List of Stanford University faculty and staff

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This page lists faculty and staff members of Stanford University.

Stanford office

Presidents

Acting presidents were temporary appointments. Swain served while Wilbur was United States Secretary of the Interior under Herbert Hoover; Eurich and Faust after the unexpected death of Tresidder.

No. Name Term
1. David Starr Jordan 1891–1913
2. John Casper Branner 1913 – December 31, 1915
3. Ray Lyman Wilbur January 22, 1916 – June 30, 1943
* Robert Eccles Swain March 5, 1929 – March 4, 1933
4. Donald Bertrand Tresidder October 14, 1943 – January 28, 1948
* Alvin C. Eurich January 28, 1948 – December 31, 1948
* Clarence H. Faust January 1, 1949 – April 1, 1949
5. J. E. Wallace Sterling April 1, 1949 – September 1, 1968
* Robert J. Glaser September 1, 1968 – December 1, 1968
6. Kenneth Pitzer December 1, 1968 – June 25, 1970
7. Richard Wall Lyman September 24, 1970 – August 1, 1980
8. Donald Kennedy August 1, 1980 – September 1, 1992
9. Gerhard Casper September 1, 1992 – August 31, 2000
10. John L. Hennessy September 1, 2000 – August 31, 2016
* John Etchemendy February 14, 2012 – June 8, 2012
11. Marc Tessier-Lavigne September 1, 2016 – August 31, 2023
* Richard Saller September 1, 2023 – present
Designate Jonathan Levin August 1, 2024
Color key
  Acting University president (*)

Provosts

The position was created in 1952.

S. No. Name Term
1. Douglas M. Whitaker 1952–1955
2. Frederick Terman 1955–1965
3. Richard Wall Lyman 1967–1970
4. William F. Miller 1971–1978
5. Gerald J. Lieberman 1979
6. Donald Kennedy 1979–1980
7. Albert M. Hastorf 1980–1984
8. James N. Rosse 1984–1992
9. Gerald J. Lieberman 1992–1993
10. Condoleezza Rice 1993–1999
11. John L. Hennessy 1999–2000
12. John Etchemendy 2000–2017
13. Persis Drell 2017–2023
14. Jenny Martínez 2023–present

Chancellors

This position is often empty and has always been held by a former president.

S. No. Name Term
1 David Starr Jordan 1913–1916
2 Ray Lyman Wilbur 1943–1949
3 J. E. Wallace Sterling 1968–1985

School Deans

Though Stanford did not originally have schools, over the years the departments have all been collected into schools.

