# List of University of Wisconsin–Madison people in academics

This University of Wisconsin–Madison people in academics consists of notable people who graduated or attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
* Soedradjad Djiwandono, professor of international economics, Nanyang Technological University
* Julia Adams (sociologist), professor, Yale University
* Robert Adair, professor emeritus of physics, Yale University
* David Adamany, former president of Temple University
* Colin Adams, professor of mathematics, Williams College
* Paul C. Adams, associate professor of geography, University of Texas-Austin
* Julius Adler
* Madeleine Wing Adler, former president, West Chester University
* Sarita Adve, professor of computer science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
* Michael A'Hearn, astronomer
* Julie Ahringer, senior research fellow, Gurdon Institute, Cambridge University
* Anastasia Ailamaki, professor of computer science, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
* Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, professor emerita of physics, University of Pennsylvania; taught at Haverford College
* Robert A. Alberty, professor emeritus of chemistry, MIT
* Daniel Aldrich, founding chancellor, University of California, Irvine
* F. King Alexander, president of California State University, Long Beach
* Gar Alperovitz, author, economist, historian, and former fellow at Cambridge University
* Michael Amiridis, president of the University of South Carolina
* Sanford Soverhill Atwood, scientist, provost of Cornell University, president of Emory University
* Alice Ambrose, former professor of philosophy, Smith College
* Stephen E. Ambrose, author and historian
* Marc A. Anderson, environmental chemist
* Arthur Irving Andrews, former professor of diplomacy, Charles University in Prague
* Thomas G. Andrews, historian
* Nancy Armstrong, professor of English, Duke University
* Marilyn Arnold, professor emeritus of English, Brigham Young University
* Richard Arratia, professor of mathematics, University of Southern California
* Michael Aschbacher, professor of mathematics, California Institute of Technology
* Peter J. Aschenbrenner, historian, Purdue University
* David Audretsch, professor of economics, Indiana University
* Nina Auerbach, professor of comparative literature, University of Pennsylvania
* John D. Axtell, former professor of agronomy, Purdue University
* Oliver Edwin Baker, geographer
* Tania A. Baker, professor of biochemistry, MIT
* Ira Baldwin, bacteriologist
* Clinton Ballou, professor emeritus of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley
* David P. Barash, professor of psychology, University of Washington
* Thomas P.M. Barnett, military and security strategist, former professor at the Naval War College
* Michael Barnsley, professor of mathematics, Australian National University
* Henry H. Barschall, physicist
* Florence Bascom, geologist at Bryn Mawr College
* Carolyn Baylies, former reader in sociology, University of Leeds
* Charles L. Beach, president of the University of Connecticut
* Jesse Beams, former professor of physics, University of Virginia
* Carl L. Becker, former professor of history, Cornell University
* David T. Beito, author and historian
* Richard Bellman, mathematician and inventor of dynamic programming
* Frank Bencriscutto, former professor of music, University of Minnesota
* Ernst Benda, former professor of law, University of Freiburg
* William H. Bennett, professor of agronomy, Utah State University
* Ira Berlin, distinguished university professor, University of Maryland
* Bruce C. Berndt, professor of mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
* William T. Bielby, former professor of sociology, University of Pennsylvania
* Ray Allen Billington, former professor of history, Oxford University and Northwestern University
* Thomas Binford, professor emeritus of computer science, Stanford University
* Robert Byron Bird, chemical engineer
* Kenneth O. Bjork, former professor of history, Saint Olaf College
* David W. Blight, professor of history, Yale University; taught at Amherst College
* Leonard Bloomfield, former professor of linguistics, Yale University
* Herbert Eugene Bolton, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and University of California, Berkeley
* George Boyer, professor of economics, Cornell University
* Carol Breckenridge, anthropologist
* Patricia Flatley Brennan, professor of engineering
* Arthur Louis Breslich, president of German Wallace College and Baldwin-Wallace College
* Ernest J. Briskey, dean of agricultural science, Oregon State University
* David H. Bromwich, professor of geography, Ohio State University
* Morton Brown, professor emeritus of Mathematics, University of Michigan
* Norman O. Brown, scholar of Classics
* Christopher Browning, professor of history, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
* Robert X. Browning, associate professor of political science, Purdue University
