Academia
Presidents
- Patrick Awuah Jr. (1988) – president of Ashesi University
- David Baltimore (1960) – president of California Institute of Technology; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975 [1]
- Nancy Y. Bekavac – first female president of Scripps College
- Detlev Bronk (1920) – former president of Johns Hopkins University and the National Academy of Sciences [2]
- Mary Schmidt Campbell – president of Spelman College
- Kimberly Wright Cassidy – president of Bryn Mawr College
- Sean M. Decatur – president of Kenyon College
- Neil Grabois – president of Colgate University and former provost of Williams College
- Tori Haring-Smith – president of Washington and Jefferson College
- Clark Kerr (1932) – first chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley; president of the University of California
- Richard Wall Lyman – former president of Stanford University
- Christina Hull Paxson (1982) – president of Brown University
- David H. Porter (1958) – former president of Skidmore College
- Robert Prichard – former president of the University of Toronto
- Lawrence Schall (1975) – president of Oglethorpe University
- Alan Valentine – former president of the University of Rochester
Provosts
- Paul Courant – provost of the University of Michigan
- Phyllis Wise – provost of the University of Washington
Deans
- T. Alexander Aleinikoff (1974) – dean of the Georgetown University Law Center
- William Boulding – dean of the Fuqua School of Business [3]
- Christopher Edley Jr. (1973) – dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law
- Frances Halsband (1965) – former dean of the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute
- James C. Hormel (1955) – former dean of the University of Chicago Law School
- Stewart J. Schwab (1975) – dean and professor of law at the Cornell Law School
- Daniel L. Schwartz (1979) – dean of the Stanford University Graduate School of Education
Department directors and chairs
- Adrienne Asch – founding director of the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University
- Anne Pippin Burnett (1946)- chair of the Department of Classical Languages at the University of Chicago
- Marjorie Garber – director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University; Shakespeare scholar
- Jeffrey Miron (1979) – chairman of the Department of Economics at Boston University; director of undergraduate studies at Harvard University; director of economic studies at the Cato Institute
- David Page (1978) – professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; director of Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
- Hans Stoll (1962) – professor of finance and director of the Financial Markets Research Center at the Owen Graduate School of Management at
- Robert Storr (1972) – dean of the Yale School of Art; curator
- Christopher Udry (1981) – professor of economics at Northwestern University; co-founder and co-director of the Global Poverty Research Lab at the Kellogg School of Management
Professors
- Ted Abel – professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania
- Margaret L. Anderson – historian and professor at University of California, Berkeley
- Elizabeth S. Anderson (1981) – professor of philosophy and women's studies at University of Michigan; MacArthur Fellow 2019
- Dave Bayer – professor of mathematics at Barnard College
- Leo Braudy (1963) – professor of English and American literature at the University of Southern California
- Christopher Chyba (1982) – professor of astrophysical sciences and international affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
- Robert Cooter (1967) – professor at UC Berkeley School of Law
- Christina Crosby – professor of English, feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Wesleyan University
- Pamela Kyle Crossley – professor of history Dartmouth College
- Paul Crowell – professor of physics at the University of Minnesota
- Philip Curtin (1948) – distinguished professor of African history at Johns Hopkins University [4]
- Jonathan Dewald – professor of history at State University of New York at Buffalo [5]
- Cora Diamond – emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia
- Bruce T. Draine – professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University
- Lara Estroff – materials scientist and professor at Cornell University
- Sandra Faber (1966) – professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz [6]
- Andre Gunder Frank (1950) – professor of sociology and economics at the University of Chile; developer of dependency theory and world-systems theory [7]
- Sorelle Friedler (2004) – professor of computer science at Haverford College, former assistant director for data and democracy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Paul M. Gaston (1952) - civil rights activist and professor of history at the University of Virginia.
- Robert P. George – professor at Princeton University
- Neil Gershenfeld – associate professor of media arts and sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Allan Gibbard (1963) – professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Michigan [8]
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore – professor of geography in at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
- William H. Green – professor of chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Michael Greenstone (1991) – professor of environmental economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, director of the Hamilton Project
- Michael Hardt – professor of literature at Duke University; author of Empire
- Gilbert Harman – professor of philosophy of Princeton University
- Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. – law professor
- Daniel R. Headrick – historian and professor at Roosevelt University,Tuskegee University, and Hawaii Pacific University
- Arlie Russell Hochschild – sociologist, author, and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley [9]
- John Hopfield (1954) – professor of molecular biology at Princeton University; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2024 [10]
- Alexander Huk – professor of neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin
- Pieter Judson – history professor at the European University Institute
- Pinar Karaca-Mandic (1998) – health economist and professor of management at Carlson School of Management
- Peter J. Katzenstein (1967) – professor of International Studies at Cornell University; member of the Council on Foreign Relations
- Joshua Landis (1979) – professor in Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma
- Thomas W. Laqueur – historian, sexologist, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley
- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1966) – professor of education at Harvard Graduate School of Education
- David Lewis (1962) – professor of philosophy at Princeton University, rated as one of the fifteen most important philosophers in the past 200 years [11] [12]
- Linda Datcher Loury (1973) – social economist and professor at Tufts University
- Ray Jackendoff – professor of linguistics at Tufts University
- Robert MacPherson (1966) – mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University; recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics (1992)
- Rogers McVaugh – research professor of botany and curator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; professor emeritus of botany in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Eben Moglen (1980) – professor of law and legal history at Columbia University
- David Montgomery – professor of history at Yale University
- John H. Morrow Jr. – professor of history at the University of Georgia
- Alexander Nehamas – professor of humanities and comparative literature at Princeton University
- Rebecca J. Nelson (1982) – professor of plant pathology at Cornell University
- Barbara Partee – emeritus professor of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Edward C. Prescott (1962) – economist associated with Carnegie Mellon University and the Australian National University; winner of 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics [13]
- Robert D. Putnam – social capital theorist and Harvard University professor; author of Bowling Alone [14]
- Jane S. Richardson (1962) – Duke University biochemistry professor; inventor of Ribbon diagrams [15]
- William Rubinstein – professor of history at Deakin University and the University of Wales
- Michael Schudson (1969) – professor of journalism at Columbia University
- Nayan Shah – history professor at the University of California at San Diego
- Herbert W. Smyth (1876) – professor of classics whose comprehensive grammar of Ancient Greek has become a standard reference
- Karen B. Strier – professor of biological anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Daniel F. Styer (Ph.D. 1983) – professor of physics at Oberlin College
- Joseph Takahashi – neuroscientist and professor at Northwestern University
- Peter Temin (1959) – economic historian, professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Peter Unger – professor of philosophy at New York University
- Emma Vyssotsky – astronomer at the University of Virginia
- E. Roy Weintraub (1964) – professor of economics at Duke University
- Martin Weitzman (1963) – professor of economics at Harvard University
- Helen Magill White – first woman in the US to earn a Ph.D., professor at Evelyn College for Women, organizer of Howard Collegiate Institute
- Gavin Wright (1965) – professor of economics at Stanford University
- Miles Yu – professor of military history and modern China at the United States Naval Academy
- Tara Zahra (1988) – history professor at the University of Chicago
Other
- Albert Cook Myers – secretary of the Pennsylvania State Historical Commission
- Brian Tomasik (2009) – researcher and ethicist with the Center on Long-Term Risk [16]
