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Faculty Chairs


List of endowed chairs by division
Division Chair name Year created Chair holder
Campuswide Presidential Chair 1983 Natalie Batalha, Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Campuswide MacArthur Foundation Chair A 2008 Karen Holl, Professor, Environmental Studies
Campuswide MacArthur Foundation Chair B 2008 Erika Zavaleta, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Campuswide Narinder Kapany Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development 2016 Manel Camps, Professor, 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 for Storage 2014 Vacant
Engineering Narinder Singh Kapany Chair in Optoelectronics 1999 Holger Schmidt, Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engineering Jack Baskin Endowed Chair in Computer Engineering I 1988 Lise Getoor, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Engineering Jack Baskin Chair in Engineering 2007 Katherine Isbister, Professor, Computational Media
Engineering Jack Baskin Endowed Chair in Computer Engineering II 2013 Vacant
Engineering Jack Baskin Chair in Biomolecular Engineering 2005 Rebecca DuBois, Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
Engineering Sage Weil Presidential Chair for Open Source Software 2015 Carlos Maltzahn, Adjunct Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Engineering Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems 2005 Vacant
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 Studies 2015 Renee Fox, Associate Professor, Literature
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 Neufeld-Levin Holocaust Endowed Chair 1995 Alma Heckman, Associate Professor, History
Library Richard L. Press University Librarian Presidential Chair 2015 Elizabeth Cowell, UC Santa Cruz Librarian
Physical and Biological Sciences Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics 2016 Olena Morozova, Associate Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Physical and Biological Sciences Ida Benson Lynn Endowed Chair in Ocean Health 1998 Donald Croll, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Physical and Biological Sciences Faggin Family Presidential Chair for the Physics of Information 2015 Anthony Aguirre, Professor, Physics
Physical and Biological Sciences Wilton W. Webster Jr. Presidential Chair for the UCSC Natural Reserves 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 in Molecular Biology 1987 Susan Carpenter, 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 Foundation Chair in Psychology 1995 Barbara Rogoff, Distinguished 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