Arthur F. Thurnau Professorships 1988-2021 [back]

2021

Branko Kerkez, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sarah C. Koch, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Richard L. Lewis, John R. Anderson Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences, and Professor of Psychology and of Linguistics
Stephen M. Ward, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African studies and Associate Professor in the Residential College
M. Remi Yergeau, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature and Associate Professor in the Digital Studies Institute

2020

Miranda D. Brown, Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
Gyorgyi Csankovszki, Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
John Montgomery, Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, and Professor of Chemistry
Susan Scott Parrish, Professor of English Language and Literature
Angela Violi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering

2019

Henriette D.M. Elvang, Professor of Physics
Bogdan Epureanu, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Sandra R. Gunning, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Professor of American Culture, Professor of English Language and Literature, Professor of Women’s Studies, and Professor in the Honors Program
Sandra R. Levitsky, Associate Professor of Sociology
Adam C. Simon, Professor of Earth and Environmental Studies, and Professor of Environment
Michaela T. Zint, Professor of Environment and Sustainability, Professor of Environment, and Professor of Education

2018

Eric Bell, Professor of Astronomy and Professor in the Honors Program
Jason De León, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Jason McCormick, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ellen Rowe, Professor of Music

2017

Evelyn Alsultany, Associate Professor of American Culture
Valeria Bertacco, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Deborah Goldberg, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Mark Moldwin, Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
J. Logan Skelton, Professor of Music
Donald Zak, Professor of Natural Resources and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

2016

Aline Cotel, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Fiona Lee, Professor of Psychology and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Joanna Millunchick, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Kathleen Sienko, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Arthur Verhoogt, Professor of Papyrology and Greek
Patricia Wittkopp, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

2015

Matthew Lassiter, Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning
Anna Kirkland, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science
John Wolfe, Professor of Chemistry
Barry Fishman, Professor of Education and Professor of Information
Jeremy Semrau, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Natural Resources and Environment, and Professor of Environment

2014

Melissa M. Gross, Associate Professor of Movement Science, School of Kinesiology and Associate Professor of Art and Design, Stamps School of Art and Design
Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Anne J. McNeil, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Associate Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Jamie D. Phillips, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Megan L. Sweeney, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Associate Professor of Women's Studies
Michael Thouless, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

2013

Samuel D. Epstein, Professor of Linguistics
Martha S. Jones, Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies
Fritz Kaenzig, Professor of Music (Tuba and Euphonium)
Janie Paul, Professor of Art and Professor of Social Work
Volker Sick, Associate Vice President for Research-Natural Sciences and Engineering, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
L. Monique Ward, Professor of Psychology

2012

Joseph L. Bull, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Michael Haithcock, Professor of Conducting, School of Music, Theatre and Dance
Sadashi Inuzuka, Professor of Art and Design
Bradford G. Orr, Professor of Physics
Brian Porter-Szucs, Professor of History, and Professor of Russian and East European and Eurasian Studies
Steven J. Skerlos, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

2011

Amy E. Cohn, Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering
Stephen M. DeBacker, Professor of Mathematics
Mika T. LaVaque-Manty, Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Professor of Philosophy
Barry G. Rabe, Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Environmental Policy
Melanie S. Sanford, Professor of Chemistry
Colleen M. Seifert, Professor of Psychology

2010

Joel D. Blum, Professor of Geological Sciences and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Anne Ruggles Gere, Professor of Education and English Language and Literature
Louis E. Loeb, Professor of Philosophy
Robin M. Queen, Professor of Linguistics and Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Edward West, Professor of Art

2009

Charles C. Bright, Professor of History and Director of Residential College
August E. Evrard, Professor of Physics
Andrei S. Markovits, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Political Science
James P. Walsh, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Corporate Strategy, and International Business
Margaret S. Wooldridge, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering

2008

James Cogswell, Jr., Professor of Art
Sherman Jackson, Professor of Near Eastern Studies
Robert Megginson, Associate Dean and Professor of Mathematics
Dana Muir, Professor of Business Law
Ann Marie Sastry, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering
Peter Washabaugh, Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering

2007

Peter Chen, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Anne Curzan, Associate Professor of English
David Gerdes, Associate Professor of Physics
James Holloway, Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Carla O'Connor, Associate Professor of Educational Studies Program
Andrew Shryock, Associate Professor of Anthropology

2006

Alec Gallimore, Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Initiatives, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies and Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Annemarie Palincsar, Associate Dean, School of Education, Professor of Reading and Literacy and Education
Thad Polk, Associate Professor of Psychology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Peter Sparling, Professor of Dance
Steven Wright, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Georgette Zirbes, Professor of Art

2005

James Barber, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Freda Herseth , Associate Professor of Voice
Timothy McKay, Associate Professor of Physics
Lester Monts , Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of Musicology
Takeshi Takahara, Professor of Art
Alford Young, Jr., Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Professor of Afroamerican/African Studies

