The following is a partial list of Northwestern University faculty, including current, former, emeritus, and deceased faculty, and administrators at Northwestern University.
Presidents
° - interim/acting president
Notable faculty
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Jan D. Achenbach, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering, engineering sciences and applied mathematics, and mechanical engineering; National Medal of Science
- Luis Amaral, professor of chemical engineering
- Ted Belytschko, professor of mechanical engineering, computational mechanics
- Arthur Butz, associate professor of electrical engineering and Holocaust denier
- Justine Cassell, professor of communication studies and electrical engineering and computer science
- Stephen H. Davis, professor of engineering sciences and applied mathematics
- Ken Forbus, computer science and artificial intelligence
- Robert Fourer, professor of industrial engineering and management sciences, designer of AMPL
- Michael Honig, professor of electrical engineering and computer science
- Donald A. Norman, computer science and cognitive science
- Joseph Schofer, professor of civil and environmental engineering, director of the Infrastructure Technology Institute, and Associate Dean
- Allen Taflove, professor of electrical engineering
Medill School of Journalism
- Douglas Foster, former editor-in-chief of Mother Jones magazine
- John Lavine, dean
- Jon Petrovich, former CNN and Sony Television executive, founder of CNN.com
- Elmo Scott Watson, journalism professor, 1924â€"1947; specialist on the American West
- Michele Weldon, author and former managing editor of Northshore magazine
School of Communication
- Frank Galati, Tony Award-winning director and professor of performance studies
- Dilip Gaonkar, rhetorical theory
- Rebecca Gilman, professor and playwright of Spinning into Butter
- E. Patrick Johnson, professor of performance studies
- Eric Patrick, professor of radio/television/film, experimental filmmaker, and 2006 Guggenheim Fellow
- Todd Rosenthal, Tony Award-winning scenic designer
- Anna Shapiro, professor and director at the Steppenwolf Theatre
- Lynn Spigel, scholar of television and American culture
- David E. Tolchinsky, screenwriter, Chair of the Department of Radio-TV-Film, and Director of the MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage
- Winifred Louise Ward, founded the field of Creative Drama.
- David Zarefsky, authority on rhetoric and forensics
- Mary Zimmerman, Tony Award-winning director and professor of performance studies
School of Professional Studies
- Chris Abani, Nigerian author
- Stuart Dybek, writer
- Reginald Gibbons, poet, fiction writer, translator, literary critic, artist
- Ed Roberson, poet
Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Ken Alder, historian of science, author of The Measure of All Things and The Lie Detectors
- J. Michael Bailey, professor of psychology
- Myron L. Bender, professor of chemistry
- T.H. Breen, historian of colonial America
- Micaela di Leonardo, cultural anthropologist
- Souleymane Bachir Diagne, professor of African and Islamic philosophy
- Stuart Dybek, author of The Coast of Chicago and I Sailed With Magellan
- Dyan Elliott, historian of Medieval Europe
- Betsy Erkkila, Henry Sanborn Noyes Professor of American Literature, Walt Whitman scholar
- Ward V. Evans, chemist and Oppenheimer security hearing panel member
- Enectalà Figueroa-Feliciano, physicist
- Gary Alan Fine, sociologist of culture
- Anupam Garg, physicist, author of Classical Electromagnetism in a Nutshell
- Reginald Gibbons, professor of English and Classics, 2008 National Book Award nominee for poetry
- Robert J. Gordon, economist
- Jürgen Habermas, contemporary philosopher
- John Hagan, sociologist of crime and human rights
- Peter Hayes, scholar of German industry during the Holocaust
- Erich Heller, essayist, philosopher, and literature scholar
- Aleksandar Hemon, author of the National Book Award-nominated The Lazarus Project
- T.W. Heyck, professor of British and Irish history
- Darlene Clark Hine, historian of African-American women
- Bonnie Honig, political theorist
- Vicky Kalogera, astrophysicist, Director of CIERA
- John Ketterson, physicist
- Richard Kieckhefer, professor of Religion, author of Magic in the Middle Ages and Theology in Stone
