List of University of Wisconsin–Madison people in academics

This University of Wisconsin–Madison people in academics consists of notable people who graduated or attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
 * Soedradjad Djiwandono, professor of international economics, Nanyang Technological University
 * Julia Adams (sociologist), professor, Yale University
 * Robert Adair, professor emeritus of physics, Yale University
 * David Adamany, former president of Temple University
 * Colin Adams, professor of mathematics, Williams College
 * Paul C. Adams, associate professor of geography, University of Texas-Austin
 * Julius Adler
 * Madeleine Wing Adler, former president, West Chester University
 * Sarita Adve, professor of computer science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 * Michael A'Hearn, astronomer
 * Julie Ahringer, senior research fellow, Gurdon Institute, Cambridge University
 * Anastasia Ailamaki, professor of computer science, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
 * Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, professor emerita of physics, University of Pennsylvania; taught at Haverford College
 * Robert A. Alberty, professor emeritus of chemistry, MIT
 * Daniel Aldrich, founding chancellor, University of California, Irvine
 * F. King Alexander, president of California State University, Long Beach
 * Gar Alperovitz, author, economist, historian, and former fellow at Cambridge University
 * Michael Amiridis, president of the University of South Carolina
 * Sanford Soverhill Atwood, scientist, provost of Cornell University, president of Emory University
 * Alice Ambrose, former professor of philosophy, Smith College
 * Stephen E. Ambrose, author and historian
 * Marc A. Anderson, environmental chemist
 * Arthur Irving Andrews, former professor of diplomacy, Charles University in Prague
 * Thomas G. Andrews, historian
 * Nancy Armstrong, professor of English, Duke University
 * Marilyn Arnold, professor emeritus of English, Brigham Young University
 * Richard Arratia, professor of mathematics, University of Southern California
 * Michael Aschbacher, professor of mathematics, California Institute of Technology
 * Peter J. Aschenbrenner, historian, Purdue University
 * David Audretsch, professor of economics, Indiana University
 * Nina Auerbach, professor of comparative literature, University of Pennsylvania
 * John D. Axtell, former professor of agronomy, Purdue University
 * Oliver Edwin Baker, geographer
 * Tania A. Baker, professor of biochemistry, MIT
 * Ira Baldwin, bacteriologist
 * Clinton Ballou, professor emeritus of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley
 * David P. Barash, professor of psychology, University of Washington
 * Thomas P.M. Barnett, military and security strategist, former professor at the Naval War College
 * Michael Barnsley, professor of mathematics, Australian National University
 * Henry H. Barschall, physicist
 * Florence Bascom, geologist at Bryn Mawr College
 * Carolyn Baylies, former reader in sociology, University of Leeds
 * Charles L. Beach, president of the University of Connecticut
 * Jesse Beams, former professor of physics, University of Virginia
 * Carl L. Becker, former professor of history, Cornell University
 * David T. Beito, author and historian
 * Richard Bellman, mathematician and inventor of dynamic programming
 * Frank Bencriscutto, former professor of music, University of Minnesota
 * Ernst Benda, former professor of law, University of Freiburg
 * William H. Bennett, professor of agronomy, Utah State University
 * Ira Berlin, distinguished university professor, University of Maryland
 * Bruce C. Berndt, professor of mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 * William T. Bielby, former professor of sociology, University of Pennsylvania
 * Ray Allen Billington, former professor of history, Oxford University and Northwestern University
 * Thomas Binford, professor emeritus of computer science, Stanford University
 * Robert Byron Bird, chemical engineer
 * Kenneth O. Bjork, former professor of history, Saint Olaf College
 * David W. Blight, professor of history, Yale University; taught at Amherst College
 * Leonard Bloomfield, former professor of linguistics, Yale University
 * Herbert Eugene Bolton, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and University of California, Berkeley
 * George Boyer, professor of economics, Cornell University
 * Carol Breckenridge, anthropologist
 * Patricia Flatley Brennan, professor of engineering
 * Arthur Louis Breslich, president of German Wallace College and Baldwin-Wallace College
 * Ernest J. Briskey, dean of agricultural science, Oregon State University
 * David H. Bromwich, professor of geography, Ohio State University
 * Morton Brown, professor emeritus of Mathematics, University of Michigan
 * Norman O. Brown, scholar of Classics
 * Christopher Browning, professor of history, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
 * Robert X. Browning, associate professor of political science, Purdue University
