University Professor

The rank of University Professor is the highest rank a faculty member can attain in the University. The position recognizes "exceptional scholarly merit and distinguished service to Columbia" and must be approved by the trustees [1]. University Professors serve Columbia as a whole rather than a specific faculty or department. Recently, comparative literature professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak became the latest faculty member to be appointed University Professor.

List of Current University Professors

• Eric R. Kandel
• T.D. Lee
• R. Kent Greenawalt
• Ronald C.D. Breslow
• Simon Schama
• Richard Axel
• Jagdish N. Bhagwati
• Wayne A. Hendrickson
• Robert A. Mundell
• Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Rosalind E. Krauss
• Gayatri C. Spivak

Past University Professors

• Jacques Barzun
• Meyer Schapiro
• Lionel Trilling
• Edward Said

External links

• Press release announcing Gayatri Spivak's appointment as University Professor