Sterling Professor

A Sterling Professorship is the highest academic rank at Yale University, awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in his field. Traditionally, there are only 27 at any one time, though there are currently 34.

Current Sterling Professors

• Bruce Ackerman, Law and Political Science
• Sidney Altman, Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology and Chemistry
• R. Howard Bloch, French
• Harold Bloom, Humanities and English
• Peter Preston Brooks, Comparative Literature and French
• Mirjan Damaska, Law
• Owen Fiss, Law
• Richard Flavell, Immunobiology
• Gerhard Giebisch, Physiology
• Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Hispanic and Comparative Literature
• Donald Kagan, Classics and History
• Anthony Kronman, Law
• John Langbein, Law and Legal History
• Richard Lifton, Genetics
• Jerry Mashaw, Law
• David Mayhew, Political Science
• Giuseppe Mazzotta, Italian Language and Literature
• Ira Mellman, Cell Biology
• Peter Moore, Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
• William Nordhaus, Economics
• Annabel Patterson, English
• Peter Philips, Economics
• Frank Ruddle, Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology
• Herbert Scarf, Economics
• Alan Schwartz, Law
• James C. Scott, Political Science
• Ian Shapiro, Political Science
• Carolyn Slayman, Genetics
• Jonathan Spence, History
• Joan Steitz, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
• Thomas Steitz, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
• Karl Turekian, Geology and Geophysics
• Sherman Weissman, Genetics and Medicine
• Edward Zigler, Child Study Center