List of award-winning University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty

UMass Amherst faculty members have won the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award for Poetry, the National Medal of Science, the Draper Award in Engineering and numerous other awards, including MacArthur, Guggenheim, Sloan, Woodrow Wilson, and Fulbright Fellowships.

The following is an incomplete list of notable faculty members at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

• E. Wayne Abercrombie (Music)
• Charles Paul Alexander (Entomology)
• Christian Appy (History)
• Lee Badgett (Economics)
• Sheila Bair (Isenberg School of Management)
• Andrew Barto (Computer Science)
• Madeleine Blais (Journalism)
• Samuel Bowles (Economics)
• James K. Boyce (Economics)
• Wayne P Burleson (Electrical Engineering)
• Chuck Close (Fine Arts)
• E. Bryan Coughlin (Polymer Science and Engineering)
• Walter Denny (Art History)
• Vincent Dethier (Zoology, Entomology)
• Martín Espada (English)
• Fred Feldman (Philosophy)
• Carl R. Fellers (Food Science and Technology)
• Ann Ferguson (Philosophy)
• Charles H. Fernald (Entomology)
• Lisa Fontes (Psychology and Social Service)
• Jane E. Fountain (Political Science)
• Henry J. Franklin (Ecology, Entomology and Pomology)
• Martha Fuentes-Bautista (Communication)
• Aura Ganz (Electrical Engineering)
• Edwin Gentzler (Comparative Literature and Translation Studies)
• Dennis L. Goeckel (Electrical Engineering)
• Charles Anthony Goessmann (Chemistry)
• Sheldon Goldman (Political Science)
• Weibo Gong (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
• Henry H. Goodell (English, History, Modern Languages)
• Lisa Green (Linguistics, African-American English Studies)
• Ian Grosse (Mechanical Engineering)
• Thomas P. Hannum (Music)
• Daniel Hillel (Soil Physics)
• Jeffrey Holmes (Music)
• Ted Hughes (English)
• Jane Humphries (Economics)
• Neil Immerman (Computer Science)
• Sut Jhally (Communication)
• Kyle Johnson (Linguistics)
• Hossein B. Kazemi (Finance and Operations Management)
• Thomas Kelly (Sociology)
• Angelika Kratzer (Linguistics)
• Sandip Kundu (Electrical Engineering)
• Jim Kurose (Computer Science)
• Bill Leonard (Physics/Electrical Engineering)
• Joseph Levine (Philosophy)
• Lynn Margulis (Biology and Evolutionary Science)
• John McCarthy (Linguistics)
• Warren P. McGuirk (Physical Education)
• George F. Mills (English)
• Dick Minear (History)
• Anna Nagurney (Finance and Operations Management)
• George N. Parks (Music)
• Barbara Partee (Linguistics)
• Sheila Patek (Biology)
• David Pozar (Electrical Engineering)
• Stephen Resnick (Economics)
• Roger Rideout (Music)
• Max Roach (Music)
• Dean E. Robinson (Political Science)
• Vincent M. Rotello (Chemistry)
• Thomas P. Russell (Polymer Science and Engineering)
• Daniel Schaubert (Electrical Engineering)
• Thomas Schneeweis (Finance and Operations Management)
• Fred C. Sears (Pomology)
• Kalidas Shetty (Food Science)
• Hava Siegelmann (Computer Science)
• Ramesh Sitaraman (Computer Science)
• Marshall Harvey Stone (Mathematics)
• James Tate (English)
• Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. (Astronomy)
• Russell G. Tessier (Electrical Engineering)
• Gregory Tew (Polymer Science and Engineering
• S. Thayumanavan (Chemistry)
• Don Towsley (Computer Science)
• D. Venkataraman (Chemistry)
• Brian Vibberts -(Audio Engineer)
• Frank A. Waugh (Landscape Architecture)
• Michael Wex
• Tilman Wolf (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
• Richard D. Wolff (Economics)
• Robert Paul Wolff (African-American Studies)