List of University of California, Davis faculty

This page lists notable faculty (past and present) of the University of California, Davis.

Arts and music
• Robert Arneson, professor emeritus of art, known for ceramics, artist of the Eggheads sculptures scattered through the UC Davis campus

• Larry Austin, professor of music, composer, and later taught at University of South Florida and University of North Texas

• Ross Bauer, professor emeritus of music

• Anna Maria Busse Berger, chair of music department

• Ruby Cohn, professor of comparative drama (late)

• Roy De Forest, professor emeritus of art, painter, and sculptor

• Jesse Drew, professor in cinema and technocultural studies

• Lynn Hershman Leeson, filmmaker, professor of technocultural studies

• Ruth Horsting, professor emerita of art (taught from 1959–1971), known for sculpture

• Theodore Cyrus Karp, professor of music (moved to Northwestern before retirement)

• Manuel Neri, professor emeritus of art, taught 1965–1990

• Bob Ostertag, professor of technocultural studies

• Richard Swift, professor emeritus, founder of Department of Music

• Wayne Thiebaud, professor emeritus of art, awarded the National Medal of Arts

• Richard Aaker Trythall, professor of music, Guggenheim Fellow (1967)

• William T. Wiley, former art professor

Biological sciences
• Daniel I. Axelrod, professor of botany (late)

• Richard M. Bohart, professor of entomology (late)

• George Delahunty, professor of biology

• Theodosius Dobzhansky, professor emeritus of evolutionary biology, 1971–1975

• Jonathan Eisen, professor of evolution and ecology

• Stanley Barron Freeborn, UC Davis chancellor and entomologist, namesake of Freeborn Hall and the mosquito species Anopheles freeborni

• Lynn Kimsey, professor of entomology

• Paul Knoepfler, professor of cell biology and human anatomy

• Robert Laben, professor of animal sciences (late)

• Johanna Schmitt, botanist and professor of evolution and ecology

• Arthur Shapiro, professor of entomology, evolution and ecology

• Tracy I. Storer, professor emeritus, founder of Department of Zoology

• Charles W. Woodworth, professor emeritus of entomology (1891–1930), founder of UCB Entomology Division, credited with founding the Dept. of Entomology at the Agricultural Experiment Station

• Pamela Ronald, distinguished professor of plant pathology

Chemistry
• R. David Britt, professor of chemistry

• Edwin G. Krebs, founding chairman and professor of the department of biological chemistry 1968–1977, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine

• Julie A. Leary, professor of chemistry

• Philip Power, professor of chemistry, Royal Society

Communications and media

 * Charles Berger, professor of communication

Earth sciences
• Gerard Bond, professor of geology

• Alan Hastings, professor of ecology

• Louise H. Kellogg, professor of earth and planetary sciences

• Isabel P. Montañez, professor of earth and planetary sciences

• Eldridge M. Moores, professor emeritus of geology, now the earth and planetary sciences

• Donald L. Turcotte, professor emeritus of earth and planetary sciences

• Geerat J. Vermeij, professor of geology, MacArthur Fellowship

Economics
• Colin Carter, professor of agricultural economics

• Gregory Clark, professor of economics

• Alan M. Taylor, professor of economics and finance

Engineering
• Kandiah Arulanandan, professor of civil engineering (late)

• Kyriacos A. Athanasiou, professor of bioengineering

• Richard C. Dorf, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering

• Andrew A. Frank, professor of mechanical and aeronautical engineering

• M. Saif Islam, professor of electrical and computer engineering

• Linda P.B. Katehi, professor of electrical and computer engineering; UC Davis chancellor (2009–2016)

• Brian Launder, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering (now at the University of Manchester)

• Paul Moller, professor emeritus of mechanical and aeronautical engineering

• Stanton R. Morrison, professor emeritus of agricultural engineering; Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

• Jinyi Qi professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering

• George Tchobanoglous, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering

English
• Joshua Clover, associate professor of English

• Lucy Corin, professor of English

• Lynn Freed, professor of English

• Sandra Gilbert, professor emerita of English, former president of the Modern Language Association

• Sandra McPherson, professor emerita of English

• Karl Shapiro, professor, English Department, Pulitzer Prize for poetry, 1945

• Gary Snyder, professor emeritus of English; Bolligen Prize, Pulitzer Prize

• Joe Wenderoth, associate professor of English

Food sciences
• William Vere Cruess, professor of food science (late)

• M. R. C. Greenwood, professor emerita of nutrition, president of the University of Hawaii

• Gordie C. Hanna, professor of agronomy (late)

• Lucille Shapson Hurley, (1922–1988), former professor of nutrition

• Emil M. Mrak, professor of food science; UC Davis chancellor (1959–1969)

• Ann C. Noble, professor of food science, inventor of the "Aroma Wheel"

