List of University of California, Berkeley faculty

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This page lists notable faculty (past and present) of the University of California, Berkeley. Faculty who were also alumni are listed in bold font, with degree and year in parentheses.

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• Irma Adelman (B.S. 1950, Ph.D. 1955) - Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics in the Graduate School
• Giorgio Agamben - Visiting Chair of Italian Culture (1994), Department of Italian Studies
• Vinod K. Aggarwal - Professor of Political Science and Director of Berkeley APEC Study Center
• George A. Akerlof - Nobel laureate (2001, economics), Professor of Economics
• David Aldous - Professor of Mathematics
• Christopher Alexander - Professor Emeritus of Architecture
• Paul Alivisatos (Ph.D. 1986) - Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Professor of Nanotechnology
• Svetlana Alpers - Professor Emeritus of Art History
• Robert Alter - Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature
• Luis W. Alvarez - Nobel laureate (1968, physics), Professor of Physics
• Walter Alvarez - Professor of Geology
• Bruce Ames - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• William Arveson - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
• Clinton Ballou - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Grigory Barenblatt - Professor of Mathematics
• Brian A. Barsky - Professor of Computer Science and Affiliate Professor of Optometry and Vision Science
• Robert Bellah - Professor Emeritus of Sociology, author of numerous works including Habits of the Heart and The Good Society, recipient of the National Humanities Medal
• Frank Baron - Professor of Civil Engineering
• Reinhard Bendix - Professor of Sociology (1947-1991)
• Lowell Bergman - Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor of Journalism
• Elwyn Berlekamp - Professor of Mathematics
• Robert Berring (J.D., M.L.S. 1974) - Professor of Law
• Carolyn Bertozzi (Ph.D. 1993) - Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, MacArthur Fellow (1999), Howard Hughes Investigator and member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Mark Bevir - Professor of Political Science
• David Blackwell - Professor Emeritus of Statistics
• Manuel Blum - Professor of Computer Science and recipient of the 1995 Turing Award
• Herbert Bolton - Sather Professor and Chair of History, First Director of Bancroft Library
• Richard Borcherds - Fields medalist (1998), Professor of Mathematics
• Daniel Boyarin - Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric
• David Dodge Boyden - Professor Emeritus of Musicology
• Eric Brewer (B.S. 1989) - Professor of Computer Science
• Leo Brewer - Professor of Chemistry; member of the NAS; father of high temperature chemistry and former Associate Director of Berkeley National Lab)
• Charles L. Briggs - Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Folklore
• Wendy Brown - Professor of Political Science
• Michael Buckland - Professor Emeritus at the School of Information
• Michael Burawoy - Professor of Sociology
• Carlos Bustamante (Ph.D. 1981) - Professor of Physics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Chemistry
• Judith Butler - Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature
• Bruce E. Cain - Professor of Political Science
• Melvin Calvin - Nobel laureate (1961, chemistry), University Professor of Chemistry, discovered Calvin Cycle
• Tom Campbell - Professor of Business Administration, former Dean of the Haas School of Business and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• John Canny - Professor of Computer Science
• David Card - Professor of Economics, John Bates Clark Medal winner (1995)
• John E. Casida - Professor of Toxicology and Entomology
• Manuel Castells - Professor of Sociology and City and Regional Planning
• Owen Chamberlain - Nobel laureate (1959, physics), Professor of Physics
• David Chandler - Professor of Chemistry
• George W. Chang (Ph.D 1967) - Associate Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
• Ignacio Chapela - Professor of Microbial Ecology
• Shiing-Shen Chern - leading differential geometer, Professor of Mathematics
• Henry Chesbrough (Ph.D. 1997) - Adjunct Professor of Business Administration
• Alexandre Chorin - Professor of Mathematics
