List of Stanford University faculty and staff

This page lists faculty and staff members of Stanford University.

Stanford office Presidents Acting presidents were temporary appointments. Swain served while Wilbur was United States Secretary of the Interior under Herbert Hoover; Eurich and Faust after the unexpected death of Tresidder.

The following persons served as president of Stanford University:

Portrait Name Term start Term end David Starr Jordan 1891 1913 John Casper Branner 1913 December 31, 1915 Ray Lyman Wilbur January 22, 1916 June 30, 1943 Robert Eccles Swain March 5, 1929 March 4, 1933 Donald Bertrand Tresidder October 14, 1943 January 28, 1948 Alvin C. Eurich January 28, 1948 December 31, 1948 Clarence H. Faust January 1, 1949 March 31, 1949 J. E. Wallace Sterling April 1, 1949 August 31, 1968 Robert J. Glaser September 1, 1968 November 30, 1968 Kenneth Pitzer December 1, 1968 June 25, 1970 Richard Wall Lyman September 24, 1970 July 31, 1980 Donald Kennedy August 1, 1980 August 31, 1992 Gerhard Casper September 1, 1992 August 31, 2000 John L. Hennessy September 1, 2000 August 31, 2016 John Etchemendy February 14, 2012 June 8, 2012 Marc Tessier-Lavigne September 1, 2016 August 31, 2023 Richard Saller September 1, 2023 July 31, 2024 Jonathan Levin August 1, 2024 present

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Provosts The position was created in 1952. Portrait Name TermRef. Douglas M. Whitaker 1952–1955 Frederick Terman 1955–1965 Richard Wall Lyman 1967–1970 William F. Miller 1971–1978 Gerald J. Lieberman 1979 Donald Kennedy 1979–1980 Albert M. Hastorf 1980–1984 James N. Rosse 1984–1992 Gerald J. Lieberman 1992–1993 Condoleezza Rice 1993–1999 John L. Hennessy 1999–2000 John Etchemendy 2000–2017 Persis Drell 2017–2023 Jenny Martínez2023–present

Chancellors This position is often empty and has always been held by a former president. Name TermRef. David Starr Jordan 1913–1916 Ray Lyman Wilbur 1943–1949 J. E. Wallace Sterling 1968–1985

School deans

Though Stanford did not originally have schools, over the years the departments have all been collected into schools.

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+Graduate School of BusinessNameYearsNotes1Willard E. Hotchkiss1926–19302J. Hugh Jackson1931–1956Carlton A. Pederson1956–1958acting dean3Ernest C. Arbuckle1958–1968Samuel "Pete" Pond1968–1969acting dean4Arjay Miller1969–1979 The top 10% of graduating MBAs are named Arjay Miller Scholars.Robert Jaedicke1979–1980acting dean5Rene C. McPherson1980–19826Robert Jaedicke1983–19907Michael Spence1990–19998Robert L. Joss1999–2009Stanford Ph.D. 19709Garth Saloner2009–201510Jonathan Levin2016–202413th president of the universityStanford AB, BS 199411Sarah Soule2025–present

+Doerr School of SustainabilityNameYearsNotes1Arun Majumdar2022–present

+School of Earth, Energy & Environmental SciencesNameYearsNotes1A. I. Levorsen1947–1950Petroleum geologist2Charles Park1950–19653Richard Jahns1965–19794Allan V. Cox1979–19875George A. Thompson1987–19896W. G. Ernst1989–19947Lynn Orr1994–20028Pamela Matson2002–20179Stephan Graham2017–2022 +Graduate School of EducationNameYearsNote1Ellwood Patterson Cubberley1917–19332Grayson N. Kefauver1933–1946*Lucien Blair Kinney1943–1946acting3A. John Bartky1946–19534I. James Quillen1954–19665H. Thomas James1966–19706Arthur Coladarci1970–19797Myron Atkin1979–19868Marshall S. Smith1986–19939Richard Shavelson1993–200110Deborah Stipek2000–201111Claude Steele2011–2014*Deborah Stipek2014–2015acting12Daniel L. Schwartz2015–present +School of EngineeringNameYearsDepartmentNotes1Theodore J. Hoover1925–1936Mining and MetallurgyStanford AB 19012Samuel B. Morris1936–1944Civil EngineeringStanford AB 19113Frederick E. Terman1944–1958Electrical Engineering4Joseph M. Pettit1958–1972Electrical EngineeringStanford Ph.D. 1942 5William M. Kays1972–1984Mechanical EngineeringStanford Ph.D. 19516James F. Gibbons1984–1996Electrical EngineeringStanford Ph.D. 19567John L. Hennessy1996–1999Computer Science11th president of the university8James Plummer1999–2014Electrical Engineering9Persis Drell2014–2016SLAC/Physics10Jennifer Widom 2017–presentComputer Science and Electrical Engineering +School of Humanities and SciencesNameYearsDepartmentNotes1Clarence H. Faust1948–1951English2Douglas Merritt Whitaker1951–1952Biology3Ray N. Faulkner1952–1956Art and Architecture4Philip H. Rhinelander1956–1961Philosophy5Robert Richardson Sears1961–1970Psychology6Albert H. Hastorf III1970–1973Psychology7Halsey L. Royden1973–1981Mathematics8Norman K. Wessells1981–1988Biology9Ewart A.C. Thomas1988–1993Psychology10John B. Shoven1993–1998Economics11Malcolm R. Beasley1998–2001Applied Physics12Sharon R. Long2001–2007Biological Sciences13Richard Saller2007–2018Classics and History12th president of the university14Debra Satz2018–presentPhilosophy