 * Mari Jo Buhle, professor emerita of history, Brown University
 * Paul Buhle, activist and lecturer, Brown University
 * R. Carlyle Buley, former professor of history, Indiana University
 * Mary Bunting, former president, Radcliffe College
 * Robert H. Burris, biochemist
 * Frederick H. Buttel, former professor of sociology
 * Lester J. Cappon, historian, documentary editor, and archivist for Colonial Williamsburg
 * Claudia Card, Emma Goldman (WARF) Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
 * Margery C. Carlson (M.S. 1920, Ph.D. 1925), professor of botany, Northwestern University
 * John Casida, professor of entomology, University of California, Berkeley
 * Carlos Castillo-Chavez, professor of mathematical biology, Arizona State University
 * Edward Castronova, professor of telecommunications, Indiana University
 * Kwang-Chu Chao, chemical engineer at Purdue University
 * Arthur B. Chapman, geneticist
 * Peter Charanis, former professor of history, Rutgers University
 * Vivek Chibber, sociologist, New York University
 * Edith Clarke, former professor of electrical engineering, University of Texas-Austin
 * W. Wallace Cleland, biochemist
 * John H. Coatsworth, provost, Columbia University
 * Alan Code, professor of philosophy, Stanford University
 * Stephen P. Cohen, senior fellow, Brookings Institution
 * Betsy Colquitt, professor of literature and creative writing, Texas Christian University
 * Timothy E. Cook, former professor of political science at Williams College and Louisiana State University
 * Vincent Cooke, S.J., (Ph.D. philosophy 1971), academic administrator, president of Canisius College (1993–2010)
 * Arthur C. Cope, former professor of chemistry, MIT
 * Brian Coppola, professor of chemistry, University of Michigan
 * Giovanni Costigan, former professor of history, University of Washington
 * May Louise Cowles, home economics instructor and lecturer
 * Richard H. Cracroft, professor of English, Brigham Young University
 * Joanne V. Creighton, interim president, Haverford College; former president, Mount Holyoke College
 * Kimberlé Crenshaw, professor of law at Columbia University and UCLA
 * Tim Cresswell, professor of geography, University of London
 * William Cronon (1976), environmental historian
 * Harold Marion Crothers, professor of electrical engineering, South Dakota State University
 * Chicita F. Culberson, senior research scientist in Biology, Duke University
 * Chris Cuomo, former professor of ethics, University of Cincinnati
 * Richard N. Current, historian
 * John T. Curtis, botanist
 * Edward Cussler, professor of chemical engineering, University of Minnesota
 * Thomas Daniel, professor of biology, University of Washington
 * Stephen Daniels, professor of cultural geography, University of Nottingham
 * Richard Danner, professor of law, Duke University
 * Kelvin Davies, professor of gerontology, University of Southern California
 * W. R. Davies, president (1941–1959), University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
 * James A. Davis, sociologist
 * Kenneth S. Davis, historian
 * Dick de Jongh, professor emeritus of Logic and Mathematics, University of Amsterdam
 * Brady J. Deaton, chancellor, University of Missouri
 * Steven John DeKrey, professor and academic administrator
 * Peter Dervan, professor of chemistry, California Institute of Technology
 * Matthew Desmond, professor of sociology, Princeton University
 * Frans Dieleman, former professor of geography, Utrecht University
 * John Louis DiGaetani, professor of English, Hofstra University
 * Hasia Diner, historian
 * Robert Disque, president, Drexel Institute of Technology
 * Carl Djerassi, professor of chemistry, Stanford University
 * John Dollard, former professor of psychology, Yale University
 * J. Kevin Dorsey, dean, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
 * Eliza T. Dresang (PhD, 1981), professor and researcher in literacy, library and information sciences, media and technology
 * Lee A. DuBridge, former president, California Institute of Technology
 * Wendell E. Dunn, president of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
 * Nancy Dye, former president, Oberlin College
 * William G. Dyer, dean, Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University
 * Anne Haas Dyson 1972 College of Education – professor and researcher in literacy
 * Olin J. Eggen, astronomer
 * Marc Egnal, professor of history, York University
 * Jean Bethke Elshtain, professor of divinity and philosophy, University of Chicago
 * Conrad Elvehjem, former president, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 * Michael Engh, president of Santa Clara University
 * David Estlund, Lombardo Family Professor of the Humanities, Brown University
 * John Eyler, professor emeritus of history, University of Minnesota
 * John K. Fairbank, former professor of history, Harvard University
 * Etta Zuber Falconer, professor of mathematics, Norfolk State University and Spelman College
 * Joseph Felsenstein, professor of biology, University of Washington
