This page lists faculty and staff members of Stanford University.
Acting presidents were temporary appointments. Swain served while Wilbur was United States Secretary of the Interior under Herbert Hoover; Eurich and Faust after the unexpected death of Tresidder.[1][2]
No. | Name | Term |
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1. | David Starr Jordan | 1891–1913 |
2. | John Casper Branner | 1913 – December 31, 1915 |
3. | Ray Lyman Wilbur | January 22, 1916 – June 30, 1943 |
* | Robert Eccles Swain | March 5, 1929 – March 4, 1933 |
4. | Donald Bertrand Tresidder | October 14, 1943 – January 28, 1948 |
* | Alvin C. Eurich | January 28, 1948 – December 31, 1948 |
* | Clarence H. Faust[3] | January 1, 1949 – April 1, 1949 |
5. | J. E. Wallace Sterling | April 1, 1949 – September 1, 1968 |
* | Robert J. Glaser[4] | September 1, 1968 – December 1, 1968 |
6. | Kenneth Pitzer | December 1, 1968 – June 25, 1970 |
7. | Richard Wall Lyman | September 24, 1970 – August 1, 1980 |
8. | Donald Kennedy | August 1, 1980 – September 1, 1992 |
9. | Gerhard Casper | September 1, 1992 – August 31, 2000 |
10. | John L. Hennessy | September 1, 2000 – August 31, 2016 |
* | John Etchemendy | February 14, 2012 – June 8, 2012 |
11. | Marc Tessier-Lavigne | September 1, 2016 – August 31, 2023 |
* | Richard Saller | September 1, 2023 – present |
Designate | Jonathan Levin | August 1, 2024 |
The position was created in 1952.[5]
S. No. | Name | Term |
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1. | Douglas M. Whitaker | 1952–1955 |
2. | Frederick Terman | 1955–1965 |
3. | Richard Wall Lyman | 1967–1970 |
4. | William F. Miller | 1971–1978 |
5. | Gerald J. Lieberman[6] | 1979 |
6. | Donald Kennedy | 1979–1980 |
7. | Albert M. Hastorf[7] | 1980–1984 |
8. | James N. Rosse[8] | 1984–1992 |
9. | Gerald J. Lieberman[6] | 1992–1993 |
10. | Condoleezza Rice | 1993–1999 |
11. | John L. Hennessy | 1999–2000 |
12. | John Etchemendy | 2000–2017 |
13. | Persis Drell | 2017–2023 |
14. | Jenny Martínez | 2023–present |
This position is often empty and has always been held by a former president.[9]
S. No. | Name | Term |
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1 | David Starr Jordan[10] | 1913–1916 |
2 | Ray Lyman Wilbur | 1943–1949 |
3 | J. E. Wallace Sterling[11] | 1968–1985 |
Though Stanford did not originally have schools, over the years the departments have all been collected into schools.
Name | Years | Notes | |
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1 | Willard E. Hotchkiss[13] | 1926–1930 | |
2 | J. Hugh Jackson[14] | 1931–1956 | |
Carlton A. Pederson | 1956–1958 | acting dean | |
3 | Ernest C. Arbuckle[15] | 1958–1968 | |
Samuel "Pete" Pond | 1968–1969 | acting dean | |
4 | Arjay Miller[16][17] | 1969–1979 | The top 10% of graduating MBAs are named Arjay Miller Scholars.[18] |
Robert Jaedicke | 1979–1980 | acting dean | |
5 | Rene C. McPherson[19] | 1980–1982 | |
6 | Robert Jaedicke[20] | 1983–1990 | |
7 | Michael Spence[21] | 1990–1999 | |
8 | Robert L. Joss[22] | 1999–2009 | Stanford Ph.D. 1970 |
9 | Garth Saloner[23] | 2009–2015 | |
10 | Jonathan Levin | 2016–present |
Name | Years | Notes | |
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1 | Arun Majumdar[25] | 2022–present |
Name | Years | Notes | |
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1 | A. I. Levorsen | 1947–1950 | Petroleum geologist |
2 | Charles Park[27] | 1950–1965 | |
3 | Richard Jahns[28] | 1965–1979 | |
4 | Allan V. Cox | 1979–1987 | |
5 | George A. Thompson | 1987–1989 | |
6 | W. G. Ernst | 1989–1994 | |
7 | Lynn Orr | 1994–2002 | |
8 | Pamela Matson | 2002–2017 | |
9 | Stephan Graham | 2017–2022[29] |
Name | Years | Note | |
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1 | Ellwood Patterson Cubberley | 1917–1933 | |
2 | Grayson N. Kefauver[31] | 1933–1946 | |
* | Lucien Blair Kinney[32] | 1943–1946 | acting |
3 | A. John Bartky[33] | 1946–1953 | |
4 | I. James Quillen[34] | 1954–1966 | |
5 | H. Thomas James[35] | 1966–1970 | |
6 | Arthur Coladarci[36] | 1970–1979 | |
7 | Myron Atkin[37] | 1979–1986 | |
8 | Marshall S. Smith[38] | 1986–1993 | |
9 | Richard Shavelson | 1993–2001 | |
10 | Deborah Stipek | 2000–2011 | |
11 | Claude Steele | 2011–2014 | |
* | Deborah Stipek | 2014–2015 | acting |
12 | Daniel L. Schwartz[39] | 2015–present |
Name | Years | Department | Notes | |
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1 | Theodore J. Hoover[41] | 1925–1936 | Mining and Metallurgy | Stanford AB 1901 |
2 | Samuel B. Morris[42] | 1936–1944 | Civil Engineering | Stanford AB 1911 |
3 | Frederick E. Terman | 1944–1958 | Electrical Engineering | |
4 | Joseph M. Pettit | 1958–1972 | Electrical Engineering | Stanford Ph.D. 1942 |
5 | William M. Kays[43] | 1972–1984 | Mechanical Engineering | Stanford Ph.D. 1951 |
6 | James F. Gibbons[44] | 1984–1996 | Electrical Engineering | Stanford Ph.D. 1956 |
7 | John L. Hennessy | 1996–1999 | Computer Science | |
8 | James Plummer[45] | 1999–2014 | Electrical Engineering | |
9 | Persis Drell | 2014–2016 | SLAC/Physics | |
10 | Jennifer Widom[46] | 2017–present | Computer Science and Electrical Engineering |
Name | Years | Department | Notes | |
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1 | Clarence H. Faust[3] | 1948–1951 | English | |
2 | Douglas Merritt Whitaker | 1951–1952 | Biology | |
3 | Ray N. Faulkner[48] | 1952–1956 | Art and Architecture | |
4 | Philip H. Rhinelander | 1956–1961 | Philosophy | |
5 | Robert Richardson Sears | 1961–1970 | Psychology | |
6 | Albert H. Hastorf III[49] | 1970–1973 | Psychology | |
7 | Halsey L. Royden[50] | 1973–1981 | Mathematics | |
8 | Norman K. Wessells[51] | 1981–1988 | Biology | |
9 | Ewart A.C. Thomas | 1988–1993 | Psychology | |
10 | John B. Shoven | 1993–1998 | Economics | |
11 | Malcolm R. Beasley | 1998–2001 | Applied Physics | |
12 | Sharon R. Long | 2001–2007 | Biological Sciences | |
13 | Richard Saller[52] | 2007–2018 | Classics and History | |
14 | Debra Satz[53] | 2018–present | Philosophy |
# | Name | Years | Notes |
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1 | Nathan Abbott | 1893–1907 | Executive Head |
* | Charles H. Huberich | 1906 | acting |
2 | Frederic Campbell Woodward | 1908–1916 | first to be called dean |
3 | Charles A. Huston | 1916–1922 | |
* | Arthur M. Cathcart | 1917–1919 | acting |
4 | Marion R. Kirkwood | 1922–1945 | |
* | Arthur M. Cathcart | 1930–1931 | acting |
* | Lowell Turrentine | 1945–1946 | |
5 | Carl B. Spaeth | 1946–1962 | |
* | Samuel D. Thurman | 1952–1953 | acting |
* | John R. McDonough | 1959–1960 | acting |
* | John R. McDonough | 1962–1964 | acting |
6 | Bayless Manning | 1964–1971 | |
7 | Thomas Ehrlich | 1971–1976 | |
* | J. Keith Mann | 1976 | acting |
8 | Charles J. Meyers | 1976–1981 | acting |
* | J. Keith Mann | 1981–1982 | acting |
9 | John Hart Ely | 1982–1987 | |
10 | Paul Brest | 1987–1999 | |
11 | Kathleen Sullivan | 1999–2004 | |
12 | Larry Kramer | 2004–2012 | |
13 | M. Elizabeth Magill | 2012–2019 | |
14 | Jennifer Martínez | 2019–present |
# | Name | Years | Notes |
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1 | Ray Lyman Wilbur | 1911–1916 | |
2 | William Ophüls | 1916–1933 | |
3 | Loren R. Chandler[57] | 1933–1953 | |
4 | Windsor C. Cutting | 1953–1957 | |
5 | Robert H. Always | 1957–1965 | |
6 | Robert J. Glaser[4] | 1965–1971 | |
7 | Clayton Rich[58] | 1971–1982 | |
8 | Dominick P. Purpura | 1982–1984 | went on to be dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine[59] |
9 | David Korn[60] | 1984–1995 | |
10 | Eugene A. Bauer | 1995–2001 | |
11 | Philip Pizzo | 2001–2012 | |
12 | Lloyd B. Minor | 2012–present |
For a more comprehensive list, see Category:Stanford University faculty. |