• Steven Chu (Ph.D. 1976) - Nobel laureate (1997, physics), Professor of Physics, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, current Secretary of Energy
• Leon O. Chua - Professor of Electrical Engineering, "father of nonlinear circuit theory", inventor of Chua's circuit, and first to postulate the existence of the solid state memristor
• T.J. Clark - Professor of Art History
• John Clarke - Professor of Physics
• William A. Clemens (B.A. 1954, Ph.D 1960) - Professor Emeritus of Integrative Biology
• David Collier - Professor of Political Science
• Margaret Conkey - Professor of Anthropology
• Robert E. Connick (Ph.D. 1942) - professor of chemistry, dean of college of chemistry, vice-chancellor
• Robert Cooter - Professor of Law
• William Craig - Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
• Frederick Crews - Professor Emeritus of English
• David Culler (B.A. 1980) - Professor of Computer Science
• Garniss Curtis (Ph.D. 1951) - Professor Emeritus of Geology
• Donald Davidson - philosopher, Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy
• Richard Dawkins - visiting assistant professor of Zoology (Animal Behavior), 1970, co-taught course with George S. Barlow
• Terrence Deacon - Professor of Biological Anthropology and Linguistics
• Gerard Debreu - Nobel laureate (1983, economics), Professor of Economics and of Mathematics
• J. Bradford DeLong - Professor of Economics
• Bernard L. Diamond - Professor of Law and Psychiatry
• Andrea diSessa - Professor of Education
• Beshara Doumani - Associate Professor of History
• Hubert Dreyfus - Professor of Philosophy
• Stuart Dreyfus - Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Peter Duesberg - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Robert C. Dynes - Professor of Physics and former President of the University of California system
• Maria Echaveste (J.D. 1980) - Lecturer in Residence, School of Law, and former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton
• Christopher Edley, Jr. - Dean, School of Law
• Aaron Edlin - Professor of Economics, Professor of Law
• Harry Edwards - Professor Emeritus of Sociology
• Barry Eichengreen - Professor of Economics and Political Science
• Hans Albert Einstein - Professor of Hydraulic Engineering (1947 - 1970 [1]), son of Albert Einstein
• Michael Eisen - Associate Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, and Howard Hughes Investigator
• David Eisenbud - Professor of Mathematics and former director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
• Erik Erikson - Professor of Psychology (1942-1950)
• Susan Ervin-Tripp - Professor Emeritus of Psychology
• Daniel A. Farber - Professor of Law and Director, Environmental Law Program
• Richard Fateman - Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
• Richard Feachem - Professor of Global Health
• Carlos Fernandez-Pello - Professor of Mechanical Engineering and research scientist in combustion.
• Paul Feyerabend - Professor of Philosophy
• Alex Filippenko - Professor of Astronomy
• Claude Fischer - Professor of Sociology
• Stanley Fish - Professor of English (1962-1974)
• Claude S. Fischer - Professor of Sociology
• Thomas Flanagan - Professor of English, author of The Year of the French, winner of 1979 National Critics Circle Award for fiction.
• Graham R. Fleming - Melvin Calvin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry (1997-present)
• William A. Fletcher - Professor Emeritus of Law and judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Andreas Floer - Professor of Mathematics (1988-1990), developed Floer homology
• Michel Foucault - Visiting Professor of French (early 1980s)
• Jean Fréchet - Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and current Henry Rapoport Chair of Organic Chemistry
• David Freedman - Professor of Statistics
• Walter J. Freeman - Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology
• Ashok Gadgil (M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1979) - Adjunct Professor, Energy and Resources Group
• Catherine Gallagher (B.A. 1972, M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1979) - Eggers Professor of English
• William Garrison - Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Clifford Geertz - Assistant Professor of Anthropology (1958-60), now Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.