 * Peter Edgerly Firchow, professor emeritus of English, University of Minnesota
 * Erica Flapan, professor of mathematics, Pomona College
 * Robben Wright Fleming, former president, University of Michigan
 * Neil Fligstein, professor of sociology, University of California, Berkeley
 * George T. Flom, former professor of Scandinavian languages, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 * Karl Folkers, biochemist
 * Michael J. Franklin, professor of computer science, University of California, Berkeley
 * Shane Frederick, associate professor of management, Yale University
 * Daniel Z. Freedman, professor of physics, MIT
 * Joseph S. Freedman, professor of education at Alabama State University
 * Frank Freidel, former professor of history at Harvard University and the University of Washington
 * Linda P. Fried, dean of public health, Columbia University
 * Joseph G. Fucilla, former professor of Romantic languages, Northwestern University
 * D.R. Fulkerson, former professor of mathematics, Cornell University
 * Ellen V. Futter, former president of Barnard College
 * William A. Gahl, geneticist, NIH
 * John Gallagher III, astronomer
 * Fernando García Roel, rector, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
 * Lloyd Gardner, historian of U.S. foreign relations
 * Johannes Gehrke, professor of computer science, Cornell University
 * Judy Genshaft, president of University of South Florida
 * Mark Gertler, professor of economics, New York University
 * Paul Gertler, professor of economics and business, University of California, Berkeley
 * Arnold Gesell, former professor of psychology, Yale University
 * Reza Ghadiri, professor of chemistry, Scripps Research Institute
 * Jacquelyn Gill, assistant professor of climate science, University of Maine
 * Donna Ginther, professor of economics, University of Kansas
 * G. N. Glasoe, former professor of physics, Columbia University; associate director, Brookhaven National Laboratory
 * George Glauberman, professor of mathematics, University of Chicago
 * Helen Iglauer Glueck, director of the Coagulation Laboratory, University of Cincinnati
 * Harvey Goldberg, activist and historian
 * Gerson Goldhaber, professor emeritus of physics, University of California, Berkeley; researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
 * Brison D. Gooch, historian
 * Ann Dexter Gordon, historian, editor of The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project at Rutgers University
 * Myron J. Gordon, professor emeritus of Finance, University of Toronto
 * Richard K. Green, professor of business, University of Southern California
 * William Greene, professor of economics, New York University
 * Michael Gribskov, professor of biological sciences, Purdue University
 * Paul J. Griffiths, professor of theology, Duke University
 * Erik Gronseth, former professor of sociology, University of Oslo
 * David L. Gross, professor of history at University of Colorado at Boulder
 * James A. Gross, labor historian at Cornell University
 * Jennifer Guglielmo, associate professor of history and women's studies, Smith College
 * Ernst Guillemin, electrical engineer and computer scientist, MIT, recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor
 * Ramón A. Gutiérrez, professor of history, University of Chicago
 * Herbert Gutman, professor of history, City University of New York
 * Jeffrey K. Hadden, former professor of sociology, University of Virginia
 * Usha Haley, former professor of international business, University of New Haven
 * Joseph M. Hall, Jr., professor of American history, Bates College
 * Helena Hamerow, professor of medieval archaeology, Oxford University
 * Gordon Hammes, professor emeritus of Biochemistry, Duke University
 * Jo Handelsman, professor of biology and medicine, Yale University
 * Pat Hanrahan, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, Stanford University
 * Alvin Hansen, former professor of economics, Harvard University; presidential advisor
 * John W. Harbaugh, professor of geological and environmental sciences, Stanford University
 * Cole Harris, geographer; professor at the University of Toronto
 * Daniel Hartl, professor of biology, Harvard University
 * Arthur D. Hasler, ecologist and zoologist
 * Darren Hawkins, professor of political science, Brigham Young University
 * James Edwin Hawley, professor of mineralogy, Queen's University; namesake of Hawleyite
 * Patrick J. Hearden, professor of history, Purdue University
 * Margaret Hedstrom, professor of information, University of Michigan
 * D. Mark Hegsted, former professor of nutrition at Harvard University
 * Walter Heller, former professor of economics, University of Minnesota; chair, Council of Economic Advisors
 * Joseph M. Hellerstein, professor of computer science, University of California, Berkeley
 * Frederick Hemke, professor of saxophone, Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University
 * Ralph D. Hetzel, former president, Pennsylvania State University
