List of University of California, Davis faculty
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University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...
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- Vikram AmarVikram AmarVikram David Amar is professor and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the UC Davis School of Law . Before becoming a professor, he clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Justice Harry Blackmun at the Supreme Court of the...
, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (School of Law), constitutional law scholar - David AmaralDavid AmaralDavid G. Amaral, PhD, is a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Davis, United States, and since 1998 has been the research director at the M.I.N.D. Institute, an affiliate of UC Davis, engaged in interdisciplinary research into the causes and treatment of autism and related...
, Professor of Psychiatry - Robert ArnesonRobert ArnesonRobert Carston Arneson was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at UC Davis for four decades.- Career :...
, Professor of ceramics, artist of the Eggheads sculptures scattered through the UC Davis campus - Anna Maria Busse BergerAnna Maria Busse BergerAnna Maria Busse Berger is professor of music history at University of California, Davis. She is a scholar of Medieval and Renaissance History and Theory and is the former chair of the UC Davis music department.-Awards:...
, Chair of Music Department - Matthew BishopMatthew BishopMatthew Bishop is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League .Bishop started out with the Melbourne Demons after being elevated from their rookie list in 1998. He spent two seasons with them before moving to Port Adelaide in 2000, where he made a name for...
, Professor of Computer Security - Marc BlanchardMarc BlanchardMarc Blanchard was a professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California, Davis.Before coming to the UC campus in 1971, Blanchard taught at Yale and Columbia...
, Professor of Critical Theory and Comparative Literature - Andy BloomAndy Bloom (athlete)Andrew "Andy" Bloom is an American former Olympic shot putter, two-time national indoor shot put champion, World University Games shot put champion, and NCAA champion in both discus and shot put.-Early and personal life:...
, Olympic shot putter - David BrodyDavid BrodyDavid Brody is a professor emeritus of history at the University of California-Davis.-Life and education:Brody was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey to Barnet and Ida Brody, who were immigrants to the United States. Working his way through Harvard University, he received his bachelor's degree in...
, Professor Emeritus of History - Alan BrownsteinAlan BrownsteinAlan E. Brownstein is Professor of Law and the Boochever and Bird Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality at the UC Davis School of Law . Before becoming a professor, he clerked for Judge Frank M. Coffin of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit...
, Professor of Law, Boochever and Bird Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality - Colin CarterColin CarterColin A. Carter is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. His research/teaching interests include international trade, futures markets, and commodity markets....
, Professor of Agricultural Economics - Angie Chabram-DernersesianAngie Chabram-DernersesianProfessor Angie Chabram-Dernersesian is a Full Professor at the University of California, Davis. She was reared by her mother and grew up in the San Gabriel Valley along with three siblings. She attended St. Joseph’s elementary school and Bishop Amat Memorial High School. Like her two older...
, Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Cultural studies - Joshua CloverJoshua CloverJoshua Clover is a poet, critic, journalist and author. He has appeared in three editions of Best American Poetry, is a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, and recipient of an individual grant from the NEA; his first book of poetry, Madonna anno domini, received the Walt Whitman Award from the...
, Associate Professor of English - William Vere CruessWilliam Vere CruessWilliam Vere Cruess was an American food scientist who pioneered the use of fruits to produce fruit-juice beverages, fruit-based concentrates and syrups. He was one of the first investigators in the United States to use freezing storage for preservation of fruits and fruit products...
(1886–1968), Professor of Food Science - Theodosius DobzhanskyTheodosius DobzhanskyTheodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky ForMemRS was a prominent geneticist and evolutionary biologist, and a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the unifying modern evolutionary synthesis...
, Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Biology, 1971–1975 - Jesse Drew, Acting Director of Technocultural Studies
- Jonathan EisenJonathan EisenJonathan A. Eisen is an American evolutionary biologist, currently working at University of California, Davis. His academic research is in the fields of evolutionary biology, genomics and microbiology and he is the academic editor-in-chief of the open-access journal PLoS Biology.In 2011 Eisen was...
