List of University of California, Berkeley faculty

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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Nobel laureates

Faculty of the University of California, Berkeley Steven Chu, Nobel laureate and United States Secretary of Energy George Akerlof, Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez, Nobel laureate Owen Chamberlain, Nobel laureate Gérard Debreu, Nobel laureate Donald A. Glaser, Nobel laureate Ernest Lawrence, Nobel laureate Yuan T. Lee, Nobel laureate Daniel McFadden, Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter, Nobel laureate Glenn T. Seaborg, Nobel laureate Emilio G. Segrè, Nobel laureate George F. Smoot, Nobel laureate Oliver E. Williamson, Nobel laureate Richard Karp, Turing Award laureate Dana Scott, Turing Award laureate Richard Borcherds, recipient of the Fields Medal Michael Freedman, recipient of the Fields Medal Vaughan Jones, recipient of the Fields Medal Andrei Okounkov (right), recipient of the Fields Medal J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb Lotfi Zadeh, father of "fuzzy logic"

• George A. Akerlof - Professor of Economics Nobel laureate (2001, economics) for the "analyses of markets with asymmetric information" ^[1]
• Luis W. Alvarez - Professor of Physics, Nobel laureate (1968, physics) "for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis" ^[2]
• Melvin Calvin -University Professor of Chemistry, discovered Calvin Cycle; Nobel laureate (1961, chemistry), "for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants" ^[3]
• Owen Chamberlain - Professor of Physics; Nobel laureate (1959, physics) for the "discovery of the antiproton" ^[4]
• Steven Chu (Ph.D. 1976) - Professor of Physics, Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, current Secretary of Energy; Nobel laureate (1997, physics), "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"^[5]
• Gérard Debreu -, Professor of Economics and of Mathematics; Nobel laureate (1983, economics) "for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium" ^[6]
• John C. Harsanyi - Nobel laureate (1994, economics) for "pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games" ^[7]
• Donald A. Glaser -Professor of Molecular Biology and of Physics Nobel laureate (1950, physics) "for the invention of the bubble chamber"^[8]
• William F. Giauque (B.S. 1920, Ph.D. 1922) - Nobel laureate (1949, Chemistry) "for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures".^[9]
• Ernest O. Lawrence - Nobel laureate (1939, physics) "for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements"^[10]
• Yuan T. Lee (Ph.D. 1962) - Professor of Chemistry, Principal Investigator, Materials and Molecular Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; Nobel laureate (1986, Chemistry) for "contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes" ^[11]
• Willard Libby (B.S. 1931, Ph.D. 1933) - Professor of Chemistry, Nobel laureate (1960, Chemistry) "for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science" ^[12]
• Daniel L. McFadden - Nobel laureate (2000, economics) "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice" ^[13]
• Edwin M. McMillan -Professor of Physics, and former Director of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; Nobel laureate (1951, chemistry) for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements"^[14]
• Czesław Miłosz - Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Emeritus; Nobel laureate (1980, literature) "who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts"^[15]
• John H. Northrop - Nobel laureate (1946, chemistry) for "preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form" ^[16]
• Saul Perlmutter, Ph.D. 1986 - Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley; co-discoverer of Dark Energy as head of the Supernova Cosmology Project; recipient of the Shaw Prize in Astronomy in 2006; Nobel laureate (2011, Physics) ^[17] "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"
• Glenn T. Seaborg (Ph.D. 1937) - University Professor of Chemistry, Associate Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Chancellor, Berkeley campus (1958–1961); Nobel laureate (1951, Chemistry) for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements" ^[14]
• Emilio G. Segrè - Professor of Physics, Emeritus; Nobel laureate (1959, physics) for the "discovery of the antiproton" ^[4]
• George F. Smoot - Nobel laureate (2006, Physics) for the "discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"^[18]
• Wendell M. Stanley - Nobel laureate (1946, chemistry) for the "preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form" ^[16]
• Charles H. Townes - University Professor of Physics; Nobel laureate (1964, physics) "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle"^[19]
• Oliver E. Williamson - professor at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business (1988 to present); Nobel laureate (2009, Economics), for work in economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm" ^[20]

