List of University of California, Santa Barbara faculty

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

Nobel laureates

Current faculty

• David Gross, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2004^[1]
• Alan Heeger, Nobel Prize recipient, Chemistry, 2000^[1]
• Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize recipient, Chemistry, 1998^[1]
• Herbert Kroemer, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2000^[1]
• Finn Kydland, Nobel Prize recipient, Economics, 2004^[1]
• Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2014^[1]

Former faculty

• Edward C. Prescott, Nobel Prize recipient, Economics, 2004^[2]
• John Robert Schrieffer, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 1972^[3]
• Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize recipient, Physics, 2004^[4]

Pulitzer Prize

• Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize for History recipient, 2013
• N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction recipient, 1969

Anthropology

• James F. Brooks, historian, Native Americans
• Napoleon Chagnon, pioneer of biologically based interpretation of human reproductive and aggressive behavior^[5]
• Brian Fagan ^[6]
• 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^[7]
• John Tooby, pioneer of evolutionary psychology^[8]

Art

• Kip Fulbeck^[9]

Botany

• Katherine Esau

Chemical engineering

• Jacob Israelachvili ^[10]

Chemistry and biochemistry

• Thomas C. Bruice, coined the term "bio-organic chemistry", member of National Academy of Science^[11]
• Craig Hawker ^[12]
• Bruce H. Lipshutz, professor, made significant contributions to copper catalyzed organic reactions^[13]
• Ralph G. Pearson, Emeritus, coined the concepts of "hard" and "soft" for acids and bases^[14][15]
• Galen D. Stucky, early researcher in the field of materials chemistry ^[16]

Chicano studies

• Luis Leal

Computer science

• Tao Yang^[17]

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^[18]

East Asian languages and cultural studies

• John Nathan^[19]

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 ^[20]

Electrical and computer engineering

• Lawrence Rabiner^[21]
• Petar V. Kokotovic^[22]

English

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

Feminist studies

• Leila Rupp

Film and media studies

• Dick Hebdige^[23]

Geography

• Reginald Golledge, pioneer in behavioral geography
• Michael Frank Goodchild, most known for work on GIS, or computer mapping^[24]
• David Lopez-Carr
• Waldo R. Tobler, known for his first law of geography^[25]

Geology

• Tanya Atwater, instrumental in the development of the theory of plate tectonics^[26]
• Stanley Awramik
• 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^[27]
• 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

Linguistics

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

Materials

• Arthur Gossard^[28]
• Shuji Nakamura^[29]

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^[30]

Media arts and technology

• Curtis Roads^[31]

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,^[32] 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^[33]
• Nathan Salmon^[34]

Physics

• David Awschalom, best known for his work in spintronics in semiconductors^[35]
• 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^[36]
• James S. Langer
• Joseph Polchinski^[37]

Political science

• Benjamin Cohen, leading scholar in the field of international political economy

Psychological and brain sciences

• Leda Cosmides, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology^[38]
• Michael Gazzaniga, pioneer of cognitive neuroscience^[39]

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

See also

• List of University of California, Santa Barbara alumni

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