List of George Washington University faculty

This is a list of notable George Washington University faculty, including both current and past faculty at the Washington, D.C. school, as well as university officials. As of 2007, The George Washington University employs approximately 1,130 full-time, in addition to part-time, faculty members across its three campuses.^[2] Presidents John Quincy Adams and Ulysses Grant served on the Board of Trustees. Professors have been government officials, leading scientists, and others. Edward Teller, a physicist considered the father of the hydrogen bomb taught at GW. Frank Sesno, a CNN Special Correspondent, currently teaches in that field and since Fall of 2009, will be the Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs. The current President of the University is Thomas LeBlanc.

Current faculty[]

Nobel Prize in Medicine winner Ferid Murad has been a professor in the GW School of Medicine since 2011.

Business[]

• Hossein Askari – professor of international business
• Stuart Umpleby – cybernetician and a professor in the Department of Management and Director of the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning in the School of Business
• Sandiaga Uno - Distinguished Research Professor in Residence in the School of Business,^[3] Deputy Governor of Jakarta

Humanities[]

• Peter Caws – Professor of Philosophy
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr – Founder and first president of the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, scholar of comparative religion
• Jane Shore – poet

Selected faculty

United States Attorney General Eric Holder served on the Board of Trustees.

Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. is a former Law Professor.

Edward Teller A nuclear physicist, Teller was the father of the hydrogen bomb.

Hossein Nasr, University Professor of Islamic studies, is a leading Iranian Islamic philosopher.

John Quincy Adams, President of the United States, served on the Board of Trustees in 1832.

President Ulysses Grant served as an honorary trustee from 1869 to 1877. His grandson was also a Trustee.

International affairs[]

• Michael Barnett – University Professor
• Stephen Biddle – scholar and author on U.S. defense strategy
• Nathan J. Brown – former director of the Institute for Middle East Studies
• Amitai Etzioni – former president of the American Sociological Association
• Henry Farrell
• Martha Finnemore – leader of the constructivist school of international relations theory
• Leon Fuerth – former National Security Adviser to Vice President Al Gore
• Edward "Skip" Gnehm – former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait and Australia
• Karl Inderfurth – former Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
• Marc Lynch – director of the Institute for Middle East Studies
• Thomas E. McNamara – former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
• Eric Newsom – former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
• Scott Pace – director of the Space Policy Institute
• Lawrence Wilkerson – former Chief of Staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell
• Stephen C. Smith – professor of economics and international affairs

Journalism and public affairs[]

• Dana Perino – former White House Press Secretary in the George W. Bush Administration
• Steven V. Roberts – journalist, writer, and commentator
• Frank Sesno – CNN correspondent

Law[]

• Clarence Thomas, current Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States^[4]
• Thomas Buergenthal – former professor of international and comparative law and jurisprudence, presently the American judge on the International Court of Justice
• Steve Charnovitz – professor of law, member of the Council on Foreign Relations
• Spencer Overton – professor of law, former U.S. Attorney, top bundler for Barack Obama, member of President-elect Obama's Justice Department Review Team
• Jeffrey Rosen – professor of law, legal editor at The New Republic
• Jonathan Turley – Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law and frequent guest on news programs

Mathematics[]

• John B. Conway – professor of mathematics

Medicine[]

• William DeVries – first surgeon to perform a successful permanent artificial heart implantation
• Richard Restak – clinical professor of neurology
• Paul Brindley – Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine
• Ferid Murad – University Professor, Nobel Laureate
• Vanessa Northington Gamble - University Professor, chaired the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee under then-President Bill Clinton

Political Management[]

Political Management • Mark Kennedy – business executive, congressman, presidential appointee, introduced shapeholders to business strategy

Public Policy and Public Administration[]

• Kathryn Newcomer – author and academic
• Edward Berkowitz – historian and presidential adviser
• Marcus Raskin – social critic and activist
• Christopher H. Sterling – media historian
• Stephen Joel Trachtenberg – President Emeritus of the George Washington University

Sciences[]

• Dr. Lisa Bowleg - Professor of Applied Social Psychology

Others[]

• Eric H. Cline – professor of archaeology
• Anthony Yezer – professor of economics

Past faculty[]