, Professor of Evolution and Ecology - Stanley Barron Freeborn, UC Davis chancellor and entomologist, namesake of Freeborn Hall and the mosquito species Anopheles freeborni
- Lynn Freed, Professor of English
- John Freeman, Visiting Professor of International Relations, 1985–1990
- Dmitry Fuchs, Professor of Mathematics
- Sandra GilbertSandra GilbertSandra M. Gilbert , Professor Emerita of English at the University of California, Davis, is an influential literary critic and poet who has published widely in the fields of feminist literary criticism, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic criticism...
, Professor Emerita of English, former President of the Modern Language AssociationModern Language AssociationThe Modern Language Association of America is the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature... - Sarah Blaffer HrdySarah Blaffer HrdySarah Hrdy is an American anthropologist and primatologist who has made several major contributions to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.-Early life:...
, Professor Emerita of Anthropology - Edward ImwinkelriedEdward Imwinkelried|birth_place =|death_date =|death_place =|nationality = United States|ethnicity =|fields = Evidence, Scientific Evidence|workplaces = University of California, Davis School of Law...
, Professor of Law (Co-author, Scientific Evidence) - Kevin JohnsonKevin Johnson (academic)Kevin R. Johnson is the Dean of the UC Davis School of Law . Before becoming a professor, he was a student at Harvard Law School where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, served as a clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and...
, Dean, School of Law - Linda P.B. KatehiLinda P.B. KatehiPisti Basile "Linda" Katehi-Tseregounis is a Greek-American engineer and university administrator. Since 2009, she has served as the sixth chancellor of the University of California, Davis.-Early life and education:...
, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; UC Davis chancellor (2009–) - Edwin G. KrebsEdwin G. Krebs-External links:*Hughes, R. 1998. *Krebs, E.G. * *...
, Founding chairman and professor of the Department of Biological Chemistry 1968–1977, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine - Lynn KimseyLynn KimseyLynn Kimsey is an entomologist, taxonomist, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis since 1989...
, Professor of Entomology - Smadar LavieSmadar LavieSmadar Lavie is a Mizrahi Israeli anthropologist, author, and activist specializing in the anthropology of Egypt, Israel and Palestine, with special emphasis on issues of race, gender and religion.. Dr...
, Professor of Anthropology - Zeev MaozZeev MaozZeev Maoz is a professor of Political Science and director of the International Relations Program at the University of California, Davis, as well as Distinguished Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel. He is the President of the Peace Science Society during 2007-08...
, Professor of Political Science, Director of International Relations Program, Arab-Israeli Conflict and international relations expert - Henry McHenryHenry McHenryHenry Malcolm McHenry , PhD, is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis, specializing in studies of human evolution, the origins of bipedality, and paleoanthropology....
, Professor of Anthropology; UC Davis Prize; Elected Fellow, California Academy of SciencesCalifornia Academy of SciencesThe California Academy of Sciences is among the largest museums of natural history in the world. The academy began in 1853 as a learned society and still carries out a large amount of original research, with exhibits and education becoming significant endeavors of the museum during the twentieth... - Sandra McPhersonSandra McPhersonSandra McPherson is an American poet.Born in San Jose, California, McPherson received her B.A. at San Jose State University, and studied at the University of Washington, with Elizabeth Bishop and David Wagoner....
, Professor Emerita of English - Miguel MéndezMiguel Méndez (legal scholar)Miguel A. Méndez is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law . Prior to joining the Davis faculty, Professor Méndez was the Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford University Law School, where he was on the law faculty from 1977 to 2009. Before starting his...
, Professor of Law - Paul MollerPaul MollerPaul Sandner Moller is an engineer who has spent the past forty years developing the Moller Skycar personal vertical takeoff and landing vehicle....
