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

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

Mitsui Car Dev Prof Contemp Technology

Robert M. Metcalfe Professor of Writing

Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Professor

Thomas Meloy Professor of Rhetoric

Economics

Lister Brothers Career Development Professor

Edward A. Abdun-Nur (1924) Professor

Barton L. Weller (1940) Professor

Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor

Castle Krob Career Development Professor

Ching Chih Chen (1963) Economics Fund

Class Of 1922 Professorship

Class of 1949 Professorship

Ford International Prof

Ford International Prof

Ford International Prof

Ford International Prof

Ford International Prof

Ford International Prof

Ford International Prof

Gary W Loveman (1989) Fund

Gregory K Palm (1970) Fund

J R & E Killian-Class Of 26 Prof

Jameel Prof In Pov Allev & Devel Econ

Jane And Dennis Carlton Fund

John & Jennie S Macdonald Professorship

Mitsui Group Of Japan

Paul A. Samuelson Professorship Fund

Pentti J.K. Kouri Career Devel Professhp

Peter de Florez Professor

Peter Diamond Professorship Qe Fund

Robert M.Solow Professorship Fund

Rudi Dornbusch Fund

Silverman Family Fund In Economics

History

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

Mitsui Career Development Professor in Contemporary Technology

Ann F. Friedlaender Professor

Barton L. Weller (1940) Professorship

Ford International Professor

Ford International Professor

Ford International Professor of History

Genevieve McMillan & Reba Stewart Prof Study Women in Developing World

S.C. Fang Chinese Language and Culture

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

Linguistics & Philosophy

Peter de Florez Professor

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor in Philosophy

Laurance S. Rockefeller Career Development Professor in Philosophy

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

Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities

Anshen-Chomsky Professorship in Language & Thought

Class Of 1941 Professorship

David W Skinner Professorship

Dean’s Distinguished Professor

Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics

Ford International Professor

Kenan Sahin (1963) Deanship Fund

L S Rockefeller Professorship In Philosophy

Old Dominion

Literature

Arthur J Conner (1888) Professorship

Reed Professor in French Studies

S. C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language and Culture

Music and Theater Arts

Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor

Class Of 1949 Professorship

Class Of 1954 Career Development Prof

Kenan Sahin (1963) Distinguished Professor

Michael (1949) and Sonja Koerner Music Composition Professor

Quanta Professor of Chinese Culture

Political Science

Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor in International Relations

Class of 1949 Professor

Elting Morison Professor

Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor

Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor

Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor

Class of 1922 Professor

Class Of 1943 Career Development Prof

Ford Int Political Science Professor

Ford International Career Development Professor

Ford International Professor

Ford International Professor

Ford International Professor

Ford International Professor

Ford International Professor

Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science

Kenan Sahin (1963) Distinguished Professor

Marx Cd Prof In Hist And Tech Of Culture

Mitsui Group Of Japan

Raphael Dorman & Helen Starbuck Meml

Silverman (1968) Family Fund

Total Professor on Contemporary Africa

Science, Technology and Society

Abbey Rockfeller Mauze Professorship

Andrew W. Mellon Professor

Bern Dibner Chair

Ford Foundation International Asst Profs

Frances & David Dibner Chair Fund

Germeshausen Professorship

L H Cutten (’07) & W K Cutten (’39) Prof

L H Cutten (’07) & W K Cutten (’39) Prof

Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in History of Science

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