page_title: List of University of Illinois at Chicago people
section_title: Notable faculty
hierarchical_section_title: List of University of Illinois at Chicago people / Notable faculty
caption_attribution_description: English: Bill Ayers speaks to audience members following a forum on education reform at Florida State University (January 12th, 2009)
context_page_description: This is a list of people associated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States.
  Note that for earlier alumni, validating attendance is difficult. Before the creation of the Circle Campus, UIC was a two-year institution at Navy Pier. After two years, students continued at the Urbana-Champaign campus. During this period, the Chicago campus was not seen as distinct; thus, records about the first two years of a student's attendance often said nothing about whether those years were completed at Navy Pier. Consequently, some of the below alumni are credited in official biographies as graduating from the "University of Illinois." The alumni listed below for the Navy Pier period are those confirmed to have attended the Navy Pier campus.
context_section_description: Bill Ayers, retired Professor of Education; 1960s-era political activist; former member of the domestic terrorism organization Weather Underground; author of a number of books on the teaching profession; active in progressive campaigns for school reform
  Daniel J. Bernstein, professor, Department of Computer Science; author of qmail and djbdns; multiple NSF grant winner and Sloan Foundation fellow; distinguished for his work in the fields of cryptography and computer security
  William T. Bielby, sociologist, Professor of Sociology at UIC, President of the American Sociological Association from 2002–2003
  Jerry Bona, mathematician, professor at UIC math department
  Robert Bruegmann, professor of art history; specialist on the Chicago school of architecture; best known for his research on the architectural firm of Holabird & Root; commentator on urban sprawl
  Juan Carlos Campuzano, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Argonne Distinguished Fellow
  Ananda Chakrabarty, Distinguished professor of microbiology; created the oil-eating bacterium used during the Gulf War; special adviser to the US government and United Nations
  Marc Culler, mathematician working in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology; known for work on the cyclic surgery theorem, Culler–Vogtmann Outer space, and the A-polynomial of a knot
  John D'Emilio, professor, department of gender and women's studies, department of history; leading scholar of gay and lesbian history;  D'Emilio's work was cited by Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy in his 2003 majority opinion when the court struck down a Texas law that criminalized sodomy
  Luisa DiPietro, Ph.D. and D.D.S. (UIC), Professor of Periodontics at the UIC College of Dentistry, director of the Center for Wound Repair and Tissue Regeneration
  Peter Doran, Ph.D, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences who specializes in polar regions, especially Antarctic climate and ecosystems; lead author of a research paper about Antarctic temperatures published in the journal Nature in January 2002
  Roberta M. Feldman, professor emerita (Architecture)
  Stanley Fish, Dean Emeritus of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; has published many articles and books; renowned scholar on Milton; a sometimes controversial figure in academia
  Gerald Graff, professor, department of English; respected literary critic, particularly on the subject of pedagogy
  Stedman Graham, specializes in the field of Management; public speaker on leadership and motivation; owner of successful consulting company; significant other of Oprah Winfrey
  Paul J. Griffiths, Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Catholic Studies and Chair, department of classics and Mediterranean studies; a leading scholar in the fields of religious and Catholic studies, with specialization in Augustine, Buddhist thought, and religious diversity
  Peter Bacon Hales, former Chair and professor of Art History, photographer, and musician; specializes in the study of American spaces and landscapes, the history of photography, and contemporary art
  Robert Hess (1938-1994), President of Brooklyn College
  Hannah Higgins, professor of Art History; wrote the definitive history of the Fluxus movement, and author of The Grid Book, an interdisciplinary history of the grid's influence on Western culture
  Doug Ischar, Associate Professor Of Photography known for his fine art addressing stereotypes of masculinity and male behavior
  Louis Kauffman, professor of mathematics; known for the introduction and development of the bracket polynomial and Kauffman polynomial in knot theory; founding editor and a managing editor of the Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications, and editor of the World Scientific Book Series On Knots and Everything; writes the "Virtual Logic" column for the journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing; president of the American Society for Cybernetics (2007); 1993 recipient of the Warren McCulloch award of the American Society for Cybernetics
  Jim Knoedel, Head Men's and Women's Cross Country and Track Coach
  Tymoteusz Karpowicz, Polish poet and playwright who served as Professor of Polish
caption: Bill Ayers
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