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Faculty Chairs

List of endowed chairs by division
Division	Chair name	Year created	Chair holder
Campuswide	President's Chair	1983	Susan Strome, Distinguished Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, and Craig Haney, Professor, Psychology
Campuswide	MacArthur Foundation Chair	2008	Will return to UCSC in 2020
Arts	Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History	1996	Stacy Kamehiro, Associate Professor, History of Art and 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	Open
Colleges	Robert Headley Presidential Chair for Integral Ecology and Environmental Justice	2016	Donald Croll, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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	Patrick Mantey, Professor, Computer Engineering
Engineering	Jack Baskin Chair in Engineering	2007	John Musacchio, Associate Professor, Technology and Information Management
Engineering	Jack Baskin Endowed Chair in Computer Engineering II	2013	J.J. Garcia-Luna, Professor, Computer Engineering
Engineering	Jack Baskin Chair in Biomolecular Engineering	2005	Joshua Stuart, 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	Sue Carter, Professor, Physics
Humanities	Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies	2007	Nirvikar Singh, Professor of Economics
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	Bettina Aptheker, 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	Raphael Kudela, Professor, Ocean Sciences
Physical and Biological Sciences	Henry Bachmann Endowed Chair in Astronomical Instrumentation	2000	Claire Max, Astronomer, and Director, UCO/Lick Observatory
Physical and Biological Sciences	Jean Langenheim Endowed Chair in Plant Ecology & Evolution	2007	John Thompson, 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	E.K. Gunderson Family Chair in Theoretical Astrophysics (2016-2020)	2016	Ruth Murray-Clay, Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics
Physical and Biological Sciences	Robert L. Sinsheimer Endowed Chair	1987	Harry F. Noller, Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
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	Karen Holl, 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