Department Chair Timeline
& Faculty Hires, alphabetized
2020 – Present: Frank Tsui
2016 – 2020: Christian Iliadis
- Daniel Ayangeakaa
- Gökçe Başar
- Julieta Gruszko
- Robert Janssens
- Andrew Mann
- Amy Nicholson
- Jennifer Weinberg-Wolf
- Daniel Young
2012 – 2016: J. Christopher Clemens
- Adrienne Erickcek
- Stefan Jeglinski
- Jonathan Heckman
- Nicholas Law
- David Smith
- Colin Wallace
2009 – 2012: Arthur E. Champagne
- Tamara Branca
- Joaquín Drut
- Fabian Heitsch
2004 – 2009: Laurie E. McNeil
- Alice Churukian
- Reyco Henning
- Sheila Kannappan
- Rene Lopez
- Laura Mersini-Houghton
- Amy Oldenburg
- John Wilkerson
1999 – 2004: Bruce W. Carney
- Duane Deardorff
- Daniel Reichart
- Lu-Chang Qin
- Paul Tiesinga
1989 – 1999: Thomas B. Clegg
- Arthur E Champagne
- Gerald Cecil
- Christopher Clemens
- Louise Dolan
- Jon Engel
- Charles Evans
- Douglas Holmgren
- Christian Iliadis
- Dmitri Khveshchenko
- Jianping Lu
- Nalin Parikh
- Richard Superfine
- Christopher Thompson
- Frank Tsui
- Sean Washburn
- Yue Wu
- Otto Zhou
1982 – 1988: Sang-Il Choi
- Richard E Anderson
- Hugon Karwowski
- Laurie McNeil
- John H Miller
- James Rose
- Max Swanson
1977 – 1982: Eugen Merzbacher
- Bruce W Carney
- Wei-Kan Chu
- Paul Frampton
- J Ross MacDonald
- Jack Ng
1966 – 1977: James H. Crawford, Jr.
- Wayne Christiansen
- Thomas B Clegg
- Morris Davis
- Kian Dy
- Louis Roberts
- Steve Shafroth
- Marvin Silver
- Charles Smith
- William J Thompson
- James York
1965 – 1966: Eugen Merzbacher
- John Hernandez
- Ed Ludwig
- Dietrich Schroeer
- Marvin Silver
1957 – 1965: Everett D. Palmatier
- Charles Vic Briscoe
- Sang-Il Choi
- Henk Van Dam
- Paul Hubbard
- Horst Kessemeier
- Earl Mitchell
- Lawrence G Rowan
1945 – 1956: Paul Edmonson Shearin
- Wayne A Bowers
- Bryce DeWitt
- Cécile DeWitt
- Waldo E Haisley
- Eugen Merzbacher
- Everett D Palmatier
- Lawrence Slifkin
- Alexander T Stewart
1934 – 1945: Arthur Edward Ruark
- Ernest Scott Barr
- Robert Willard Browning
- Maston Thomas Carlisle
- Griffin Carmichael
- Eugine Perry Cooper
- Arthur G Crafts
- John Robert Doyle
- Preston Edwards
- Melvin Eisner
- Lawrence Feldman
- James Brown Fist
- Sanford Charles Gladden
- Herman Glaser
- Eugine Greuling
- Walter Dare Harrell
- Emil John Hellund
- George Henry
- Fillmore Holt Hunter
- Herman Jarrell
- George Jenkins
- John Stanley Johnson
- EC Leonard
- Russell Berry Hancock Lyddane
- Charles Stewart Maurice
- Harvey Louie Morrison
- Miller Mosely
- John B Newman
- George Peeler
- Irving Resnick
- Fred Terpy Rogers, Jr
- Nathan Rosen
- Joseph Ward Straley
- John B Taylor
- Lucille Thacker
- Arthur Walther
- William Marvin Ward
- John Archibald Wheeler
- Heinrich Zatzkis
1928 – 1934: Otto Stuhlman, Jr.
- Claude Jackson Craven
- Karl Hartley Fussler
- Arthur Edward Ruark
- Paul Edmondson Shearin
1908 – 1928: Andrew Henry Patterson
- Wilton Cathey
- Vivian Leroy Chrisler
- John Fenton Daughtery
- Paul Harrison DIke
- Elmer Adna Harrinton
- Thomas Joseph McManic
- Andrew Patterson, Jr
- Earle Keith Plyer
- Harry Morrison Sharp
- Otto Sthuhlman, Jr
- Martin Whitford Trawick
Additional Hires:
- Joseph Caldwell
- WIlliam Edward Cox
- Gustavus Chambers Crawford
- Jesse Knight Dozier
- Joshua Walker Gore
- Ralph Henry Graves II
- William Rand Kenan, Jr
- James Edward Latta
- James Howard McLain
- John Miller
- Andrew Henry Patterson
- Alexander Fletcher Redd
- Otto Stuhlman, Jr.
