# List of New York University faculty

Following is a partial list of notable faculty (either past, present or visiting) of New York University. As of 2014, among NYU's past and present faculty, there are at least 159 Guggenheim Fellows, over 7 Lasker Award winners, and more than 200 are currently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

## Nobel laureates

| Name | Relation to NYU | Notability |
| Robert Aumann | Oskar Morgenstern professor, 1997 | 2005 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
| Saul Bellow | professor | 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| Baruj Benacerraf | professor 1956–1968 | 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Joseph Brodsky | fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities | 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| Robert F. Engle | professor 1999– | 2003 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
| Rudolf Eucken | lecturer 1913–1914 | 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| James Heckman | associate adjunct professor 1972 | 2000 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
| Avram Hershko | adjunct professor 1998– | 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Eric R. Kandel | MED 1955, M.D.; Associate Professor 1965–74 | 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Tjalling Koopmans | professor, 1940 | 1975 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
| Wassily Leontief | professor 1975–1999 | 1973 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
| Otto Loewi | professor 1940–1961 | 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Rudolph Marcus | professor 1946–1952, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, 1960–1961, NYU Courant Institute | 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Robert S. Mulliken | professor 1926–1928 | 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Gunnar Myrdal | visiting professor | 1974 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
| Severo Ochoa | professor 1942–1974 | 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Edmund Phelps | professor 1978–1979 | 2006 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
| Edward C. Prescott | Shinsei visiting professor 2005– | 2004 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
| Paul Romer | Professor 2010–2024 | 2018 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
| Paul A. Samuelson | visiting professor | 1970 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
| Thomas Sargent | professor 2002– | 2011 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
| Wole Soyinka | Scholar-in-Residence | 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| Michael Spence | professor 2010– | 2001 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
* Nobel laureates Daniel Kahneman, Myron Scholes and Robert A. Mundell gave lectures at New York University Tandon School of Engineering as part of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Lynford Lecture Series.

## American Academy of Arts and Sciences

* Susan C. Antón, professor at the College of Arts and Science
* K. Anthony Appiah, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Rachel E. Barkow, professor at School of Law
* Nathaniel Beck, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Gérard Ben Arous, professor at Courant
* Thomas Bender, professor emeritus at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Marsha Berger, professor at Courant
* John Brademas, president emeritus
* Richard R.W. Brooks, professor at School of Law
* Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Jeff Cheeger, professor at Courant
* Percy Deift, professor at Courant
* Paul DiMaggio, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* George W. Downs, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Paula England, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Miranda Fricker, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* David W. Garland, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Linda Gordon, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Leslie Greengard, professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering
* Jonathan Haidt, professor at Stern School of Business
* Andrew D. Hamilton, president emeritus, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Russell Hardin, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Stephen Taylor Holmes, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Jennifer Homans, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Michael Hout, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Perri Klass, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Yusef Komunyakaa, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Steven Koonin, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
* Peter Lax, professor at Courant
* David Levering-Lewis, professor emeritus at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Fang-Hua Lin, professor at Courant
* Beatrice Longuenesse, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Rudolph Marcus, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
* James McBride, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Henry McKean, professor at Courant
* Cathleen Morawetz, professor at Courant
* Trevor Morrison, professor at School of Law
* Samuel Morse, professor at Tandon School of Engineering, Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Fred Moten, professor at Tisch School
* Charles Newman, professor at Courant
* Louis Nirenberg, professor at Courant
* Charles Peskin, professor at Courant
* Adam Przeworski, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Claudia Rankine, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Debraj Ray, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Renato Rosaldo, professor emeritus at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Matthew Santirocco, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Eero Simoncelli, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Alastair Smith, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* K. R. Sreenivasan, professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering, Graduate School of Arts and Science
* David Stasavage, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Thomas J. Sugrue, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Jeremy Waldron, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Barbara Weinstein, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Deborah Willis, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science and Tisch School
* Lawrence Wolff, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Margaret Wright, professor at Courant
* Lai-Sang Young, professor at Courant

## Members of the National Academy of Sciences

* Marsha Berger, professor at Courant
* George Bugliarello, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
* Jeff Cheeger, professor at Courant
* Gloria M. Coruzzi, professor at Biology
* Percy Deift, professor at Courant
* Claude Desplan, professor at Biology
* Paul M. Doty, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
* Leslie Greengard, professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering
* Mikhael Gromov, professor at Courant
* David Harker, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
* Peter Lax, professor at Courant
* Andrew Majda, professor at Courant
* Rudolph Marcus, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
* Henry McKean, professor at Courant
* David McLaughlin, professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering
* Cathleen Morawetz, professor at Courant
* Elliott Waters Montroll, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
* Charles Newman, professor at Courant
* Louis Nirenberg, professor at Courant
* Charles Peskin, professor at Courant
* K. R. Sreenivasan, professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering
* S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan, professor at Courant
* Margaret Wright, professor at Courant

## Members of the National Academy of Engineering

* Henrik Ager-Hanssen, professor at Tandon School of Engineering.
* Marsha Berger, professor at Courant
* George Bugliarello, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
* Antonio Ferri, professor at Tandon School of Engineering.
* Leslie Greengard, professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering
* Nicholas J. Hoff, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
* Paul Horn (computer scientist), professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering
* Nathan Marcuvitz, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
* Tsuneo Nakahara, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
* K. R. Sreenivasan, professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering
* Jerome Swartz, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
* Ernst Weber (engineer), professor at Tandon School of Engineering. He was the first president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and one of the founders of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
* Jack Wolf, professor at Tandon School of Engineering
* Margaret Wright, professor at Courant
* Dante C. Youla, professor at Tandon School of Engineering

