Distinguished Professorships

"The strength of an educational institution depends absolutely on the strength of its faculty. This is the heart of the whole matter."

--- FRANK PORTER GRAHAM ---

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*Funding supplemented by the N.C. General Assembly's Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund

**One of The Margaret and Paul A. Johnston Professorships

(Distinguished Visiting Professorships are listed separately at bottom of table of contents)

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The E. Maynard Adams Professorship **
The Arch T. Allen Distinguished Professorship in Law *
The Alumni Distinguished Professorships
The American Institute for Cancer Research - World Cancer Research Fund*
The H. Allen Andrew Distinguished Professorship in Entrepreneurial Education*
The Harry S. Andrews Professorship in Pediatrics
The Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professorship in Constitutional Law *
The Atlanta Professorship in Southern Culture
The William B. Aycock Professorship ***
The William B. Aycock Professorship in Family Medicine

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The Frank A. Daniels Distinguished Professorship in Human Services Policy Information *
The Thomas J. Dark Professorship in Otolaryngology
The Morris Davis Professorship **
The Raymond H. Dawson Bicentennial Distinguished Professorship in Political Science *
The Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professorship*
The Dental Friends Distinguished Professorship of Dental Ecology in the School of Dentistry *
The Rush S. Dickson Distinguished Professorship of Oncology Research*
The Dowd Professorship in the Study of Peace and War
The Sanford and Byah Doxey Jr. Distinguished Professorship
The Stephen J. Dresnick M.D. Distinguished Chair of Emergency Medicine

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The Paul B. Eaton Professorship in Law
The Wade Edwards Distinguished Professorship
The Norman and Dorothy Eliason Distinguished Professorship of English*
The Ernest Eliel Professorship **
The Everett Emerson Professorship **
The Ernst and Young Professorship in Accounting
The Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professorship
The Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professorship in Medicinal Chemistry*
The Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professorship in Pharmacodynamics*
The Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professorship in Pharmaceutical Policy*
The Thad and Alice Eure Distinguished Research Professorship in Psychiatry*

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The Reef C. Ivey II Research Professorships/The Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professorships *

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The George Johnson Jr. Professorship in Vascular Surgery
The Guy B. Johnson Professorship **
The Norman L. Johnson Professorship **
The Margaret and Paul A. Johnston Professorships
The Lyle V. Jones Professorship **
The S. Shepard Jones Professorship **
The William R. and Jeanne H. Jordan Professor of English

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The Kenan Professorships/The Graham Kenan Professorships/The Sarah Graham Kenan Professorships/The William R. Kenan Jr. Professorships
The William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professorship in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering *
The first James G. Kenan Distinguished Professorship of English or History*
The second James G. Kenan Distinguished Professorship of English or History*
The John T. Kerr Jr. Distinguished Professorship in Journalism and Mass Communication*
The James L. Knight Professorship in Advertising/The Knight Chair in Journalism
The Edna J. Koury Professorship *
The KPMG Peat Marwick Professorship in Professional Accounting
The Wallace H. Kuralt Sr. Chair in Social Work *

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The Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy*
The Henry A. Latané Distinguished Professorship in Economics *
The Mary Farley Ames Lee Distinguished Professorship in Business Administration *
The Robert Z. Lerner Professor of Neurology
The William E. Leuchtenburg Professorship **
The Lineberger Professorships in Cancer Research/The Lineberger Professorships in the Humanities
The J. Burton Linker Distinguished Professorship in Mathematics*
The Lurcy Professorships

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The J. Ross Macdonald Professorship **
The Hector MacLean Distinguished Professorship in Cancer Research *
The Duncan MacRae ’09 and Rebecca Kyle MacRae Professorship of Public Policy Analysis
The Willie Person Mangum Professorship in Law
The Mann Family Distinguished Professorship in English*
The Phi Delta Theta / Matthew Mason Distinguished Professorship*
The C. Knox Massey Professorship in Business Administration
The Hugh A. McAllister M.D. Distinguished Professorship in Perinatal Medicine*
The Frances Carroll McColl Professorship in Information and Library Sciences
The Dalton L. McMichael Sr. Professorship in Business Adminstration/The Dalton L. McMichael Sr. Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
The H. Houston Merritt Professorship in Neurology
The Eugen Merzbacher Professorship **
The Dan K. Moore Professorship in Jurisprudence and Ethics *
The Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professorship * /The Morehead Professorship in Astronomy
The Edouard Morot-Sir Professorship **

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The N.C. Real Estate Educational Foundation Professorship
The Joseph R. Neikirk Term Professorship
The William Newman Professorship **
The Albert Ray Newsome Distinguished Professorship for the Study of the South *
The Norfleet-Raney Professorship of Research in Orthopaedics
The Max M. Novich Professorship in Sports Medicine

