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.
Charlotte Bloomberg Professorship in the Humanities
CHARLOTTE BLOOMBERG graduated from high school at the age of 16 and completed her undergraduate studies at New York University. Both she and her husband, William Bloomberg, were employed by dairy companies in the northeast. Mrs. Bloomberg was active in cultural and civic life in Medford, Massachusetts, and metropolitan Boston.…
Professor of Italian Studies CHARLES S. SINGLETON was a world-renowned Dante scholar. His scholarship focused on both Dante and Boccaccio, and his six-volume translation of Dante's Divine Comedy brought him great acclaim. Dr. Singleton was the recipient of many awards and honors, both in the United States and Italy, including the highest…
CHARLES HOMER HASKINS, A&S 1887, 1890 (PhD), was considered the nation's first and most important medievalist. After receiving his doctorate from Hopkins, Dr. Haskins taught at the University of Wisconsin before joining the faculty of Harvard, where he became dean and remained for the rest of his career. Dr. Haskins'…
CHARLES D MILLER was an American business executive and philanthropist best known for his long leadership of Avery Dennison Corporation and his deep commitment to education and civic engagement. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University (Class of 1949), Miller served as CEO of Avery Dennison for more than two decades,…
Center for Financial Economics: Louis J. Maccini Professorship
LOUIS J. MACCINI joined the Department of Economics at The Johns Hopkins University in 1969, chairing the department from 1992 to 2007. Beginning in 2000, he headed the effort to create the Center for Financial Economics; his vision was to create a place where teaching and research in finance would…
Center for Financial Economics: Carl Christ Professorship
CARL CHRIST began his career as a physicist, working on the Manhattan Project and teaching physics at Princeton. His legacy, however, is in economics. He joined the faculty at The Johns Hopkins University in 1950, leaving for a six-year stint at the University of Chicago, then returning to Hopkins in…
ALLEN GROSSMAN (1932 – 2014), a profoundly influential poet, scholar, and teacher, joined Johns Hopkins University in 1991 as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and taught until his retirement in 2006. Widely regarded as a “poet’s poet,” Grossman’s work bridged Romantic and Modernist traditions, combining intellectual rigor…
Bo Jung and Soon Young Kim Professorship of East Asian Science and Technology
DONG-WON KIM has contributed to the Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences through his scholarship, his philanthropy, and his academic collaborations, working to unite the histories of science in the East and West in the modern period in the same spirit as the esteemed academic Joseph…
SAMUEL IWRY (pictured), A&S 1951 (PhD), who earned his degree in Near Eastern Studies and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa on the award of his doctorate, was known for his wide-ranging scholarly endeavors in ancient Near Eastern studies, Biblical archaeology, the history of the Hebrew language, Jewish civilization, and modern…
University trustee BERNARD N. BAKER was an international expert on maritime transportation and owner of the Atlantic Transport Line. Before going into the shipping business, he had established a chemical company and then a coal-mining firm. After retirement, he became president of the Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Company. He and…
BENJAMIN H. GRISWOLD III, a university trustee from 1951 to 1980 and thereafter trustee emeritus, was senior partner of the Baltimore investment firm of Alex. Brown & Sons, whose partners endowed this chair in his honor to recognize his leadership and longtime generosity at Johns Hopkins. Mr. Griswold served as…
Austen-Stokes Professorship in the Art of the Ancient Americas
The creation of the Austen-Stokes Professorship in the Art of the Ancient Americas came about through the singular vision of JOHN AUSTEN STOKES JR. John first encountered the art of the ancient Americas when he moved to Mexico in the 1950s after serving in the Korean War. There he met…
