List of University of Michigan faculty and staff

As of fall 2022, the University of Michigan had 7,954 faculty members and roughly 38,000 employees which include National Academy members, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners.

Nobel Laureates

• Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize, Literature 1987
• Donald A. Glaser professor of physics, developed in 1954 the world's first liquid bubble chamber to study high-energy subatomic particles and won the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention in 1960
• Charles B. Huggins, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1966
• Lawrence R. Klein, '30 alumnus; a member of the economics department and the Institute for Social Research. Won the 1980 Nobel Prize in economics for his econometric models forecasting short-term economic trends and policies.
• Gérard Mourou, co-winner of Nobel Prize, Physics, 2018
• Wolfgang Pauli (visiting), winner of Nobel Prize, Physics, 1945
• Martin L. Perl, Physics Nobel Prize 1995
• Norman F. Ramsey (visiting), Physics Nobel Prize 1989
• Peyton Rous, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1966
• Hamilton O. Smith Nobel Prize, for Physiology or Medicine, 1978
• Charles H. Townes, Nobel Prize for Physics, 1964
• Martinus Veltman, professor emeritus, John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics. 1999 Nobel Prize for Physics.
• Carl Wieman, one of three scientists who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics

Notable faculty: past and present

• Henry Carter Adams, professor of political economy and finance
• W. H. Auden, poet
• Charles Baxter, former director of the MFA program in creative writing; novelist, poet, and essayist
• Alton L Becker, professor of linguistics
• Judith Becker, Glenn McGeoch Professor (emeritus) of Music
• Ruth Behar (born Havana, Cuba, 1956) is a Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, poet
• Seymour Blinder, professor emeritus of chemistry and physics
• R. Stephen Berry, professor of physical chemistry
• William Bolcom, composer
• Kenneth Boulding, noted economist and faculty member 1949–1967
• Richard Brauer Accepted a position at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1948. In 1949 Brauer was awarded the Cole Prize
• Henry Billings Brown, instructor in law, later US Supreme Court justice
• Brad Bushman, professor of psychology
• Evan H. Caminker: Dean of Law School
• Anne Carson, Canadian poet, essayist, and translator
• Carl Cohen, notable for using Michigan Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 1996 to identify U-M's policy of racial categorization in admissions, leading to the Grutter and Gratz v. Bollinger lawsuits
• Wilbur Joseph Cohen, American social scientist and federal civil servant
• Juan Cole, notable for his weblog "Informed Comment", covering events in the Middle East
• Charles Horton Cooley, professor of sociology; taught the university's first sociology class in 1899
• Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, second dean of the College of Engineering
• Thomas M. Cooley, law professor, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan
• Christopher Chetsanga, discovered two enzymes that repair DNA after x-irradiation
• Arthur Copeland, mathematician
• Brian Coppola, professor of chemistry
• Pierre Dansereau, Canadian ecologist known as one of the "fathers of ecology".
• Sheldon Danziger, political scientist, President of the Russell Sage Foundation
• Michael Daugherty, composer, pianist, and teacher
• Angela D. Dillard, Earl Lewis Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies
• Michael Duff, principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences at Imperial College London
• David Dunning, first described the Dunning-Kruger effect
• Francis Collins led the Human Genome Project and is the current director of the National Institutes of Health
• John Dewey, co-founder of pragmatism
• Igor Dolgachev, mathematician
• Sergey Fomin, mathematician who codiscovered Cluster Algebras.
• Mircea Mustata, algebraic geometer
• George Steinmetz (academic), sociologist
• Sidney Fine, longest serving faculty member. Chief biographer of Frank Murphy.
• William Frankena, moral philosopher
• Cécile Fromont, assistant professor of art history
• Erich Fromm, psychologist
• Robert Frost, Michigan Poet-in-Residence
• Alice Fulton, poet, author, and feminist
• William Gehring, professor of psychology
• Susan Gelman, Heinz Werner Professor of psychology and linguistics
• Herman Heine Goldstine, mathematician
• Samuel Goudsmit, conceived – with George Uhlenbeck – the idea of Quantum Spin
• Edward Gramlich, professor of economics and member, Federal Reserve Board
• Robert D. Gregg, bioengineer
• Linda Gregerson, Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor at University of Michigan
• Robert L. Griess, mathematician working on finite simple groups
• Patricia Gurin, Nancy Cantor Professor (emerita) of Psychology and Women's Studies
• Kristin Ann Hass
• William Donald "Bill" Hamilton, British evolutionary biologist
• Donald Hall, English professor and United States Poet Laureate 2006–2007
• Thomas Hales solved a nearly four-century-old problem called the Kepler conjecture
• Paul Halmos, mathematician specializing in functional analysis
• Eric J. Hill, professor of practice in architecture
• William Herbert Hobbs, professor of Geology
• Melvin Hochster, commutative algebraist
• Andrew Hoffman, an expert in environmental pollution and sustainable enterprise
• William Hussey, professor of astronomy and fifth director of the Detroit Observatory
• Marita Inglehart, Inaugural University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor
• Daniel Hunt Janzen, evolutionary ecologist, naturalist, and conservationist
• William Le Baron Jenney, architect and engineer
• Lawrence W. Jones, professor emeritus, Department of Physics
