Endowed Professors
The success of Penn Arts & Sciences rests unquestionably on its ability to attract and retain faculty of the highest caliber. Endowed professorships enable the School to recognize stellar academic achievement and support distinguished scholars. This investment ensures our faculty will continue to be leaders and innovators in perpetuity.

Wale Adebanwi
Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies

Asif Agha
Francis E. Johnston Term Professor

David Amponsah
Presidential Assistant Professor of Africana Studies

Robert Aronowitz
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences

Vijay Balasubramanian
Cathy and Marc Lasry Professor

Mia Bay
Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History

Herman Beavers
Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies

Jere Behrman
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics

Nancy Bentley
Donald T. Regan Professor of English

Gary Bernstein
Reese W. Flower Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Cristina Bicchieri
Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics

Nancy Bonini
Florence R.C. Murray Professor of Biology

Anthony Braga
Jerry Lee Professor of Criminology

David Brainard
RRL Professor of Psychology

Elizabeth M. Brannon
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Natural Sciences

Warren Breckman
Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History

Kathleen Brown
David Boies Professor of History

Anthea Butler
Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought

Vance Byrd
Presidential Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Camille Charles
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences

David W. Christianson
Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Paul M. Cobb
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Harold Cole
James Joo-Jin Kim Professor of Economics

Huey Copeland
BFC Presidential Associate Professor of History of Art

Rita Copeland
Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of Humanities

Margo Crawford
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of Faculty Excellence

Mirjam Cvetič
Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor of Physics

Dennis DeTurck
Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor

Mark Devlin
Reese W. Flower Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Francis Diebold
Paul F. Miller, Jr., and E. Warren Shafer Miller Professor of Social Sciences

John J. DiIulio, Jr.
Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society

Ivan Dmochowski
Alan MacDiarmid Term Professor of Chemistry

André Dombrowski
Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Associate Professor of 19th Century European Art

Ron Donagi
Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics

Marija Drndić
Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor of Physics

Angela Duckworth
Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor

Douglas Durian
Mary Amanda Wood Professor of Physics

Jamal J. Elias
Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities

David L. Eng
Richard L. Fisher Professor in English

James F. English
John Welsh Centennial Professor of English

Jed Esty
Vartan Gregorian Professor of English

Roxanne Euben
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences

Tulia Falleti
Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science

Hanming Fang
Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics

Martha Farah
Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Natural Sciences

Jared Farmer
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History

Joseph Farrell
M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Professor in the Humanities

Antonio Feros
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History

Roquinaldo Ferreira
Henry Charles Lea Professor of History

Alan Filreis
Kelly Family Professor

Marc Flandreau
Howard Marks Professor of Economic History

Steven J. Fluharty
Dean and Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience

Joseph S. Francisco
President’s Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science

Angela Gibney
Presidential Professor of Mathematics

Daniel Q. Gillion
Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt Presidential Professor of Political Science

Karen Goldberg
Vagelos Professor in Energy Research

Avery Goldstein
David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations

Pilar Gonalons-Pons
Alber-Klingelhofer Presidential Associate Professor of Sociology

Marie Gottschalk
Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor

Mark Goulian
Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor in the Natural Sciences

Wei Guo
Hirsch Family President’s Distinguished Professor of Biology

Amy Gutmann
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science in Penn Arts & Sciences; and Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication

Michael G. Hanchard
Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor of Africana Studies

Emily Hannum
Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences

Gary Hatfield
Adam Seybert Professor in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy

Kathryn Hellerstein
Ruth Meltzer Director of the Jewish Studies Program and Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures (Yiddish)

Nancy Hirschmann
Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought

Peter Holquist
Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History

Yue Hou
Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences

Aman Husbands
Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Assistant Professor of Biology

Bhuvnesh Jain
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Natural Sciences

A.T. Charlie Johnson
Rebecca W. Bushnell Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Michael Jones-Correa
President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science

Michael J. Kahana
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Psychology

Jeffrey Kallberg
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Music

Randall Kamien
Vicki and William Abrams Professor in the Natural Sciences

Charles Kane
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics

Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History

Suvir Kaul
A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English

Sonal Khullar
W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies

Junhyong Kim
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Biology

Joshua Klein
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Hans-Peter Kohler
Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography

Daniel Krashen
Presidential Professor of Mathematics

Dirk Krueger
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences

John Lapinski
Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Political Science

Annette Lareau
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences

Melissa M. Lee
Klein Family Presidential Assistant Professor of Political Science

So-Rim Lee
Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Michael Leja
James and Nan Wagner Farquhar Professor of the History of Art

