List of University of Toronto faculty

The following is a partial list of University of Toronto faculty, including current, former, emeritus, and deceased faculty, and administrators at University of Toronto.


To avoid redundancy, alumni who hold or have held faculty positions in the University of Toronto are placed on the list of alumni, and do not appear on this list of faculty.

Natural sciences and mathematics

Mathematics

Medicine and dentistry
  • John James Richard Macleod (professor of physiology, 1918–28) – physician and physiologist; recipient of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin
  • Harry Botterell (professor of neurophysiology, 1936–39) – neurosurgeon, head of neurosurgery at the Toronto General Hospital, 1953–62
  • Louis Siminovitch (professor of medical genetics and microbiology, 1956–85) – molecular biologist; founding director of research at Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute; foreign associate to the National Academy of Sciences
  • James Till (professor of medical biophysics, 1958–97) – biophysicist; academic on Internet research ethics and the Open Access movement
  • Charles Hollenberg (professor of medicine, 1970–81) – physician, educator and researcher, former Physician-in-Chief of the Toronto General Hospital
  • Saul V. Levine (professor of psychiatry, 1970–93) – psychiatrist, former Senior Psychiatrist at the Hospital for Sick Children
  • Manuel Buchwald (professor of molecular and medical genetics, 1973–86) – geneticist who identified the gene that causes Fanconi anemia and, with Lap-Chee Tsui, that which causes cystic fibrosis
  • David MacLennan (professor of medicine, 1974–) – biochemist who made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the mechanism of ion transport by SR calcium pumps
  • Tak Wah Mak (professor of medical biophysics, 1975–) – immunologist who discovered the T-Cell receptor, and was the first to clone the genes for the receptor
  • Jack Greenblatt (professor of molecular medicine, 1977–) – pioneer in research on protein-protein interactions and on mechanisms that regulate gene expression
  • Tirone E. David (professor of surgery, 1980–) – cardiovascular surgeon who developed the reimplantation technique for valve-sparing aortic root replacement
  • Rob Buckman (professor of medicine, 1985–) – medical oncologist and comedian; president of the Humanist Association of Canada
  • Janet Rossant (professor of medical genetics, 1985–) – developmental biologist known for research in the role of genes in early embryo development
  • Anthony Pawson (professor of molecular and medical genetics, 1985–) – microbiologist specializing in mechanisms for protein-protein interactions in intracellular signal transduction
  • John E. Dick (professor of molecular genetics) – scientist who first identified the cancer stem cell in leukemia and later colorectal cancer; also known for demonstrations with blood stem cells in mice
  • Peter St. George-Hyslop (professor of medicine, 1991–) – geneticist who isolated the key genes linked to inherited and early-onset forms of Alzheimer's disease
  • Morton Beiser (professor of cultural pluralism and health, 1991–2009) – psychiatrist and epidemiologist, noted for his research in immigration and resettlement
  • Ahmad Teebi (professor of pediatrics and medical genetics, 1998–) – Head of the Section of Clinical Genetics & Dysmorphology at the Hospital for Sick Children
  • Benjamin Alman (professor of surgery) – orthopaedic surgeon and researcher in developmental signaling pathways in musculoskeletal tumours
  • Frederick J. Conboy (professor of dentistry) – 47th Mayor of Toronto, secretary of the Ontario Dental Association and editor of the association's journal
  • David Jaffray (associate professor of radiation physics) – medical physicist, Senior Scientist in the Division of Biophysics and Bioimaging at the Ontario Cancer Institute
  • David J. Jenkins (professor of nutritional sciences) – nutritionist who developed the concept of glycemic index (GI)
  • Gideon Koren (professor of pediatrics, pharmacology and pharmacy) – pediatrician, clinical pharmacologist and toxicologist, Senior Scientist of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
  • John W. Semple (professor of pharmacology) – medical researcher at St. Michael's Hospital, co-discoverer of immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
  • Harvey Skinner (former professor and dean of public health sciences) – psychologist; Dean of Health, York University since 2006; one of the first to link behaviour change, organizational improvement and information technology (e-health)