* Mari Jo Buhle, professor emerita of history, Brown University
* Paul Buhle, activist and lecturer, Brown University
* R. Carlyle Buley, former professor of history, Indiana University
* Mary Bunting, former president, Radcliffe College
* Robert H. Burris, biochemist
* Frederick H. Buttel, former professor of sociology
* Lester J. Cappon, historian, documentary editor, and archivist for Colonial Williamsburg
* Claudia Card, Emma Goldman (WARF) Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
* Margery C. Carlson (M.S. 1920, Ph.D. 1925), professor of botany, Northwestern University
* John Casida, professor of entomology, University of California, Berkeley
* Carlos Castillo-Chavez, professor of mathematical biology, Arizona State University
* Edward Castronova, professor of telecommunications, Indiana University
* Kwang-Chu Chao, chemical engineer at Purdue University
* Arthur B. Chapman, geneticist
* Peter Charanis, former professor of history, Rutgers University
* Vivek Chibber, sociologist, New York University
* Edith Clarke, former professor of electrical engineering, University of Texas-Austin
* W. Wallace Cleland, biochemist
* John H. Coatsworth, provost, Columbia University
* Alan Code, professor of philosophy, Stanford University
* Stephen P. Cohen, senior fellow, Brookings Institution
* Betsy Colquitt, professor of literature and creative writing, Texas Christian University
* Timothy E. Cook, former professor of political science at Williams College and Louisiana State University
* Vincent Cooke, S.J., (Ph.D. philosophy 1971), academic administrator, president of Canisius College (1993–2010)
* Arthur C. Cope, former professor of chemistry, MIT
* Brian Coppola, professor of chemistry, University of Michigan
* Giovanni Costigan, former professor of history, University of Washington
* May Louise Cowles, home economics instructor and lecturer
* Richard H. Cracroft, professor of English, Brigham Young University
* Joanne V. Creighton, interim president, Haverford College; former president, Mount Holyoke College
* Kimberlé Crenshaw, professor of law at Columbia University and UCLA
* Tim Cresswell, professor of geography, University of London
* William Cronon (1976), environmental historian
* Harold Marion Crothers, professor of electrical engineering, South Dakota State University
* Chicita F. Culberson, senior research scientist in Biology, Duke University
* Chris Cuomo, former professor of ethics, University of Cincinnati
* Richard N. Current, historian
* John T. Curtis, botanist
* Edward Cussler, professor of chemical engineering, University of Minnesota
* Thomas Daniel, professor of biology, University of Washington
* Stephen Daniels, professor of cultural geography, University of Nottingham
* Richard Danner, professor of law, Duke University
* Kelvin Davies, professor of gerontology, University of Southern California
* W. R. Davies, president (1941–1959), University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
* James A. Davis, sociologist
* Kenneth S. Davis, historian
* Dick de Jongh, professor emeritus of Logic and Mathematics, University of Amsterdam
* Brady J. Deaton, chancellor, University of Missouri
* Steven John DeKrey, professor and academic administrator
* Peter Dervan, professor of chemistry, California Institute of Technology
* Matthew Desmond, professor of sociology, Princeton University
* Frans Dieleman, former professor of geography, Utrecht University
* John Louis DiGaetani, professor of English, Hofstra University
* Hasia Diner, historian
* Robert Disque, president, Drexel Institute of Technology
* Carl Djerassi, professor of chemistry, Stanford University
* John Dollard, former professor of psychology, Yale University
* J. Kevin Dorsey, dean, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
* Eliza T. Dresang (PhD, 1981), professor and researcher in literacy, library and information sciences, media and technology
* Lee A. DuBridge, former president, California Institute of Technology
* Wendell E. Dunn, president of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
* Nancy Dye, former president, Oberlin College
* William G. Dyer, dean, Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University
* Anne Haas Dyson 1972 College of Education – professor and researcher in literacy
* Olin J. Eggen, astronomer
* Marc Egnal, professor of history, York University
* Jean Bethke Elshtain, professor of divinity and philosophy, University of Chicago
* Conrad Elvehjem, former president, University of Wisconsin-Madison
* Michael Engh, president of Santa Clara University
* David Estlund, Lombardo Family Professor of the Humanities, Brown University
* John Eyler, professor emeritus of history, University of Minnesota
* John K. Fairbank, former professor of history, Harvard University
* Etta Zuber Falconer, professor of mathematics, Norfolk State University and Spelman College
* Joseph Felsenstein, professor of biology, University of Washington
