Named Deanships, Directorships, and Professorships
Endowed positions have a personal and lasting impact.
Natalia Trayanova, Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Trayanova’s research centers around understanding the normal and pathological electrophysiological and electromechanical behavior of the heart. She is the Murray B. Sachs Professor.
Arturo Casadevall, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Casadevall’s groundbreaking work on infectious diseases is widely known. He has received several of the highest honors in medicine and health, and holds the Alfred and Jill Sommer Professorship and Chairmanship.
Dr. Chung, the inaugural Charles D. Miller Professor, joined the Hopkins faculty in the Department of Political Science in 2004, where she teaches courses in comparative politics and East Asian politics.
Professor Wang, the R. Clayton Emory Chair in Real Estate and Infrastructure, joined the Carey Business School in 2014 and leads the Edward St. John Real Estate Program.
Ashani T. Weeraratna, Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine
Ashani T. Weeraratna, Ph.D., is the E.V. McCollum Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, and co-leader of the Cancer Invasion and Metastasis Program at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
THE STARR FOUNDATION was established in 1955 by CORNELIUS VANDER STARR, who moved to China after World War I and founded the Asia Life and American Asiatic Life Insurance Companies. Today, American International Group, Inc., as the enterprises are known, is the world’s largest insurance organization, with more than 88…
STEVEN MULLER, the 10th president of the university, also served as president of the hospital, a dual appointment held previously only by Hopkins’ founding president, Daniel Coit Gilman. Dr. Muller, who was named president emeritus when he retired in 1990, is credited with expanding the regional and global presence of…
Robert E. Osgood Professorship in American Foreign Policy
ROBERT E. OSGOOD, the third dean of SAIS, was a highly respected expert in foreign policy and the author of several significant texts on international relations. He played a key role at SAIS for 25 years until his death in 1986. He was the school's director of American Foreign Policy…
RIORDAN ROETT (shown, left, with Robert Hildreth) is director of Western Hemisphere Studies and the Latin American Studies Program. From 1983 to 1995 he served as a consultant to the Chase Manhattan Bank in various capacities and from 1989 to 1997 he was a faculty fellow of the World Economic Forum at…
Paul H. Nitze Professorship in International Politics
In his more than 50 years of public service, PAUL H. NITZE advised U.S. presidents from Roosevelt to Reagan and was a primary shaper of U.S. Cold War policy, the Marshall Plan, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He considered the co-founding of SAIS his greatest accomplishment. Ambassador Nitze authored…
MORRIS W. OFFIT, A&S 1957, founder of OFFITBANK, a private investment bank which merged with Wachovia in 1999, is currently chairman of Offit Capital. Mr. Offit is an emeritus university and medicine trustee and former chair of the SAIS Board of Advisors. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Hopkins…
Majid Khadduri Professorship in Middle East Studies
MAJID KHADDURI, who passed away in 2007, was professor emeritus of Middle East Studies and joined the SAIS faculty in 1949. He directed the Middle East Studies Program until 1980. A prolific and acclaimed writer on the legal and political problems of the Middle East, he was honored in 1979…
Jacob Blaustein Chair in International Organizations and Conflict Resolution
JACOB BLAUSTEIN was an industrialist who, with his father, Louis Blaustein, founded the American Oil Company and is credited with creating the first drive-through gas station and the first metered gas pump. He was also a diplomat, serving as an advisor to four United States presidents and as an American…
HRH Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Chair in Environmental Policy
HRH PRINCE SULTAN BIN ABDUL AZIZ served as deputy prime minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During his long career in government, he also served as the first minister of agriculture in Saudi Arabia, minister of communications, minister of defense and aviation, and as chairman of Saudi Arabian Airlines.…
GROVE HAINES was the visionary founder of the Bologna Center, which opened doors in 1955. Through his indefatigable efforts, SAIS was able to establish an international campus at which American and European students could dialogue on the international issues of the day. Following his retirement in 1972, he received the…
George H.W. Bush Professorship of International Relations
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, the forty-first president of the United States, is a statesman, diplomat, and lifelong public servant. A naval pilot who received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service in the Pacific during World War II, President Bush began his political career as a representative to Congress from Texas.…
GEORGE HYMAN (pictured) founded George Hyman Construction, which built some of the most important structures in America, including the Orioles Stadium at Camden Yards, the National Archives Building, and McCormick Place, the giant convention center in Chicago. When he died in 1959, his wife, SADIE HYMAN, became president of the George and…
