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.
FEI YI-MING was a widely respected Chinese journalist and activist in the cause of international friendship. During most of his 60-year career in journalism, he was associated with the newspaper Ta Kung Pao, helping to found the publication in Shanghai and later serving as publisher in Hong Kong. He was vice…
AGIP, established as the Italian state-run petroleum company, is now a division of privately owned Eni SpA. Raffaele Santoro (B’60), who at the time this chair was established served as AGIP’s chairman and president, had studied at the Bologna Center on a fellowship in academic year 1959-60, and there had…
EDWIN OLDFATHER REISCHAUER was United States ambassador to Japan from 1961 to 1966. In 1984, when the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies was dedicated at SAIS, its director, George Packard, called Dr. Reischauer "quite simply the preeminent scholar, diplomat, and statesman of our time." An East Asia…
Edward B. Burling Chair in International Law and Institutions
Attorney EDWARD B. BURLING established a Washington, DC, law firm with Harry Covington, a former Maryland congressman and chief justice of the DC Supreme Court. The firm remains prominent today. In the 1940s, Mr. Burling was one of the core group brought together by Paul Nitze and Christian Herter to…
DEAN ACHESON, U.S. Secretary of State from 1949 to 1953 and an advisor to four presidents, was the principal creator of United States foreign policy in the Cold War period following World War II. Earlier, as undersecretary, he helped shape the Truman Doctrine and outlined the Marshall Plan. He received…
Davis-Donner Foundations Chair in Canadian Studies
ARTHUR VINING DAVIS was president and then chairman of the board for many years of the Aluminum Company of America. During his years at Alcoa and while he also served as a director of numerous major corporations, Mr. Davis became increasingly attracted to Florida and the Bahamas and, at the…
Chung Ju Yung Distinguished Professorship in International Economics and Business
CHUNG JU YUNG was the founder and honorary chairman of Korea's HYUNDAI BUSINESS GROUP. He was instrumental in promoting economic development and business cooperation between South and North Korea. In 1977, Chung Ju Yung established the Asan Foundation, a non-profit social welfare organization, as part of his philanthropic commitment to…
Christian A. Herter Professorship in American Foreign Policy
CHRISTIAN ARCHIBALD HERTER, United States secretary of state from 1959 to 1961, was one of the founders of SAIS. During his long and distinguished public career, he was a diplomat, a congressman, and governor of Massachusetts. He was highly praised by President Dwight Eisenhower, who said, "When you look at…
C.V. Starr Distinguished Professorship in Southeast Asia Studies
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…
Bernard L. Schwartz Professorship in Political Economy
BERNARD LEON SCHWARTZ is chairman and CEO of BLS Investments, LLC, a private investment firm. He also manages the investments of the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Foundation, which mainly supports higher education, medical research, and New York City-based cultural organizations. He promotes the development of U.S. economic policy initiatives through…
ANDREW W. MELLON, born in 1855, was a financier, diplomat, and industrialist. Mr. Mellon helped found the Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh, the Gulf Oil Corporation, and the Pittsburgh Coal Company. In 1921, he left the presidency of the Mellon National Bank to become U.S. secretary of the treasury, serving…
The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professorship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
THE LEONARD and HELEN R. STULMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION was established by LEONARD STULMAN, a Baltimore businessman and philanthropist and Johns Hopkins alumnus, who died in 2000. During their lifetimes, Mr. Stulman and his wife, HELEN R. STULMAN, made generous gifts to the Jewish community, the arts, music, theater, and to…