• Gerome Kamrowski, artist at the forefront of the development of American Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism
• Gordon Kane, Victor Weisskopf Collegiate Professor of Physics
• Laura Kasischke, Theodore Roethke Professor of English Language and Literature
• Francis Kelsey, professor of Latin
• Ronald C. Kessler, professor of sociology
• Henry Kraemer, professor of pharmacy
• Barry Klarberg, professional business and wealth manager for athletes, entertainers and high-net-worth individuals
• Oskar Klein, first work in Ann Arbor dealt with the anomalous Zeeman effect
• Adrienne Koch, historian, specialist in American history of the 18th century
• Yoram Koren – James J. Duderstadt University Professor of Manufacturing and Paul G. Goebel Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering
• Ethan Kross, professor of psychology and management
• Yanna Krupnikov – political scientist
• Heidi Kumao, professor of art
• Kenneth Lieberthal, China expert and member of the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration
• Emmett Leith and Juris Upatnieks, created the first working hologram in 1962
• Catherine Lord, professor (emerita) of psychology and psychiatry
• Catharine MacKinnon, feminist legal theorist
• William P. Malm, professor (emeritus) of music
• Jason Mars, conversational AI researcher, founder of ClincAI, author
• Joaquim Martins, aerospace engineer
• Paul McCracken, economist. Chairmen emeritus: President's Council of Economic Advisers
• Lisa M. Meeks, specialist in disabilities
• George E. Mendenhall, professor emeritus: Department of Near Eastern Studies and author
• Barbara D. Metcalf, Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History
• Gerald Meyers, professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business School, former chairman of American Motors Corporation
• Tiya Miles, professor in American Culture, History, Afroamerican & African Studies, Native American Studies, and Women’s Studies
• William Ian Miller, legal and social theorist; author of The Anatomy of Disgust
• Horace Miner, professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology
• Rebekah Modrak, associate professor of art
• Hugh L. Montgomery, number theorist
• Raoul Bott, mathematician and winner of the Wolf Prize in mathematics.
• Andrei Markovits, political scientist who has written on, among other things, sports culture, nationalism, Anti-Americanism, and the European left.
• Thylias Moss, developed Limited Fork Poetics, Professor of English and Art & Design, author
• James V. Neel professor of human genetics, in 1940s discovered that defective genes cause sickle cell anemia
• Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT's Media Lab
• Reed M. Nesbit, urologist, pioneer of transurethral resection of the prostate
• Richard E. Nisbett, Theodore M Newcomb Professor (emeritus) of Psychology
• Dirk Obbink, papyrologist, 2001 MacArthur Fellowship winner for his work at both Oxyrhynchus and Herculaneum
• Frederick George Novy, Henry L. Russell Lecturer
• Daphna Oyserman, Edwin J.Thomas Professor of Social Work
• Dewitt H. Parker, professor of philosophy
• Anne C. Petersen, research professor
• Walter Bowers Pillsbury, professor of psychology
• Ovide Pomerleau, professor (emeritus) of psychology
• Endi E. Poskovic, professor of art and design
• Will Potter, author, civil liberties advocate
• Anatol Rapoport, author of Two-Person Game Theory (1999) and N-Person Game Theory (2001)
• Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, professor of zoology
• Elliott J. Rouse, mechanical engineer, roboticist
• Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, architect
• Jonas Salk, assistant professor of epidemiology
• Vojislav Šešelj, Serbian political scientist and nationalist leader
• Anton Shammas, professor of comparative literature and modern Middle Eastern literature
• Marilyn Shatz, Professor Emerita of Psychology and Linguistics
• Lawrence Sklar, William K. Frankena Collegiate Professor and Professor of Philosophy, Guggenheim fellow 1974
• Aisha Sabatini Sloan, assistant professor of creative writing and literature and English language and literature
• Barbara Sloat, professor (emerita) of biology
• Kannan Soundararajan, awarded the 2004 Salem Prize, joint winner of the 2005 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
• Theodore J. St. Antoine, law school dean and labor arbitrator
• Claude Steele, professor of psychology
• Stephen Timoshenko, created the first US bachelor's and doctoral programs in engineering mechanics
• Leung Tsang, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and member of National Academy of Engineering
• Amos Tversky, behavioral economist and frequent co-author with Daniel Kahneman
• A. Galip Ulsoy – co-inventor of the Reconfigurable Manufacturing System, and deputy director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
• Elliot Valenstein, professor (emeritus) of psychology
• Aldred Scott Warthin, professor of pathology
• Robert Mark Wenley, professor of philosophy
• Raymond Louis Wilder, work focused on set-theoretic topology, manifolds and use of algebraic techniques
• Samuel Eilenberg, cofounder of category theory together with Saunders MacLane, whom he met at Ann Arbor, and winner of the Wolf Prize in mathematics
• Milford H. Wolpoff, leading proponent of the multiregional hypothesis for human evolution.
• Trevor D. Wooley Department Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan. Salem Prize, 1998. Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1993–1995
• Elizabeth Yakel, professor and senior associate dean for academic affairs at the iSchool, specializing in digital archives and digital preservation
• Leopoldo Pando Zayas, professor of physics, specializing in string theory
• Weiping Zou, Charles B de Nancrede Professor of Surgery, Immunology and Biology; director for translational research

