate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Tim Manganello / Borg Warner Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering
• Don Chaffin, Richard G. Snyder Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
• Stephen Forrest, Peter A. Franken Distinguished University Professor of Engineering
• Robert D. Gregg, bioengineer
• Sharon Glotzer, Stuart W. Churchill Professor of Chemical Engineering. Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics and Macromolecular Science and Engineering
• Yoram Koren, James J. Duderstadt University Professor of Manufacturing and Paul G. Goebel Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Ronald G. Larson, George Granger Brown Professor of Chemical Engineering
• Emmett Leith, created the first working hologram in 1962
• Jason Mars, conversational AI researcher, founder of ClincAI
• Joaquim Martins, Pauline M. Sherman Collegiate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering
• Panos Papalambros, Donald C. Graham Professor Emeritus of Engineering
• Lutgarde Raskin, Altarum/ERIM Russell O’Neal Professor and Vernon L. Snoeyink Distinguished University Professor
• Elliott J. Rouse, mechanical engineer, roboticist
• Kamal Sarabandi, Rufus S. Teesdale Professor of Engineering, director of Radiation Laboratory, Department of Electrical Entering and Computer Science; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
• Nadine Sarter, Richard W. Pew Collegiate Professor Emeritus
• Dawn Tilbury, Herrick Professor of Engineering
• Leung Tsang, Robert J. Hiller Professor of Engineering
• Fawwaz Ulaby, R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
• A. Galip Ulsoy, C.D. Mote Jr. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and the William Clay Ford Professor Emeritus of Manufacturing; co-inventor of the Reconfigurable Manufacturing System; deputy director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
• Juris Upatnieks, created the first working hologram in 1962

School for Environment and Sustainability

• Arun Agrawal, Samuel Trask Dana Professor
• Rosina Bierbaum, Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy
• Andrew Hoffman, an expert in environmental pollution and sustainable enterprise; Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise
• Maria Carmen Lemos, Professor; Associate Dean for Research and Engagement
• Jonathan Overpeck, William B. Stapp Collegiate Professor of Environmental Education
• Ivette Perfecto, Bunyan Bryant Collegiate Professor of Environmental Justice

School of Information

• Daniel E. Atkins, Professor Emeritus of Information
• Elizabeth Yakel, professor and senior associate dean for academic affairs, specializing in digital archives and digital preservation

Institute for Social Research

• Vincent Hutchings, Hanes Walton Jr. Collegiate Professor of Political Science
• Donald R. Kinder, Philip E. Converse Professor

Law School

• Theodore J. St. Antoine, James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor Emeritus of Law; labor arbitrator
• Reuven Avi-Yonah, Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law
• Karima Bennoune, Lewis M. Simes Professor of Law
• Rebecca S. Eisenberg, Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor of Law
• Daniel Halberstam, Eric Stein Collegiate Professor of Law
• James R. Hines Jr., L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law
• Ellen D. Katz, Ralph W. Aigler Professor of Law
• Vikramaditya Khanna, William W. Cook Professor of Law
• Jessica Litman, John F. Nickoll Professor of Law
• Leah Litman, Professor of Law
• Kyle D. Logue, Douglas A. Kahn Collegiate Professor of Law
• Catharine MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law; feminist legal theorist
• William Ian Miller, Thomas G. Long Professor of Law; author of The Anatomy of Disgust
• Aaron Perzanowski, Thomas W. Lacchia Professor of Law
• John A. E. Pottow, John Philip Dawson Collegiate Professor of Law
• Richard Primus, Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor of Law
• Steven R. Ratner, Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law
• Rebecca J. Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law
• Ekow Yankah, Thomas M. Cooley Professor of Law

Life Sciences Institute

• Roger D. Cone, Mary Sue Coleman Director of the Life Sciences Institute and the Vice Provost for the Biosciences Initiative
• Janet L. Smith, Rita Willis Professor of the Life Sciences and Center for Structural Biology Faculty Director

College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Afroamerican and African Studies

• Angela D. Dillard, Earl Lewis Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies

American Culture

• Kristin Ann Hass, professor in the Department of American Culture

Anthropology

• Ruth Behar, Professor at the Department of Anthropology
• Kent Flannery, James B. Griffin Distinguished University Professor of Anthropological Archaeology
• Judith Irvine, Edward Sapir Distinguished University Professor
• Conrad Phillip Kottak, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology
• Joyce Marcus, Professor of anthropology
• Erik Mueggler, Katherine Verdery Collegiate Professor of Anthropology
• Milford Wolpoff, Professor of anthropology
• Henry Wright, Professor of anthropology

Astronomy

• Edwin Bergin, Professor of Astronomy
• Nuria Calvet, Helen Dodson Prince Collegiate Professor of Astronomy
• Sally Oey, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor

Chemistry

• Julie Biteen, Janine Maddock Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and of Biophysics
• Charles L. Brooks III, Cyrus Levinthal Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics; Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Chemistry
• Brian Coppola, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
• Theodore Goodson III, Richard Barry Bernstein Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering
• Robert Kennedy, Hobart H Willard Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacology
• Adam J. Matzger, Charles G. Overberger Collegiate Professor of Chemistry, and Macromolecular Science & Engineering
• Anne McNeil, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
• Alison R. H. Narayan, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Research Associate Professor, Life Sciences Institute
• Vincent L. Pecoraro, John T. Groves Collegiate Professor of Chemistry; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
• James Penner-Hahn, George A Lindsay Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics
• Melanie Sanford, Moses Gomberg Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
• Nils G. Walter, Francis S Collins Collegiate Professor of Chemistry, Biophysics, and Biological Chemistry
• John P. Wolfe, Professor of Chemistry and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies

Comparative Literature

• Anton Shammas, professor of comparative literature and modern Middle Eastern literature

Earth and Environmental Sciences

• Joel D. Blum, Gerald J Keeler Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Economics

• Kathryn M. Dominguez, Professor of Economics and Director of Undergraduate Honors
• James R. Hines Jr., Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor of Economics
• Amanda Kowalski, Gail Wilensky Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy
• Joel Slemrod, David Bradford Distinguished University Professor of Economics
• Melvin Stephens Jr., Professor of Economics
• Linda Tesar, Alan V. Deardorff Collegiate Professor of Economics
• Toni Whited, Professor of Economics
• Justin Wolfers, Professor of Economics

English Language and Literature

• Linda Gregerson, Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor at University of Michigan
• Laura Kasischke, Theodore Roethke Professor of English Language and Literature
• Khaled Mattawa, Professor of English Language and Literature
• Thylias Moss, Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature; developed Limited Fork Poetics

History

• Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History; notable for his weblog "Informed Comment", covering events in the Middle East
• Derek Peterson, professor in the departments of History and Afroamerican and African Studies
• Rebecca J. Scott, Professor of History, won the 2006 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery
• Heather Ann Thompson, professor of American history; for her book on the Attica Prison uprising of 1971.

