List of George Washington University faculty

List of George Washington University faculty
This is a list of notable George Washington University faculty, including both current and past faculty at the Washington, D.C. school, as well as university officials. As of 2007, The George Washington University employs approximately , in addition to part-time, faculty members across its three campuses. Presidents John Quincy Adams and Ulysses Grant served on the board of trustees. Professors have been government officials, leading scientists, and others. Edward Teller, a physicist considered the father of the hydrogen bomb taught at GW. Frank Sesno, a CNN Special Correspondent, currently teaches in that field and, from 2009 to 2020, was the director of the School of Media and Public Affairs. The current President of the University is Ellen Granberg.
Current faculty
Business
Herman Aguinis -- Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Management, and Past President of the Academy of Management
Hossein Askari – professor of international business
Annamaria Lusardi --University Professor of Economics & Accountancy
Stuart Umpleby – professor emeritus in the Department of Management
Sandiaga Uno – Distinguished Research Professor in Residence in the School of Business, Deputy Governor of Jakarta
Cevat Tosun -- Eisenhower Chair and Professor of Tourism Studies and Management
Humanities
Peter Caws – Professor of Philosophy
Seyyed Hossein Nasr – Founder and first president of the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, scholar of comparative religion
Jane Shore – poet
International affairs
Michael Barnett – University Professor
Nathan J. Brown – former director of the Institute for Middle East Studies
Amitai Etzioni – former president of the American Sociological Association
Henry Farrell
Martha Finnemore – leader of the constructivist school of international relations theory
Leon Fuerth – former National Security Adviser to Vice President Al Gore
Edward "Skip" Gnehm – former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait and Australia
Karl Inderfurth – former Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
Marc Lynch – director of the Institute for Middle East Studies
Thomas E. McNamara – former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
Eric Newsom – former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
Scott Pace – director of the Space Policy Institute
Lawrence Wilkerson – former Chief of Staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell
Stephen C. Smith – professor of economics and international affairs
Journalism and public affairs
Dana Perino – former White House Press Secretary in the George W. Bush Administration
Steven V. Roberts – journalist, writer, and commentator
Frank Sesno – CNN correspondent
Law
Clarence Thomas – current Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Thomas Buergenthal – former professor of international and comparative law and jurisprudence, presently the American judge on the International Court of Justice
Steve Charnovitz – professor of law, member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Spencer Overton – professor of law, former U.S. Attorney, top bundler for Barack Obama, member of President-elect Obama's Justice Department Review Team
Jeffrey Rosen – professor of law, legal editor at The New Republic
Jonathan Turley – Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law and frequent guest on news programs
Mathematics
John B. Conway – professor of mathematics
Medicine
William DeVries – first surgeon to perform a successful permanent artificial heart implantation
Richard Restak – clinical professor of neurology
Paul Brindley – Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine
Ferid Murad – University Professor, Nobel Laureate
Vanessa Northington Gamble – University Professor, chaired the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee under then-President Bill Clinton
Political Management
Political Management
• Mark Kennedy – business executive, congressman, presidential appointee, introduced shapeholders to business strategy
Public Policy and Public Administration
Kathryn Newcomer – author and academic
Edward Berkowitz – historian and presidential adviser
Marcus Raskin – social critic and activist
Christopher H. Sterling – media historian
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg – President Emeritus of the George Washington University
Sciences
Dr. Lisa Bowleg - Professor of Applied Social Psychology
Others
Eric H. Cline – professor of archaeology
Anthony Yezer – professor of economics
Past faculty
Moudud Ahmed – former Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Ruth Aaronson Bari – mathematician known for her work in graph theory and homomorphisms
Stephen Biddle – scholar and author on U.S. defense strategy
Chrystelle Trump Bond – former lecturer of dance, choreographer, dance historian, and author
Judith Butler – former professor of philosophy
David Josiah Brewer – former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Letitia Woods Brown – (1971–1976) historian
Robert J. Callahan – current Ambassador to Nicaragua, former SMPA professor
Vikram Chandra – author of Sacred Games and winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize
Nathaniel C. Comfort – former researcher in the Department of History
William J. Crowe – former professor of international affairs, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Thomas J. Dodd Jr. – former adjunct professor, former United States Ambassador to Uruguay and to Costa Rica
Willis Van Devanter – former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
George Gamow (1934–1954) – physicist and cosmologist
