# List of Dartmouth College faculty

This list of Dartmouth College faculty includes notable current and former instructors and administrators of Dartmouth College, an Ivy League university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. It includes faculty at its related graduate schools and programs, including the Tuck School of Business, the Thayer School of Engineering, and Geisel School of Medicine. As of 2007, Dartmouth employs 597 tenured or tenure-track faculty members, 366 of whom are in the undergraduate Arts & Sciences division. More than 90% of the faculty hold a doctorate or equivalent degree.
Dartmouth faculty were at the forefront of such major academic developments as the Dartmouth Conferences, the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, Dartmouth BASIC, and Dartmouth ALGOL 30. As of 2005, sponsored project awards to Dartmouth faculty research amounted to $169 million.
This list also includes the "Wheelock Succession", the nineteen individuals who have served as president of Dartmouth College. Active faculty members are highlighted in green.

## Faculty of Arts & Sciences

In this section, faculty are categorized by their primary department's academic division, as defined by the dean of the faculty. Former faculty who taught in now-defunct departments or subject areas are grouped in the most appropriate division, or in the "Other" section.

### Arts and humanities

| Name | Position(s) | Joined college | Left/retired | Alumnus/na? |
| Amy Allen | Professor of Philosophy | | (left) | |
| Charles Augustus Aiken | Professor of Latin | 1858 | 1866 | 1846 |
| Ifi Amadiume | Professor of Religion | 1993 | (active) | no |
| Jon Appleton | Professor of Music; pioneer in electroacoustic music; served as Chairman of the Music Department | 1967 | 2009 | no |
| Walter W. Arndt | Professor of Humanities and Russian Language | | (Emeritus) | |
| Thomas Braden | Professor of English | | (not active) | 1940 |
| Susan Brison | Professor of Philosophy, Lecturer of Gender and Women's studies | | (active) | |
| Wing-tsit Chan | Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy | 1942 | 1966 | no |
| Ada Cohen | Professor of Art History and Israel Evans Professor in Oratory and Belles Lettres | | (active) | |
| Bill Cole | Professor of Music – jazz scholar, ethnomusicologist, free jazz musician, composer; served as Chairman of the Music Department; Director of Dartmouth's John Coltrane Memorial World Music Lecture/Demonstration Series | 1974 | 1990 | no |
| Pamela Kyle Crossley | Professor of History and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies | | (active) | no |
| James Cuno | Director of the Hood Museum of Art | 1989 | 1991 | no |
| Jody Diamond | Senior Lecturer in Music | 1990 | (active) | no |
| Charles Dodge | Visiting Professor of Music | 1993 | 2006 | no |
| Ronald Edsforth | Visiting Professor of History | 1993 | (active) | no |
| Mary Flanagan | Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities | 2008 | (active) | no |
| Bernard Gert | Professor of Philosophy | 1959 | (active) | no |
| Durs Grünbein | Kade Visiting Professor of German Studies | 2005 | 2005 | no |
| Jeffrey Hart | Professor of English | 1963 | 1993 | no |
| John Michael Hayes | Film Studies Department | 1988 | 2000 | no |
| Ernest Hebert | Professor of English and Creative Writing | 1987 | (active) | no |
| Errol Hill | Professor of Drama; first tenured, African American faculty member at Dartmouth | 1968 | 1989 | no |
| Cynthia Huntington | Professor of English and Creative Writing | 1989 | (active) | no |
| Eric P. Kelly | Professor of English | | (not active) | 1906 |
| Lawrence Kritzman | Professor of French and Comparative Literature | | (active) | no |
| Robert Kurka | Composer-in-Residence | | (not active) | no |
| Theodore Levin | Professor of Music | | (active) | no |
| Grant Lewi | Professor of English | | | no |
| Cleopatra Mathis | Professor of English | 1982 | (active) | no |
| Ana Merino | Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese | 2004 | (active) | no |
| James H. Moor | Professor of Philosophy | | (active) | no |
| Frank Gardner Moore | Associate Professor of Latin and Roman Archaeology | 1900 | 1908 | no |
| Zephaniah Swift Moore | Professor of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew | 1811 | 1815 | 1793 |
| Bruce Nelson | Professor of History | | (active) | no |
| Christopher Norris | Professor of English | | (not active) | no |
| Robert A. Oden | Professor of Religion | 1972 | 1989 | no |
| Melinda O'Neal | Director of the Handel Society 1979–2004 | 1979 | 2018 (Professor Emerita) | no |
| Donald E. Pease | Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities,Chair of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College | 1976 | (active) | no |
| Noel Perrin | Professor of English and Environmental Studies | 1959 | 2004 | no |
| Sally Pinkas | Professor of Music, Pianist-in-Residence | | (active) | no |
| Larry Polansky | Professor of Music | 1990 | (active) | no |
| Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy | Professor of Social Philosophy | 1935 | 1957 | no |
| Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick | Professor in the School of Criticism and Theory | 1992 | 1992 | no |
| John Smith | Professor of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Oriental Languages; librarian, minister of the College Church, and member of the Board of Trustees | 1778 | 1809 | 1773 |
| Justin Harvey Smith | Professor of Modern History | 1899 | 1908 | 1877 |
| Steve Swayne | Jacob H. Strauss 1922 Professor of Music | 1999 | (active) | no |
| Lucky Thompson | Teacher in the Department of Music | 1973 | 1974 | no |
| Peter Travis | Professor of English | | (active) | no |
| Thomas Vargish | Professor of English | | (left) | no |
| Nancy J. Vickers | Professor of French and Italian | 1973 | 1987 | no |
| Craig Steven Wilder | Professor of History | 2002 | (active) | no |
| Christian Wolff | Professor of Classics and Music; composer of experimental music | 1971 | 1999 | no |
| Jerry Zaks | Visiting Professor of Theater | | (active) | 1967 or 1968 |