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Founded in 1848, AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. The tradition of AAAS Fellows began in 1874.

• Huda Akil, Gardner C. Quarton Professor of Neurosciences in psychiatry, professor of psychiatry and co-director and senior research scientist of the U-M Mental Health Research Institute
• Sushil Atreya, Professor of atmospheric and space sciences
• Brian Coppola, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry.
• Jack E. Dixon, Minor J. Coon Professor of Biological Chemistry, chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry
• Rodney Ewing, Donald R. Peacor Collegiate Professor of Geological Sciences, professor of materials science and engineering, and professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences
• William R. Farrand, Professor of geological sciences and curator, Museum of Anthropology.
• Daniel Fisher, Claude W. Hibbard Collegiate Professor of Paleontology, professor of geological sciences, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and curator of paleontology
• Sharon Glotzer, chemical engineer and physicist and the Stuart W. Churchill Professor at the University of Michigan
• James S. Jackson, Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and director, Institute for Social Research
• Arthur Lupia, Professor of political science, research professor at the Institute for Social Research, and principal investigator of the American National Election Studies
• Anne McNeil, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering
• Vincent L. Pecoraro, John T. Groves Collegiate Professor of Chemistry
• Melanie Sanford, Moses Gomberg Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry
• Kamal Sarabandi, Rufus S. Teesdale Professor of Engineering, director of Radiation Laboratory, Department of Electrical Entering and Computer Science.
• Artur Schnabel Pianist and classical composer
• Sarah Thomason, William H. Gedney Professor of Linguistics
• George Uhlenbeck, with fellow student Samuel Goudsmit at Leiden, proposed the idea of electron spin in 1925, Professor: University of Michigan (1939–43). Max Planck Medal 1964 (with Samuel Goudsmit).
• Milford Wolpoff, elected to the rank of Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Business Week "Management Gurus"

