List of New York University faculty and staff

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

distinguished faculty (either past, present or visiting) and staff.

Nobel laureates

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	Oskar Morgenstern professor, 1997	2005 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
	professor	1976 Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
	professor 1956–1968	1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
	fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities	1987 Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
	professor 1999–	2003 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
	lecturer 1913–1914	1908 Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
	associate adjunct professor 1972	2000 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
	adjunct professor 1998–	2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
	MED 1955, M.D.; Associate Professor 1965–74	2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
	professor, 1940	1975 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
	professor 1975–1999	1973 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
	professor 1940–1961	1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
	professor 1960–1961, Courant Institute	1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
	professor 1926–1928	1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
	visiting professor	1974 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
	professor 1942–1974	1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
	professor 1978–1979	2006 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
	Shinsei visiting professor 2005–	2004 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
	visiting professor	1970 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
	Scholar-in-Residence	1986 Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...

MacArthur Fellows

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability
Arthur G. Amsterdam	Professor of Law	1989 MacArthur Fellow
	Berg Professor of English	1985 MacArthur Fellow
	Professor of Art History	1996 MacArthur Fellow
Faye D. Ginsburg	Professor of Anthropology	1994 MacArthur Fellow
Fritz John	Professor of Mathematics	1984 MacArthur Fellow
	Professor of Creative Writing	1984 MacArthur Fellow
Sylvia A. Law	LAW 1968, J.D.; professor	1983 MacArthur Fellow
	Professor of History	1999 MacArthur Fellow
Ruth Watson Lubic	Adjunct Professor	1993 MacArthur Fellow
Paule Marshall	Professor of English	1992 MacArthur Fellow
Deborah Meier	Research Scholar, Steinhardt	1987 MacArthur Fellow
	GSAS 1956, Ph.D.; professor of music	1974 MacArthur Fellow
Charles S. Peskin	Professor of Mathematics	1983 MacArthur Fellow
Robert Shapley	Professor of Neurology	1986 MacArthur Fellow
	Professor of Performance Studies	1996 MacArthur Fellow
	Professor of Photography	2000 MacArthur Fellow
Rita P. Wright	Professor of Anthropology	1988 MacArthur Fellow
Horng-Tzer Yau	Professor of Mathematics	2000 MacArthur Fellow

National Medal of Science recipients

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference
	professor 1938–1974	1976 National Medal of Science National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and... recipient
	professor 1964–1991	1967 National Medal of Science National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and... recipient
	professor 1942–1974	1979 National Medal of Science National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and... recipient

College of Arts and Science (undergraduate and graduate)

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference

Stern School of Business

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability
	Professor, current	TRIUM Global Executive MBA Professor
	Professor, current	Associate Professor of Finance
Frederic Dalsace	Professor, current	TRIUM Global Executive MBA Professor
	Professor, current	Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting
	Professor, current	Nomura Professor of Finance; Academic Director of Stern Doctoral Program
	Professor, current	Clinical Professor of Finance and Academic Director of Executive Programs
	Professor, current	Research Professor of Finance; Ira Rennert Professor of Entrepreneurship; Research Director, Berkley Center
	Professor, current	Clinical Associate Professor of Management and Organizations
	Professor, current	Vice Dean of Executive Programs and Professor of Economics and Global Business
	Professor, current	John M. Schiff Professor of Finance
	Professor, current	Vice Dean for Strategic Initiatives and the W. Edwards Deming Professor of Quality and Productivity
	Professor, current	Clinical Professor at Stern; Neuberger Berman’s Chairman of the Board
	Professor, current	History of Financial Institutions and Markets professor

Tisch School of the Arts

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability	Reference

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Dramatists Play Service

Established in 1936 by members of the Dramatists Guild and the Society for Authors' Representatives, Dramatists Play Service, Inc. is a theatrical publishing and licensing house...

Susan Sandler

Susan Sandler is an American writer and currently a professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She has numerous writing credits but is probably best known for her play Crossing Delancey, which she also adapted into a movie with the same name starring Amy Irving and directed by...

| Teaches Screenwriting/Directing
| Wrote plays and screenplays including Crossing Delancey
Crossing Delancey
Crossing Delancey is a romantic comedy film starring Amy Irving and Peter Riegert released in 1988. It is directed by Joan Micklin Silver and based on a play by Susan Sandler, who also wrote the screenplay...

