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Stanford professor Josiah Ober teaches what political life was like in Athens while teaching Democracy Ancient and Modern: From Politics to Political Theory.
Stanford professor Josiah Ober teaches what political life was like in Athens while teaching Democracy Ancient and Modern: From Politics to Political Theory.

Stanford faculty are leaders in their fields with their accomplishments recognized across the disciplines. Faculty work closely with students and conduct groundbreaking research.

Today, Stanford has 2,345 members of the professoriate faculty. There are 729 members appointed to endowed professorships.

Stanford’s Fall 2024 community of scholars includes:

20
Nobel laureates

36
Nobel Prize winners since the university’s founding

33
MacArthur Fellows

6
National Humanities Medal recipients

4
Pulitzer Prize winners

7
National Medal of Science recipients

5
National Medal of Technology recipients

325
American Academy of Arts and Sciences members

187
National Academy of Science members

113
National Academy of Engineering members

91
National Academy of Medicine members

29
National Academy of Education members

44
American Philosophical Society members

6
Wolf Foundation Prize winners

1
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients

7
A.M. Turing Award winners while on faculty

3
Kavli Prize laureates

1
National Medal of Arts winner

Faculty by the numbers