Thirty-one members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.
Rishi Arora, Ozan Candogan, Erika Claud, Anthony Fowler, Alexander Frankel, David Freedman, Seth Himelhoch, Ryan Kellogg, Tengyuan Liang, Hening Lin, John McCormick, Scott Meadow, Y. Shirley Meng, Arthur Middlebrooks, James Reidy, Veronika Rockova, Pablo Sanchez, J. David Schloen, Hans Thomalla, Joseph S. Vavra, Rebecca Willett, Ming Xiang, Dacheng Xiu and Rong Grace Zhai, have received new named professorships. Ali Hortaçsu, Erik Hurst, Adrian Johns, Josephine McDonagh, Sianne Ngai, Jacqueline Najuma Stewart and Pietro Veronesi received distinguished service professorships.
The appointments were effective Jan. 1.
Biological Sciences Division
Rishi Arora has been named the Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor in the Department of Medicine and the College.
Arora’s lab investigates the molecular mechanisms underlying heart rhythm disorders (cardiac arrhythmias), with a primary focus on atrial fibrillation (AF). They have worked extensively on the role of the autonomic nervous system and inflammation (oxidative injury) on the genesis of AF. They are also investigating the role of altered excitation-contraction coupling in the onset and progression of AF. In recent years, Arora’s team has developed new, non-viral gene therapy approaches to target key molecular mechanisms underlying AF, along with signal processing approaches to accurately detect regions of increased inflammation and aberrant autonomic signaling in the atrium.
A cardiologist and electrophysiologist, Arora is chief of the Section of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine who specializes in diagnosing and treating a wide range of heart conditions.
Erika Claud has been named the first Stephen Family Professor in the Department of Pediatrics.
Claud specializes in neonatology, providing care to critically ill infants. She has an interest in the diagnosis and treatment of preterm infants and conditions of the immature digestive tract. Her research focuses on intestinal epithelial biology as it relates to neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis, a life-threatening inflammatory bowel disorder of unknown cause that afflicts premature infants. She investigates the role of microbes in intestinal development of preterm infants and leads the MIND (Microbiome in Neonatal Development) cohort.
Claud is co-director of the Basic Science Track within the Scholarship and Discovery Program of the Pritzker School of Medicine and Faculty Co-Chair Pritzker School of Medicine Summer Research Program. She is also director of neonatology research and a member of the Faculty Leadership Cabinet for the Duchossois Family Institute.
David Freedman has been named the first Stahl Professor of Neurobiology in the Wallman Society of Fellows and the Department of Neurobiology and the College.
Freedman’s research is aimed at understanding the brain mechanisms of visual perception and cognition. His laboratory records and analyzes the activity of neuronal populations across multiple brain regions to understand how neural circuits mediate visual learning, recognition, and decision making. His group also employs computational modeling and machine learning approaches to understand how neural networks mediate cognitively demanding behaviors.
Freedman is currently the chair of the Department of Neurobiology. He joined the faculty in 2008, and served as chair of the Committee on Computational Neuroscience from 2015-2021. Since 2022, he has also served as a co-lead of The Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI+Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at UChicago.
Seth Himelhoch has been named the Lowell T. Coggeshall Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience.
Himelhoch is a public health researcher whose career has focused on developing and testing evidence-based interventions, including those for HIV, substance use disorders and cancer control. His current work seeks to evaluate the most promising combinations of medication and behavioral therapy for smoking cessation among people living with HIV/AIDS, including randomized controlled clinical trials in Kenya. He also leads one of seven federal Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science, which informs the Food and Drug Administration on how to regulate tobacco use by understanding the unique smoking habits of a population.
Himelhoch is chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, where he is leading efforts to integrate behavioral health care throughout the UChicago Health System.
Hening Lin has been named the James and Karen Frank Family Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Chemistry and the College.
Lin is recognized as a pioneer in chemistry, biology, and the therapeutic targeting of enzymes with important physiological functions. His work interfaces with organic synthesis, biochemistry, biophysics, molecular biology, and cell biology to study enzymes in order to develop small molecule inhibitors that target enzymes and investigate their potential in treating diseases such as cancer and inflammation. His research has led to a deeper understanding of enzyme mechanisms, protein modifications, and cellular signaling pathways.
Lin is a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator and has been instrumental in fostering interdisciplinary collaborations between chemists, biologists, and clinicians at UChicago.
James Reidy has been named the first Adelaide M. Seeberger Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science.