Turing Award

• Manuel Blum - Professor of Computer Science and recipient of the 1995 Turing Award, for "his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking."
• Stephen Cook - Professor of mathematics (1966–1970), recipient of the 1982 Turing Award "for his advancement of our understanding of the complexity of computation in a significant and profound way"
• 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, for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis. Kahan has dedicated himself to "making the world safe for numerical computations."
• Richard Karp - Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Operations Research, and recipient of the 1985 Turing Award For "his continuing contributions to the theory of algorithms including the development of efficient algorithms for network flow and other combinatorial optimization problems, the identification of polynomial-time computability with the intuitive notion of algorithmic efficiency, and, most notably, contributions to the theory of NP-completeness. Karp introduced the now standard methodology for proving problems to be NP-complete which has led to the identification of many theoretical and practical problems as being computationally difficult. "
• Dana Scott, B.S. 1954 - computer scientist, co-recipient of the 1976 Turing Award with Michael O. Rabin, for "the joint paper (with Rabin) "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem", which introduced the idea of nondeterministic machines, which has proved to be an enormously valuable concept. Their (Scott & Rabin) classic paper has been a continuous source of inspiration for subsequent work in this field"; former Associate Professor of Math at UC Berkeley, professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University
• Herbert A. Simon (director 1939–1942 ^[21][22]), co-recipient of the 1975 Turing Award ^[23] for "basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing", and Nobel laureate (1978, Economics)^[23] "for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations"
• Robert Tarjan - computer scientist, professor at UC Berkeley ^[24] (1973–1975), recipient of the 1986 Turing Award "for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures"

Fields Medal

• Richard Borcherds - Fields medalist (1998), Professor of Mathematics
• Michael Freedman, mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal in 1986.
• Vaughan Jones - Fields medalist (1990), Professor of Mathematics
• Curtis T. McMullen - Fields medalist (1990), Professor of Mathematics
• Andrei Okounkov - Fields Medalist (2006), Assistant Professor of Mathematics
• Stephen Smale - Fields Medalist (1966), Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Pulitzer Prize

• Ben Bagdikian, dean emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
• Robert Hass, professor of English, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• Leon Litwack (BA.^[25] 1951, PhD 1958 ), professor emeritus of history, Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery.^[26]
• Richard Ofshe, professor emeritus of sociology whose work won the Pulitzer Prize for public service

Wolf Prize

• Paul Alivisatos (Ph.D. 1986) - Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Professor of Nanotechnology; recipient of the 2012 Wolf Prize in Chemistry,^[27] for the development of "the colloidal inorganic nanocrystal as a building block of nanoscience making fundamental contributions to controlling the synthesis of these particles, to measuring and understanding their physical properties, and to utilizing their unique properties for applications ranging from light generation and harvesting to biological imaging." ^[28]
• John Casida - recipient of the Wolf Prize (1993, Agriculture) "for his pioneering studies on the mode of action of insecticides, design of safer pesticides and contributions to the understanding of nerve and muscle function in insects."^[29]
• Shiing-Shen Chern - recipient of the Wolf Prize (1983, Mathematics), "'for outstanding contributions to global differential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics"^[30]
• Phillip Griffiths (professor 1962-1967) - mathematician, recipient of the Wolf Prize (1986, Mathematics), "for his work on variations of Hodge structure; the theory of periods of abelian integrals; and for his contributions to complex differential geometry.";^[31] former professor at UC Berkeley ^[32]
• Erwin Hahn - recipient of the Wolf Prize (1983/1984, Physics) "for his discovery of nuclear spin echoes and for the phenomenon of self-induced transparency"^[33]
• Carl Huffaker - recipient of the Wolf Prize (1994/1995) for " contributions to the development and implementation of environmentally beneficial integrated pest management systems for the protection of agricultural crops."^[29]
• Alexander Pines - recipient of the Wolf Prize (Chemistry, 1991), "for his revolutionary contributions to NMR spectroscopy, especially multiple-quantum and high-spin NMR.""^[34]
• Stephen Smale - recipient of the Wolf Prize (2007, Mathematics)"for his groundbreaking contributions that have played a fundamental role in shaping differential topology, dynamical systems, mathematical economics, and other subjects in mathematics."^[30]
• Gabor Somorjai - recipient of the Wolf Prize (Chemistry, 1998) for "outstanding contributions to the field of the surface science in general, and for ... elucidation of fundamental mechanisms of heterogeneous catalytic reactions at single crystal surfaces in particular."^[34]
• Roger Y. Tsien - (also listed in Nobel laureates); recipient of the Wolf Prize (Medicine, 2004) "for his seminal contribution to the design and biological application of novel fluorescent and photolabile molecules to analyze and perturb cell signal transduction."^[35]

