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Endowed Faculty

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Jeff Abramson, Louis Stulberg Professor of Law and Politics

Tzvi Abusch, Rose B. and Joseph Cohen Professor of Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Religion

Stuart Altman, Dean and 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

B

Edward Bayone, Earle W. Kazis Professor of the Practice of Finance and International Real Estate

Rudolph Binion, Leff Families Professor of Modern European Studies

Christine Bishop, Atran Chair in Labor Economics 

Martin Boykan, Irving Fine Professor of Music

Marc Brettler, Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies

Bernadette Brooten, Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies

Seyom Brown, Wien Professor of International Cooperation

Steven Burg, Adlai Stevenson Professor of International Politics

C

Stephen Cecchetti, Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Professor of Global Finance

Eric Thomas Chafe, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Music

Jacques Cohen, TJX/Zayre/Feldberg Professor of Computer Science

Peter Conrad, Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences

D

Jonathan Decter, Edmond J. Safra Professor of Sephardic Studies

Stanley Deser, Enid and Nate Ancell Professor of Physics

Tom Doherty, Professor of Film Studies (on the Sam Spiegel Fund)

F. Trenery Dolbear Jr., Clinton S. Darling Professor of Economics

Brian Donahue, Associate Professor of American Environmental Studies (on the Jack Meyerhoff Fund)

E

Karl Eigsti, Charles Bloom Professor of the Arts and Design

Irv Epstein, Henry F. Fischbach Professor of Chemistry

F

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

Gregory Freeze, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of History 

G

Jeff Gelles, Aron and Imre Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Timo Gilmore, Paul Prosswimmer Professor of American Literature

Nikolaus Grigorieff, W. M. Keck Professor of Biochemistry

H

Jim Haber, Abraham and Etta Goodman Professor of Biology

Nader Habibi, Henry J. Leir Professor of the Economics of the Middle East

Maurice Hershenson, Geroge and Frances Levin Professor of Psychology

Eli Hirsch, Charles Goldman Professor of Philosophy

Mark L. Hulliung, Richard Koret Professor of the History of Ideas

I-J 

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

Jackie Jones, Truman Professor of American Civilization

K

Peter R. Kalb, Cynthia L. and Theodore S. Berenson Chair in the Department of Fine Arts

Ed Kaplan, Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities

Raymond Knight, Mortimer Gryzmish Professor of Human Relations

Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, John Stein Professor of Disability Research

L

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

M

Eve Marder, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience

Rachel McCulloch, Rosen Family Professor of International Finance

Robin Feuer Miller, Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities

N-O 

Daniel Oprian, Louis and Bessie Rosenfield Professor of Biochemistry

P

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

Q-R 

David Rakowski, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Composition

Ben Ravid, Jennie and Mayer Weisman Professor of Jewish History

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

George W. Ross, Hillquit Professor of Labor and Social Thought

S

Jonathan Sarna, Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History

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

Susan Shevitz, Associate Professor of Jewish Education in the Hornstein Program

Marion Smiley, J.P. Morgan Chase Professor of Ethics

Barry B. Snider, Charles A. Breskin Professor of Organic Chemistry

Ibrahim Sundiata, Samuel and Augusta Spector Professor of History

T

Eva T. Thorne, Meyer and W. Walter Jaffe Assistant Professor of Politics

Ilan Troen, Karl, Harry and Helen Stoll Professor of Israel Studies

U-Z

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

Leslie A. Zebrowitz, Manuel Yellen Professor of Social Relations