- John Lewis Gaddis
John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is a noted historian of the Cold War and grand strategy. He has been hailed as the 'Dean of Cold War Historians' by the The New York Times. He is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th century statesman George F. Kennan. He is best known for his critical analysis of the strategies of containment employed by the United States of America during the Cold War, …
- Donald Kagan
Donald Kagan (born 1932) is a Yale historian specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He was Dean of Yale College from 1989-1992. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Born into a Jewish family in Lithuania, Kagan grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where his family emigrated shortly after the death of his father.
- Jaroslav Pelikan
Jaroslav Jan Pelikan was one of the world's leading scholars in the history of Christianity and medieval intellectual history. Pelikan was born in Akron, Ohio to a Slovak father and a Serbian mother. His father was a Lutheran pastor and his paternal grandfather a bishop of the Slovak Lutheran Church in America. Before he turned three, his mother had taught him to use the typewriter, as he could not yet hold a pen.
- Willard Gibbs
Josiah Willard Gibbs, Sr. (30 April 1790-24 March 1861) was a linguist, and professor of theology and sacred literature at Yale University. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts and graduated from Yale in 1809. He was a tutor at the college from 1811 to 1815, when he removed to Andover, studying Hebrew and biblical literature. He returned to New Haven in 1824 as professor of theology and sacred literature, a post he retained until his death.
- Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (b. July 11 1930) is an American professor and prominent literary and cultural critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a time when their reputations stood at a low ebb, has constructed controversial theories of poetic influence, and advocates an aesthetic approach to literature against Feminist, Marxist, New Historicist, Post-modernist, and other methods of academic literary criticism.
- Judith Rodin
Judith Rodin (born 1944) Ph.D., is the first female president of an Ivy League university. She served as the seventh president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1994-2004 and in 2005 was named president of the Rockefeller Foundation. A Penn alumna, she received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1970. Rodin is credited with expanding and improving the University and significantly changing the character of much of the area surrounding campus.
- Vincent Scully
Vincent Joseph Scully, Jr. (b.1920) is a Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and the author of several books on the subject. Architect Philip Johnson once described Scully as the “the most influential architectural teacher ever.” Born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut, Scully attended Hillhouse High School. At the age of 16, he entered Yale University. He earned his BA degree from Yale in 1940, and his Ph.D in 1949.
- Seyla Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib (born 1950, Istanbul) is a Turkish professor of political science and philosophy at Yale and director of the program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, and a well-known contemporary philosopher. She previously taught in the departments of philosophy at Boston University, SUNY Stony Brook, and the New School for Social Research and the Department of Government at Harvard University.
- Daniel Kevles
Professor Kevles recieved his BA from Princeton University (Physics) in 1960, training at Oxford University (European History) from 1960-61, and his PhD from Princeton (History) in 1964.
- Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt was a German Jewish political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she always refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular". She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world."
- John Hollander
John Hollander (born October 28, 1929 in New York City) is an American poet and literary critic. As of 2007 he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University. Previously he taught at Connecticut College, Hunter College, and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He attended Columbia University where he studied under Mark Van Doren and Lionel Trilling, and had Allen Ginsberg as one of his classmates.
- Ramsay MacMullen
Ramsay MacMullen (born 1928 in New York City) is an Emeritus Professor of history at Yale University, where he taught from 1967 to his retirement in 1993 as Dunham Professor of History and Classics. His scholarly interests are in the social history of Rome and the replacement of paganism by Christianity. MacMullen graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and "summa cum laude" from Harvard College.
- Josiah Willard Gibbs
Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 - April 28, 1903) was a preeminent American mathematical-engineer, theoretical physicist, and chemist noted for his famed 1876 publication of "On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances", a graphical analysis of multi-phase chemical systems, which laid the basis for a large part of modern-day science. Being one of the greatest American scientists of the nineteenth century, …
- Benjamin Silliman
Benjamin Silliman (8 August 1779 - 24 November 1864) was an American chemist, one of the first American professors of science (at Yale University), and the first to distill petroleum.