- Mary Kinzie, professor of English and creative writing, author of A Poet's Guide to Poetry
- Laura Kipnis, professor and author of bestselling Against Love
- Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here and The Other Side of the River
- Richard Kraut, philosopher
- Jennifer Lackey, professor of philosophy
- Peter Ludlow, John Evans Professor in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy
- Nancy MacLean, historian, author of Behind the Mask of Chivalry
- Yuri Manin, mathematician
- Charles Manski, economist and social policy analyst
- Tobin J. Marks, professor of chemistry
- Charles Mills, philosophy professor
- Chad Mirkin, nanomedicine and chemistry
- Joel Mokyr, historian of science and economics, author of The Lever of Riches
- Richard I. Morimoto, Cell and Molecular Biology
- Aldon Morris, sociologist and author of The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
- Gary Saul Morson, Russian literature, scholar of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
- Dale Mortensen, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics
- Charles Moskos, military sociologist, former advisor to President Bill Clinton
- Adilson E. Motter, physicist
- Edward Muir, Renaissance historian
- Barbara Newman, scholar of Medieval religion and female spirituality
- Monica Olvera de la Cruz, professor of materials science and engineering and professor of chemistry
- Robert Orsi, professor of American religious history
- Ed Paschke, artist and Chicago Imagist
- Mary Pattillo, urban sociologist, named one of Newsweek's "Women of the 21st Century"
- John Pople, late Nobel Prize-winning chemistry professor
- Janice Radway, professor of communications studies
- Mark Ratner, professor of chemistry
- Jennifer Richeson, professor of psychology and MacArthur Fellow
- George C. Schatz, professor of chemistry
- Heidi Schellman, professor of physics and department head at Oregon Stae University
- Michael Sherry, Bancroft Prize-winning military historian
- Richard Bruce Silverman, professor of chemistry
- Lynn Spigel, Frances Willard Professor of Screen Cultures, cultural history of television
- James Fraser Stoddart, Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry
- Stuart Struever, anthropologist and archaeologist, former president of the Society for American Archaeology
- Andrei Suslin, mathematician
- Charles Taylor, philosopher, author of Sources of the Self
- Fred W. Turek, Director of the Center for Sleep & Circadian Biology and the Charles & Emma Morrison Professor of Biology in the Department of Neurobiology
- Mayda Velasco, physicist and Director of COFI
- Andrew Baruch Wachtel, former dean of The Graduate School, Slavic Literatures scholar
- Samuel Weber, Avalon Professor of the Humanities, critical theory
- Irwin Weil, scholar of Soviet history, music, and literature
- Jon Widom, biochemistry and molecular biology
- Garry Wills, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and religious scholar
Feinberg School of Medicine
- David Baker, Chief of General Internal Medicine
- Sarah A. Connolly, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Microbiology-Immunology
- Nathan Smith Davis, Jr., Dean
- Fred M. Levin, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
- Patrizia LoPresti, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Kellogg School of Management
- Philip Kotler, author of Marketing Management, named #4 management guru of all time by Financial Times
- Barry Nelson, system simulations
- Stanley Reiter, economics, author of Designing Economic Mechanisms
- Don E. Schultz, marketing and advertising
School of Law
- Ronald J. Allen, the John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law
- Andrew Koppelman, John Paul Stevens Professor of Law
- Steven Lubet, Edna B. and Ednyfed H. Williams Memorial Professor
- Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, author of Killing the Black Body
School of Music
- Peter Martin, jazz pianist
- Ursula Oppens, pianist
- W. Stephen Smith, professor of voice and opera
- Amnon Wolman, composer of electronic music
- Jay Alan Yim, composer
Other
- Ross Atkinson, librarian
- Beth Combs, head women's basketball coach at Northwestern from 2004 to 2008
- Lindsey Durlacher, wrestling coach
- Vladimir Ipatieff, Russian expert on catalysis whose laboratory at Northwest eventually led to the formation of the Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