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Professor emeriti and other notable faculty

Name	Relation to NYU	Notability
	Poet in residence	Awarded the 1969 Brenner Prize Brenner Prize The Brenner Prize is an Israeli literary prize awarded annually by the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel and the Haft Family Foundation.It was founded in the name of the author Yosef Haim Brenner and was first awarded in 1945.... , 1976 Bialik Prize Bialik Prize The Bialik Prize is an annual literary award given by the municipality of Tel Aviv, Israel for significant accomplishments in Hebrew literature. The prize is named in memory of Hayyim Nahman Bialik. There are two separate prizes, one specifically for "Literature", which is in the field of fiction,... , and 1982 Israel Prize Israel Prize The Israel Prize is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is largely regarded as the state's highest honor. It is presented annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state ceremony in Jerusalem, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Knesset chairperson, and the...
	Professor, current	Winner of the 2004–2005 Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
	Professor current, Director of NYU's Africana studies	Drama professor and professor
	Professor, current	John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary executions.
	Professor, 1977 –	Inventor of the "Z-Score"
	Visiting faculty, current	Bioethicist, authority on euthanasia
	Visiting Professor	Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at NYU
	B.A., 1850, Professor 1859–1906	Historian of the Huguenot Huguenot The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the... s
	professor	member, National Academy of Science
	Professor	1976 Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
	Professor 1956–1968	1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
	Professor	1973 Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City... (Watergate)
	professor	member, National Academy of Science
	Visiting Professor 1993	Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
	Professor 1996–	contributed to matters of consciousness Consciousness Consciousness is a term that refers to the relationship between the mind and the world with which it interacts. It has been defined as: subjectivity, awareness, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind... and cognitive science Cognitive science Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...
	Professor current,	Professor of Philosophy
	Professor current	Jazz bassist and composer
	Professor 1969 –	best known for his research on voting systems and approval voting Approval voting Approval voting is a single-winner voting system used for elections. Each voter may vote for as many of the candidates as the voter wishes. The winner is the candidate receiving the most votes. Each voter may vote for any combination of candidates and may give each candidate at most one vote.The...
	Professor of History (1979–1989)	National Security Advisor National Security Advisor (United States) The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor , serves as the chief advisor to the President of the United States on national security issues... under John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
	Professor 1978–2004	medievalist
	Professor, current	Academy Award Academy Awards An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers... -winning independent animator, animation historian
	Visiting Professor	Secretary of State of Mexico
	Guest Lecturer	former Minister of Finance, Republic of Argentina
	professor, current	Physicist
	Professor since 1992	Prominent historian of France
	Professor	member, National Academy of Science
	Professor	eminent scholar on history and foreign relations of Russia
	Professor, current	American sociologist
	Professor, current	Classical Archaeologist and Professor of Classics and Art History at New York University New York University New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan... , Appointed to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee by President George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000.... in 2003 and awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1996
	Professor	taught a course on magic Magic (illusion) Magic is a performing art that entertains audiences by staging tricks or creating illusions of seemingly impossible or supernatural feats using natural means... at the age of sixteen
	Professor	noted for the development of the finite element method Finite element method The finite element method is a numerical technique for finding approximate solutions of partial differential equations as well as integral equations...
	Professor	author of Ragtime Ragtime Ragtime is an original musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1897 and 1918. Its main characteristic trait is its syncopated, or "ragged," rhythm. It began as dance music in the red-light districts of American cities such as St. Louis and New Orleans years before being published...
	Professor, current	Irish literary critic. He is currently the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University New York University New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan... .
	Professor, current	Former president of the American Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties Union The American Civil Liberties Union is a U.S. non-profit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." It works through litigation, legislation, and... from 1976–1991.
	Professor, 1840–1881	founder and former president of the Medical School
	Professor, 1950–1972	major contributor to management theory
	Professor, current	Sociologist
	Professor, current	Clerked for Judge Learned Hand of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals... , winner of the 2007 Holberg International Memorial Prize Holberg International Memorial Prize The Holberg International Memorial Prize was established in 2003 by the government of Norway with the objective of increasing awareness of the value of academic scholarship within the arts, humanities, social sciences, law and theology, either within one of these fields or through interdisciplinary... .
	Professor 2003–	economist
	Professor 1999–	2003 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
	Professor	author of Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
	Professor, current	Philosopher
