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Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

, the title of James B. Duke Professor is given to a small number of the faculty with extraordinary records of achievement. At some universities, titles like "Distinguished Professor," "Institute Professor
Institute Professor
Institute Professor is the highest title that can be awarded to a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States...

," or "Regents Professor" are counterparts of this title.

Some current James B. Duke Professors

  • David Aers - English
    English studies
    English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...

     and Historical Theology
    Historical theology
    Historical theology is a branch of theological studies that investigates the socio-historical and cultural mechanisms that give rise to theological ideas, systems, and statements. Research and method in this field focus on the relationship between theology and context as well as the major...

     http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/English/faculty/aers
  • Dan Ariely
    Dan Ariely
    Dan Ariely is an Israeli American professor of psychology and behavioral economics. He teaches at Duke University and is the founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight.-Biography:...

     — behavioral economics http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/alpha/ariely.htm
  • Robert P Behringer - Physics
    Physics
    Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

     http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Physics/faculty/bob
  • Vann Bennett - Cell Biology
    Cell biology
    Cell biology is a scientific discipline that studies cells – their physiological properties, their structure, the organelles they contain, interactions with their environment, their life cycle, division and death. This is done both on a microscopic and molecular level...

    , Biochemistry
    Biochemistry
    Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

    , Neurobiology http://www.cellbio.duke.edu/faculty/research/bennett.html
  • Allen Buchanan
    Allen Buchanan
    Allen Buchanan is the James B. Duke Professor of philosophy at Duke University. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975. He taught at the University of Arizona, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the University of Minnesota before joining Duke's...

     — public policy
    Public policy
    Public policy as government action is generally the principled guide to action taken by the administrative or executive branches of the state with regard to a class of issues in a manner consistent with law and institutional customs. In general, the foundation is the pertinent national and...

     http://www.genome.duke.edu/people/faculty/buchanan
  • Linda Burton — sociology
    Sociology
    Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

     http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Sociology/faculty/burton
  • Bryan Cullen
    Bryan Cullen
    Bryan Cullen is an Irish Gaelic footballer who currently plays as a left wing-forward for the Dublin senior team.Cullen made his first appearance for the team during the 2003 championship and has become a regular player over the last few seasons. During that time he has won one All-Ireland...

     — virology
    Virology
    Virology is the study of viruses and virus-like agents: their structure, classification and evolution, their ways to infect and exploit cells for virus reproduction, the diseases they cause, the techniques to isolate and culture them, and their use in research and therapy...

      http://mgm.duke.edu/faculty/cullen/index.htm
  • Rick Durrett
    Rick Durrett
    Richard Timothy Durrett is a mathematician known for his research andbooks on mathematical probability theory, stochastic processes and theirapplication to mathematical ecology and population genetics....

     - mathematics
    Mathematics
    Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

     http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/rtd
  • Victor Dzau
    Victor Dzau
    Victor J. Dzau is the Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University and President and CEO of the Duke University Medical Center. He was born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong. Dzau is the James B. Duke Professor of Medicine...

     — medicine
    Medicine
    Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

     http://www.dukemednews.duke.edu/gallery/detail.php?id=1194
  • Craufurd Goodwin — economics
    Economics
    Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

     http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Economics/faculty/craufurd.goodwin
  • Owen Flanagan
    Owen Flanagan
    Owen Flanagan, Ph.D. is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University. Flanagan has done work in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, ethics, contemporary ethical theory, moral psychology, as well as Buddhist and...

     — philosophy
    Philosophy
    Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

     http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/ojf
  • Joseph Heitman — molecular genetics, microbiology, microbial pathogenesis, and mycology http://mgm.duke.edu/microbial/mycology/heitman/
  • Donald L. Horowitz
    Donald L. Horowitz
    Donald L. Horowitz is James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke Law School and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States.He earned his PhD from Harvard University in 1968 and also holds degrees from Syracuse University...