Agriculture

• Irma Adelman (B.S. 1950, Ph.D. 1955) - Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics in the Graduate School

Anthropology

• Margaret Conkey - Professor of Anthropology
• Charles L. Briggs - Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Folklore
• Clifford Geertz - Assistant Professor of Anthropology (1958–60), now Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.
• Patrick Vinton Kirch - Professor of Anthropology
• Alfred Kroeber - Professor of Anthropology and father of Ursula K. Le Guin
• Saba Mahmood - Associate Professor of Social Cultural Anthropology
• Laura Nader - Professor of Anthropology, pioneer of Legal Anthropology, older sister of Ralph Nader
• Paul Rabinow - Professor of Anthropology
• Vincent Sarich (M.S., Ph.D.) - Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
• Nancy Scheper-Hughes (B.A. 1970, Ph.D. 1976) - Professor of Anthropology
• Ruth Tringham - Professor of Anthropology

Art and architecture

• Christopher Alexander - Professor Emeritus of Architecture
• Svetlana Alpers - Professor Emeritus of Art History
• T.J. Clark - Professor of Art History
• Karl Kasten (B.A. 1938, M.A. 1939) - Professor Emeritus, Art Practice
• John McNamara - Lecturer, Art Practice
• Bernard Maybeck - drawing instructor (1894), Professor of Architecture (1898–1903)
• Roger Montgomery - Dean, College of Environmental Design, Professor of Urban Design, Architecture, and City and Regional Planning (1967–1996)
• Sim Van der Ryn - Professor Emeritus of Architecture

Astronomy

• Alex Filippenko - Professor of Astronomy
• Carl E. Heiles - Professor of Astronomy
• Raymond Jeanloz - Professor of Astronomy, Professor of Earth and Planetary Science
• Paul Kalas - Assistant Adjunct Professor of Astronomy
• James Kirchner (Ph.D. 1990) - Professor of Earth and Planetary Science
• Richard Klein - Adjunct Professor of Astronomy
• Michael Manga - Professor of Earth and Planetary Science
• Geoffrey Marcy - Professor of Astronomy, has discovered many extrasolar planets, winner of Shaw Prize in astronomy in 2005.
• Frank Shu (Ph.D. 1986) - Professor of Astronomy, winner of the Shaw Prize in Astronomy in 2009.
• Adam Riess - Miller Fellow, Professor of Physics, winner of the Shaw Prize in Astronomy in 2006.
• Paul Renne (B.A. 1982, Ph.D 1987) - Director of the Berkeley Geochronology Center and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Planetary Science

