List of University of Pittsburgh faculty explained
This list of University of Pittsburgh faculty includes instructors, researchers, and administrators of the University of Pittsburgh, a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Arts and entertainment
- Geri Allen (A&S 1983G, faculty 2013–2017) – jazz composer, educator, and pianist[1]
- F. Curtis Canfield (faculty 1967–73) – theater director and drama professor
- Caitlin Clarke – theater and film actress; theatre teacher
- David Dalessandro (administrator) – screenwriter of 2006 thriller Snakes on a Plane
- Nathan Davis (faculty 1969–2013) – jazz musician
- Terrance Hayes (MFA 1997, faculty 2013–present) – poet whose books have won such awards as the National Book Award for Poetry and the National Poetry Series[2]
- Chuck Kinder (faculty 1980–2014) – is an American novelist.
- Carl Kurlander (faculty) – Hollywood screenwriter, television writer/producer, and author
- Jeanne Marie Laskas (MFA 1986, faculty 2001–present) – journalist/writer, author of Concussion, GQ correspondent
- Nicole Mitchell (faculty 2019–2022) – American jazz flautist and composer[3]
- Joe Negri (faculty) – jazz guitarist and educator
- Ed Ochester – professor, poet, and editor
- Rob Penny – professor, poet, and playwright
- Christopher Rawson (faculty) – writer and theater critic
- Ed Roberson (A&S 1970, faculty) – poet
- Rebecca Skloot (MFA, faculty) – freelance science writer; best selling author; specializes in science and medicine
- Terry Smith – art historian, art critic, and artist
- Jack Stauber – YouTuber, musician, singer-songwriter, designer, and animator
- Chad Taylor (faculty 2024–present) – American jazz drummer[4]
- Franklin Toker (faculty) – architectural historian and author
Business and economics
- Alvin E. Roth (faculty 1982–1998) – Nobel Prize-winning economist; Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Economics[5]
- Jagdish Sheth (Katz 1962, 1966; faculty 1973–1974) – business consultant; Albert Frey Professor of Marketing[6]
History
History and Philosophy of Science
- Michael R. Dietrich (PhD 1991, faculty) – Professor, History and Philosophy of Biology
- John Earman – (Emeritus Distinguished Professor) – Philosopher of Physics, collaborator on the hole argument
- James G. Lennox – (Emeritus Professor) – History and Philosophy of Biology
- Edouard Machery (PhD 2004, faculty) – Distinguished Professor, History and Philosophy of Psychology
- Stephen Manuck - Distinguished Professor of Psychology
- Sandra Mitchell (PhD 1987, faculty) – Distinguished Professor, History and Philosophy of Biology
- John D. Norton (PhD 1981, faculty) – Distinguished Professor, History and Philosophy of Physics
- Robert Olby – (Emeritus Professor) – History of Biology
Philosophy
Politics, law, and activism
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Science, medicine, and technology
- George Frederick Barker (faculty 1864–?) – scientist who studied early incandescent lighting; president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Chemical Society
- Jeremy M. Berg (faculty) – Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry-winning biochemist known for his work on zinc finger proteins
- John Alfred Brashear – astronomer; succeeded James Keeler as Director of the Allegheny Observatory; later Pitt's Chancellor; maker of astronomical and scientific instruments; developer of silvering methods that would become the standard for telescope mirrors
- David M. Brienza (faculty) – bioengineer specializing in wheelchair design and ulcer prevention
- William A. Cassidy – geologist noted for his work on Antarctic meteorites, founder and former leader of ANSMET.
- Yuan Chang – virologist; pathologist; co-discoverer of the cause of Kaposi's sarcoma, a deadly cancer commonly found in AIDS patients
- David I. Cleland (A&S 1954, KGSB 1958, faculty) – engineer and educator; "father of project management"
- Ellen Cohn – associate dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
- Rory A. Cooper (faculty 1994–present) – bioengineer and inventor who holds numerous patents on wheelchair technology.
- Sheila Corrall (faculty) – Professor of Library and Information Science and first President of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).
