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Stewardship and Public Programs :: Named Professorships

Named Endowed Professorship

 

Faculty Currently Assigned

The Frederick B. Artz Professorship (history)

 

Leonard Smith

The David H. & Margaret W. Barker Professorship in Natural Sciences

 

Lynne Bianchi (Neuroscience)

The Robert W. & Eleanor H. Biggs Professorship in the Natural Sciences

 

Bruce Simonson (Geology)

The James R. Clark Chair in Mathematics

 

Robert Young

The Danforth Foundation Professorship in Religion

 

Grover Zinn

The Robert S. Danforth Professorship in Biology

 

David Benzing

The Robert S. Danforth Professorship in Government

 

Sonia Kruks

The Robert S. Danforth Professorship in History

 

Michael Fisher

The Danforth/Lewis Professorship in Economics

 

Kenneth Kuttner

The Francis W. & Lydia L. Davis Chair in Religion

 

David Kamitsuka

The Pauline M. Delaney Endowed Professorship in Creative Writing and Literature

 

Martha Collins

The Ruth Strickland Gardner Conservatory Professorship

 

Tim Weiss (Conducting)

The Nathan A. Greenberg Professorship in Classics

 

Thomas Van Nortwick

The Andrew '42 & Pauline Delaney Endowed Chair in Teacher Education

 

Currently vacant

The Andrew & Pauline Delaney Endowed Professorship in Mathematics

 

Susan Colley

The Francis D. Federighi, PhD ’53 Professorship in Natural Science

 

Dan Stinebring (Physics)

The Environmental Studies Endowed Professorship

 

David Orr

The Norman D. Henderson Endowed Professorship (psychology)

 

Currently vacant

The Irvin E. Houck Professorship (humanities)

 

Dan Chaon (Creative Writing)

Mildred C. Jay Professorship (art)

 

William Hood

The Donald R. Longman Professorship in English

 

Sandra Zagarell

The Donald R. Longman Chair in English

 

Anu Needham

The Donald R. Longman '32 Professorship in the Natural Sciences

 

Stephen Wojtal (Geology)

The Donald R. Longman Professorship in Biology/Chemistry

 

Catherine McCormick

Ruberta T. McCandless Professorship in French

 

Janice Zinser

The James Monroe Professorship (politics and international law)

 

Ronald Kahn

The NEA Conservatory Challenge Professorship

 

Currently vacant

 

The Eric & Jane Nord Professorship

 

Gina Perez (Comparative American Studies)

The Eric & Jane Nord Professorship

 

Currently vacant

The John C. Reid Professorship of Expository Writing

 

Janice Cooper

The William G. ‘38 & Jeanette Williams Smith ‘39 Professorship (social sciences)

 

Veljko Vujacic (Sociology)

The Robert W. Wheeler Professorship (Conservatory performance)

 

Richard Miller (Vocal studies)

The Eva & John Young-Hunter Professorship (studio art)

 

John Pearson

For more information about creating an endowed professorship, please contact the Leadership Giving staff at leadership.giving@oberlin.edu or fill out the request for more information form.