Endowed Chairs

Johns Hopkins faculty are leaders in fields ranging from engineering and medicine to international relations, the humanities, and public health. Every day, on our campuses around the globe, Hopkins clinicians and professors are working to advance discovery, to inspire creativity, and to train the next generation of leaders and innovators.

Endowed professorships and other faculty support guarantee we can continue to attract and retain world-class faculty.

Learn more about the work of some of our endowed chairs through our Quick Study series and at the following links:

• Shane Butler, the Nancy H. and Robert E. Hall Professor in the Humanities
• Cheryl Dennison Himmelfarb, the Sarah E. Allison Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
• Sean Jones, the Richard and Elizabeth Case Chair of Jazz Studies at the Peabody Institute
• Phillip Phan, the Alonzo and Virginia Decker Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
• Jonathan Plucker, the Julian C. Stanley Endowed Professor of Talent Development at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth and Johns Hopkins School of Education
• Gwenn Smith, the Richman Family Professor for Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• René Vidal, the Herschel L. Seder Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Xiaobin Wang, the Zanvyl Krieger Professor in Children’s Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health