Color key
  Acting Dean (*)
Graduate School of Business
Name Years Notes
1 Willard E. Hotchkiss 1926–1930
2 J. Hugh Jackson 1931–1956
Carlton A. Pederson 1956–1958 acting dean
3 Ernest C. Arbuckle 1958–1968
Samuel "Pete" Pond 1968–1969 acting dean
4 Arjay Miller 1969–1979 The top 10% of graduating MBAs are named Arjay Miller Scholars.
Robert Jaedicke 1979–1980 acting dean
5 Rene C. McPherson 1980–1982
6 Robert Jaedicke 1983–1990
7 Michael Spence 1990–1999
8 Robert L. Joss 1999–2009 Stanford Ph.D. 1970
9 Garth Saloner 2009–2015
10 Jonathan Levin 2016–present
Doerr School of Sustainability
Name Years Notes
1 Arun Majumdar 2022–present
School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Name Years Notes
1 A. I. Levorsen 1947–1950 Petroleum geologist
2 Charles Park 1950–1965
3 Richard Jahns 1965–1979
4 Allan V. Cox 1979–1987
5 George A. Thompson 1987–1989
6 W. G. Ernst 1989–1994
7 Lynn Orr 1994–2002
8 Pamela Matson 2002–2017
9 Stephan Graham 2017–2022
Graduate School of Education
Name Years Note
1 Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1917–1933
2 Grayson N. Kefauver 1933–1946
* Lucien Blair Kinney 1943–1946 acting
3 A. John Bartky 1946–1953
4 I. James Quillen 1954–1966
5 H. Thomas James 1966–1970
6 Arthur Coladarci 1970–1979
7 Myron Atkin 1979–1986
8 Marshall S. Smith 1986–1993
9 Richard Shavelson 1993–2001
10 Deborah Stipek 2000–2011
11 Claude Steele 2011–2014
* Deborah Stipek 2014–2015 acting
12 Daniel L. Schwartz 2015–present
School of Engineering
Name Years Department Notes
1 Theodore J. Hoover 1925–1936 Mining and Metallurgy Stanford AB 1901
2 Samuel B. Morris 1936–1944 Civil Engineering Stanford AB 1911
3 Frederick E. Terman 1944–1958 Electrical Engineering
4 Joseph M. Pettit 1958–1972 Electrical Engineering Stanford Ph.D. 1942
5 William M. Kays 1972–1984 Mechanical Engineering Stanford Ph.D. 1951
6 James F. Gibbons 1984–1996 Electrical Engineering Stanford Ph.D. 1956
7 John L. Hennessy 1996–1999 Computer Science
8 James Plummer 1999–2014 Electrical Engineering
9 Persis Drell 2014–2016 SLAC/Physics
10 Jennifer Widom 2017–present Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
School of Humanities and Sciences
Name Years Department Notes
1 Clarence H. Faust 1948–1951 English
2 Douglas Merritt Whitaker 1951–1952 Biology
3 Ray N. Faulkner 1952–1956 Art and Architecture
4 Philip H. Rhinelander 1956–1961 Philosophy
5 Robert Richardson Sears 1961–1970 Psychology
6 Albert H. Hastorf III 1970–1973 Psychology
7 Halsey L. Royden 1973–1981 Mathematics
8 Norman K. Wessells 1981–1988 Biology
9 Ewart A.C. Thomas 1988–1993 Psychology
10 John B. Shoven 1993–1998 Economics
11 Malcolm R. Beasley 1998–2001 Applied Physics
12 Sharon R. Long 2001–2007 Biological Sciences
13 Richard Saller 2007–2018 Classics and History
14 Debra Satz 2018–present Philosophy
Law School
# Name Years Notes
1 Nathan Abbott 1893–1907 Executive Head
* Charles H. Huberich 1906 acting
2 Frederic Campbell Woodward 1908–1916 first to be called dean
3 Charles A. Huston 1916–1922
* Arthur M. Cathcart 1917–1919 acting
4 Marion R. Kirkwood 1922–1945
* Arthur M. Cathcart 1930–1931 acting
* Lowell Turrentine 1945–1946
5 Carl B. Spaeth 1946–1962
* Samuel D. Thurman 1952–1953 acting
* John R. McDonough 1959–1960 acting
* John R. McDonough 1962–1964 acting
6 Bayless Manning 1964–1971
7 Thomas Ehrlich 1971–1976
* J. Keith Mann 1976 acting
8 Charles J. Meyers 1976–1981 acting
* J. Keith Mann 1981–1982 acting
9 John Hart Ely 1982–1987
10 Paul Brest 1987–1999
11 Kathleen Sullivan 1999–2004
12 Larry Kramer 2004–2012
13 M. Elizabeth Magill 2012–2019
14 Jennifer Martínez 2019–present
School of Medicine
# Name Years Notes
1 Ray Lyman Wilbur 1911–1916
2 William Ophüls 1916–1933
3 Loren R. Chandler 1933–1953
4 Windsor C. Cutting 1953–1957
5 Robert H. Always 1957–1965
6 Robert J. Glaser 1965–1971
7 Clayton Rich 1971–1982
8 Dominick P. Purpura 1982–1984 went on to be dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine
9 David Korn 1984–1995
10 Eugene A. Bauer 1995–2001
11 Philip Pizzo 2001–2012
12 Lloyd B. Minor 2012–present

Stanford faculty and affiliates

Aeronautics and astronautics

  • Sigrid Close, Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering
  • William F. Durand, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mechanical Engineering; Electrical Engineering (1859–1958)
  • Charbel Farhat, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mechanical Engineering
  • G. Scott Hubbard, Adjunct Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Antony Jameson, emeritus Faculty, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Sanjay Lall, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering
  • Bradford Parkinson, professor emeritus, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Stephen Rock, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Debbie Senesky, Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering
  • George Springer, emeritus Faculty, Aeronautics and Astronautics

Biology/biochemistry/medicine

 
Arthur Kornberg (National Library of Medicine portrait)

Chemistry

Graduate School of Business

Communication

Computer science

 
Donald Knuth in 2005

Economics

Education

Engineering

History

International relations

Law

Linguistics

  • Jared Bernstein, Adjunct Professor
  • Eve V. Clark, Richard Lyman Professor in the Humanities, emerita
  • Michael C. Frank, associate professor of psychology and, by courtesy, of linguistics
  • Miyako Inoue, associate professor of anthropology and, by courtesy, of linguistics
  • Dan Jurafsky, professor of linguistics and of computer science, and chair, Department of Linguistics
  • Ronald M. Kaplan, Adjunct Professor
  • Lauri Karttunen, Adjunct Professor
  • Martin Kay, professor of linguistics
  • Paul Kay, Adjunct Professor
  • Paul V. Kiparsky, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
  • Beth Levin, William H. Bonsall Professor in the Humanities
  • Jay McClelland, Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor, by courtesy, of Linguistics
  • John R. Rickford, J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanities, emeritus (recalled to active duty 2017–2019)
  • Elizabeth Traugott, professor of linguistics and of English, emerita
  • Tom Wasow, Clarence Irving Lewis Professor in Philosophy and professor of linguistics, emeritus and academic secretary to the university
  • Annie Zaenen, Adjunct Professor
  • Arnold M. Zwicky, Adjunct Professor

Literature and arts

 
Bahram Beyzai, Persian playwright and filmmaker, taught at Stanford from 2010.

Mathematics and statistics

Political science

 
Condoleezza Rice, 66th Secretary of State of the United States
  • Coit D. Blacker, political science professor, special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; and senior director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian affairs, National Security Council; Executive Office of the President
  • Larry Diamond, professor, mentor, senior fellow at the Hoover Institute
  • Morris P. Fiorina, political scientist and author
  • Francis Fukuyama, senior fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law since 2010
  • Terry Karl, professor of Latin American studies
  • Alexander Kerensky (1881–1970), Russian revolutionary leader, Hoover Institute fellow
  • Condoleezza Rice, political science professor, Secretary of State
  • Douglas Rivers, political science professor, chief scientist of YouGov

Philosophy

Physics

Psychology

 
Philip Zimbardo, Former President, American Psychological Association

Hoover Fellows

  • Jim Mattis, U.S. Secretary of Defense (2017–2019)
  • Abbas Milani, political scientist and historian
  • George Shultz, U.S. Secretary of State (1982–1989), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1972–1974), U.S. Secretary of Labor (1969–1970), also lectured at the Graduate School of Business
  • Amy Zegart, political scientist and intelligence reform expert

Coaches

  • Dick Gould, greatest tennis coach in history; from 1966 to 2004 he won 17 NCAA Team titles with 50 All-American players
  • Payton Jordan, track coach 1957–1979; head coach of the 1968 US Olympic track team
  • Bill Walsh, twice head coach of the football team; also served as interim athletic director; coach of the three-time Super Bowl champion San Francisco 49ers; inventor of the West Coast Offense
  • Glenn Scobey Warner, College Football Hall of Fame coach known as "Pop" Warner, brought the following mechanics to football: the screen pass, spiral punt, single- and double-wing formations, the use of shoulder and thigh pads, designed helmets red for backs and white for ends

Other


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