 * Howard Hibbard, former professor of Italian Baroque art, Columbia University
 * Elfrieda "Freddy" Hiebert, literacy advocate
 * Thomas Hines, professor emeritus, UCLA
 * Ralph Hirschmann, former professor of chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
 * Ho Ping-sung, former historian at Peking University and Beijing Normal University
 * Michael A. Hoffman, professor of earth sciences and resources, University of South Carolina
 * LaVahn Hoh, professor of drama, University of Virginia
 * Karen Holbrook, former president, Ohio State University
 * Charles H. Holbrow, physicist, Charles A. Dana Professor of physics, emeritus, Colgate University
 * Lori L. Holt, associate professor of psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
 * Olga Holtz, associate professor of mathematics, University of California, Berkeley; professor of applied mathematics, Technical University Berlin
 * Renate Holub, philosopher and interdisciplinary theorist, University of California, Berkeley
 * Robert C. Holub, current chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2008–present)
 * Vasant Honavar, professor in biomedical data sciences and artificial intelligence, Pennsylvania State University
 * Earnest Hooton, former professor of anthropology, Harvard University
 * Calvin B. Hoover, former professor of economics, Duke University
 * William O. Hotchkiss, president of Michigan Technological University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 * Mark Huddleston, president, University of New Hampshire
 * Clark L. Hull, psychologist of motivation at Yale University
 * William Hunter, statistician
 * William Edwards Huntington, president of Boston University
 * Lloyd Hustvedt, former professor of Norwegian, Saint Olaf College
 * Jacquelyne Jackson, sociologist and academic
 * William Jaco, professor of mathematics, Oklahoma State University-Stillwater
 * Russell Jacoby, professor of history, UCLA
 * James Alton James, former professor of history, Northwestern University
 * Henry Jenkins, professor of communication arts, University of Southern California
 * Merrill Jensen, historian
 * Carleton B. Joeckel, former librarian
 * Peter Johnsen, vice president for academic affairs, Bradley University
 * Emory Richard Johnson, former dean of business, University of Pennsylvania
 * Michael D. Johnson, dean of hotel administration, Cornell University
 * Charles O. Jones, former professor of political science, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Virginia and former president, American Political Science Association
 * Jacqueline Jones, professor of history, University of Texas-Austin
 * Kenneth Judd, senior fellow, Hoover Institution
 * Ellsworth Kalas, president of Asbury Theological Seminary
 * Vytautas Kavolis, sociologist
 * Homayoon Kazerooni, professor of mechanical engineering, University of California, Berkeley
 * Edmond Keller, professor of political science, UCLA
 * George L. Kelling, professor of social welfare, Rutgers University
 * Ben Kerkvliet, professor of political science, Australian National University
 * Corey Keyes, sociologist at Emory University
 * Margaret Keyes, former professor of home economics, University of Iowa
 * Spencer L. Kimball, former dean of law, University of Wisconsin-Madison; former professor of law, University of Chicago and University of Michigan
 * Robin Wall Kimmerer, professor of environmental of forest biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
 * Gary King, professor of government, Harvard University; taught at New York University and Oxford University
 * Nicole King, assistant professor of genetics, genomics, and development; University of California, Berkeley
 * Ronold W. P. King, former professor of physics, Harvard University
 * Willford I. King, former professor of economics, New York University
 * John W. Kingdon, professor emeritus of political science, University of Michigan
 * David Kinley, former president, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 * Grayson L. Kirk, former president, Columbia University
 * Charles Kittel, former professor of physics, University of California, Berkeley
 * Anne C. Klein, professor of religious studies, Rice University
 * William J. Klish, professor of pediatrics, gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition; Baylor College of Medicine
 * J. Martin Klotsche, first chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
 * Clyde Kluckhohn, former professor of anthropology, Harvard University
 * Anne Kelly Knowles, professor of geography, Middlebury College
 * Kenneth Koedinger, professor of psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
 * Henry Koffler, former vice president, University of Minnesota
 * Gabriel Kolko, historian
 * Arnold Krammer, historian, retired from Texas A&M University
 * Thomas R. Kratochwill, psychologist
 * Konrad Bates Krauskopf, former professor of geology, Stanford University
 * James E. Krier, professor of law, University of Michigan; taught at Harvard University, Oxford University, Stanford University, and UCLA