2004

William Gehring, Associate Professor of Psychology
J. Wayne Jones, Professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering
Elizabeth Moje, Associate Professor of Education
Scott Moore, Associate Professor of Computer and Information Systems
Robert Owen, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and Long Range Planning and Professor of Marine Geochemistry

2003

William Alexander, Professor of English Language and Literature
H. Scott Fogler, Vennema Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering
Richard Hume, Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Timothy R.B. Johnson, Bates Professor of Diseases of Women and Children and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Professor of Women's Studies
Yili Liu, Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering

2002

Annette W. LeCuyer, Associate Professor of Architecture
Edward L. Parmentier, Professor of Music
Kenneth Grant Powell, Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Paul G. Rasmussen, Professor of Chemistry & Professor of Macromolecular Science & Engineering
Robert H. Sharf, Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
Elliot Soloway, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

2001

Richard B. Brown, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Susan H.C. Brown, Associate Professor of Kinesiology
Bunyan Bryant, Professor of Natural Resources
Brian P. Coppola, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Laura J. Olsen, Associate Professor of Biology
Noel C. Perkins, Professor of Mechanical Engineering

2000

Susan E. Alcock, Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics
Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Professor of Education
Michael D. Gordon, Professor of Computer and Information Systems
Lorraine M. Gutierrez, Associate Professor of Social Work and Associate Professor of Psychology
Robert Krasny, Professor of Mathematics
H. Robert Reynolds, Professor of Music (Conducting)
John Whittier-Ferguson, Associate Professor of English
Alan S. Wineman, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

1999

Julia Potter Adams, Associate Professor of Sociology
Dionissios N. Assanis, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Vincent E. Castagnacci, Professor of Art
Susan J. Douglas, Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication
A. Roberto Frisancho, Professor of Anthropology
Khalil Najafi, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Christopher M. Peterson, Professor of Psychology

1998

Tomas Almaguer, Associate Professor of Sociology and American Culture
Frederick R. Amrine, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures
Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies
Yale N. Patt, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Theresa L. Tinkle, Associate Professor of English
Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

1997

Luis O. Gòmez, Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
Sally Haslanger, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies
James L. Hilton, Associate Professor of Psychology
Diane M. Kirkpatrick, Professor of History of Art
Valerie A. Kivelson, Associate Professor of History
Michael G. Parsons, Professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Phillip E. Savage, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

1996

Kathleen M. Canning, Associate Professor of History
Paul N. Courant, Professor of Economics & Public Policy
Anthony H. Francis, Professor of Chemistry
Bruce H. Karnopp, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Michael M. Martin, Professor of Biology
David S. Potter, Associate Professor of Greek and Latin

1995

Frances Aparicio, Professor of Spanish and American Culture
June M. Howard, Associate Professor of English Language and Women's Studies
Pramod P. Khargonekar, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Kenneth G. Lieberthal, Professor of Political Science
Perry J. Samson, Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
John D. Speth, Curator, Museum of Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology

1994

Elizabeth S. Anderson, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Morton Brown, Professor of Mathematics
Rebecca J. Scott, Professor of History
John H. Vandermeer, Professor of Biology
Rob Van der Voo, Professor of Geological Sciences
R. Brent Wagner, Associate Professor of Music

1993

Richard I. Ford, Professor of Anthropology
Richard G. Lawton, Professor of Chemistry
Terrence J. McDonald, Professor of History
Kim Lane Scheppele, Associate Professor of Political Science
James C.G. Walker, Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences and Professor of Geological Sciences
Robert Weisbuch, Professor of English Language and Literature

1992

H. Don Cameron, Professor of Greek and Latin
Patricia Y. Gurin, Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies
Philip J. Hanlon, Professor of Mathematics
George J. Siedel, III, Professor of Business Law
Herbert G. Winful, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

1991

William James Adams, Professor of Economics
Susan Boehm, Associate Professor of Nursing
Jean P. Krisch, Associate Professor of Physics
Donald J. Sinta, Professor of Music
Ralph G. Williams, Associate Professor of English

1990

Burton Barnes, Stephen H. Spurr Professor of Forestry
Seyhan Ege, Professor of Chemistry
Yi-Tsi Feuerwerker, Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Literature
Eric Rabkin, Professor of English
Thomas Senior, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

1989

Frank Beaver, Professor of Communication
Mark Chesler, Professor of Sociology
Peter Railton, Professor of Philosophy
David Shappirio, Professor of Biological Sciences
James Wilkes, Professor of Chemical Engineering

1988

Harm Buning, Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Edna Coffin, Professor of Modern Hebrew, Near Eastern Studies
James Dapogny, Professor of Music (Theory)
Lewis Kleinsmith, Professor of Biology
Jack Meiland, Professor of Philosophy
William Stapp, Professor of Resource Planning and Conservation
Frank Yates, Professor of Psychology

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