## Guggenheim Fellows

| Name | Relation to NYU | Notability |
| Jack Wolf | professor 1963–1965, NYU Courant Institute, 1965–1973, NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow (1979) |
| K. R. Sreenivasan | professor at NYU Courant Institute and NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Leopold B. Felsen | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Ivan Frisch | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Paul Peter Ewald | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Richard Aaker Trythall | professor at NYU Florence | Guggenheim Fellow (1967) |
| David J. Pine | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Elliott Waters Montroll | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Joseph Wood Krutch | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Eugene Genovese | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Herbert Freeman | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Nicholas J. Hoff | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Paul M. Doty | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Jeff Cheeger | professor, NYU Courant Institute | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Lai-Sang Young | professor, NYU Courant Institute | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Percy Deift | professor, NYU Courant Institute | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Michael Heidelberger | professor 1964–1991, NYU School of Medicine | In 1934 and 1936 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Thomas A. Abercrombie | professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Paul Horwich | professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Michael Purugganan | professor at NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | Guggenheim Fellow (2006) |
| Frances Kamm | professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Mark L. Gertler | professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Kristin Ross | professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Darin Strauss | professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | Guggenheim Fellow; winner of National Book Critics Circle Award |
| Rebecca Goldstein | professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Krishna Palem | professor, NYU Courant Institute | Guggenheim Fellow |
| Alexander R. Galloway | professor, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | Guggenheim Fellow |
* Simeon M. Berman, professor at Courant
* Sylvain Cappell, professor at Courant
* Steve Childress, professor at Courant
* Richard J. Cole, professor at Courant
* Cathleen Morawetz, professor at Courant
* Charles Newman, professor at Courant
* Louis Nirenberg, professor at Courant
* Lyle Ashton Harris, professor at Steinhardt
* Sue de Beer, professor at Steinhardt
* Anna Deavere Smith, professor at Tisch
* Kathleen Gerson, professor at College of Arts and Science
* Deborah Landau professor at College of Arts and Science
* Amanda Petrusich, professor at Gallatin School of Individualized Study
* Troy Duster, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Debraj Ray, professor at College School of Arts and Science
* Irwin Unger, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1965
* Andrew Ross (sociologist), professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Christopher Wood, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science

## MacArthur Fellows

| Name | Relation to NYU | Notability |
| Anthony G. Amsterdam | Professor of Law | 1989 MacArthur Fellow |
| Harold Bloom | Berg Professor of English | 1985 MacArthur Fellow |
| Gregory Chudnovsky | Professor of Mathematics | 1986 MacArthur Fellow |
| Nicole Fleetwood | Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication | 2021 MacArthur Fellow |
| Joan Breton Connelly | Professor of Art History | 1996 MacArthur Fellow |
| Nicole Fleetwood | Professor of Media, Culture and Communication | 2021 MacArthur Fellow |
| Faye D. Ginsburg | Professor of Anthropology | 1994 MacArthur Fellow |
| Terrance Hayes | Professor of Creative Writing | 2014 MacArthur Fellow |
| Fritz John | Professor of Mathematics | 1984 MacArthur Fellow |
| Galway Kinnell | Professor of Creative Writing | 1984 MacArthur Fellow |
| Subhash Khot | Professor at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. | 2014 MacArthur Fellow |
| Sylvia A. Law | Professor of Law, Medicine, and Psychiatry | 1983 MacArthur Fellow |
| David Levering Lewis | Professor of History | 1999 MacArthur Fellow |
| Julie Livingston | Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History | 2013 MacArthur Fellow |
| Ruth Watson Lubic | Adjunct Professor | 1993 MacArthur Fellow |
| Paule Marshall | Professor of English | 1992 MacArthur Fellow |
| Deborah Meier | Research Scholar, Steinhardt | 1987 MacArthur Fellow |
| Fred Moten | Professor of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature | 2020 MacArthur Fellow |
| George Perle | GSAS 1956, Ph.D.; professor of music | 1974 MacArthur Fellow |
| Charles S. Peskin | Professor of Mathematics | 1983 MacArthur Fellow |
| Claudia Rankine | Professor of Creative Writing | 2016 MacArthur Fellow |
| Robert Shapley | Professor of Neurology | 1986 MacArthur Fellow |
| Anna Deavere Smith | Professor of Performance Studies | 1996 MacArthur Fellow |
| Bryan Stevenson | Professor of Law | 1995 MacArthur Fellow |
| Deborah Willis | Professor of Photography and Social and Cultural Analysis | 2000 MacArthur Fellow |
| Julia Wolfe | Professor at Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | 2016 MacArthur Fellow |
| Rita P. Wright | Professor of Anthropology | 1988 MacArthur Fellow |
| Horng-Tzer Yau | Professor of Mathematics | 2000 MacArthur Fellow |

## Rhodes Scholars

* Peter Blair Henry, professor at Stern School of Business
* John Brademas, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
* Sujit Choudhry, professor at School of Law. He also served as the Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, and as Associate Dean of the University of Toronto
* James McNaughton Hester, former professor and Dean of both undergraduate and graduate schools of arts and science at NYU. He became 11th President of NYU.

## National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation, Arts and Humanities recipients

| Name | Relation to NYU | Notability |
| Kurt O. Friedrichs | professor 1938–1974 at NYU Courant Institute | 1976 National Medal of Science recipient |
| S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan | professor at NYU Courant Institute | 2010 National Medal of Science recipient |
| Louis Nirenberg | professor at NYU Courant Institute | 1995 National Medal of Science recipient |
| Joseph Keller | professor at NYU Courant Institute | 1988 National Medal of Science recipient |
| Cathleen Synge Morawetz | professor at NYU Courant Institute | 1998 National Medal of Science recipient |
| Michael Heidelberger | professor 1964–1991 at NYU School of Medicine | 1967 National Medal of Science recipient |
| Severo Ochoa | professor 1942–1974 at NYU School of Medicine | 1979 National Medal of Science recipient |
| Herman Francis Mark | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | 1979 National Medal of Science recipient |
| Rudolph A. Marcus | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | 1989 National Medal of Science recipient |
| Jerome Swartz | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | 1999 National Medal of Technology recipient |
| W. Edwards Deming | professor | 1987 National Medal of Technology recipient |
| Ernst Weber | professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | 1987 National Medal of Science recipient |
| Gregory Breit | professor at NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | 1967 National Medal of Science recipient |
| Peter Lax | professor at NYU Courant Institute | 1986 National Medal of Science recipient |
| Zelda Fichandler | professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts | 1996 National Medal of Arts recipient |
| Anna Deavere Smith | professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts | 2013 National Humanities Medal recipient |
| Rebecca Goldstein | professor at NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | 2015 National Humanities Medal recipient |
| James McBride (writer) | professor at NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | 2016 National Humanities Medal recipient |
| Bernard Brodie (biochemist) | professor at NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science | 1968 National Medal of Science recipient |