 * Leo Kristjanson, president, University of Saskatchewan
 * Lawrence Kritzman, professor of French, Dartmouth College
 * Anne O. Krueger, professor of economics, Johns Hopkins University; taught at Stanford University
 * Harold J. Kushner, professor emeritus of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
 * Philip Kutzko, professor of mathematics, University of Iowa
 * Walter LaFeber, historian of U.S. foreign relations at Cornell University
 * Max G. Lagally, engineer and professor
 * James A. Lake, professor of biology and genetics, UCLA
 * Janja Lalich, professor of sociology, California State University, Chico
 * Henry A. Lardy, biochemist
 * Edward Larson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history
 * Mark Lautens, professor of chemistry, University of Toronto
 * Traugott Lawler, professor of English, Yale University
 * Michael Ledeen, security strategist at American Enterprise Institute and Foundation for Defense of Democracies
 * Winfred P. Lehmann, former professor of German, University of Texas-Austin
 * Charles Kenneth Leith, geologist
 * John Leonora, professor of physiology and pharmacology, Loma Linda University
 * A. Carl Leopold, graduate dean, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
 * A. Starker Leopold, son of Aldo Leopold; former professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley
 * Luna Leopold, son of Aldo Leopold; former professor of geology, University of California, Berkeley
 * Herb Levi, former professor of biology, Harvard University
 * Jingjing Liang, 2005 PhD in philosophy; forest ecologist at Purdue University
 * Robert Lieber, professor, department of government and school of foreign service, Georgetown University
 * Gene Likens, ecologist
 * Mary Ann Lila, former professor of nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 * Bernard J. Liska, food scientist at Purdue University
 * Timothy P. Lodge, professor of chemistry, University of Minnesota
 * Timothy M. Lohman, professor of medicine, Washington University School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis
 * Roberto Sabatino Lopez, former professor of history at Yale University
 * Max O. Lorenz, economist and statistician
 * Daryl B. Lund, former dean of agricultural and life sciences, Cornell University
 * George A. Lundberg, sociologist at the University of Washington
 * Karl Mahlburg, mathematician
 * Tak Wah Mak, professor of biophysics and immunology, University of Toronto
 * Howard Malmstadt, professor emeritus of chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 * Daniel R. Mandelker, professor of law, Washington University School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis
 * James G. March, professor emeritus of psychology, Stanford University
 * Carolyn "Biddy" Martin, president, Amherst College
 * Abraham Maslow (PhD 1934), groundbreaking humanist psychologist, "hierarchy of needs;" former professor at Brandeis University
 * Max Mason, former president, University of Chicago
 * Thomas Mathiesen, professor emeritus of Sociology, University of Oslo
 * Lola J. May, mathematics educator
 * Thomas J. McCormick, scholar of international relations
 * Thomas K. McCraw, professor emeritus of business, Harvard University
 * Daniel Merfeld, professor of Otolaryngology at The Ohio State University
 * Frederick Merk, former professor of government and history, Harvard University
 * Alan G. Merten, president of George Mason University
 * Gerald Meyer, professor of chemistry, Johns Hopkins University
 * James Henry Meyer, chancellor of the University of California, Davis from 1969-1987
 * Joseph C. Miller, professor of history, University of Virginia
 * Renée J. Miller, professor of computer science, University of Toronto
 * C. Wright Mills, sociologist and professor at Columbia University
 * Lawrence Mishel, president, Economic Policy Institute
 * Olivia S. Mitchell, professor of economics, University of Pennsylvania
 * Jason Mittell, professor of American studies and film, Middlebury College
 * Pornchai Mongkhonvanit, president of Siam University, president emeritus of International Association of University Presidents
 * Florence M. Montgomery, art historian
 * Stephen S. Morse, professor of epidemiology, Columbia University
 * Clark A. Murdock, senior adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies
 * John E. Murdoch, former historian and philosopher of science, Harvard University
 * John Murray, Jr., chancellor and professor of law, Duquesne University
 * Daniel J. Myers, professor of sociology, University of Notre Dame
 * Mark Myers, geologist
 * Jeffrey Naughton, computer scientist
 * Richard Nelson, cultural anthropologist
 * Maurice F. Neufeld, professor emeritus, Cornell University
 * David Newbury, professor of African studies, Smith College
 * Barbara W. Newell, former president, Wellesley College
 * Carl Niemann, former professor of biochemistry, California Institute of Technology
 * David W. Noble, professor of American studies, University of Minnesota
 * Mark Nordenberg, chancellor, University of Pittsburgh
