# List of University of California, Davis faculty

This page lists notable faculty (past and present) of the University of California, Davis.

## Arts and music

* Robert Arneson, professor emeritus of art, known for ceramics, artist of the Eggheads sculptures scattered through the UC Davis campus
* Larry Austin, professor of music, composer, and later taught at University of South Florida and University of North Texas
* Ross Bauer, professor emeritus of music
* Anna Maria Busse Berger, chair of music department
* Ruby Cohn, professor of comparative drama (late)
* Roy De Forest, professor emeritus of art, painter, and sculptor
* Jesse Drew, professor in cinema and technocultural studies
* Lynn Hershman Leeson, filmmaker, professor of technocultural studies
* Ruth Horsting, professor emerita of art (taught from 1959–1971), known for sculpture
* Theodore Cyrus Karp, professor of music (moved to Northwestern before retirement)
* Manuel Neri, professor emeritus of art, taught 1965–1990
* Bob Ostertag, professor of technocultural studies
* Richard Swift, professor emeritus, founder of Department of Music
* Wayne Thiebaud, professor emeritus of art, awarded the National Medal of Arts
* Richard Aaker Trythall, professor of music, Guggenheim Fellow (1967)
* William T. Wiley, former art professor

## Biological sciences

* Daniel I. Axelrod, professor of botany (late)
* Richard M. Bohart, professor of entomology (late)
* George Delahunty, professor of biology
* Theodosius Dobzhansky, professor emeritus of evolutionary biology, 1971–1975
* Jonathan Eisen, professor of evolution and ecology
* Stanley Barron Freeborn, UC Davis chancellor and entomologist, namesake of Freeborn Hall and the mosquito species Anopheles freeborni
* Lynn Kimsey, professor of entomology
* Paul Knoepfler, professor of cell biology and human anatomy
* Robert Laben, professor of animal sciences (late)
* Johanna Schmitt, botanist and professor of evolution and ecology
* Arthur Shapiro, professor of entomology, evolution and ecology
* Tracy I. Storer, professor emeritus, founder of Department of Zoology
* Charles W. Woodworth, professor emeritus of entomology (1891–1930), founder of UCB Entomology Division, credited with founding the Dept. of Entomology at the Agricultural Experiment Station
* Pamela Ronald, distinguished professor of plant pathology

## Chemistry

* R. David Britt, professor of chemistry
* Edwin G. Krebs, founding chairman and professor of the department of biological chemistry 1968–1977, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine
* Julie A. Leary, professor of chemistry
* Philip Power, professor of chemistry, Royal Society

## Communications and media

* Charles Berger, professor of communication

## Earth sciences

* Gerard Bond, professor of geology
* Alan Hastings, professor of ecology
* Louise H. Kellogg, professor of earth and planetary sciences
* Isabel P. Montañez, professor of earth and planetary sciences
* Eldridge M. Moores, professor emeritus of geology, now the earth and planetary sciences
* Donald L. Turcotte, professor emeritus of earth and planetary sciences
* Geerat J. Vermeij, professor of geology, MacArthur Fellowship

## Economics

* Colin Carter, professor of agricultural economics
* Gregory Clark, professor of economics
* Alan M. Taylor, professor of economics and finance

## Engineering

* Kandiah Arulanandan, professor of civil engineering (late)
* Kyriacos A. Athanasiou, professor of bioengineering
* Jeannie Darby, professor of civil and environmental engineering
* Richard C. Dorf, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering
* Andrew A. Frank, professor of mechanical and aeronautical engineering
* M. Saif Islam, professor of electrical and computer engineering
* Linda P.B. Katehi, professor of electrical and computer engineering; UC Davis chancellor (2009–2016)
* Brian Launder, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering (now at the University of Manchester)
* Paul Moller, professor emeritus of mechanical and aeronautical engineering
* Stanton R. Morrison, professor emeritus of agricultural engineering; Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
* Jinyi Qi professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering
* George Tchobanoglous, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering

## English

* Joshua Clover, associate professor of English
* Lucy Corin, professor of English
* Lynn Freed, professor of English
* Sandra Gilbert, professor emerita of English, former president of the Modern Language Association
* Sandra McPherson, professor emerita of English
* Karl Shapiro, professor, English Department, Pulitzer Prize for poetry, 1945
* Gary Snyder, professor emeritus of English; Bolligen Prize, Pulitzer Prize
* Joe Wenderoth, associate professor of English

## Food sciences

* William Vere Cruess, professor of food science (late)
* M. R. C. Greenwood, professor emerita of nutrition, president of the University of Hawaii
* Gordie C. Hanna, professor of agronomy (late)
* Lucille Shapson Hurley, (1922–1988), former professor of nutrition
* Emil M. Mrak, professor of food science; UC Davis chancellor (1959–1969)
* Ann C. Noble, professor of food science, inventor of the "Aroma Wheel"
* Harold Olmo, professor of viticulture

