Twenty-three faculty members in the College of Arts & Sciences were recently honored with endowed professorships approved by the Cornell Board of Trustees, continuing the college’s priority to recognize and support faculty excellence.
With these new appointments, the number of A&S faculty appointed to endowed professorships since fall 2018 has reached 66.
“These endowed professorships within Arts & Sciences recognize outstanding faculty, who enhance the academic experience for our students and ‘do the greatest good’ for our society,” said Cornell Provost Michael Kotlikoff. “It is my pleasure to applaud the accomplishments of these eminent and emerging scholars.”
The professorships are possible because of generous gifts from alumni, parents and friends. Those gifts allow the College to replace retiring faculty, recruit stellar new faculty and recognize and retain mid-career and senior faculty to provide leadership across the disciplines and in areas of strategic importance.
The 23 faculty members honored are:
 | Gerard Aching, W.E.B. Dubois Professor in the Humanities |
 | Rachel Bean, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor |
 | Mabel Berezin, Distinguished Professor of Arts & Sciences in Sociology |
 | Csaba Csaki, John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science |
 | Scott Emr, Samuel C. and Nancy M. Fleming Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology |
 | Jill Frank, President White Professor of History and Political Science |
 | Stephen Hilgartner, Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Science & Technology Studies |
 | Natasha Holmes, Anne S. Bowers Associate Professor |
 | Ray Jayawardhana, Hans A. Bethe Professor |
 | Mayer Juni, Bruce Slovin Assistant Professor in American Jewish Studies |
 | Sabrina Karim, Hardis Family Assistant Professor for Teaching Excellence |
 | Ailong Ke, Robert J. Appel Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology |
 | Dong Lai, Benson Jay Simon ’59 MBA ’62 and Mary Ellen Simon MA ’63 Professor |
 | Tristan Lambert, William T. Miller Professor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology |
 | Marilyn Migiel, Kappa Alpha Professor in Literature |
 Song Lin, associate professor of chemistry Jason Koski/Cornell University | Song Lin, Tisch University Professor |
 | Kin Fai Mak, inaugural Josephson Family Professor |
 Shaun Nichols | Shaun Nichols, Distinguished Professor of Arts & Sciences in Philosophy |
 | Shirley Samuels, Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor in American Studies |
 | Philippe Sosoe, Frank Spitzer and Narahari Umanath Prabhu Associate Professor of Mathematics |
 | Steve Strogatz, inaugural Susan and Barton Winokur Distinguished Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Mathematics |
 | Peidong Sun, Distinguished Associate Professor of Arts & Sciences in China and Asia-Pacific Studies |
 | Yunan Yang, Goenka Family Assistant Professor in Mathematic |