 * Olaf M. Norlie, former dean, Hartwick College
 * Gerald North, climatologist
 * Sarah Nusser, statistician and vice president for research, Iowa State University
 * Russel B. Nye, former professor of English, Michigan State University
 * Alton Ochsner, UW medical professor and cancer researcher; co-founded the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans
 * Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, anthropologist
 * Bertell Ollman, professor of politics, New York University
 * Scott E. Page, professor of economics, University of Michigan
 * Thomas Palaima, professor of classics, University of Texas-Austin
 * Ann C. Palmenberg, biochemist
 * Dr. Tim Palmer, professor of French and Japanese film studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
 * Bernhard Palsson, professor of bioengineering, University of California, San Diego
 * John Parascandola, medical historian
 * Gil-Sung Park, Korean sociologist
 * W. Robert Parks, former president, Iowa State University
 * Michael Quinn Patton, former professor of sociology, University of Minnesota
 * Rhea Paul, Founding chair of department of communication disorders at Sacred Heart University
 * John Allen Paulos, professor of mathematics, Temple University; author of books about the consequences of mathematical illiteracy
 * John Vernon Pavlik, professor of journalism, Rutgers University
 * Donald E. Pearson, former professor of chemistry, Vanderbilt University
 * Joseph A. Pechman, former senior fellow, Brookings Institution; former president, American Economic Association
 * John Pemberton, associate professor of anthropology, Columbia University
 * Selig Perlman, economist and labor historian
 * August Herman Pfund, former professor of physics, Johns Hopkins University
 * Anna Augusta Von Helmholtz-Phelan, assistant professor emeritus of English, University of Minnesota
 * Andrew C. Porter, former president, AERA; former professor, Vanderbilt University; dean of education, University of Pennsylvania
 * Warren P. Porter; biophysical ecologist, environmental toxicologist, and an academic
 * Alejandro Portes, professor of sociology, Princeton University
 * Philip S Portoghese, professor of medicinal chemistry, University of Minnesota
 * Catherine Prendergast, professor of English at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
 * L. Fletcher Prouty, former professor of air force science and tactics, Yale University
 * Benjamin Arthur Quarles, historian
 * Matthew Rabin, professor of economics, University of California, Berkeley
 * Marian Radke-Yarrow, psychologist, National Institute of Mental Health
 * Ronald Radosh, activist and historian
 * Douglas W. Rae, professor of political science, Yale University; author of Equalities
 * Jim Ranchino, late professor of political science, Ouachita Baptist University
 * John Rapp, professor of political science, Beloit College
 * George Rawick, historian
 * Joan Redwing, professor of materials science and engineering and electrical engineering, Pennsylvania State University
 * Robert A. Rees, former professor of English, UCLA
 * Thomas Reh, professor of biology, University of Washington
 * J. Wayne Reitz, professor of agricultural economics; fifth president of the University of Florida (1955-1967)
 * Frank J. Remington, former professor of law, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 * Justin Rhodes, professor of psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 * Lori Ringhand, professor of law, University of Georgia School of Law at University of Georgia
 * Walter Ristow, librarian
 * Temario Rivera, professor of political science, International Christian University
 * Anita Roberts, former biochemist, National Cancer Institute
 * Arthur H. Robinson, geographer
 * Stuart Rojstaczer, former professor of geophysics, Duke University
 * Gerhard Krohn Rollefson, former professor of chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
 * Ediberto Roman, professor of law, Florida International University College of Law and Florida International University
 * Jia Rongqing, professor of mathematics, University of Alberta
 * Charles E. Rosenberg, historian of science at Harvard University
 * Milton J. Rosenberg, professor emeritus of psychology, University of Chicago
 * Nathan Rosenberg, professor emeritus of economics, Stanford University; taught at Cambridge University
 * George C. Royal, microbiologist
 * Lee Albert Rubel, former professor of mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 * David S. Ruder, former dean of law, Northwestern University
 * Mary P. Ryan, professor of history, Johns Hopkins University and professor emerita of history, University of California, Berkeley
 * Joseph F. Rychlak, professor of humanistic psychology, Loyola University Chicago
 * Herbert J. Ryser, former professor of mathematics, California Institute of Technology and Ohio State University
 * Yuriko Saito, professor of philosophy, Rhode Island School of Design
 * Theodore Saloutos, former professor of history, UCLA