	Professor, current	National Medal of Arts National Medal of Arts The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts. It is the highest honor conferred to an individual artist on behalf of the people. Honorees are selected by the National Endowment for the... winner in 1996, inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame American Theatre Hall of Fame The American Theatre Hall of Fame in New York City was founded in 1972. Earl Blackwell was the first head of the Executive Committee. In an announcement at a luncheon meeting on March 1972, he said that the new Theater Hall of Fame would be located in the Uris Theatre . James M... in 1999.
	Professor, current	Silver Professor of Philosophy
Joel Fink Joel Fink Joel G. Fink is an actor, director, acting coach and theatre administrator. He is currently a Professor of Theatre for the Theatre Conservatory of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he also served as Associate Dean and Founding Director of the...	Professor, former	Current Associate Dean of Roosevelt University
	Professor of psychiatry 1962–1974	German-American psychologist Psychologist Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college... and philosopher.
	Professor, current	American macroeconomics, Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Economics at New York University, Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes... .
	Professor	best known for her on ethical community and ethical relationships
	Professor, Clive Davis School of Recorded Music	Wrote the first biography of Bob Marley Bob Marley Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...
	Professor, Tisch School of the Arts Tisch School of the Arts Tisch School of the Arts is one of the 15 schools that make up New York University ....	Recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award Whiting Writers' Award The Whiting Writers' Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and has been presented since 1985. As of 2007, winners receive US $50,000.-External links:**... in 2005 for plays.
	Vincent Astor Visiting Professor	known for his development of the evolutionary biology theory of Punctuated equilibrium Punctuated equilibrium Punctuated equilibrium is a theory in evolutionary biology which proposes that most species will exhibit little net evolutionary change for most of their geological history, remaining in an extended state called stasis... and his scientific writings
	Professor, 1932–1940	inventor of the "Free Music Machine", the forerunner of the synthesizer.
	Jay Gould Jay Gould Jason "Jay" Gould was a leading American railroad developer and speculator. He has long been vilified as an archetypal robber baron, whose successes made him the ninth richest American in history. Condé Nast Portfolio ranked Gould as the 8th worst American CEO of all time... Professor of Mathematics	made major contributions to metric geometry and symplectic geometry
	Professor, current	Neuroscientist, son of Nobel laureate Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895... chemist Chemistry Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds.... Alan J. Heeger Alan J. Heeger Alan Jay Heeger is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.Heeger was born in Sioux City, Iowa to a Jewish family. He earned a B.S. in physics and mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1957, and a Ph.D in physics from the University of California,... .
	Dean	credited with taking the first human x-ray in the United States
	Adjunct Professor 1998–	2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
	Professor, 1927–1972	philosopher who championed pragmatism Pragmatism Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition centered on the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice...
	Professor, current	Philosopher, Guggenheim Fellowship
	Professor, current	Prominent photographer, founder of xDesign Environmental Health Clinic
	Chairman of Classics	Archaeologist, past-President of Archaeological Institute of America Archaeological Institute of America The Archaeological Institute of America is a North American nonprofit organization devoted to the promotion of public interest in archaeology, and the preservation of archaeological sites. It has offices on the campus of Boston University and in New York City.The institute was founded in 1879,...
	Professor, current	Economist, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.James Bowdoin, John Adams, and... .
	Professor	director of Erich Maria Remarque Institute and author of Postwar
	Professor	Philosopher, winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
	Professor	Past faculty member at the New York University Medical School, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will... .
	Professor of Linguistics, current	developed the theory of antisymmetry Antisymmetry In linguistics, antisymmetry is a theory of syntactic linearization presented in Richard Kayne's 1994 monograph The Antisymmetry of Syntax. The crux of this theory is that hierarchical structure in natural language maps universally onto a particular surface linearization, namely... .
	Professor emeritus, current	Economist, leading proponent of the Austrian School of Economics Austrian School The Austrian School of economics is a heterodox school of economic thought. It advocates methodological individualism in interpreting economic developments , the theory that money is non-neutral, the theory that the capital structure of economies consists of heterogeneous goods that have... .
	Professor	Lebanese Lebanon Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among... writer and critic
	Professor, Artistic Director of NYU's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music	writer, pop critic, music manager
	Instructor	CEO of Oki Data Americas, Inc.
	Professor, current	also holds a Research Professorship on "Globalization and the Rule of Law" at the Social Science Research Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, WZB) and Humboldt University in Berlin
	Professor	architectural historian
	Professor	developed first vaccine against Hepatitis B.
	Professor, current	Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. He was awarded the National Medal of Science National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and... in 1986, the Wolf Prize in 1987 and the Abel Prize Abel Prize The Abel Prize is an international prize presented annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. The prize is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel . It has often been described as the "mathematician's Nobel prize" and is among the most prestigious... in 2005.
