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Faculty Appointments

The following faculty members were appointed to University, distinguished service, and named professorships during academic year 2014–15.

University Professors

Wendy Freedman, the John and Marion Sullivan University Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the College

James Robinson, University Professor, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies

Distinguished Service Professors

Andrew Chien, the William Eckhardt Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Computer Science and the College

Jean Decety, the Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Psychology and the College

Richard Jordan, the Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Chemistry and the College

Vinay Kumar, the Alice Hogge and Arthur A. Baer Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Pathology

John List, the Homer J. Livingston Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics and the College

Philip Reny, the Hugo F. Sonnenschein Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics and the College

Shmuel Weinberger, the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Mathematics and the College

Named Professors

Daniel Adelman, the Charles I. Clough Jr. Professor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Fernando Alvarez, the William C. Norby Professor, Department of Economics and the College

Leora Auslander, Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor, Department of History and the College

Frederic Chong, the Seymour Goodman Professor, Department of Geophysical Sciences and the College

John Cunningham, the Donald N. Pritzker Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Dhammika Dharmapala, the Julius Kreeger Professor, Law School

Darwin (Darby) English, the Carl Darling Buck Professor, Department of Art History and the College

Yang-Xin Fu, the Fanny L. Pritzker Professor, Department of Pathology

Deborah Gorman-Smith, the Emily Klein Gidwitz Professor, School of Social Service Administration

Melina Hale, William Rainey Harper Professor, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and the College

Seenu Hariprasad, the Shui-Chin Lee Professor in Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Alison LaCroix, the Robert Newton Reid Professor, Law School

Michèle Lowrie, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Department of Classics and the College

Richard B. Miller, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor, Divinity School

Sanjog Misra, the Charles H. Kellstadt Professor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Lucia B. Rothman-Denes, the A. J. Carlson Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology and the College

Benoit Roux, the Amgen Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and the College

Amit Seru, the Dennis and Karen Chookaszian Professor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Wendy Stock, the Anjuli Seth Nayak Professor, Department of Medicine

Mauricio Tenorio, the Samuel N. Harper Professor, Department of History and the College

Theo van den Hout, Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor of Western Civilization, Oriental Institute, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College

Bernd Wittenbrink, the Robert S. Hamada Professor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

George Wu, the John P. and Lillian A. Gould Professor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Dali Yang, the William Claude Reavis Professor, Department of Political Science and the College

Dingxin Zhao, the Max Palevsky Professor, Department of Sociology and the College

Mark Zmijewski, the Charles T. Horngren Professor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business