, Professor Emeritus of MechanicalMechanical engineeringMechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
and Aeronautical Engineering - Eldridge M Moores, Professor Emeritus of GeologyGeologyGeology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves. Geology gives insight into the history of the Earth, as it provides the primary evidence for plate tectonics, the evolutionary history of life, and past climates...
- Emil M. MrakEmil M. MrakEmil Marcel Mrak was an American food scientist, microbiologist, and former chancellor of the University of California, Davis. He was recognized internationally for his work in food preservation and as a world authority on the biology of yeasts.-Early years:Mrak was born in San Francisco,...
, Professor of Food Science; UC Davis chancellor (1959–69) - Manuel NeriManuel NeriManuel Neri is an American sculptor, painter, and printmaker and a notable member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.- Biography :...
, Professor Emeritus of Art (1965–1990) - Ann C. NobleAnn C. NobleAnn C. Noble is a sensory chemist and retired professor from the University of California, Davis. During her time at the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology, Noble invented the "Aroma Wheel" which is credited with enhancing the public understanding of wine tasting and terminology...
, Professor of Food Science, inventor of the "Aroma Wheel" - Harold OlmoHarold OlmoDr. Harold Olmo was a pioneering viticulturalist and professor at the University of California, Davis where he created many new grape varieties known today as Olmo grapes. In the 1950s, he helped to establish California's first quarantine facility on the UC-Davis campus to permit California...
, Professor of Viticulture - Bob OstertagBob OstertagRobert "Bob" Ostertag is an experimental sound artist based in San Francisco.- Early career :...
, Professor of Technocultural Studies - Washek PfefferWashek PfefferWashek F. Pfeffer is a Czech-born US mathematician and Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Davis. Pfeffer is one of the world's pre-eminent authorities on real integration and has authored several books on the topic of integration, and numerous papers on these topics and others...
, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics - Philip PowerPhilip PowerPhilip P. Power FRS, is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of California, Davis.-Education:Philip Power obtained a B.A. from University of Dublin in 1974 and a Ph.D. from University of Sussex in 1977 . He gained a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University...
, Professor of Chemistry, Royal SocietyRoyal SocietyThe Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"... - Arvind RaghunathanArvind RaghunathanArvind Raghunathan is the CEO of Roc Capital Management LP . On February 25, 2009, it was announced that Raghunathan and his associates would be leaving Deutsche Bank to set up the independent quant trading hedge fund.Raghunathan was the former Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage at...
, Assistant Professor, accomplished fundamental research on computing, Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, Fellow of the Institute for Combinatorics - Andrés ReséndezAndrés ReséndezAndres Resendez is an American historian.Andres Resendez is a historian at the University of California, Davis. His specialties are Mexican history, early exploration and colonization of the Americas, and borderlands history.-Books:...
, historian - Cruz ReynosoCruz ReynosoCruz Reynoso is a civil rights lawyer, professor emeritus of law, and the first Chicano Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court . He also served on the California Third District Court of Appeal...
, Professor of Law; associate justice, California Supreme Court (1982–1987); Presidential Medal of FreedomPresidential Medal of FreedomThe Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States and is—along with thecomparable Congressional Gold Medal bestowed by an act of U.S. Congress—the highest civilian award in the United States...
(2000) - Phillip RogawayPhillip RogawayPhillip Rogaway is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. He graduated with an BA in computer science from UC Berkeley and completed his PhD in cryptography at MIT, in the Theory of Computation group. He has taught at UC Davis since 1994.Dr...
, Professor of Computer Science (RSA Award 2003) - Marc B. Schenker, Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
- Ivan R. SchwabIvan R. SchwabIvan Roy Schwab is a professor of ophthalmology at the University of California Davis School of Medicine.Dr. Schwab completed his undergraduate degree at West Virginia University and received his M.D. from the West Virginia University School of Medicine. Dr...