## Abel Prize recipients

* Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, professor at Courant
* Peter Lax, professor at Courant
* Louis Nirenberg, professor at Courant
* S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan, professor at Courant

## College of Arts and Science (undergraduate and graduate)

| Saul Bellow | Writer | Professor | 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| Harold Bloom | Literary critic | Berg Professor of English | 1985 MacArthur Fellow |
| Faye D. Ginsburg | Scholar | Professor of Anthropology | 1994 MacArthur Fellow |
| Galway Kinnell | Poet | Professor | 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
| Wassily Leontief | Economist | Professor 1975–1999 | 1973 Nobel Prize in Economics |
| Otto Loewi | Pharmacologist | Professor 1940–1961 | 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Ruth Watson Lubic | Scholar | Adjunct Professor | 1993 MacArthur Fellow |
| Paule Marshall | Writer | Professor of English | 1992 MacArthur Fellow |
| Suketu Mehta | Associate professor, journalism, current | writer, Maximum City | |
| Robert S. Mulliken | Physicist, chemist | Professor 1926–1928 | 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Richard Aaker Trythall | Professor, music theory | composer, pianist | |
| Rita P. Wright | Scholar | Professor of Anthropology | 1988 MacArthur Fellow |
* Jane M. Carlton, Professor of Biology, recipient of the 2010 Stoll-Stunkard Memorial Lectureship Award, 2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
* Dan Fagin (science journalist), recipient of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book Toms River.
* David G. Grier, physicist, best known for his work on the tractor beam
* Leonard Gale, chemist who helped Samuel Morse develop the electromagnetic telegraph
* Kirsten Johnson, filmmaker
* Julia Jones-Pugliese (1909–1993), national champion fencer and fencing coach
* James McBride (writer), recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for fiction for his novel The Good Lord Bird.
* Lawrence Amos McLouth, Professor of Germanic Studies
* Nickolas Muray (born Miklós Mandl; 1892–1965), Hungarian-born American photographer and Olympic fencer
* Elisha Netanyahu, mathematician, former Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at Technion. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, is his nephew.
* Joel Westheimer, professor of citizenship education at the University of Ottawa

