Named Professorships and Chairs
As of November 16, 2009
Each college has formal procedures for the nomination and appointment to named professorships and chairs, which include review by a college honorifics committee or promotion and tenure committee; extra-collegiate nominations to named professorships and chairs are reviewed by the University Honorifics Committee. After review by the appropriate college committee, recommendations are then made by the college dean and approved by the provost and the board of visitors. Ordinarily such an appointment continues through the active career of the professor at the university, unless it is relinquished in favor of some other honored or administrative appointment. Some professorships have specific term limitations, which may be renewable. Named professorships are established on behalf of a donor who provides an endowment to support the salary and/or operating funds of the professor.
Questions? Please contact Dr. Patricia Hyer, Associate Provost for Academic Administration at 231-2350.
| College | Department | Name | Professorship or Chair |
| Agriculture and Life Sciences | Dairy Science | Akers, Robert | Horace E. and Elizabeth Alphin Professor |
| Agriculture and Life Sciences | Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences | Alley, Marcus | W. G. Wysor Professor |
| Agriculture and Life Sciences | Fralin Biotechnology Center | Dean, Dennis | J. B. Stroobants Professor of Biotechnology |
| Agriculture and Life Sciences | Food Science and Technology | Flick, George | University Distinguished Professor |
| Agriculture and Life Sciences | Dairy Science | Gwazdauskas, Francis | David and Margaret Lincicome Professor |
| Agriculture and Life Sciences | Animal and Poultry Sciences | Geor, Ray | Paul Mellon Chair in Agriculture |
| Agriculture and Life Sciences | Biological Systems Engineering | Mostaghimi, Saied | H. E. and Elizabeth F. Alphin Endowed Professor |
| Agriculture and Life Sciences | Virginia Cooperative Extension | Rudd, Rick | Virginia Cooperative Extension Professor of Excellence in Community Viability |
| Agriculture and Life Sciences | Animal and Poultry Sciences | Wong, Eric | John W. Hancock Professor in Animal Sciences |
| Architecture and Urban Studies | Building Construction | Beliveau, Yvan | Georgia Anne Snyder-Falkinham Professor |
| Architecture and Urban Studies | Architecture | Davis, A. Jack | Reynolds Metals Professor in Architecture |
| Architecture and Urban Studies | Architecture | Dunay, Donna | G. Truman Ward Professor of Architecture |
| Architecture and Urban Studies | Architecture | Dunay, Robert | T. A. Carter Professor |
| Architecture and Urban Studies | Architecture | Egger, Dayton | Patrick and Nancy Lathrop Professor |
| Architecture and Urban Studies | School for Public and International Affairs | Knox, Paul | University Distinguished Professor |
| Business | Accounting and Information Systems | Bhattacharjee, Sudip | Konrad W. Kubin Junior Faculty Fellow |
| Business | Accounting and Information Systems | Bélanger, France | Tom and Daisy Byrd Senior Faculty Fellow |
| Business | Marketing | Brinberg, David | Robert O. Goodykoontz Professor |
| Business | Accounting and Information Systems | Brown, Robert | R. B. Pamplin Professor |
| Business | Accounting and Information Systems | Cloyd, C. Bryan | John E. Peterson Jr. Professor of Accounting and Information Systems |
| Business | Accounting and Information Systems | Fan, Weiguo | L. Mahlon Harrell Junior Faculty Fellow |
| Business | Marketing | Herr, Paul M. | Virginia-Carolinas Professor of Purchasing |
| Business | Accounting and Information Systems | Jenkins, James | William S. Gay Junior Faculty Fellow |
| Business | Finance, Insurance, and Business Law | Kadlec, Gregory | R. B. Pamplin Professor of Finance Chair |
| Business | Finance, Insurance, and Business Law | Keown, Arthur | R. B. Pamplin Professor of Finance |
| Business | Accounting and Information Systems | Killough, Larry N. | KPMG Peat Marwick Professor |
| Business | Finance, Insurance, and Business Law | Kumar, Raman | Russell V and Arlene F. Oliver Professor in Investment Management |
| Business | Management | Lang, James | Charles O. Strickler Professor |
| Business | Accounting and Information Systems | Maher, John | John F. Carroll Jr. Professor |
| Business | Management | Markham, Steven | Dorothy Hottel Digges Professor in Entrepreneurship |
| Business | Finance, Insurance, and Business Law | Morgan, George | Crestar Professor of Finance |
| Business | Marketing | Nakamoto, Kent | R. B. Pamplin Professor of Marketing |
| Business | Marketing | Ozanne, Julie | Sonny Merryman Inc. Professor |
| Business | Finance, Insurance, and Business Law | Pinkerton, John | Crestar Professor of Banking |
| Business | Business Information Technology | Ragsdale, Cliff | Bank of America Professor of Information Technology |
| Business | Business Information Technology | Rakes, Terry | William C. and Alix C. Houchens Professor |
| Business | Business Information Technology | Rees, Loren | Andersen Professor of MSCI |
| Business | Accounting and Information Systems | Seago, Wilmer | R. B. Pamplin Professor in Accounting |
| Business | Management | Seth, Anju | R. B. Pamplin Professor in Management |
| Business | Finance, Insurance, and Business Law | Singal, Vijay | J. Gray Ferguson Professor in Finance Chair |
| Business | Business Information Technology | Taylor, Bernard | R. B. Pamplin Professor in Business Information Technology |
| Business | Management | Wokutch, Richard | R. B. Pamplin Professor in Management |
| Engineering | Engineering Science and Mechanics | Aref, Hassan | Reynolds Metals Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics |
| Engineering | Chemical Engineering | Baird, Donald | Alexander F. Giacco Professor of Chemical Engineering |
| Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Ball, Kenneth | Lingan S. Randolph Professor |
| Engineering | Engineering Science and Mechanics | Batra, Romesh | Clifton C. Garvin Professor |
| Engineering | Dean | Benson, Richard | Paul and Dorothea Torgersen Dean's Chair in Engineering |
| Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Boroyevich, Dushan | American Electric Power Professor |
| Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Bostian, Charles | Alumni Distinguished Professor |
| Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Brown, Gary | Bradley Distinguished Professor of Electromagnetics |
| Engineering | Industrial and Systems Engineering | Casali, John | John Grado Professor |
| Engineering | Industrial and Systems Engineering | Chen, Frank | John L. Lawrence Professor |
| Engineering | Civil and Environmental Engineering | de la Garza, Jesus | Vecellio Professor in Construction and Engineering Management |
| Engineering | Engineering Science and Mechanics | Dillard, David | Adhesives and Sealant Professor |
| Engineering | Virginia Tech Transportation Institute | Dingus, Thomas | Newport News Shipbuilding/Tenneco Professor |
| Engineering | Engineering Science and Mechanics + Materials Science and Engineering | Dowling, Norman | Frank Maher Professor |
| Engineering | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Easterling, W. Samuel | Montague-Betts Professor of Structural Steel Design |
| Engineering | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Edwards, Marc | Charles P. Lunsford Professor |
| Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Ellis, Michael | John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow |
| Engineering | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Filz, George | Charles E. Via Jr. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Fuller, Chris | Roanoke Electric Steel Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| Engineering | Engineering Science and Mechanics | Hendricks, Scott | W. S. "Pete" White Chair for Innovation in Engineering Education |
| Engineering | Engineering Science and Mechanics | Hyer, Michael | N. Waldo Harrison Professor |
| Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Inman, Daniel | George R. Goodson Professor |
| Engineering | Aerospace and Ocean Engineering | Kapania, Rakesh | Norris and Laura Mitchell Professor of Aerospace Engineering |
| Engineering | Mining and Minerals Engineering | Karmis, Michael | Stonie Barker Professor |
| Engineering | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Kikuchi, Shinya | Charles E. Via, Jr. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Engineering | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Knocke, William | W. Curtis English Professor |
| Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Kurdila, Andrew | W. Martin Johnson Professor in Engineering |
| Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Lee, Fred | University Distinguished Professor |
| Engineering | Chemical Engineering | Liu, Yih-An | Frank Vilbrandt Professor |
| Engineering | Mining and Minerals Engineering | Luttrell, Gerald | A. T. Massey Coal Company Professor |
| Engineering | ICTAS | Mahajan, Roop | James S. Tucker Professor of Engineering |
| Engineering | Engineering Science and Mechanics | Nayfeh, Ali | University Distinguished Professor |
| Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Ng, Wing | Chris Kraft Endowed Professor |
| Engineering | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Novak, John | Nick Prillaman Professor of Environmental Engineering |
| Engineering | Industrial and Systems Engineering | Nussbaum, Maury | Hal G. Prillaman Professor of Engineering and Operations Research |
| Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | O'Brien, Walter | J. Bernard Jones Professor |
| Engineering | Virginia Microelectroniccs Consortium (VMEC) | Orlowski, Marius | Virginia Microelectronics Consortium Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Engineering | Chemical Engineering | Oyama, Shigeo | Fred W. Bull Professor of Chemical Engineering |
| Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Pitchumani, Ranga | John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow |
| Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Rahman, Saifur | Joseph R. Loring Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Reed, Jeffrey | Willis G. Worcester Professor |
| Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Roan, Michael | John R. Jones III Fellow |
| Engineering | Computer Science | Ryder, Barbara | J. Byron Maupin Professor |
| Engineering | Industrial and Systems Engineering | Sarin, Subhash | Paul T. Norton Professor |
| Engineering | Aerospace and Ocean Engineering | Schetz, Joseph | Fred D. Durham Proessor |
| Engineering | Industrial and Systems Engineering | Sherali, Hanif | University Distinguished Professor and W. Thomas Rice Chair |
| Engineering | Aerospace and Ocean Engineering | Simpson, Roger | Jack E. Cowling Professor |
| Engineering | Engineering Science and Mechanics | Singh, Mahendra | Preston Wade Professor of Engineering |
| Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Tafti, Danesh K. | William Cross Professor of Engineering |
| Engineering | Industrial and Systems Engineering | Taylor, G. Don | Charles O. Gordon Professor of Industrial Engineering |
| Engineering | Industrial and Systems Engineering | Torgersen, Paul | John Hancock Chair |
| Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Tranter, William | Bradley Professor of Wireless Communication |
| Engineering | Industrial and Systems Engineering | Triantis, Kostas | Ralph H. Bogle Industrial and Systems Engineering Professor |
| Engineering | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Vorster, Michael | David Burrows Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Wang, Anbo | Clayton Ayre Professor |
| Engineering | VT/Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences | Wang, Ge | Samuel Reynolds Pritchard Professor of Engineering |
| Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Wang, Yue Joseph | Grant A. Dove Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Engineering | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Weyers, Richard | Charles E. Via Jr. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Engineering | Mining and Minerals Engineering | Yoon, Roe | Nicholas Camicia Professor |
| Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | Foreign Languages and Literatures | Bixler, Jacqueline | Alumni Distinguished Professor |
| Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | Human Development | Blieszner, Rosemary | Alumni Distinguished Professor |
| Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | English | D'Aguiar, Fred | Gloria D. Smith Professor of Africana Studies |
| Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | Communication | Denton, Robert | W. Thomas Rice Chair |
| Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | Science and Technology Studies | Downey, Gary | Alumni Distinguished Professor |
| Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | English | Gardner, Thomas | Clifford A. Cutchins III Professor of English |
| Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | English | Giovanni, Nikki | University Distinguished Professor |
| Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management | Goss, Rosemary | Residential Property Management Advisory Board Professor |
| Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | Political Science | Luke, Timothy | University Distinguished Professor |
| Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | Human Development | Meszaros, Peggy | W. E. Lavery Professor |
| Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | History | Robertson, James | Alumni Distinguished Professor |
| Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | English | Roy, Lucinda | Alumni Distinguished Professor |
| Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | Sociology | Snizek, William | Alumni Distinguished Professor |
| Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | English | Sullivan, Ernest | Edward S. Diggs Chair in English |
| Liberal Arts and Human Sciences | Political Science | Weisband, Edward | Edward S. Diggs Chair in Political Science |
| Natural Resources | Forestry | Amacher, Gregory | Julian N. Cheatham Professor of Forestry |
| Natural Resources | Forestry | Burger, James | Garland Gray Professor of Forestry |
| Natural Resources | Forestry | Burkhart, Harold | University Distinguished Professor and Thomas M. Brooks Professor |
| Natural Resources | Wood Science and forest Products | Frazier, Charles (Chip) | Thomas M. Brooks Professor of Wood Science and Forest Products |
| Natural Resources | Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences | Orth, Donald | Thomas H. Jones Professor of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences |
| Natural Resources | Forestry | Seiler, John | Shelton H. Short Professor |
| Natural Resources | Wood Science and Forest Products | Shaffer, Robert | Charles Nettleton Professor of Forest Business/Products |
| Science | Geosciences | Bodnar, Robert | University Distinguished Professor and Clifton C. Garvin Professor |
| Science | Mathematics | Brown, Ezra (Bud) | Alumni Distinguished Professor |
| Science | Biology | Buikema, Arthur | Alumni Distinguished Professor |
| Science | Mathematics | Burns, John | Hatcher Professor in Mathematics |
| Science | Psychology | Geller, E. Scott | Alumni Distinguished Professor |
| Science | Geosciences | Hochella, Michael | University Distinguished Professor |
| Science | Chemistry | Kingston, David | University Distinguished Professor |
| Science | Chemistry | McGrath, James | University Distinguished Professor and Ethyl Corporation Chair |
| Science | Psychology | Ollendick, Thomas | University Distinguished Professor |
| Science | Mathematics | Renardy, Yuriko | Class of 1950 Professor of Mathematics |
| Science | Mathematics | Renardy, Michael | Class of 1950 Professor of Mathematics |
| Science | Economics | Spanos, Aris | Wilson Schmidt Professor in Economics |
| Science | Biology | Tyson, John | University Distinguished Professor |
| Science | Biology | Walters, Jeffrey | Harold Bailey Professor |
| Science | Psychology | Winett, Richard | Heilig Myers Professor of Psychology |
| Veterinary Medicine | Equine Medical Center | Furr, Martin | Adelaide C. Riggs Endowed Chair in Equine Medicine |
| Veterinary Medicine | Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology | Inzana, Thomas | Tyler J. and Frances F. Young Professor of Bacteriology |
| Veterinary Medicine | Small Animal Clinical Sciences | Leib, Michael | C. R. Roberts Endowed Professor of Clinical Veterinary Medicine |
| Veterinary Medicine | Small Animal Clinical Sciences | Troy, Gregory | Dr. and Mrs. Dorsey Taylor Mahin Endowed Professor |
| Veterinary Medicine | Equine Medical Center | White, Nathaniel | Jean Ellen Shehan Professor |
| Veterinary Medicine | Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology | Wilcke, Jeffrey | Dorothy and Richard Metcalf Professor of Veterinary Medical Informatics |

