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Endowed chairs provide Brandeis' renowned faculty members with the support they need for their groundbreaking research and award-winning teaching. Donors to named professorships receive annual reports on their chair incumbent’s research and teaching, as well as copies of their publications.
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Endowed Faculty
Tzvi Abusch, Rose B. and Joseph Cohen Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Religion
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Samuel F. and Rose B. Gingold Professor of Human Development
Stuart Altman, Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy
Joyce Antler, Samuel B. Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture
Silvia Arrom, Jane's Professor of Latin American Studies
Robert Art, Christian A. Herter Professor of International Relations
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Edward Bayone, Earle W. Kazis Professor of the Practice of Finance and International Real Estate
Eva Bellin, Myra and Robert Kraft Professor of Arab Politics
Christine Bishop, Atran Chair in Labor Economics
Elizabeth Brainerd, Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in Economics and Women's and Gender Studies
Marc Brettler, Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies
Bernadette Brooten, Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies
Steven Burg, Adlai Stevenson Professor of International Politics
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Eric Thomas Chafe, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Music
Bulbul Chakraborty, Enid and Nate Ancell Professor of Physics
Eric Chasalow, Irving Fine Professor of Music
Peter Conrad, Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences
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Jonathan Decter, Edmond J. Safra Professor of Sephardic Studies
Li Deng, Orrie Friedman Distinguished Chair in Chemistry
Susan Dibble, Barbara Sherman '54 and Malcolm L. Sherman Director of Theater Arts
Tom Doherty, Professor of Film Studies (on the Sam Spiegel Fund)
Brian Donahue, Associate Professor of American Environmental Studies (on the Jack Meyerhoff Fund)
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Irv Epstein, Henry F. Fischbach Professor of Chemistry
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Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Mandel Professor of Jewish Education
Shai Feldman, Judy and Sidney Swartz Director's Chair of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies
David Hackett Fischer, Earl Warren Professor of History
Sylvia Fishman, Joseph and Esther Foster Professor in Judaic Studies
Gregory Freeze, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of History
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Richard Gaskins, Joseph M. Proskauer Chair in Law and Social Welfare
Jeff Gelles, Aron and Imre Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Michael "Timo" Gilmore, Paul Prosswimmer Professor of American Literature
Nikolaus Grigorieff, W. M. Keck Professor of Biochemistry
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James Haber, Abraham and Etta Goodman Professor of Biology
Nader Habibi, Henry J. Leir Professor of the Economics of the Middle East
Eric Hill, Louis, Frances and Jeffrey Sachar Chair in Creative Arts
Eli Hirsch, Charles Goldman Professor of Philosophy
Mark L. Hulliung, Richard Koret Professor of the History of Ideas
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Adam B. Jaffe, Fred C. Hecht Professor in Economics
Paul Jankowski, Raymond Ginger Professor of History
Gary H. Jefferson, Carl Marks Professor of International Trade and Finance
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Peter R. Kalb, Cynthia L. and Theodore S. Berenson Chair in the Department of Fine Arts
Jane Kamensky, Harry S. Truman Professor of American Civilization
Ed Kaplan, Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities
Jytte Klausen, Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation
Raymond Knight, Mortimer Gryzmish Professor of Human Relations
Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, John Stein Professor of Disability Research
Yehuda Kurtzer, Charles R. Bronfman Visiting Professor in Jewish Communal Innovation
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Margie Lachman, Minnie and Harold Fierman Professor of Psychology
Jim Lackner, Meshulam and Judith Riklis Professor of Physiology
Blake LeBaron, Abram L. and Thelma Sachar Professor of International Economics
Marya Levenson, Professor of the Practice of Education and Director of the Education Program
John Lisman, Zalman Abraham Kekst Chair in Neuroscience
Susan Lovett, Abraham S. and Gertrude Burg Professor of Microbiology
Lisa Lynch, Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy
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Bruce Magid, Dean of the Brandeis International Business School and the Martin Ahuva Gross Chair in Financial Markets and Institutions
Kanan Mohomed Makiya, Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Catherine Mann, Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Professor of Global Finance
Mingus Ulysses Mapps, Gregg Sneirson, Loretta Sneirson and Lester Sneirson Professor of African and Afro-American Studies and Politics
Eve Marder, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience
Charles McClendon, Sidney and Ellen Wien Chair in the History of Art
Rachel McCulloch, Rosen Family Professor of International Finance
Robin Feuer Miller, Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities
Robert Moody, Blanche, Barbara, and Irving Laurie Chair in Theater Arts
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Daniel Oprian, Louis and Bessie Rosenfield Professor of Biochemistry
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Susan Parish, Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Disability Policy
Peter A. Petri, Carl Shapiro Professor of International Finance
Greg Petsko, Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry
Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies
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David Rakowski, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Composition
Jehuda Reinharz, Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History
Shula Reinharz, Jacob S. Potofsky Professor of Sociology
Dagmar Ringe, Harold and Bernice Davis Professor of Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease
David H. Roberts, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Astrophysics
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Jonathan Sarna, Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History
Leonard Saxe, Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies
Howard J. Schnitzer, Edward and Gertrude Swartz Professor of Theoretical Physics
Robert Sekuler, Louis and Frances Salvage Professor of Psychology
Tom Shapiro, Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy
Harleen Singh, Helaine and Alvin Allen Chair in Literature
Carmen Sirianni, Morris Hillquit Professor of Labor and Social Thought
Marion Smiley, J.P. Morgan Chase Professor of Ethics
Barry B. Snider, Charles A. Breskin Professor of Organic Chemistry
Ibrahim Sundiata (pictured above), Samuel and Augusta Spector Professor of History
Ilana Szobel, Assistant Professor on the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Chair in Hebrew Literature
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Ilan Troen, Karl, Harry and Helen Stoll Professor of Israel Studies
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Malcolm Watson, George and Frances Levin Professor of Psychology
Steve Whitfield, Max Richter Professor of American Civilization
Art Wingfield, Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience
Bernard Yack, Lerman Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Public Policy
Palle Yourgrau, Harry A. Wolfson Chair in Philosophy
Leslie A. Zebrowitz, Manuel Yellen Professor of Social Relations