List of University of Missouri faculty
This is a list of the notable faculty of the University of Missouri: professors, lecturers and researchers.
Arts, film, music and literature
[edit]- Omowale Akintunde, filmmaker
- William Berry, emeritus professor, former chair of art department
- George Caleb Bingham, artist
- Michael J. Budds, musicologist
- Melissa Click, mass communications educator
- Julia Gaines, percussionist
- Albert Lewin, film director and producer
- Lily Mabura, Kenyan writer
- Howard Wight Marshall, fiddler, historian, and folk expert
Athletics
[edit]- Chester Brewer, MU football coach
Education
[edit]- James Thomas Quarles, organist and educator
History
[edit]- Lewis Eldon Atherton, historian, Guggenheim fellow
- Susan Porter Benson (1943–2005), labor historian
- Kerby A. Miller, historian of Ireland and Irish immigration, currently teaching at the University of Missouri.
Journalism
[edit]- Judy Bolch, Houston Harte Chair in Journalism
- Roy M. Fisher, dean of School of Journalism (1971–1982)
Government and law
[edit]- Duane Benton, federal judge
- Philemon Bliss, Ohio congressman
- Dennis Crouch, author of the widely read "Patently-O" blog on United States patent law
- Chuck Gross, former Missouri senator
- Ed Robb, former director of the College of Business and Public Administration Research Center, the Economic Policy and Analysis Research Center, and the State and Fiscal Studies Unit.
Science and technology
[edit]- James William Abert, explorer
- Edgar Allen, discovered estrogen
- Leonard Blumenthal, mathematician
- Rick Brandenburg, etymologist
- Max Mapes Ellis, physiologist and explorer
- David C. Geary, developmental psychologist
- Linda M. Godwin, former astronaut, astronomy and physics professor
- Mary Jane Guthrie, zoologist and cancer researcher
- Eliot S. Hearst, psychologist and professional chess player
- Steve Hofmann, mathematician
- Bahram Mashhoon, general relativity physicist
- Maurice Mehl, paleontologist and geologist
- George Rédei, plant biologist
- George P. Smith, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry
- Zbylut Twardowski, nephrologist
Social sciences
[edit]- Joseph Haslag, Kenneth Lay Chair in Economics
- Winifred Smeaton Thomas, anthropologist
- Thorstein Veblen, economist