Distinguished and Notable Faculty
Meet our most accomplished and esteemed professors, who have achieved the highest ranks at the Graduate Center. They stand apart for their scholarly contributions to their disciplines.

Our Faculty
The following faculty hold titles of Distinguished Professor, Einstein Professor, and Presidential Professor. To view more faculty, visit our directory.

André Aciman
Distinguished Professor
- French
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- Biography and Memoir

Kofi Agawu
Distinguished Professor
- Music

Andrea Alù
Director, Photonics Initiative
- Advanced Science Research Center
Einstein Professor
- Physics

Sergei Artemov
Distinguished Professor
- Philosophy
Distinguished Professor
- Computer Science
Distinguished Professor
- Mathematics

Paul Attewell
Distinguished Professor
- Urban Education
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor
- Social Welfare
Distinguished Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Juan Battle
Executive Officer and Presidential Professor
- Nursing
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- Urban Education
Presidential Professor
- Liberal Studies
Presidential Professor
- Social Welfare
Presidential Professor
- Africana Studies

Herman Bennett
Distinguished Professor
- History
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Global Early Modern Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Africana Studies
Director
- Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC)

Juliette Blevins
Presidential Professor
- Linguistics

Susan Buck-Morss
Distinguished Professor
- Political Science

Scott Burnham
Distinguished Professor
- Music

Noël Carroll
Distinguished Professor
- Philosophy
Distinguished Professor
- Film Studies

Patrizia Casaccia
Einstein Professor
- Biology
Einstein Professor
- Biochemistry
Einstein Professor
- Neuroscience
Director, Neuroscience Initiative
- Advanced Science Research Center

Vincent Crapanzano
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- Anthropology

Cathy N. Davidson
Founding Director
- Futures Initiative
Distinguished Professor
- English
Distinguished Professor
- Digital Humanities
Distinguished Professor
- Data Analysis and Visualization
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies
Director of HASTAC@CUNY

Michael Devitt
Distinguished Professor
- Philosophy

Michelle Fine
Distinguished Professor
- Urban Education
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
Distinguished Professor
- Liberal Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies

David Harvey
Distinguished Professor
- Anthropology
Distinguished Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dagmar Herzog
Distinguished Professor
- History
Distinguished Professor
- Social Welfare
Distinguished Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Philip Kasinitz
Director
- Advanced Research Collaborative
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- International Migration Studies
Presidential Professor
- Africana Studies

Thomas Kessner
Distinguished Professor
- History
Distinguished Professor
- Liberal Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Biography and Memoir
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies

Muhammad Ali Khalidi
Presidential Professor
- Philosophy

Wayne Koestenbaum
Distinguished Professor
- English
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- French
Distinguished Professor
- Film Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Biography and Memoir
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies

Victor Kolyvagin
Distinguished Professor
- Mathematics

Paul Krugman
Distinguished Professor
- Economics
Distinguished Scholar
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

Eric Lott
Distinguished Professor
- English
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Africana Studies

Setha Low
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
Distinguished Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Distinguished Professor
- Anthropology
Distinguished Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

Lev Manovich
Presidential Professor
- Data Science
Presidential Professor
- Computer Science
Presidential Professor
- Digital Humanities
Presidential Professor
- Data Analysis and Visualization

Leslie McCall
Associate Director
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- Political Science
Presidential Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Uday Singh Mehta
Distinguished Professor
- Political Science

Ruth Milkman
Distinguished Professor
- History
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology

Nancy K. Miller
Distinguished Professor
- French
Distinguished Professor
- English
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- Biography and Memoir
Distinguished Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies

John Mollenkopf
Director
- Center for Urban Research
Distinguished Professor
- Sociology
Distinguished Professor
- Political Science
Distinguished Professor
- International Migration Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Stephen Neale
Distinguished Professor
- Philosophy
Distinguished Professor
- Linguistics

James Oakes
Humanities Chair
Distinguished Professor
- History
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Africana Studies

Loraine K. Obler
Distinguished Professor
- Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Distinguished Professor
- Linguistics
Distinguished Professor
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Graham Priest
Distinguished Professor
- Philosophy

Jesse Prinz
Distinguished Professor
- Philosophy

Joan Richardson
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- English
Distinguished Professor
- Liberal Studies
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies

David Rindskopf
Distinguished Professor
- Educational Psychology
Distinguished Professor
- Psychology
Distinguished Professor
- Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Tony Ro
Presidential Professor
- Psychology
Presidential Professor
- Biology
Director and Presidential Professor
- Cognitive Neuroscience
Presidential Professor
- Neuroscience

Helena Rosenblatt
Distinguished Professor
- History
Distinguished Professor
- French
Distinguished Professor
- Political Science
Distinguished Professor
- Biography and Memoir

David Savran
Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre
- Theatre and Performance
Distinguished Professor
- English
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies

Paul Julian Smith
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- Film Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures

Domna C. Stanton
Distinguished Professor
- French
Distinguished Professor
- Biography and Memoir
Distinguished Professor
- Women's and Gender Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- Global Early Modern Studies

Joseph Straus
Distinguished Professor
- Music

John Torpey
Director
- Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
Director
- European Union Studies Center
Presidential Professor
- Sociology
Presidential Professor
- History

David Waldstreicher
Distinguished Professor
- History
Distinguished Professor
- American Studies
Distinguished Professor
- Africana Studies

Thomas G. Weiss
Presidential Professor
- Political Science
Professor
- Liberal Studies

Douglas H. Whalen
Distinguished Professor
- Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Distinguished Professor
- Linguistics
Distinguished Professor
- Cognitive Neuroscience

Richard Wolin
Distinguished Professor
- Comparative Literature
Distinguished Professor
- History
Distinguished Professor
- Political Science