This a partial list of notable faculty (either past, present, or visiting) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Awards and prizes

Among the Graduate Center's faculty are recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize, Lakatos Award, National Medals of Humanities and Science, Bancroft Prize, Grammy Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, Lakatos Award, and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, as well as memberships in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences.[1]

Nobel laureates

In 1997, Queens College recruited future Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of the human immunodeficiency virus Luc Montagnier, appointing him to an endowed professorship.[2] He was subsequently added to the faculty of the Graduate Center in the department of biology.[3]

In 2015, the Graduate Center recruited Nobel laureate Paul Krugman to the faculty. He joined the faculty on a dual appointment, both to the university's Ph.D. program in economics and as a distinguished scholar at the Graduate Center's Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality. At the Stone Center, Krugman's colleagues include political scientist and sociologist Janet Gornick as well as economist Branko Milanovic.[4]

American Academy of the Arts and Sciences

NameRelation to the Graduate CenterYear inductedReference
Ervand AbrahamianDistinguished Professor of History2010[5]
Richard AlbaDistinguished Professor of Sociology2017[6]
Mary Ann CawsDistinguished Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, English, and French2009[7]
Nancy FonerDistinguished Professor of Sociology2011[7]
David HarveyDistinguished Professor of Anthropology and Earth and Environmental Sciences2007[7]
Saul KripkeDistinguished Professor of Philosophy1978[7]
Charles MillsDistinguished Professor of Philosophy2017[6]
Ursula OppensDistinguished Professor of Music1999[7]
Eve SedgwickDistinguished Professor of English2005[8]
Dennis SullivanAlbert Einstein Chair in Science (Mathematics)1991[7]
Leo TreitlerDistinguished Professor of Music1994[7]
Sheldon WeinbaumDistinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering2013[7]

National Academy of Sciences

NameRelation to the Graduate CenterYear inductedReference
Andreas AcrivosAlbert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering Emeritus1991[9]
William BialekVisiting Presidential Professor of Physics2012[9]
Myriam SarachikDistinguished Professor of Physics1994[9]
Dennis SullivanAlbert Einstein Chair in Science (Mathematics)1983[10]
Sheldon WeinbaumDistinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering2002[9]

Guggenheim Fellows

NameRelation to the Graduate CenterYear awardedReference
André AcimanDistinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and French1997[11]
Esther AllenProfessor of Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at Baruch College and the Graduate Center2018[12]
Marshall BermanDistinguished Professor of Political Science1981[13]
Joshua BrownFormer executive director of the American Social History Project2010[14]
Mary Ann CawsDistinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature1972[15]
Janet Dean FodorDistinguished Professor of Linguistics1993[16]
Jerry FodorFormer Distinguished Professor of Philosophy1972[17]
Nancy FonerDistinguished Professor of Sociology2017[18]
Dagmar HerzogDistinguished Professor of History2012[19]
Lev ManovichProfessor of Computer Science2002[20]
Louis MenandFormer Distinguished Professor of English1990[21]
Nancy K. MillerDistinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French1989[22]
Francis Fox PivenDistinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science1973[23]
Robert Reid-PharrProfessor of English2016[24]

MacArthur Fellows

NameRelation to the Graduate CenterYear awardedReference
Ralph ShapeyDistinguished Professor of Music1982[25]
Nancy SiraisiDistinguished Professor Emerita of History2008[26]
Eric WolfDistinguished Professor of Anthropology1990[27]

Pulitzer Prize

NameRelation to the Graduate CenterYear(s) awardedReference
John CoriglianoDistinguished Professor of Music2001[28]
David Del TrediciDistinguished Professor of Music at the Graduate Center and the City College of New York1980[29]
Louis MenandFormer Distinguished Professor of English2002[30]
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.Former Albert Schweitzer Professor Emeritus of the Humanities1946, 1966[31][32]
Mike WallaceDistinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice1999[33]

National Medal of Arts

NameRelation to the Graduate CenterYear awardedReference
Gregory RabassaDistinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures2006[34]

National Medal of Science

NameRelation to the Graduate CenterYear awardedReference
Dennis SullivanAlbert Einstein Chair in Science (Mathematics)2004[35]

Rolf Schock Prize

NameRelation to the Graduate CenterYear awardedReference
Saul KripkeDistinguished Professor of Philosophy2001[36]

Alan T. Waterman Award

NameRelation to the Graduate CenterYear awardedReference
Andrea AlùEinstein Professor of Physics2015[37]

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

NameRelation to the Graduate CenterYear awardedReference
Alexander GamburdPresidential Professor of Mathematics2008[38]

Grammy Award

NameRelation to the Graduate CenterYear(s) awardedReference
John CoriglianoDistinguished Professor of Music2014, 2009, 2009, 1997, 1992[39][40]
Ursula OppensDistinguished Professor of Music2016[41]

Bancroft Prize

NameRelation to the Graduate CenterYear awardedReference
David NasawArthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Professor of History2001[42]
David S. ReynoldsDistinguished Professor of English1996[43]

Notable faculty by department

The Graduate Center's employment of faculty operates according to a unique consortium model, which both hosts 140 faculty with sole appointments exclusively at the Graduate Center, often senior scholars in their respective disciplines, and provides joint appointments to 1,800 faculty from the thirteen senior colleges and seven community colleges in the CUNY system to teach classes and advise graduate students.[44]

Anthropology

Art History

Classics

Computer Science

  • Sergei N. Artemov, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
  • Melvin Fitting, professor emeritus of Computer Science at the Graduate Center and the City College of New York
  • Robert Haralick, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
  • Gabor Herman, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
  • Saul Kripke, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Philosophy
  • Lev Manovich, professor of Computer Science
  • Victor Pan, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
  • Rohit Jivanlal Parikh, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Brooklyn College
  • Theodore Raphan, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
  • Stathis Zachos, professor emeritus of Computer Science at the Graduate Center and Brooklyn College

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Economics

English

French

  • John Kneller, former professor emeritus of French at the Graduate Center and Brooklyn College

History

  • Paul Avrich, former Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center and Queens College
  • Laird Bergad, Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center and Lehman College
  • Randolph L. Braham, former Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Hunter College and the City College of New York
  • Joshua Brown, adjunct professor and executive director of the American Social History Project and the Center for Media and Learning
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook, Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center and John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  • Eric Foner, former professor of history at the Graduate Center and the City College of New York
  • Joshua Freeman, Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center and Queens College
  • Herbert Gutman, former Distinguished Professor of History
  • Dagmar Herzog, Distinguished Professor
  • KC Johnson, professor of History at the Graduate Center and Brooklyn College
  • James Oakes, Distinguished Professor
  • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., former Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities
  • Joan Wallach Scott, adjunct professor
  • Judith Stein, former Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center and the City College of New York
  • Clarence Taylor, professor emeritus of History at the Graduate Center and Baruch College
  • Mike Wallace, Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center and John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  • Eric D. Weitz, Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center and the City College of New York

Linguistics

Mathematics

Philosophy

  • Linda Martín Alcoff, professor of Philosophy
  • Noël Carroll, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
  • Michael Devitt, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
  • Melvin Fitting, professor emeritus of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Lehman College
  • Miranda Fricker, Presidential Professor of Philosophy
  • Peter Godfrey-Smith, adjunct and former Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
  • Carol C. Gould, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, director of the Center for Global Ethics and Politics at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
  • Joel David Hamkins, professor of Philosophy
  • Virginia Held, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Center and Hunter College
  • Serene Khader, professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College
  • Saul Kripke, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science
  • Douglas P. Lackey, professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Baruch College
  • Michael Levin, professor emeritus of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and the City College of New York
  • Charles W. Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
  • Stephen Neale, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics and Kornblith Chair in the Philosophy of Science and Value
  • David Papineau, visiting Presidential Professor of Philosophy
  • Massimo Pigliucci, professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and the City College of New York
  • Graham Priest, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
  • Jesse Prinz, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
  • David M. Rosenthal, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
  • Nathan Salmon, visiting professor of Philosophy
  • Galen Strawson, former Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center
  • Marx Wartofsky, former Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Baruch College

Physics

  • Robert Alfano, Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at the City College of New York and Graduate Center
  • Andrea Alù, Einstein Professor of Physics and Director of the Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center
  • William Bialek, visiting Presidential Professor of Physics
  • Eugene Chudnovsky, Distinguished Professor of Physics at Lehman College and the Graduate Center
  • Dmitry Garanin, professor of Physics at Lehman College and the Graduate Center
  • Swapan K. Gayen, Distinguished Professor of Physics at the City College of New York and Graduate Center
  • Azriel Z. Genack, Distinguished Professor of Physics at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center[45]
  • Daniel Greenberger, Distinguished Professor of Physics at the City College of New York and Graduate Center
  • Godfrey Gumbs, Distinguished Professor of Physics at Hunter College and Graduate Center
  • Michio Kaku, Henry Semat Professor of Physics the City College of New York and Graduate Center
  • V. Parmeswaran Nair, Distinguished Professor of Physics at the City College of New York and Graduate Center
  • Matthew O'Dowd J., professor of Physics at Lehman College and the Graduate Center
  • Xi-Cheng Zhang, assistant professor of Physics

Political science

Psychology

Sociology

  • Stanley Aronowitz, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Urban Education
  • Juan Battle, professor of Sociology, Public Health, and Urban Education
  • Frank Bonilla, former Thomas Hunter Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Hunter College
  • Bogdan Denitch, former professor emeritus of Sociology
  • Mitchell Duneier, former Distinguished Professor of Sociology
  • Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology
  • Stuart Ewen, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Hunter College
  • Samuel Farber, professor emeritus of Sociology
  • Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology
  • Gerald S. Handel, professor emeritus of Sociology at the Graduate Center and the City College of New York
  • Michael P. Jacobson, director of CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance
  • James M. Jasper, professor of Sociology
  • Philip Kasinitz, Presidential Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Hunter College
  • Barbara Katz Rothman, professor of Sociology, Public Health, Disability Studies and Women's Studies at the Graduate Center and Baruch College
  • Judith Lorber, professor emeritus of Sociology and Women's Studies at the Graduate Center and Brooklyn College
  • Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi, former professor emeritus of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Brooklyn College
  • Ruth Milkman, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, associate director of the Joseph S. Murphy Institute
  • Pyong Gap Min, professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Queens College, director of the Research Center for Korean Community
  • Peter Moskos, professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  • Victoria Pitts-Taylor, former professor of sociology at the Graduate Center and Queens College
  • Carroll Seron, former professor of sociology at the Graduate Center and Baruch College
  • Iván Szelényi, former Distinguished Professor of Sociology
  • John Torpey, professor of Sociology and History, director of Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
  • Bryan Turner, Presidential Professor of Sociology
  • Jock Young, Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology
  • Sharon Zukin, professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Brooklyn College

Urban Education

  • Marc Lamont Hill, Presidential Professor of Urban Education at the Graduate Center
  • Anthony Picciano, professor of Urban Education at the Graduate Center and Hunter College

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