List of University of California, Santa Barbara faculty explained

This article lists notable faculty (past and present) of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Nobel laureates

See main article: List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Current faculty

• David Gross, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2004^[1]
• Alan Heeger, Nobel Prize recipient, Chemistry, 2000
• Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize recipient, Chemistry, 1998
• Herbert Kroemer, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2000
• Finn Kydland, Nobel Prize recipient, Economics, 2004
• Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2014

Former faculty

• Edward C. Prescott, Nobel Prize recipient, Economics, 2004^[2]
• John Robert Schrieffer, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 1972^[3]
• Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2004^[4]

Pulitzer Prize

• Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize for History recipient, 2013
• N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction recipient, 1969
• Jeffrey C. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction recipient, 2019

Anthropology

• James F. Brooks, historian, Native Americans
• Napoleon Chagnon, pioneer of biologically based interpretation of human reproductive and aggressive behavior^[5]
• Brian Fagan^[6]
• Garrett Hardin, Professor of Human Ecology from 1963 until his (nominal) retirement in 1978; most known for his papers "The Tragedy of the Commons" and "Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor"
• Stuart Tyson Smith, best known for his reconstruction of the ancient Egyptian language for the films Stargate and The Mummy^[7]
• John Tooby, pioneer of evolutionary psychology^[8]

Art

• Ann Bermingham, art historian
• Henri Dorra, art historian
• Kip Fulbeck^[9]
• Gary Hugh Brown, Professor Emeritus of Art at UCSB (1966-2006)

Botany

• Katherine Esau

Chemical engineering

• Jacob Israelachvili^[10]

Chemistry and biochemistry

• Thomas C. Bruice, coined the term "bio-organic chemistry", member of National Academy of Science^[11]
• Craig Hawker^[12]
• Bruce H. Lipshutz, professor, made significant contributions to copper catalyzed organic reactions^[13]
• Ralph G. Pearson, Emeritus, coined the concepts of "hard" and "soft" for acids and bases^{[14] [15]}
• Galen D. Stucky, early researcher in the field of materials chemistry^[16]

Chicano studies

• Luis Leal
• Horacio Roque Ramírez^[17]

Computer science

• Tao Yang^[18]

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^[19]
• Tania Israel^[20] expert in LGBTQ intervention research and dialogue across political disagreement

East Asian languages and cultural studies

• John Nathan^[21]

Ecology, evolution, and marine biology

• Benjamin Halpern – marine biologist, ecologist, and 2016 A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences winner
• William W. Murdoch, population ecologist known for his research in population regulation and predator-prey relationships^[22]

Electrical and computer engineering

• Lawrence Rabiner^[23]
• Petar V. Kokotovic^[24]

English

• Hugh Kenner, literary critic
• Shirley Geok-lin Lim, poet and literary scholar
• Marvin Mudrick, literary scholar

Feminist studies

• Leila Rupp
• Jacqueline Bobo
• Tania Israel expert in LGBTQ intervention research and dialogue across political disagreement

Film and media studies

• Dick Hebdige^[25]

Geography

• Reginald Golledge, pioneer in behavioral geography
• Michael Frank Goodchild, most known for work on GIS, or computer mapping^[26]
• David Lopez-Carr
• Waldo R. Tobler, known for his first law of geography^[27]

Geology

• Tanya Atwater, instrumental in the development of the theory of plate tectonics^[28]
• Stanley Awramik
• Richard Virgil Fisher, volcanologist
• George R Tilton, pioneer in the measurement and application of isotopes to geology

Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic studies

• Laurence Rickels

Global and international studies

• Alison Brysk, Mellichamp Chair in Global Governance
• Mark Juergensmeyer
• Paul Orfalea, founder of the copy-chain Kinko's

History

• James F. Brooks, Professor of History and Anthropology, Native American history
• Alexander DeConde, Professor Emeritus of History, US diplomatic history
• Dimitrije Đorđević, 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^[29]
• 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

• Mary Bucholtz
• Wallace Chafe
• Bernard Comrie
• Stefan Th. Gries
• Marianne Mithun
• Sandra A. Thompson

Materials

• Arthur Gossard^[30]
• Shuji Nakamura^[31]

Mathematics

• Michael G. Crandall, winner of the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research
• Glen Culler, early innovator in the development of the interactive computing and ARPAnet
• Yitang Zhang

Mechanical engineering

• Henry T. Yang, Chancellor^[32]

Media arts and technology

• Curtis Roads^[33]

Molecular and cellular biology

• Jamey Marth, molecular and cellular biologist, Director of the Center for Nanomedicine, professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Music

• Julia Banzi, Ph.D. Ethnomusicology, member of the Al-Andalus Ensemble,^[34] expert on Andalusian music and women's ensembles of the Arab world
• 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

• C. Anthony Anderson^[35]
• Nathan Salmon^[36]

Physics

• David Awschalom, best known for his work in spintronics in semiconductors^[37]
• James Hartle, together with Stephen Hawking, proposed the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction of the universe, a specific solution to the Wheeler-deWitt equation meant to explain the initial conditions of the Big Bang cosmology^[38]
• James S. Langer
• Joseph Polchinski^[39]

Political science

• M. Kent Jennings, one of the founding fathers of political socialization research and theory.
• Benjamin Cohen, leading scholar in the field of international political economy
• Leah Stokes, political scientist specializing in environmental policy

Psychological and brain sciences

• Daphne Bugental, psychologist known for her research on parent-child relationships, infant and child maltreatment, and family violence
• Leda Cosmides, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology^[40]
• Michael Gazzaniga, pioneer of cognitive neuroscience^[41]

