Endowed Chairs and Distinguished Professorships are prestigious term appointments for scholarly achievement and distinction within a specific departmental unit. Contact your dean's office about open chairs.

Criteria for Appointment

1. Quality and number of scholarly and/or creative works.
2. Enhancement of the university's reputation through regional, national and international recognition of the professional work.
3. Quality of university teaching.
4. Service to the university and to the profession which distinguishes the individual and university. Appropriate professional and personal conduct.
5. Normally, recipients must be full professors at the University of South Carolina or eligible for initial appointment at that rank. In the former case, it is particularly important that the same high standards be adhered to for selection as in the latter. Appointment or reappointment to an endowed chair or named professorship should not be made merely as a reward for long service, however devoted.

 

Endowed Chairs and Distinguished Professorships

Name	College	Department	Title
Albrecht, Helmut	Medicine	Internal Medicine	Heyward Gibbes Distinguished Professor in Internal Medicine
Angel, Michael	Arts & Sciences	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Fred M. Weissman Palmetto Professor of Chemical Ecology
Avignone,  Frank T.	Arts & Sciences	Physics & Astronomy	Carolina Endowed Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Beecroft, Alexander	Arts and Sciences	Languages, Literature and Cultures	Jessie Chapman Alcorn Memorial Professor of Foreign Languages
Benicewicz, Brian	Arts & Sciences	Chemistry & Biochemistry	USC Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Bennett, Charles	Pharmacy	Pharmacy	Frank P. and Josie M. Fletcher Professorship in Pharmacoeconomics
Berger, Allen	Moore School of Business	Finance	H. Montague Osteen, Jr. Professorship in Banking and Finance
Berger, Franklin	Arts & Sciences	Biological Sciences	George H. Bunch, Sr. Professor of Science
Blackburn, McKinley	Moore School of Business	Economics	James A. Morris Endowed Professor in Economics
Booze, Rosemarie M.	Arts & Sciences	Psychology	Bicentennial Chair Professor in Behavioral Neuroscience
Bowman, Vicki V.	Arts & Sciences	Biological Sciences	Wade T. Batson, Jr. Professor of Botany
Brett, Allan S.	Medicine	Internal Medicine	Orlando B. Mayer, Sr. And Orlando B. Mayer, Jr. Professor of Internal Medicine
Brinkmeyer, Robert	Arts & Sciences	English	Emily Brown Jefferies Professor of English & Claude Henry Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies
Buell, Duncan	Engineering and Computing	Computer Science and Engineering	NCR Chair in Computer Science and Engineering
Burgis, Judith	Medicine	Ob/Gyn	Edward J Dennis III MD Professor of Obstetrics And Gynecology
Chaudhry, M. Hanif	Engineering & Computing	Civil Engineering	Mr. and Mrs. Irwin B. Kahn Professor of Civil Engineering
Dougal, Roger A.	Engineering & Computing	Electrical Engineering	Thomas L. Gregory Professor in Electrical Engineering
Eagle, Josh	Law	Law	Solomon Blatt Professor of Law
Feldman, Paula R.	Arts & Sciences	English	C. Wallace Martin Professor of English
Finney, Nikky	Arts & Sciences	English	John H. Bennett Jr. Chair in Southern Letters and Creative Writing
Frierson, Richard	School of Medicine	Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science	Alexander G. Donald Endowed Professorship in Neuropsychiatric Education
Fitzpatrick, Mary Anne	Arts & Sciences	Arts & Sciences	Educational Foundation University Professor
Gabel, Joan	Provost	Provost	USC Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor
Gehlert, Sarah	Social Work	Social Work	USC Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor
Giurgiutiu, Victor	Engineering & Computing	Mechanical Engineering	John Ducate, Sr. Chair Professorship of Mechanical Engineering