• Gary Hamel, MBA PhD Co-Author "The Core Competence of the Corporation"
• Dave Ulrich, Human Resources – Michigan (Ranked #1)
• Noel Tichy, Leadership – Michigan, (Ranked #9)
• C.K. Prahalad, C.K. Prahalad, Strategy, International Business – Michigan/ PRAJA, (Ranked #10)

Institute of Medicine

• Huda Akil, Gardner C. Quarton Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences in Psychiatry, Medical School
• Michael Boehnke, Richard G. Cornell Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, department of biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Edward Bove, head, Section of Cardiac Surgery, Medical School
• Noreen M Clark, dean, Marshall H. Becker Professor of Public Health, School of Public Health
• Mary Sue Coleman, president, professor of biochemistry, Medical School, & chemistry, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
• Francis S. Collins, professor of internal medicine; professor of human genetics, Medical School
• Jerome Conn, Louis Harry Newburgh university Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine, Medical School
• Minor J. Coon, Victor C. Vaughn Distinguished University Professor of Biological Chemistry, Medical School
• Avedis Donabedian, Sinai Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Health, School of Public Health
• Sid Gilman, William J. Herdman Professor of Neurology, Medical School
• Moses Gomberg, professor of chemistry
• Ada Sue Hinshaw, dean, School of Nursing
• James S. House, professor of sociology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
• Robert L. Kahn, professor emeritus of psychology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
• David E. Kuhl, professor of internal medicine; professor of radiology, Medical School
• Martha L. Ludwig, research biophysicist and J. Lawrence Oncley Distinguished Professor, department of biological chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Howard Markel, George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine and director of the Center for the History of Medicine
• Rowena Matthews, elected to The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
• James V. Neel, Lee R. Dice distinguished university professor emeritus of Human genetics, Medical School
• Gilbert S. Omenn, professor of internal medicine & Human genetics, Medical School, and of public health, School of Public Health
• June Osborn, professor of epidemiology; professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases, Medical School
• Alan R. Saltiel, elected in 2005 to The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, John Jacob Abel Collegiate Professor in Life Sciences and Professor of Internal Medicine and Physiology
• Thomas L. Schwenk, professor of family medicine, Medical School
• Harold Shapiro, former UM president
• Peter Ward, Godfrey D. Stobbe Professor of Pathology, Medical School
• David R. Williams, Harold W. Cruse Collegiate Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts, and professor of epidemiology, School of Public Health

MacArthur Foundation award winners

As of 2020, 41 MacArthur winners — 16 of them university alumni — have served as Michigan faculty

• Elizabeth S. Anderson, philosopher.
• William A. Christian, religious studies scholar.
• Philip DeVries, biologist
• William H. Durham, anthropologist.
• Aaron Dworkin, fellow and founder and president of Detroit-based Sphinx Organization
• Steven Goodman, adjunct research investigator in the U-M Museum of Zoology's bird division, and a conservation biologist in the Department of Zoology at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History
• David Green, executive director, Project Impact.
• Ann Ellis Hanson, visiting associate professor of Greek and Latin.
• John Henry Holland, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, College of Engineering; professor of psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
• Vonnie C. McLoyd, professor of psychology and research scientist at the Center for Human Growth and Development
• Natalia Molina, historian
• Cecilia Muñoz, vice president of the National Council of La Raza.
• Amos Tversky, psychologist.
• Karen K. Uhlenbeck, mathematician.
• Henry T. Wright, anthropologist.
• George Zweig, physicist.

