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.
See Endowed Chairs by unit:
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
Mitsui Car Dev Prof Contemp Technology
Paul Roquet
Robert M. Metcalfe Professor of Writing
Jim Paradis
Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Professor
Junot Diaz
Thomas Meloy Professor of Rhetoric
Ken Manning
Economics
Lister Brothers Career Development Professor
Nina Isabelle Natacha Roussille
Edward A. Abdun-Nur (1924) Professor
Anna Mikusheva
Barton L. Weller (1940) Professor
David Atkin
Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor
Isaiah Smith Andrews
Castle Krob Career Development Professor
Tobias Salz
Ching Chih Chen (1963) Economics Fund
Nancy Rose
Class Of 1922 Professorship
Parag Pathak
Class of 1949 Professorship
David Donaldson
Ford International Prof
Victor Chernozhukov
Ford International Prof
Ricardo Caballero
Ford International Prof
Whitney Newey
Ford International Prof
David Autor
Ford International Prof
Abhijit Banerjee
Ford International Prof
Jonathan Gruber
Ford International Prof
Joshua Angrist
Gary W Loveman (1989) Fund
Ian Ball
Gregory K Palm (1970) Fund
Glenn Ellison
J R & E Killian-Class Of 26 Prof
Robert Townsend
Jameel Prof In Pov Allev & Devel Econ
Esther Duflo
Jane And Dennis Carlton Fund
Benjamin Olken
John & Jennie S Macdonald Professorship
Amy Finkelstein
Mitsui Group Of Japan
James Poterba
Paul A. Samuelson Professorship Fund
Drew Fudenberg
Pentti J.K. Kouri Career Devel Professhp
Martin Beraja
Peter de Florez Professor
Sendhil Mullainathan
Peter Diamond Professorship Qe Fund
Stephen Morris
Robert M.Solow Professorship Fund
Ivan Werning
Rudi Dornbusch Fund
Christian Wolf
Silverman Family Fund In Economics
Simon Jeager
History
Leverett Howell Cutten ’07 and William King Cutten ’39 Professor
Tanalis Padilla
Mitsui Career Development Professor in Contemporary Technology
Hiromu Nagahara
Ann F. Friedlaender Professor
Anne McCants
Barton L. Weller (1940) Professorship
Craig Wilder
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
S.C. Fang Chinese Language and Culture
Tristan Brown
T. T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations
Emma (Teng) Chung
Linguistics & Philosophy
Peter de Florez Professor
Kieran Setiya
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor in Philosophy
Alexander Byrne
Laurance S. Rockefeller Career Development Professor in Philosophy
Sam Berstler
Alfred Henry (1929) and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Professor
Athulya Aravind
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
Kai von Fintel
Anshen-Chomsky Professorship in Language & Thought
Daniel Fox
Class Of 1941 Professorship
Donca Steriade
David W Skinner Professorship
Sabine Iatridou
Dean’s Distinguished Professor
Norvin Richards
Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics
David Pesetsky
Ford International Professor
Sally Haslanger
Kenan Sahin (1963) Deanship Fund
Agustín Rayo
L S Rockefeller Professorship In Philosophy
Bradford Skow
Old Dominion
Kevin Dorst
Literature
Arthur J Conner (1888) Professorship
Diana Henderson
Reed Professor in French Studies
Bruno Perreau
S. C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language and Culture
Wiebke Denecke
Music and Theater Arts
Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor
Anna Huang
Class Of 1949 Professorship
Jay R Scheib
Class Of 1954 Career Development Prof
Natalie Lin-Douglas
Kenan Sahin (1963) Distinguished Professor
Evan Ziporyn
Michael (1949) and Sonja Koerner Music Composition Professor
Keeril Makan
Quanta Professor of Chinese Culture
Claire Conceison
Political Science
Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor in International Relations
Elisabeth Rosemary Caitlin Talmadge
Class of 1949 Professor
Devin Caughey
Elting Morison Professor
Christopher Capozzola
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor
Taylor Fravel
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor
Andrea Campbell
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor
Roger Petersen
Class of 1922 Professor
Melissa Nobles
Class Of 1943 Career Development Prof
Bernardo Zacka
Ford Int Political Science Professor
Richard Samuels
Ford International Career Development Professor
Volha Charnysh
Ford International Professor
Kathleen Thelen
Ford International Professor
Fotini Christia
Ford International Professor
Barry Posen
Ford International Professor
Ben Schneider
Ford International Professor
Lily Tsai
Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science
Vipin Narang
Kenan Sahin (1963) Distinguished Professor
Charles Stewart
Marx Cd Prof In Hist And Tech Of Culture
Erik Lin-Greenberg
Mitsui Group Of Japan
Adam Berinsky
Raphael Dorman & Helen Starbuck Meml
David Singer
Silverman (1968) Family Fund
Ariel White
Total Professor on Contemporary Africa
Evan Lieberman
Science, Technology and Society
Abbey Rockfeller Mauze Professorship
Sherry Turkle
Andrew W. Mellon Professor
Michael Fischer
Bern Dibner Chair
Jennifer Light
Ford Foundation International Asst Profs
Elias Nelson
Frances & David Dibner Chair Fund
David Mindell
Germeshausen Professorship
David Kaiser
L H Cutten (’07) & W K Cutten (’39) Prof
Deborah Fitzgerald
L H Cutten (’07) & W K Cutten (’39) Prof
Merritt Roe Smith
Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in History of Science
Kate Brown