List of University of California, Santa Barbara faculty

This article lists notable faculty (past and present) of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Current faculty

 * David Gross, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2004
 * Alan Heeger, Nobel Prize recipient, Chemistry, 2000
 * Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize recipient, Chemistry, 1998
 * Herbert Kroemer, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2000
 * Finn Kydland, Nobel Prize recipient, Economics, 2004
 * Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2014

Former faculty

 * Edward C. Prescott, Nobel Prize recipient, Economics, 2004
 * John Robert Schrieffer, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 1972
 * Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2004

Pulitzer Prize

 * Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize for History recipient, 2013
 * N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction recipient, 1969
 * Jeffrey C. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction recipient, 2019

Anthropology

 * James F. Brooks, historian, Native Americans
 * Napoleon Chagnon, pioneer of biologically based interpretation of human reproductive and aggressive behavior
 * Brian Fagan
 * Garrett Hardin, Professor of Human Ecology from 1963 until his (nominal) retirement in 1978; most known for his papers "The Tragedy of the Commons" and "Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor"
 * Stuart Tyson Smith, best known for his reconstruction of the ancient Egyptian language for the films Stargate and The Mummy
 * John Tooby, pioneer of evolutionary psychology

Art

 * Ann Bermingham, art historian
 * Henri Dorra, art historian
 * Kip Fulbeck
 * Gary Hugh Brown, Professor Emeritus of Art at UCSB (1966-2006)

Botany

 * Katherine Esau

Chemical engineering

 * Jacob Israelachvili

Chemistry and biochemistry

 * Thomas C. Bruice, coined the term "bio-organic chemistry", member of National Academy of Science
 * Craig Hawker
 * Bruce H. Lipshutz, professor, made significant contributions to copper catalyzed organic reactions
 * Ralph G. Pearson, Emeritus, coined the concepts of "hard" and "soft" for acids and bases
 * Galen D. Stucky, early researcher in the field of materials chemistry

Chicano studies

 * Luis Leal
 * Horacio Roque Ramírez

Computer science

 * Tao Yang

Counseling, clinical, and school psychology

 * Shane R. Jimerson, 2003 co-recipient of the Lightner Witmer Award from the American Psychological Association; noted for his work in school psychology and traumatic stress
 * Tania Israel expert in LGBTQ intervention research and dialogue across political disagreement

East Asian languages and cultural studies

 * John Nathan

Ecology, evolution, and marine biology

 * Benjamin Halpern – marine biologist, ecologist, and 2016 A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences winner
 * William W. Murdoch, population ecologist known for his research in population regulation and predator-prey relationships

Electrical and computer engineering

 * Lawrence Rabiner
 * Petar V. Kokotovic

English

 * Hugh Kenner, literary critic
 * Shirley Geok-lin Lim, poet and literary scholar
 * Marvin Mudrick, literary scholar

Feminist studies

 * Leila Rupp
 * Jacqueline Bobo
 * Tania Israel expert in LGBTQ intervention research and dialogue across political disagreement

Film and media studies

 * Dick Hebdige

Geography

 * Reginald Golledge, pioneer in behavioral geography
 * Michael Frank Goodchild, most known for work on GIS, or computer mapping
 * David Lopez-Carr
 * Waldo R. Tobler, known for his first law of geography

Geology

 * Tanya Atwater, instrumental in the development of the theory of plate tectonics
 * Stanley Awramik
 * Richard Virgil Fisher, volcanologist
 * George R Tilton, pioneer in the measurement and application of isotopes to geology

Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic studies

 * Laurence Rickels

Global and international studies

 * Alison Brysk, Mellichamp Chair in Global Governance
 * Mark Juergensmeyer
 * Paul Orfalea, founder of the copy-chain Kinko's

History

 * James F. Brooks, Professor of History and Anthropology, Native American history
 * Alexander DeConde, Professor Emeritus of History, US diplomatic history
 * Dimitrije Đorđević, late Professor of History, Modern Balkan History
 * Mary O. Furner, Professor of History, 20th century US
 * Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Professor of History, Russian and Soviet history
 * C. Warren Hollister, late Professor of History, Medieval Europe
 * Immanuel C. Y. Hsu, late Professor of Chinese history
 * Wilbur Jacobs, late Professor of History, Native American and Frontier History
 * Nelson Lichtenstein, Professor of History, US Labor
 * Albert Lindemann, Professor Emeritus of History, Modern European history
 * Harold Marcuse, Associate Professor, Modern European history
 * Joachim Remak, late Professor of History, Modern European History
 * W. Patrick McCray, Professor of History, History of Science
 * David Rock, Professor Emeritus of History, Latin American history
 * Jeffrey Burton Russell, Professor Emeritus of History, Medieval European history
 * Paul Spickard, Professor of History, 20th-century US, world, and ethnic history
 * Jeffrey C. Stewart an American Professor of Black Studies

Linguistics

 * Mary Bucholtz
 * Wallace Chafe
 * Bernard Comrie
 * Stefan Th. Gries
 * Marianne Mithun
 * Sandra A. Thompson

Materials

 * Arthur Gossard
 * Shuji Nakamura

Mathematics

 * Michael G. Crandall, winner of the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research
 * Glen Culler, early innovator in the development of the interactive computing and ARPAnet
 * Yitang Zhang

Mechanical engineering

 * Henry T. Yang, Chancellor

Media arts and technology

 * Curtis Roads

Molecular and cellular biology

 * Jamey Marth, molecular and cellular biologist, Director of the Center for Nanomedicine, professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Music

 * Julia Banzi, Ph.D. Ethnomusicology, member of the Al-Andalus Ensemble, expert on Andalusian music and women's ensembles of the Arab world
 * John Dearman, Grammy Award-winning classical guitarist, member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ), Director of Guitar Studies
 * Alejandro Planchart, Emeritus, professor of musicology, expert on Guillaume Dufay

Philosophy

 * C. Anthony Anderson
 * Nathan Salmon

Physics

 * David Awschalom, best known for his work in spintronics in semiconductors
 * James Hartle, together with Stephen Hawking, proposed the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction of the universe, a specific solution to the Wheeler-deWitt equation meant to explain the initial conditions of the Big Bang cosmology
 * James S. Langer
 * Joseph Polchinski

Political science

 * M. Kent Jennings, one of the founding fathers of political socialization research and theory.
 * Benjamin Cohen, leading scholar in the field of international political economy
 * Leah Stokes, political scientist specializing in environmental policy

Psychological and brain sciences

 * Daphne Bugental, psychologist known for her research on parent-child relationships, infant and child maltreatment, and family violence
 * Leda Cosmides, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology
 * Michael Gazzaniga, pioneer of cognitive neuroscience

Religious studies

 * Walter Capps
 * J. Gordon Melton
 * Birger A. Pearson
 * Ann Taves

Sociology

 * Donald Cressey
 * John Foran
 * Ralph Larkin
 * William I. Robinson
 * France Winddance Twine
 * Howard Winant