- George Pierce Baker
George Pierce Baker, American educator. He graduated in the Harvard class of 1887, and taught in the English Department at Harvard 1888–1924. He started his '47 workshop' class in playwrighting in 1906. He was instrumental in creating the Harvard Theatre Collection at Harvard Library. Unable to persuade Harvard to offer a degree in playwrighting, he moved to Yale University in 1925, where he helped found the Yale School of Drama.
- Ernesto Zedillo
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León was President of Mexico from 1994 to 2000.
- Wilbur Lucius Cross
Wilbur Lucius Cross, Ph. D. (April 10 1862 - October 5 1948) was an American educator and political figure. Born in 1862 in Mansfield, Connecticut, he was a well-known literary critic and the Democratic Governor of Connecticut from 1931 to 1939. Cross was Professor of English at Yale University and was also Dean of the Yale Graduate School. He was also principal of Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut for a short time around 1885.
- Paul Kennedy
Paul Kennedy CBE (born 1945) is a British historian specializing in international relations and grand strategy. He has published books on the history of the Royal Navy, Great Power struggles, the Pacific War and many others.
- Serge Lang
Serge Lang was a French-born American mathematician. He was known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential "Algebra". He was a member of the Bourbaki group. He was born in Paris in 1927, and moved with his family to California as a teenager, where he graduated in 1943 from Beverly Hills High School. He subsequently graduated from Caltech in 1946, and received a doctorate from Princeton University in 1951.
- James Tobin
James Tobin (March 5, 1918 - March 11, 2002) was an American economist. Tobin advocated and developed the ideas of Keynesian economics. He believed that governments should intervene in the economy in order to stabilise output and avoid recessions. His academic work included pioneering contributions to the study of investment, monetary and fiscal policy and financial markets. Furthermore, he proposed an econometric model for censored endogenous variables, …
- Alan Perlis
Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 - February 7, 1990) was an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages and the first recipient of the Turing Award. Perlis was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1943, he received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army, where he became interested in mathematics.
- Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman (born May 7, 1939) is a Canadian-born molecular biologist, who is currently the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. In 1989 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas R. Cech for their work on the catalytic properties of RNA.
- Edward Tufte
Edward Rolf Tufte (born 1942 in Kansas City, Missouri, to Virginia and Edward E. Tufte), a professor emeritus of statistics, information design, interface design, and political economy at Yale University has been described by "The New York Times" as "the Leonardo da Vinci of Data". He is an expert in the presentation of informational graphics such as charts and diagrams, and is a fellow of the American Statistical Association.
- Juan Linz
Juan José Linz is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Yale University and an honorary member of the Scientific Council at the Juan March Institute. He is best known for his theories on totalitarian and authoritarian systems of government. Linz has also done extensive research on the breakdowns of democracy and the transition back to a democratic regime. He is the author of many works on the subject, …
- Harvey Cushing
Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 - October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon and a pioneer of brain surgery. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest neurosurgeons of the 20th century.
- H. Richard Niebuhr
Helmut Richard Niebuhr (September 3, 1894-July 5, 1962) was one of the most important Christian theological-ethicists in 20th century America, most known for his 1951 book "Christ and Culture" and his posthumously published book "The Responsible Self". The younger brother of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Richard Niebuhr taught for several decades at Yale Divinity School. His theology (together with that of his colleague at Yale, …
- R. J. Rummel
Rudolph Joseph Rummel (born October 21, 1932) is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii. He has spent his career assembling data on collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination. Rummel coined the term "democide" for murder by government, his research claiming that six times as many people died of democide during the 20th century than in all that century's wars combined.
