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 
 

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

Members of the National Academy of Engineering

Guggenheim Fellows

MacArthur Fellows

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

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)

Tandon School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic School of Engineering)

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
This is a small selection of Courant's famous faculty over the years and a few of their distinctions:

Stern School of Business

Tisch School of the Arts

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

Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

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

Silver School of Social Work
Notable faculty include:
James Jaccard, Professor of Social Work

NYU Abu Dhabi
Notable faculty include:

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

 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

New York University founders 
Founders of NYU include:
 Morgan Lewis (governor)
 Albert Gallatin

See also

References

Lists of people by university or college in New York City

New York University-related lists