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

Dean’s Distinguished Professor

Elting E. Morison Chair

Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor

William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair

Comparative Media Studies/Writing

Ford International Career Development Professor

John E Burchard Professorship

KDD Career Development Professor In Comms & Tech

Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Professor

Thomas Meloy Professor of Rhetoric

Economics

3M Career Development Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics

Abdul Latif Jameel Prof in Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics

Barton L. Weller (1940) Professor

Castle Krob Career Development Professor

Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor

Ching Chih Chen (1963) Economics Fund

Class Of 1922 Professorship

Class of 1949 Professorship

Edward A. Abdun-Nur (1924) Professor

Elizabeth and James Killian (1926) Professor

Ford International Professor

Ford International Professor

Ford International Professor

Ford International Professor

Ford International Professor

Ford International Professor

Ford International Professor

Gary W. Loveman (1989) Career Development Professor

Gregory K Palm (1970) Professor

Institute Professor

Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Prof of Microeconomics

John & Jennie S Macdonald Professorship

Lister Brothers (Gordon K. ’30 and Donald K. ’34) CD Professor

Mitsui Professor in Problems of Contemporary Technology

Paul A. Samuelson Professorship Fund

Pentti J.K. Kouri Career Devel Professhp

Peter A. Diamond Professor

Peter de Florez Professor

Robert M.Solow Professorship Fund

History

Ann F. Friedlaender Professor

Barton L. Weller (1940) Professorship

Elting E. Morison Professor in Humanities

Ford International Professor

Ford International Professor

Ford International Professor of History

Genevieve McMillan & Reba Stewart Prof Study Women in Developing World

Leverett Howell Cutten ’07 and William King Cutten ’39 Professor

Mitsui Career Development Professor in Contemporary Technology

Old Dominion Career Development Professor

S. C. Fang Professor in Chinese Language and Culture

T. T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations

Linguistics & Philosophy

Alfred Henry (1929) and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Professor

Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities

Class Of 1941 Professorship

David W Skinner Professorship

Dean’s Distinguished Professor

Ford International Professor

Kenan Sahin (1963) Deanship Fund

Laurance S. Rockefeller Career Development Professor in Philosophy

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor in Philosophy

L S Rockefeller Professorship In Philosophy

Old Dominion Career Development Professor

Peter de Florez Professor

Literature

Arthur J Connor (1888) Professorship

Dean’s Distinguished Professor

Old Dominion Career Development Professor

Reed Professor in French Studies

S. C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language and Culture

Music and Theater Arts

Class Of 1949 Professorship

Class Of 1954 Career Development Professor

Institute Professor

Institute Professor

Kenan Sahin (1963) Distinguished Professor

Michael (1949) and Sonja Koerner Music Composition Professor

Quanta Computer Professor of Chinese Culture

Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor

Political Science

Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor

Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor

Class of 1922 Professor

Class of 1949 Professor

Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science

Ford International Career Development Professor

Ford International Professor

Ford International Professor

Ford Int Political Science Professor

Ford International Professor

Ford International Professor

Ford International Professor

Institute Professor

Kenan Sahin (1963) Distinguished Professor

Leo Marx CD Professor in the History and Culture of Science & Technology

Mitsui Professor in Problems of Contemporary Technology

Raphael Dorman & Helen Starbuck Meml

Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor in International Relations

Total Professor on Contemporary Africa

Science, Technology, and Society

Abby Rockfeller Mauze Professorship

Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities

Bern Dibner Professor in the History of Science and Technology

Ford International Career Development Professor

Frances & David Dibner Professor in the History of Eng and Manufacturing

Leverett Howell Cutten ’07 and William King Cutten ’39 Professor

Old Dominion Career Development Professor

Old Dominion Career Development Professor

The Germeshausen Professor

Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in History of Science

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