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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Bender, Jay | Information & Communications | Journalism | Reid H. Montgomery Freedom of Information |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Colbert, Cynthia | Arts & Sciences | Art | Sarah Bolick Smith Professor of Fine Arts |
| DeFord, Diane E. | Education | Instruction and Teacher Education | John E. Swearingen Professor of Literacy Education |
| Dougal, Roger A. | Engineering & Computing | Electrical Engineering | Thomas L. Gregory Professor in Electrical Engineering |
| Doyle, Don | Arts & Sciences | History | McCausland Professor of History |
| 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 |
| Fitzpatrick, Mary Anne | Arts & Sciences | Arts & Sciences | Educational Foundation University Professor |
| Fridriksson, Julius | Arnold School of Public Health | Communication Sciences & Disorders | Arnold School of Public Health Distinguished Chair in Communication Disorders |
| Gabel, Joan | Provost | Provost | 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 |
| 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 |
| Malhotra, Manoj K. | Moore School of Business | Management Science | Jeff Bates Professor of Public Administration and Finance |
| Martin, Michelle | Information & Communications | Lib & Information Science | August Baker Chair in Childhood Literacy |
| 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 |
| Mills, Heidi | Education | Instruction and Teacher Ed | John C. Hungerpiller Professor |
| Morris, James T. | Arts & Sciences | Biological Sciences | Class of 1932 Distinguished Professorship in Marine Studies |
| 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 |
| Ployhart, Robert E | Moore School of Business | Management Science | Bank of America Professor of Business Administration |
| Portnoy, Donald C. | Music | Music | Ira McKissick Koger Professor of Fine Arts |
| Pratt, Walter | Law | Law | James P. Mozingo III Legal Research |
| 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 |
| Stephens, Diane L. | Education | Instruction & Teacher Ed | John E Swearingen Professor of Education |
| 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 |
| 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 |