## Tandon School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic School of Engineering)

* Erwin Lutwak, mathematician
* Heinrich Guggenheimer, mathematician
* Stephen Arnold, physicist, helped create the interdisciplinary field of Microsphere Photonics, an optical biosensor sensitive enough to detect unlabeled molecules such as protein molecules and strands of DNA.
* H. Johnathan Chao, patented the first integrated circuit chip that demonstrates the feasibility of SONET/ATM networks, allowing large volumes of information–audio, date, image and video–to transmit at high speeds.
* Boris Aronov, computer scientist, Sloan Research Fellow
* Bruce Garetz, invented (with former Polytechnic professor and current MIT professor Allan Myerson) a method for using laser light to control the arrangement of molecules in a crystal.
* Dan Bailey, physicist, fly-shop owner, innovative fly developer
* Barouh Berkovits – invented the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker
* George Bugliarello – Chairman of the Board of Science and Technology for International Development of the National Academy of Sciences; of the National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation Committee; and of the National Academy of Engineering Council's International Affairs Committee
* Charles Camarda, American engineer and a NASA astronaut
* Kalle Levon, invented an electro-chemical method to identify bacteria.
* Ju-Chin Chu – Chemical engineer and father of Steven Chu. He became an Academia Sinica member in 1964.
* Edwin F. Church – namesake of Edwin F. Church Medal
* Edward Weil, discovered a new family of chemicals that inhibit corrosion and could be used in protective coatings. Invented and developed many flame retardants for textiles, polymers, foams, agricultural chemicals, plasticizers and other polymer additives. Also invented and developed numerous agricultural chemicals, polymer additives, and manufacturing processes. Holder of over 200 patents.
* Francis Crick – co-discoverer of DNA structure; awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
* Paul M. Doty – emeritus Harvard Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry; specialized in the physical properties of macromolecules; involved in peace and security policy issues
* R. Luke DuBois – composer, performer, conceptual new media artist, programmer, record producer, pedagogue
* Paul Peter Ewald – inventor of X-ray diffraction method for determination of molecular structure; Physics Department chair until 1957
* Leopold B. Felsen, physicist
* Zivan Zabar, developed a computer code for Con Edison that helped restart the electronic network after a 1983 blackout; the program was again used after 9/11 to restore power in lower Manhattan.
* Antonio Ferri – leader of a team that created the first practical hypersonic tunnel heater, used to heat air for discharge into a wind tunnel
* R. M. Foster – Bell Labs mathematician whose work was of significance regarding electronic filters for use on telephone lines.
* Herbert Freeman, computer scientist
* Eugene D. Genovese – historian of the American South and slavery
* Gordon Gould – former Polytechnic professor; inventor of the laser
* David and Gregory Chudnovsky – mathematicians who held the record for number of digits of pi in 1989; now run the Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing at Polytechnic
* Leslie Greengard, mathematician, physician and computer scientist. He is co-inventor of the fast multipole method in 1987.
* S. L. Greitzer – mathematician; founding chairman of the US Mathematical Olympiad; publisher of the pre-college mathematics journal Arbelos
* Charles William Hanko – historian and politician
* David Harker – physicist; X-ray crystallographer; discoverer of the Donnay–Harker law and Harker–Kasper inequalities
* Paul Horn (computer scientist)
* Jerry MacArthur Hultin, former United States Under Secretary of the Navy
* Katherine Isbister, game and human computer interaction researcher and designer
* Myles Jackson, Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of the History of Science
* Andrew Kalotay, finance professor, Wall Street quant and chess master.
* Maurice Karnaugh – inventor of Karnaugh maps (K-maps) while at Bell Labs; professor at the Westchester campus 1980–1999; retired
* Edward Kimbark – power engineer
* Parke Kolbe, author
* Joseph Wood Krutch – writer, critic, and naturalist
* Erich E. Kunhardt, physicist
* Yann LeCun, computer scientist.
* Paul Levinson – author of The Plot To Save Socrates; media commentator on The O'Reilly Factor; Visiting Professor at the Philosophy and Technology Study Center at Polytechnic, 1987–1988
* Frederick B. Llewellyn – electrical engineer
* Rudolph Marcus – former Polytechnic professor. Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and National Medal of Science winner.
* Nathan Marcuvitz – electrical engineering pioneer
* Herman F. Mark – founder of the Polymer Research Institute; National Medal of Science winner.
* Warren L. McCabe – American chemical engineer and is considered as one of the founding fathers of the profession of chemical engineering
* David Miller (Canadian politician), served as an advisor on urban issues at the World Bank. He also served as the 63rd Mayor of Toronto.
* Elliott Waters Montroll – scientist and mathematician
* Samuel Morse – co-inventor of the Morse code; contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs
* James H. Mulligan Jr. – namesake of IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal
* Tsuneo Nakahara, communications engineer
* Donald Othmer – co-author of Kirk–Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology; inventor of the Othmer Still, a laboratory device for vapor-liquid equilibrium measurements
* Charles G. Overberger, American chemist
* Athanasios Papoulis – pioneer in the field of stochastic processes
* Leonard Peikoff – former philosophy professor; founder of the Ayn Rand Institute
* David J. Pine, American physicist.
* John R. Ragazzini, electrical engineer
* Theodore Rappaport, electrical engineer
* John Howard Raymond, philosopher
* Hans Reissner – German aeronautical engineer
* Murray Rothbard – former economics professor; key figure in libertarian movement
* Michael Shelley – Professor of Mechanical Engineering
* Samuel Sheldon – IEEE president
* Joshua W. Sill – Professor of Mathematics; became the youngest General in the Civil War; namesake of Fort Sill
* Aleksandra Smiljanić, Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technologies in the Government of Serbia
* Joel B. Snyder – IEEE president
* K. R. Sreenivasan, engineer whose research includes physics and applied mathematics.
* Torsten Suel – pioneer of search engine algorithms
* Jerome Swartz – developed early optical strategies for barcode scanning technologies
* Nassim Nicholas Taleb – epistemologist author of The Black Swan; works in the risk engineering department
* James Tenney – composer; music theorist
* Julian Togelius – AI and Games researcher
* John G. Truxal, American control theorist
* Ernst Weber – founder of the Microwave Research Institute; first IEEE President; National Medal of Science winner.
* Jack Keil Wolf – researcher in information theory and coding theory
* Ta-You Wu – nuclear physicist; President of Academia Sinica
* Dante C. Youla – namesake of Youla–Kucera parametrization in control theory
* Louis Zukofsky – second-generation American modernist poet
* David Lefer, journalist and author
* Beth Simone Noveck, United States deputy chief technology officer for open government
* Nicholas J. Hoff, award-winning engineer specializing in aeronautics and astronautics. His calculations became the international guideposts in aircraft design.
* Henrik Ager-Hanssen, Norwegian nuclear physicist
* Nikhil Gupta (scientist)
* Mark M. Green, chemist
* Steven E. Koonin, theoretical physicist, former faculty and provost of California Institute of Technology
* Richard W. Rahn, economist
* Harlan K. Ullman, principal author of the doctrine of "shock and awe"
* Sal Restivo, sociologist/anthropologist. Founding director of the Ph.D. program in Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
* Nasir Memon, computer scientist, IEEE Fellow.
* Jim McDonald (electrical engineer), Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde.
* Carl Neuberg, early pioneer in biochemistry, and he is often referred to as the "father of modern biochemistry".
* Raymond E. Kirk, editor, with Othmer, of the industry-standard Kirk–Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology.
* Leonard Bergstein, inventor of the concept of the zoom lens.
* Seymour Lipschutz, mathematician
* Maurizio Porfiri, Italian electrical engineer, noted for his work with robotic fish.
* Ramesh Karri, researcher specializing in trustworthy hardware, high assurance nanoscale integrated circuits, architectures and systems. He and his students at NYU Tandon School of Engineering generated the first research on attack-resilient chip architecture, presented the first research paper on split manufacturing, a means of thwarting counterfeiting by an untrusted foundry by dividing a chip's blueprint into several components and distributing each to a different fabricator, and won numerous best-paper awards from ACM, USENIX, and the IEEE, among others.
* Tony Rothman, American theoretical physicist.
* David Goodman (electrical engineer), introduced the first practical application of a wireless infostation that can communicate information to and from a PDA or notebook computer.
* Justin Cappos, computer scientist
* Isidor Fankuchen, an international authority on X-ray diffraction.

## Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

This is a small selection of Courant's famous faculty over the years and a few of their distinctions:
* Gérard Ben Arous, Davidson Prize
* Marsha Berger, NASA Software of the Year, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences
* Fedor Bogomolov
* Richard Bonneau
* Luis Caffarelli, Wolf Prize
* Sylvain Cappell, Guggenheim Fellowship
* Sourav Chatterjee, Davidson Prize
* Jeff Cheeger, Veblen Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Max Planck Research Prize
* Steven Childress, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Physical Society Fellow
* Adrian Constantin, Romanian-Austrian mathematician, Wittgenstein Award
* Demetrios Christodoulou, 1993 MacArthur Fellow
* Richard J. Cole, Guggenheim Fellowship
* Martin Davis, Steele Prize
* Percy Deift, George Pólya Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
* Robert Dewar, IFIP WG 2.1 member, chairperson 1978–1983; Courant Institute associate director 1994–1997, GNAT cocreator, AdaCore cofounder, president, CEO
* Kurt O. Friedrichs, 1976 National Medal of Science
* Paul Garabedian, NAS Prize in Applied Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
* Leslie Greengard, Steele Prize, Packard Foundation Fellowship, NSF Presidential Young Investigator, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences
* Mikhail Gromov, 2009 Abel Prize, Wolf Prize, Steele Prize, Kyoto Prize, Balzan Prize,
* Larry Guth
* Helmut Hofer, Ostrowski Prize, National Academy of Sciences
* Fritz John, 1984 MacArthur Fellow
* Joseph B. Keller, 1988 National Medal of Science, Wolf Prize
* Michel Kervaire
* Subhash Khot, 2010 Alan T. Waterman Award
* Morris Kline
* Peter Lax, Abel Prize winner, 1986 National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Wolf Prize, Norbert Wiener Prize
* Lin Fanghua, Bôcher Memorial Prize, American Academy of Arts and Science
* Wilhelm Magnus
* Andrew Majda, NAS Prize in Applied Mathematics, John von Neumann Prize (SIAM)
* Henry McKean, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science
* David W. McLaughlin, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science
* Bud Mishra, Association for Computing Machinery Fellow
* Cathleen Synge Morawetz, 1998 National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Birkhoff Prize, Noether Lecturer, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
* Jürgen Moser, Wolf Prize, James Craig Watson Medal
* Assaf Naor, European Mathematical Society Prize, Packard Fellowship, Salem Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, Blavatnik Award
* Charles Newman, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science
* Louis Nirenberg, 1995 Crafoord Prize, National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, Chern Medal, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
* Amnon Pazy (1936–2006), Israeli mathematician; President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
* Charles S. Peskin, 1983 MacArthur Fellow, Birkhoff Prize, National Medal of Science
* Amir Pnueli, National Academy of Engineering, Israel Prize, Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery Fellow
* Peter Sarnak
* Jack Schwartz, developed the programming language SETL at NYU
* Michael J. Shelley, American Physical Society Fellow, François Naftali Frenkiel Award (APS)
* Victor Shoup, with Ronald Cramer developed the Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem
* Jonathan Sondow
* Joel Spencer
* K. R. Sreenivasan
* S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Abel Prize winner, Steele Prize, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science, Fellow of the Royal Society, National Medal of Science
* Daniel Stein, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
* Akshay Venkatesh, Salem Prize, Packard Fellowship
* Olof B. Widlund
* Margaret H. Wright, National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering
* Lai-Sang Young, Satter Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Science