• William F. Giauque (B.S. 1920, Ph.D. 1922) - Nobel laureate (1949, Chemistry)
• Alexander Givental - Professor of Mathematics
• Donald A. Glaser - Nobel laureate (1950, physics), Professor of Molecular Biology and of Physics
• Erving Goffman - Professor of Sociology (1958-1968)
• Ken Goldberg - Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Gerson Goldhaber - Professor Emeritus of Physics
• Alison Gopnik - Professor of Psychology
• Susan L. Graham - Professor of Computer Science
• Stephen Greenblatt - Professor of English (1969-1997)
• Erich S. Gruen - Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics
• Thom Gunn - Senior Lecturer, MacArthur Fellow (1993)
• Mark Haiman - Professor of Mathematics
• Leo Harrington - Professor of Mathematics
• Angela P. Harris - Professor of Law
• Eva Harris (Ph.D. 1993) - Professor of Infectious Disease
• Jenny Harrison - Professor of Mathematics
• John C. Harsanyi - Nobel laureate (1994, economics)
• George L. Hart - Professor of Tamil Studies
• Peter D. Hart - Visiting Lecturer of Political Science
• Robin Hartshorne - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
• Robert Hass - U.S. Poet Laureate, National Book Award Winner, Professor of English
• Tyrone Hayes (Ph.D. 1993) - Professor of Integrative Biology
• Martin Head-Gordon - Professor of Chemistry
• Clayton Heathcock - Professor of Chemistry
• Carl E. Heiles - Professor of Astronomy
• Joseph M. Hellerstein - Professor of Computer Science
• Frances Hellman - Professor of Physics
• Ira Michael Heyman - Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, and Professor Emeritus of Law
• Darleane C. Hoffman - Professor of Chemistry
• David Hollinger (M.A. 1965, Ph.D. 1970) - Professor of American History
• Larry Hyman - Professor of Linguistics
• Sharon Inkelas - Professor of Linguistics
• J. D. Jackson - Professor Emeritus of Physics
• Allan Jacobs - Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning and Urban Design
• Martin Jay - Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History
• Raymond Jeanloz - Professor of Astronomy, Professor of Earth and Planetary Science
• Arthur Jensen (B.A. 1945) - Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology
• Phillip E. Johnson - Professor Emeritus of Law, considered the father of the intelligent design movement
• Vaughan Jones - Fields medalist (1990), Professor of Mathematics
• Michael I. Jordan - Professor of Computer Science, highly-publicized academic in artificial intelligence.
• Ken Jowitt - Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Robson Professor of Political Science
• Theodore Kaczynski - the Unabomber, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
• William Kahan - Professor of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, primary architect behind the IEEE 754 standard for floating-point computation, and recipient of the 1989 Turing Award
• Paul Kalas - Assistant Adjunct Professor of Astronomy
• Richard Karp - Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Operations Research, and recipient of the 1985 Turing Award
• Karl Kasten (B.A. 1938, M.A. 1939) - Professor Emeritus, Art Practice
• Randy Katz (M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1980) - Professor of Computer Science
• Paul Kay - Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
• Jay Keasling - Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
• Evelyn Fox Keller - Professor of Rhetoric, History, and Women's Studies (1988-1992)
• Hans Kelsen - Professor of Law, one of the preeminent jurists of the 20th century
• Dacher Keltner - Professor of Psychology
• Joseph Kerman - Professor Emeritus of Music
• Clark Kerr (Ph.D. 1939) - Professor of Industrial Relations, Chancellor (1952-58), UC President (1958-67)
• Sung-Hou Kim - Professor of Chemistry
• Nicole King - Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, and MacArthur Fellow (2005)
• Maxine Hong Kingston (B.A. 1962) - author (Woman Warrior), Senior Lecturer
• Robion Kirby - Professor of Mathematics
• Patrick Vinton Kirch - Professor of Anthropology
• James Kirchner (Ph.D. 1990) - Professor of Earth and Planetary Science
• David L. Kirp - Professor of Public Policy
• Charles Kittel - Professor Emeritus of Physics
• Richard Klein - Adjunct Professor of Astronomy
• Shoshichi Kobayashi - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
• Adrienne Koch - Professor of History
• Alfred Kroeber - Professor of Anthropology and father of Ursula LeGuin
• Thomas Kuhn - Professor of the Philosophy and History of Science (1956-1964)
• John Kuriyan - Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• George Lakoff - Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science
• Robin Lakoff - Professor of Linguistics
• Jean Lave - Professor Emerita of Education and Geography
• Ernest O. Lawrence - Nobel laureate (1939, physics)
• Yuan T. Lee (Ph.D. 1962) - Nobel laureate (1986, Chemistry), Professor of Chemistry, Principal Investigator, Materials and Molecular Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
• Hendrik Lenstra - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
• G.N. Lewis - Dean of the College of Chemistry, professor of physical chemistry