Reidy is an ophthalmologist who specializes in caring for patients with diseases of the cornea, corneal infections, cataracts and more. He is an expert in an outpatient procedure known as corneal cross-linking, an alternative to more invasive corneal transplants. This procedure helps prevent the progression of keratoconus, a degenerative eye condition in which the normally round, dome-like corneas become thin and develop a cone-like bulge.
As a researcher, Reidy is investigating the use of stem cells in ocular surface reconstruction and the implementation of the Boston Keratoprosthesis (artificial cornea) for high-risk keratoplasty patients. He also developed a treatment algorithm for recurrent corneal erosion syndrome. Reidy is vice chair of clinical operations and medical director of the Ophthalmology Outpatient Center.
Pablo Sanchez has been named the Lowell T. Coggeshall Professor in the Department of Surgery.
Sanchez is a thoracic surgeon who specializes in treating a wide range of complex lung diseases, such as advanced emphysema, acute respiratory failure, lung cancer, and airway disease. His surgical expertise includes performing traditional, minimally invasive and robotic thoracic procedures, along with lung transplants. His research is aimed at improving care for patients with lung disease.
He is best known for his role in pioneering new approaches and techniques to improve outcomes in lung transplantation, including ex vivo lung perfusion evaluation of high-risk donors and bloodless lung transplantation.
Sanchez is surgical director of the Lung Transplant Program and is part of the Latino Transplant Program.
Rong Grace Zhai has been named the Jack Miller Professor for the Study of Neurological Diseases in the Department of Neurology.
Zhai is internationally recognized for her work in Drosophila genetics and human disease modeling that allows her to perform rapid in vivo functional and imaging analyses to understand genetic and biochemical causes of rare and common neurological diseases and discover new therapeutic approaches. She is best known for her work on nicotinamide-nucleotide adenylyl transferase, an enzyme critical for NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) synthesis and neuroprotection, with implications for mitigating chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. She has developed Drosophila models for more than a dozen neurological diseases, leading to several therapeutic discoveries, including a patented drug therapy for sorbitol dehydrogenase deficiency now in phase 3 clinical trials. Her research also uncovered the role of spermine synthase in oxidative toxicity linked to Snyder-Robinson Syndrome, along with connections between NAD metabolism and protein homeostasis in neurodegenerative diseases, offering potential therapeutic pathways.
At UChicago, Zhai leads efforts in technology development for the study of the nervous system, partnering with established centers and institutes to establish a disease modeling and drug repurposing and discovery platform within the BSD that will include high resolution imaging, physiology, and biochemical and molecular capability.
Zhai is vice chair for research in the Department of Neurology. She is a Pew Scholar and has won numerous awards including the Snyder-Robinson Foundation Researcher of the Year Award, the Women in Academic Medicine Trailblazer Award, and the Safadi Faculty Scholar Award.
Humanities Division
Josephine McDonagh has been named the Randy L. and Melvin B. Berlin Distinguished Service Professor of the Development of the Novel in the Department of English Language and Literature and the College.
As a scholar of 19th-century British literature, McDonagh’s work ranges across authors, genres and print forms to explore questions about the types of knowledge that literature produces. She seeks answers to questions like: How and when do literary texts intersect with works in history, the law or political economy? And what happens when they do?
McDonagh’s first two books examine the work of two British authors—De Quincey’s Disciplines (1994) and George Eliot (1997). Subsequent studies have taken a more thematic approach. Child Murder and British Culture, 1720‒1890 (2003) explores ideas about child murder that occur in 18th- and 19th-century literature and political ideas.
Currently, her scholarship focuses on migration. For her book Literature in a Time of Migration: British Fiction and the Movement of People, 1815-1876 (2021), McDonagh discusses the ways in which novels responded to, and helped to shape, a transcontinental migratory culture during a time of mass emigration from Great Britain to settle colonies. McDonagh is also concerned with the commodity culture of the British colonial world.
Since 2021, McDonagh has served as the director of the Nicolson Center for British Studies, which specializes in the multidisciplinary study of the history and culture of the British isles and its former colonies. From 2020‒2023, she was an editor of the journal Modern Philology.
Sianne Ngai has been named the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the College.
A distinguished cultural theorist, Ngai uses philosophy, literature, art, economics, and humor to define American culture. She has centered her work on unspooling the social and political histories that form the aesthetic judgments of novels, movies and photographs, as well as the lesser art forms of show tunes, YouTube videos, rubber duckies, stainless-steel banana peelers and emojis.