As of 2020, 25 non-alumni MacArthur winners have served as Michigan faculty.

• Susan Alcock, professor of classical anthropology and classics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
• Robert Axelrod, game theoretician, author of "The Evolution of Cooperation"
• Ruth Behar, anthropologist.
• R. Stephen Berry, professor of physical chemistry
• Joseph Brodsky, professor of Slavic languages and literature
• Alice Fulton, professor of English from 1983 to 2001, won the Library of Congress Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry in 2002
• Kun-Liang Guan, biochemist and associate professor of biological chemistry and senior research associate at the Institute of Gerontology
• Thomas C. Holt, professor of history, director of Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
• Stephen Lee, solid state chemist
• Michael Marletta, biochemist and John Gideon Searle Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy in the College of Pharmacy and professor of biological chemistry in the Medical School
• Khaled Mattawa, Libyan poet, Arab-American writer
• Tiya Miles, professor of American culture, Afroamerican & African studies, history, and Native American studies
• Thylias Moss, professor of English, also Professor of Art & Design (2006)
• Erik Mueggler, Katherine Verdery Collegiate Professor of Anthropology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
• Margaret Murnane, Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder
• Dirk Obbink, papyrologist and classicist
• Sherry B. Ortner, professor of anthropology and women's studies
• Derek Peterson, professor in the departments of History and Afroamerican and African Studies
• Melanie Sanford, Moses Gomberg Collegiate professor of chemistry
• Rebecca J. Scott, Professor of History, won the 2006 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery
• Bright Sheng, professor of composition and music theory, School of Music
• Richard Wrangham, professor of anthropology.
• Yukiko Yamashita, assistant professor of cell & developmental biology

United States National Academy of Engineering

• Linda M. Abriola, professor of civil and environmental engineering, College of Engineering
• Ellen Arruda, professor and chair of mechanical engineering, College of Engineering
• Dennis Assanis, former Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, College of Engineering
• Lynn Conway, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, College of Engineering
• James J. Duderstadt, president emeritus, professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences, College of Engineering
• Elmer G. Gilbert, professor of aerospace engineering and of electrical engineering & computer science, College of Engineering
• Donald Katz, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, college
• Yoram Koren, James J. Duderstadt Distinguished University Professor and Paul G. Goebel Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
• Ronald G. Larson, George Granger Brown Professor of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering
• Emmett Leith, Schlumberger Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering
• Gerard A. Mourou, A.D. Moore Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering & and Computer Science, College of Engineering
• Fawwaz Ulaby, R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, College of Engineering
• Galip Ulsoy, C.D. Mote Jr. Distinguished University Professor of Mechanical Engineering and William Clay Ford Professor of Manufacturing, College of Engineering
• Chia-Shun Yih, Stephen P. Timoshenko Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Fluid Mechanics, College of Engineering

