Prize winner Haruki Murakami – visiting professor, literature, creative writing Alexander Nehamas – professor of philosophy Philip Nord – professor of history Joyce Carol Oates – Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities; professor in the Creative Writing Program; author; Pulitzer Prize nominee Elaine Pagels – professor of religion Francis Landey Patton – professor of theology; president of the university, 1888–1902 Ricardo Piglia – professor of Latin-American literature Thomas J. Preston Jr. – professor of archeology Albert J. Raboteau – Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion, Princeton University, former dean of the graduate school Noliwe Rooks - associate director of the African-American program at Princeton University, author Richard Rorty – professor of philosophy Carl Emil Schorske – emeritus professor of history, winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (1980) Ruth Simmons – vice provost, 1992–95 – first female and first black president of any Ivy League school (Brown) Peter Singer – professor of human values, expert on practical ethics P. Adams Sitney – film historian, professor of visual arts Michael A. Smith – professor of philosophy Nigel Smith – professor of English Walter Terence Stace – professor of philosophy Donald Steven – Canadian composer, winner of the JUNO Award for Best Classical Composition and the Jules-Léger Prize Gregory Vlastos – professor of philosophy Andrew Fleming West – Giger Professor of Latin, 1883–1928; dean of the graduate school, 1900–1928 Cornel West – professor of religion and Africa American studies C. K. Williams – professor of poetry, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Wood – professor in the English department Math and science Forman S. Acton – professor of computer science Philip Warren Anderson – Joseph Henry Professor of Physics and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics Manjul Bhargava – Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, professor of mathematics, 2014 Fields Medalist John H. Conway – professor of mathematics, best known for the Game of Life Ingrid Daubechies – professor of mathematics; namesake of Daubechies wavelet Henry Eyring – professor of chemistry, known for the Eyring equation; recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1966 Charles Fefferman – professor of mathematics, Fields Medalist Val Fitch – professor emeritus of physics, Nobel laureate J. Richard Gott – professor of astrophysics, winner of the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching James E. Gunn – Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy, leader of the Sloan Digital Sky