Biology

• Bruce Ames - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Clinton Ballou - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Carlos Bustamante (Ph.D. 1981) - Professor of Physics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Chemistry
• John E. Casida - Professor of Toxicology and Entomology
• George W. Chang (Ph.D 1967) - Associate Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
• Ignacio Chapela - Professor of Microbial Ecology
• William A. Clemens (B.A. 1954, Ph.D 1960) - Professor Emeritus of Integrative Biology
• 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
• Peter Duesberg - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Michael Eisen - Associate Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, and Howard Hughes Investigator
• Lewis Feldman, Professor of Plant Biology
• Walter J. Freeman - Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology
• Eva Harris (Ph.D. 1993) - Professor of Infectious Disease
• Tyrone Hayes (Ph.D. 1993) - Professor of Integrative Biology
• Nicole King - Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, and MacArthur Fellow (2005)
• David R. Lindberg - Professor of Integrative Biology
• Jere H. Lipps - Professor of Integrative Biology
• Anastasios Melis - Professor of Enzymology
• Barbara J. Meyer - Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development and Howard Hughes Investigator
• Eva Nogales - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Howard Hughes Investigator
• Kevin Padian - Professor of Integrative Biology and President of the National Center for Science Education
• Jasper Rine - Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development
• Gerald M. Rubin - Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Developmenet, Howard Hughes Investigator, and Director of HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus
• Howard Schachman - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Randy Schekman - Professor of Cell and Development Biology and Howard Hughes Investigator
• Wayne Sousa - Professor of Integrative Biology
• Robert Tjian (B.A. 1971) - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, President of HHMI (beginning 2009)
• James W. Valentine - Professor Emeritus of Integrative Biology
• Tim White - Professor of Integrative Biology
• Allan Wilson (Ph.D. 1961) - Professor of Biochemistry
• Charles W. Woodworth - (1891–1930) Founder of the UCB Division of Entomology, PBESA gives the C. W. Woodworth Award

Business

• Tom Campbell - Professor of Business Administration, former Dean of the Haas School of Business and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Henry Chesbrough (Ph.D. 1997) - Adjunct Professor of Business Administration
• Richard Lyons (B.S. 1982) - Professor of Business Administration and Dean of the Haas School of Business
• David C. Mowery - Professor of Business Administration
• Mario Rosati (J.D. 1971) - Adjunct Professor of Business Administration
• Carl Shapiro (M.A. 1977) - Professor of Business Administration
• David Teece - Professor of Business Administration
• Philip E. Tetlock - Professor of Organizational Behavior, Haas School of Business
• Paul Tiffany (Ph.D. 1983) - Senior Lecturer, Haas School of Business
• 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
• 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
• Oliver E. Williamson - Professor Emeritus of Business, Economics, and Law
• 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
• David Vogel - Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Political Science

Chemistry

• 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
• Leo Brewer - Professor of Chemistry; member of the NAS; father of high temperature chemistry and former Associate Director of Berkeley National Lab
• David Chandler - Professor of Chemistry
• Robert E. Connick (Ph.D. 1942) - professor of chemistry, dean of college of chemistry, vice-chancellor
• Graham R. Fleming - Melvin Calvin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry (1997–present)
• Jean Fréchet - Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and current Henry Rapoport Chair of Organic Chemistry
• Martin Head-Gordon - Professor of Chemistry
• Clayton Heathcock - Professor of Chemistry
• Darleane C. Hoffman - Professor of Chemistry
• Jay Keasling - Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
• Sung-Hou Kim - Professor of Chemistry
• John Kuriyan - Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• G.N. Lewis - Dean of the College of Chemistry, professor of physical chemistry
• William H. Miller - Professor of Chemistry
• Alexander Pines - Professor of Chemistry
• Kenneth Pitzer (Ph.D. 1937) - Dean of the College of Chemistry (1951–60), Professor of Chemistry, President of Rice University and Stanford University
• Kenneth Raymond - Professor of Chemistry
• Richard J. Saykally - Professor of Chemistry
• Gabor A. Somorjai (Ph.D. 1960) - Professor of Chemistry
• Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. - Professor of Chemistry

