Faculty Chairs
ArtsPatricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History1996T.J. Demos, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture
Division | Chair name | Year created | Chair holder |
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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 |