## Stern School of Business

| Name | Relation to NYU | Notability |
| Jennifer N. Carpenter | Professor, current | Associate Professor of Finance |
| Aswath Damodaran | Professor, current | Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education |
| Ed Elton | Professor, current | Nomura Professor of Finance; Academic Director of Stern Doctoral Program |
| Ken Froewiss | Professor, current | Clinical Professor of Finance and Academic Director of Executive Programs |
| Dan Gode | Professor, current | Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting |
| Jonathan Haidt | Professor, current | Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership |
| Peter Blair Henry | Professor, current | Dean, NYU Stern; Dean Richard R. West Professorship in Business; William R. Berkley Professor of Economics & Finance |
| Ernest Kurnow | Professor, late chairman | Business Statistics professor; on NYU faculty since 1948 |
| Alexander Ljungqvist | Professor, current | Research Professor of Finance; Ira Rennert Professor of Entrepreneurship; Research Director, Berkley Center |
| Sonia Marciano | Professor, current | Clinical Associate Professor of Management and Organizations |
| Michael Posner | Professor, current | Professor of Business and Society |
| Thomas Pugel | Professor, current | Vice Dean of Executive Programs and Professor of Economics and Global Business |
| Paul Romer | Professor, current | Professor of Economics. World Bank Chief Economist. |
| Nouriel Roubini | Professor, current | Professor of Economics and International Business |
| Thomas Sargent | Professor, current | William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business |
| Anthony Saunders | Professor, current | John M. Schiff Professor of Finance |
| Michael Spence | Professor, current | William R. Berkley Professor in Economics & Business |
| Raghu Sundaram | Professor, current | Professor of Finance; Yamaichi Faculty Fellow |
| Arun Sundararajan | Professor, current | Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences; NEC Faculty Fellow |
| Richard Sylla | Professor, current | History of Financial Institutions and Markets professor |
| Lawrence J. White | Professor, current | Robert Kavesh Professor of Economics |
| Eitan Zemel | Professor, current | Vice Dean for Strategic Initiatives and the W. Edwards Deming Professor of Quality and Productivity |
| Larry Zicklin | Professor, current | Clinical Professor at Stern; Neuberger Berman's Chairman of the Board |

## Tisch School of the Arts

| Name | Relation to NYU | Notability |
| D. B. Gilles | Teaches screenwriting | four plays published by Dramatists Play Service |
| Marketa Kimbrell | Taught directing and acting | taught film directing and acting from 1970 to 2006; founder of the New York Street Theater Caravan |
| James Franco | Taught film | Academy Award nominated actor |
| Susan Sandler | Teaches screenwriting and directing | wrote plays and screenplays including Crossing Delancey |

## Gallatin School of Individualized Study

* Sinan Antoon, Iraqi Novelist and Poet
* Taylor Antrim, Novelist and Journalist
* Mitchell Joachim, Sustainable Design, TED Senior Fellow
* Myles Jackson, Historian of Science and Technology
* John Sexton, President of NYU teaches the seminar "Baseball as a Road to God"
* E. Frances White, former Dean, historian of Africa, African American Studies
* Frank Leon Roberts, writer, commentator, activist

## Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

* Richard Arum, sociologist of education
* Roscoe Brown, education professor, one of the Tuskegee Airmen
* Meg Bussert, actress, singer, music theatre professor
* Eduardus Halim, pianist, professor, inaugural holder of the Sascha Gorodnitzki Chair in Piano Studies at NYU
* Martha Hill, dance instructor and director of NYU's Dance Education program
* James Weldon Johnson, author, civil rights activist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, diplomat
* Frank Kimbrough, jazz pianist
* sj Miller, Deputy Director of Educational Equity
* Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition and Food Studies, author, blogger
* Fabio Parasecoli, director of the Food Studies PhD Program
* Neil Postman, education reformer, humanist, social visionary, author, media critic, and creator of the NYU's Department of Media Ecology
* Diane Ravitch, historian of education, educational policy analyst, research professor, and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education
* Ron Robin (born 1951), Israeli historian and President of the University of Haifa
* Louise Rosenblatt, author of Literature as Exploration, noted scholar on the teaching of literature, and director of NYU's doctoral program in English Education
* John Scofield, jazz-rock guitarist and composer
* Jacob Weinberg, pianist and composer
* Hale Woodruff, printmaker, muralist, draftsman, painter
* Stefaan Verhulst, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. Senior Associated Fellow in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University

## Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

* Alan Altshuler, Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation (1972–75)
* Doug Band
* Jorge Castañeda
* Dalton Conley
* Harold Ford Jr.
* Gara LaMarche
* Jacob Lew
* Timothy Naftali
* Jonathan Morduch
* Robert Shrum

