Six Trinity Faculty Members Among Duke's New Distinguished Professors
Duke Today
Duke University has awarded distinguished professorships to 31 faculty members and will recognize them in a ceremony at the Washington Duke Inn on May 14.
“I am very proud to recognize these outstanding faculty colleagues with distinguished professorships,” said President Vincent E. Price. “Through their extraordinary scholarship and teaching, they are advancing solutions, inventions and cures that will uplift humankind and make a lasting difference in the world.”
Distinguished professorships honor faculty who are well-established members of the Duke academic community and have also achieved distinction as creative scholars in their field or in their ability to transcend disciplines.
“Congratulations to these exceptional scholars on earning distinguished professorships from Duke University,” said Provost Alec D. Gallimore. “Their contributions to their fields and to Duke’s intellectual community are truly impressive and I am proud to call them colleagues.”
During its February meeting, Duke’s Board of Trustees approved the awarding of Distinguished Professorships to the following faculty, effective July 1, 2025 or thereafter:
James Andrew Alspaugh II (Department of Medicine), James B. Duke Distinguished Professor
Cathleen Sellner Colón-Emeric (Department of Medicine), James B. Wyngaarden Distinguished Professor
Gregory E. Crawford (Department of Pediatrics), Wilburt C. Davison Distinguished Professor
Samit Dasgupta (Department of Mathematics), James B. Duke Distinguished Professor
Katherine J. Franz (Department of Chemistry), James B. Duke Distinguished Professor
Birgit Frauscher (Department of Neurobiology), Lincoln Financial Group Distinguished Professor
Amy Susanne Gladfelter (Department of Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering), Duke Health Distinguished Professor
Peter David Hoff (Department of Statistical Science), James B. Duke Distinguished Professor
Brenna L Hughes (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology), Edwin Crowell Hamblen Distinguished Professor of Reproductive Biology and Family Planning
Marin K. Levy (School of Law), Melvin Shimm Distinguished Professor
Micah Alan Luftig (Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology), Alter Geller Distinguished Professor in Immunology
Gary Ross Maslow (Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences), Gorrell Family Distinguished Professor in Children's Psychiatry
Hiroaki Matsunami (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology), Minnie Geller Distinguished Professor in Genetics
Michael Anthony Moody (Department of Pediatrics), J. Buren Sidbury Distinguished Professor
Susanna Naggie (Department of Medicine), Catherine Wilfert Distinguished Professor
Alexander Pfaff (Sanford School of Public Policy), Bernard Rhodes Distinguished Professor
Shitong Qiao (School of Law), Ken Young-Gak Yun and Jinah Park Yun Distinguished Professor
Daniel D. Richter (Nicholas School of the Environment), Theodore S. Coile Distinguished Professor in the Division of Earth and Climate Sciences
Moira Ann Rynn (Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences), J.P. Gibbons Distinguished Professor
Daniel Raphael Saban (Department of Ophthalmology), Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Distinguished Professor
Stefanie Sarantopoulos (Department of Medicine), James Wyngaarden Distinguished Professor
Anne Elizabeth West (Department of Neurobiology), George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor
Daniel Yi Xu (Department of Economics), Rubenstein Distinguished Professor
Jun Yang (Department of Computer Science), Knut Schmidt Nielsen Distinguished Professor
Lawrence Yang (School of Nursing), Pauline Gratz Distinguished Professor
Steven L Young (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology), F. Bayard Carter Distinguished Professor
Pei Zhou (Department of Biochemistry), James B. Duke Distinguished Professor
Tai-ping Sun (Department of Biology), John Carlisle Kilgo Distinguished Professor
In addition, three faculty members awarded Distinguished Professorships that took effect in 2024, will also be honored at the ceremony:
Kevin Hart (Divinity School), Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor
Claudia K. Gunsch (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Muriel Theodorsen Williams E’46 Distinguished Professor
Professor Hai "Helen” Li (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Marie Foote Reel E’46 Distinguished Professor