• Willard Libby (B.S. 1931, Ph.D. 1933) - Professor of Chemistry, Nobel laureate (1960, Chemistry)
• John Lie - Professor of Sociology
• T. Y. Lin (M.S. 1933) - Professor of Civil Engineering, bridgebuilder
• David R. Lindberg - Professor of Integrative Biology
• John Lindow - Professor of Scandinavian
• Jere H. Lipps - Professor of Integrative Biology
• Leon F. Litwack (B.A. 1951, Ph.D. 1958) - Pulitzer Prize (Been in the Storm So Long [1980]), Morrison Professor of American History
• Michel Loève - Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
• Ron Loewinsohn - Professor Emeritus of English
• A. A. Long - Professor of Classics and Professor of Literature
• Leo Lowenthal - Member of the Frankfurt School for Social Research, along with Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno; Professor of Sociology (1956-1992)
• Kristin Luker (B.A. 1968) - Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology
• Richard Lyons (B.S. 1982) - Professor of Business Administration and Dean of the Haas School of Business
• Daniel L. McFadden - Nobel laureate (2000, economics)
• Edwin M. McMillan - Nobel laureate (1951, chemistry), Professor of Physics, and former Director of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
• John McNamara - Lecturer, Art Practice
• Saba Mahmood - Associate Professor of Social Cultural Anthropology
• Yakov Malkiel - Professor of Spanish and Professor of Linguistics, 1943–1983; founded journal Romance Philology
• Michael Manga - Professor of Earth and Planetary Science
• Geoffrey Marcy - Professor of Astronomy, has discovered many extrasolar planets
• John Levi Martin (M.A. 1990, Ph.D. 1997) - Professor of Sociology
• James Matisoff (Ph.D 1967) - Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, expert in the Tibeto-Burman languages
• Maria Mavroudi - Professor of History
• Bernard Maybeck - drawing instructor (1894), Professor of Architecture (1898-1903)
• Anastasios Melis - Professor of Enzymology
• David Messerschmitt - Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering
• Barbara J. Meyer - Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development and Howard Hughes Investigator
• Walter Benn Michaels - Professor of English (1977-1987)
• D. A. Miller - John F. Hotchkis Professor of English
• William H. Miller - Professor of Chemistry
• Czesław Miłosz - Nobel laureate (1980, literature), Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Emeritus
• Trinh T. Minh-ha - Professor of Rhetoric and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies
• James T. Monroe - Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies
• Roger Montgomery - Dean, College of Environmental Design, Professor of Urban Design, Architecture, and City and Regional Planning (1967-1996)
• Davitt Moroney (Ph.D. 1980) - Professor of Music
• Charles B. Morrey, Jr. - Professor of Mathematics, department chair 1949-1954
• David C. Mowery - Professor of Business Administration
• Bharati Mukherjee - Professor of English
• Richard A. Muller - Professor of Physics, MacArthur Fellow (1982)
• Laura Nader - Professor of Anthropology, pioneer of Legal Anthropology, older sister of Ralph Nader
• Evelyn Nakano Glenn (B.A. 1962) - Professor of Ethnic Studies, and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies
• Anthony Newcomb - Professor Emeritus of Music
• Johanna Nichols (Ph.D 1973) - Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
• Eva Nogales - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Howard Hughes Investigator
• John T. Noonan, Jr. - Professor Emeritus of Law and Senior Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• John H. Northrop - Nobel laureate (1946, chemistry)
• Peter Norvig (Ph.D. 1985) - former research faculty member, the other co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
• Geoffrey Nunberg - Professor, School of Information
• Geoffrey G. O'Brien - Assistant Professor of English
• James F. O'Brien - Associate Professor of Computer Science
• Maurice Obstfeld - Professor of Economics
• John Ohala - Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
• Martha Olney (M.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1985) - Adjunct Professor of Economics
• Michael Omi - Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies
• Robert Oppenheimer - Professor of Physics, scientific head of the Manhattan Project, "father of the atomic bomb"
• John K. Ousterhout - Professor of Computer Science and creator of the Tcl programming language and the Tk platform-independent widget toolkit
• Kevin Padian - Professor of Integrative Biology and President of the National Center for Science Education
• Christos Papadimitriou - Professor of Computer Science. Also a member of Lady X and the Positive Eigenvalues.
• Andreas Papandreou - Professor and Chair of Economics, Prime Minister of Greece
• David A. Patterson - Professor of Computer Science, pioneer of RISC computer design and RAID storage systems.
• Vern Paxson (M.S., Ph.D. 1997) - Associate Professor of Computer Science
• Donald Pederson - Professor of Electrical Engineering, creator of SPICE, the canonical integrated circuit simulator.