Civil engineering

• Frank Baron - Professor of Civil Engineering
• T. Y. Lin (M.S. 1933) - Professor of Civil Engineering, bridgebuilder
• William Garrison - Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Computer science

• Brian A. Barsky - Professor of Computer Science and Affiliate Professor of Optometry and Vision Science
• Eric Brewer (B.S. 1989) - Professor of Computer Science
• Michael Buckland - Professor Emeritus at the School of Information
• John Canny - Professor of Computer Science
• David Culler (B.A. 1980) - Professor of Computer Science
• Richard Fateman - Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
• Susan L. Graham - Professor of Computer Science
• Joseph M. Hellerstein - Professor of Computer Science
• Michael I. Jordan - Professor of Computer Science, highly-publicized academic in artificial intelligence.
• Randy Katz (M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1980) - Professor of Computer Science
• Butler Lampson (Ph.D. 1967) - Professor of Computer Science and a founding member of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
• 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
• James F. O'Brien - Associate Professor of Computer Science
• John K. Ousterhout - Professor of Computer Science and creator of the Tcl programming language and the Tk platform-independent widget toolkit
• Christos Papadimitriou - Professor of Computer Science. Also a member of Lady X and the Positive Eigenvalues.
• 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
• Stuart J. Russell - Professor of Computer Science, co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
• Carlo H. Sequin - Professor of Computer Science
• Scott Shenker - Professor of Computer Science
• Jonathan Shewchuk - Associate Professor of Computer Science
• Alan Jay Smith - Professor of Computer Science
• Luca Trevisan - Associate Professor of Computer Science
• Claire J. Tomlin (Ph.D. 1998) - Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and MacArthur Fellow (2006)
• Umesh Vazirani (Ph.D. 1986) - Professor of Computer Science
• David Wagner (M.S. 1999, Ph.D. 2000) - Associate Professor of Computer Science, well-known researcher in cryptography.
• Lotfi A. Zadeh - Professor of Computer Science, "Father of Fuzzy Logic 1965", IEEE Pioneer Award in Fuzzy Systems 2000, IEEE Medal of Honor, 1995

Economics

• David Card - Professor of Economics, John Bates Clark Medal winner (1995)
• J. Bradford DeLong - Professor of Economics
• Barry Eichengreen - Professor of Economics and Political Science
• Clark Kerr (Ph.D. 1939) - Professor of Industrial Relations, Chancellor (1952–58), UC President (1958–67)
• Maurice Obstfeld - Professor of Economics
• Martha Olney (M.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1985) - Adjunct Professor of Economics
• Andreas Papandreou - Professor and Chair of Economics, Prime Minister of Greece
• Matthew Rabin - Professor of Economics, MacArthur Fellow (2000) and John Bates Clark Medal winner (2001)
• Gordon Rausser - Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics
• James C. Robinson, the Kaiser Permanente Distinguished Professor of Health Economics
• Gérard Roland - Professor of Economics
• Christina Romer - Professor of Economics, former chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers under Barack Obama
• David Romer - Professor of Political Economy
• Mark Rubinstein - Paul Stephens Professor of Applied Investment Analysis, co-developer of the binomial tree method of options valuation

Education

• Andrea diSessa - Professor of Education
• Arthur Jensen (B.A. 1945) - Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology
• Jean Lave - Professor Emerita of Education and Geography
• Elliot Turiel - Professor of Education

Electrical engineering

• Clarence Cory - the first Professor of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at UC Berkeley
• 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
• David Messerschmitt - Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering
• Donald Pederson - Professor of Electrical Engineering, creator of SPICE, the canonical integrated circuit simulator.
• Kristofer Pister (M.S. 1989, Ph.D. 1992) - Professor of Electrical Engineering
• Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli - Professor of Electrical Engineering, Clerk Maxwell Award '09
• 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
• Otto J. M. Smith - Professor of Electrical Engineering, inventor of the Smith predictor
• Eli Yablonovitch - Professor of Electrical Engineering

