Faculty Chairs

ArtsPatricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History1996T.J. Demos, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture
List of endowed chairs by division
Division Chair name Year created Chair holder
Campuswide President's Chair 1983 Natalie Batalha, Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Campuswide MacArthur Foundation Chair 2008 Karen Holl, Professor, Environmental Studies
Campuswide MacArthur Foundation Chair Erika Zavaleta, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Campuswide Narinder Kapany Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development 2016 Manel Camps, Associate Professor of Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology; Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development
Arts Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair in Classical Indian Music 2000 Dard Neuman, Associate Professor, Music
Arts Kenneth R. Corday Family Presidential Chair in Writing for Television and Film 2015 Yiman Wang, Professor, Film and Digital Media
Colleges Robert Headley Presidential Chair for Integral Ecology and Environmental Justice 2016 Gregory Gilbert, Professor, Environmental Studies
Engineering Veritas Presidential Chair in Storage and Security 2014 Ethan Miller, Professor, Computer Engineering
Engineering Narinder Singh Kapany Chair in Optoelectronics 1999 Holger Schmidt, Professor, Electrical Engineering
Engineering Jack Baskin Endowed Chair in Computer Engineering I 1988 Lise Getoor, Professor, Computer Science
Engineering Jack Baskin Chair in Engineering 2007 Katherine Isbister, Professor Computational Media
Engineering Jack Baskin Endowed Chair in Computer Engineering II 2013 Pending
Engineering Jack Baskin Chair in Biomolecular Engineering 2005 Rebecca DuBois, Associate Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
Engineering Sage Weil Presidential Chair for Open Source Software 2015 Vacant
Engineering Baskin Distinguished Professor (1) (2016-2019) 2013 Phokion Kolaitis, Professor, Computer Science
Engineering Baskin Distinguished Professor (2) (2016-2019) 2013 Phillip Berman, Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
Engineering Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems Research 2005 Darrell Long, Professor, Computer Science
Humanities Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies 2007 Guriqbal Sahota, Associate Professor, Literature
Humanities Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and 19th Century Literature Studies 2015 John Jordan, Research Professor of Literature and Director, Dickens Project
Humanities Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies 2016 Felicity Schaeffer, Professor, Feminist Studies
Humanities Murray Baumgarten Chair in Jewish Studies 2017 Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor, History
Humanities / Social Sciences Neufeld-Levin Holocaust Endowed Chair 1995 Alma Heckman, Assistant Professor, History
Library Richard L. Press University Librarian Presidential Chair 2015 Elizabeth Cowell, UC Santa Cruz Librarian
Physical & Biological Sciences/Engineering Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics 2016 Olena Morozova, Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Physical and Biological Sciences Ida Benson Lynn Endowed Chair in Ocean Health 1998 James Zachos, Professor, Earth & Planetary Sciences
Physical and Biological Sciences Henry Bachmann Endowed Chair in Astronomical Instrumentation 2000 Bruce A. Macintosh, Director of UC Observatories
Physical and Biological Sciences Jean Langenheim Endowed Chair in Plant Ecology & Evolution 2007 Kathleen M. Kay Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Physical and Biological Sciences The Faggin Family Presidential Chair for the Physics of Information 2015 Anthony Aguirre, Professor, Physics
Physical and Biological Sciences Wilton W. Webster Jr. Natural Reserves Presidential Chair 2015 Gage Dayton, Administrative Director, Natural Reserves
Physical and Biological Sciences Presidential Chair in Science Communication 2016 Erika Check Hayden, Director, Science Communication
Physical and Biological Sciences Robert L. Sinsheimer Endowed Chair 1987 Harry F. Noller, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Physical and Biological Sciences Vera Rubin Presidential Chair for Diversity in Astronomy 2019 Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics
Social Sciences UCSC Foundation Chair in Psychology 1995 Barbara Rogoff, Professor, Psychology
Social Sciences Ruth and Alfred Heller Endowed Chair in Agroecology 1982 Stacy Philpott, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
Social Sciences Pepper-Giberson Endowed Chair in Environmental Studies 1995 Flora Lu, Professor, Environmental Studies
Social Sciences Olga T. Griswold Endowed Chair in Environmental Studies 2006 Ravi Rajan, Professor, Environmental Studies
Social Sciences Stephen R. Gliessman Presidential Chair in Water Resources and Food System Sustainability 2015 J. Elliott Campbell, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
Social Sciences Dorothy E. Everett Endowed Chair for Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship 2013 Chris Benner, Professor, Sociology