• Saul Perlmutter (Ph.D. 1986) - Professor of Physics
• Alexander Pines - Professor of Chemistry
• Kristofer Pister (M.S. 1989, Ph.D. 1992) - Professor of Electrical Engineering
• Kenneth Pitzer (Ph.D. 1937) - Dean of the College of Chemistry (1951-60), Professor of Chemistry, President of Rice University and Stanford University
• Michael Pollan - Knight Professor of Journalism
• Malcolm Potts - Professor of Public Health
• P. Buford Price - Professor of Physics in the Graduate School
• Matthew Rabin - Professor of Economics, MacArthur Fellow (2000) and John Bates Clark Medal winner (2001)
• Paul Rabinow - Professor of Anthropology
• Marina Ratner - Professor of Mathematics
• Gordon Rausser - Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Kenneth Raymond - Professor of Chemistry
• Robert Reich - Professor of Public Policy and former U.S. Secretary of Labor
• Jeffrey Reimer - Professor of Chemical Engineering
• Paul Renne (B.A. 1982, Ph.D 1987) - Director of the Berkeley Geochronology Center and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Planetary Science
• Nicolai Reshetikhin - Professor of Mathematics
• Nicholas V. Riasanovsky - Professor Emeritus of History
• Ken Ribet - Professor of Mathematics, contributor to the proof of Fermat's last theorem
• Jasper Rine - Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development
• Gérard Roland - Professor of Economics
• Christina Romer - Professor of Economics, future chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers under Barack Obama
• David Romer - Professor of Political Economy
• Mario Rosati (J.D. 1971) - Adjunct Professor of Business Administration
• Eleanor Rosch - Professor of Psychology
• Josiah Royce - Professor of Composition and Literature
• Gerald M. Rubin - Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Developmenet, Howard Hughes Investigator, and Director of HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus
• Mark Rubinstein - Paul Stephens Professor of Applied Investment Analysis, co-developer of the binomial tree method of options valuation
• Stuart J. Russell - Professor of Computer Science, co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
• Rainer K. Sachs - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
• Pamela Samuelson - Professor of Law, Professor of Information Management and Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
• Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli - Professor of Electrical Engineering
• Vincent Sarich (M.S., Ph.D.) - Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
• Shankar S. Sastry (M.S. 1979, M.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1981) - Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Mechanical Engineering and Dean of the College of Engineering
• AnnaLee Saxenian (M.C.P. 1980) - Professor, School of Information, and Professor of City and Regional Planning
• Richard J. Saykally - Professor of Chemistry
• Howard Schachman - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Randy Schekman - Professor of Cell and Development Biology and Howard Hughes Investigator
• Nancy Scheper-Hughes (B.A. 1970, Ph.D. 1976) - Professor of Anthropology
• Dan Schnur - Lecturer of Political Science
• Julian Schwinger - theoretical physicist, National Research fellow
• Dana Scott (B.S. 1954) - computer scientist, recipient of the 1976 Turing Award, Associate Professor of Math
• Peter Dale Scott - Professor Emeritus of English
• Glenn T. Seaborg (Ph.D. 1937) - Nobel laureate (1951, Chemistry), University Professor of Chemistry, Associate Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Chancellor, Berkeley campus (1958-1961)
• John Searle - Professor of Philosophy
• Emilio G. Segrè - Nobel laureate (1959, physics), Professor of Physics, Emeritus
• Philip Selznick - Professor Emeritus of Law and Sociology
• Carlo H. Sequin - Professor of Computer Science
• James Sethian (Ph.D. 1982) - Professor of Mathematics
• Carl Shapiro (M.A. 1977) - Professor of Business Administration
• Scott Shenker - Professor of Computer Science
• Jonathan Shewchuk - Associate Professor of Computer Science
• Jack Silver (Ph.D. 1966) - Professor of Mathematics
• Kaja Silverman - Class of 1940 Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric
• Brett Simon (Ph.D. 2003) - Professor of Film Studies
• Jonathan Simon (B.A. 1981, J.D. 1987, Ph.D. 1990) - Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, School of Law
• Jerome Herbert Skolnick - Professor Emeritus of Law
• Theodore Slaman - Professor of Mathematics
• Yuri Slezkine - Professor of History
• Dan Slobin - Professor Emeritus of Psychology
• Hans Sluga - Professor of Philosophy