- Charles Hill
Charles Hill is the Diplomat-in-Residence and a lecturer in International Studies at Yale University. A career foreign service officer, Ambassador Hill was a senior adviser to George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, and Ronald Reagan, as well as Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations. At Yale, he teaches, along with Paul Kennedy and John Gaddis, the prestigious seminar "Studies in Grand Strategy", a rigorous interdisciplinary study of leadership, …
- Menachem Elimelech
Menachem Elimelech is the Roberto C. Goizueta Professor of Environmental and Chemical Engineering and Chairman of the Chemical Engineering Department at Yale University. In 1998, he founded Yale's Environmental Engineering Program for which he continues to serve as director. Elimelech specializes in problems involving physicochemical, colloidal, and microbial processes in engineered and natural environmental systems.
- Ian Ayres
Ian Ayres is a professor at Yale Law School and a specialist in contract law. He has written dozens of articles on a wide range of subjects, including antitrust, contracts, economic damages, corporate contracting, and race discrimination in the marketplace. He writes a new column, with Yale SOM professor Barry Nalebuff , in Forbes Magazine. He is also writing and teaching in the areas of business organization and corporate finance.
- David Gelernter
David Hillel Gelernter (b. 1955) is a professor of computer science at Yale University. In the 1980s, he made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model, as embodied by the Linda programming system. Bill Joy attributes Linda as the inspiration for many elements of JavaSpaces and Jini.
- Richard H. Brodhead
Richard Halleck Brodhead (b. 1947) currently ninth president of Duke University, is a scholar of 19th-century American literature and an educator.
- Grigory Margulis
Gregori Aleksandrovich Margulis (first name often given as Gregory, Grigori or Grigory) (born February 24 1946) is a mathematician known for his far-reaching work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1978 and a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2005, becoming the seventh mathematician to receive both prizes.
- Albert Outler
Albert Cook Outler (1908-1989) was a 20th century American Methodist theologian and philosopher. Outler is generally considered to be one of the most important Wesley scholars in the history of the Church as well as the first real United Methodist theologian. He was also a key figure in the 20th century ecumenical movement. Outler was born and raised in Georgia and was an ordained Methodist Elder who served in several appointments.
- László Lovász
László Lovász is a mathematician, known for work in combinatorics, for which he was in 1999 awarded a Wolf Prize. In 1999 he was also awarded the Knuth Prize. Lovász received his Ph.D. in 1970 at Eötvös Loránd University. His advisor was Tibor Gallai, professor at the University of Szeged. Lovász was a professor at Yale University during the 1990s and was a collaborative member of the Microsoft Research Center until 2006. Now he is back at the Eötvös University, …
- Benoît Mandelbrot
Benoît B. Mandelbrot, PhD, (born November 20, 1924) is a Franco-American mathematician, best known as the "father of fractal geometry". Benoît Mandelbrot was born in Poland, but his family moved to France when he was a child; he is a dual French and American citizen and was educated in France. Mandelbrot now lives and works in the United States.
- Robert Shiller
Robert Shiller is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, and Professor of Finance at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1972. Robert Shiller has been a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1980.
- William Graham Sumner
William Graham Sumner (1840-1910), was an American academic and professor at Yale College. For many years he had a reputation as one of the most influential teachers there. He was a polymath with numerous books and essays on American history, economic history, political theory, sociology, and anthropology. His popular essays gave him a wide audience for his "laissez-faire": advocacy of free markets, anti-imperialism, and the gold standard.
- Glenda Gilmore
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore is an award-winning historian of the American South at Yale University. She taught history at Queens College in Charlotte, North Carolina before joining the Yale faculty as an assistant professor in 1994. She became a full professor of history in 1998 and in 2001 was named Peter V. & C. Vann Woodward Professor of History. She is also a member of the University's African American studies and American studies departments.
- Edgar Allen
Edgar Allen was an American anatomist and physiologist. He is known for the discovery of estrogen and his role in creating the field of endocrinology. Born on Cañon (Canyon) City, Colorado, Allen was educated at Brown University. After serving in World War I he worked at Washington University, until he was appointed to the chair of anatomy at the University of Missouri in 1923. Ten years later he was appointed to the chair at Yale University.