* Peter Edgerly Firchow, professor emeritus of English, University of Minnesota
* Erica Flapan, professor of mathematics, Pomona College
* Robben Wright Fleming, former president, University of Michigan
* Neil Fligstein, professor of sociology, University of California, Berkeley
* George T. Flom, former professor of Scandinavian languages, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
* Karl Folkers, biochemist
* Michael J. Franklin, professor of computer science, University of California, Berkeley
* Shane Frederick, associate professor of management, Yale University
* Daniel Z. Freedman, professor of physics, MIT
* Joseph S. Freedman, professor of education at Alabama State University
* Frank Freidel, former professor of history at Harvard University and the University of Washington
* Linda P. Fried, dean of public health, Columbia University
* Joseph G. Fucilla, former professor of Romantic languages, Northwestern University
* D.R. Fulkerson, former professor of mathematics, Cornell University
* Ellen V. Futter, former president of Barnard College
* William A. Gahl, geneticist, NIH
* John Gallagher III, astronomer
* Fernando García Roel, rector, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
* Lloyd Gardner, historian of U.S. foreign relations
* Johannes Gehrke, professor of computer science, Cornell University
* Judy Genshaft, president of University of South Florida
* Mark Gertler, professor of economics, New York University
* Paul Gertler, professor of economics and business, University of California, Berkeley
* Arnold Gesell, former professor of psychology, Yale University
* Reza Ghadiri, professor of chemistry, Scripps Research Institute
* Jacquelyn Gill, assistant professor of climate science, University of Maine
* Donna Ginther, professor of economics, University of Kansas
* G. N. Glasoe, former professor of physics, Columbia University; associate director, Brookhaven National Laboratory
* George Glauberman, professor of mathematics, University of Chicago
* Helen Iglauer Glueck, director of the Coagulation Laboratory, University of Cincinnati
* Harvey Goldberg, activist and historian
* Gerson Goldhaber, professor emeritus of physics, University of California, Berkeley; researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
* Brison D. Gooch, historian
* Ann Dexter Gordon, historian, editor of The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project at Rutgers University
* Myron J. Gordon, professor emeritus of Finance, University of Toronto
* Richard K. Green, professor of business, University of Southern California
* William Greene, professor of economics, New York University
* Michael Gribskov, professor of biological sciences, Purdue University
* Paul J. Griffiths, professor of theology, Duke University
* Erik Gronseth, former professor of sociology, University of Oslo
* David L. Gross, professor of history at University of Colorado at Boulder
* James A. Gross, labor historian at Cornell University
* Jennifer Guglielmo, associate professor of history and women's studies, Smith College
* Ernst Guillemin, electrical engineer and computer scientist, MIT, recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor
* Ramón A. Gutiérrez, professor of history, University of Chicago
* Herbert Gutman, professor of history, City University of New York
* Jeffrey K. Hadden, former professor of sociology, University of Virginia
* Usha Haley, former professor of international business, University of New Haven
* Joseph M. Hall, Jr., professor of American history, Bates College
* Helena Hamerow, professor of medieval archaeology, Oxford University
* Gordon Hammes, professor emeritus of Biochemistry, Duke University
* Jo Handelsman, professor of biology and medicine, Yale University
* Pat Hanrahan, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, Stanford University
* Alvin Hansen, former professor of economics, Harvard University; presidential advisor
* John W. Harbaugh, professor of geological and environmental sciences, Stanford University
* Cole Harris, geographer; professor at the University of Toronto
* Daniel Hartl, professor of biology, Harvard University
* Arthur D. Hasler, ecologist and zoologist
* Darren Hawkins, professor of political science, Brigham Young University
* James Edwin Hawley, professor of mineralogy, Queen's University; namesake of Hawleyite
* Patrick J. Hearden, professor of history, Purdue University
* Margaret Hedstrom, professor of information, University of Michigan
* D. Mark Hegsted, former professor of nutrition at Harvard University
* Walter Heller, former professor of economics, University of Minnesota; chair, Council of Economic Advisors
* Joseph M. Hellerstein, professor of computer science, University of California, Berkeley
* Frederick Hemke, professor of saxophone, Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University
* Ralph D. Hetzel, former president, Pennsylvania State University
* Howard Hibbard, former professor of Italian Baroque art, Columbia University
* Elfrieda "Freddy" Hiebert, literacy advocate