• Stephen Smale - Fields Medalist (1966), Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
• Neil Smelser - Professor Emeritus of Sociology
• Alan Jay Smith - Professor of Computer Science
• George F. Smoot - Nobel laureate (2006, Physics)
• Wendell M. Stanley - Nobel laureate (1946, chemistry)
• Gabor A. Somorjai (Ph.D. 1960) - Professor of Chemistry
• Wayne Sousa - Professor of Integrative Biology
• John R. Steel (Ph.D. 1977) - Professor of Mathematics, set theorist
• David Stronach - Professor of Near Eastern Studies
• Barry Stroud - Professor of Philosophy
• Bernd Sturmfels - Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
• Eve Sweetser (Ph.D. 1984) - Professor of Linguistics
• Eleanor Swift - Professor of Law
• Ronald Takaki (Ph.D. 1967) - Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies
• Richard Taruskin - Professor of Music
• David Teece - Professor of Business Administration
• Edward Teller - Professor of Physics, "father of the hydrogen bomb"
• Philip E. Tetlock - Professor of Organizational Behavior, Haas School of Business
• Barrie Thorne - Professor of Sociology and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies
• Chang-Lin Tien - University Professor (UC system), NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Chancellor of Berkeley campus (1990-1997)
• Paul Tiffany (Ph.D. 1983) - Senior Lecturer, Haas School of Business
• Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. - Professor of Chemistry
• Robert Tjian (B.A. 1971) - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, President of HHMI (beginning 2009)
• Claire J. Tomlin (Ph.D. 1998) - Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and MacArthur Fellow (2006)
• Charles H. Townes - Nobel laureate (1964, physics), University Professor of Physics
• Luca Trevisan - Associate Professor of Computer Science
• Ruth Tringham - Professor of Anthropology
• Elliot Turiel - Professor of Education
• Laura D'Andrea Tyson - Professor of Economics, Professor of Business Administration, former Dean of the Haas School of Business and former chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers
• Sim Van der Ryn - Professor Emeritus of Architecture
• Derek Van Rheenen (B.A. 1986, M.A. 1993, Ph.D. 1997) - Director of the Athletic Study Center; has taught courses in American Studies and the School of Education
• James W. Valentine - Professor Emeritus of Integrative Biology
• Hal Varian (M.A., Ph.D. 1973) - Professor of Economics, Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Information Management and Systems, and Chief Economist at Google
• Umesh Vazirani (Ph.D. 1986) - Professor of Computer Science
• David Vogel - Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Political Science
• Dan-Virgil Voiculescu - Professor of Mathematics
• Paul Vojta - Professor of Mathematics
• Kim Voss - Professor of Sociology and current Chair of Sociology
• Loïc Wacquant - Professor of Sociology
• David Wagner (M.S. 1999, Ph.D. 2000) - Associate Professor of Computer Science, well-known researcher in cryptography.
• Frederic Wakeman, Jr. (Ph.D. 1965) - Haas Professor of Asian Studies, Professor of History, President Emeritus of the American Historical Association
• R. Jay Wallace - Professor of Philosophy
• Michael J. Watts - Professor of Geography and Development Studies
• Steven Weber - Professor of Political Science
• Alan Weinstein (Ph.D. 1967) - Professor of Mathematics
• Tim White - Professor of Integrative Biology
• Bernard Williams - Professor of Philosophy
• Linda Williams (B.A. 1969) - Professor of Film Studies
• Oliver E. Williamson - Professor Emeritus of Business, Economics, and Law
• Olly Wilson - Professor Emeritus of Music
• W. Hugh Woodin - Professor of Mathematics, set theorist
• Charles W. Woodworth - (1891-1930) Founder of the UCB Division of Entomology, PBESA gives the C. W. Woodworth Award
• Eli Yablonovitch - Professor of Electrical Engineering
• Janet Yellen - Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and former chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers
• Ahmet Yildiz - Assistant Professor of Physics and Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• John Yoo - Professor of Law, contributor to the PATRIOT Act
• Lotfi A. Zadeh - Professor of Computer Science, "Father of Fuzzy Logic 1965," IEEE Pioneer Award in Fuzzy Systems 2000, IEEE Medal of Honor, 1995
• Alex Zettl (B.A. 1978) - Professor of Physics
• Bruno Zumino - Professor of Physics in the Graduate School
• John Zysman - Professor of Political Science

See also

• List of Nobel laureates associated with University of California, Berkeley
• List of University of California, Berkeley alumni