Religious studies

• Walter Capps
• J. Gordon Melton
• Birger A. Pearson
• Ann Taves

Sociology

• Donald Cressey
• John Foran
• Ralph Larkin
• William I. Robinson
• France Winddance Twine
• Howard Winant

See also

• List of University of California, Santa Barbara alumni

Notes and References

1. Web site: UCSB Nobel laureates. 7 July 2015 .
2. Web site: Finn E. Kydland – 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics . Ucsb.edu . October 19, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101015080118/http://www.ucsb.edu/nobel/kydland.shtml . October 15, 2010 . dead .
3. Web site: Robert Schrieffer - Biographical. July 7, 2015.
4. Web site: Frank Wilczek - curriculum vitae. July 7, 2015.
5. Web site: UCSB Anthropology Department: Faculty--Chagnon . October 7, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080118112221/http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/chagnon/ . January 18, 2008 .
6. Web site: UCSB Anthropology Faculty--Fagan . October 7, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080210225135/http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/fagan/index.html . February 10, 2008 .
7. Web site: University of California Santa Barbara - Dr. Stuart Smith . Anth.ucsb.edu . 2013-11-20.
8. Web site: UCSB Anthropology Faculty-Tooby . Anth.ucsb.edu . 2004-06-08 . 2013-11-20.
9. Web site: - Kip Fulbeck . October 7, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140617163824/http://seaweedproductions.com/ . June 17, 2014 .
10. Web site: UCSB - Chemical Engineering - People - Jacob Israelachvili . October 7, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071029002704/http://www.studiosonic.com/clients/chem///people/faculty_d.php?id=13 . October 29, 2007 .
11. Web site: Dr. Thomas C. Bruice . Chem.ucsb.edu . 1981-10-12 . 2013-11-20.
12. Web site: Department of Chemistry - UC Santa Barbara . Chem.ucsb.edu . 2013-11-20.
13. Web site: Department of Chemistry - UC Santa Barbara . Chem.ucsb.edu . 2013-11-20.
14. Web site: Department of Chemistry - UC Santa Barbara . Chem.ucsb.edu . 2013-11-20.
15. Web site: Pearson | Hard | Soft | Acid | Base | Chemogenesis . Meta-synthesis.com . 2013-11-20.
16. Web site: Stucky Group Biography . October 7, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120225045312/http://www.chem.ucsb.edu/~stuckygroup/stuckygroup/biography.html . February 25, 2012 .
17. Web site: Professor Horacio Roque Ramírez . www.chicst.ucsb.edu.
18. Web site: Tao Yang Homepage . Cs.ucsb.edu . 2013-11-20.
19. Web site: Lightner Witmer Award. American Psychological Association. November 20, 2013.
20. Web site: bio The Gevirtz School (GGSE) - UC Santa Barbara. 2021-06-02. education.ucsb.edu.
21. Web site: John Nathan - East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies . October 7, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090923215708/http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/content/people_nathan.html . September 23, 2009 .
22. Web site: People | Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology | UC Santa Barbara | UC Santa Barbara . Lifesci.ucsb.edu . 2013-11-20.
23. Web site: Larry Rabiner . Ece.ucsb.edu . 2013-11-20.
24. Web site: UCSB / ECE Directories . October 7, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100622070649/http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/directory.shtml . June 22, 2010 .
25. Web site: UCSB: Filmstudies Department Faculty; Dick Hebdige . October 7, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070608120354/http://www.filmstudies.ucsb.edu/people/professors/hebdige/ . June 8, 2007 .
26. Web site: Michael Frank Goodchild . Geog.ucsb.edu . 2013-11-20.
27. Web site: Waldo Tobler . Geog.ucsb.edu . 2013-11-20.
28. Web site: Tanya Atwater Homepage . Geol.ucsb.edu . 2013-11-20.
29. Web site: Homepage of Harold Marcuse, Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara . History.ucsb.edu . 2013-11-20.
30. Web site: Arthur Gossard . October 7, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060208090108/http://www.materials.ucsb.edu/academics/Faculty/gossard.htm . February 8, 2006 .
31. Web site: Shuji Nakamura . October 7, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060517193912/http://www.materials.ucsb.edu/academics/Faculty/nakamura.htm . May 17, 2006 .
32. Web site: Henry T. Yang, Professor and Chancellor . October 7, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100617110730/http://www.me.ucsb.edu/dept_site/people/new_faculty_pages/yang_page.html . June 17, 2010 .
33. Web site: Mat - media arts and technology - ucsb . October 7, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060902165224/http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/matHtml/people/index.php . September 2, 2006 .
34. Web site: Al Andalus Ensemble . Andalus.com . 2013-11-20.
35. Web site: UCSB Philosophy | Faculty: C. Anthony Anderson . October 7, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060902075646/http://www.philosophy.ucsb.edu/fac_profiles/anderson.html . September 2, 2006 .
36. Web site: University of California, Santa Barbara | Department of Philosophy . Philosophy.ucsb.edu . 2013-11-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131029204551/http://www.philosophy.ucsb.edu/fac_profiles/salmon/salmon.html . 2013-10-29 .
37. Web site: Department of Physics - UC Santa Barbara . Physics.ucsb.edu . 2013-11-20.
38. Web site: Department of Physics - UC Santa Barbara . Physics.ucsb.edu . 2013-11-20.
39. Web site: Department of Physics - UC Santa Barbara . Physics.ucsb.edu . 2013-11-20.
40. Web site: People | Psychological & Brain Sciences | UC Santa Barbara . Psych.ucsb.edu . 2013-11-20.
41. Web site: People | Psychological & Brain Sciences | UC Santa Barbara . Psych.ucsb.edu . 2013-11-20.