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Stanford office

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Presidents

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Acting presidents were temporary appointments. Swain served while Wilbur was United States Secretary of the Interior under Herbert Hoover; Eurich and Faust after the unexpected death of Tresidder.[1][2]

No. Name Term Ref.
1. David Starr Jordan 1891–1913
2. John Casper Branner 1913 – December 31, 1915
3. Ray Lyman Wilbur January 22, 1916 – June 30, 1943
* Robert Eccles Swain March 5, 1929 – March 4, 1933
4. Donald Bertrand Tresidder October 14, 1943 – January 28, 1948
* Alvin C. Eurich January 28, 1948 – December 31, 1948
* Clarence H. Faust January 1, 1949 – April 1, 1949 [3]
5. J. E. Wallace Sterling April 1, 1949 – September 1, 1968
* Robert J. Glaser September 1, 1968 – December 1, 1968 [4]
6. Kenneth Pitzer December 1, 1968 – June 25, 1970
7. Richard Wall Lyman September 24, 1970 – August 1, 1980
8. Donald Kennedy August 1, 1980 – September 1, 1992
9. Gerhard Casper September 1, 1992 – August 31, 2000
10. John L. Hennessy September 1, 2000 – August 31, 2016
* John Etchemendy February 14, 2012 – June 8, 2012
11. Marc Tessier-Lavigne September 1, 2016 – August 31, 2023
* Richard Saller September 1, 2023 – July 31, 2024
12. Jonathan Levin August 1, 2024 – present
Color key
  Acting University president (*)

Provosts

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The position was created in 1952.[5]

S. No. Name Term Ref.
1. Douglas M. Whitaker 1952–1955
2. Frederick Terman 1955–1965
3. Richard Wall Lyman 1967–1970
4. William F. Miller 1971–1978
5. Gerald J. Lieberman 1979 [6]
6. Donald Kennedy 1979–1980
7. Albert M. Hastorf 1980–1984 [7]
8. James N. Rosse 1984–1992 [8]
9. Gerald J. Lieberman 1992–1993 [6]
10. Condoleezza Rice 1993–1999
11. John L. Hennessy 1999–2000
12. John Etchemendy 2000–2017
13. Persis Drell 2017–2023
14. Jenny Martínez 2023–present

Chancellors

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This position is often empty and has always been held by a former president.[9]

S. No. Name Term Ref.
1 David Starr Jordan 1913–1916 [10]
2 Ray Lyman Wilbur 1943–1949
3 J. E. Wallace Sterling 1968–1985 [11]

School Deans

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Though Stanford did not originally have schools, over the years the departments have all been collected into schools.