Physics, chemistry and astronomy
  • Helen Sawyer Hogg (professor of astronomy, 1936–76) – astronomer; authority in the field of variable stars within globular clusters
  • Leopold Infeld (professor of physics, 1939–50) – physicist and peace activist; co-formulated the equation describing star movements and co-author of The Evolution of Physics with Albert Einstein
  • Lloyd Montgomery Pidgeon (professor of metallurgy, 1943–69) – chemist who developed the Pidgeon process of magnesium metal production via a silicothermic reduction
  • Donald Ivey (professor of physics, 1949–1992) – physicist and science educator, former host of The Nature of Things with Patterson Hume, principal of New College (1963-1974)
  • Andrew McKellar (visiting professor of physics, 1952–53) – astronomer noted for his work in molecular spectroscopy, former president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
  • John Charles Polanyi (professor of chemistry, 1956–) – physical chemist credited with developing the technique of infrared chemiluminescence to explain energy relationships in chemical reactions
  • Sidney van den Bergh (professor of astronomy, 1958–77) – astronomer who discovered Andromeda II; former president of the Canadian Astronomical Society
  • Alan West Brewer (professor of physics, 1962–77) – physicist and climatologist, whose observation of the stratosphere resulted in the Brewer-Dobson circulation model
  • Ursula Franklin (professor of metallurgy and materials science, 1965–89) – physicist who pioneered use of modern techniques of material analysis in archaeometry; pacifist and humanitarian since retirement
  • Eduard Prugovecki (professor of physics, 1967–97) – mathematical physicist in geometro-stochastic theory
  • Robert H. Morris (professor of chemistry) - organometallic chemist.
  • Douglas Stephan, FRS (professor of chemistry) - organometallic chemist.
  • Robert K. Logan (professor of physics, 1968–2005) – physicist and media ecologist, best known for his research in media ecology and the evolution of language, The Alphabet Effect
  • Charles Thomas Bolton (professor of astronomy, 1973–) – astronomer who was the first to present evidence of a black hole's existence in Cygnus X-1, later confirmed as the first black hole candidate
  • Scott Tremaine (professor of astronomy, 1985–97) – astrophysicist and contributor to the theory of solar system and galactic dynamics; first director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
  • Sajeev John (professor of physics, 1989–) – together with Eli Yablonovitch, identified photonic crystals as a class of materials designed to affect the motion of photons
  • Daniel Lidar (associate professor of chemistry, 2000–05) – chemist and physicist, known for his research on control of quantum systems and quantum information processing
  • John Moffat (professor of physics, retired) – physicist, noted for his work on gravity and cosmology suggesting that the speed of light has varied in the past
  • Ray Jayawardhana (professor of astronomy, 2005–) – astronomer and Holder of the Canada Research Chair in observational astrophysics who reported the first direct image and spectroscopy of a likely extra-solar planet around a normal star
  • Roberto Abraham (professor of astronomy) – astronomer best known for his work on high-redshift galaxy morphology

Biology and ecology

Engineering and computer science

Earth science

Social sciences

Anthropology and geography
  • Edmund Snow Carpenter (professor of anthropology, 1948–57) – anthropologist known for his work on tribal art and visual media
  • Isaac Schapera (visiting professor of anthropology, 1953) – academic from the London School of Economics and leading scholar in the anthropology of South African tribesmen
  • George Michael Wickens (professor of Middle Eastern studies, 1957–84) – prolific Iranologist and translator of Persian literature; founding chair of the university's department of Near and Middle Eastern civilizations
  • Cole Harris (assistant professor of geography, 1964–71) – geographer, winner of the Massey Medal, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
  • Lee Maracle (professor of Aboriginal studies) – First Nations poet and author, recipient of the American Book Award
  • Marcel Danesi (professor of semiotics and linguistic anthropology) – Italian-Canadian semiotician
  • David H. Turner (professor of anthropology) – anthropologist who focuses on comparative religion and the role of music in the indigenous societies of Australia, North America, Africa, and India

Sociology and psychology

Economics, management and political science
  • James Mavor (professor of political economy, 1892–1923) – political economist and activist who was instrumental in assisting the emigration of the Doukhobors to Canada, and the establishment of the Royal Ontario Museum
  • Harold Innis (professor of political economy, 1920–52) – political economist and communication theorist who developed the Staples thesis and time- and space-bias; former president of the American Economic Association
  • James Mallory (lecturer of political economy, 1943–44) – academic and constitutional expert, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal winner
  • Peter H. Russell (professor of political science, 1958–96) – scholar on aboriginal peoples, constitutional politics and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; president of the Canadian Law and Society Association
  • Samuel Hollander (professor of economics, 1963–98) – scholar and author on the history of economic thought and classical economics
  • Jean Edward Smith (professor of political economy, 1965–99) – noted biographer of Ulysses S. Grant and Franklin D. Roosevelt; John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University
  • Jerry F. Hough (professor of political science, 1968–73) – researcher on American politics, the Soviet Union and the democratization of Russia
  • John E. Floyd (professor of economics, 1970–) – scholar in international monetary economics
  • Michael Trebilcock (professor of law, 1972–) – scholar specializing in law and economics, international trade law and competition law; president of the American Law and Economics Association
  • Thomas Pangle (professor of political science, 1979–2004) – political scientist; holder of the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
  • Janice Stein (professor of political science, 1983–) – director of the Munk Centre for International Studies
  • Thomas Homer-Dixon (professor of political science 1990-2008) – director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs
  • Joseph Carens (professor of political science, 1985–) – political scientist who focuses on contemporary political theory; Culture, Citizenship and Community, A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness
  • David Foot (professor of economics) – economist and demographer; author of Boom, Bust & Echo
  • John C. Hull (professor of finance, 1988–) – prominent researcher in quantitative finance and co-developer of the Hull-White model
  • Ronald Deibert (professor of political science) – researcher in Internet and human rights; director of the Citizen Lab and co-founder of the OpenNet Initiative
  • David Rayside (professor of political science, 1974–present) – academic and activist; member of the Right to Privacy Committee; co-founder of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association
  • Ramin Jahanbegloo (professor of political science, 1997–2001, 2008–present) – Iranian intellectual and academic; recipient of the Peace Prize from the United Nations Association
  • Allan S. Detsky (professor of public health policy, management and evaluation) – physician and health policy expert, Physician-in-Chief at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
  • Mel Watkins (professor of economics and political science, retired) – political economist and activist, founder and co-leader of the Waffle
  • Gad Horowitz (professor of political science) – political scientist who specialized in labour theory, most notably counted the appellation "Red Tory"
  • Clifford Orwin (professor of political science) – political scientist of ancient, modern, contemporary and Jewish political thought; Guggenheim Fellow

