The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is a private institution in Princeton, New Jersey, designed to foster research by scientists in a variety of fields without the complications of teaching or funding, or the agendas of sponsorship. The IAS uses the word faculty in a special way and denotes a lifetime appointment. Although they do not teach classes (because there are no classes at IAS), faculty hold the title of Professor, and often give lectures and direct research.
This list includes current and former Faculty members, and their dates of tenure at the Institute.[1]
| Name | Field | Year joined | Year Left | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen L. Adler | theoretical physicist | 1969 | 2010 | Emeritus 2010- |
| Suzanne Conklin Akbari | medievalist | 2019 | current | |
| James W. Alexander | topologist | 1933 | 1951 | |
| Andreas E. Z. Alföldi | historian and archaeologist | 1956 | 1965 | Emeritus 1965-1981 |
| Danielle S. Allen | political theorist | 2007 | 2015 | |
| Nima Arkani-Hamed | particle physicist | 2008 | current | |
| Michael F. Atiyah | mathematician | 1969 | 1972 | |
| John N. Bahcall | astrophysicist | 1971 | 2005 | |
| Arne K. A. Beurling | mathematician | 1954 | 1973 | Emeritus 1973-1986 |
| Yve-Alain Bois | art historian | 2005 | current | |
| Enrico Bombieri | mathematician | 1977 | 2011 | Emeritus 2011- |
| Armand Borel | mathematician | 1957 | 1993 | Emeritus 1993-2003 |
| Jean Bourgain | mathematician | 1994 | 2018 | |
| Glen W. Bowersock | historian | 1980 | 2006 | Emeritus 2006- |
| Wendy Brown | political theorist | 2021 | current | |
| Caroline Walker Bynum | historian | 2003 | 2011 | Emerita 2011- |
| Luis Caffarelli | mathematician | 1986 | 1996 | |
| Angelos Chaniotis | historian | 2010 | current | |
| Harold F. Cherniss | historian of philosophy | 1948 | 1974 | Emeritus 1974-1987 |
| Marshall Clagett | historian | 1964 | 1986 | Emeritus 1986-2005 |
| Giles Constable | historian | 1985 | 2003 | Emeritus 2003- |
| Patricia Crone | historian | 1997 | 2015 | |
| José Cutileiro | historian and diplomat | 2001 | 2004 | |
| Roger Dashen | physicist | 1969 | 1987 | |
| Camillo De Lellis | mathematician | 2019 | current | |
| Pierre Deligne | mathematician | 1984 | 2007 | Emeritus 2008- |
| Nicola Di Cosmo | historian | 2003 | current | |
| Robbert Dijkgraaf | mathematical physicist | 2012 | current | Director 2012-2022 |
| Freeman Dyson | physicist and mathematician | 1953 | 1994 | Emeritus 1994-2020 |
| Edward M. Earle | politics: military foreign affairs | 1934 | 1954 | |
| Albert Einstein | theoretical physicist | 1933 | 1946 | Emeritus 1946-1955 |
| John Huxtable Elliott | historian | 1973 | 1990 | |
| Didier Fassin | anthropologist | 2009 | current | |
| Patrick J. Geary | historian | 2012 | 2019 | Emeritus 2019- |
| Clifford Geertz | anthropologist | 1970 | 2000 | Emeritus 2000-2006 |
| Felix Gilbert | historian | 1962 | 1975 | Emeritus 1975-1991 |
| James F. Gilliam | historian | 1965 | 1985 | Emeritus 1985-1990 |
| Peter Goddard | mathematical physicist | 2004 | 2016 | Director 2004-2012, Professor 2012-2016, Emeritus 2016- |
| Kurt Gödel | mathematician | 1946 | 1976 | Emeritus 1976-1978 |
| Hetty Goldman | archaeologist | 1936 | 1947 | Emeritus 1947-1972 |
| Peter Goldreich | astrophysicist | 2004 | 2009 | Emeritus 2009- |
| Oleg Grabar | historian | 1990 | 1998 | Emeritus 1998-2011 |
| Phillip A. Griffiths | mathematician | 1991 | 2009 | Director 1991-2003, Professor 2004-2009, Emeritus 2009- |
| Christian Habicht | historian | 1973 | 1998 | Emeritus 1998-2018 |
| Harish-Chandra | mathematician | 1968 | 1983 | |
| Jonathan Haslam | historian | 2015 | current | George F. Kennan Professor |
| Ernst Herzfeld | archeologist and Iranologist | 1936 | 1944 | |
| Albert O. Hirschman | political scientist | 1974 | 1985 | Emeritus 1985-2012 |
| Helmut Hofer | mathematician | 2009 | current | |
| Lars V. Hörmander | mathematician | 1964 | 1968 | |
| Piet Hut | astrophysicist | 1985 | current | |
| Jonathan Israel | historian | 2001 | 2016 | Emeritus 2016- |
| Myles W. Jackson | historian of science | 2018 | current | |
| Ernst H. Kantorowicz | historian | 1951 | 1963 | |
| George F. Kennan | historian | 1953 | 1974 | Emeritus 1974-2005 |
| Robert P. Langlands | mathematician | 1972 | 2007 | Emeritus 2007- |
| Irving Lavin | art historian | 1973 | 2001 | Emeritus 2001-2019 |
| Tsung-Dao Lee | physicist | 1960 | 1962 | |
| Stanislas Leibler | physicist and biologist | 2009 | current | |
| Arnold J. Levine | biologist | 2004 | 2011 | Emeritus 2011- |
| Elias A. Lowe | paleographer | 1936 | 1945 | Emeritus 1945-1969 |
| Jacob Lurie | mathematician | 2019 | current | |
| Robert MacPherson | mathematician | 1994 | 2018 | Emeritus 2018- |
| Juan Maldacena | theoretical physicist | 2002 | current | |
| Avishai Margalit | philosopher | 2006 | 2011 | George F. Kennan Professor |
| Eric Maskin | economic theorist | 2000 | 2011 | |
| Jack F. Matlock, Jr. | historian | 1996 | 2001 | |
| Millard Meiss | art historian | 1958 | 1974 | Emeritus 1974-1975 |
| Benjamin D. Meritt | historian | 1935 | 1969 | Emeritus 1969-1989 |
| John W. Milnor | mathematician | 1970 | 1990 | |
| David Mitrany | political scientist | 1933 | 1953 | |
| Deane Montgomery | mathematician | 1951 | 1980 | Emeritus 1980-1992 |
| Marston Morse | mathematician | 1935 | 1962 | Emeritus 1962-1977 |
| Alondra Nelson | social scientist | 2019 | current | |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | physicist | 1947 | 1966 | Director 1947-1966 |
| Abraham Pais | physicist | 1950 | 1963 | |
| Erwin Panofsky | art historian | 1935 | 1962 | Emeritus 1962-1968 |
| Peter Paret | historian | 1986 | 1997 | Emeritus 1997- |
| Tullio E. Regge | physicist | 1965 | 1981 | |
| Winfield W. Riefler | economist | 1935 | 1949 | |
| Dani Rodrik | political economist | 2013 | 2015 | |
| Marshall N. Rosenbluth | physicist | 1967 | 1982 | |
| Peter Sarnak | mathematician | 2007 | current | |
| Sabine Schmidtke | historian | 2014 | current | |
| Joan Wallach Scott | gender historian | 1985 | 2014 | Emerita 2014- |
| Nathan Seiberg | theoretical physicist | 1997 | current | |
| Atle Selberg | mathematician | 1951 | 1987 | Emeritus 1987-2007 |
| Kenneth M. Setton | medieval historian | 1968 | 1984 | Emeritus 1984-1995 |
| Carl L. Siegel | mathematician | 1945 | 1951 | |
| Thomas Spencer | mathematician | 1986 | current | |
| Walter W. Stewart | economist | 1938 | 1950 | Emeritus 1950-1958 |
| James Stone | computational astrophysicist | 2019 | current | |
| Bengt G. D. Strömgren | astronomer and astrophysicist | 1957 | 1967 | |
| Richard Taylor | mathematician | 2012 | 2018 | |
| Homer Thompson | archeologist | 1947 | 1977 | Emeritus 1977-2000 |
| Scott Tremaine | astrophysicist | 2007 | current | |
| Francesca Trivellato | historian | 2018 | current | |
| Misha Tsodyks | theoretical neuroscientist | 2019 | current | |
| Kirk Varnedoe | art historian | 2002 | 2003 | |
| Oswald Veblen | mathematician | 1932 | 1950 | Emeritus 1950-1960 |
| Akshay Venkatesh | mathematician | 2018 | current | |
| Vladimir Voevodsky | mathematician | 2002 | 2017 | |
| John von Neumann | mathematician | 1933 | 1957 | |
| Heinrich von Staden | historian | 1998 | 2010 | Emeritus 2010- |
| Michael Walzer | philosopher of politics and ethics | 1980 | 2007 | Emeritus 2007- |
| Robert B. Warren | economist | 1939 | 1950 | |
| André Weil | mathematician | 1958 | 1976 | Emeritus 1976-1998 |
| Hermann Weyl | mathematician | 1933 | 1951 | Emeritus 1951-1955 |
| Morton White | philosopher and historian of ideas | 1970 | 1987 | Emeritus 1987-2016 |
| Hassler Whitney | mathematician | 1952 | 1977 | Emeritus 1977-1989 |
| Avi Wigderson | mathematician | 1999 | current | |
| Frank Wilczek | physicist | 1989 | 2000 | |
| Edward Witten | mathematical physicist | 1987 | current | |
| Ernest Llewellyn Woodward | historian | 1951 | 1960 | Emeritus 1961-1971 |
| C. N. Yang | physicist | 1955 | 1966 | |
| Shing-Tung Yau | mathematician | 1980 | 1984 | |
| Matias Zaldarriaga | astrophysicist | 2009 | current |