	Current film professor in the Tisch School of the Arts	Director, Actor, Producer, Social Activist
	Professor, 1975–1999	1973 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
	Professor, current	Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History
	Professor, current	neuroscientist Neuroscientist A neuroscientist is an individual who studies the scientific field of neuroscience or any of its related sub-fields...
	Professor 1940–1961	1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
	Professor, Current Psychology	Robert L. Fantz award, cognitive development Cognitive development Cognitive development is a field of study in neuroscience and psychology focusing on a child's development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language learning, and other aspects of brain development and cognitive psychology compared to an adult's point of...
	Professor	African American studies
	Professor, 1941–1970	established that genes are made of DNA
	Professor, current –	Political scientist
	Current Senior Vice President for Operations and Administration	former Deputy Counsel to President Bill Clinton Bill Clinton William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation... ; lead defense attorney in his 1999 Senate United States Senate The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each... Impeachment Impeachment Impeachment is a formal process in which an official is accused of unlawful activity, the outcome of which, depending on the country, may include the removal of that official from office as well as other punishment....
	Professor, 1945–1969	leader of the Austrian School of Economics
	Professor, current	Mathematician, winner of the National Medal of Science National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and... in 1983 and 1988.
	Professor, current	American academic and novelist
	Professor, 1832–?	inventor of the Morse Code Morse code Morse code is a method of transmitting textual information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment...
	Professor, 1926–1928	1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
	Visiting professor	1974 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
	Professor, current	Nutrition Nutrition Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet.... ist
	Professor, 1993 –	1982 Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City... for Poetry
	Professor	Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals...
	Professor	President, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, more commonly referred to as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or ICTY, is a...
	Professor	scholar, philosophy of mind Philosophy of mind Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, consciousness and their relationship to the physical body, particularly the brain. The mind-body problem, i.e...
	Professor of law	Interpol Interpol Interpol, whose full name is the International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL, is an organization facilitating international police cooperation... Secretary General 2000–present
	Full professor
	Professor of Computer Science, current	Winner of the 1996 Turing Award Turing Award The Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the...
	Professor, current-	Economist
	Visiting professor	Kenyan activist
	Professor	Irish politician and academic
	Professor, 1942–1974	1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
	Professor, current	English creative writing teacher
	Professor	author of Gods and Men, The Origins of Western Culture and A History of Mexico
	Professor, current	American literature American literature American literature is the written or literary work produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies. For more specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States. During its early history, America was a series of British... and cultural critic
	Professor	uncovered the journalistic fraud of The New Republic The New Republic The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States... reporter Stephen Glass
	Professor, 1961–	pioneer in comparative study of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
	Professor Emeritus	Physical chemist, winner of the 2006 Davy Medal Davy Medal The Davy Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of London "for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry". Named after Humphry Davy, the medal is awarded with a gift of £1000. The medal was first awarded in 1877 to Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff "for... .
	1959–2003	author, Amusing Ourselves to Death Amusing Ourselves to Death Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business is a book by educator Neil Postman.The book's origins lie in a talk Postman gave to the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1984. He was participating in a panel on Orwell's 1984 and the contemporary world... ; founder, Media ecology Media ecology Media ecology is a contested term within media studies having different meanings within European and North American contexts. The North American definition refers to aninterdisciplinary field of media theory and media design involving the study of "symbolic environment, or the socially constructed,... program
	Professor, current –	Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures
	Professor, 1962–1992	Physician
	Professor, current	Dean of New York University School of Law New York University School of Law The New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law, and is located in Greenwich Village, in the New York City borough of Manhattan....
	Professor	Art historian and curator Curator A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
	Professor, current	Professor of comparative literature Comparative literature Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups... , recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes... from 1999–2000.
	Professor, current	Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea... i economist
	Professor, 1937–1953	co-author of the Sachs-Hornbostel scheme
	Visiting professor	1970 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
	Professor	one of the leaders of the rational expectations revolution, Berkley Professor of Economics and Business