## School of Law

NYU Law has the second highest number of faculty who are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences with 19 inductees, behind only Harvard.
Notable professors include:
* Alberto Alemanno (European Union law)
* William Allen (corporate law, chancellor of Delaware)
* Philip Alston (human rights)
* Anthony Amsterdam (criminal law, capital punishment)
* Kwame Anthony Appiah (legal philosophy)
* Deborah Archer (racial justice, civil rights)
* Rachel Barkow (administrative law, criminal law and procedure)
* Robert Bauer (law and politics, political reform)
* Dorit Beinisch (national security law)
* Jerome A. Cohen (Chinese law)
* Lawrence Collins (transnational litigation)
* Richard Epstein (law and economics, torts, health law & policy)
* Cynthia Estlund (labor law, employment law, property)
* Samuel Estreicher (labor law, employment law, administrative law)
* Tali Farhadian (criminal law)
* Barry Friedman (constitutional law, criminal law)
* David W. Garland (criminal law, sociology)
* Stephen Gillers (legal ethics)
* Douglas H. Ginsburg (administrative law)
* Stephen Holmes (liberal democracy)
* Samuel Issacharoff (procedure, democracy)
* Sally Katzen (administrative law)
* Benedict Kingsbury (international law)
* John Koeltl (constitutional litigation)
* Theodor Meron (international law)
* Arthur R. Miller (civil procedure, copyright, and privacy)
* Trevor Morrison (dean, constitutional law)
* Melissa Erica Murray (constitutional law)
* Thomas Nagel (legal philosophy)
* Burt Neuborne (evidence, Holocaust litigation expert)
* Richard Pildes (constitutional law, election law)
* Richard Revesz (environmental law)
* Samuel Scheffler (legal philosophy)
* John Sexton (civil procedure)
* Catherine Sharkey (tort law, empirical legal studies)
* Linda J. Silberman (conflict of laws, civil procedure, international arbitration)
* Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
* Christopher Jon Sprigman (intellectual property, torts, antitrust, comparative constitutional law)
* Bryan Stevenson (criminal law, capital punishment)
* Jeremy Waldron (legal philosophy)
* Joseph H. H. Weiler (international law)
* Joan Wexler (born 1946), dean and president of Brooklyn Law School
* Katrina Wyman (environmental law, property law)
* Kenji Yoshino (constitutional law, LGBT rights)

## Grossman School of Medicine

* Martin J. Blaser, Frederick H. King Professor of Internal Medicine, Chairman, Department of Medicine, and Professor of Microbiology
* Jason Walter Brown, neurologist and medical writer
* Matthew Chervenak, President and CEO of General Biologic company
* Enrico Fazzini, D.O., Professor of Neurology and expert on Parkinson's disease
* Steven Flanagan, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
* William L. Goldberg, Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of Emergency Medicine, and published author
* Anna Goldfeder, Director of the Cancer and Radiobiology Research Laboratory
* Ruben Kuzniecky, Professor of Neurology
* Rodolfo Llinas, Professor of Physiology & Neuroscience
* Oliver Sacks, Professor of Neurology and author
* John E. Sarno, Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine
* Homer Smith (1895–1962), Professor and director of the Physiology Laboratories at NYU
* Joseph D. Zuckerman, surgeon-in-chief of the Hospital for Joint Diseases of NYU Langone Medical Center

## Silver School of Social Work

Notable faculty include:
* James Jaccard, Professor of Social Work

## NYU Abu Dhabi

Notable faculty include:
* Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law
* Thomas Bender, Professor of History
* Godfried Toussaint, Research Professor of Computer Science
* Elias Khoury, Global Distinguished Professor of Modern Arabic Literature
* Anthony Kronman, Global Professor, New York University Abu Dhabi
* Cyrus Patell, Associate Dean of Humanities
* Iván Szelényi, Emeritus Dean of Social Sciences
* Werner Sollors, Global Professor of Literature
* Eugene Trubowitz, Global Professor of Mathematics
* Carol Gilligan, Visiting Professor of Humanities and Applied Psychology

## NYU Shanghai

* Chen Jian (academic), visiting professor from Cornell University, Chinese history and international relations
* Jeffrey Lehman, former president of Cornell, Dean of University of Michigan law school
* Joanna Waley-Cohen, former head of the NYU New York History department
* Eitan Zemel, associate Chancellor for Strategy and Dean of Business
* Lin Fanghua, associate Provost for the Quantitative Disciplines, also Silver Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
* Yu Lizhong, former president of East China Normal University
* Jun Zhang, Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Fellow of American Physical Society