 * Warren Samuels, economist
 * Austin Sarat, professor of political science, Amherst College
 * Richard J. Saykally, professor of chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
 * George Schaller, biologist and conservationist
 * Richard Scheller, former professor of biochemistry, Stanford University
 * Steven Schier, professor of political science, Carleton College
 * Patrick Schloss, psychologist, author, researcher, and former president of Northern State University and Valdosta State University
 * Bernadotte Everly Schmitt, former president, American Historical Association; former professor of history, University of Chicago
 * Mark Schorer, former professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
 * Joan Wallach Scott, professor of history, Institute for Advanced Study
 * Michael L. Scott, professor of computer science, University of Rochester
 * John Searle, professor of philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
 * Robert Serber, former professor of physics, Columbia University; scientist on the Manhattan Project
 * Jim G. Shaffer, professor of anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
 * Cosma Shalizi, assistant professor of statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
 * Steven Shapin, historian of science, Harvard University
 * Ira Sharkansky, professor emeritus of political science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 * Lauriston Sharp, former professor of anthropology, Cornell University
 * Spencer Shaw, former professor of library science, University of Washington
 * Jerome Lee Shneidman, former professor of history at Adelphi University, specialist in psychohistory
 * Victor Shoup, professor of mathematics, New York University
 * Mona L. Siegel, professor of history, California State University, Sacramento
 * Daniel L. Simmons, professor of chemistry and director of the Cancer Research Center, Brigham Young University
 * Brooks D. Simpson, professor of history, Arizona State University
 * Louis B. Slichter, former professor of geophysics, MIT and UCLA
 * Sumner Slichter, former professor of economics, Harvard University
 * Ronald Smelser, former professor of history (University of Utah), Holocaust educator and author of The Myth of the Eastern Front
 * William Cunningham Smith, literature scholar
 * David R. Soll, professor of biology, University of Iowa
 * Robert Soucy, professor emeritus of history, Oberlin College
 * Roy Spencer, principal research scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville
 * Clint Sprott, physicist
 * Janet Staiger, professor of communication, University of Texas-Austin
 * George Stambolian, former professor of French, Wellesley College
 * Kenneth M. Stampp, former professor of history, University of California, Berkeley; taught at Harvard University, Oxford University, University of London, and University of Munich
 * Leon C. Standifer, professor of horticulture, Louisiana State University
 * Michael Starbird, professor of mathematics, University of Texas-Austin
 * Stephen C. Stearns, professor of biology, Yale University
 * Harry Steenbock, biochemist and Vitamin D researcher
 * George Steinmetz (academic), professor of sociology, University of Michigan
 * Christopher H. Sterling, professor of media and public affairs, George Washington University
 * C. Eugene Steuerle, Institute Fellow, Urban Institute
 * Robert Stickgold, associate professor of psychiatry, Harvard University
 * Philip Stieg, professor and chairman of neurosurgery at Weill Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Medical Center
 * Gilbert Stork, professor emeritus of chemistry at Columbia University
 * Murray A. Straus, sociologist and professor University of New Hampshire, creator of the Conflict tactics scale
 * Jon Strauss, former president of Harvey Mudd College
 * Robert P. Strauss, professor of economics and public policy, Carnegie Mellon University
 * Philip Taft, former professor of economics at Brown University
 * Sol Tax, former professor of anthropology, University of Chicago
 * Henry Charles Taylor, former professor of economics at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
 * Lily Ross Taylor, former professor of classics, University of California, Berkeley and Institute for Advanced Study
 * Paul Schuster Taylor, former professor of economics, University of California, Berkeley
 * Larry Temkin, professor of philosophy, Princeton University (starting in 2011)
 * Albert M. Ten Eyck, agriculturist and agronomist
 * Earle M. Terry, physicist
 * Victor A. Tiedjens, agricultural scientist at Rutgers University
 * Virginia Tilley, chief research specialist, Human sciences Research Council (South Africa)
 * Ignacio Tinoco, Jr., professor of chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
 * Steve Tittle, associate professor of composition and theory, Dalhousie University
 * Andrew P. Torrence (M.A. 1951; Ph.D. 1954), president of Tennessee State University (1968-1974); executive vice president and provost of Tuskegee University (1974-1980).