Humanities

Philosophy and classics
  • James Mark Baldwin (chair of logic and metaphysics, 1889–92) – American philosopher and psychologist, important contributor to psychology, psychiatry and the theory of evolution
  • Eric A. Havelock (professor of classics, 1929–47) – British classicist; author, History of the Greek Mind
  • Paul Churchland (lecturer of philosophy, 1967–69) – philosopher, noted for his works in neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind, major proponent of eliminative materialism
  • Timothy Barnes (professor of classics, 1970–2007) – classicist specializing in Christianity in the Later Roman Empire
  • Allan Bloom (professor of political science, 1970–79) – American philosopher and critic of contemporary higher education, best known for authoring The Closing of the American Mind
  • James Allen Graff (professor of philosophy and ethics, 1970–2002) – founder of the Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada (NECEF), former vice-chair of the North American Co-ordinating Committee for NGOs on the Question of Palestine
  • Ronald de Sousa (professor of philosophy, 1971–2005) – scholar in the philosophy of emotions, mind and biology
  • Ian Hacking (professor of philosophy, 1982–) – noted member of the Stanford School of philosophers, known for bringing a historical approach to the philosophy of science, author of Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
  • Joseph Heath (professor of philosophy) – philosopher and author, The Rebel Sell
  • James Tully (professor of philosophy, 2001–03) – distinguished political philosopher, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
  • James Robert Brown (professor of philosophy) – philosopher of science, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2007
  • Bas van Fraassen (professor of philosophy) – philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science, Laws and Symmetry, The Scientific Image
  • Peter Ludlow (professor of philosophy) – philosopher, noted for his research in cyberspace, High Noon on the Electronic Frontier and Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias
  • Colin Howson (professor of philosophy, 2008–) – British philosopher, Scientific Reasoning: the Bayesian Approach
  • M. Owen Lee (Father Owen Lee) – professor emeritus of classics
  • Jennifer Whiting – Chancellor Jackman Professor of Philosophy, scholar of ancient philosophy
  • Robert J. Zydenbos (professor of South Asian studies, philosophy and linguistics) – Dutch-Canadian scholar

Literature and linguistics

History
  • George MacKinnon Wrong (professor of history, 1894–1927) – historian and Anglican priest, Canada and the American Revolution: The Disruption of the First British Empire
  • John Saywell (professor of history, 1954–62) – historian specializing in the fields of politics and constitution
  • Fritz Heichelheim (professor of Greek and Roman history, 1962–68) – Ancient historian who specialized in ancient economic history
  • Jill Ker Conway (professor of history, 1964–75) – Australian-American author, The Road from Coorain, True North; president of Smith College, 1975–85
  • Ram Sharan Sharma (professor of history, 1965–66) – eminent historian of Ancient India[8][9][10] who has been a historian of international repute[11] founding chairperson of Indian Council of Historical Research
  • Walter Goffart (professor of history, 1960–99) – historian who specializes in late Roman Empire, early Middle Ages and barbarian kingdoms
  • Archibald Paton Thornton (professor of history, 1960–87) – academic and historian, author of The Imperial idea and its enemies: a study in British power
  • Rick Salutin (professor of Canadian studies, 1978–) – novelist, playwright and critic, columnist for The Globe and Mail
  • Natalie Zemon Davis (professor of history) – Canadian and American historian of early period; first woman president of the American Historical Association
  • Derek Penslar (professor of Jewish history) – historian specializing in Jewish history; author of Contemporary Antisemitism
  • Robert Johnson - Professor, former director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies

Law

Religious studies
  • Donald Coggan (professor of theology, 1937–44) – 101st Archbishop of Canterbury, 1974–80
  • Gregory Baum (professor of theology and sociology, 1959–86) – Roman Catholic theologian, Religion and Alienation, Officer of the Order of Canada
  • Bernard Lonergan (professor of theology, 1965–75) – Jesuit priest, economist, Insight: A Study of Human Understanding
  • Mary Jo Leddy (professor of theology, Regis College) – writer, theologian, social activist, founder of Catholic New Times
  • Willard G. Oxtoby (professor of comparative religion, 1971–99) – founding director of the graduate centre for religious studies; author, World Religions: Western Traditions, World Religions: Eastern Traditions
  • Julia Ching (professor of religion and philosophy, 1978–2001) – expert on the neo-Confucian philosophy of China
  • Arti Dhand (professor of religion) – specialist in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana Hindu epics, Hindu ethics, gender issues in Hinduism, and religion and sexuality[12]

Fine arts, music, drama and architecture

Education

Business and public policy

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