Ethnic studies

• Evelyn Nakano Glenn (B.A. 1962) - Professor of Ethnic Studies, and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies
• Michael Omi - Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies
• Ronald Takaki (Ph.D. 1967) - Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies

Film studies

• Kaja Silverman - Class of 1940 Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric
• Brett Simon (Ph.D. 2003) - Professor of Film Studies
• Linda Williams (B.A. 1969) - Professor of Film Studies

Foreign languages and culture

• Giorgio Agamben - Visiting Chair of Italian Culture (1994), Department of Italian Studies
• Robert Alter - Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature
• Daniel Boyarin - Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric
• Michel Foucault - Visiting Professor of French (early 1980s)
• George L. Hart - Professor of Tamil Studies
• John Lindow - Professor of Scandinavian
• Yakov Malkiel - Professor of Spanish and Professor of Linguistics, 1943–1983; founded journal Romance Philology
• James T. Monroe - Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies
• Johanna Nichols (Ph.D 1973) - Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
• David Stronach - Professor of Near Eastern Studies
• Frederic Wakeman, Jr. (Ph.D. 1965) - Haas Professor of Asian Studies, Professor of History, President Emeritus of the American Historical Association

Geology

• Walter Alvarez - Professor of Geology
• Garniss Curtis (Ph.D. 1951) - Professor Emeritus of Geology

Geography

• Michael J. Watts - Professor of Geography and Development Studies

History

• Herbert Bolton - Sather Professor and Chair of History, First Director of Bancroft Library
• Beshara Doumani - Associate Professor of History

• David Hollinger (M.A. 1965, Ph.D. 1970) - Professor of American History
• Martin Jay - Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History

• Adrienne Koch - Professor of History
• Leon F. Litwack (B.A. 1951, Ph.D. 1958) - Pulitzer Prize (Been in the Storm So Long [1980]), Morrison Professor of American History
• Nicholas V. Riasanovsky - Professor Emeritus of History
• Yuri Slezkine - Professor of History
• 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

Industrial engineering

• Stuart Dreyfus - Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Ken Goldberg - Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Ashok Gadgil (M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1979) - Adjunct Professor, Energy and Resources Group

Law

• Robert Berring (J.D., M.L.S. 1974) - Professor of Law
• Robert Cooter - Professor of Law
• 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
• Bernard L. Diamond - Professor of Law and Psychiatry
• Daniel A. Farber - Professor of Law and Director, Environmental Law Program
• Angela P. Harris - Professor of Law
• William A. Fletcher - Professor Emeritus of Law and judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Phillip E. Johnson - Professor Emeritus of Law, considered the father of the intelligent design movement
• Hans Kelsen - Professor of Law, one of the preeminent jurists of the 20th century
• John T. Noonan, Jr. - Professor Emeritus of Law and Senior Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Pamela Samuelson - Professor of Law, Professor of Information Management and Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
• Philip Selznick - Professor Emeritus of Law and Sociology
• 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
• Eleanor Swift - Professor of Law
• John Yoo - Professor of Law, contributor to the PATRIOT Act

Linguistics

• Larry Hyman - Professor of Linguistics
• Sharon Inkelas - Professor of Linguistics
• Robin Lakoff - Professor of Linguistics
• Paul Kay - Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
• George Lakoff - Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science
• James Matisoff (Ph.D 1967) - Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, expert in the Tibeto-Burman languages
• Maria Mavroudi - Professor of History
• John Ohala - Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
• Eve Sweetser (Ph.D. 1984) - Professor of Linguistics