Linguistics

• Sarah Thomason, William H. Gedney Professor of Linguistics

Mathematics

• Silas D. Alben, Professor; Sloan Research Fellow
• Alexander Barvinok, Professor; works on the combinatorics and computational complexity of polytopes with symmetry
• Hyman Bass, Samuel Eilenberg Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Mathematics Education; known for algebraic K-theory, commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, algebraic groups, and Riemann zeta function; awarded the Cole Prize for his paper, Unitary algebraic K-theory, Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics, volume 343, 1973
• Lydia Bieri, Professor; Simons Fellow
• Andreas Blass, Professor Emeritus; works in mathematical logic, particularly set theory, and theoretical computer science
• Liliana Borcea, Peter Field Collegiate Professor of Mathematics; works in scientific computing and applied mathematics
• Richard Canary, Professor; working on low-dimensional topology
• Dmitry Chelkak, Keeler Professor; worked with Fields medalist Stanislav Smirnov on the Ising models of statistical mechanics
• Igor Dolgachev, Professor Emeritus; known for Dolgachev surface
• Sergey Fomin, Richard P. Stanley Distinguished University Professor; introduced Cluster algebra with Andrei Zelevinsky; mentored Fields medalist June Huh
• William Fulton, Oscar Zariski Distinguished University Professor Emeritus; received the Steele Prize for mathematical exposition for his text Intersection Theory
• Robert L. Griess, John Griggs Thompson Distinguished University Professor of mathematics; known for Classification of sporadic groups (Happy Family and pariahs), Construction of the Fischer–Griess Monster group, Gilman–Griess theorem, and Griess algebra
• Melvin Hochster, Jack E. McLaughlin Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics; commutative algebraist; Guggenheim fellow; awarded the Cole Prize for his paper Topics in the homological theory of commutative rings, CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics, Number 24, American Mathematical Society, 1975.
• Trachette Jackson, Professor; works in mathematical oncology
• Lizhen Ji, Professor; Simons Fellow
• Sarah Koch, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; works in complex analysis, complex dynamics, and Teichmüller theory
• Robert Krasny, Arthur F Thurnau Professor; working in the field of scientific computing
• Jeffrey Lagarias, Harold Mead Stark Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics; disproved Keller's conjecture in dimensions at least 10
• Hugh L. Montgomery, Professor Emeritus; known for Analytic number theory
• Mircea Mustata, algebraic geometer; mentored Fields medalist June Huh
• Karen E. Smith, William Fulton Distinguished University Professor; awarded the Satter Prize for her outstanding work in commutative algebra
• Ralf J. Spatzier, Professor; specialising in differential geometry, dynamical systems, and ergodic theory
• Sijue Wu, Robert W. and Lynne H. Browne Professor of Mathematics; awarded the Satter Prize for her work on a long-standing problem in the water wave equation
• Virginia R. Young, Cecil J. and Ethel M. Nesbitt Professor of Actuarial Mathematics; actuary

Philosophy

• Elizabeth S. Anderson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies
• Allan Gibbard, Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus
• Lawrence Sklar, William K. Frankena Collegiate Professor and Professor of Philosophy, Guggenheim fellow 1974

Physics

• Fred Adams, Ta-You Wu Collegiate Professor of Physics
• Christine Aidala, Professor of Physics
• Timothy E. Chupp, Professor of Physics and Biomedical Engineering
• Steven Cundiff, Harrison M. Randall Collegiate Professor of Physics
• Henriette Elvang, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
• David Gerdes, Chair of Physics Department; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics
• Gordon Kane, Victor Weisskopf Collegiate Professor of Physics
• Timothy A. McKay, Interim Dean, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics, Astronomy, Education, and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
• Roberto Merlin, Peter A. Franken Collegiate Professor of Physics
• Mark Newman, Anatol Rapoport Distinguished University Professor of Complex Systems and Physics
• Jianming Qian, David M. Dennison Collegiate Professor of Physics
• Ctirad Uher, C. Wilbur Peters Collegiate Professor of Physics
• James D. Wells, Professor of Physics
• Leopoldo Pando Zayas, professor of physics, specializing in string theory

Psychology

• Kent C. Berridge, James Olds Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
• David Dunning, first described the Dunning-Kruger effect
• William Gehring, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Psychology
• Patricia Gurin, Nancy Cantor Professor (emerita) of Psychology and Women's Studies
• Marita Inglehart, Inaugural University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor
• Ethan Kross, professor of psychology and management
• Catherine Lord, Professor Emerita of Psychology and Psychiatry
• Vonnie C. McLoyd, professor of psychology and research scientist at the Center for Human Growth and Development
• David E. Meyer, Clyde H. Coombs and J. E. Keith Smith Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Psychology and Cognitive Science
• Richard Nisbett, Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor, psychology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
• Robert Sellers, James S. Jackson Distinguished University Professor of Psychology
• Henry Wellman, Harold W. Stevenson Collegiate Professor Emeritus of Psychology

Sociology

• George Steinmetz, Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Germanic Languages and Literatures

