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, George Washington University employs approximately 1,130 full-time, in addition to part-time, faculty members across its three campuses. 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, from 2009 to 2020, was the director of the School of Media and Public Affairs. The current president of the university is Ellen Granberg.

Business

 * Herman Aguinis – Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Management, and Past President of the Academy of Management
 * Hossein Askari – professor of international business
 * Annamaria Lusardi – university professor of economics & accountancy
 * Stuart Umpleby – professor emeritus in the Department of Management
 * Sandiaga Uno – Distinguished Research Professor in Residence in the School of Business, 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

International affairs

 * Michael Barnett – university professor
 * 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
 * Stephen C. Smith – professor of economics and international affairs
 * Lawrence Wilkerson – former Chief of Staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell

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

 * 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
 * Clarence Thomas – current Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
 * Jonathan Turley – Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law and frequent guest on news programs

Mathematics

 * John B. Conway – professor of mathematics

Medicine

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

Political management

 * Mark Kennedy – business executive, congressman, presidential appointee, introduced shapeholders to business strategy

Public policy and public administration

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

Sciences

 * Lisa Bowleg – professor of applied social psychology
 * Valerie Hu – professor of biochemistry and molecular biology

Others

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

Past faculty

 * Moudud Ahmed – former Prime Minister of Bangladesh
 * Ruth Aaronson Bari – mathematician known for her work in graph theory and homomorphisms
 * Stephen Biddle – scholar and author on U.S. defense strategy
 * Chrystelle Trump Bond – former lecturer of dance, choreographer, dance historian, and author
 * David Josiah Brewer – former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
 * Letitia Woods Brown (1971–1976) – historian
 * Judith Butler – former professor of philosophy
 * Robert J. Callahan – current Ambassador to Nicaragua, former SMPA professor
 * Vikram Chandra – author of Sacred Games and winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize
 * Nathaniel C. Comfort – former researcher in the Department of History
 * William J. Crowe – former professor of international affairs, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
 * Thomas J. Dodd Jr. – former adjunct professor, former United States Ambassador to Uruguay and to Costa Rica
 * Waldemar J. Gallman – former United States Ambassador to Iraq and United States Ambassador to Poland
 * George Gamow (1934–1954) – physicist and cosmologist
 * Gregory G. Garre – law professor, former United States Solicitor General
 * Alan Grayson – lecturer in Government Contracts Program, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
 * John Marshall Harlan – former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
 * Howard Lincoln Hodgkins – university president, 1921–1923
 * Cecil Jacobson – rogue fertility doctor
 * Edward P. Jones – Pulitzer Prize-winning author
 * Albert Freeman Africanus King – professor of obstetrics
 * Christopher Kojm – chairman of the National Intelligence Council
 * William Kovacic – chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, former professor of government contracts law
 * S. M. Krishna – current Minister of External Affairs of India
 * Ken Lay – former assistant professor, former Chairman and CEO of Enron
 * Joseph LeBaron – former Elliott School faculty, current Ambassador to Qatar, former Ambassador to Mauritania
 * Blake R. Van Leer – president of Georgia Tech, U.S. Army colonel, inventor, and civil rights advocate
 * John Logsdon – member of Columbia Accident Investigation Board, NASA Advisory Council
 * William H. Luers – former visiting lecturer, former Ambassador to Venezuela, to Czechoslovakia
 * Michelle McMurry-Heath – Immunologist and former CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization
 * Josiah Meigs – professor of experimental philosophy in the early 19th century
 * William Matthew Merrick – former congressman from Maryland, former professor of law
 * Andrew A. Michta
 * John Miller – former congressman from Washington
 * Charles Munroe – former chair of the Department of Chemistry, discoverer of the Munroe effect
 * Stanton J. Peelle – former Congressman from Indiana and chief justice of the United States Court of Claims, former professor of law
 * Randall R. Rader – former law professor, current federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
 * Walter Reed – medical school instructor, leading disease researcher and physician
 * James N. Rosenau – former president of the International Studies Association
 * Pedro Rossello – professor of global health, former governor of Puerto Rico
 * Howard Sachar – Jewish historian
 * Dr. Thomas Sewall – anatomist and founding member of medical department
 * Lee Sigelman – former editor of the American Political Science Review
 * Peter Plympton Smith – former Congressman from Vermont, former Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development
 * John W. Snow – former United States Secretary of the Treasury, former professor of law, as well as graduate
 * Stephen Solarz – former congressman from New York
 * William Strong – former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
 * Edward Teller (1935–1941) – nuclear physicist and father of the hydrogen bomb
 * Willis Van Devanter – former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
 * 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
 * Lowell P. Weicker Jr. – former U.S. senator from Connecticut and former professor of law
 * Robert Work – Undersecretary of the Navy

Board of trustees

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