The author of three serious, philosophically dense books with deceivingly innocent titles, Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (2020), Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting (2012), and Ugly Feelings (2005), she taps into American’s ordinary use of language to uncover political complexity and ambivalence. Our Aesthetic Categories won the Modern Language Association James Russell Lowell Prize, while the Theory of the Gimmick was a finalist for the Christian Gauss Book Prize, a co-winner of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize, and a Literary Hub Book of the Year.
Currently, Ngai is working on a book project called “Inhabiting Error” about the affective dimensions of dialectical thinking and how it moves through negation. She is interested in why authors such as Georg Wilheim Fredrich Hegel, Karl Marx and Lauren Berlant write in a way such that the reader often ends up phenomenologically lingering, with them, in a state of being wrong.
Jacqueline Najuma Stewart has been named the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College.
Stewart is the author and editor of several influential books, including: Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity (2005); William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission (2021), co-edited with Scott MacDonald; and L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (2015), co-edited with Jan-Christopher Horak and UChicago colleague Assoc. Prof. Allyson Nadia Field. Among her many honors, she received a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2023 Silver Light Award from the Association of Moving Image Archivists, and the 2024 Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
This fall, Stewart returned to UChicago after serving for four years as the chief artistic and programming officer and then as director and president at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. Her work on the museum’s inaugural exhibitions, programs and publications bridged the gap between academic and public realms and continued her focus on lesser-known film histories.
Since 2019, she has served as the first scholar and African American host on Turner Classic Movies, where she presents silent films and emphasizes works by women and filmmakers of color.
The founder of the South Side Home Movie Project in 2005, Stewart has worked to preserve, digitize and exhibit an understudied cultural resource: home movies from the Chicago neighborhoods where she was born and raised. Currently, Stewart is working on a book focused on the South Side Home Movie Project and the alternate histories and archival practices it has developed during the last 20 years.
Hans Thomalla has been named the Helen A. Regenstein Professor in the Department of Music and the College.
A composer of music for the stage, Thomalla has written four operas: Fremd performed by the Stuttgart Opera in 2011; Kaspar Hauser premiered at the Freiburg and Augsburg Opera in 2016; Dark Spring performed at the Mannheim Opera in 2020; and Dark Fall premiered at the Mannheim Opera in 2024. Additionally, he has written music for many ensembles and soloists, including the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Münchener Philharmoniker, SWR- and SR-Radiosinfonieorchester, The Crossing, Talea, ICE, Ensemble Modern, Musikfabrik, Ensemble Recherche, Arditti Quartet, Spektral Quartet, Nicolas Hodges, Irvine Arditti and Sarah Sun.
Among many awards and fellowships, Thomalla received the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis, the Composer Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, the Christoph Delz Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Koussevitsky Commission. During the academic year 2014‒2015, he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and in 2024‒2025, he is a fellow at the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome. Thomalla is the co-founder of the Chicago-based record label Sideband Records.
Ming Xiang has been named the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in the Department of Linguistics and the College.
Xiang’s research aims to better understand the cognitive and neural mechanisms that support the rapid, real-time construction of complex linguistic representations. As the director of the Language Processing Lab at UChicago, she uses behavioral and neurophysiological methods to investigate how structural representations are formed during language comprehension and production across different languages. Her research also examines how context influences semantic and pragmatic interpretations. Recently, her lab has started exploring how language processing contributes to language change in multilingual communities.
Xiang has received several awards from the National Science Foundation to study sentence processing mechanisms across languages. She collaborates with linguists, psychologists, and neuroscientists at UChicago and other universities worldwide, contributing to numerous journal articles and conference presentations on a wide range of topics in her field.
Physical Sciences Division
Rebecca Willett has been named the first Worah Family Professor in the Wallman Society of Fellows in the Departments of Statistics and Computer Science and the College.
Willett is also the director of AI in the Data Science Institute at UChicago, and she holds a courtesy appointment at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. Her research is focused on the mathematical and statistical foundations of machine learning, scientific machine learning, and signal processing. Her machine learning and signal processing work reflects broad and interdisciplinary expertise and perspectives, with contributions in biology, astronomy, and climate science. She has further contributed to theory and methods in computational imaging, dynamical systems, optimization, and uncertainty quantification.
She is the deputy director for research at the NSF-Simons Foundation National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology, deputy director for research at the NSF-Simons Institute for AI in the Sky (SkAI), and a member of the NSF Institute for the Foundations of Data Science Executive Committee. She is the faculty director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship. She helps direct the Air Force Research Lab University Center of Excellence on Machine Learning.