- John Charles Cutler (faculty) – former deputy director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau; led a U.S. Public Health Service research team in a controversial experiment which infected about 1500 citizens of Guatemala with syphilis and gonorrhea in the late 1940s
- Thomas Detre (faculty) – psychiatrist; transformative leader within the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 1973–2010
- Erik Erikson (faculty 1951–1960) – developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychosocial development and for coining the phrase "identity crisis"[13]
- Kai T. Erikson (faculty 1959–1963) – sociologist; authority on the social consequences of catastrophic events; 76th president of the American Sociological Association[14]
- Reginald Aubrey Fessenden – inventor, chemist, and sonar pioneer; developed insulation for electrical wires; built first wireless telephone; transmitted the first audio radio broadcast; head of electrical engineering at Western University of Pennsylvania
- Bernard Fisher (MD, faculty)– pioneer breast cancer researcher
- Ida M. Flynn (1942–2004) – American computer scientist, textbook author, and professor[15]
- Diana E. Forsythe – anthropologist noted for her work on artificial intelligence and medical informatics
- Freddie Fu (faculty) – sports medicine expert
- David Geller (faculty) – hepatobiliary surgical oncologist who helped to pioneer laparoscopic liver resections
- George Otto Gey (A&S 1921, faculty) – scientist who first propagated the HeLa cell line[16]
- Thomas Hales – mathematics professor; provided proof of the Kepler Conjecture
- David Halliday (A&S 1938, MS 1939, PhD 1941, faculty 1946–2010) — physicist widely known for his physics textbooks, Physics and Fundamentals of Physics
- D.A. Henderson (faculty) – 1986 National Medal of Science; directed World Health Organization's Global Smallpox Eradication Campaign
- Irene Jakab — a native of Hungary, psychiatrist and humanist who was a member of the faculties of Harvard University, the University of Pittsburgh and the McLean Hospital
- Niels Kaj Jerne (faculty 1962–1966) – Nobel Prize-winning immunologist credited for describing the production of monoclonal antibodies
- Rosella Kanarik (1909–2014), American mathematics professor
- Panayotis Katsoyannis – biochemist; discoverer of synthetic insulin
- James E. Keeler – astronomer; Director of Allegheny Observatory, 1891–1898; discovered that Saturn's rings were not solid but made of particles; interred in the observatory crypt
- Allen Kent – (faculty 1963–1992) pioneer of information science, founded Pitt's Department of Information Science
- Charles Glen King (MS, PhD, faculty) – biochemist; isolated vitamin C
- Samuel Pierpont Langley – astronomer, physicist, inventor, aviation pioneer, professor of astronomy at the Western University of Pennsylvania; his 1890 publication of infrared observations at the Allegheny Observatory was used to make the first calculations on the greenhouse effect
- Margaret McFarland – an American child psychologist who researched the meaning of the interactions between mothers and children.
- Maud Menten – pathologist at Pitt, 1923–1950; helped devise the Michaelis–Menten equation in the field of enzyme kinetics
- Patrick S. Moore – virologist and epidemiologist; co-discoverer of the cause of Kaposi's sarcoma, a deadly cancer commonly found in AIDS patients
- Herbert Needleman – a pediatrician and child psychiatrist known for research studies on the neurodevelopmental damage caused by lead poisoning
- Eugene Nicholas Myers – leader in the treatment of head and neck cancer
- Ezra T. Newman (faculty) – physicist known for Newman-Penrose formalism, Kerr-Newman solution, Heaven, and null foliation theory
- Jack Paradise (faculty) – pediatrician; a leading researcher of the placement of tympanostomy tubes in children with persistent otitis media
- Thomas Parran, Jr. – physician; first Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health after serving as U.S. Surgeon General, 1936–1948
- Mark M. Ravitch (faculty 1969–1989) – professor of surgery
- Robert Resnick – (1940–1956) – physicist widely known for his physics textbook Fundamentals of Physics written with David Halliday
- Renã A. S. Robinson – researcher into ion-mobility spectrometry and time-of-flight mass spectrometry, proteomics, Alzheimer's disease
- Carlo Rovelli – (1990–2000, affiliated 2000-present) – theoretical physicist in the field of quantum gravity where he is among the founders of the loop quantum gravity theory. He has also worked in the history and philosophy of science for which he maintains a status of Affiliated Professor in the university's Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
- Peter Safar – physician, CPR pioneer; three-time nominee for the Nobel Prize; established Pitt's Anesthesiology Department
- José-Alain Sahel – ophthalmologist and leading vision researcher who founded the Vision Institute in Paris
- Jonas Salk – physician, head of Pitt Virus Research Lab, developer of the polio vaccine
- Jeffrey H. Schwartz – anthropologist; elected President of the World Academy of Art and Science
- David Servan-Schreiber – physician, neuroscientist, and New York Times best-selling author.
