Yale Professors & Scholars
by Sylviastel | created - 29 Aug 2014 | updated - 29 Aug 2014 | PublicFrank Aarebrot; professor of comparative politics at University of Bergen.
A. Elizabeth Adams (Ph.D. 1926) professor of Zoology at Mount Holyoke College.
Diogenes Allen (B.D., Ph.D. 1964) philosopher, theologian, professor at Princeton Theological Seminary (1981-2002).
Richard Lee Armstrong (BSc. 1959 Ph.D. 1964 Geology) American/Canadian geochemist.
Walter A. Bell (MSc. 1911, Ph.D. 1920 geology) Canadian geologist & paleontologist.
Edward Bouchet (BA 1874, Ph.D. 1876, physics) first African American to graduate from Yale and the first to receive a Ph.D. at an American university.
Robert Brandom (BA 1972) philosopher at the University of Pittsburgh.
Katharine Jeanette Bush (Ph.D. 1901) zoologist, first woman to receive a Ph.D. in science from Yale.
Mark T. Carleton (BA 1957) Louisiana historian.
Steve Charnovitz (BA 1975, JD 1998) law professor at George Washington University.
Janet Coleman (BA, M.Phil, Ph.D) professor of Ancient & Medieval Political Thought at London School of Economics.
William Cornyn (AM 1942, Ph.D. 1944). professor of Slavic & South East Asian Linguistics.
Leo Damrosch (BA 1963) professor at Harvard University, 2005 National Book Award finalist for "Jean Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius."
David Bates Douglass, professor at the US Military Academy, President of Kenyon College, designer of Green-wood Cemetery, member of Lewis Cass expedition of 1820.
Jacques Ehrmann, literary theorist & French department professor from 1961 to 1972.
John C. Ewers (MA 1934) ethnologist & first director of the National Museum of American History
Douglas Hodgkin (BA) political scientist at Bates College, author.
Ebenezer Kingsbury Hunt (BA 1833) President of the Connecticut State Medical Society, director of the Retreat for the Insance.
David Kolb (M.Phil 1970, Ph.D. 1972) philosopher at Bates College.
Arthur Lander BA, developmental biologist at University of California at Irvine.
Robert Langlands Ph.D. 1960, mathematician, emeritus professor, Institute for Advanced Study, author of the Langlands program.
Hart Day Leavitt BA 1934; English teacher, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1937 to 1975.
Robert C. Lieberman BA 1986; political scientist & provost at John Hopkins University.
Andreas Mandelis; B.Sc.1974; expert on photonics, Professor at the University of Toronto.
F.O. Matthiessen (BA 1923) literary historian, professor at Harvard University.
George Marcus BA 1968; anthropologist, professor at University of California at Irvine.
Scotty McLennan BA 1970; Dean for religious life at Stanford University.
Thomas V. Morris Ph.D.; former University of Notre Dame philosophy professor, currently founding chairman of the Morris Institute of Human Values.
E.R. Ward Neale MS 1951, Ph.D. 1952; geologist, professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Johnathan Oberlander MA 1990, M.Phil 1993, Ph.D. 1995; author and Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
H.T. Odum Ph.D. 1950; ecologist, professor at the University of Florida.
Bilal Orfali Ph.D. 2009; professor of Arabic language & Islamic Studies at the American Institute of Beirut.
Saul K. Padover MA 1930; historian, political scientist at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
Eileen Pollack BS; Professor of creative writing at the University of Michigan.
J. Roger Porter Ph.D. 1938; microbiology professor at the University of Iowa 1938 to 1979.
Tia Powell MD; psychiatrist, former head of NY State Task Force on Life & The Law.
Christian R. H. Raetz (BS 1967) professor of biochemistry at Duke University.
James Rothman (BA 1971) biologist, winner of the 2002 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
Chris William Sanchiricco (JD, Ph.D 1994) professor of law, business and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Ofelia Schutte; professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Florida.
Florence Seibert Ph.D. 1923; biochemist, winner of the 1942 Garvan Olin Medal & Member of the National Women's Hall of Fame.
T.K. Seung BA, Ph.D.; professor of philosophy, government & law at the University of Texas, Austin.
Benjamin Silliman (BA 1796) father of American scientific education.
Robert B. Stepto, professor of English, pioneering African American studies scholar.
Matthias Storme, professor of law at Catholic University of Louvain & Antwerp University.
David Swensen Ph.D.; Yale endowment manager & professor at Yale School of Management.
Frank Bigelow Tarbell (BA 1873; Ph.D. 1879) historian, archaeologist, and professor of classic studies at the University of Chicago.
John Griggs Thompson (BA 1955) mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal in 1970.
Daniel S. Weld BA, BS 1982; professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.
Josiah Whitney BA 1839; geologist, chief of California Geological Survey & geology professor at Harvard University.
Donald Goddard Wing; librarian & bibliographer at Yale University Library.
Yung Wing BA 1844; first Chinese person to receive an American college degree.
1. David Boren
Self | West Wing Week
David Boren was born on April 21, 1941 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is a legal representative.