* Ammon Hillman, fringe classicist
* Thomas Hines, professor emeritus, UCLA
* Ralph Hirschmann, former professor of chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
* Ho Ping-sung, former historian at Peking University and Beijing Normal University
* Michael A. Hoffman, professor of earth sciences and resources, University of South Carolina
* LaVahn Hoh, professor of drama, University of Virginia
* Karen Holbrook, former president, Ohio State University
* Charles H. Holbrow, physicist, Charles A. Dana Professor of physics, emeritus, Colgate University
* Lori L. Holt, associate professor of psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
* Olga Holtz, associate professor of mathematics, University of California, Berkeley; professor of applied mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin
* Renate Holub, philosopher and interdisciplinary theorist, University of California, Berkeley
* Robert C. Holub, current chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2008–present)
* Vasant Honavar, professor in biomedical data sciences and artificial intelligence, Pennsylvania State University
* Earnest Hooton, former professor of anthropology, Harvard University
* Calvin B. Hoover, former professor of economics, Duke University
* William O. Hotchkiss, president of Michigan Technological University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
* Mark Huddleston, president, University of New Hampshire
* Clark L. Hull, psychologist of motivation at Yale University
* William Hunter, statistician
* William Edwards Huntington, president of Boston University
* Lloyd Hustvedt, former professor of Norwegian, Saint Olaf College
* Jacquelyne Jackson, sociologist and academic
* William Jaco, professor of mathematics, Oklahoma State University-Stillwater
* Russell Jacoby, professor of history, UCLA
* James Alton James, former professor of history, Northwestern University
* Henry Jenkins, professor of communication arts, University of Southern California
* Merrill Jensen, historian
* Carleton B. Joeckel, former librarian
* Peter Johnsen, vice president for academic affairs, Bradley University
* Emory Richard Johnson, former dean of business, University of Pennsylvania
* Michael D. Johnson, dean of hotel administration, Cornell University
* Charles O. Jones, former professor of political science, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Virginia and former president, American Political Science Association
* Jacqueline Jones, professor of history, University of Texas-Austin
* Kenneth Judd, senior fellow, Hoover Institution
* Ellsworth Kalas, president of Asbury Theological Seminary
* Vytautas Kavolis, sociologist
* Homayoon Kazerooni, professor of mechanical engineering, University of California, Berkeley
* Edmond Keller, professor of political science, UCLA
* George L. Kelling, professor of social welfare, Rutgers University
* Ben Kerkvliet, professor of political science, Australian National University
* Corey Keyes, sociologist at Emory University
* Margaret Keyes, former professor of home economics, University of Iowa
* Spencer L. Kimball, former dean of law, University of Wisconsin-Madison; former professor of law, University of Chicago and University of Michigan
* Robin Wall Kimmerer, professor of environmental of forest biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
* Gary King, professor of government, Harvard University; taught at New York University and Oxford University
* Nicole King, assistant professor of genetics, genomics, and development; University of California, Berkeley
* Ronold W. P. King, former professor of physics, Harvard University
* Willford I. King, former professor of economics, New York University
* John W. Kingdon, professor emeritus of political science, University of Michigan
* David Kinley, former president, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
* Grayson L. Kirk, former president, Columbia University
* Charles Kittel, former professor of physics, University of California, Berkeley
* Anne C. Klein, professor of religious studies, Rice University
* William J. Klish, professor of pediatrics, gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition; Baylor College of Medicine
* J. Martin Klotsche, first chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
* Clyde Kluckhohn, former professor of anthropology, Harvard University
* Anne Kelly Knowles, professor of geography, Middlebury College
* Kenneth Koedinger, professor of psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
* Henry Koffler, former vice president, University of Minnesota
* Gabriel Kolko, historian
* Arnold Krammer, historian, retired from Texas A&M University
* Thomas R. Kratochwill, psychologist
* Konrad Bates Krauskopf, former professor of geology, Stanford University
* James E. Krier, professor of law, University of Michigan; taught at Harvard University, Oxford University, Stanford University, and UCLA
* Leo Kristjanson, president, University of Saskatchewan
* Lawrence Kritzman, professor of French, Dartmouth College
* Anne O. Krueger, professor of economics, Johns Hopkins University; taught at Stanford University
* Harold J. Kushner, professor emeritus of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
* Philip Kutzko, professor of mathematics, University of Iowa
* Walter LaFeber, historian of U.S. foreign relations at Cornell University
* Max G. Lagally, engineer and professor
* James A. Lake, professor of biology and genetics, UCLA
* Janja Lalich, professor of sociology, California State University, Chico
* Henry A. Lardy, biochemist
* Edward Larson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history
* Mark Lautens, professor of chemistry, University of Toronto
* Traugott Lawler, professor of English, Yale University
* Michael Ledeen, security strategist at American Enterprise Institute and Foundation for Defense of Democracies
* Winfred P. Lehmann, former professor of German, University of Texas-Austin
* Charles Kenneth Leith, geologist
* John Leonora, professor of physiology and pharmacology, Loma Linda University
* A. Carl Leopold, graduate dean, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
* A. Starker Leopold, son of Aldo Leopold; former professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley
* Luna Leopold, son of Aldo Leopold; former professor of geology, University of California, Berkeley
* Herb Levi, former professor of biology, Harvard University
* Jingjing Liang, 2005 PhD in philosophy; forest ecologist at Purdue University
* Robert Lieber, professor, department of government and school of foreign service, Georgetown University
* Gene Likens, ecologist
* Mary Ann Lila, former professor of nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
* Bernard J. Liska, food scientist at Purdue University
* Timothy P. Lodge, professor of chemistry, University of Minnesota
* Timothy M. Lohman, professor of medicine, Washington University School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis
* Roberto Sabatino Lopez, former professor of history at Yale University
* Max O. Lorenz, economist and statistician
* Daryl B. Lund, former dean of agricultural and life sciences, Cornell University
* George A. Lundberg, sociologist at the University of Washington
* Karl Mahlburg, mathematician
* Tak Wah Mak, professor of biophysics and immunology, University of Toronto
* Howard Malmstadt, professor emeritus of chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
* Daniel R. Mandelker, professor of law, Washington University School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis
* James G. March, professor emeritus of psychology, Stanford University
* Carolyn "Biddy" Martin, president, Amherst College
* Abraham Maslow (PhD 1934), groundbreaking humanist psychologist, "hierarchy of needs;" former professor at Brandeis University
* Max Mason, former president, University of Chicago
* Thomas Mathiesen, professor emeritus of Sociology, University of Oslo
* Lola J. May, mathematics educator
* Thomas J. McCormick, scholar of international relations
* Thomas K. McCraw, professor emeritus of business, Harvard University
* Daniel Merfeld, professor of Otolaryngology at The Ohio State University
* Frederick Merk, former professor of government and history, Harvard University
* Alan G. Merten, president of George Mason University
* Gerald Meyer, professor of chemistry, Johns Hopkins University
* James Henry Meyer, chancellor of the University of California, Davis from 1969-1987
* Joseph C. Miller, professor of history, University of Virginia
* Renée J. Miller, professor of computer science, University of Toronto
* C. Wright Mills, sociologist and professor at Columbia University
* Lawrence Mishel, president, Economic Policy Institute
* Olivia S. Mitchell, professor of economics, University of Pennsylvania
* Jason Mittell, professor of American studies and film, Middlebury College
* Pornchai Mongkhonvanit, president of Siam University, president emeritus of International Association of University Presidents
* Florence M. Montgomery, art historian
* Stephen S. Morse, professor of epidemiology, Columbia University
* Clark A. Murdock, senior adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies
* John E. Murdoch, former historian and philosopher of science, Harvard University
* John Murray, Jr., chancellor and professor of law, Duquesne University
* Daniel J. Myers, professor of sociology, University of Notre Dame
* Mark Myers, geologist
* Jeffrey Naughton, computer scientist
* Richard Nelson, cultural anthropologist
* Maurice F. Neufeld, professor emeritus, Cornell University
* David Newbury, professor of African studies, Smith College
* Barbara W. Newell, former president, Wellesley College
* Carl Niemann, former professor of biochemistry, California Institute of Technology
* David W. Noble, professor of American studies, University of Minnesota
* Mark Nordenberg, chancellor, University of Pittsburgh
* Olaf M. Norlie, former dean, Hartwick College