Medical School

• Huda Akil, Gardner C. Quarton Professor of Neurosciences in psychiatry, professor of psychiatry and co-director and senior research scientist of the U-M Mental Health Research Institute; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
• James P. Bagian, Director, Center for Risk Analysis Informed Decision Engineering
• Robert Bartlett, Professor Emeritus of Surgery
• Edward Bove, head, Section of Cardiac Surgery
• Arul Chinnaiyan, S.P. Hicks Endowed Professor of Pathology
• Kathleen R. Cho, Peter A. Ward Professor of Pathology
• Eric Fearon, Emanuel N Maisel Professor of Oncology
• Eva Feldman, James W Albers Distinguished University Professor of Neurology
• Daniel Fisher, Claude W. Hibbard Collegiate Professor of Paleontology, professor of geological sciences, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and curator of paleontology; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
• Sid Gilman, William J. Herdman Professor of Neurology
• Lori L. Isom, Maurice H. Seevers Collegiate Professor of Pharmacology
• Eve A. Kerr, Kutsche Memorial Chair of Internal Medicine
• Theodore Lawrence, Professor of Radiation Oncology
• Anna Suk-Fong Lok, Dame Sheila Sherlock Distinguished University Professor of Hepatology and Internal Medicine
• George Mashour, Robert B. Sweet Professor of Anesthesiology
• Rowena G. Matthews, G. Robert Greenberg Distinguished University Professor, biological chemistry
• Michael Mulholland, Professor Emeritus of Surgery
• Karin Muraszko, Professor of Neurosurgery
• Lisa M. Meeks, specialist in disabilities
• Gilbert S. Omenn, professor of internal medicine & Human genetics, and of public health
• Henry L. Paulson, Lucile Groff Professor of Neurology for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
• Stanley Watson, Ralph Waldo Gerard Professor of Neurosciences
• James Woolliscroft, Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine and Professor Emeritus of Learning Health Sciences
• Weiping Zou, Charles B de Nancrede Professor of Surgery, Immunology and Biology; director for translational research

School of Music, Theatre & Dance

• Michael Daugherty, Professor of Composition at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance
• Aaron Dworkin, fellow and founder and president of Detroit-based Sphinx Organization
• Bright Sheng, professor of composition and music theory

School of Nursing

• Christopher Friese, Elizabeth Tone Hosmer Professor of Nursing
• Lori J. Pierce, Professor of Radiation Oncology
• Kathleen Potempa, Dean Emerita, School of Nursing
• Marita G. Titler, Professor Emerita, School of Nursing

School of Public Health

• Gonçalo Abecasis, Felix E. Moore Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics
• Michael Boehnke, Richard G. Cornell Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics
• F. DuBois Bowman, Dean, School of Public Health
• Arline Geronimus, Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
• Roderick J. A. Little, Richard D. Remington Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics
• Bhramar Mukherjee, Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

• Robert Axelrod, Arthur W. Bromage Distinguished University Professor of Political Science & Public Policy
• Sheldon Danziger, Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Public Policy; political scientist, President of the Russell Sage Foundation
• James S. House, Angus Campbell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Survey Research, Public Policy, and Sociology
• Paula Lantz, James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy
• Kenneth Lieberthal, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Political Science and William Davidson Professor of Business Administration; China expert and member of the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration
• Arthur Lupia, Professor of political science, research professor at the Institute for Social Research, and principal investigator of the American National Election Studies; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
• Andrei Markovits, political scientist who has written on, among other things, sports culture, nationalism, Anti-Americanism, and the European left

Stephen M. Ross School of Business

• Barry Klarberg, professional business and wealth manager for athletes, entertainers and high-net-worth individuals
• Noel Tichy, professor of business; adviser for over 30 CEO transitions, including General Motors
• Dave Ulrich, professor of business; co-founder of The RBL Group

Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design

• Heidi Kumao, professor of art
• Rebekah Modrak, associate professor of art
• Thylias Moss, professor of English, also Professor of Art & Design (2006)
• Endi E. Poskovic, professor of art and design
• David C. Turnley, professor of art and design; photography, for images of the political uprisings in China and Eastern Europe

Former faculty

American Culture

• Tiya Miles, professor in American Culture, History, Afroamerican & African Studies, Native American Studies, and Women’s Studies (2002-2018)

Anthropology

• Susan Alcock, professor of classical anthropology and classics
• Raymond C. Kelly, cultural anthropologist and ethnologist
• Sherry B. Ortner, professor of anthropology and women's studies
• Milford H. Wolpoff, leading proponent of the multiregional hypothesis for human evolution
• Richard Wrangham, professor of anthropology

Architecture

• William Le Baron Jenney, architect and engineer
• Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, architect

Art

• Gerome Kamrowski, artist at the forefront of the development of American Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism

Astronomy

• William Hussey, professor of astronomy and fifth director of the Detroit Observatory

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science

• Thomas M. Donahue, Edward H. White II Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Planetary Science

Biological Chemistry

• Christopher Chetsanga, discovered two enzymes that repair DNA after x-irradiation
• Jack E. Dixon, Minor J. Coon Professor of Biological Chemistry, chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
• Kun-Liang Guan, biochemist and associate professor of biological chemistry and senior research associate at the Institute of Gerontology
• Martha L. Ludwig, research biophysicist and J. Lawrence Oncley Distinguished Professor, department of biological chemistry
• Michael Marletta, biochemist and John Gideon Searle Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy in the College of Pharmacy and professor of biological chemistry in the Medical School

Botanical Gardens

• Pierre Dansereau, Canadian ecologist known as one of the "fathers of ecology"
• Daniel Hunt Janzen, evolutionary ecologist, naturalist, and conservationist

Business

• Gary Hamel, visiting professor of international business; co-Author "The Core Competence of the Corporation"
• Gerald Meyers, professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business School, former chairman of American Motors Corporation
• C.K. Prahalad, Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy

Center for Human Growth and Development

• Anne C. Petersen, research professor

Chemistry

• Seymour Blinder, professor emeritus of chemistry and physics
• Moses Gomberg, professor of chemistry
• Stephen Lee, solid state chemist
• Frederick George Novy, Henry L. Russell Lecturer

Economics

• Henry Carter Adams, professor of political economy and finance
• Kenneth Boulding, noted economist and faculty member 1949–1967
• Edward Gramlich, professor of economics and member, Federal Reserve Board
• Paul McCracken, economist. Chairmen emeritus: President's Council of Economic Advisers
• James N. Morgan, professor emeritus of economics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts

Engineering

• Linda M. Abriola, professor of civil and environmental engineering
• Dennis Assanis, former Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
• Lynn Conway, professor of electrical engineering and computer science
• Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, second dean of the College of Engineering
• Elmer G. Gilbert, professor of aerospace engineering and of electrical engineering & computer science
• John Henry Holland, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, College of Engineering; professor of psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
• Donald Katz, professor emeritus of chemical engineering
• Emmett Leith, Schlumberger Professor of Engineering
• Gerard A. Mourou, A.D. Moore Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering & and Computer Science
• Nicholas Negroponte (visiting), founder of MIT's Media Lab
• Chia-Shun Yih, Stephen P. Timoshenko Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Fluid Mechanics

Evolutionary Biology

• Richard D. Alexander, Theodore H. Hubell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Biology
• William Donald "Bill" Hamilton, Professor of Evolutionary Biology

Geology

• William Herbert Hobbs, professor of Geology

History

• Sidney Fine, professor of history; longest serving faculty member; chief biographer of Frank Murphy
• Cécile Fromont, assistant professor of art history
• Ann Ellis Hanson, visiting associate professor of Greek and Latin
• Thomas C. Holt, professor of history, director of Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
• Adrienne Koch, historian, specialist in American history of the 18th century
• Barbara D. Metcalf, Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History
• Tiya Miles, professor of American culture, Afroamerican & African studies, history, and Native American studies
• Claude H. Van Tyne, professor and chairman of the history department; American History, for The War of Independence.
• Andrew Dickson White, professor of English and history, co-founder of Cornell University

Internal medicine and human genetics

• Francis Collins, professor in internal medicine and human genetics; led the Human Genome Project and is the current director of the National Institutes of Health

Journalism

• Will Potter, author, civil liberties advocate
• Leland Stowe, professor of journalism; correspondence, for his work as a reporter on the foreign staff of the New York Herald Tribune

Law

• Henry Billings Brown, instructor in law, later US Supreme Court justice
• Evan H. Caminker: Dean of Law School
• Thomas M. Cooley, law professor, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan

Linguistics

• Alton L Becker, professor of linguistics
• Kenneth Pike, professor emeritus of linguistics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts

Literature

• W. H. Auden, poet
• Charles Baxter, former director of the MFA program in creative writing; novelist, poet, and essayist
• Joseph Brodsky, professor of Slavic languages and literature
• Anne Carson, Canadian poet, essayist, and translator
• Robert Frost, Michigan Poet-in-Residence
• Alice Fulton, professor of English from 1983 to 2001, won the Library of Congress Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry in 2002
• Donald Hall, English professor and United States Poet Laureate 2006–2007
• Francis Kelsey, professor of Latin
• Dirk Obbink, papyrologist, 2001 MacArthur Fellowship winner for his work at both Oxyrhynchus and Herculaneum
• Aisha Sabatini Sloan, assistant professor of creative writing and literature and English language and literature

Mathematics

• Raoul Bott, mathematician and winner of the Wolf Prize in mathematics
• Richard Brauer Accepted a position at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1948. In 1949, he was awarded the Cole Prize
• Arthur Copeland, mathematician
• Samuel Eilenberg, cofounder of category theory together with Saunders MacLane, whom he met at Ann Arbor; winner of the Wolf Prize in mathematics
• Frederick Gehring, T.H. Hildebrandt Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics
• Herman Heine Goldstine, mathematician
• Thomas Hales solved a nearly four-century-old problem called the Kepler conjecture
• Paul Halmos, mathematician specializing in functional analysis
• Anatol Rapoport, author of Two-Person Game Theory (1999) and N-Person Game Theory (2001)
• Kannan Soundararajan, awarded the 2004 Salem Prize, joint winner of the 2005 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
• Raymond Louis Wilder, work focused on set-theoretic topology, manifolds and use of algebraic techniques
• Trevor D. Wooley, Department Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan. Salem Prize, 1998. Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1993–1995

Medical School

• Mathew Alpern, professor emeritus of physiological optics
• Francis S. Collins, professor of internal medicine; professor of human genetics
• Jerome Conn, Louis Harry Newburgh university Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine
• Minor J. Coon, Victor C. Vaughn Distinguished University Professor of Biological Chemistry
• Elizabeth Crosby, professor of anatomy
• David E. Kuhl, professor of internal medicine; professor of radiology
• Martha L. Ludwig, professor of biological chemistry
• Howard Markel, George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine and director of the Center for the History of Medicine
• Vincent Massey, professor of biological chemistry
• James Neel, Lee R. Dice Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Human Genetics; discovered that defective genes cause sickle cell anemia
• Reed M. Nesbit, urologist, pioneer of transurethral resection of the prostate
• J. Lawrence Oncley, professor emeritus of biological chemistry
• June Osborn, professor of epidemiology; professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases
• Jonas Salk, assistant professor of epidemiology
• Alan R. Saltiel, elected in 2005 to The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, John Jacob Abel Collegiate Professor in Life Sciences and Professor of Internal Medicine and Physiology
• Thomas L. Schwenk, professor of family medicine
• Peter Ward, Godfrey D. Stobbe Professor of Pathology
• Aldred Scott Warthin, professor of pathology
• Yukiko Yamashita, assistant professor of cell & developmental biology

Music

• Leslie Bassett, professor of music; music, for Variations for Orchestra.
• Judith Becker, Glenn McGeoch Professor (emeritus) of Music
• William Bolcom, professor of music composition; music, for Twelve New Etudes for Piano
• Aaron Dworkin, fellow and founder and president of Detroit-based Sphinx Organization
• Ross Lee Finney, professor of music; music, for a string quartet
• William P. Malm, professor (emeritus) of music
• Artur Schnabel, Pianist and classical composer; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow

Near Eastern Studies

• George E. Mendenhall, professor emeritus: Department of Near Eastern Studies

Nursing

• Ada Sue Hinshaw, dean, School of Nursing

Pharmacy

• Henry Kraemer, professor of pharmacy

Philosophy

• Carl Cohen, professor of philosophy at the residential college; notable for using Michigan Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 1996 to identify the university's policy of racial categorization in admissions, leading to the Grutter and Gratz v. Bollinger lawsuits
• John Dewey, co-founder of pragmatism
• William Frankena, moral philosopher
• Dewitt H. Parker, professor of philosophy
• Robert Mark Wenley, professor of philosophy