## Professor emeriti and other notable faculty

| Name | Relation to NYU | Notability |
| Steven E. Koonin | Professor | Former provost of California Institute of Technology |
| David Leebron | Professor | 7th President of Rice University |
| Jeffrey S. Lehman | Professor | Former president of Cornell University |
| Alfred Bloom | Professor | Former president of Swarthmore College |
| Yusef Komunyakaa | Professor | Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Christopher L. Eisgruber | Professor | 20th and current President of Princeton University |
| Jack Lew | Professor | 76th United States Secretary of the Treasury |
| Martin Hairer | Professor | Fields Medal winner |
| Frances E. Allen | Professor | Turing Award winner |
| Louis Nirenberg | Professor | Abel Prize winner |
| Thomas A. Abercrombie | Professor, current | winner of the 2004–2005 Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Martin Davis | Professor Emeritus | Davis is the co-inventor of the Davis–Putnam algorithm and the DPLL algorithms. He is also known for his model of Post–Turing machines. |
| Philip Alston | Professor, current | John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law; the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary executions |
| David Copperfield (illusionist) | Professor | Taught a course in magic |
| Cammy Myler | Professor | American luger who was a member of the U.S. National Luge Team from 1985 to 1998 and competed on four Winter Olympics teams |
| Edward Altman | Professor, 1977 – | inventor of the "Altman Z-Score" |
| Yehuda Amichai | Poet in residence | awarded the 1969 Brenner Prize, 1976 Bialik Prize, and 1982 Israel Prize |
| Awam Amkpa | Professor, current; director of NYU's Africana studies | drama professor and professor |
| Jacob M. Appel | Visiting faculty, current | bioethicist, authority on euthanasia |
| Roger S. Bagnall | Visiting Professor | Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at NYU |
| Henry Martyn Baird | B.A. 1850, Professor 1859–1906 | historian of the Huguenots |
| Gabriela Basterra | Professor, current | professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish |
| William Baumol | professor | member of National Academy of Sciences |
| Saul Bellow | Professor | 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| Baruj Benacerraf | Professor 1956–1968 | 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Marsha Berger | Professor | member of National Academy of Sciences |
| Ben Bernanke | Visiting Professor 1993 | Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board |
| Carl Bernstein | Professor | 1973 Pulitzer Prize (Watergate) |
| Ned Block | Professor 1996– | contributed to matters of consciousness and cognitive science |
| Paul Boghossian | Professor, current | Professor of Philosophy |
| Richard Bona | Professor, current | jazz bassist and composer |
| Steven Brams | Professor 1969 – | known for his research on voting systems and approval voting |
| McGeorge Bundy | Professor of History (1979–1989) | National Security Advisor under John F. Kennedy |
| John Canemaker | Professor, current | Academy Award-winning independent animator, animation historian |
| Norman Cantor | Professor 1978–2004 | medievalist |
| Jorge Castañeda | Visiting Professor | Secretary of State of Mexico |
| Domingo Cavallo | Guest Lecturer | former Minister of Finance, Republic of Argentina |
| Paul Chaikin | professor, current | physicist |
| Herrick Chapman | Professor since 1992 | historian of France |
| Jeff Cheeger | Professor | member of National Academy of Sciences |
| Stephen F. Cohen | Professor | scholar of history and foreign relations of Russia |
| Dalton Conley | Professor, current | sociologist |
| Joan Breton Connelly | Professor, current | classical archaeologist and Professor of Classics and Art History at New York University; appointed to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee by President George W. Bush in 2003; awarded MacArthur Fellowship in 1996 |
| David Copperfield | Professor | taught a course on magic at the age of sixteen |
| Richard Courant | Professor | noted for the development of the finite element method |
| Bruce Bueno de Mesquita | Professor, current | political scientist |
| E. L. Doctorow | Professor | author of Ragtime |
| Denis Donoghue | Professor, current | Irish literary critic; Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University |
| Norman Dorsen | Professor, current | former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, 1976–1991 |
| John William Draper | Professor, 1840–1881 | founder and former president of the Medical School |
| Peter F. Drucker | Professor, 1950–1972 | major contributor to management theory |
| Troy Duster | Professor, current | sociologist |
| Ronald Dworkin | Professor, −2013 | clerked for Judge Learned Hand of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; winner of the 2007 Holberg International Memorial Prize |
| William Easterly | Professor 2003– | economist |
| Robert F. Engle | Professor 1999– | 2003 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
| Niall Ferguson | Professor | author of Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World |
| Zelda Fichandler | Professor, current | National Medal of Arts winner in 1996; inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1999 |
| Hartry Field | Professor, current | philosopher |
| Kit Fine | Professor, current | Silver Professor of Philosophy |
| Joel Fink | Professor, former | Associate Dean of Roosevelt University |
| Erich Fromm | Professor of psychiatry 1962–1974 | German-American psychologist and philosopher |
| Mark L. Gertler | Professor, current | macroeconomist; Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Economics at New York University; Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Carol Gilligan | Professor | known for her work on ethical community and ethical relationships |
| Vivien Goldman | Professor, Clive Davis School of Recorded Music | wrote the first biography of Bob Marley |
| Stephen Jay Gould | Vincent Astor Visiting Professor | known for his development of the evolutionary biology theory of punctuated equilibrium and his scientific writings |
| Percy Grainger | Professor, 1932–1940 | inventor of the Free Music Machine, the forerunner of the synthesizer |
| Rinne Groff | Professor, Tisch School of the Arts | recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award in 2005 for plays |
| Mikhail Gromov | Jay Gould Professor of Mathematics | made major contributions to metric geometry and symplectic geometry |
| David Heeger | Professor, current | neuroscientist; son of Nobel laureate chemist Alan J. Heeger |
| Daniel Webster Hering | Dean | credited with taking the first human x-ray in the United States |
| Avram Hershko | Adjunct Professor 1998– | 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Sidney Hook | Professor, 1927–1972 | philosopher who championed pragmatism |
| Paul Horwich | Professor, current | philosopher, Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Natalie Jeremijenko | Professor, current | photographer, founder of xDesign Environmental Health Clinic |
| Jotham Johnson | Chairman of Classics | archaeologist; former President of Archaeological Institute of America |
| Boyan Jovanovic | Professor, current | economist, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Tony Judt | Professor | director of Erich Maria Remarque Institute; author of Postwar |
| Frances Kamm | Professor | philosopher, winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Eric Kandel | Professor | former faculty member at the New York University Medical School; winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Richard S. Kayne | Professor of Linguistics, current | developed the theory of antisymmetry |
| Elias Khoury | Professor | Lebanese writer and critic |
| Israel Kirzner | Professor emeritus, current | economist, leading proponent of the Austrian School of Economics. |
| Jason King | Professor, artistic director of NYU's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music | writer, pop critic, music manager |
| Galway Kinnell | Professor, 1993 – | 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
| Stewart Krentzman | Instructor | CEO of Oki Data Americas, Inc. |
| Carol Herselle Krinsky | Professor | architectural historian |
| Mattias Kumm | Professor, current | holds a Research Professorship on "Globalization and the Rule of Law" at the Social Science Research Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, WZB) and Humboldt University in Berlin |
| Saul Krugman | Professor | developed first vaccine against hepatitis B |
| Peter Lax | Professor, current | member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences; awarded the National Medal of Science in 1986, the Wolf Prize in 1987 and the Abel Prize in 2005 |
| Joseph E. LeDoux | Professor, current | neuroscientist |
| Spike Lee | Film professor in the Tisch School of the Arts, current | actor, director, producer, social activist |
| Wassily Leontief | Professor, 1975–1999 | 1973 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
| Pierre N. Leval | Professor | Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
| David Levering Lewis | Professor, current | Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History |
| Otto Loewi | Professor 1940–1961 | 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Gary Marcus | Professor, Current Psychology | Robert L. Fantz award, cognitive development |
| Colin McLeod | Professor, 1941–1970 | established that genes are made of DNA |
| Theodor Meron | Professor | President, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia |
| Cheryl Mills | Current Senior Vice President for Operations and Administration | former Deputy Counsel to President Bill Clinton; lead defense attorney in Clinton's 1999 impeachment trial |
| Cathleen Synge Morawetz | Professor, current | mathematician, winner of the National Medal of Science in 1983 and 1988 |
| Samuel F. B. Morse | Professor, 1832–? | inventor of Morse code |
| Brian Morton | Professor, current | academic and novelist |
| Robert S. Mulliken | Professor, 1926–1928 | 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Gunnar Myrdal | Visiting professor | 1974 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
| Thomas Nagel | Professor | scholar, philosophy of mind |
| Marion Nestle | Professor, current | nutritionist |
| Ronald K. Noble | Professor of law | Interpol Secretary General 2000–present |
| Conor Cruise O'Brien | Professor | Irish politician and academic |
| Severo Ochoa | Professor, 1942–1974 | winner of 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Sharon Olds | Professor, current | English creative writing teacher |
| Bertell Ollman | Full professor | |
| Henry Bamford Parkes | Professor | author of Gods and Men, The Origins of Western Culture and A History of Mexico |
| Cyrus Patell | Professor, current | American literature and cultural critic |
| Adam Penenberg | Professor | uncovered the journalistic fraud of The New Republic reporter Stephen Glass |
| F. E. Peters | Professor, 1961– | pioneer in comparative study of Judaism, Christianity and Islam |
| Amir Pnueli | Professor of Computer Science, current | winner of the 1996 Turing Award |
| Martin Pope | Professor Emeritus | physical chemist, winner of the 2006 Davy Medal |
| Neil Postman | 1959–2003 | author of Amusing Ourselves to Death; founder of media ecology program |
| Mary Louise Pratt | Professor, current | Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures |
| Joseph Ransohoff | Professor, 1962–1992 | physician |
| Debraj Ray | Professor, current | economist |
| Richard Revesz | Professor, current | Dean of New York University School of Law |
| Robert Rosenblum | Professor | art historian and curator |
| Kristin Ross | Professor, current | professor of comparative literature, recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship from 1999 to 2000 |
| Ariel Rubinstein | Professor, current | Israeli economist |
| Curt Sachs | Professor, 1937–1953 | co-author of the Sachs–Hornbostel scheme |
| Naomi Sager | Professor, 1965–1995 | pioneer in computational linguistics; Director of the Linguistic String Project |
| Paul A. Samuelson | Visiting professor | winner of 1970 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics |
| Thomas Sargent | Professor | one of the leaders of the rational expectations revolution; Berkeley Professor of Economics and Business |
| Peter Sarnak | Professor, 2001–2005 | mathematician |
| Mary Schmidt | Professor, current | Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| John Scofield | Professor, current | jazz fusion guitarist and composer |
| Richard Sennett | Professor, current | Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Royal Society of Literature; founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities |
| Bob Shrum | Professor | Democratic political consultant |
| Richard Sieburth | Professor, current | translator, essayist and editor |
| Alan Sokal | Professor | known for the Sokal affair |
| John James Stevenson | Professor Emeritus, 1872–1909 | geologist; President of the Geological Society of America in 1898 |
| Darin Strauss | Adjunct Professor, 2000–present | author of Chang & Eng and The Real McCoy; 2005 teaching award winner; 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Marti G. Subrahmanyam | Professor, current | Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business |
| Edward Sullivan | Professor | taught English as a Second Language at New York University for 15 years |
| Henry Philip Tappan | Professor of philosophy | first President of the University of Michigan |
| Allen Tate | Professor, 1948–1951 | author, Ode to the Confederate Dead |
| Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Visiting professor | Kenyan activist |
| Lewis Thomas | Dean, NYU School of Medicine | |
| S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan | Professor, current | mathematician, 2007 winner of the Abel Prize |
| Akshay Venkatesh | Professor, current | mathematician, winner of the 2007 Salem Prize |
| Ludwig von Mises | Professor, 1945–1969 | leader of the Austrian School of economics |
| Lawrence Weschler | Professor, current | Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities |
| Suzanne Weyn | Guest instructor, 1988–1989 | author of over forty novels |
| Thomas Wolfe | | author |
| Lawrence Wright | Professor, current | Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law, author of The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 |
| Robert J. C. Young | Professor, current | postcolonial theorist, writer and historian |
| Ronald W. Zweig | Professor, current | Israeli historian, member of the Historical Advisory Panel to the National Archives in Washington, D.C. |
| Eero P. Simoncelli | Professor, current | Won a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award |
| Meredith Broussard | Assistant Professor, current | Assistant Professor at Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Author of Artificial Unintelligence |
| Itamar Rabinovich | (born 1942), Israeli historian, diplomat and president of Tel Aviv University | |
| Nila Banton Smith | Professor, past | Director of the Reading Institute |
| Barbara Krauthamer | Faculty member, past | Historian |
* Michel Sebastiani, Olympic fencing coach and member of the US Fencing Association Hall of Fame, his NYU women's team won the 1971 National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association championship.

