List of university professors at Columbia University

At Columbia University, the title of University Professor is the highest faculty rank reserved for a small number of its faculty who have made important contributions to their field of study. Created in 1964, University Professors serve the university as a whole rather than a specific Faculty or Department.
University Professors
*Richard Axel, molecular biology and neuroscience, 1999
*Jagdish Bhagwati, economics and law, 2001
*Martin Chalfie, biology, 2013
*Ruth DeFries, sustainable development, 2016
*Michael W. Doyle, international affairs, law, and political science, 2015
*Nabila El-Bassel, social work, and public health, 2019
*Wafaa El-Sadr, public health, 2013
*R. Kent Greenawalt, jurisprudence and constitutional law, 1991
*Saidiya Hartman, English and comparative literature, 2020
*Wayne Hendrickson, biochemistry and molecular biophysics
*Eric R. Kandel, neurobiology, behavior and learning, 1983
*Rosalind E. Krauss, art history, 2005
*Jeffrey Sachs, economics, 2016
*Simon Schama, history and art history
*Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, English and comparative literature, 2007
*Joseph Stiglitz, economics, 2001
*Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, biomedical engineering, 2017
University Professors Emeriti
*Caroline Bynum, history, 1999
*Tsung-Dao Lee, theoretical physics
Former University Professors
*Jacques Barzun, cultural history
*Ronald Breslow, organic chemistry, 1992
*Samuel Eilenberg, mathematics, 1974
*Louis Henkin, international law, 1981
*Donald Keene, Japanese Studies, 1988
*Grayson L. Kirk, University President, 1953-68
*Robert K. Merton, sociology, 1974
*Robert A. Mundell, economics
*Ernest Nagel, philosophy
*Isidor Isaac Rabi, physics, 1964
*Michael Riffaterre, semiotics, theory of literature and French literature, 1982
*Edward Said, comparative literature, literary theory, and cultural studies, 1992
*Meyer Schapiro, art history
*Sol Spiegelman, genetics and microbiology
*Fritz Stern, history, 1992
*Lionel Trilling, literature, 1970
*Jeremy Waldron, law, 2005, left Columbia in 2006
Others
*Seth Low Professor of the University Lee C. Bollinger, law
*John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University Jonathan R. Cole, sociology
*John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus of the University Wm. Theodore de Bary, East Asian studies, 1979
 
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