Academics

The Stanford Faculty

David Starr Jordan was appointed president in March 1891, and by June his first faculty -- 15 men of "youth and scholarly promise" -- had accepted appointments. Jordan sought professors who combined abilities for teaching and research, and he wrote, "Mr. Stanford wants me to get the best. He wants no ornamental or idle professors."

Today, Stanford has 2,153 members of the professoriate faculty. Faculty at Stanford are expected to be among the best teachers and researchers in their fields. There are 562 faculty members appointed to endowed chairs.

Stanford's current community of scholars includes:

• 20 Nobel laureates
• 4 Pulitzer Prize winners
• 29 MacArthur Fellows
• 3 National Humanities Medal recipients
• 18 National Medal of Science recipients
• 2 National Medal of Technology recipients
• 5 Wolf Foundation Prize winners
• 2 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
• 287 American Academy of Arts and Sciences members
• 163 National Academy of Sciences members
• 107 National Academy of Engineering members
• 66 National Academy of Medicine members
• 29 National Academy of Education members
• 48 American Philosophical Society members
• 2 Fields Medal winners
• 6 Koret Foundation Prize winners
• 1 National Medal of Arts winner

Nobel Laureates

Thirty-one Stanford faculty have won the Nobel Prize since the university's founding. Twenty Nobel laureates are currently members of the Stanford community. For more details, please visit our Stanford Nobel Prize website.

Pulitzer Prize Winners

• Adam Johnson
  2013, Fiction
• David M. Kennedy
  2000, History
• Jack Rakove
  1997, History
• James Risser
  1976, 1979, National Reporting

 

This page last modified Nov 30, 2015.