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.
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…
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…