Grant, August	Mass Comm & Info Studies	Journalism	J. Rion McKissick Chair in Journalism
Gurdal, Zafer	Engineering & Computing	Mechanical Engineering	McNAIR Chair in Aerospace
Haj-Hariri, Hossein	Engineering and Computing	Engineering and Computing	USC Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor
Hebert, James R.	Arnold School of Public Health	Epidemiology & Biostatistics	Health Sciences Distinguished Professor
Heiney, Sue	Nursing	Nursing	Dunn-Shealy Professor of Nursing
Holton, Abner "Woody”	Arts & Sciences	History	Peter and Bonnie McCausland Professor of History
Jayachandran, Satish	Moore School of Business	Marketing	James F. Kane Professor of Business
Kim, Sei-Hill	Information & Communications	Journalism	Eleanor M. and R. Frank Mundy Professorship in Journalism and Mass Communications
Kostova, Tatiana	Moore School of Business	International Business	Buck Mickel Professorship in International Business
Kridel, Craig	Education	Educational Studies	E. Smythe Gambrell Professor of Education
Lipe, Marlys	Moore School of Business	Accounting	Friends of Accounting - Donald H. Cramer Professor of Accounting
Littlefield,  Daniel	Arts & Sciences	History	Carolina Professor of History
Lomazov, Marina	Music	Music	Ira McKissick Koger Professor of Fine Arts
MacKenzie, Simon P.	Arts & Sciences	History	Caroline McKissick Dial Chair in History
Medlin, S. Alan	Law	Real Estate, Trusts & Estates	David W. Robinson Professor of Law
Messias, DeAnne	Nursing	Nursing	Emily Myrtle Smith Professor of Community Nursing
Mihalik, Brian	HRSM	Sport and Entertainment Management	William McFall Pearce Endowed Professorship
Oh, Haemoon	HRSM	HRSM	USC Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor
Outten, Caryn	Arts & Sciences	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Guy F. Lipscomb Professor of Chemistry
Outten, Wayne	Arts & Sciences	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Guy F. Lipscomb, Sr. Professor of Biochemistry
Pitner, Ronald	Social Work	Social Work	I. DeQuincey Newman Endowed Chair in Peace and Social Justice
Ployhart, Robert E	Moore School of Business	Management Science	Bank of America Professor of Business Administration
Reichert, Tom	Information and Communication	Information and Communication	USC Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor
Reynolds, Anthony P.	Engineering & Computing	Mechanical Engineering	Frank B. Herty Bicentennial Chair in Engineering
Richardson, Susan	Arts & Sciences	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Arthur Sease Williams Professor of Chemistry
Ritter, James A.	Arts & Sciences	Chemical Engineering	L. M. Weisiger Professor of Engineering
Rizvi, Ali	Medicine	Internal Medicine	A. T. Chalk Professorship in Internal Medicine
Roth, Kendall J.	Moore School of Business	International Business	J. Willis Cantey Professor of International Business and Economics
Taylor, R. Caughman	Medicine	Pediatrics	William Weston, MD Professor of Pediatrics
Teegen, Hildy	Moore School of Business	International Business	USC Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor
Vazsonyi, Nicholas	Arts & Sciences	Languages, Literature, & Cultures	Jessie Chapman Alcorn Memorial Professor of Foreign Languages
Vogt, Thomas	Engineering and Computing	Chemistry	USC Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor
Wei, Ran	Information & Communications	Journalism	Gonzales Brothers Professor of Journalism
Weidner, John	Engineering & Computing	Chemical Engineering	CEC Campaign for Excellence Professor of Chemical Engineering
Weiss, Scott	Music	Music	Sarah Bolick Smith Distinguished Professor of Music
Wright, Patrick	Moore School of Business	Management Science	Thomas C. Vandiver Bicentennial Chair in the Moore School of Business
Yell, Mitchell L.	Education	Educational Studies	Fred & Francis Lester Palmetto Chair in Teacher Education
Zur Loye, Hanno	Arts & Sciences	Chemistry & Biochemistry	David W. Robinson Palmetto Professor