* Gerald North, climatologist
* Sarah Nusser, statistician and vice president for research, Iowa State University
* Russel B. Nye, former professor of English, Michigan State University
* Alton Ochsner, UW medical professor and cancer researcher; co-founded the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans
* Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, anthropologist
* Bertell Ollman, professor of politics, New York University
* Scott E. Page, professor of economics, University of Michigan
* Thomas Palaima, professor of classics, University of Texas-Austin
* Ann C. Palmenberg, biochemist
* Dr. Tim Palmer, professor of French and Japanese film studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
* Bernhard Palsson, professor of bioengineering, University of California, San Diego
* John Parascandola, medical historian
* Gil-Sung Park, Korean sociologist
* W. Robert Parks, former president, Iowa State University
* Michael Quinn Patton, former professor of sociology, University of Minnesota
* Rhea Paul, Founding chair of department of communication disorders at Sacred Heart University
* John Allen Paulos, professor of mathematics, Temple University; author of books about the consequences of mathematical illiteracy
* John Vernon Pavlik, professor of journalism, Rutgers University
* Donald E. Pearson, former professor of chemistry, Vanderbilt University
* Joseph A. Pechman, former senior fellow, Brookings Institution; former president, American Economic Association
* John Pemberton, associate professor of anthropology, Columbia University
* Selig Perlman, economist and labor historian
* August Herman Pfund, former professor of physics, Johns Hopkins University
* Anna Augusta Von Helmholtz-Phelan, assistant professor emeritus of English, University of Minnesota
* Andrew C. Porter, former president, AERA; former professor, Vanderbilt University; dean of education, University of Pennsylvania
* Warren P. Porter; biophysical ecologist, environmental toxicologist, and an academic
* Alejandro Portes, professor of sociology, Princeton University
* Philip S Portoghese, professor of medicinal chemistry, University of Minnesota
* Catherine Prendergast, professor of English at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
* L. Fletcher Prouty, former professor of air force science and tactics, Yale University
* Benjamin Arthur Quarles, historian
* Matthew Rabin, professor of economics, University of California, Berkeley
* Marian Radke-Yarrow, psychologist, National Institute of Mental Health
* Ronald Radosh, activist and historian
* Douglas W. Rae, professor of political science, Yale University; author of Equalities
* Jim Ranchino, late professor of political science, Ouachita Baptist University
* John Rapp, professor of political science, Beloit College
* George Rawick, historian
* Joan Redwing, professor of materials science and engineering and electrical engineering, Pennsylvania State University
* Robert A. Rees, former professor of English, UCLA
* Thomas Reh, professor of biology, University of Washington
* J. Wayne Reitz, professor of agricultural economics; fifth president of the University of Florida (1955-1967)
* Frank J. Remington, former professor of law, University of Wisconsin-Madison
* Justin Rhodes, professor of psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
* Lori Ringhand, professor of law, University of Georgia School of Law at University of Georgia
* Walter Ristow, librarian
* Temario Rivera, professor of political science, International Christian University
* Anita Roberts, former biochemist, National Cancer Institute
* Arthur H. Robinson, geographer
* Stuart Rojstaczer, former professor of geophysics, Duke University
* Gerhard Krohn Rollefson, former professor of chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
* Ediberto Roman, professor of law, Florida International University College of Law and Florida International University
* Jia Rongqing, professor of mathematics, University of Alberta
* Charles E. Rosenberg, historian of science at Harvard University
* Milton J. Rosenberg, professor emeritus of psychology, University of Chicago
* Nathan Rosenberg, professor emeritus of economics, Stanford University; taught at Cambridge University
* George C. Royal, microbiologist
* Lee Albert Rubel, former professor of mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
* David S. Ruder, former dean of law, Northwestern University
* Mary P. Ryan, professor of history, Johns Hopkins University and professor emerita of history, University of California, Berkeley
* Joseph F. Rychlak, professor of humanistic psychology, Loyola University Chicago
* Herbert J. Ryser, former professor of mathematics, California Institute of Technology and Ohio State University
* Yuriko Saito, professor of philosophy, Rhode Island School of Design
* Theodore Saloutos, former professor of history, UCLA
* Warren Samuels, economist
* Austin Sarat, professor of political science, Amherst College