### Interdisciplinary studies

| Name | Position(s) | Joined college | Left/retired | Alumnus/na? | Reference |
| Arthur Hertzberg | Professor of Jewish Studies | | (not active; died 2006) | no | |

### Sciences

| Name | Position(s) | Joined college | Left/retired | Alumnus/na? |
| Ebenezer Adams | Professor of Languages, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Astronomy | 1809 | 1833 | 1791 |
| Adelbert Ames Jr. | Research Professor of Physiological Optics | 1921 | 1955 | no |
| James Earl Baumgartner | Professor of Mathematics | | (Emeritus) | |
| Thomas H. Cormen | Professor of Computer Science, Chair of the Writing Program | 1992 | (active) | no |
| Michael K. Dorsey | Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies | 2002 | (active) | no |
| Hany Farid | William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science | 1999 | (active) | no |
| Marcelo Gleiser | Professor of Physics and Astronomy | 1991 | (active) | no |
| Carolyn S. Gordon | Professor of Mathematics | 1992 | (active) | no |
| Arthur Sherburne Hardy | Professor of Mathematics and Engineering | 1874 | 1893 | no |
| Alan A. Jones | Postdoctoral fellow in Chemistry | 1972 | 1974 | no |
| Thomas Eugene Kurtz | Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics | 1956 | 1993 | no |
| James W. LaBelle | Professor of Physics and Astronomy | 1989 | (active) | no |
| Jaron Lanier | Visiting Professor of Surgical Simulation and Tele-Medicine | 2002 | (active) | no |
| Fletcher Low | Professor of Chemistry | 1917 | (Emeritus) | 1915 |
| Douglas McIlroy | Adjunct Professor of Computer Science | 1997 | (active) | no |
| Donella Meadows | Professor of Environmental Studies | 1972 | 2001 | no |
| Robyn Millan | Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy | | | no |
| Kenneth N. Ogle | Researcher at the Dartmouth Eye Institute | 1930 | 1947 | Ph.D 1930 |
| James W. Patterson | Professor of Mathematics, Astronomy, and Meteorology | 1854 | 1865 | 1848 |
| Carl Pomerance | Professor of Mathematics | 2003 | (active) | no |
| Walter H. Stockmayer | Professor of Chemistry | 1961 | 2002 | no |
| Karen Wetterhahn | Professor of Chemistry (first female to occupy that post) | 1973 | 1997 | no |
| Charles Augustus Young | Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy | 1866 | 1877 | 1853 |

### Social sciences

| Name | Position(s) | Joined college | Left/retired | Alumnus/na? |
| Bernard Avishai | Visiting Professor of Government | 2006 | (active) | no |
| Jamshed Bharucha | Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dean of the Faculty 2001-2002 | 1983 | 2002 | no |
| David Blanchflower | Professor of Economics | 1989 | (active) | no |
| Stephen Brooks | Associate Professor of Government | 2001 | (active) | no |
| Michael Dorris | Professor and Chair of Native American Studies | 1972 | 1997 | no |
| Elmer Harp Jr. | Professor and Chair of Anthropology | 1951 | 1978 | no |
| Richard "Ned" Lebow | Professor of Government | 2002 | (active) | no |
| Roger D. Masters | Professor of Government | 1967 | 1998 | no |
| James L. McConaughy | Professor of Education | 1918 | 1925 | M.A. 1915 |
| Carl Oglesby | | | | no |
| Jennifer Richeson | Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences | 2000 | 2005 | no |
| Andrew Samwick | Professor of Economics, Director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences | 1994 | (active) | no |
| Matthew J. Slaughter | Associate Professor of Economics (currently in Tuck School of Business) | 1994 | 2002 | no |
| Jean Edward Smith | Assistant Professor of Government | 1963 | 1965 | no |
| Vilhjalmur Stefansson | Honorary professor in the Northern Studies Center | 1941 | 1962 | no |
| William Wohlforth | Daniel Webster Professor of Government | 2000 | (active) | no |

