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Faculty Appointments

The following faculty members were appointed to distinguished service and named professorships during academic year 2007–08.


Distinguished Service Professors

  • Michael Forster, the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Philosophy and the College
  • Steven Levitt, the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics and the College
  • Jeanne C. Marsh, the George Herbert Jones Distinguished Service Professor, School of Social Service Administration
  • Alexander Razborov, the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Computer Science and the College
  • Steven K. Shevell, the Eliakim Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Psychology and Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Committee on Computational Neuroscience, and the College
  • Panagiotis Souganidis, the Charles H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Mathematics and the College
  • Geoffrey R. Stone, the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor, Law School
  • Linda M. G. Zerilli, the Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Political Science, Center for Gender Studies, and the College

Named Professors

  • John Alverdy, the Sara and Harold Lincoln Thompson Professor, Department of Surgery
  • Albert Bendelac, the A. N. Pritzker Professor, Department of Pathology, Committee on Immunology, Cancer Research Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the College
  • Omri Ben-Shahar, the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor, Law School
  • Francisco Bezanilla, the Lillian Eichelberger Cannon Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics
  • Dennis Carlton, the Katherine Dusak Miller Professor, Booth School of Business
  • Steven Collins, the Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations and the College
  • Jean-Pierre H. DubĂ©, the Sigmund E. Edelstone Professor, Booth School of Business
  • David M. Frim, the Ralph Cannon Professor, Department of Surgery
  • Sarah Gehlert, the Helen Ross Professor, School of Social Service Administration, Institute for Mind & Biology, and Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research
  • Christopher M. Gomez, the Albina Y. Surbis Professor, Department of Neurology, Committee on Molecular Metabolism & Nutrition, Neuroscience Institute, and the College
  • Neil B. Guterman, the Mose and Sylvia Firestone Professor, School of Social Service Administration
  • Erik G. Hurst, the Norman R. Bobins Professor, Booth School of Business
  • Bruce T. Lahn, the William B. Graham Professor, Department of Human Genetics; Committees on Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology, Cancer Biology, and Evolutionary Biology; Cancer Research Center; Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and the College
  • Brian Leiter, the John P. Wilson Professor, Law School and Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values
  • Christian Leuz, the Joseph Sondheimer Professor, Booth School of Business
  • Jens O. Ludwig, the McCormick Tribune Professor, School of Social Service Administration, Law School, and Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies
  • Tobias Moskowitz, the Fama Family Professor, Booth School of Business
  • David Nirenberg, the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor, John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, Department of History, and the College
  • Tomas Philipson, the Daniel Levin Professor, Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy & the State, Population Research Center, and NORC
  • Robert Shimer, the Alvin H. Baum Professor, Department of Economics and the College
  • Peter White, the Herman C. Bernick Family Professor, Departments of Classics and New Testament & Early Christian Literature, and the College