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24 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President of the University of Chicago and John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor
Office of the President
A pioneering nanoscience chemist leading the University of Chicago with a scientist's steady hand and a deep belief in open inquiry.
Provost of the University of Chicago and Emmett Dedmon Professor
Office of the Provost
A leading health economist and former Harris dean, now serving as Provost and championing rigorous, evidence-based scholarship across the University.
Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics
Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
A Nobel laureate whose work on human capital and early childhood has reshaped how the world invests in people and their potential.
David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Statistics, and the Booth School
Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
A Nobel laureate whose methods for testing economic models under uncertainty gave the field tools of lasting rigor and honesty.
University Professor in Economics and the College
Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
A Nobel laureate whose field experiments transformed how we fight global poverty, and who leads the Development Innovation Lab in that same spirit.
David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies
Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
A Nobel laureate in mechanism design whose elegant theory helps us understand how institutions and incentives shape human cooperation.
William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics
Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
A wonderfully curious economist who taught millions to see hidden incentives everywhere, bringing Chicago's empirical spirit to the whole world.
Francis and Rose Yuen Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
A Fields Medalist whose proof of the Fundamental Lemma opened new horizons in the Langlands program, and the first Vietnamese laureate in mathematics.
Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
A Fields Medalist and Shaw Prize winner whose deep ideas in geometry and the Langlands program continue to inspire mathematicians everywhere.
John and Marion Sullivan University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
A world-leading astronomer whose measurements of the universe's expansion rate, honored with the National Medal of Science, probe the deepest questions in cosmology.
John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Chemistry
A pioneer of epitranscriptomics whose discovery of reversible RNA modifications opened a whole new frontier in biology and medicine.
University Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the College
Department of Chemistry
A Nobel laureate for the discovery of telomerase, now leading the Origins of Life Initiative to understand how life itself first began.
Bruce V. and Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
Department of Computer Science
A giant of theoretical computer science whose breakthrough on graph isomorphism made the world rethink what computers can efficiently do.
University Professor of History
Department of History
A leading historian of China and the world whose Great Divergence reframed how we understand why economies rose and diverged across continents.
Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
A founder of sequence analysis and a deep thinker on professions and disciplines who carries forward the great tradition of Chicago sociology.
Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies and University Professor
Harris School of Public Policy and Political Science
A 2024 Nobel laureate whose study of why nations succeed or fail helps the world understand that institutions, made by people, shape prosperity.
Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
Finance
The father of modern finance and a Nobel laureate whose efficient-markets insight remade how the world thinks about prices and information.
Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics
Behavioral Science
A Nobel laureate who taught economics to take real human behavior seriously, warmly and rigorously, and helped design choices that genuinely help people.
Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
Finance
A 2022 Nobel laureate whose theory of banks and financial fragility helps the world understand and prevent devastating financial crises.
Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
Finance
A distinguished finance scholar and former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India who foresaw financial risks and champions honest, humane economics.
Dean and John A. MacLean Sr. Professor for Molecular Engineering Innovation and Enterprise
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
A distinguished experimental physicist now leading Pritzker Molecular Engineering, bringing brilliance and generous mentorship to the next generation of engineers.
Founding Dean and Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service Professor
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
The founding dean who built the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering from an idea into a world-class school, with taste, craft, and vision.
Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law
Law School
A leading constitutional scholar and steadfast defender of free expression whose teaching has shaped generations of lawyers and public debate alike.
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics
Law School and Department of Philosophy
One of the world's great philosophers, whose capabilities approach to human dignity and flourishing has enriched law, ethics, and public life everywhere.
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A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of University of Chicago, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.