## History

* David Brody, professor emeritus of history
* William W. Hagen, professor of history
* Barbara D. Metcalf, professor emerita of history
* Andrés Reséndez, historian
* Simon Sadler, professor of art history

## Law and government

* Diane Marie Amann, professor of law (now at Georgia Tech)
* Vikram Amar, associate dean for academic affairs (School of Law), constitutional law scholar
* Edgar Bodenheimer, professor of law (late)
* Alan Brownstein, professor of law; Boochever and Bird Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality
* Joel Dobris, professor of law
* Robert W. Hillman, professor of law
* Edward Imwinkelried, professor of law (co-author, Scientific Evidence)
* Kevin Johnson, dean, School of Law
* Miguel Méndez, professor of law
* Rex R. Perschbacher, professor of law
* Cruz Reynoso, professor of law; associate justice, California Supreme Court (1982–1987); Presidential Medal of Freedom (2000)
* Martha West, professor emerita of law

## Mathematics

* Dmitry Fuchs, professor of mathematics
* Greg Kuperberg, professor of mathematics
* Washek Pfeffer, emeritus professor of mathematics
* Albert Schwarz, professor of mathematics
* Joseph Teran, professor of applied mathematics
* William Thurston, professor of mathematics, later moved to Cornell University, Fields Medalist award
* Craig Tracy, professor of mathematics, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Pólya Prize, Norbert Wiener Prize
* Jessica Utts, professor of statistics, later moved to University of California, Irvine
* Roger J.-B. Wets, professor emeritus of mathematics

## Medicine

* David Amaral, professor of psychiatry
* Richard Coss, emeritus professor of psychology
* Gregory M. Herek, professor of psychology
* Leah Krubitzer, professor of psychology
* Peter Robert Marler, professor emeritus of neurobiology
* Jonna Mazet, professor of epidemiology, director of the UC Davis One Health Institute
* A. Hari Reddi, distinguished professor of orthopedic surgery
* Marc B. Schenker, professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
* Ivan R. Schwab, professor of ophthalmology
* Robert Sommer, professor emeritus of psychology
* G. Ledyard Stebbins, professor emeritus of genetics, National Medal of Science
* Ross Thompson, distinguished professor of psychology
* Larry N. Vanderhoef, professor, College of Biological Sciences; UC Davis chancellor (2004–2009)
* Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan, Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
* Rachel Whitmer, professor of epidemiology

## Physics

* Steve Carlip, professor of physics
* Veronika Hubeny, professor of physics

## Social sciences, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies

* Nicole W. Biggart, professor of management and sociology
* Fred L. Block, professor of sociology
* Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, professor of Chicana/o studies and cultural studies
* Darrell Hamamoto, professor of Asian American studies
* Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, professor emerita of anthropology
* Lynne Isbell, primatologist, professor of anthropology
* Suad Joseph, professor of anthropology and women and gender studies
* Smadar Lavie, professor of anthropology
* John Lofland, professor emeritus of sociology
* Henry McHenry, professor of anthropology; UC Davis Prize; elected fellow, California Academy of Sciences
* Zoila S. Mendoza, professor and chair of Native American studies
* Jacob K. Olupona, professor of African and African American studies, later at Harvard University
* Rhacel Parrenas, professor of sociology, later at Brown University
* Robyn Rodriguez, professor in Asian American studies
* Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, assistant professor of Native American studies and director of the C.N. Gorman Museum
* Aram Yengoyan, professor of anthropology

## Other

* Francisco X. Alarcón, lecturer in Spanish
* Berni Alder, professor emeritus of applied science, National Medal of Science recipient
* Marc Blanchard, professor of critical theory and comparative literature
* Andy Bloom, Olympic shot putter
* Carol Cartwright, former vice chancellor for academic affairs
* Steven C. Currall, dean of graduate school of management
* Gerald Dworkin, professor of philosophy
* John Freeman, visiting professor of international relations, 1985–1990
* James R. Griesemer, professor of philosophy
* Andrew Hargadon, professor of technology management
* Irva Hertz-Picciotto, professor of environmental and occupational health
* Ralph Hexter, professor of classics and provost
* Theodore L. Hullar, former chancellor
* Lincoln Hurst, professor of religious studies (late)
* Amy Block Joy, Cooperative Extension Specialist, Emeritus
* Amina Mama, professor and director of women and gender studies
* Zeev Maoz, distinguished professor of political science, director of the Correlates of War Project, and international relations expert
* Norman Matloff, professor of computer science
* Prasant Mohapatra, distinguished Professor in Computer Science and Vice Chancellor for Research
* Phillip Rogaway, professor of computer science (RSA Award 2003)
* Robert Torrance, professor of comparative literature
* Keith David Watenpaugh, professor of human rights studies