Waldemar J. Gallman – former United States Ambassador to Iraq and United States Ambassador to Poland
Gregory G. Garre – law professor, former United States Solicitor General
Alan Grayson – lecturer in Government Contracts Program, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
John Marshall Harlan – former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Howard Lincoln Hodgkins – University president, 1921–1923
Cecil Jacobson – rogue fertility doctor
Edward P. Jones – Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Christopher Kojm – chairman of the National Intelligence Council
William Kovacic – chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, former professor of government contracts law
Albert Freeman Africanus King – professor of obstetrics
S. M. Krishna – current Minister of External Affairs of India
Ken Lay – former assistant professor, former Chairman and CEO of Enron
Joseph LeBaron – former Elliott School faculty, current Ambassador to Qatar, former Ambassador to Mauritania
Blake R. Van Leer – president of Georgia Tech, U.S. Army colonel, inventor, and civil rights advocate
John Logsdon – member of Columbia Accident Investigation Board, NASA Advisory Council
William H. Luers – former visiting lecturer, former Ambassador to Venezuela, to Czechoslovakia
Michelle McMurry-Heath – Immunologist and former CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization
Josiah Meigs – professor of experimental philosophy in the early 19th century
William Matthew Merrick – former congressman from Maryland, former professor of law
Andrew A. Michta
John Miller – former congressman from Washington
Charles Munroe – former chair of the Department of Chemistry, discoverer of the Munroe effect
Stanton J. Peelle – former Congressman from Indiana and chief justice of the United States Court of Claims, former professor of law
Randall R. Rader – former law professor, current federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Walter Reed – Medical School instructor, leading disease researcher and physician
James N. Rosenau – former president of the International Studies Association
Pedro Rossello – professor of global health, former governor of Puerto Rico
Howard Sachar – Jewish historian
Dr. Thomas Sewall – anatomist and founding member of medical department
Lee Sigelman – former editor of the American Political Science Review
Peter Plympton Smith – former Congressman from Vermont, former Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development
John W. Snow – former United States Secretary of the Treasury, former professor of law, as well as graduate
Stephen Solarz – former congressman from New York
William Strong – former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Edward Teller (1935–1941) – nuclear physicist and father of the hydrogen bomb
Vincent du Vigneaud – biochemist who headed the Biochemistry Department at the George Washington University School of Medicine, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955
Lowell P. Weicker Jr. – former U.S. senator from Connecticut and former professor of law
Robert Work – Undersecretary of the Navy
Board of trustees
Josiah Meigs – original member
Return J. Meigs Jr. – former Governor of Ohio, former US Senator, original member
Thomas Sewall – original member and Professor
Luther Rice – original member
Burgiss Allison – Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, original member
Spencer Houghton Cone – Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, original member
Obadiah B. Brown – Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, original member
Amos Kendall – former United States Postmaster General, former President of the Board
John Quincy Adams – former President of the United States, former member
Ulysses S. Grant – former President of the United States, honorary, former member
Alexander Graham Bell – inventor, former member
Ulysses S. Grant III – Major General in the United States Army, grandson of President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant, former university Vice President and Trustee
William Wilson Corcoran – former
Bennett Champ Clark – alumnus, former U.S. Senator, former member
Lewis Strauss – former United States Secretary of Commerce, former member
Phil Graham – former co-owner of The Washington Post, former member
J. Edgar Hoover – alumnus, 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, former member
Margaret Truman – alumna, daughter of United States President Harry Truman, former member
Melville Bell Grosvenor – former president of the National Geographic Society and editor of National Geographic Magazine, former member
Jacob Burns – alumnus, former member
David M. Kennedy – alumnus, former United States Secretary of Treasury, former member
Melvin R. Laird – former United States Secretary of Defense, former member
Sharon Percy Rockefeller – wife of U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller, former member
Eric Holder – Attorney General of the United States, former member
John Warner – former U.S. Senator, former member
Mark Warner – alumnus, U.S. Senator, former member
Daniel Inouye – alumnus, U.S. Senator, former member
Robert H. Smith – former member
Charles Taylor Manatt – alumnus, former Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, former Chairman of the Board
Ted Lerner – alumnus, billionaire developer and owner of the Washington Nationals, former member
Randy Levine – alumnus, President of the New York Yankees, current member
Robert Tanenbaum – owner of the Washington Nationals, current member
Presidents
Notes
External links
Official website
The GW and Foggy Bottom Historical Encyclopedia
Faculty
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