+Law School#NameYearsNotes1Nathan Abbott1893–1907executive head*Charles H. Huberich1906acting2Frederic Campbell Woodward1908–1916first to be called dean3Charles A. Huston1916–1922*Arthur M. Cathcart1917–1919acting4Marion R. Kirkwood1922–1945*Arthur M. Cathcart1930–1931acting*Lowell Turrentine1945–19465Carl B. Spaeth1946–1962*Samuel D. Thurman1952–1953acting*John R. McDonough1959–1960acting*John R. McDonough1962–1964acting6Bayless Manning1964–19717Thomas Ehrlich1971–1976*J. Keith Mann1976acting8Charles J. Meyers1976–1981acting*J. Keith Mann1981–1982acting9John Hart Ely1982–198710Paul Brest1987–199911Kathleen Sullivan1999–200412Larry Kramer2004–201213M. Elizabeth Magill2012–201914Jennifer Martínez2019–present +School of Medicine#NameYearsNotes1Ray Lyman Wilbur1911–191631st United States Secretary of the Interior3rd president of the university2William Ophüls 1916–19333Loren R. Chandler1933–19534Windsor C. Cutting1953–19575Robert H. Alway1957–19656Robert J. Glaser1965–19717Clayton Rich1971–19828Dominick P. Purpura1982–1984 went on to be dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine9David Korn1984–199510Eugene A. Bauer1995–200111Philip Pizzo2001–201212Lloyd B. Minor2012–present

Stanford faculty and affiliates

Aeronautics and astronautics Sigrid Close, associate professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering William F. Durand, professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mechanical Engineering; Electrical Engineering (1859–1958) Charbel Farhat, professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mechanical Engineering G. Scott Hubbard, adjunct professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics Antony Jameson, emeritus faculty, Aeronautics and Astronautics Sanjay Lall, professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering Bradford Parkinson, professor emeritus, Aeronautics and Astronautics Stephen Rock, professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics Debbie Senesky, assistant professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering George Springer, emeritus faculty, Aeronautics and Astronautics

Biology, biochemistry, and medicine

George W. Beadle, professor of biology, co-winner of 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (at Caltech at time of award) Paul Berg, emeritus (active) professor of biochemistry, co-winner of 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, pioneer in recombinant DNA technology David Botstein, former professor of genetics, pioneer in Human Genome Project Patrick O. Brown, professor of biochemistry, inventor of DNA microarray technology Marion Buckwalter, professor of neurology and neurosurgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine, co-founder of the Stroke Recovery Program at Stanford Eugene C. Butcher, professor of pathology, 2004 Crafoord Prize winner Stanley Norman Cohen, professor of genetics and medicine, accomplished the first transplantation of genes between cells; winner of National Medal of Science, National Medal of Technology, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame Carl Degler, professor of history, Pulitzer Prize for History (1972) William C. Dement, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, pioneer in sleep research Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Paul R. Ehrlich, professor of biology, 1990 Crafoord Prize winner James Ferrell, systems biologist and the first chair of the Dept. of Chemical and Systems Biology from its establishment until 2011 Andrew Z. Fire, professor of genetics and pathology, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Thomas J. Fogarty, clinical professor of surgery; member of National Inventors Hall of Fame; owner of more than 100 surgical patents, including the Fogarty balloon catheter Toby Freedman, space medicine Christian Guilleminault, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, pioneer in sleep research Jessica Hellmann, professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, director of the Institute on the Environment Daniel Herschlag, senior associate dean at Stanford University School of Medicine, graduate education and postdoctoral affairs and professor of biochemistry and, by courtesy, of chemistry Leonard Herzenberg, professor of genetics, winner of Kyoto Prize for development of fluorescent-activated cell sorting Andrew D. Huberman, professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology, known for discoveries of brain function, plasticity and regeneration David Katzenstein, virologist and AIDS researcher and associate medical director of the AIDS Clinical Trial Unit at Stanford Robert Kerlan, sports medicine pioneer Peter S. Kim, professor of biochemistry, former president of Merck Research Laboratories (MRL), 2003–2013 Brian Kobilka, professor in medical school, 2012 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Ron Kopito, cell biologist Arthur Kornberg, professor of biochemistry, winner of 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Roger D. Kornberg, professor of structural biology, winner of 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry William Langston, neurologist; founder, CEO, and scientific director of the Parkinson's Institute Joshua Lederberg, founder of the Stanford Department of Genetics, co-recipient of 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Michael Levitt, professor in medical school, 2013 Nobel prize winner in chemistry Kate Lorig, chronic disease self-management, patient education, director of the Stanford Patient Education Center José Gilberto Montoya, professor in medical school, founder of the Immunocompromised Host Service Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service Peter Raven, professor of botany; coauthor with Paul Ehrlich in 1964 of the seminal work Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution; Missouri Botanical Garden, 1971–2010; board of trustees of National Geographic; International Prize for Biology, 1986; Pontifical Science Academy; Time Magazine "Hero for the Planet" 1999 Donald Redelmeier, internist, professor of medicine at University of Toronto, noted expert in medical decision making Robert Sapolsky, John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor in Biological Sciences, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, and Neurosurgery; author and recipient of awards including MacArthur Fellowship genius grant, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the Klingenstein Fellowship in Neuroscience Matthew P. Scott, professor of developmental biology, discoverer of homeobox genes Oscar Elton Sette, lecturer and Chief of Ocean Research, pioneer of fisheries oceanography and modern fisheries science Norman Shumway, professor at Stanford Medical School, father of the heart transplantation technique Tim Stearns, professor of Biology and Genetics, cell biologist Lubert Stryer, professor of biology, 2006 National Medal of Science winner, known for micro-array gene chip Thomas Sudhof, professor at Stanford Medical School, winner of 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Sergiu P. Pașca, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences Edward L. Tatum, co-winner of 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (at Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research at time of award) Jared Tinklenberg, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences

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