Willett received the inaugural Data Science Career Prize from the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and is a fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the IEEE. She received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, was a DARPA Computer Science Study Group member, and received an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program award.
Social Sciences Division
Ali Hortaçsu has been named the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and the College.
Hortaçsu conducts empirical and theoretical studies of firm and consumer behavior and how they interact in imperfect market environments. He has studied firm and consumer behavior in markets for financial products, e-commerce, energy, and transportation. These are markets where market power, strategic behavior, information/behavioral frictions, and information asymmetries can lead to potentially significant departures from the "invisible hand" ideal. Ali has developed novel theoretical and empirical strategies to model, empirically test, and quantify the economic impact of these market imperfections using detailed data. His research has also spanned diverse corners of economic activity such as studying user behavior on online dating sites, modelling the geographic trade patterns of Old Assyrian traders of 19th-century B.C.E., and studying the effects of tariffs on the prices and production locations of consumer household goods.
Hortaçsu has co-written a graduate textbook on empirical industrial organization, and, with his many wonderful coauthors, published extensively in major economics and general interest journals, including Econometrica, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and PNAS. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and fellow of the Econometric Society. In 2021, he was awarded the Koç University Rahmi Koç Medal of Science.
Adrian Johns has been named the Allan Grant Maclear Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History, the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the College.
A scholar of the history of science and information, Johns explores the origins, development, and implications of the book and other media, relating them to broad questions of knowledge and culture. He has particular interests in intellectual property and piracy, and in the scientific study of reading. A hallmark of his research is its capacity to relate the long past of questions about intellectual practices to current debates about the politics of information.
He is the author of four monographs: The Science of Reading: Information, Media and Mind in Modern America (2023); Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age (2010); Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates (2009); and The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (1998). In addition, in 2023, Adrian published Beyond Craft and Code: Human and Algorithmic Cultures Past and Present, a volume co-edited with sociologist James Evans. He is the recipient of many distinguished awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Philosophical Society.
John McCormick has been named the Karl J. Weintraub Professor in the Department of Political Science and the College.
McCormick is renowned for field-defining scholarship on the thought of Niccolo Machiavelli and work in political theory as well as significant contributions to the study of 19th and 20th century continental political and social theory, the philosophy and sociology of law, the normative dimensions of European integration and contemporary democratic theory.
He is the author of the upcoming book The People’s Princes: Machiavelli, Leadership, and Liberty (2025) as well as Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist Politics (2018); Machiavellian Democracy (2011); Weber, Habermas and Transformations of the European State: Constitutional, Social and Supranational Democracy (2007); and Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology (1997) and nearly one hundred scholarly articles, law review papers and book chapters, with works being translated into nine languages. In addition to these accomplishments, McCormick has demonstrated service to the UChicago community through terms as chair of the Classics of Social and Political Thought sequence, participating in the growth of the new Democracy sequence, and serving as senior adviser and associate master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division. As of Jan. 1, McCormick is the faculty director for the Law, Letters, and Society Program in the College.
Booth School of Business
Ozan Candogan has been named the Chicago Board of Trade Professor.
Candogan’s research focuses on leveraging social and economic network data to enhance operational decisions, including pricing, inventory management, supply chain design and facility location. He develops novel approaches and tools for the analysis of complex social and economic systems, and explores their applications to the study of strategic interactions in networked systems, as well as the design of policies that improve their efficiency.
Candogan’s research has been published in Management Science, Operations Research, Mathematics of Operations Research and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. It has applications to the operations of online social networks, ride-sharing platforms, delivery platforms, two-sided marketplaces, supply chains and online advertising platforms.
His accolades include the 2023 MSOM Young Scholar Award, the 2022 Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize and the 2021 MSOM Service Management SIG Prize.
Alexander Frankel has been named the Isidore Brown and Gladys J. Brown Professor of Economics.
Frankel is a microeconomic theorist who studies mechanism design, game theory, and contracting. His research focuses on information economics.
Recent papers include “Aligned Delegation,” published in the American Economic Review, and “Suspense and Surprise,” published in the Journal of Political Economy.
Erik Hurst has been named the Roman Family Distinguished Service Professor of Economics.
His work lies at the intersection of macroeconomics, labor economics and urban economics. Hurst’s research has addressed topics such as declining male participation rates, the determinants of U.S. wage growth, the welfare losses to society stemming from gender and racial discrimination, the causes and consequences of urban gentrification, the economics of time use, small business dynamics, life-cycle consumption profiles, the role of housing and mortgage markets in driving macroeconomic conditions, and the choice to invest in human capital.