* Richard J. Saykally, professor of chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
* George Schaller, biologist and conservationist
* Richard Scheller, former professor of biochemistry, Stanford University
* Steven Schier, professor of political science, Carleton College
* Patrick Schloss, psychologist, author, researcher, and former president of Northern State University and Valdosta State University
* Bernadotte Everly Schmitt, former president, American Historical Association; former professor of history, University of Chicago
* Mark Schorer, former professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
* Joan Wallach Scott, professor of history, Institute for Advanced Study
* Michael L. Scott, professor of computer science, University of Rochester
* John Searle, professor of philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
* Robert Serber, former professor of physics, Columbia University; scientist on the Manhattan Project
* Ione Genevieve Shadduck (1923-2022), educator, women's rights activist, and attorney
* Jim G. Shaffer, professor of anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
* Cosma Shalizi, assistant professor of statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
* Steven Shapin, historian of science, Harvard University
* Ira Sharkansky, professor emeritus of political science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
* Lauriston Sharp, former professor of anthropology, Cornell University
* Spencer Shaw, former professor of library science, University of Washington
* Jerome Lee Shneidman, former professor of history at Adelphi University, specialist in psychohistory
* Victor Shoup, professor of mathematics, New York University
* Mona L. Siegel, professor of history, California State University, Sacramento
* Daniel L. Simmons, professor of chemistry and director of the Cancer Research Center, Brigham Young University
* Brooks D. Simpson, professor of history, Arizona State University
* Louis B. Slichter, former professor of geophysics, MIT and UCLA
* Sumner Slichter, former professor of economics, Harvard University
* Ronald Smelser, former professor of history (University of Utah), Holocaust educator and author of The Myth of the Eastern Front
* William Cunningham Smith, literature scholar
* David R. Soll, professor of biology, University of Iowa
* Robert Soucy, professor emeritus of history, Oberlin College
* Roy Spencer, principal research scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville
* Clint Sprott, physicist
* Janet Staiger, professor of communication, University of Texas-Austin
* George Stambolian, former professor of French, Wellesley College
* Kenneth M. Stampp, former professor of history, University of California, Berkeley; taught at Harvard University, Oxford University, University of London, and University of Munich
* Leon C. Standifer, professor of horticulture, Louisiana State University
* Michael Starbird, professor of mathematics, University of Texas-Austin
* Stephen C. Stearns, professor of biology, Yale University
* Harry Steenbock, biochemist and Vitamin D researcher
* George Steinmetz (academic), professor of sociology, University of Michigan
* Christopher H. Sterling, professor of media and public affairs, George Washington University
* C. Eugene Steuerle, Institute Fellow, Urban Institute
* Robert Stickgold, associate professor of psychiatry, Harvard University
* Philip Stieg, professor and chairman of neurosurgery at Weill Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Medical Center
* Gilbert Stork, professor emeritus of chemistry at Columbia University
* Murray A. Straus, sociologist and professor University of New Hampshire, creator of the Conflict tactics scale
* Jon Strauss, former president of Harvey Mudd College
* Robert P. Strauss, professor of economics and public policy, Carnegie Mellon University
* Philip Taft, former professor of economics at Brown University
* Sol Tax, former professor of anthropology, University of Chicago
* Henry Charles Taylor, former professor of economics at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
* Lily Ross Taylor, former professor of classics, University of California, Berkeley and Institute for Advanced Study
* Paul Schuster Taylor, former professor of economics, University of California, Berkeley
* Larry Temkin, professor of philosophy, Princeton University (starting in 2011)
* Albert M. Ten Eyck, agriculturist and agronomist
* Earle M. Terry, physicist
* Victor A. Tiedjens, agricultural scientist at Rutgers University
* Virginia Tilley, chief research specialist, Human sciences Research Council (South Africa)
* Ignacio Tinoco, Jr., professor of chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
* Steve Tittle, associate professor of composition and theory, Dalhousie University
* Andrew P. Torrence (M.A. 1951; Ph.D. 1954), president of Tennessee State University (1968-1974); executive vice president and provost of Tuskegee University (1974-1980).
