James B. Duke Professor

At Duke University, the title of James B. Duke Professor is given to a small number of the faculty with extraordinary records of achievement. At some universities, titles like "distinguished professor", "institute professor", or "regents professor" are counterparts of this title. Two Nobel laureates currently serve as James B. Duke Professors.

Current James B. Duke Professors

 * David Aers — English and historical theology
 * Hashim M. Al-Hashimi — biochemistry
 * Dan Ariely — behavioral economics
 * Vann Bennett — cell biology, biochemistry, neurobiology
 * Lorena Beese — biochemistry
 * Richard Brennan — biochemistry
 * Allen Buchanan — public policy
 * Linda Burton — sociology
 * Blanche Capel — cell biology
 * Marc Caron — cell biology
 * Patrick J. Casey — pharmacology and cancer biology
 * Bryan Cullen — virology
 * Bruce Donald — Computer Science and Biochemistry
 * Rick Durrett — mathematics
 * Victor Dzau — medicine
 * Harold P. Erickson — cell biology
 * Owen Flanagan — philosophy
 * Alan Enoch Gelfand — statistics and decision sciences
 * Joseph C. Greenfield — medicine
 * Mark B.N. Hansen—literature, art, art history and visual studies
 * Joseph Heitman — molecular genetics, microbiology, microbial pathogenesis, and mycology
 * Homme Hellinga — biochemistry
 * Karla Holloway — English, law and African American Studies
 * Donald L. Horowitz — law and political science
 * Jerry Hough — political science
 * Jack D. Keene - RNA biology
 * Garnett H. Kelsoe — immunology
 * Robert Keohane — political science
 * Sally Kornbluth — pharmacology
 * Rachel Kranton — Economics
 * Robert Lefkowitz — biochemistry
 * Kam W. Leong — biomedical engineering
 * Daniel J. Lew — pharmacology and cancer biology
 * Douglas Marchuk — genetics and microbiology
 * Paul L. Modrich — biochemistry
 * Toril Moi — literature
 * Berndt Mueller — physics
 * John R. Perfect — medicine
 * Kenneth D. Poss — cell biology
 * Anne E. Pusey — evolutionary anthropology
 * Jane S. Richardson — biochemistry
 * Guillermo Sapiro - Electrical Engineering
 * David G Schaeffer - mathematics
 * David Smith, Electrical Engineering
 * Ralph Snyderman — medicine
 * J. E. R. Staddon — psychology
 * Steven Vogel — biology
 * Warren S. Warren — chemistry
 * Robert Winkler — decision sciences
 * Ingrid Daubechies — mathematics

James B. Duke Professors Emeriti

 * Orrin H. Pilkey — Earth sciences

Former James B. Duke Professors

 * Robert Behringer  - physics
 * Ralph J. Braibanti — political science
 * Louis J. Budd — English literature
 * Leonard Carlitz — mathematics
 * John Shelton Curtiss — history
 * Wallace Fowlie — French literature
 * John Hope Franklin — history
 * Craufurd Goodwin — economics
 * Allen C. Kelley — economics
 * Paul J. Kramer — biology
 * William R. Krigbaum — chemistry
 * Sarah H. Lisanby — medicine
 * David R. Morrison — mathematics
 * Reynolds Price — English literature
 * Knut Schmidt-Nielsen — biology
 * Joseph J. Spengler — economics
 * Lionel Stevenson — English literature