Hurst is a member of the Economic Fluctuations Group, Aging Group and Public Economics Group at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a former co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy, the NBER Macro-Annual, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and a fellow of the Econometrics Society and the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. In 2024, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Tengyuan Liang has been named the first JP Gan Professor of Econometrics and Statistics in the Wallman Society of Fellows.
His research focuses on problems at the intersection of inference, learning and optimization. He is currently studying generative models (mathematical theory and inference methods), causal inference (individualization and optimized experimentation), and overparametrization and regularization (insights and algorithms).
Liang’s work has appeared in Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society; The Annals of Statistics; Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B; Journal of the American Statistical Association; SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science; Information and Inference: a Journal of the IMA; and Journal of Machine Learning Research.
He served as an associate editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association and the Operations Research; on the editorial board of the Journal of Machine Learning Research; and on the senior program for the Conference on Learning Theory.
He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Arthur Middlebrooks has been named the first James M. Kilts Jr. Clinical Professor of Marketing.
Middlebrooks teaches new product innovation, and leads business development for research data at the Kilts Center for Marketing. His focus is helping companies grow profitably through new product and service innovation, branding and effective marketing strategies. He has worked with companies from a broad range of industries, including mobile apps, consumer packaged goods, e-commerce, energy, financial services, telecommunications and information technology.
Middlebrooks is a former senior director of marketing and product development for DigitalWork Inc., partner with Kuczmarski Innovation, manager at Accenture, and software developer at American Management Systems.
He is the coauthor of two books, Innovating the Corporation and Market Leadership Strategies for Service Companies. He has published other works in PDMA Handbook of New Product Development, Management Review, Sales and Marketing Management, and Marketing News.
Scott Meadow has been named the first Kaplan McCormack Family Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship.
During his 25 years on the faculty, Meadow has taught some 15,000 students across multiple courses dealing with the commercialization and financing of innovation.
He has more than 35 years of experience as a general partner with three venture capital and private equity firms including William Blair Venture Partners, The Frontenac Company, The Sprout Group, and most recently with The Edgewater Funds as an associate partner.
Over the course of his career, he has approved hundreds of equity financings; been active in fundraising; and has personally led, originated or created more than 60 investments including two dozen healthcare services companies, over a dozen consumer services and retail companies, as well as biotech companies and companies enhanced by the internet and social media.
Meadow has been recognized by Venture One as one of the outstanding healthcare investors in the industry, and is the 2011 recipient of the Richard J. Daley Medal honoring his extraordinary impact on the venture capital and private equity industry in Illinois. He was awarded Chicago Booth’s Phoenix Prize four times, as well as its Faculty Excellence Award in 2010.
Veronika Rockova has been named the first Bruce Lindsay Professor of Econometrics and Statistics in the Wallman Society of Fellows.
Rockova has been internationally recognized for her broad research contributions at the intersection of statistics and machine learning. Her primary focus has been on creating innovative decision-centric tools for extracting insights from extensive datasets. She specializes in Bayesian computation, variable selection, high-dimensional decision theory, and hierarchical modeling. Her current research agenda includes uncertainty quantification and inference for generative models underlying modern artificial intelligence platforms.
Her research was acknowledged with the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2020, the COPSS Emerging Leader Award in 2023, and the COPSS President's Award in 2024. This award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to the “best statistician worldwide under 40 years of age.” She received her award for “path-breaking contributions to theory and methodology at the intersection of Bayesian and frequentist Statistics ... for exemplary service to Statistics and for generous mentorship of students and post-doctoral researchers.” She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Annals of Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series B).
Joseph S. Vavra has been named the William H. Abbott Professor of Economics.
He studies macroeconomics and monetary economics, the influence of housing on the macroeconomy, and the effects of regional business cycles on aggregate activity.
His recent research argues that monetary policy actions such as QE1 during the Great Recession amplified inequality, and explores the consequences of stimulus policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vavra is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also serves as co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy, Macroeconomics and foreign editor of The Review of Economic Studies. He previously held the position of associate editor of the Journal of Monetary Economics.
Pietro Veronesi has been named the first Sherman and Vivian Chao Distinguished Service Professor of Finance.
Veronesi serves as Booth’s Deputy Dean of Faculty. His research focuses on asset prices, bubbles and crashes, technological revolutions, and the interplay between politics and finance. His work has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies.