• Chrystelle Trump Bond former lecturer of dance, choreographer, dance historian, and author
• Albert Freeman Africanus King – professor of obstetrics
• George Gamow (1934–1954) – physicist and cosmologist
• Edward Teller (1935–1941) – nuclear physicist and father of the hydrogen bomb
• Lee Sigelman – former editor of the American Political Science Review
• Dr. Thomas Sewall – anatomist and founding member of medical department
• Judith Butler – former professor of philosophy
• Thomas J. Dodd, Jr. – former adjunct professor, former United States Ambassador to Uruguay and to Costa Rica
• Cecil Jacobson – rogue fertility doctor^[5]
• Alan Grayson – lecturer in Government Contracts Program, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Pedro Rossello – professor of global health, former Governor of Puerto Rico
• Randall R. Rader – former law professor, current federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Josiah Meigs – Professor of Experimental Philosophy in the early 19th century
• William J. Crowe – former professor of international affairs, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
• Ken Lay – former assistant professor, former Chairman and CEO of Enron
• Robert J. Callahan – current Ambassador to Nicaragua, former SMPA professor
• Joseph LeBaron – former Elliott School faculty, current Ambassador to Qatar, former Ambassador to Mauritania
• William H. Luers – former visiting lecturer, former Ambassador to Venezuela, to Czechoslovakia
• William Matthew Merrick – former Congressman from Maryland, former professor of law
• Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. – former U.S. Senator from Connecticut and former professor of law
• Stanton J. Peelle – former Congressman from Indiana and chief justice of the United States Court of Claims, former professor of law
• Peter Plympton Smith – former Congressman from Vermont, former Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development
• Gregory G. Garre – law professor, former United States Solicitor General
• John W. Snow – former United States Secretary of Treasury, former professor of law, as well as graduate
• William Kovacic – Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, former professor of government contracts law
• Christopher Kojm – Chairman of the National Intelligence Council
• Congressman Stephen Solarz
• Willis Van Devanter – former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• William Strong – former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• John Marshall Harlan – former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• David Josiah Brewer – former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• Moudud Ahmed – former Prime Minister of Bangladesh
• Ruth Aaronson Bari – mathematician known for her work in graph theory and homomorphisms
• S. M. Krishna – current Minister of External Affairs of India
• Nathaniel C. Comfort – former researcher in the Department of History
• Blake R Van Leer – president of Georgia Tech, U.S. Army Colonel, Inventor, and Civil Rights Advocate
• Vincent du Vigneaud – biochemist who headed the Biochemistry Department at the George Washington University School of Medicine, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955
• Charles Munroe – former chair of the Department of Chemistry, discoverer of the Munroe effect
• Vikram Chandra – author of Sacred Games and winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize
• Edward P. Jones – Pulitzer Prize-winning author
• Waldemar J. Gallman – former United States Ambassador to Iraq and United States Ambassador to Poland
• Andrew A. Michta
• John Logsdon – member of Columbia Accident Investigation Board, NASA Advisory Council
• Robert Work – Undersecretary of the Navy
• James N. Rosenau – former president of the International Studies Association
• Congressman John Miller
• Howard Sachar – Jewish historian
• Walter Reed – Medical School instructor, leading disease researcher and physician
• Letitia Woods Brown – (1971 -1976) historian.
• Howard Lincoln Hodgkins, University President 1921-23

Board of trustees[]

• Josiah Meigs – original member
• Return J. Meigs, Jr. – former Governor of Ohio, former US Senator, original member
• Thomas Sewall – original member and Professor
• Luther Rice – original member
• Burgiss Allison – Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, original member
• Spencer Houghton Cone – Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, original member
• Obadiah B. Brown – Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, original member
• Amos Kendall – former United States Postmaster General, former President of the Board
• John Quincy Adams – former President of the United States, former member
• Ulysses S. Grant – former President of the United States, honorary, former member
• Alexander Graham Bell – inventor, former member
• Ulysses S. Grant III – Major General in the United States Army, grandson of President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant, former university Vice President and Trustee
• William Wilson Corcoran – former
• Bennett Champ Clark – alumnus, former U.S. Senator, former member
• Lewis Strauss – former United States Secretary of Commerce, former member
• Phil Graham – former co-owner of The Washington Post, former member
• J. Edgar Hoover – alumnus, 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, former member
• Margaret Truman – alumna, daughter of United States President Harry Truman, former member
• Melville Bell Grosvenor – former president of the National Geographic Society and editor of National Geographic Magazine, former member
• Jacob Burns – alumnus, former member
• David M. Kennedy – alumnus, former United States Secretary of Treasury, former member
• Melvin R. Laird – former United States Secretary of Defense, former member
• Sharon Percy Rockefeller – wife of U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller, former member
• Eric Holder – Attorney General of the United States, former member
• John Warner – former U.S. Senator, former member
• Mark Warner – alumnus, U.S. Senator, former member
• Daniel Inouye – alumnus, U.S. Senator, former member
• Robert H. Smith – former member
• Charles Taylor Manatt – alumnus, former Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, former Chairman of the Board
• Ted Lerner – alumnus, billionaire developer and owner of the Washington Nationals, former member
• Randy Levine – alumnus, President of the New York Yankees, current member
• – owner of the Washington Nationals, current member

Presidents[]

Notes[]

External links[]

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