	Professor, 2001–2005	Mathematician
	Professor, current	Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts Tisch School of the Arts Tisch School of the Arts is one of the 15 schools that make up New York University .... , fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.James Bowdoin, John Adams, and... .
	Professor, current	Jazz fusion guitarist and composer
	Professor, current	Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences is an American interdisciplinary research body in Stanford, California focusing on the social sciences and humanities . Fellows are elected in a closed process, to spend a period of residence at the Center, released from other duties... , Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.James Bowdoin, John Adams, and... , Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Royal Society of Literature The Royal Society of Literature is the "senior literary organisation in Britain". It was founded in 1820 by George IV, in order to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". The Society's first president was Thomas Burgess, who later became the Bishop of Salisbury... and the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities New York Institute for the Humanities The New York Institute for the Humanities is an academic organisation affiliated with New York University, founded by Richard Sennett in 1976 to promote the exchange of ideas between academics, professionals and the general public. The NYIH regularly holds seminars open to the public, as well as... .
	Professor	Democratic Political Consultant
	Professor, current	Translator, essayist and editor Editing Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete... .
	Professor	known for the Sokal Affair Sokal Affair The Sokal affair, also known as the Sokal hoax, was a publishing hoax perpetrated by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University. In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies...
	Adjunct Professor, 2000–present	Author of Chang & Eng Chang & Eng Chang & Eng is a Singaporean musical theatre production directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham based on the lives of the Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. The music and lyrics were by Ken Low, with the book by Ming Wong, costumes by Niphon Tuntiyothin, set design by Thoranisorn Pitikul, lighting by... and The Real McCoy The Real McCoy "The real McCoy" is an idiom and metaphor used in much of the English-speaking world to mean "the real thing" or "the genuine article", e.g., "he's the real McCoy"... ; 2005 teaching award-winner; 2006 Guggenheim Fellow
	Professor, current	Charles E. Merrill Charles E. Merrill Charles Edward Merrill was an American philanthropist, stockbroker and co-founder, with Edmund C. Lynch of Merrill Lynch & Company .-Early years:... Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business.
	Professor	Taught English as a Second Language English language learning and teaching English as a second language , English for speakers of other languages and English as a foreign language all refer to the use or study of English by speakers with different native languages. The precise usage, including the different use of the terms ESL and ESOL in different countries, is... at New York University for 15 years
	Professor of philosophy	First President of the University of Michigan University of Michigan The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
	Professor, 1948–1951	author, "Ode to the Confederate Dead"
	Dean, NYU School of Medicine
	Professor, current	Mathematician, 2007 winner of the Abel Prize Abel Prize The Abel Prize is an international prize presented annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. The prize is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel . It has often been described as the "mathematician's Nobel prize" and is among the most prestigious... .
	Professor, current	Mathematician, winner of the 2007 Salem Prize Salem Prize The Salem Prize, founded by the widow of Raphael Salem, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Salem's field of interest, primarily the theory of Fourier series.-Past winners:... .
	Professor, current	Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities New York Institute for the Humanities The New York Institute for the Humanities is an academic organisation affiliated with New York University, founded by Richard Sennett in 1976 to promote the exchange of ideas between academics, professionals and the general public. The NYIH regularly holds seminars open to the public, as well as... .
	Guest instructor, 1988–1989	author of over forty novels
	Professor, current	Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law New York University School of Law The New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law, and is located in Greenwich Village, in the New York City borough of Manhattan.... , author of The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 The Looming Tower The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 is a historical look at the way in which Al-Qaeda came into being, the background for various terrorist attacks and how they were investigated, and the events that led to the September 11 attacks... .
		American author
	Professor, current	Postcolonial theorist, writer and historian
	Professor, current	Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea... i historian Historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is... , member of the Historical Advisory Panel to the National Archives in Washington, D.C..

New York University Presidents

Name	Relation to NYU	Years	Reference
	1st President of NYU	(1831–1839)
	2nd President of NYU	(1839–1850), U.S. Senator
	3rd President of NYU	(1853–1870)
	4th President of NYU	(1870–1881)
	5th President of NYU	(1881–1891)
	6th President of NYU	(1891–1911) developer of the University Heights Campus
	7th President of NYU	(1911–1933)
	8th President of NYU	(1933–1951)
	Acting Chancellor	(1951–1952)
	9th President of NYU	(1952–1956)
	10th President of NYU	(1956–1962)
	11th President of NYU	(1962–1975)
	12th President of NYU	(1975–1980)
	Acting President	(1980–1981)
	13th President of NYU	(1981–1991), United States House of Representatives United States House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
	14th President of NYU	(1991–2002)
	15th President of NYU	(2003–present)

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