The FAS Global Distinguished Professorship was created in order to bring some of the world's leading scholars to the Faculty of Arts and Science as Visiting faculty on a recurrent, multi-year basis. By attracting internationally acclaimed academics whose home institution is outside of the United States, we are taking advantage of the international character of scholarship while also enhancing the global reputation of NYU.
Because these professors come to NYU regularly, they can build extensive relations with both faculty and students, and they thus become part of the extended faculty of our departments. Each year, on a recurring basis, Global Distinguished Professors typically spend one semester with an FAS department or program as fully involved teachers and researchers. Indeed, they become an extension of our permanent faculty.
We are especially interested in attracting as Global Distinguished Faculty scholars whose work complements the strengths that already exist in our programs. Our goal is to create powerful constellations of the world's leading scholars on a particular topic or in a specific field.
FAS Global Distinguished Professors:
Ido Aharoni
Global Distinguished Professor of International Relations
Peter Baldwin
Global Distinguished Professor of European and Mediterranean Studies
Mieke Bal
Otto Mainzer and Ilse Wunsch-Mainzer Global Distinguished Professor of German
Yossi Beilin
Global Distinguished Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Lina Bolzoni
Global Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies
Elisabeth Bronfen
Global Distinguished Professor of German
Jorge Castaneda
Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Yadin Dudai
Albert and Blanche Willner Family Global Distinguished Professor of Neural Science
Thráinn Eggertsson
Global Distinguished Professor of Politics
Diamela Eltit
Global Distinguished Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Ernst Fehr
Global Distinguished Professor of Economics
Sophia Kalantzakos
Global Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Public Policy
Lars Ljungqvist
Global Distinguished Professor of Economics
Mick Moloney
Global Distinguished Professor of Music and Irish Studies
Derek Parfit
Global Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
Pasquale Pasquino
Global Distinguished Professor of Politics
Jacques Revel
Global Distinguished Professor of History and the Institute of French Studies
Philippe Schlenker
Global Distinguished Professor of Linguistics
Aron Shai
Global Distinguished Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Global Distinguished Professor of English
Slavoj Žižek
Global Distinguished Professor of German
In Memoriam
Jacques Derrida
Global Distinguished Professor of English, French and German
Tanya Reinhart
Global Distinguished Professor of Linguistics
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Global Distinguished Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies