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 | |
| Bauer, Eurydice | College of Education | Instruction and Teacher Ed | John E. Swearingen Professor | |
| 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 | |
| Bliese, Paul | Moore School of Business | Management | Jeff B. Bates Professorship | |
| 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 | |
| Campbell, Berry | School of Medicine | Obstetrics & Gynecology | Edward J. Dennis, III, MD, Chair of Obstretrick and Gynecology | |
| Chambliss, Elizabeth | School of Law | Henry Harman Edens Chair | ||
| Chen, Donna | Arts & Sciences | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Robert L. Sumwalt Professorship in Chemistry | |
| Compton-Lilly, Catherine | College of Education | Instruction and Teacher Ed | John C. Hungerpiller Professor | |
| Cooke, Nicole | Information and Communications | Information Science | Augusta Baker Endowed Chair in Childhood Literacy | |
| Crocker, Thomas | School of Law | N. Heyward Clarkson, Jr. Professorship | ||
| Dahmen, Wolfgang | Arts & Sciences | Mathematics | Williams-Hedberg-Hedberg Endowed Chair of Mathematics | |
| DiPette, Donald | School of Medicine | Internal Medicine | Health Sciences Distinguished Professor | |
| DiStefano, Christine | College of Education | Educational Studies | E.S. Gambrell Professor of Educational Studies Endowed Chair | |
| Dougal, Roger A. | Engineering & Computing | Electrical Engineering | Thomas L. Gregory Professor in Electrical Engineering | |
| Dryer, Frederick | Engineering & Computing | Mechanical Engineering | USC Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor | |
| Eagle, Josh | Law | Law | Solomon Blatt Professor of Law | |
| Feldman, Paula R. | Arts & Sciences | English | C. Wallace Martin Professor of English | |
| Ferguson, Mark | Moore School of Business | Management Science | Dewey Johnson Professorship | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Guedhami, Omrane | Moore School of Business | International Business | C. Russell Hill Professorship for Economics | |
| Haj-Hariri, Hossein | Engineering and Computing | Engineering and Computing | USC Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor | |
| Harding, Tayloe | School of Music | Ira McKissick Koger Professor of Fine Arts | ||
| Hebert, James R. | Arnold School of Public Health | Epidemiology & Biostatistics | Health Sciences Distinguished Professor | |
| Holton, Abner "Woody” | Arts & Sciences | History | Peter and Bonnie McCausland Professor of History | |
| Hubbert, Julie | School of Music | LaDare Robinson Memorial Professorship | ||
| Jackson, Scott | Moore School of Business | Marketing | Donald H. Cromer Endowed Chair in Accounting | |
| 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 | |
| Kuo, Susan | Law | Law | Class of 1969 Chair for Teaching Excellence | |
| MacKenzie, Simon P. | Arts & Sciences | History | Caroline McKissick Dial Chair in History | |
| Marodin, Giuliano | Moore School of Business | Management Science | Continental Professor of Operations and Supply Chain | |
| Means, Ben | School of Law | John T. Campbell Chair in Business and Professional Ethics | ||
| 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 | |
| Miller, Colin | School of Law | Thomas H. Pope Professorship in Trial Advocacy | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Sullivan, Patricia | Arts & Sciences | History | William Arthur Fairey II Professorship in History | |
| Taylor, R. Caughman | Medicine | Pediatrics | William Weston, MD Professor of Pediatrics | |
| Teegen, Hildy | Moore School of Business | International Business | USC Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor | |
| Thatcher, Sherry | Moore School of Business | Management | J. Henry Fellers Professorship in Business Administration | |
| Vogt, Thomas | Engineering and Computing | Chemistry | USC Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor | |
| 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 | |
| Zug, Marcia | School of Law | Miles and Ann Loadholt Chair | ||
| Zur Loye, Hanno | Arts & Sciences | Chemistry & Biochemistry | David W. Robinson Palmetto Professor |