List of New York University faculty
Following is a partial list of notable faculty of New York University. As of 2014, among NYU's past and present faculty, there are at least 159 Guggenheim Fellows, over 7 Lasker Award winners, and at least 68 are currently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Nobel laureates
- Nobel laureates Daniel Kahneman, Myron Scholes and Robert A. Mundell gave lectures at New York University Tandon School of Engineering as part of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Lynford Lecture Series.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Members of the National Academy of Sciences
Members of the National Academy of Engineering
Guggenheim Fellows
MacArthur Fellows
- Bryan Stevenson, professor at School of Law
- Subhash Khot, professor at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
- Julia Wolfe, professor at Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Also won a Pulitzer Prize.
Rhodes Scholars
- Peter Blair Henry, professor at Stern School of Business
- John Brademas, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
- Sujit Choudhry, professor at School of Law. He also served as the Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, and as Associate Dean of the University of Toronto
- James McNaughton Hester, former professor and Dean of both undergraduate and graduate schools of arts and science at NYU. He became 11th President of NYU.
National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation, Arts and Humanities recipients
Abel Prize recipients
- Louis Nirenberg, professor at Courant
- Peter Lax, professor at Courant
- S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan, professor at Courant
- Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, professor at Courant
College of Arts and Science (undergraduate and graduate)
| Name | Relation to NYU | Notability | Reference |
| Associate professor, journalism, current | writer, Maximum City | ||
| Professor, music theory | composer, pianist |
- Julia Jones-Pugliese, national champion fencer and fencing coach
- Nickolas Muray, Hungarian-born American photographer and Olympic fencer
- Elisha Netanyahu, mathematician, former Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at Technion. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, is his nephew.
| Saul Bellow | Writer | Professor | 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| Harold Bloom | Literary critic | Berg Professor of English | 1985 MacArthur Fellow |
| Faye D. Ginsburg | Scholar | Professor of Anthropology | 1994 MacArthur Fellow |
| Galway Kinnell | Poet | Professor | 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
| Wassily Leontief | Economist | Professor 1975–1999 | 1973 Nobel Prize in Economics |
| Otto Loewi | Pharmacologist | Professor 1940–1961 | 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Ruth Watson Lubic | Scholar | Adjunct Professor | 1993 MacArthur Fellow |
| Paule Marshall | Writer | Professor of English | 1992 MacArthur Fellow |
| Robert S. Mulliken | Physicist, chemist | Professor 1926–1928 | 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Rita P. Wright | Scholar | Professor of Anthropology | 1988 MacArthur Fellow |
Tandon School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic School of Engineering)
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
This is a small selection of Courant's famous faculty over the years and a few of their distinctions:Stern School of Business
Tisch School of the Arts
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
- Sinan Antoon, Iraqi Novelist and Poet
- Taylor Antrim, Novelist and Journalist
- Mitchell Joachim, Sustainable Design, TED Senior Fellow
- Myles Jackson, Historian of Science and Technology
- John Sexton, President of NYU teaches the seminar "Baseball as a Road to God"
- E. Frances White, former Dean, historian of Africa, African American Studies
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
School of Law
NYU Law has the second highest number of faculty who are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences with 19 inductees, behind only Harvard.Some of NYU's notable professors include:
- Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Preet Bharara, Former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
- William Allen
- Alberto Alemanno
- Philip Alston
- Jose Alvarez
- Anthony Amsterdam
- Rachel Barkow
- Dorit Beinisch
- Jerome A. Cohen
- Lawrence Collins
- Donald Donovan
- Richard Epstein
- Cynthia Estlund
- Samuel Estreicher
- Franco Ferrari
- Barry Friedman
- David W. Garland
- Stephen Gillers
- Douglas H. Ginsburg
- Trevor Morrison
- Samuel Issacharoff
- Sally Katzen
- Benedict Kingsbury
- John Koeltl
- Theodor Meron
- Arthur R. Miller
- Thomas Nagel
- Burt Neuborne
- Richard Pildes
- Richard Revesz
- Catherine Sharkey
- John Sexton
- Linda J. Silberman
- Bryan Stevenson
- Jeremy Waldron
- Joseph H. H. Weiler
- Kenji Yoshino
School of Medicine
Silver School of Social Work
Notable faculty include:- James Jaccard, Professor of Social Work
NYU Abu Dhabi
NYU Shanghai
- Chen Jian, visiting professor from Cornell University, Chinese history and international relations
- Jeffrey Lehman, former president of Cornell, Dean of University of Michigan law school
- Joanna Waley-Cohen, former head of the NYU New York History department
- Eitan Zemel, associate Chancellor for Strategy and Dean of Business
- Lin Fanghua, associate Provost for the Quantitative Disciplines, also Silver Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- Yu Lizhong, former president of East China Normal University
Professor emeriti and other notable faculty
New York University Presidents
| Name | Relation to NYU | Years | Reference |
| 1st President | 1831–1839 | ||
| 2nd President | 1839–1850, U.S. Senator | ||
| 3rd President | 1853–1870 | ||
| 4th President | 1870–1881 | ||
| 5th President | 1881–1891 | ||
| 6th President | 1891–1911, developer of the University Heights Campus | ||
| 7th President | 1911–1933 | ||
| 8th President | 1933–1951 | ||
| Acting Chancellor | 1951–1952 | ||
| 9th President | 1952–1956 | ||
| 10th President | 1956–1962 | ||
| 11th President | 1962–1975 | ||
| 12th President | 1975–1980 | ||
| Acting President | 1980–1981 | ||
| 13th President | 1981–1991, United States House of Representatives | ||
| 14th President | 1991–2002 | ||
| 15th President | 2003–2015 | ||
| 16th President | 2016–present |
New York University founders
Founders of NYU include:- Morgan Lewis
- Albert Gallatin