Faculty Profiles

James E. Rothman
Sterling Professor of Cell Biology and Professor of ChemistryThis is an addition to the story originally published on 10/07/2013: In 2017 James E. Rothman, was appointed as a Sterling Professor of Cell Biology. A Sterling Professorship is one of the university’s highest faculty honors. October 7, 2013... read more

Meet the Deans: Alan Gerber, Amy Hungerford, & Paul Turner
This is the first installment in a series of short profiles of the members of the FAS Dean’s Office leadership team. Future articles will focus on the deans of faculty affairs, of diversity and faculty development, and of academic affairs. Three... read more

Mark Saltzman
Chair, Dept of Biomedical Engineering and Goizueta Foundation Professor of Chemical and Biomedical EngineeringW. Mark Saltzman is an engineer and educator. Dr. Saltzman's research has impacted the fields of drug delivery, biomaterials, nanobiotechnology, and tissue engineering: this work is described in over 200 research papers, 2 edited books, and 15... read more

Jacob Hacker
Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science & Director of the Institute for Social and Policy StudiesJacob S. Hacker, Ph.D., is the Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is also Vice President of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and a former... read more

Kathryn Lofton
Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, History and DivinityKathryn Lofton is a historian of religion with a particular focus on the cultural and intellectual history of the United States. Her archival expertise is in the post-Civil War era, but her research draws upon the histories and anthropology of... read more

Paul Fry
William Lampson Professor of English & Director of Graduate StudiesPaul H. Fry is the William Lampson Professor of English and has taught at Yale since 1971. He received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph. D. from Harvard. His primary areas of specialization are British romanticism, the... read more

Seyla Benhabib
Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science & PhilosophySeyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and was Director of the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics (2002-2008). Professor Benhabib was the President of the Eastern Division of the... read more

Robert Schoelkopf
Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, and Associate Director of the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum EngineeringRobert J. Schoelkopf, recently appointed as Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, focuses his research on the development of superconducting devices for quantum information processing, which might eventually lead to revolutionary... read more

Joan A. Steitz
Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and BiochemistryLining a shelf in the office of Joan A. Steitz, Ph.D., is a row of champagne bottles, each label signed in a rite of passage by graduate students when they completed their doctoral work in Steitz’s lab, almost all of whom moved on to faculty... read more