Literature and rhetoric

• Yehuda Amichai - Visiting Professor
• Lowell Bergman - Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor of Journalism
• Judith Butler - Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature
• Frederick Crews - Professor Emeritus of English
• Stanley Fish - Professor of English (1962–1974)
• Thomas Flanagan - Professor of English, author of The Year of the French, winner of 1979 National Critics Circle Award for fiction.
• Catherine Gallagher (B.A. 1972, M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1979) - Eggers Professor of English
• 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)
• Robert Hass - U.S. Poet Laureate, National Book Award Winner, Professor of English
• Evelyn Fox Keller - Professor of Rhetoric, History, and Women's Studies (1988–1992)
• Maxine Hong Kingston (B.A. 1962) - author (Woman Warrior), Senior Lecturer
• Ron Loewinsohn - Professor Emeritus of English
• A. A. Long - Professor of Classics and Professor of Literature
• Walter Benn Michaels - Professor of English (1977–1987)
• D. A. Miller - John F. Hotchkis Professor of English
• Bharati Mukherjee - Professor of English
• Geoffrey G. O'Brien - Assistant Professor of English
• Michael Pollan - Knight Professor of Journalism
• Josiah Royce - Professor of Composition and Literature
• Peter Dale Scott - Professor Emeritus of English

Mathematics

• David Aldous - Professor of Mathematics
• William Arveson - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
• Grigory Barenblatt - Professor of Mathematics
• Phillip Griffiths, mathematician, winner of the Laureates of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1986.
• Elwyn Berlekamp - Professor of Mathematics
• David Blackwell - Professor Emeritus of Statistics
• Shiing-Shen Chern - leading differential geometer, Professor of Mathematics
• Alexandre Chorin - Professor of Mathematics
• William Craig - Professor of Philosophy (Mathematical Logic)
• David Eisenbud - Professor of Mathematics and former director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
• Andreas Floer - Professor of Mathematics (1988–1990), developed Floer homology
• David Freedman - Professor of Statistics
• Alexander Givental - Professor of Mathematics
• Mark Haiman - Professor of Mathematics
• Leo Harrington - Professor of Mathematics
• Jenny Harrison - Professor of Mathematics
• Robin Hartshorne - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
• Leon Henkin - Professor of Mathematics
• Theodore Kaczynski - the Unabomber, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
• Robion Kirby - Professor of Mathematics
• Shoshichi Kobayashi - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
• Hendrik Lenstra - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
• Michel Loève - Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
• Charles B. Morrey, Jr. - Professor of Mathematics, department chair 1949-1954
• Marina Ratner - Professor of Mathematics
• Nicolai Reshetikhin - Professor of Mathematics
• Ken Ribet - Professor of Mathematics, contributor to the proof of Fermat's last theorem
• Rainer K. Sachs - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
• James Sethian (Ph.D. 1982) - Professor of Mathematics
• Jack Silver (Ph.D. 1966) - Professor of Mathematics
• Theodore Slaman - Professor of Mathematics
• John R. Steel (Ph.D. 1977) - Professor of Mathematics, set theorist
• Bernd Sturmfels - Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
• Alfred Tarski - Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy
• Paul Vojta - Professor of Mathematics
• Dan-Virgil Voiculescu - Professor of Mathematics
• Alan Weinstein (Ph.D. 1967) - Professor of Mathematics
• W. Hugh Woodin - Professor of Mathematics, set theorist

Mechanical engineering

• Hans Albert Einstein - Professor of Hydraulic Engineering (1947–1970 [1]), son of Albert Einstein
• Carlos Fernandez-Pello - Professor of Mechanical Engineering and research scientist in combustion.
• Chang-Lin Tien - University Professor (UC system), NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Chancellor of Berkeley campus (1990–1997)

Music

• David Dodge Boyden - Professor Emeritus of Musicology
• Arnold Elston - Professor of Music 1958–71
• Joseph Kerman - Professor Emeritus of Music
• Davitt Moroney (Ph.D. 1980) - Professor of Music
• Anthony Newcomb - Professor Emeritus of Music
• Richard Taruskin - Professor of Music
• Olly Wilson - Professor Emeritus of Music

