Current faculty
Business
- Herman Aguinis – Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Management, and Past President of the Academy of Management
- Hossein Askari – professor of international business
- Annamaria Lusardi – university professor of economics & accountancy
- Stuart Umpleby – professor emeritus in the Department of Management
- Sandiaga Uno – Distinguished Research Professor in Residence in the School of Business, [3] Deputy Governor of Jakarta
Humanities
- Peter Caws – professor of philosophy
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr – founder and first president of the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, scholar of comparative religion
- Jane Shore – poet
Selected faculty
United States Attorney General Eric Holder served on the Board of Trustees.
Senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr. is a former law professor.
Hossein Nasr, University Professor of Islamic studies, is a leading Iranian Islamic philosopher.
John Quincy Adams, President of the United States, served on the Board of Trustees in 1832.
President Ulysses Grant served as an honorary trustee from 1869 to 1877. His grandson was also a trustee.
International affairs
- Michael Barnett – university professor
- Nathan J. Brown – former director of the Institute for Middle East Studies
- Amitai Etzioni – former president of the American Sociological Association
- Henry Farrell
- Martha Finnemore – leader of the constructivist school of international relations theory
- Leon Fuerth – former National Security Adviser to Vice President Al Gore
- Edward "Skip" Gnehm – former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait and Australia
- Karl Inderfurth – former Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
- Marc Lynch – director of the Institute for Middle East Studies
- Thomas E. McNamara – former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
- Eric Newsom – former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
- Scott Pace – director of the Space Policy Institute
- Stephen C. Smith – professor of economics and international affairs
- Lawrence Wilkerson – former Chief of Staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell
Journalism and public affairs
- Dana Perino – former White House Press Secretary in the George W. Bush Administration
- Steven V. Roberts – journalist, writer, and commentator
- Frank Sesno – CNN correspondent
Law
- Thomas Buergenthal – former professor of international and comparative law and jurisprudence, presently the American judge on the International Court of Justice
- Steve Charnovitz – professor of law, member of the Council on Foreign Relations
- Spencer Overton – professor of law, former U.S. Attorney, top bundler for Barack Obama, member of President-elect Obama's Justice Department Review Team
- Jeffrey Rosen – professor of law, legal editor at The New Republic
- Clarence Thomas – current Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States [4]
- Jonathan Turley – Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law and frequent guest on news programs
Mathematics
- John B. Conway – professor of mathematics
Medicine
- Paul Brindley – Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine
- William DeVries – first surgeon to perform a successful permanent artificial heart implantation
- Vanessa Northington Gamble – University Professor, chaired the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee under then-President Bill Clinton
- Ferid Murad – University Professor, Nobel Laureate
- Richard Restak – clinical professor of neurology
- Ami Zota – associate professor at George Washington University Milken School of Public Health [5]
Political management
- Mark Kennedy – business executive, congressman, presidential appointee, introduced shapeholders to business strategy
Public policy and public administration
- Edward Berkowitz – historian and presidential adviser
- Kathryn Newcomer – author and academic
- Marcus Raskin – social critic and activist
- Christopher H. Sterling – media historian
- Stephen Joel Trachtenberg – President Emeritus of George Washington University
Sciences
- Lisa Bowleg – professor of applied social psychology
- Valerie Hu – professor of biochemistry and molecular biology
Others
- Eric H. Cline – professor of archaeology
- Anthony Yezer – professor of economics
