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Faculty Chairs

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
Arts	Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History	1996	T.J. Demos, Professor, History of Art adn Visual Culture
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	Scott Brandt, Professor, Computer Science and Vice Chancellor for Research
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
Graduate Division	Narinder Kapany Professor in Entrepreneurship	2016	Manel Camps, associate director of Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology; Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development
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