List of New York University faculty explained

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.^[1]

Nobel laureates

Nobel laureates Daniel Kahneman, Myron Scholes and Robert A. Mundell gave lectures at New York University Tandon School of Engineering as part of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Lynford Lecture Series.^[26]

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
Nathaniel Beck, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
Gérard Ben Arous,^[27] professor at Courant
Thomas Bender, professor emeritus at Graduate School of Arts and Science
Marsha Berger,^[27] professor at Courant
John Brademas, president emeritus
Richard R.W. Brooks, professor at School of Law
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
Jeff Cheeger,^[27] professor at Courant
Percy Deift,^[27] 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,^[28] 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,^[28] professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
Steven Koonin, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
Peter Lax,^[27] professor at Courant
David Levering-Lewis, professor emeritus at Graduate School of Arts and Science
Fang-Hua Lin,^[27] 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,^[27] professor at Courant
Cathleen Morawetz,^[27] professor at Courant
Trevor Morrison,^[28] 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,^[27] professor at Courant
Louis Nirenberg,^[27] professor at Courant
Charles Peskin,^[27] 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,^[28] professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
Renato Rosaldo, professor emeritus at Graduate School of Arts and Science
Matthew Santirocco, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
Eero Simoncelli, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
Alastair Smith, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
K. R. Sreenivasan,^[27] 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
Lawrence Wolff, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
Margaret Wright,^[27] professor at Courant
Lai-Sang Young,^[27] professor at Courant

Guggenheim Fellows

Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
professor 1963–1965, NYU Courant Institute, 1965–1973, NYU Tandon School of Engineering	Guggenheim Fellow (1979)	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Courant Institute and NYU Tandon School of Engineering	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering	Guggenheim Fellow	^[29]
professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Florence	Guggenheim Fellow (1967)	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor, NYU Courant Institute	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor, NYU Courant Institute	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor, NYU Courant Institute	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor 1964–1991, NYU School of Medicine	In 1934 and 1936 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science	Guggenheim Fellow (2006)	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science	Guggenheim Fellow; winner of National Book Critics Circle Award	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor, NYU Courant Institute	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science	Guggenheim Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->

MacArthur Fellows

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
Anthony G. Amsterdam	Professor of Law	1989 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Berg Professor of English	1985 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Gregory Chudnovsky	Professor of Mathematics	1986 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Nicole Fleetwood	Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication	2021 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor of Art History	1996 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Nicole Fleetwood	Professor of Media, Culture and Communication	2021 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Faye D. Ginsburg	Professor of Anthropology	1994 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Terrance Hayes	Professor of Creative Writing	2014 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Fritz John	Professor of Mathematics	1984 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor of Creative Writing	1984 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.^[30]	2014 MacArthur Fellow
Sylvia A. Law	Professor of Law, Medicine, and Psychiatry	1983 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor of History	1999 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Julie Livingston	Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History	2013 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Ruth Watson Lubic	Adjunct Professor	1993 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Paule Marshall	Professor of English	1992 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Deborah Meier	Research Scholar, Steinhardt	1987 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Fred Moten	Professor of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature	2020 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	GSAS 1956, Ph.D.; professor of music	1974 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor of Mathematics	1983 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Claudia Rankine	Professor of Creative Writing	2016 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Robert Shapley	Professor of Neurology	1986 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor of Performance Studies	1996 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Bryan Stevenson	Professor of Law	1995 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor of Photography and Social and Cultural Analysis	2000 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor at Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development	2016 MacArthur Fellow
Rita P. Wright	Professor of Anthropology	1988 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Horng-Tzer Yau	Professor of Mathematics	2000 MacArthur Fellow	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->

Rhodes Scholars

Peter Blair Henry, professor at Stern School of Business
John Brademas, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
Sujit Choudhry, professor at School of Law. He also served as the Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, and as Associate Dean of the University of Toronto
James McNaughton Hester, former professor and Dean of both undergraduate and graduate schools of arts and science at NYU. He became 11th President of NYU.

National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation, Arts and Humanities recipients

Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
professor 1938–1974 at NYU Courant Institute	1976 National Medal of Science recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Courant Institute	2010 National Medal of Science recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Courant Institute	1995 National Medal of Science recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Courant Institute	1988 National Medal of Science recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Courant Institute	1998 National Medal of Science recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor 1964–1991 at NYU School of Medicine	1967 National Medal of Science recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor 1942–1974 at NYU School of Medicine	1979 National Medal of Science recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering	1979 National Medal of Science recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering	1989 National Medal of Science recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering	1999 National Medal of Technology recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor	1987 National Medal of Technology recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering	1987 National Medal of Science recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science	1967 National Medal of Science recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Courant Institute	1986 National Medal of Science recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts	1996 National Medal of Arts recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts	2013 National Humanities Medal recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science	2015 National Humanities Medal recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science	2016 National Humanities Medal recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
professor at NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science	1968 National Medal of Science recipient	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->

Abel Prize recipients

Louis Nirenberg, professor at Courant
Peter Lax, professor at Courant
S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan, professor at Courant
Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, professor at Courant

College of Arts and Science (undergraduate and graduate)

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	Associate professor, journalism, current	writer, Maximum City	^[31]
	Professor, music theory	composer, pianist

Julia Jones-Pugliese (1909–1993), national champion fencer and fencing coach
Nickolas Muray (born Miklós Mandl; 1892–1965), Hungarian-born American photographer and Olympic fencer
Elisha Netanyahu, mathematician, former Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at Technion. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, is his nephew.

Saul Bellow	Writer	Professor	1976 Nobel Prize in Literature
Harold Bloom	Literary critic	Berg Professor of English	1985 MacArthur Fellow
Faye D. Ginsburg	Scholar	Professor of Anthropology	1994 MacArthur Fellow
Galway Kinnell	Poet	Professor	1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Wassily Leontief	Economist	Professor 1975–1999	1973 Nobel Prize in Economics
Otto Loewi	Pharmacologist	Professor 1940–1961	1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Ruth Watson Lubic	Scholar	Adjunct Professor	1993 MacArthur Fellow
Paule Marshall	Writer	Professor of English	1992 MacArthur Fellow
Robert S. Mulliken	Physicist, chemist	Professor 1926–1928	1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Rita P. Wright	Scholar	Professor of Anthropology	1988 MacArthur Fellow

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

This is a small selection of Courant's famous faculty over the years and a few of their distinctions:^[32]

Stern School of Business

Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
Professor, current	TRIUM Global Executive MBA Professor
Professor, current	Associate Professor of Finance
Professor, current	Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education
Professor, current	Nomura Professor of Finance; Academic Director of Stern Doctoral Program
Professor, current	Clinical Professor of Finance and Academic Director of Executive Programs
Professor, current	Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting
Professor, current	Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership
Professor, current	Dean, NYU Stern; Dean Richard R. West Professorship in Business; William R. Berkley Professor of Economics & Finance
Professor, late chairman	Business Statistics professor; on NYU faculty since 1948^[33]
Professor, current	Research Professor of Finance; Ira Rennert Professor of Entrepreneurship; Research Director, Berkley Center
Professor, current	Clinical Associate Professor of Management and Organizations
Professor, current	Professor of Business and Society
Professor, current	Vice Dean of Executive Programs and Professor of Economics and Global Business
Professor, current	Professor of Economics. World Bank Chief Economist.	^[34]
Professor, current	Professor of Economics and International Business
Professor, current	William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business
Professor, current	John M. Schiff Professor of Finance
Professor, current	William R. Berkley Professor in Economics & Business
Professor, current	Professor of Finance; Yamaichi Faculty Fellow
Professor, current	Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences; NEC Faculty Fellow
Professor, current	History of Financial Institutions and Markets professor
Professor, current	Robert Kavesh Professor of Economics
Professor, current	Vice Dean for Strategic Initiatives and the W. Edwards Deming Professor of Quality and Productivity
Professor, current	Clinical Professor at Stern; Neuberger Berman's Chairman of the Board

