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
Francesco Agostinelli
Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences
Robert Aronowitz
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences
Eiichiro Azuma
Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History
Vijay Balasubramanian
Cathy and Marc Lasry Professor
Marlyse Baptista
President’s Distinguished Professor of Linguistics
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
Vaughn Booker
George E. Doty, Jr. and Lee Spelman Doty Presidential Associate Professor of Africana Studies
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
Marcia Chatelain
Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies
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
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
Peter Decherney
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Chair in the Humanities
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
Irma Elo
Tamsen and Michael Brown Presidential Professor of Sociology
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
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
Hannah Feldman
Katherine Stein Sachs, CW’69, and Keith L. Sachs, W’67, Associate Professor of History of Art
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics
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
Paula Fromby
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences
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
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
Guy Grossman
David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations
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
Emma Hart
Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History
Julia Hartmann
Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor in Mathematics
Gary Hatfield
Adam Seybert Professor in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy
Nancy Hirschmann
Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought
Peter Holquist
Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History
Daniel Hopkins
Julie and Martin Franklin Presidential Professor of Political Science
Aman Husbands
Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Assistant Professor of Biology
Sara Jaffee
Class of 1965 Term Professor of Psychology
Bhuvnesh Jain
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Natural Sciences
Douglas Jerolmack
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor of Earth and Environmental Science
A.T. Charlie Johnson
Rebecca W. Bushnell Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Michael Jones-Correa
President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Joseph Kable
Jean-Marie Kneeley President’s Distinguished Professor of Psychology
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
I. Joseph Kroll
Robert I. Williams Endowed Term Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Dirk Krueger
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences
John Lapinski
Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Political Science
Melissa M. Lee
Klein Family Presidential Associate 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 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
Bakirathi Mani
Presidential Penn Compact Professor of English
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
Letícia Marteleto
Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Sociology
Shannon Mattern
Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Cinema and Media Studies
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 1965 Term Professor of German
Greg Ridgeway
Rebecca W. Bushnell Professor of Criminology
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
Lawrence R. Klein Professor of Economics
Timothy Rommen
Davidson Kennedy Professor in the College
Lauren Ristvet
Associate Professor of Anthropology & Dyson Associate Curator, Near East Section, Penn Museum
David S. Roos
E. Otis Kendall Professor of Biology
C. Brian Rose
James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology
Sophia Rosenfeld
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History
Paul Saint-Amour
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities
Masao Sako
Arifa Hasan Ahmad and Nada Al Shoaibi Presidential Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Melissa Sanchez
Donald T. Regan Professor of English
Andrew Santiago-Frangos
M. Jane Williams and Valerie Vargo Presidential Assistant Professor of Biology
Paul Schmidt
Patricia M. Williams Term Professor of Biology
Frank Schorfheide
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Economics
Martin Seligman
Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology
David Silverman
Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr. Professor and Curator of Egyptology
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Professor
Holger Sieg
Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics
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
Joshua Teplitsky
Joseph Meyerhoff Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History; and Ruth Meltzer Director of the Jewish Studies Program
Peter Struck
Vartan Gregorian Professor of Humanities; and Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
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
DiMaura Professor of Biology
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