# List of Brigham Young University faculty

This list of Brigham Young University faculty includes notable current and former instructors and administrators of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private, coeducational research university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and located in Provo, Utah, United States. It includes faculty at its related academic colleges and two schools, including the Marriott School of Management and the J. Reuben Clark Law School. As of the fall of 2007, BYU employed 1,300 instructional faculty, 88% of whom were tenured or on tenure track, and approximately 2,900 administrative and staff personnel. Part-time employees included approximately 900 faculty, administrative and staff personnel and 12,000 students.

## College of Engineering

| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
| L. Douglas Smoot | Chemical Engineering | 1960–1995 | Noted for work fossil fuels and energy; led restoration of Brigham Young Academy building | Yes | |
| Randal Beard | Electrical and Computer Engineering | 1996–present | Guidance and control of unmanned aerial vehicles | No | |

## College of Family, Home and Social Sciences

| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
| William Hamblin | History | | | | |
| Mark Choate | History | 2001–present | Bronze Star recipient for his handbook on village stability operations in Afghanistan, 2010–2011 | No | |

## College of Fine Arts and Communications

| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
| James C. Christensen | Visual Arts | | Fantasy painter | Yes | |

## College of Humanities

| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus |
| Brandon Sanderson | English | 2005–present | Fantasy author | Yes |
| Dave Wolverton | English | | Science-fiction author | No |
| Kimberly Johnson | English | | Poet | No |
| James E. Faulconer | Philosophy | 1975–present | Philosopher; founding editor of Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy; columnist for Patheos | Yes |

## College of Life Sciences

| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
| Ralph Vary Chamberlin | Biology | 1908–1911 | Prolific taxonomist, central to the 1911 modernism controversy | No | |
| John S. K. Kauwe III | Biology | 2008–2020 | President of Brigham Young University–Hawaii | Yes | |

## College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences

| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
| Alan Ashton | Computer Science | 1987 | Co-founder of WordPerfect, founder of Thanksgiving Point | | |

## College of Religious Education

| Name | Department | Notability | Alumnus |
| Randy L. Bott | Religion | Author and highest-rated professor in America in 2008 at Ratemyprofessor.com. | Yes |
| Hugh B. Brown | Religion | Author and former member of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | No |
| Truman G. Madsen | Philosophy | Prolific LDS author, former director of BYU Jerusalem Center | No |

## J. Reuben Clark School of Law

| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus |
| Dee Benson | Law | 1996 | Federal Judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court | Yes |
| Larry Echo Hawk | Law | 1995–present | Former Attorney General for Idaho | Yes |
| Gordon Gee | Law | 1979 | President of Ohio State University, former president of Brown University | No |
| David Nuffer | Law | 2001–present | Federal Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah | Yes |
| Dale A. Whitman | Law | 1973–1978, 1989–1999 | Former Dean of the University of Missouri School of Law, former president of the Association of American Law Schools | Yes |
| Bruce C. Hafen | Law | 1985–1989 | Former President of Ricks College, Emeritus General Authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | No |

## Marriott School of Management

| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus |
| W. Steve Albrecht | Accounting | | Former President of the American Accounting Association, former (and first) president of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners | Yes |
| Stephen Covey | Organizational Leadership & Strategy | | Author of New York Times Best Seller The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People; one of Time magazine's Top 25 most influential Americans | Yes |
| Stephen D. Nadauld | Management (Finance) | 1976–1983 | Ninth President of Weber State University, Seventeenth President of Dixie State College, and a former director of BYU's MBA program. | Yes |

## McKay School of Education

| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
| Bonnie Brinton | Communication Disorders | 1994–present | Language disorders researcher | No | |