Tisch School of the Arts

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	Teaches screenwriting	four plays published by Dramatists Play Service	^[35]
	Taught directing and acting	taught film directing and acting from 1970 to 2006; founder of the New York Street Theater Caravan	^[36]
	Taught film	Academy Award nominated actor	^[37]
Susan Sandler	Teaches screenwriting and directing	wrote plays and screenplays including Crossing Delancey	^[38]

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

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.^[39]

Notable professors include:

Alberto Alemanno (European Union law)
William Allen (corporate law, chancellor of Delaware)
Philip Alston (human rights)
José Enrique Alvarez (international law)
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)
Donald Donovan (international arbitration, international investment law)
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)
Franco Ferrari (sale of goods, European Union law, international arbitration)
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)
Robert Howse (international law, legal theory, international investment arbitration, and globalization theory)
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)

Silver School of Social Work

Notable faculty include:

James Jaccard, Professor of Social Work

NYU Abu Dhabi

Notable faculty include:

NYU Shanghai

Chen Jian (academic), visiting professor from Cornell University, Chinese history and international relations
Jeffrey Lehman, former president of Cornell, Dean of University of Michigan law school
Joanna Waley-Cohen, former head of the NYU New York History department
Eitan Zemel, associate Chancellor for Strategy and Dean of Business
Lin Fanghua, associate Provost for the Quantitative Disciplines, also Silver Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Yu Lizhong, former president of East China Normal University
Jun Zhang, Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Fellow of American Physical Society ^[40]

