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
- Quality and number of scholarly and/or creative works.
- Enhancement of the university's reputation through regional, national and international recognition of the professional work.
- Quality of university teaching.
- Service to the university and to the profession which distinguishes the individual and university. Appropriate professional and personal conduct.
- 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 | Keywords (hidden column) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albrecht, Helmut | Medicine | Internal Medicine | Heyward Gibbes Distinguished Professor in Internal Medicine | |
| Andrews, Jeanette | Nursing | Nursing | Helen Wolford Gurley Professor of Nursing | |
| 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 | |
| Benitez-Nelson, Claudia | Arts and Sciences | School of Earth, Ocean and Environment | 1932 Marine Studies Professorship | |
| 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 | |
| Black, Derek | Law | Law | Class of 1959 Chair for Legal Research | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Dougal, Roger A. | Engineering & Computing | Electrical Engineering | Thomas L. Gregory Professor in Electrical Engineering | |
| Duo, Susan | Law | LAw | Class of 1969 Chair for Teaching Excellence | |
| 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 |
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| 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 | |
| Lipe, Marlys | Moore School of Business | Accounting | Friends of Accounting - Donald H. Cramer Professor of Accounting | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Seiner, Joseph | Law | Law | Oliver Ellsworth Professor of Federal Practice | |
| Snow, Ned | Law | Law | Ray Taylor Fair Professorship | |
| 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 |