## New York University Presidents

| Name | Relation to NYU | Years |
| James M. Matthews | 1st President | 1831–1839 |
| Theodore Frelinghuysen | 2nd President | 1839–1850, U.S. Senator |
| Isaac Ferris | 3rd President | 1853–1870 |
| Howard Crosby | 4th President | 1870–1881 |
| John Hall | 5th President | 1881–1891 |
| Henry Mitchell MacCracken | 6th President | 1891–1911, developer of the University Heights Campus |
| Elmer Ellsworth Brown | 7th President | 1911–1933 |
| Harry Woodburn Chase | 8th President | 1933–1951 |
| James Loomis Madden | Acting Chancellor | 1951–1952 |
| Henry Townley Heald | 9th President | 1952–1956 |
| Carroll Vincent Newsom | 10th President | 1956–1962 |
| James McNaughton Hester | 11th President | 1962–1975 |
| John C. Sawhill | 12th President | 1975–1980 |
| Ivan Loveridge Bennett | Acting President | 1980–1981 |
| John Brademas | 13th President | 1981–1991, United States House of Representatives |
| L. Jay Oliva | 14th President | 1991–2002 |
| John Sexton | 15th President | 2003–2015 |
| Andrew D. Hamilton | 16th President | 2016–present |

## New York University founders

Founders of NYU include:
* Morgan Lewis (governor)
* Albert Gallatin