Professor emeriti and other notable faculty

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	Professor	Former provost of California Institute of Technology	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	7th President of Rice University	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	Former president of Cornell University	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	Former president of Swarthmore College	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	Pulitzer Prize winner	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	20th and current President of Princeton University	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	76th United States Secretary of the Treasury	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	Fields Medal winner	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	Turing Award winner	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	Abel Prize winner	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	winner of the 2004–2005 Guggenheim Fellowship	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor Emeritus	Davis is the co-inventor of the Davis–Putnam algorithm and the DPLL algorithms. He is also known for his model of Post–Turing machines.	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law; the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary executions	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	Taught a course in magic	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	American luger who was a member of the U.S. National Luge Team from 1985 to 1998 and competed on four Winter Olympics teams	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 1977 –	inventor of the "Altman Z-Score"	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Poet in residence	awarded the 1969 Brenner Prize, 1976 Bialik Prize, and 1982 Israel Prize	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current; director of NYU's Africana studies	drama professor and professor	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Visiting faculty, current	bioethicist, authority on euthanasia	^[41]
	Visiting Professor	Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at NYU	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	B.A. 1850, Professor 1859–1906	historian of the Huguenots	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	professor	member of National Academy of Sciences	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	1976 Nobel Prize in Literature	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor 1956–1968	1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	member of National Academy of Sciences	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Visiting Professor 1993	Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	1973 Pulitzer Prize (Watergate)	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor 1996–	contributed to matters of consciousness and cognitive science	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	Professor of Philosophy	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	jazz bassist and composer	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor 1969 –	known for his research on voting systems and approval voting	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor of History (1979–1989)	National Security Advisor under John F. Kennedy	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	Academy Award-winning independent animator, animation historian	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor 1978–2004	medievalist	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Visiting Professor	Secretary of State of Mexico	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Guest Lecturer	former Minister of Finance, Republic of Argentina	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	professor, current	physicist	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor since 1992	historian of France	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	member of National Academy of Sciences	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	scholar of history and foreign relations of Russia	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	sociologist	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	classical archaeologist and Professor of Classics and Art History at New York University; appointed to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee by President George W. Bush in 2003; awarded MacArthur Fellowship in 1996	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	taught a course on magic at the age of sixteen	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	noted for the development of the finite element method	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	political scientist	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	author of Ragtime	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	Irish literary critic; Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, 1976–1991	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 1840–1881	founder and former president of the Medical School	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 1950–1972	major contributor to management theory	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	sociologist	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, −2013	clerked for Judge Learned Hand of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; winner of the 2007 Holberg International Memorial Prize	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor 2003–	economist	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor 1999–	2003 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	author of Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	National Medal of Arts winner in 1996; inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1999	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	philosopher	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	Silver Professor of Philosophy	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Joel Fink	Professor, former	Associate Dean of Roosevelt University
	Professor of psychiatry 1962–1974	German-American psychologist and philosopher	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	macroeconomist Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Economics at New York University; Guggenheim Fellowship	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	known for her work on ethical community and ethical relationships	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, Clive Davis School of Recorded Music	wrote the first biography of Bob Marley	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Vincent Astor Visiting Professor	known for his development of the evolutionary biology theory of punctuated equilibrium and his scientific writings	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 1932–1940	inventor of the Free Music Machine, the forerunner of the synthesizer	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, Tisch School of the Arts	recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award in 2005 for plays	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Jay Gould Professor of Mathematics	made major contributions to metric geometry and symplectic geometry	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	neuroscientist; son of Nobel laureate chemist Alan J. Heeger	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Dean	credited with taking the first human x-ray in the United States	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Adjunct Professor 1998–	2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 1927–1972	philosopher who championed pragmatism	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	philosopher, Guggenheim Fellowship	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	photographer, founder of xDesign Environmental Health Clinic	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Chairman of Classics	archaeologist; former President of Archaeological Institute of America	^[42]