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  Acting Dean (*)
Graduate School of Business[12]
Name Years Notes
1 Willard E. Hotchkiss[13] 1926–1930
2 J. Hugh Jackson[14] 1931–1956
Carlton A. Pederson 1956–1958 acting dean
3 Ernest C. Arbuckle[15] 1958–1968
Samuel "Pete" Pond 1968–1969 acting dean
4 Arjay Miller[16][17] 1969–1979 The top 10% of graduating MBAs are named Arjay Miller Scholars.[18]
Robert Jaedicke 1979–1980 acting dean
5 Rene C. McPherson[19] 1980–1982
6 Robert Jaedicke[20] 1983–1990
7 Michael Spence[21] 1990–1999
8 Robert L. Joss[22] 1999–2009 Stanford Ph.D. 1970
9 Garth Saloner[23] 2009–2015
10 Jonathan Levin 2016–present
Doerr School of Sustainability[24]
Name Years Notes
1 Arun Majumdar[25] 2022–present
School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences[26]
Name Years Notes
1 A. I. Levorsen 1947–1950 Petroleum geologist
2 Charles Park[27] 1950–1965
3 Richard Jahns[28] 1965–1979
4 Allan V. Cox 1979–1987
5 George A. Thompson 1987–1989
6 W. G. Ernst 1989–1994
7 Lynn Orr 1994–2002
8 Pamela Matson 2002–2017
9 Stephan Graham 2017–2022[29]
Graduate School of Education[30]
Name Years Note
1 Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1917–1933
2 Grayson N. Kefauver[31] 1933–1946
* Lucien Blair Kinney[32] 1943–1946 acting
3 A. John Bartky[33] 1946–1953
4 I. James Quillen[34] 1954–1966
5 H. Thomas James[35] 1966–1970
6 Arthur Coladarci[36] 1970–1979
7 Myron Atkin[37] 1979–1986
8 Marshall S. Smith[38] 1986–1993
9 Richard Shavelson 1993–2001
10 Deborah Stipek 2000–2011
11 Claude Steele 2011–2014
* Deborah Stipek 2014–2015 acting
12 Daniel L. Schwartz[39] 2015–present
School of Engineering[40]
Name Years Department Notes
1 Theodore J. Hoover[41] 1925–1936 Mining and Metallurgy Stanford AB 1901
2 Samuel B. Morris[42] 1936–1944 Civil Engineering Stanford AB 1911
3 Frederick E. Terman 1944–1958 Electrical Engineering
4 Joseph M. Pettit 1958–1972 Electrical Engineering Stanford Ph.D. 1942
5 William M. Kays[43] 1972–1984 Mechanical Engineering Stanford Ph.D. 1951
6 James F. Gibbons[44] 1984–1996 Electrical Engineering Stanford Ph.D. 1956
7 John L. Hennessy 1996–1999 Computer Science
8 James Plummer[45] 1999–2014 Electrical Engineering
9 Persis Drell 2014–2016 SLAC/Physics
10 Jennifer Widom[46] 2017–present Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
School of Humanities and Sciences[47]
Name Years Department Notes
1 Clarence H. Faust[3] 1948–1951 English
2 Douglas Merritt Whitaker 1951–1952 Biology
3 Ray N. Faulkner[48] 1952–1956 Art and Architecture
4 Philip H. Rhinelander 1956–1961 Philosophy
5 Robert Richardson Sears 1961–1970 Psychology
6 Albert H. Hastorf III[49] 1970–1973 Psychology
7 Halsey L. Royden[50] 1973–1981 Mathematics
8 Norman K. Wessells[51] 1981–1988 Biology
9 Ewart A.C. Thomas 1988–1993 Psychology
10 John B. Shoven 1993–1998 Economics
11 Malcolm R. Beasley 1998–2001 Applied Physics
12 Sharon R. Long 2001–2007 Biological Sciences
13 Richard Saller[52] 2007–2018 Classics and History
14 Debra Satz[53] 2018–present Philosophy
Law School[54][55]
# Name Years Notes
1 Nathan Abbott 1893–1907 Executive Head
* Charles H. Huberich 1906 acting
2 Frederic Campbell Woodward 1908–1916 first to be called dean
3 Charles A. Huston 1916–1922
* Arthur M. Cathcart 1917–1919 acting
4 Marion R. Kirkwood 1922–1945
* Arthur M. Cathcart 1930–1931 acting
* Lowell Turrentine 1945–1946
5 Carl B. Spaeth 1946–1962
* Samuel D. Thurman 1952–1953 acting
* John R. McDonough 1959–1960 acting
* John R. McDonough 1962–1964 acting
6 Bayless Manning 1964–1971
7 Thomas Ehrlich 1971–1976
* J. Keith Mann 1976 acting
8 Charles J. Meyers 1976–1981 acting
* J. Keith Mann 1981–1982 acting
9 John Hart Ely 1982–1987
10 Paul Brest 1987–1999
11 Kathleen Sullivan 1999–2004
12 Larry Kramer 2004–2012
13 M. Elizabeth Magill 2012–2019
14 Jennifer Martínez 2019–present
School of Medicine[56]
# Name Years Notes
1 Ray Lyman Wilbur 1911–1916
2 William Ophüls 1916–1933
3 Loren R. Chandler[57] 1933–1953
4 Windsor C. Cutting 1953–1957
5 Robert H. Always 1957–1965
6 Robert J. Glaser[4] 1965–1971
7 Clayton Rich[58] 1971–1982
8 Dominick P. Purpura 1982–1984 went on to be dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine[59]
9 David Korn[60] 1984–1995
10 Eugene A. Bauer 1995–2001
11 Philip Pizzo 2001–2012
12 Lloyd B. Minor 2012–present

Stanford faculty and affiliates

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Aeronautics and astronautics

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  • Sigrid Close, associate professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering
  • William F. Durand, professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mechanical Engineering; Electrical Engineering (1859–1958)
  • Charbel Farhat, professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mechanical Engineering
  • G. Scott Hubbard, adjunct professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Antony Jameson, emeritus Faculty, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Sanjay Lall, professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering
  • Bradford Parkinson, professor emeritus, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Stephen Rock, professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Debbie Senesky, assistant professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering
  • George Springer, emeritus Faculty, Aeronautics and Astronautics

Biology/biochemistry/medicine

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Arthur Kornberg (National Library of Medicine portrait)

Chemistry

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Graduate School of Business

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Communication

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Computer science

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Donald Knuth in 2005

Economics

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Education

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Engineering

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History

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International relations

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Law

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Linguistics

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  • Jared Bernstein, Adjunct Professor
  • Eve V. Clark, Richard Lyman Professor in the Humanities, emerita
  • Michael C. Frank, associate professor of psychology and, by courtesy, of linguistics
  • Miyako Inoue, associate professor of anthropology and, by courtesy, of linguistics
  • Dan Jurafsky, professor of linguistics and of computer science, and chair, Department of Linguistics
  • Ronald M. Kaplan, Adjunct Professor
  • Lauri Karttunen, Adjunct Professor
  • Martin Kay, professor of linguistics
  • Paul Kay, Adjunct Professor
  • Paul V. Kiparsky, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
  • Beth Levin, William H. Bonsall Professor in the Humanities
  • Jay McClelland, Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences and professor, by courtesy, of Linguistics
  • John R. Rickford, J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanities, emeritus (recalled to active duty 2017–2019)
  • Elizabeth Traugott, professor of linguistics and of English, emerita
  • Tom Wasow, Clarence Irving Lewis Professor in Philosophy and professor of linguistics, emeritus and academic secretary to the university
  • Annie Zaenen, Adjunct Professor
  • Arnold M. Zwicky, Adjunct Professor

Literature and arts

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Bahram Beyzai, Persian playwright and filmmaker, taught at Stanford from 2010.

Mathematics and statistics

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Political science

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Condoleezza Rice, 66th Secretary of State of the United States
  • Coit D. Blacker, political science professor, special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; and senior director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian affairs, National Security Council; Executive Office of the President
  • Larry Diamond, professor, mentor, senior fellow at the Hoover Institute
  • Morris P. Fiorina, political scientist and author
  • Francis Fukuyama, senior fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law since 2010
  • Terry Karl, professor of Latin American studies
  • Alexander Kerensky (1881–1970), Russian revolutionary leader, Hoover Institute fellow
  • Condoleezza Rice, political science professor, Secretary of State
  • Douglas Rivers, political science professor, chief scientist of YouGov

Philosophy

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Physics

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Psychology

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Philip Zimbardo, Former President, American Psychological Association

Hoover Fellows

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  • Jim Mattis, U.S. Secretary of Defense (2017–2019)[67]
  • Abbas Milani, political scientist and historian
  • George Shultz, U.S. Secretary of State (1982–1989), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1972–1974), U.S. Secretary of Labor (1969–1970), also lectured at the Graduate School of Business
  • Amy Zegart, political scientist and intelligence reform expert

Coaches

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  • Dick Gould, greatest tennis coach in history; from 1966 to 2004 he won 17 NCAA Team titles with 50 All-American players
  • Payton Jordan, track coach 1957–1979; head coach of the 1968 US Olympic track team
  • Bill Walsh, twice head coach of the football team; also served as interim athletic director; coach of the three-time Super Bowl champion San Francisco 49ers; inventor of the West Coast Offense
  • Glenn Scobey Warner, College Football Hall of Fame coach known as "Pop" Warner, brought the following mechanics to football: the screen pass, spiral punt, single- and double-wing formations, the use of shoulder and thigh pads, designed helmets red for backs and white for ends

Other

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