BA 1963; governor of Oklahoma (1975-1979), US Senator-Democrat, 1979 to 1994, president of the University of Oklahoma.
2. Michael Burns
Actor | The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
Michael Burns is a former child actor who went on to a distinguished career as a historian, writer, and college professor. He is now retired and raising thoroughbred horses in Kentucky. He was familiar to television audiences of the early 1960s as the teenage character, "Barnaby West", on the ...
Actor and professor of history.
3. Judith Butler
Self | Photo Booth
Judith Butler was born on February 24, 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Ph.D. 1984, author of "Gender Trouble," philosopher, queer theorist, and feminist scholar.
4. Schuyler Cammann
Self | What in the World?
BA 1935; anthropologist professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
5. Alan Dershowitz
Writer | Reversal of Fortune
Alan Dershowitz was born on September 1, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Reversal of Fortune (1990), Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995) and Kids' Court (1988). He has been married to Carolyn Cohen since 1986. They have one child. He was ...
LLB 1962, law professor at Harvard University.
6. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored ...
BA MA 1973; professor, chair of African & African American Studies department.
BA 1976; professor of theology at Boston College.
8. Austan Goolsbee
Self | Nightly Business Report
Austan Goolsbee was born on August 18, 1969 in Waco, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Nightly Business Report (1979), Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis (2018) and Testing Milton Friedman (2012). He has been married to Robin Winters since November 1, 1997. They have three ...
BA, professor of economics at the University of Chicago.
9. Daniel Harrison
Actor | Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Daniel Harrison is known for Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990), The Well (1997) and A Country Practice (1981).
Ph.D. 1986; Chairman of the Music department at Yale.
10. McAllister Hull
Self | The Last Days of World War II
McAllister Hull is known for The Last Days of World War II (2005) and Modern Marvels (1993).
BS 1948 Ph.D. 1951; Manhattan project explosives lens expert, Yale physics professor, SUNY Buffalo Dean; University of New Mexico professor and provost.
11. Howard Koh
Self | The Power of Two
BA 1973, MD 1977; professor, Harvard School of Public Health.
12. Jeffrey Laitman
Self | Miracle Planet
Ph.d. 1977; anatomist & physical anthropologist; distinguished professor of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, President Elect of the American Association of Anatomists.
13. Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold was born on January 11, 1887 in Burlington, Iowa, USA. He was married to Estella Bergere. He died on April 21, 1948 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Masters degree in Forestry in 1909; pioneer in the field of wildlife management at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Author of "A Sand County Almanac."
14. Lawrence Lessig
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
Lawrence Lessig is known for Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006), Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005) and Killswitch (2014).
JD 1989; copyright activist, law professor at Harvard University.
15. Andrew Lo
Self | Inside Job
Andrew Lo; BA 1980; Charles E. & Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management, Director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering.
16. Harold Morowitz
Self | Redes
Harold Morowitz was born on December 4, 1927 in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. He was married to Lucille Rita Stein. He died on March 22, 2016 in Falls Church, Virginia, USA.
BS 1947, MS 1950, Ph.d. 1951; professor of biology & natural philosophy at George Mason University.
17. Reinhold Niebuhr
Self | Viewpoint
Reinhold Niebuhr was born on June 21, 1892 in Wright City, Missouri, USA. He was married to Ursula Mary Keppel-Compton. He died on June 1, 1971 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA.
BD 1914; author, theologian.
18. Camille Paglia
Actress | The Watermelon Woman
Author, social critic, avowed feminist, and teacher Camille Anna Paglia was born on 2 April 1947 in Endicott, New York, to Pasquale and Lydia Paglia, who had immigrated to the United States from Italy. She has published "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson", "Sex, ...
Ph.d. 1972; author of the Sexual Personae, cultural critic and feminist scholar.
19. Alvin Plantinga
Self | Closer to Truth
Ph.D. 1958; Christian philosopher, professor at the University of Notre Dame.
economist, professor at Harvard University, former director of research at the International Monetary Fund.
21. Richard Rorty
Self | Van de schoonheid en de troost
Richard Rorty was born on September 4, 1931 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Mary Rosalind Varney and Amelie Rorty. He died on June 8, 2007 in Palo Alto, California, USA.
Ph.D. 1956; philosopher & professor of Humanities at University of Virginia, 1982 to 1998, Stanford University 1998 to 2007.
22. Karl Taube
Karl Taube is known for Nova (1974), Mysteries of the Ancient Maya (1997) and History's Mysteries (1998).
MA 1983, Ph.D. 1988 anthropology; pre-Columbian Mesoamerican researcher & Mayanist, professor of anthropology at University of California, Riverside.
23. David E. Tolchinsky
Producer | Night's End
David E. Tolchinsky is the founding director of Northwestern University's MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage program and current director of Northwestern University's Pritzker Pucker Studio Lab for the Promotion of Mental Health via Cinematic Arts. He is a longtime screenwriter (for various ...
BA 1985, screenwriter, and chairman of the department of Radio, TV, & Film at Northwestern University.
24. Mahbub Ul Haq
Self | TV-aktuelt
Ph.D. Economics; Pakistani Minister of Finance; Professor at University of Karachi;; creator of the Human Development Index.
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