 * Sidney Dean Townley, former professor of astronomy, Stanford University
 * Paul M. Treichel, chemist
 * Glenn Thomas Trewartha, geographer
 * Susan Traverso, president of Thiel College, former provost of Elizabethtown College
 * Konrad Tuchscherer, associate professor of history and director of Africana studies at St. John's University
 * David Tulloch, associate professor of landscape architecture, Rutgers University
 * Melvin Tumin, former professor of sociology, Princeton University
 * Frederick Jackson Turner (1884, MA 1888), historian and professor, Pulitzer Prize winner
 * Joseph Tussman, former professor of philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
 * Michael Uebel, professor, author
 * Ruth Hill Useem, former professor of sociology, Michigan State University
 * Edwin Vedejs, former professor of chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Michigan
 * Victor Vacquier, former professor of geophysics, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
 * Bonita H. Valien, PhD, former professor of sociology at Fisk University, author of books about school desegregation.
 * Preston Valien, PhD, former professor of sociology at Fisk University and Brooklyn College; cultural attache in Nigeria.
 * Robert van de Geijn, professor of computer science, University of Texas-Austin
 * Andrew H. Van de Ven, professor of organizational innovation, University of Minnesota
 * Charles Van Hise, former president, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 * Martha Vicinus, professor of women's studies, University of Michigan
 * Julia Grace Wales, former professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison; taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of London
 * Cody Walker, lecturer in English, University of Michigan
 * John Charles Walker, plant pathologist
 * Hubert Stanley Wall, former mathematician at Northwestern University and the University of Texas-Austin
 * Martin Walt, professor of electrical engineering, Stanford University
 * David Der-wei Wang, professor of East Asian languages, Harvard University
 * David Ward, former president, American Council on Education
 * Arthur Waskow, former resident fellow, Institute for Policy Studies
 * John Watrous, associate professor of computer science, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo
 * Oliver Patterson Watts, chemical engineer
 * John Carrier Weaver, former professor of geography; former vice president for academic affairs, Ohio State University; former president, University of Wisconsin System
 * Warren Weaver, mathematician, Rockefeller Institute
 * Lee-Jen Wei, professor of biostatistics, Harvard University
 * I. Bernard Weinstein, former professor of medicine, Columbia University
 * Herman B Wells, former president, Indiana University
 * Norman Wengert, political scientist and professor
 * Peter Wenz, professor of philosophy, University of Illinois at Springfield
 * Mark Wessel, former dean, Carnegie Mellon University
 * Wyatt C. Whitley, professor of chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology
 * John Wilce, former professor of medicine, Ohio State University
 * John D. Wiley, former chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 * Dallas Willard, former professor of philosophy, University of Southern California
 * T. Harry Williams, historian
 * William Appleman Williams, historian of U.S. foreign relations
 * Greg Williamson, lecturer in English, Johns Hopkins University
 * Linda S. Wilson, president emerita, Radcliffe College; former vice president, University of Michigan
 * Christopher Winship, professor of sociology, Harvard University
 * Edward Witten, professor of physics, Institute for Advanced Study
 * Lawrence S. Wittner, professor of history, University at Albany, SUNY
 * Julian Wolpert, professor emeritus of geography, public affairs, and urban planning, Princeton University
 * David Woodward, geographer
 * Joseph Wong, vice president, international at University of Toronto
 * James Wright, 16th president of Dartmouth College
 * Yang Guanghua, Chinese engineer
 * Y. Lawrence Yao, professor of mechanical engineering, Columbia University
 * Stephen Yenser, professor of English, UCLA
 * John Milton Yinger, professor emeritus of Sociology at Oberlin College
 * Allyn Abbott Young, former professor of economics, Harvard University and the University of London
 * Brigitte Young, professor emerita of political science, University of Münster
 * Hugh Edwin Young, former chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison; former president, University of Wisconsin System
 * Nicholas S. Zeppos, chancellor of Vanderbilt University
 * Valdis Zeps, former linguist
 * Zheng Xiaocang, Chinese academic administrator
 * Maung Zarni, Burmese educator, academic, and human rights activist noted for his opposition to the violence in Rakhine State and Rohingya genocide
 * Andrew Zimbalist, professor of economics, Smith College
 * Norton Zinder, professor of microbiology, Rockefeller University
 * Jane Zuengler, professor of English; linguist