, Professor of Ophthalmology - Albert Schwarz, Professor of Mathematics
- Arthur ShapiroArthur ShapiroArthur Shapiro is a professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis. He graduated with an AB in biology from University of Pennsylvania and completed his PhD in Entomology at Cornell in 1970. He is known as an interesting character to see around campus as he refuses to...
, Professor of Entomology, Evolution and Ecology - Gary SnyderGary SnyderGary Snyder is an American poet , as well as an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist . Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry...
, Professor Emeritus of English, Bolligen Prize, Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe 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... - G. Ledyard StebbinsG. Ledyard StebbinsGeorge Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. was an American botanist and geneticist who is widely regarded as one of the leading evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. Stebbins received his Ph.D. in botany from Harvard University in 1931. He went on to the University of California, Berkeley, where his work...
, Professor Emeritus of Genetics, National Medal of ScienceNational Medal of ScienceThe 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... - Alan Taylor, Professor of History, Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe 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...
- Wayne ThiebaudWayne ThiebaudWayne Thiebaud is an American painter whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, toys and lipsticks. He is associated with the Pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, although his works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate...
, Professor Emeritus of Art, National Medal of ArtsNational Medal of ArtsThe 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... - William ThurstonWilliam ThurstonWilliam Paul Thurston is an American mathematician. He is a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology. In 1982, he was awarded the Fields Medal for his contributions to the study of 3-manifolds...
, Professor of Mathematics (moved to Cornell), Fields MedalFields MedalThe Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...
ist - Craig TracyCraig TracyCraig Arnold Tracy is an American mathematician, known for his contributions to mathematical physics and probability theory.Born in United Kingdom, he moved as infant to Missouri where he grew up and...
, Professor of Mathematics, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Pólya PrizePólya PrizeThe Pólya Prize is either of two prizes in the field of mathematics named after Hungarian mathematician George Pólya.*Pólya Prize , a prize awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics...
, Norbert Wiener Prize - Hulleah TsinhnahjinnieHulleah TsinhnahjinnieHulleah Tsinhnahjinnie is a Seminole-Muscogee-Diné photographer, curator, and educator living in Davis, California.-Background:Hulleah J...
, Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and Director of the C.N. Gorman Museum - Jessica UttsJessica UttsJessica Utts is a statistics professor at the University of California, Irvine and an author of textbooks on statistics.- Statistics education :...
, Professor of Statistics (moved to Irvine) - Larry N. VanderhoefLarry N. VanderhoefLarry Neil Vanderhoef is an American biochemist, and academic. He was the 5th chancellor of University of California, Davis.-Biography:...
, Professor, College of Biological Sciences; UC Davis chancellor (2004–2009) - Geerat J. VermeijGeerat J. VermeijDr. Geerat J. Vermeij, born in the Netherlands, is a professor of geology at the University of California at Davis. Blind from the age of three, he graduated from Princeton University in 1968 and received his Ph.D. in biology and geology from Yale University in 1971.An evolutionary biologist and...
, Professor of Geology, MacArthur Fellowship - Joe WenderothJoe WenderothJoe Wenderoth is an American poet, writer and professor. His work is widely anthologized, appearing in collections such as: The Anchor Book Of New American Short Stories, Isn't It Romantic, State of the Union, Poetry 180, The Next American Essay, The Best American Prose Poems: From Poe To Present,...
, Associate Professor of English - William T. WileyWilliam T. WileyWilliam T. Wiley is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, performance, and pinball. At least some of Wiley's work has been referred to as Funk art....
, Former Art Professor - Charles W. WoodworthCharles W. WoodworthCharles W. Woodworth was an American entomologist. He founded the Entomology Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and made many valuable contributions to entomology during his career....
, Professor Emeritus of Entomology (1891-1930), founder UCB Entomology Division, credited with founding the Dept. of Entomology at the Agricultural Experiment Station - Aram Yengoyan, Professor of Anthropology
See also
- UC Davis Faculty on the Davis Wiki
- List of UC Davis alumni
- UC DavisUniversity of California, DavisThe University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...