He is the recipient of the 2015 AQR Insight award; the 2012 and 2003 Smith Breeden prizes from the Journal of Finance; the 2009 McKinsey Award for Excellence in Teaching; the 2008 WFA award; the 2006 Barclays Global Investors Prize from the EFA; the 2006 Fama/DFA prizes from the Journal of Financial Economics; and the 1999 Barclays Global Investors/Michael Brennan First Prize from the Review of Financial Studies.
Veronesi is the co-founder of PREDOC (Pathways to Research and Doctoral Careers), a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Additionally, he is a former director of the American Finance Association and co-editor of the Review of Financial Studies.
Dacheng Xiu has been named the Joseph Sondheimer Professor of Econometrics and Statistics.
His research focuses on developing statistical and machine learning methodologies to extract economic insights from financial data. Recently, his work has centered on empirical asset pricing, leveraging machine learning techniques to tackle the high-dimensional challenges of explaining the cross-sectional variation in expected returns. His contributions have positioned him among the early pioneers at the intersection of asset pricing and machine learning, a rapidly growing field discussed in his recent book, Financial Machine Learning (2023).
Xiu is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His work has been published in top journals spanning economics, finance and statistics. He currently holds and has previously held several editorial positions, including co-editor of the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics and the Journal of Financial Econometrics.
He has earned numerous accolades, including being named a fellow of the Society for Financial Econometrics and the Journal of Econometrics; receiving the AQR Insight Award and Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award; and being honored as one of Poets & Quants’ Best 40-under-40 Business School Professors.
Harris School of Public Policy
Anthony Fowler has been named the Sydney A. Stein Jr. Professor.
Fowler applies econometric methods for causal inference to questions in political science, with particular emphasis on elections and political representation. Specific interests include unequal political participation, electoral selection and incentives, political polarization and the credibility of empirical research. He is an editor-in-chief of the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, an author of Thinking Clearly with Data, and a host of Not Another Politics Podcast.
At Harris, Fowler has served as director of Undergraduate Studies, editor of the Center for Effective Government’s Primer Series on Political Reform, and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Committee. At UChicago, he currently serves on the Council of the University Senate and previously served on the College Council.
Ryan Kellogg has been named the Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor.
Kellogg currently serves as the deputy dean for academic programs at Harris. His research examines energy and environmental economics and policy, often with a focus on energy markets and firms' behavior. His recent work has examined issues such as the tradeoffs of pricing carbon versus subsidizing clean energy in the U.S. electricity sector, the impacts of blocking the construction of fossil fuel transportation infrastructure, and how global oil suppliers might respond to a long-run decline in crude oil demand.
Kellogg is also a research associate at the National Bureau for Economic Research. He earned a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008. Prior to his graduate studies, he worked as an engineer and economic analyst for BP in Texas and Alaska.
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
J. David Schloen has been named the John A. Wilson Professor in the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the College.
Schloen specializes in the archaeology and history of the Levant in the Bronze and Iron Ages (ca. 3500 to 500 B.C.E.). For 30 years he has directed excavations and field schools at various archaeological sites in Israel and Turkey and, most recently, at an Iron Age Phoenician colony site on the south coast of Spain. His scholarship synthesizes archaeological and textual evidence to understand the early cities and kingdoms of the Levant and how they were organized socially, economically and politically.
Schloen has a background in computer science and has also made innovative contributions in the use and teaching of computational methods in the humanities. He was instrumental in establishing the University of Chicago’s M.A. program in Digital Studies of Language, Culture, and History and he serves as the faculty director of the Forum for Digital Culture—the University’s cross-departmental center for digital arts and humanities.
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Y. Shirley Meng has been named the Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering.
Meng serves as the chief scientist of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) at Argonne National Laboratory and the director of Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA), an innovation hub funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. She held the Zable Chair Professor in Energy Technologies at UC San Diego from 2017-2022 and founded the Sustainable Power and Energy Center (SPEC) in 2016.
Meng has received several prestigious awards, including the ACS Research Excellence in Electrochemistry, ECS Battery Division Research Award, the C3E technology and innovation award, the Faraday Medal of Royal Chemistry Society, International Battery Association IBA Research Award, C.W. Tobias Young Investigator Award of the Electrochemical Society, and an NSF CAREER Award.
She is an elected fellow of the Electrochemical Society, a fellow of the Materials Research Society, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is the author or co-author of more than 320 peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapters and eight issued patents.
—Prof. Jacqueline Stewart