	Professor, current	economist, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	director of Erich Maria Remarque Institute; author of Postwar	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	philosopher, winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	former faculty member at the New York University Medical School; winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor of Linguistics, current	developed the theory of antisymmetry	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	Lebanese writer and critic	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor emeritus, current	economist, leading proponent of the Austrian School of Economics.	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, artistic director of NYU's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music	writer, pop critic, music manager	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 1993 –	1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Instructor	CEO of Oki Data Americas, Inc.	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	architectural historian	^[43]
	Professor, current	holds a Research Professorship on "Globalization and the Rule of Law" at the Social Science Research Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, WZB) and Humboldt University in Berlin	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	developed first vaccine against hepatitis B	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences; awarded the National Medal of Science in 1986, the Wolf Prize in 1987 and the Abel Prize in 2005	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	neuroscientist	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Film professor in the Tisch School of the Arts, current	actor, director, producer, social activist	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 1975–1999	1973 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor 1940–1961	1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, Current Psychology	Robert L. Fantz award, cognitive development	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 1941–1970	established that genes are made of DNA	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	President, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Current Senior Vice President for Operations and Administration	former Deputy Counsel to President Bill Clinton; lead defense attorney in Clinton's 1999 impeachment trial	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	mathematician, winner of the National Medal of Science in 1983 and 1988	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 1832–?	inventor of Morse code	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	academic and novelist	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 1926–1928	1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Visiting professor	1974 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	scholar, philosophy of mind	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	nutritionist	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor of law	Interpol Secretary General 2000–present	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	Irish politician and academic	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 1942–1974	winner of 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	English creative writing teacher	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Full professor		<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	author of Gods and Men, The Origins of Western Culture and A History of Mexico	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	American literature and cultural critic	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	uncovered the journalistic fraud of The New Republic reporter Stephen Glass	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 1961–	pioneer in comparative study of Judaism, Christianity and Islam	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor of Computer Science, current	winner of the 1996 Turing Award	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor Emeritus	physical chemist, winner of the 2006 Davy Medal	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE-->
	1959–2003	author of Amusing Ourselves to Death; founder of media ecology program	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 1962–1992	physician	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	economist	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	Dean of New York University School of Law	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	art historian and curator	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	professor of comparative literature, recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship from 1999 to 2000	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	Israeli economist	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 1937–1953	co-author of the Sachs–Hornbostel scheme	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 1965–1995	pioneer in computational linguistics; Director of the Linguistic String Project	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Visiting professor	winner of 1970 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	one of the leaders of the rational expectations revolution; Berkeley Professor of Economics and Business	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 2001–2005	mathematician	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	jazz fusion guitarist and composer	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Royal Society of Literature; founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	Democratic political consultant	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	translator, essayist and editor	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	known for the Sokal affair	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor Emeritus, 1872–1909	geologist; President of the Geological Society of America in 1898	^[44]
	Adjunct Professor, 2000–present	author of Chang & Eng and The Real McCoy; 2005 teaching award winner; 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor	taught English as a Second Language at New York University for 15 years	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor of philosophy	first President of the University of Michigan	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 1948–1951	author, Ode to the Confederate Dead	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Visiting professor	Kenyan activist	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Dean, NYU School of Medicine		<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	mathematician, 2007 winner of the Abel Prize	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	mathematician, winner of the 2007 Salem Prize	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, 1945–1969	leader of the Austrian School of economics	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Guest instructor, 1988–1989	author of over forty novels	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
		author	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law, author of The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	postcolonial theorist, writer and historian	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	Israeli historian, member of the Historical Advisory Panel to the National Archives in Washington, D.C.	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
	Professor, current	Won a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award	^[45]
	Assistant Professor, current	Assistant Professor at Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Author of Artificial Unintelligence	^[46]
	(born 1942), Israeli historian, diplomat and president of Tel Aviv University
	Professor, past	Director of the Reading Institute
	Faculty member, past	Historian	^[47]