• Harold Olmo, professor of viticulture

History
• David Brody, professor emeritus of history

• William W. Hagen, professor of history

• Barbara D. Metcalf, professor emerita of history

• Andrés Reséndez, historian

• Simon Sadler, professor of art history

Law and government
• Diane Marie Amann, professor of law (now at Georgia Tech)

• Vikram Amar, associate dean for academic affairs (School of Law), constitutional law scholar

• Edgar Bodenheimer, professor of law (late)

• Alan Brownstein, professor of law; Boochever and Bird Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality

• Joel Dobris, professor of law

• Robert W. Hillman, professor of law

• Edward Imwinkelried, professor of law (co-author, Scientific Evidence)

• Kevin Johnson, dean, School of Law

• Miguel Méndez, professor of law

• Rex R. Perschbacher, professor of law

• Cruz Reynoso, professor of law; associate justice, California Supreme Court (1982–1987); Presidential Medal of Freedom (2000)

• Martha West, professor emerita of law

Mathematics
• Dmitry Fuchs, professor of mathematics

• Greg Kuperberg, professor of mathematics

• Washek Pfeffer, emeritus professor of mathematics

• Albert Schwarz, professor of mathematics

• Joseph Teran, professor of applied mathematics

• William Thurston, professor of mathematics, later moved to Cornell University, Fields Medalist award

• Craig Tracy, professor of mathematics, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Pólya Prize, Norbert Wiener Prize

• Jessica Utts, professor of statistics, later moved to University of California, Irvine

• Roger J.-B. Wets, professor emeritus of mathematics

Medicine
• David Amaral, professor of psychiatry

• Richard Coss, emeritus professor of psychology

• Gregory M. Herek, professor of psychology

• Leah Krubitzer, professor of psychology

• Peter Robert Marler, professor emeritus of neurobiology

• Jonna Mazet, professor of epidemiology, director of the UC Davis One Health Institute

• Marc B. Schenker, professor, Department of Public Health Sciences

• Ivan R. Schwab, professor of ophthalmology

• Robert Sommer, professor emeritus of psychology

• G. Ledyard Stebbins, professor emeritus of genetics, National Medal of Science

• Ross Thompson, distinguished professor of psychology

• Larry N. Vanderhoef, professor, College of Biological Sciences; UC Davis chancellor (2004–2009)

• Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan, Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

• Rachel Whitmer, professor of epidemiology

Physics
• Steve Carlip, professor of physics

• Veronika Hubeny, professor of physics

Social sciences, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies
• Nicole W. Biggart, professor of management and sociology

• Fred L. Block, professor of sociology

• Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, professor of Chicana/o studies and cultural studies

• Darrell Hamamoto, professor of Asian American studies

• Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, professor emerita of anthropology

• Lynne Isbell, primatologist, professor of anthropology

• Suad Joseph, professor of anthropology and women and gender studies

• Smadar Lavie, professor of anthropology

• John Lofland, professor emeritus of sociology

• Henry McHenry, professor of anthropology; UC Davis Prize; elected fellow, California Academy of Sciences

• Zoila S. Mendoza, professor and chair of Native American studies

• Jacob K. Olupona, professor of African and African American studies, later at Harvard University

• Rhacel Parrenas, professor of sociology, later at Brown University

• Robyn Rodriguez, professor in Asian American studies

• Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, assistant professor of Native American studies and director of the C.N. Gorman Museum

• Aram Yengoyan, professor of anthropology

Other
• Francisco X. Alarcón, lecturer in Spanish

• Berni Alder, professor emeritus of applied science, National Medal of Science recipient

• Marc Blanchard, professor of critical theory and comparative literature

• Andy Bloom, Olympic shot putter

• Carol Cartwright, former vice chancellor for academic affairs

• Steven C. Currall, dean of graduate school of management

• Gerald Dworkin, professor of philosophy

• John Freeman, visiting professor of international relations, 1985–1990

• James R. Griesemer, professor of philosophy

• Andrew Hargadon, professor of technology management

• Irva Hertz-Picciotto, professor of environmental and occupational health

• Ralph Hexter, professor of classics and provost

• Theodore L. Hullar, former chancellor

• Lincoln Hurst, professor of religious studies (late)

• Amy Block Joy, Cooperative Extension Specialist, Emeritus

• Amina Mama, professor and director of women and gender studies

• Zeev Maoz, distinguished professor of political science, director of the Correlates of War Project, and international relations expert

• Norman Matloff, professor of computer science

• Prasant Mohapatra, distinguished Professor in Computer Science and Vice Chancellor for Research

• Phillip Rogaway, professor of computer science (RSA Award 2003)

• Robert Torrance, professor of comparative literature

• Keith David Watenpaugh, professor of human rights studies