     — law
    Law
    Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...

     and political science
    Political science
    Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

     http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/horowitz/
  • Jerry Hough — political science
    Political science
    Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

     http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/PoliticalScience/jhough
  • Jack Keene - RNA biology
    RNA Biology
    RNA Biology is a peer reviewed scientific journal in the field of ribonucleic acid research. It is indexed for MEDLINE.Editor-in-Chief is Renée Schroeder from the University of Vienna, and Paul P...

     http://mgm.duke.edu/faculty/keene/index.htm
  • Allen C. Kelley — economics
    Economics
    Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

     http://www.econ.duke.edu/~kelley/ackelley.html
  • Sally Kornbluth - Pharmacology
    Pharmacology
    Pharmacology is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function...

     http://pharmacology.mc.duke.edu/faculty/kornbluth.htm
  • Robert Lefkowitz
    Robert Lefkowitz
    Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D. is an American physician-scientist best known for his work with G protein-coupled receptors.-Biography:...

     - biochemistry
    Biochemistry
    Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

     http://www.lefkolab.org/Biosketch.84.0.html
  • Kam W. Leong - Biomedical Engineering
    Biomedical engineering
    Biomedical Engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology. This field seeks to close the gap between engineering and medicine: It combines the design and problem solving skills of engineering with medical and biological sciences to improve...

     http://fds.duke.edu/db/pratt/bme/faculty/leong
  • Paul L. Modrich
    Paul L. Modrich
    Paul L. Modrich is the James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1973. He is known for his research on DNA mismatch repair....

     — biochemistry
    Biochemistry
    Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

     http://www.biochem.duke.edu/modules/biochem_modrich_lab/
  • Berndt Mueller - physics
    Physics
    Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

     http://www.phy.duke.edu/~muller/
  • Toril Moi
    Toril Moi
    Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. Previously she held positions as a lecturer in French at the University of Oxford and as Director of the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Bergen, Norway...

     — literature
    Literature
    Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

     http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Romance/faculty/toril
  • Reynolds Price
    Reynolds Price
    Reynolds Price was an American novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and Biblical scholarship...

      — English literature
    English literature
    English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....

     http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/English/faculty/erp
  • David G Schaeffer - Mathematics
    Mathematics
    Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

     http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/dgs
  • J. E. R. Staddon
    J. E. R. Staddon
    John Eric Rayner Staddon is a British-born American behavioral psychologist known for research on interval timing, "superstition," and behavioral economics in rats, pigeons, and fish -- and people...

     — psychology
    Psychology
    Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

     http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/pn/faculty/staddon
  • Steven Vogel - biology
    Biology
    Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

      http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Biology/svogel
  • Warren S. Warren - Chemistry

James B. Duke Professors Emeriti

  • Ralph J. Braibanti — political science
    Political science
    Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

     http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2005/12/braibanti.html
  • Louis J. Budd — English literature
    English literature
    English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....

     http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/English/faculty/budd
  • John Hope Franklin
    John Hope Franklin
    John Hope Franklin was a United States historian and past president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and...

     — history
    History
    History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

     http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/franklin/bio.html
  • Robert Keohane
    Robert Keohane
    Robert O. Keohane is an American academic, who, following the publication of his influential book After Hegemony , became widely associated with the theory of neoliberal institutionalism in international relations...

     — political science
    Political science
    Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

     http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2003/03/keohaneun0303.html
  • Orrin H. Pilkey
    Orrin H. Pilkey
    Orrin H. Pilkey is Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, and Founder and Director Emeritus of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines within the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University....

     — Earth sciences http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/psds/pilkey.htm
  • Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
    Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
    Knut Schmidt-Nielsen was a prominent figure in the field of comparative physiology and Professor of Physiology Emeritus at Duke University.-Background:...

     — biology
    Biology
    Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

     http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/01/schmidt-nielsen.html
  • Joseph J. Spengler
    Joseph J. Spengler
    Joseph John Spengler was an American economist, statistician, and historian of economic thought. A recipient of the 1951 John Frederick Lewis Award of the American Philosophical Society and the 1981 Distinguished Fellow Award from the History of Economics Society, he was Professor Emeritus of...

     — economics
    Economics
    Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

    http://www.econ.duke.edu/History/Spengler/spengler.html
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