Famous Professors?

<p>E.L. Doctorow (the writer of Ragtime) teaches at NYU. There are also plenty of famous professors in the film school and the drama department of the Tisch School of the Arts.</p>

<p>Jon</p>

<p>oh right Leroy still is working with the Seattle school district so I forgot that he isn't technically at the UW anymore since he has brought together private and university scientists to partner with Seattle schools.
He seems to have an amazing amount of energy.
I think Mary Claire King is still there</p>

<p>Isn't Al Gore a professor somewhere?</p>

<p>he was, for a short while, at columbia.. im not sure if he still is.</p>

<p>Chomsky at MIT, of course</p>

<p>we should make an important distinguishment here.. most of the "famous" professors listed here Rarely or Never teach undergraduate classes, and some never teach graduate classes.
As a future NU student, it pains me to say this, but all U. of Chicago profs are required to teach undergrads every other year. Faculty there included Milton Friedman, Enrico Fermi and a bunch of other famous people whose names now slip my mind. This is also astonishing because if you are a top prof, you probably arent going to want to teach undergrads, so the fact that UofC has ANY is amazing. </p>

<p>In defense of NU, in my school (medill school of journalism), Alex Kotlowitz and David Prowess, two of america's leading investigative journalists. Kotlowitz is famous for There are No Children Here, and a few other inner-city expose pieces. Prowess is most famous for his numerous death row exonerations...all of which involved the help of NU undergrads. </p>

<p>Does anybody know if albright or morrison or krugman or greene teach undergrads?</p>

<p>And finally, one more we are missing, Noam Chomsky at MIT.. i dont know if he teaches undergrads either.</p>

<p>Georgetown has:
Jose Aznar (Spain)
Madeline Albright-teaches upper level undergrads, though her class is tough to get into to
Tom Daschle (as of next year)-will be teaching in the graduate school of public policy, classes closed to undergrads
George Tenet-same as Albright
Used to have:
Mario Vargas Llosa
Brian Lattell</p>

<p>at pton you have to teach one undergrad class, frmo what my friend who's going there says</p>

<p>As thethoughtprocess said, Princeton has famous people teaching undergrads. I know that Joyce Carroll Oats taught Jonathan Safron Foer when he was an undergrad there.</p>

<p>Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law, and was recently named as one of the "Twenty Most Influential People in the World of Law."</p>

<p>To add on to Enygma:</p>

<p>Georgetown - The Hon. Anthony Lake, NATSEC Advisor under Clinton</p>

<p>Brian Greene, Columbia Math/Physics (makes physics "fun")
Jeremy Siegel, Profesor of Finance at Wharton</p>

<p>University of British Columbia has David Suzuki teaching genetics. When it comes to genetics, he literally wrote the book. Hes also one of the world's foremost authorities on environmentalism and global warming.</p>

<p>Jimmy Carter at Emory-That is truly amazing-What does he teach?</p>

<p>Anyone have any idea of some awesome philosophy professors and what school's they teach at?</p>

<p>Warren Christopher (clinton's first secretary of state) teaches an undergrad honors course on foreign affairs at UCLA.</p>

<p>Oh, wow, Paul Krugman teaches at Princeton? Damnit, I HAVE to go there! I'm in the middle of reading one of his books right now. The man's a frickin' genius (well, perhaps that's a little exaggerated, but still...)</p>

<p>Krugman is a welfare state knob. Carter was the worst President in 75 years.</p>

<p>At NYU, E.L. Doctorow does teach undergraduates but usually the classes are upperlevel seminars for undergrads or graduate classes which undergrads can take with permission.</p>

<p>At NYU's music department, I did take a music criticism class with James Oestreich, the editor of the Sunday Arts and Leisure section of the New York Times, and theory/composition with Morton Subotonick, perhaps the most prominent electronic composer of today. During my time, we also had composition master classes with John Corigliano, an oscar winning film scorer and Professor of Composition at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a film scoring workshop with Roy Prendergast, one of the premier music supervisors in Hollywood. This was all during my undergraduate stay.</p>

<p>Jon</p>

<p>Carter doesn't really teach at Emory. He comes and speaks to the freshmen every year, and he might come as a guest speaker for one or two lectures in a class.</p>

<p>Harvard had both Robert Nozick and John Rawls, until the latter's death in November of 2002, I believe.
Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel are both professors of philosophy at NYU, though Dworkin teaches only graduate courses.
Also, Peter Singer is a professor at Princeton.</p>