Philosophy

• William Craig - Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
• Donald Davidson - philosopher, Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy
• Hubert Dreyfus - Professor of Philosophy
• Paul Feyerabend - Professor of Philosophy
• Thomas Kuhn - Professor of the Philosophy and History of Science (1956–1964)
• John Searle - Professor of Philosophy
• Hans Sluga - Professor of Philosophy
• Barry Stroud - Professor of Philosophy
• Alfred Tarski - Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy
• R. Jay Wallace - Professor of Philosophy
• Bernard Williams - Professor of Philosophy
• Richard Wollheim - Professor of Philosophy

Physics

• John Clarke - Professor of Physics
• Robert C. Dynes - Professor of Physics and former President of the University of California system
• Gerson Goldhaber - Professor Emeritus of Physics
• Frances Hellman - Professor of Physics
• J. D. Jackson - Professor Emeritus of Physics
• Charles Kittel - Professor Emeritus of Physics
• Richard A. Muller - Professor of Physics, MacArthur Fellow (1982)
• Robert Oppenheimer - Professor of Physics, scientific head of the Manhattan Project, "father of the atomic bomb"
• P. Buford Price - Professor of Physics
• Julian Schwinger - theoretical physicist, National Research fellow
• Edward Teller - Professor of Physics, "father of the hydrogen bomb"
• Ahmet Yildiz - Assistant Professor of Physics and Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Alex Zettl (B.A. 1978) - Professor of Physics
• Bruno Zumino - Professor of Physics

Political science

• Vinod K. Aggarwal - Professor of Political Science and Director of Berkeley APEC Study Center
• Mark Bevir - Professor of Political Science
• Wendy Brown - Professor of Political Science
• Bruce E. Cain - Professor of Political Science
• David Collier - Professor of Political Science
• Walden Bello - Founder of the Focus on the Global South, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and Outstanding Public Scholar for 2008 by the International Studies Association. 2003 recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, described as ""one of the leading critics of the current model of economic globalization, combining the roles of intellectual and activist."
• Richard Feachem - Professor of Global Health
• Peter D. Hart - Visiting Lecturer of Political Science
• Ira Michael Heyman - Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, and Professor Emeritus of Law
• Allan Jacobs - Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning and Urban Design
• Ken Jowitt - Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Robson Professor of Political Science
• David L. Kirp - Professor of Public Policy
• Trinh T. Minh-ha - Professor of Rhetoric and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies
• Malcolm Potts - Professor of Public Health
• Robert Reich - Professor of Public Policy and former U.S. Secretary of Labor
• AnnaLee Saxenian (M.C.P. 1980) - Professor, School of Information, and Professor of City and Regional Planning
• Dan Schnur - Lecturer of Political Science
• Kenneth Waltz - Professor Emeritus of Political Science, and one of the founders of neorealism, or structural realism
• Steven Weber - Professor of Political Science
• John Zysman - Professor of Political Science

Psychology

• Erik Erikson - Professor of Psychology (1942–1950)
• Susan Ervin-Tripp - Professor Emeritus of Psychology
• Alison Gopnik - Professor of Psychology
• Dacher Keltner - Professor of Psychology
• Eleanor Rosch - Professor of Psychology
• Dan Slobin - Professor Emeritus of Psychology

Sociology

• 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
• Reinhard Bendix - Professor of Sociology (1947–1991)
• Michael Burawoy - Professor of Sociology
• Manuel Castells - Professor of Sociology and City and Regional Planning
• Harry Edwards - Professor Emeritus of Sociology
• Claude Fischer - Professor of Sociology
• Claude S. Fischer - Professor of Sociology
• Erving Goffman - Professor of Sociology (1958–1968)
• John Lie - Professor of Sociology
• Leo Löwenthal - 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
• John Levi Martin (M.A. 1990, Ph.D. 1997) - Professor of Sociology
• Neil Smelser - Professor Emeritus of Sociology
• Barrie Thorne - Professor of Sociology and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies
• Kim Voss - Professor of Sociology and current Chair of Sociology
• Loïc Wacquant - Professor of Sociology

See also

• List of University of California, Berkeley alumni

References