Endowed Chairs
Tributes to exceptional scholarship
Endowed chairs are the highest academic award bestowed by MIT to a faculty member, honoring both the faculty and the donor who establishes it as a lasting tribute. Faculty members selected for endowed chairs are recognized for their exceptional scholarship, teaching, and research contributions, representing a prestigious honor within academia and providing a permanent legacy of excellence.
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Anthropology
Class of 1957 Career Dev Chair
Héctor Beltrán
Dean’s Distinguished Professor
Christine Walley
Elting E. Morison Chair
Stefan Helmreich
Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor
Susan Silbey
William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair
Heather Paxson
Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Ford International Career Development Professor
Paloma Duong
John E Burchard Professorship
Edward Schiappa
KDD Career Development Professor In Comms & Tech
Crystal Lee
Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Professor
Junot Diaz
Thomas Meloy Professor of Rhetoric
Ken Manning
Economics
3M Career Development Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics
Jacob Moscona
Abdul Latif Jameel Prof in Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics
Esther Duflo
Barton L. Weller (1940) Professor
David Atkin
Castle Krob Career Development Professor
Tobias Salz
Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor
Isaiah Smith Andrews
Ching Chih Chen (1963) Economics Fund
Nancy Rose
Class Of 1922 Professorship
Parag Pathak
Class of 1949 Professorship
David Donaldson
Edward A. Abdun-Nur (1924) Professor
Anna Mikusheva
Elizabeth and James Killian (1926) Professor
Robert Townsend
Ford International Professor
Joshua Angrist
Ford International Professor
David Autor
Ford International Professor
Abhijit Banerjee
Ford International Professor
Ricardo Caballero
Ford International Professor
Victor Chernozhukov
Ford International Professor
Jonathan Gruber
Ford International Professor
Whitney Newey
Gary W. Loveman (1989) Career Development Professor
Ian Ball
Gregory K Palm (1970) Professor
Glenn Ellison
Institute Professor
Daron Acemoglu
Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Prof of Microeconomics
Benjamin Olken
John & Jennie S Macdonald Professorship
Amy Finkelstein
Lister Brothers (Gordon K. ’30 and Donald K. ’34) CD Professor
Nina Isabelle Natacha Roussille
Mitsui Professor in Problems of Contemporary Technology
James Poterba
Paul A. Samuelson Professorship Fund
Drew Fudenberg
Pentti J.K. Kouri Career Devel Professhp
Martin Beraja
Peter A. Diamond Professor
Stephen Morris
Peter de Florez Professor
Sendhil Mullainathan
Robert M.Solow Professorship Fund
Ivan Werning
History
Ann F. Friedlaender Professor
Anne McCants
Barton L. Weller (1940) Professorship
Craig Wilder
Elting E. Morison Professor in Humanities
Christopher Capozzola
Ford International Professor
Kenda Mutongi
Ford International Professor
Elizabeth Wood
Ford International Professor of History
Philip Khoury
Genevieve McMillan & Reba Stewart Prof Study Women in Developing World
Lerna Ekmekcioglu
Leverett Howell Cutten ’07 and William King Cutten ’39 Professor
Tanalis Padilla
Mitsui Career Development Professor in Contemporary Technology
Hiromu Nagahara
Old Dominion Career Development Professor
Elena Kempf
S. C. Fang Professor in Chinese Language and Culture
Tristan Brown
T. T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations
Emma (Teng) Chung
Linguistics & Philosophy
Alfred Henry (1929) and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Professor
Athulya Aravind
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
Kai von Fintel
Class Of 1941 Professorship
Donca Steriade
David W Skinner Professorship
Sabine Iatridou
Dean’s Distinguished Professor
Norvin Richards
Ford International Professor
Sally Haslanger
Kenan Sahin (1963) Deanship Fund
Agustín Rayo
Laurance S. Rockefeller Career Development Professor in Philosophy
Sam Berstler
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor in Philosophy
Alexander Byrne
L S Rockefeller Professorship In Philosophy
Bradford Skow
Old Dominion Career Development Professor
Michel Matthias
Peter de Florez Professor
Kieran Setiya
Literature
Arthur J Connor (1888) Professorship
Diana Henderson
Dean’s Distinguished Professor
Joshua Bennett
Old Dominion Career Development Professor
Jessica Ruffin
Reed Professor in French Studies
Bruno Perreau
S. C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language and Culture
Wiebke Denecke
Music and Theater Arts
Class Of 1949 Professorship
Jay R Scheib
Class Of 1954 Career Development Professor
Natalie Lin
Institute Professor
John Harbison
Institute Professor
Marcus Thompson
Kenan Sahin (1963) Distinguished Professor
Evan Ziporyn
Michael (1949) and Sonja Koerner Music Composition Professor
Keeril Makan
Quanta Computer Professor of Chinese Culture
Claire Conceison
Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor
Anna Huang
Political Science
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor
Andrea Campbell
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor
Taylor Fravel
Class of 1922 Professor
Melissa Nobles
Class of 1949 Professor
Devin Caughey
Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science
Vipin Narang
Ford International Career Development Professor
Volha Charnysh
Ford International Professor
Fotini Christia
Ford International Professor
Barry Posen
Ford Int Political Science Professor
Richard Samuels
Ford International Professor
Ben Schneider
Ford International Professor
Kathleen Thelen
Ford International Professor
Lily Tsai
Institute Professor
Suzanne Berger
Kenan Sahin (1963) Distinguished Professor
Charles Stewart
Leo Marx CD Professor in the History and Culture of Science & Technology
Erik Lin-Greenberg
Mitsui Professor in Problems of Contemporary Technology
Adam Berinsky
Raphael Dorman & Helen Starbuck Meml
David Singer
Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor in International Relations
Elisabeth Rosemary Caitlin Talmadge
Total Professor on Contemporary Africa
Evan Lieberman
Science, Technology, and Society
Abby Rockfeller Mauze Professorship
Sherry Turkle
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
Michael Fischer
Bern Dibner Professor in the History of Science and Technology
Jennifer Light
Ford International Career Development Professor
Elias Nelson
Frances & David Dibner Professor in the History of Eng and Manufacturing
David Mindell
Leverett Howell Cutten ’07 and William King Cutten ’39 Professor
Merritt Roe Smith
Old Dominion Career Development Professor
Oliver Rollins
Old Dominion Career Development Professor
Ishani Saraf
The Germeshausen Professor
David Kaiser
Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in History of Science
Kate Brown