# List of University of California, Santa Barbara faculty

This article lists notable faculty (past and present) of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

## Nobel laureates
### Current faculty

* David Gross, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2004
* Alan Heeger, Nobel Prize recipient, Chemistry, 2000
* Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize recipient, Chemistry, 1998
* Herbert Kroemer, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2000
* Finn Kydland, Nobel Prize recipient, Economics, 2004
* Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2014

### Former faculty

* Edward C. Prescott, Nobel Prize recipient, Economics, 2004
* John Robert Schrieffer, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 1972
* Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2004

## Pulitzer Prize

* Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize for History recipient, 2013
* N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction recipient, 1969
* Jeffrey C. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction recipient, 2019

## Anthropology

* James F. Brooks, historian, Native Americans
* Napoleon Chagnon, pioneer of biologically based interpretation of human reproductive and aggressive behavior
* Brian Fagan
* Garrett Hardin, Professor of Human Ecology from 1963 until his (nominal) retirement in 1978; most known for his papers "The Tragedy of the Commons" and "Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor"
* Stuart Tyson Smith, best known for his reconstruction of the ancient Egyptian language for the films Stargate and The Mummy
* John Tooby, pioneer of evolutionary psychology

## Art

* Ann Bermingham, art historian
* Henri Dorra, art historian
* Kip Fulbeck
* Gary Hugh Brown, Professor Emeritus of Art at UCSB (1966-2006)

## Botany

* Katherine Esau

## Chemical engineering

* Jacob Israelachvili

## Chemistry and biochemistry

* Thomas C. Bruice, coined the term "bio-organic chemistry", member of National Academy of Science
* Craig Hawker
* Bruce H. Lipshutz, professor, made significant contributions to copper catalyzed organic reactions
* Ralph G. Pearson, Emeritus, coined the concepts of "hard" and "soft" for acids and bases
* Galen D. Stucky, early researcher in the field of materials chemistry

## Chicano studies

* Luis Leal
* Horacio Roque Ramírez

## Computer science

* Tao Yang

## Counseling, clinical, and school psychology

* Shane R. Jimerson, 2003 co-recipient of the Lightner Witmer Award from the American Psychological Association; noted for his work in school psychology and traumatic stress
* Tania Israel expert in LGBTQ intervention research and dialogue across political disagreement

## East Asian languages and cultural studies

* John Nathan

## Ecology, evolution, and marine biology

* Benjamin Halpern – marine biologist, ecologist, and 2016 A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences winner
* William W. Murdoch, population ecologist known for his research in population regulation and predator-prey relationships

## Electrical and computer engineering

* Lawrence Rabiner
* Petar V. Kokotovic

## English

* Hugh Kenner, literary critic
* Shirley Geok-lin Lim, poet and literary scholar
* Marvin Mudrick, literary scholar

## Feminist studies

* Leila Rupp
* Jacqueline Bobo
* Tania Israel expert in LGBTQ intervention research and dialogue across political disagreement

## Film and media studies

* Dick Hebdige

## Geography

* Reginald Golledge, pioneer in behavioral geography
* Michael Frank Goodchild, most known for work on GIS, or computer mapping
* David Lopez-Carr
* Waldo R. Tobler, known for his first law of geography

## Geology

* Tanya Atwater, instrumental in the development of the theory of plate tectonics
* Stanley Awramik
* Richard Virgil Fisher, volcanologist
* George R Tilton, pioneer in the measurement and application of isotopes to geology

## Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic studies

* Laurence Rickels

## Global and international studies

* Alison Brysk, Mellichamp Chair in Global Governance
* Mark Juergensmeyer
* Paul Orfalea, founder of the copy-chain Kinko's

## History

* James F. Brooks, Professor of History and Anthropology, Native American history
* Alexander DeConde, Professor Emeritus of History, US diplomatic history
* Dimitrije Đorđević, late Professor of History, Modern Balkan History
* Mary O. Furner, Professor of History, 20th century US
* Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Professor of History, Russian and Soviet history
* C. Warren Hollister, late Professor of History, Medieval Europe
* Immanuel C. Y. Hsu, late Professor of Chinese history
* Wilbur Jacobs, late Professor of History, Native American and Frontier History
* Nelson Lichtenstein, Professor of History, US Labor
* Albert Lindemann, Professor Emeritus of History, Modern European history
* Harold Marcuse, Associate Professor, Modern European history
* Joachim Remak, late Professor of History, Modern European History
* W. Patrick McCray, Professor of History, History of Science
* David Rock, Professor Emeritus of History, Latin American history
* Jeffrey Burton Russell, Professor Emeritus of History, Medieval European history
* Paul Spickard, Professor of History, 20th-century US, world, and ethnic history
* Jeffrey C. Stewart an American Professor of Black Studies

## Linguistics

* Mary Bucholtz
* Wallace Chafe
* Bernard Comrie
* Stefan Th. Gries
* Marianne Mithun
* Sandra A. Thompson

## Materials

* Arthur Gossard
* Shuji Nakamura

## Mathematics

* Michael G. Crandall, winner of the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research
* Glen Culler, early innovator in the development of the interactive computing and ARPAnet
* Yitang Zhang

## Mechanical engineering

* Henry T. Yang, Chancellor

## Media arts and technology

* Curtis Roads

## Molecular and cellular biology

* Jamey Marth, molecular and cellular biologist, Director of the Center for Nanomedicine, professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

## Music

* Julia Banzi, Ph.D. Ethnomusicology, member of the Al-Andalus Ensemble, expert on Andalusian music and women's ensembles of the Arab world
* John Dearman, Grammy Award-winning classical guitarist, member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ), Director of Guitar Studies
* Alejandro Planchart, Emeritus, professor of musicology, expert on Guillaume Dufay

## Philosophy

* C. Anthony Anderson
* Nathan Salmon

## Physics

* David Awschalom, best known for his work in spintronics in semiconductors
* James Hartle, together with Stephen Hawking, proposed the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction of the universe, a specific solution to the Wheeler-deWitt equation meant to explain the initial conditions of the Big Bang cosmology
* James S. Langer
* Joseph Polchinski

## Political science

* M. Kent Jennings, one of the founding fathers of political socialization research and theory.
* Benjamin Cohen, leading scholar in the field of international political economy
* Leah Stokes, political scientist specializing in environmental policy

## Psychological and brain sciences

* Daphne Bugental, psychologist known for her research on parent-child relationships, infant and child maltreatment, and family violence
* Leda Cosmides, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology
* Michael Gazzaniga, pioneer of cognitive neuroscience

## Religious studies

* Walter Capps
* J. Gordon Melton
* Birger A. Pearson
* Ann Taves

## Sociology

* Donald Cressey
* John Foran
* Ralph Larkin
* William I. Robinson
* France Winddance Twine
* Howard Winant