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The Saralyn and Gene Oberdorfer Term Professorship in Education
The Howard W. Odum Professorship in Sociology
The Daniel A. Okun Professorship in Environmental Engineering *
The Distinguished Professorship of Oncology Research in the School of Medicine *
The Orapharma Distinguished Professorship of Periodontal Medicine in the School of Dentistry
The Fred C. and Lelia D. Owen Memorial Research Professorship
The Zack D. Owens Professorship in Surgery

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The George L. Paddison Professorships
The Leonard Palumbo Distinguished Professorship in Gynecologic Oncology
The Pardue Professorship
The John C. Parker Distinguished Professorship in Medicine *
The James Howard and Hallie McLean Parker Distinguished Professorship in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication*
The Macon G. Patton Professorship in Business Administration *
The Thomas J. Pearsall Professorship in Political Science
The Carl H. Pegg Professorship **
The Phi Delta Theta / Matthew Mason Distinguished Professorship
The Peter G. Phialas Distinguished Professorship in English/The William R. and Jeanne H. Jordan Professor of English
The Earl N. Phillips Jr. Professorship in International Studies *
The James Dickson Phillips, Jr. Distinguished Professorship
The Chalmers W. Poston Distinguished Professorship in Modern European History*
The L. Richardson and Emily Preyer Bicentennial Professorship to Strengthen Families *
The Julian Price Professorship

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The Geneva Yeargan Rand Distinguished Professorship
The RBC Centura Distinguished Professorship*
The Reeves Foundation Distinguished Professorship in Arthritis Research*
The R.J. Reynolds Professorship in Applied Behavioral Sciences
The Rhodes Professorship in Urology
The Roy and Alice H. Richards Bicentennial Professorship in Business Administration
The Joseph Palmer Riddle Distinguished Professorship in Otolaryngology
The Roy O. Rodwell Professorship in Business and Entrepreneurship *
The Harold R. Roberts Distinguished Professorship*
The Robert A. Ross Professorship in Obstetrics and Gynecology
The Oliver R. Rowe Professorship in Surgery
The Louis D. Rubin Jr. Professorship **
The Sarah Frances Russell Distinguished Professorship in Nursing Management *

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The Julian Scheer Term Professorship
The Nina C. and John T. Sessions Distinguished Professorship in Digestive Diseases and Nutrition
The James H. Shumaker Term Professorship
The J. Carlyle Sitterson Professorship **
The Louis C. Skinner Jr. Professorship in Dermatology
The Lawrence Myer Slifkin Professorship **
The Vergil N. Slee Distinguished Professorship in Healthcare Quality Management*
The Joseph Curtis Sloane Professorship **
The Dean E. Smith Term Professorship
The Herman and Louise Smith Distinguished Professorship of Medicine in Arthritis
The Mary Ann Smith Professorships in Chemistry
The Zachary Taylor Smith Term Professorship for Excellence in Undergraduate Education
The Walter Spearman Professorship *
Sports Communication Distinguished Professorship*
The Julia Cherry Spruill Professorship in History
The Stallings Distinguished Professorship in Dentistry *
The Stephenson Distinguished Professorship in American Civil War Studies*
The Sonja H. Stone Professorship
The Straumann Professorship in Implant Dentistry *
The Sunstar Distinguished Professorship in Oral Biology at the School of Dentistry *
The Sustainability Chair*

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The John A. Tate Professorship for Children in Need *
The N. Ferebee Taylor Professorship **
The Taylor-Williams Distinguished Professorship *
The Colin G. Thomas Jr. Distinguished Professorship of Surgery *
The D.J. Thurston III Distinguished Professorship in Nephrology
The Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished Professorship in the College Of Arts And Sciences*

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The Helen Watkins and Thomas Leonard Umphlet Distinguished Professorship in Nursing*
The William B. Umstead Distinguished Professorship in American History*
The University Distinguished Professorships
The Upjohn Distinguished Professorship in Obstetrics and Gynecology

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The Ethel F. and James A. Valone M.D. Professorship in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
The Francis P. Venable Professorship in Chemistry

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THE DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

In addition to those endowed professorships that are assigned to regular faculty members, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has several endowed chairs for visiting professors.

The Marion S. Covington Visiting Professorship in Historic Preservation
The Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professorship
The Hanes-Willis Visiting Professorship
The Mahlon K. Jordan Visiting Professorship
The R. Beverly Raney Visiting Professorship in Orthopaedics
The William Neal Reynolds Visiting Professorship
The James A. Valone Visiting Professorships in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
The Dorothy Ford Wiley Visiting Professorship in Renaissance Culture