New York University Presidents

See main article: List of Presidents of New York University.

Relation to NYU	Years	Reference
1st President	1831–1839	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
2nd President	1839–1850, U.S. Senator	^[48]
3rd President	1853–1870	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
4th President	1870–1881	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
5th President	1881–1891	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
6th President	1891–1911, developer of the University Heights Campus	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
7th President	1911–1933	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
8th President	1933–1951	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Acting Chancellor	1951–1952	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
9th President	1952–1956	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
10th President	1956–1962	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
11th President	1962–1975	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
12th President	1975–1980	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
Acting President	1980–1981	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
13th President	1981–1991, United States House of Representatives	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
14th President	1991–2002	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
15th President	2003–2015	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->
16th President	2016–present	<	--INSERT REFERENCE HERE -->

New York University founders

Founders of NYU include:

Notes and References

Web site: NYU at a Glance . American Academy of Arts and Sciences . June 19, 2024.
Web site: Robert J. Aumann . Nobel Foundation . Les Prix Nobel . Stockholm . 2006 . September 25, 2007.
Web site: Saul Bellow . World Scientific Publishing Co. . Nobel Lectures . Singapore . 1993 . September 25, 2007.
Web site: Baruj Benacerraf . Nobel Foundation . Les Prix Nobel . Stockholm . 2005 . September 25, 2007.
Web site: Joseph Brodsky . Nobel Foundation . Les Prix Nobel . Stockholm . 1988 . September 25, 2007.
Web site: Robert F Engle III . Nobel Foundation . Les Prix Nobel . Stockholm . 2004 . September 25, 2007.
Web site: Rudolf Eucken . Elsevier Publishing Company . Nobel Lectures . Amsterdam . 1969 . September 26, 2007.
Web site: James Heckman . Nobel Foundation . Les Prix Nobel . Stockholm . 2001 . September 25, 2007.
Web site: Avram Hershko . Nobel Foundation . Les Prix Nobel . Stockholm . 2005 . September 25, 2007.
Web site: Eric R. Kandel . Nobel Foundation . Les Prix Nobel . Stockholm . 2001 . September 25, 2007.
Web site: Tjalling C. Koopmans . World Scientific Publishing Co. . Nobel Lectures . Singapore . 1992 . September 25, 2007.
Web site: Wassily Leontief . World Scientific Publishing Co. . Nobel Lectures . Singapore . 1992 . September 25, 2007.
Web site: Otto Loewi . Elsevier Publishing Company . Nobel Lectures . Amsterdam . 1965 . September 26, 2007.
Web site: Rudolph A. Marcus . Nobel Foundation . Les Prix Nobel . Stockholm . 2003 . September 25, 2007.
Web site: Robert S. Mulliken . Nobel Foundation . Les Prix Nobel . Stockholm . 1967 . September 26, 2007.
Web site: Gunner Myrdal . World Scientific Publishing Co. . Nobel Lectures . Singapore . 1992 . September 25, 2007.
Web site: Severo Ochoa . Elsevier Publishing Company . Nobel Lectures . Amsterdam . 1964 . September 26, 2007.
Web site: Edmund S. Phelps . Nobel Foundation . Les Prix Nobel . Stockholm . 2007 . September 25, 2007.
Web site: Edward C. Prescott . Nobel Foundation . Les Prix Nobel . Stockholm . 2005 . September 25, 2007.
Web site: Paul M. Romer . Nobel Foundation . Stockholm . 2018 . December 1, 2018.
Web site: Paul A. Samuelson . World Scientific Publishing Co. . Nobel Lectures . Singapore . 1992 . September 25, 2007.
Web site: Thomas J. Sargent . Nobel Foundation . Les Prix Nobel . Stockholm . 2011 . December 11, 2013.
Web site: Wole Soyinka . Nobel Foundation . Les Prix Nobel . Stockholm . 1987 . September 25, 2007.
Web site: A. Michael Spence . Nobel Foundation . Les Prix Nobel . Stockholm . 2004 . December 13, 2013.
Web site: Faculty biography of A. Michael Spence . New York University Stern School of Business . December 13, 2013.
Web site: Lynford Lecture Series NYU Tandon School of Engineering . Engineering.nyu.edu . 2016-10-06.
Web site: Faculty Recognition NYU Courant . Cims.nyu.edu . 2016-10-06.
Web site: American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects Five NYU Faculty as 2016 Fellows . nyu.edu . 2016-04-06 . 2016-10-06.
Web site: Ivan Frisch NYU Tandon School of Engineering . Engineering.nyu.edu . 2016-10-06.
Web site: Two NYU Faculty and One Alumnus Win MacArthur "Genius Grants" . NYU . February 5, 2014.
Web site: Suketu Mehta . Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute Faculty Directory . February 5, 2014.
Web site: NYU > Courant Institute > About > Scientific Distinction . Cims.nyu.edu . 2005-09-01 . 2011-08-06.
(October 21, 1912 – April 7, 2014; was department Chair)
Web site: World Bank Confirms NYU's Paul Romer as Next Chief Economist . Fortune.com . 2016-07-19 . 2016-10-06.
Web site: Tisch Faculty Directory bio. August 13, 2009.
News: Marketa Kimbrell, Who Brought Theater to the Forgotten, Is Dead at 82. July 27, 2011 . The New York Times. Dennis. Hevesi. July 13, 2011.
Web site: Professor James Franco: A UCLA student talks about what it was line to take the actor's screenplay class. LAWeekly.com. 15 March 2013 .
Web site: Undergraduate Film & Television . Filmtv.tisch.nyu.edu . 2016-03-08 . 2016-10-06.
Web site: Faculty Quality Based on Membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012 . Leiterrankings.com . 2016-05-08.
Web site: APS Fellow Archive 2017 .
"From Bioethics to Stage: One Writer's Path (Profile)". Detroit Metro News. January 2007.
News: Prof. Jotham Johnson, 61, Dies; Chairman of Classics at N.Y.U . . February 9, 1967.
Web site: College Art Association . Awards College Art Association . Collegeart.org . 2016-10-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060455/http://www.collegeart.org/awards/04winners-history.html . 2016-03-04 .
White. I.C.. Memorial of John James Stevenson. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. 1925. 38. 100–115.
Web site: NYU's Simoncelli wins Engineering Emmy for creation of method to assess video quality . Phys.org . 2016-10-06.
Web site: NYU Journalism Faculty. 2018-02-05.
Web site: April 25, 2023 . Barbara Krauthamer named dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences . 2023-05-30 . . en.
Web site: 175 Facts About NYU . New York University . February 6, 2009.