United States National Academy of Sciences

• Mathew Alpern, professor emeritus of physiological optics, Medical School
• Richard D. Alexander, Theodore H. Hubell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Biology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
• Robert Axelrod, Arthur W. Bromage Distinguished University Professor of Political Science & Public Policy, School of Public Policy
• Hyman Bass, professor of education, School of Education, & mathematics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
• Karen E. Smith, Chair of the Department of Mathematics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
• Jeffrey Lagarias, Professor of Mathematics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
• Jerome Conn, Louis Harry Newburgh University Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine, Medical School
• Philip Converse, Robert Cooley Angell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Sociology & Political Science, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
• Clyde Coombs, professor emeritus of psychology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
• H. Richard Crane, George P. Williams Distinguished University, physicist
• Thomas M. Donahue, Edward H. White II Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Planetary Science, College of Engineering
• Kent V. Flannery, James B. Griffin Distinguished University Professor of Anthropological Archaeology, College of Literature Science & the Arts
• Ronald Freedman, Roderick D. McKenzie Professor Emeritus of Sociology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts, professor emeritus of physics, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
• Katherine Freese, George E. Uhlenbeck Professor Emerita of Physics
• William Fulton, M. S. Keeler Professor, mathematics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
• Stanley M. Garn, professor emeritus of nutrition, School of Public Health
• Frederick Gehring, T.H. Hildebrandt Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics
• Sharon Glotzer, Stuart W. Churchill Professor of Chemical Engineering. Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics and Macromolecular Science and Engineering.
• Melvin Hochster, Raymond L. Wilder Professor of Mathematics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
• Martha L. Ludwig, professor of biological chemistry, Medical School
• Joyce Marcus, professor of anthropology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
• Vincent Massey, professor of biological chemistry, Medical School
• Rowena G. Matthews, G. Robert Greenberg Distinguished University Professor, biological chemistry, Medical School
• James N. Morgan, professor emeritus of economics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
• James V. Neel, Lee R. Dice Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Human Genetics, Medical School
• Richard Nisbett, Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor, psychology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
• James Olds, professor of psychology
• J. Lawrence Oncley, professor emeritus of biological chemistry, Medical School
• Kenneth Pike, professor emeritus of linguistics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
• Melanie Sanford, Moses Gomberg Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry
• Martinus Veltman, John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
• Warren Wagner, Jr., professor emeritus of botany, School of Natural Resources & the Environment
• Henry Wright, professor of anthropology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts; curator, Museum of Anthropology

National Medal of Science

The National Medal of Science is the nation's highest honor for scientific achievement. Five other Michigan researchers won the award between 1974 and 1986. Congress established the award program in 1959. It honors individuals for pioneering scientific research.

• Hyman Bass honored by President Bush in a White House ceremony for the National Medal of Science in 2006.
• H. Richard Crane, George P. Williams Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Physics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
• Elizabeth Crosby, professor of anatomy, Medical School
• Donald Katz, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, College of Engineering
• Emmett Leith, Schlumberger Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering
• James Neel, Lee R. Dice Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Human Genetics, Medical School

Pulitzer Prize-winning faculty

• Leslie Bassett, professor of music; music, for Variations for Orchestra.
• William Bolcom, professor of music composition; music, for Twelve New Etudes for Piano
• Ross Lee Finney, professor of music; music, for a string quartet
• Robert Frost, a former faculty member, won four Pulitzer Prizes
• Leland Stowe, professor of journalism; correspondence, for his work as a reporter on the foreign staff of the New York Herald Tribune
• David C. Turnley, professor of art and design; photography, for images of the political uprisings in China and Eastern Europe
• Claude H. Van Tyne, professor and chairman of the history department; American History, for The War of Independence.
• Heather Ann Thompson, professor of American history; for her book on the Attica Prison uprising of 1971.

Former administrators

• Erastus Otis Haven, president (1863–69), later Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
• Lee Bollinger, president, now president of Columbia University
• Nancy Cantor, provost, now chancellor of Syracuse University
• Walter Harrison, vice president, now at University of Hartford
• Harlan Hatcher, president (1951–1967)
• C. C. Little, president (1925–1929), noted cancer researcher and tobacco industry scientist
• J. Bernard "Bernie" Machen, provost, later president of the University of Florida
• Frank H. T. Rhodes, vice president, later president of Cornell University
• Harold Shapiro, president; later president of Princeton University
• Edward A. Snyder, senior associate dean, later dean at University of Chicago Business School
• Andrew Dickson White, UM professor of literature, co-founder of Cornell University
• B. Joseph White, dean, Ross School, later president of the University of Illinois
• Linda Wilson, UM vice president, later president of Radcliffe College

External links

• Faculty and staff at the University of Michigan
• UM Faculty and staff resources
• UM Faculty and staff services
• The Michigan Daily Salary Supplement lists the salaries of UM faculty and staff