Zachary Lesser
Edward W. Kane Professor of English

Marsha I. Lester
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Chemistry

Mark Liberman
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Linguistics

M. Susan Lindee
Janice and Julian Bers Professor of the History and Sociology of Science

Beth Linker
Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Associate Professor in the Social Sciences

Andrea J. Liu
Hepburn Professor of Physics

Ania Loomba
Catherine Bryson Professor of English

Ignacio Javier López
Edwin B. and Leonore R. Williams Professor of Romance Languages

George J. Mailath
Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences

Thomas Mallouk
Vagelos Professor in Energy Research

Michael E. Mann
Presidential Distinguished Professor

Edward D. Mansfield
Hum Rosen Professor of Political Science

Justin McDaniel
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Religious Studies

Walter A. McDougall
Martin K. Alloy & Lawrence J. Ansin Professor of International Relations

Eugene Mele
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics

Daniel Mindiola
Brush Family Professor of Chemistry

Yoichiro Mori
Calabi-Simons Professor in Mathematics and Biology

Kathleen Morrison
Sally and Alvin V. Shoemaker Professor of Anthropology

Jennifer Morton
Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Philosophy

Rahul Mukherjee
Dick Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media Studies

Sheila Murnaghan
Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek

Diana Mutz
Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication

Benjamin Nathans
Alan Charles Kors Term Associate Professor of History

Abraham Nitzan
Donner Professor of Physical Sciences

Anne Norton
Stacey and Henry Jackson President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science

Brendan O’Leary
Lauder Professor of Political Science

Aurélie Ouss
Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences

Tony Pantev
Class of 1939 Professor of Mathematics

Hyunjoon Park
Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology

Emilio Parrado
Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology

Virgil Percec
P. Roy Vagelos Professor of Chemistry

Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Africana Studies

Holly Pittman
Bok Family Professor in the Humanities

Joshua B. Plotkin
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Natural Sciences

R. Scott Poethig
John H. and Margaret B. Fassitt Professor

Florian Pop
Samuel D. Schack Professor of Algebra

Andrew Postlewaite
Harry P. Kamen Professor of Economics

Andrew M. Rappe
Blanchard Professor of Chemistry

Philip A. Rea
Rebecka and Arie Belldegrun Distinguished Director of the Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management

Karen Redrobe
Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Endowed Professor in Film Studies

Simon Richter
Class of 1942 Endowed Term Professor of German

José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
Lawrence R. Klein Professor of Economics

Lauren Ristvet
Associate Professor of Anthropology & Dyson Associate Curator, Near East Section, Penn Museum

Megan Robb
Julie and Martin Franklin Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Timothy Rommen
Davidson Kennedy Professor in the College

David S. Roos
E. Otis Kendall Professor of Biology

C. Brian Rose
James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology

Ralph M. Rosen
Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities

Sophia Rosenfeld
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History

Paul Saint-Amour
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities

Nicholas Sambanis
Presidential Distinguished Professor of Political Science

Melissa Sanchez
Donald T. Regan Professor of English

Martin Seligman
Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Associate Professor

David Silverman
Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr. Professor and Curator of Egyptology

Amos B. Smith, III
William Warren Rhodes-Robert J. Thompson Professor of Chemistry

Paul Sniegowski
Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

Tyshawn Sorey
Presidential Assistant Professor of Music

Quayshawn Spencer
Robert S. Blank Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy

Emily Steiner
Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of English

Joseph Subotnik
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Chemistry

Joshua Teplitsky
Joseph Meyerhoff Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History

Tariq Thachil
Director, Center for Advanced Study of India, Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India

Deborah Thomas
R. Jean Brownlee Term Professor

Sharon Thompson-Schill
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology

Stephen Tinney
Clark Research Associate Professor in Assyriology

Petra Todd
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Economics

Mark Trodden
Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor of Physics

Eve Troutt Powell
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History and Africana Studies

Greg Urban
Arthur Hobson Quinn Professor

Doris Wagner
Robert I. Williams Term Professor of Biology

Arthur Waldron
Lauder Professor of International Relations

David Wallace
Judith Rodin Professor of English

Anna Weesner
Dr. Robert Weiss Professor of Music

Michael Weisberg
Bess W. Heyman President’s Distinguished Professor of Philosophy

Liliane Weissberg
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences

Steven Weitzman
Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literature; Ella Darivoff Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

Beth Wenger
Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of History

Erik Wibbels
Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Political Science

Heather A. Williams
Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought

Emily Wilson
College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities

Simone White
Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English

Dagmawi Woubshet
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor of English

Christopher Woods
Avalon Professor in the Humanities

Arjun G. Yodh
James M. Skinner Professor of Science

Mantha Zarmakoupi
Morris Russell and Josephine Chidsey Williams Assistant Professor in Roman Architecture

Tukufu Zuberi
Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations