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MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences - Great Ideas Change the World

Endowed Chairs 
 


 

 
 

Professorship

 

Holder
 

Anthropology  
Elting E. Morison Professor in Humanities Stefan Helmreich
MacVicar Faculty Fellow Jean Jackson
Class of 1947 Career Development Professor Erica James
Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor in Humanities Susan Silbey


Economics
 
Elizabeth and James Killian 1926 Professor Daron Acemoglu
Ford Foundation International Professor Joshua Angrist
Ford Foundation International Professor Abhijit Banerjee
Robert M. Solow Professor Olivier Blanchard
Ford Foundation International Professor Ricardo Caballero
Abdul Latif Jameel Professor in Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics Esther Duflo
3M Professor in Environmental Economics Michael Greenstone
MacVicar Faculty Fellow Jonathan Gruber
John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor Jerry Hausman
Castle Krob Career Development Professor of Economics Anna Mikusheva
Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Microeconomics Whitney Newey
Mitsui Professor in Problems of Contemporary Technology James Poterba
Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics
MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Nancy Rose
Elizabeth and James Killian 1926 Professor Robert Townsend

 
Foreign Languages and Literatures
 
T. T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations Emma Teng
Kochi Prefecture - John Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture Shigeru Miyagawa
S. C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language & Culture Jing Wang

 
History
 
Class of 1954 Career Development Professor
MacVicar Faculty Fellow
William Broadhead
Genevieve McMillan & Reba Stewart Career Development Professor Lerna Ekmekcioglu
Ford International Professor Philip S. Khoury
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Pauline Maier
MacVicar Faculty Fellow Anne McCants
Arthur J. Conner (1888) Professor Harriet Ritvo

 
Linguistics and Philosophy
 
MacVicar Faculty Fellow David Pesetsky
MacVicar Faculty Fellow Norvin Richards
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy Robert Stalnaker
Class of 1941 Professor Donca Steriade

 
Literature
 
Ford International Professor Peter Donaldson
MacVicar Faculty Fellow Diana Henderson
Ann F. Friedlaender Professor
MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Ruth Perry
MacVicar Faculty Fellow Stephen Tapscott
Alfred Henry and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Chair Arthur Bahr

 
Music and Theater Arts
 
Class of 1949 Professor
MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Peter Child
Homer A. Burnell Career Development Professor Michael Cuthbert
Institute Professor John Harbison
Robert R. Taylor Professor Marcus Thompson
Kenan Sahin (1963) Distinguished Professor Evan Ziporyn

 
Political Science
 
Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of International Relations Suzanne Berger
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor Melissa Nobles
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor Roger Petersen
Ford Foundation International Professor Barry Posen
TOTAL Professor on Contemporary Africa Daniel Posner
Ford Foundation International Professor of Political Science Richard Samuels
Ford International Professor Ben Ross Schneider
Ford International Professor Kathleen Thelen

 
Science, Technology, and Society
 
The Germeshausen Professor
MacVicar Faculty Fellow
David Kaiser
Frances and David Dibner Professor in the History of Engineering and Manufacturing David Mindell
Marx Career Development Professor Hanna Rose Shell
Leverett Howell Cutten '07 and William King Cutten '39 Professor Merritt Roe Smith
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor Sherry Turkle
Bern Dibner Professor in the History of Science and Technology Rosalind Williams

 
Writing and Humanistic Studies
 
Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Professor Junot Díaz
Thomas Meloy Professor of Rhetoric Kenneth Manning
Robert M. Metcalfe Professor of Writing James Paradis

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

As of July 1, 2012