Physical chemistry

• R. Stephen Berry, professor of physical chemistry

Physics

• H. Richard Crane, George P. Williams Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Physics
• Michael Duff, Oskar Klein Professor of Physics
• Katherine Freese, George E. Uhlenbeck Professor Emerita of Physics
• Samuel Goudsmit, conceived – with George Uhlenbeck – the idea of Quantum Spin
• Lawrence W. Jones, professor emeritus, Department of Physics
• Oskar Klein, first work in Ann Arbor dealt with the anomalous Zeeman effect
• Margaret Murnane, professor of physics
• Stephen Timoshenko, created the first US bachelor's and doctoral programs in engineering mechanics
• George Uhlenbeck, with fellow student Samuel Goudsmit at Leiden, proposed the idea of electron spin in 1925, Professor: University of Michigan (1939–43); Max Planck Medal 1964 (with Samuel Goudsmit); American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
• Martinus Veltman, John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics

Psychology

• Brad Bushman, professor of psychology
• Clyde Coombs, professor emeritus of psychology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
• Erich Fromm, psychologist
• Susan Gelman, Heinz Werner Professor of psychology and linguistics
• James S. Jackson, Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and director, Institute for Social Research; American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
• Robert L. Kahn, professor emeritus of psychology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
• Catherine Lord, professor (emerita) of psychology and psychiatry
• James Olds, professor of psychology
• Daphna Oyserman, Edwin J.Thomas Professor of Social Work
• Walter Bowers Pillsbury, professor of psychology
• Ovide Pomerleau, professor (emeritus) of psychology
• Marilyn Shatz, Professor Emerita of Psychology and Linguistics
• Claude Steele, professor of psychology
• Elliot Valenstein, professor (emeritus) of psychology

Public Health

• Noreen M Clark, dean, Marshall H. Becker Professor of Public Health
• Avedis Donabedian, Sinai Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Health
• Stanley M. Garn, professor emeritus of nutrition
• David R. Williams, Harold W. Cruse Collegiate Professor of Sociology; professor of epidemiology

Public Welfare Administration

• Wilbur Joseph Cohen, professor of Public Welfare Administration

School of Natural Resources & the Environment

• Warren H. Wagner, professor emeritus of botany

Sociology

• Philip Converse, Robert Cooley Angell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Sociology & Political Science, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
• Charles Horton Cooley, professor of sociology; taught the university's first sociology class in 1899
• Ronald Freedman, Roderick D. McKenzie Professor Emeritus of Sociology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts, professor emeritus of physics, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
• Ronald C. Kessler, professor of sociology
• Horace Miner, professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology

Zoology

• Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, professor of zoology

Former administrators

• Nancy Cantor, provost, now chancellor of Syracuse University
• Walter Harrison, vice president, now at University of Hartford
• J. Bernard "Bernie" Machen, provost, later president of the University of Florida
• Frank H. T. Rhodes, vice president, later president of Cornell University
• Edward A. Snyder, senior associate dean, later dean at University of Chicago Business School
• B. Joseph White, dean, Ross School, later president of the University of Illinois
• Linda Wilson, vice president, later president of Radcliffe College

Nobel Laureates

• Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize, Literature 1987
• Donald A. Glaser, professor of physics, developed in 1954 the world's first liquid bubble chamber to study high-energy subatomic particles and won the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention in 1960
• Charles B. Huggins, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1966
• Lawrence R. Klein, '30 alumnus; a member of the economics department and the Institute for Social Research. Won the 1980 Nobel Prize in economics for his econometric models forecasting short-term economic trends and policies.
• Gérard Mourou, co-winner of Nobel Prize, Physics, 2018
• Wolfgang Pauli (visiting), winner of Nobel Prize, Physics, 1945
• Martin L. Perl, Physics Nobel Prize 1995
• Norman F. Ramsey (visiting), Physics Nobel Prize 1989
• Peyton Rous, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1966
• Hamilton O. Smith Nobel Prize, for Physiology or Medicine, 1978
• Charles H. Townes, Nobel Prize for Physics, 1964
• Martinus Veltman, professor emeritus, John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics. 1999 Nobel Prize for Physics
• Carl Wieman, one of three scientists who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics

External links

• Faculty and staff at the University of Michigan
• UM Faculty and staff resources
• UM Faculty and staff services
• The Michigan Daily Salary Supplement lists the salaries of UM faculty and staff