* Sidney Dean Townley, former professor of astronomy, Stanford University
* Paul M. Treichel, chemist
* Glenn Thomas Trewartha, geographer
* Susan Traverso, president of Thiel College, former provost of Elizabethtown College
* Konrad Tuchscherer, associate professor of history and director of Africana studies at St. John's University
* David Tulloch, associate professor of landscape architecture, Rutgers University
* Melvin Tumin, former professor of sociology, Princeton University
* Frederick Jackson Turner (1884, MA 1888), historian and professor, Pulitzer Prize winner
* Joseph Tussman, former professor of philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
* Michael Uebel, professor, author
* Ruth Hill Useem, former professor of sociology, Michigan State University
* Edwin Vedejs, former professor of chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Michigan
* Victor Vacquier, former professor of geophysics, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
* Bonita H. Valien, PhD, former professor of sociology at Fisk University, author of books about school desegregation.
* Preston Valien, PhD, former professor of sociology at Fisk University and Brooklyn College; cultural attache in Nigeria.
* Robert van de Geijn, professor of computer science, University of Texas-Austin
* Andrew H. Van de Ven, professor of organizational innovation, University of Minnesota
* Charles Van Hise, former president, University of Wisconsin-Madison
* Martha Vicinus, professor of women's studies, University of Michigan
* Julia Grace Wales, former professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison; taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of London
* Cody Walker, lecturer in English, University of Michigan
* John Charles Walker, plant pathologist
* Hubert Stanley Wall, former mathematician at Northwestern University and the University of Texas-Austin
* Martin Walt, professor of electrical engineering, Stanford University
* David Der-wei Wang, professor of East Asian languages, Harvard University
* David Ward, former president, American Council on Education
* Arthur Waskow, former resident fellow, Institute for Policy Studies
* John Watrous, associate professor of computer science, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo
* Oliver Patterson Watts, chemical engineer
* John Carrier Weaver, former professor of geography; former vice president for academic affairs, Ohio State University; former president, University of Wisconsin System
* Warren Weaver, mathematician, Rockefeller Institute
* Lee-Jen Wei, professor of biostatistics, Harvard University
* I. Bernard Weinstein, former professor of medicine, Columbia University
* Herman B Wells, former president, Indiana University
* Norman Wengert, political scientist and professor
* Peter Wenz, professor of philosophy, University of Illinois at Springfield
* Mark Wessel, former dean, Carnegie Mellon University
* Wyatt C. Whitley, professor of chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology
* John Wilce, former professor of medicine, Ohio State University
* John D. Wiley, former chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
* Dallas Willard, former professor of philosophy, University of Southern California
* T. Harry Williams, historian
* William Appleman Williams, historian of U.S. foreign relations
* Greg Williamson, lecturer in English, Johns Hopkins University
* Linda S. Wilson, president emerita, Radcliffe College; former vice president, University of Michigan
* Christopher Winship, professor of sociology, Harvard University
* Edward Witten, professor of physics, Institute for Advanced Study
* Lawrence S. Wittner, professor of history, University at Albany, SUNY
* Julian Wolpert, professor emeritus of geography, public affairs, and urban planning, Princeton University
* David Woodward, geographer
* Joseph Wong, vice president, international at University of Toronto
* James Wright, 16th president of Dartmouth College
* Yang Guanghua, Chinese engineer
* Y. Lawrence Yao, professor of mechanical engineering, Columbia University
* Stephen Yenser, professor of English, UCLA
* John Milton Yinger, professor emeritus of Sociology at Oberlin College
* Allyn Abbott Young, former professor of economics, Harvard University and the University of London
* Brigitte Young, professor emerita of political science, University of Münster
* Hugh Edwin Young, former chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison; former president, University of Wisconsin System
* Nicholas S. Zeppos, chancellor of Vanderbilt University
* Valdis Zeps, former linguist
* Zheng Xiaocang, Chinese academic administrator
* Maung Zarni, Burmese educator, academic, and human rights activist noted for his opposition to the violence in Rakhine State and Rohingya genocide
* Andrew Zimbalist, professor of economics, Smith College
* Norton Zinder, professor of microbiology, Rockefeller University
* Jane Zuengler, professor of English; linguist