### Other

| Name | Position(s) | Joined college | Left/retired | Alumnus/na? |
| Henry Martyn Field | Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics | 1871 | 1893 | no |
| Brian Kennedy | Director of the Hood Museum of Art | 2005 | 2010 | no |
| George Bates Nichols Tower | Chandler Instructor in Civil Engineering | | (not active; died 1889) | |

## Geisel School of Medicine

| Name | Position(s) | Joined college | Left/retired | Alumnus/na? |
| Kurt Benirschke | Chair of the Department of Pathology | 1960 | 1970 | no |
| Charles Brenner | Professor of Genetics and Biochemistry | 2003 | 2009 | no |
| Jay C. Buckey | Associate Professor of Medicine | 1996 | (active) | no |
| Ira Byock | Director of Palliative Medicine (DHMC) | 2003 | (active) | no |
| Stuart Gitlow | | | (active) | no |
| Mahlon Hoagland | Chair of the Biochemistry Department | 1967 | 1970 | no |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | | 1838 | 1840 | no |
| C. Everett Koop | Professor of Surgery, Community and Family Medicine, and Psychiatry; Senior Scholar of the C. Everett Koop Institute | 1991 | 2013 | 1937 |
| Peter A. Olsson | Assistant Professor of Psychiatry | 2004 | (active) | no |
| Nathan Smith | Professor of Anatomy, Chemistry, Surgery, and Clinical Medicine; founder of the Dartmouth Medical School | 1797 1816 | 1813 1816 | no |
| John Wennberg | Professor of Community and Family Medicine | 1980 | (active) | no |
| William T. Wickner | Professor of Biochemistry | 1993 | (active) | no |

## Thayer School of Engineering

| Name | Position(s) | Joined college | Left/retired | Alumnus/na? |
| Tillman Gerngross | Professor of Engineering | 1998 | (active) | no |
| Arthur Kantrowitz | Professor of Engineering | 1978 | (Emeritus) | no |
| Myron Tribus | Dean of the Thayer School of Engineering | 1961 | 1969 | no |

## Tuck School of Business

| Name | Position(s) | Joined college | Left/retired | Alumnus/na? |
| Andrew Bernard | Professor of International Economics | 1999 | (active) | no |
| Richard D'Aveni | Professor of Strategic Management | 1988 | (active) | no |
| Kenneth French | Professor of Finance | 1993 2001 | 1994 present | no |
| Vijay Govindarajan | Professor of International Business | 1985 | (active) | no |
| Michael Jensen | Visiting Scholar | 1991 | 1992 | no |
| M. Eric Johnson | Professor of Operations Management | 2002 | (active) | no |
| Kevin Lane Keller | Professor of Marketing | 1998 | (active) | no |
| Matthew J. Slaughter | Associate Professor of Business Administration (see also in Arts & Sciences) | 2002 | (active) | no |
| Frederick Winslow Taylor | | | (not active) | no |
| Brian Wansink | Professor of Marketing | 1990 | 1994 | no |

## Wheelock Succession of Dartmouth Presidents

| Order | Name | Position(s) | Joined college | Ascended presidency | Left/retired | Alumnus/na? |
| 1 | Eleazar Wheelock | President and founder of Dartmouth College | 1769 | 1769 | 1779 | no |
| 2 | John Wheelock | President | 1779 | 1779 | 1815 | 1771 |
| 3 | Francis Brown | President | 1815 | 1815 | 1820 | 1805 |
| 4 | Daniel Dana | President | 1820 | 1820 | 1821 | 1788 |
| 5 | Bennet Tyler | President | 1822 | 1822 | 1828 | no |
| 6 | Nathan Lord | President | 1828 | 1828 | 1863 | no |
| 7 | Asa Dodge Smith | President | 1863 | 1863 | 1877 | 1830 |
| 8 | Samuel Colcord Bartlett | President | 1877 | 1877 | 1892 | 1836 |
| 9 | William Jewett Tucker | President | 1893 | 1893 | 1909 | 1861 |
| 10 | Ernest Fox Nichols | President, Professor of Physics | 1898–1903 | 1909 | 1916 | no |
| 11 | Ernest Martin Hopkins | President | 1916 | 1916 | 1945 | 1901 |
| 12 | John Sloan Dickey | President | 1945 | 1945 | 1970 | 1929 |
| 13 | John George Kemeny | President, Professor of Mathematics | 1953 | 1970 | 1981 | no |
| 14 | David T. McLaughlin | President, member of the Board of Trustees | 1971 | 1981 | 1987 | 1954, T'1955 |
| 15 | James O. Freedman | President | 1987 | 1987 | 1998 | no |
| 16 | James Wright | President, dean of the faculty, professor of history | 1969 | 1998 | July 1, 2009 | no |
| 17 | Jim Yong Kim | President, Department of Anthropology Faculty | July 1, 2009 | July 1, 2009 | 2012 | no |
| 18 | Philip J. Hanlon | President | June 10, 2013 | June 10, 2013 | June 11, 2023 | 1977 |
| 19 | Sian Beilock | President | June 12, 2023 | June 12, 2023 | | no |