- Mary Margaret Speer (PhD math 1935), American mathematician
- Benjamin Spock – writer of child development books
- Thomas Starzl – transplant pioneer, 2004 National Medal of Science recipient
- Ernest J. Sternglass – physicist and author, known for his research on the health risks of low-level radiation and digital medical imaging technologies
- Amy Wagner – professor in Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.[17]
- William E. Wallace (PhD Chem 1941 & faculty) – physical chemist and Guggenheim Fellow who worked on the Manhattan Project
- Cyril Wecht (A&S 1952, Med 1956, LLB 1962, faculty) – controversial forensic pathologist[18]
- J. Scott Yaruss (faculty) – American Speech-Language-Hearing Association fellow; stuttering researcher
Other
See also
Notes and References
- 43rd Annual Pitt Jazz Seminar and Concert Set for November. University of Pittsburgh. Sharon. Blake. August 22, 2013. August 26, 2013.
- News: Briefing Books: Lauded poet Terrance Hayes heads to Pitt. Tony. Norman. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. August 25, 2013. August 25, 2013.
- News: Pitt names Nicole Mitchell as head of jazz studies department. Rick. Nowlin. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. January 14, 2019. January 14, 2019.
- News: Drummer and educator Chad Taylor to head Jazz Studies Program. University Times. 56. 18. University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA. May 3, 2024. May 3, 2024.
- News: Nobel winner Roth has ties to University of Pittsburgh . Eleanor . Chute . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . October 16, 2012 . August 3, 2013.
- Web site: Dr. Jagdish N. Sheth: Academic & Administrative Positions . October 15, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131015165243/http://www.jagsheth.net/about_positions.html . October 15, 2013 .
- “Diego Holstein.” University of Pittsburgh. https://www.history.pitt.edu/people/diego-holstein. Accessed 11 March 2023.
- Pitt Law Names Its Inaugural Distinguished Jurist in Residence. Sharon. Blake. University of Pittsburgh. February 1, 2017. February 3, 2017.
- Web site: Christopher Hitchens/Biography . . 2003 . The Atlantic . The Atlantic Monthly Group. . 15 June 2019 . He has also taught as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Pittsburgh; and the New School of Social Research..
- News: Maccabe. Colin. 27 February 2011. The Next Page / A conversation with Christopher Hitchens: How Pittsburgh Made Me. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 22 June 2019. Hitchens [shown in photo above] in 1997, as a visiting professor in the University of Pittsburgh English Department..
- Book: Starrett, Agnes Lynch . Through one hundred and fifty years: the University of Pittsburgh . 86 . University of Pittsburgh Press . Pittsburgh . 1937 . August 1, 2013.
- Book: Starrett, Agnes Lynch. Through One Hundred and Fifty Years: The University of Pittsburgh. 351. 1937. University of Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh . October 2, 2013.
- Book: Friedman, Lawrence Jacob . Identity's architect: a biography of Erik H. Erikson . Harvard University Press . 2000 . 978-0-674-00437-5 . 253. April 28, 2014.
- Book: Friedman, Lawrence Jacob . Identity's architect: a biography of Erik H. Erikson . Harvard University Press . 2000 . 978-0-674-00437-5 . 331–332. April 28, 2014.
- Web site: August 24, 2001 . News Services: Former Faculty Member in Pitt's School of Information Sciences Honored for Textbook . 2022-07-01 . University of Pittsburgh.
- An Obsession with Culture. Rebecca. Skloot. Pitt Magazine. University of Pittsburgh. March 2001. August 27, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130106025004/http://www.pittmag.pitt.edu/mar2001/culture.html. January 6, 2013. dead.
- Web site: December 19, 2017 . Safar Center Associate Director Dr. Amy Wagner Promoted to Full Professor . April 17, 2021 . safar.pitt.edu.
- Class Notes. Pitt Magazine. Winter 2010. University of Pittsburgh. February 23, 2013.
- Barlow, Kimberly K. (October 12, 2012). "Obituary: Joseph W. Eaton." University Times (University of Pittsburgh). Retrieved 2015-03-12.
- Book: Starrett, Agnes Lynch . Through one hundred and fifty years: the University of Pittsburgh . 76 . University of Pittsburgh Press . Pittsburgh. 1937 . August 1, 2013.
- Fred Rogers Named Adjunct Professor at Pitt; Donates Archives of Television Program to School. Mary Ann. Aug. University of Pittsburgh Department of News and Publications. April 27, 1976. April 28, 2014.