List of Arizona State University alumni in academia

Arizona State University (ASU) has graduated a number of notable academics. This includes graduates and non-graduate former students who are notable for their achievements within academics, sometimes before or after their time at ASU. Other alumni, including academics in fields such as the sciences, can be found in the list of Arizona State University alumni and its partial lists.

Academic administrators

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Academia: Academic administrators
Name Class year Notes Ref.
Catherine Dunn President of Clarke College, 1984–2006 [1]
Gregory Adam Haile 1999 President of Broward College, deputy chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta [2]
Jay Golden President of Wichita State University, 2019–2020 [3][4]
Harriet Nembhard 1990 President of Harvey Mudd College [2]
Sabah Randhawa 1983 (PhD) President of Western Washington University [5]
Gary L. Rhodes President of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College [6]
Charles M. Roessel 2007 (EdD) Photographer, journalist, president of Diné College [7]
Alexander F. Schilt President of Indiana University East, University of Houston–Downtown and Eastern Washington University; chancellor of the University of Houston System [8]
Steadman Upham 1980 (PhD) President of Claremont Graduate University and the University of Tulsa [9]
Christine Kajikawa Wilkinson Senior vice president and secretary of the university, president and CEO of the ASU Alumni Association, inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame [10]
Roger L. Worsley Educator and college president [11]
Safa Zaki 16th president of Bowdoin College [12]

Business and economics

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Academia: Business and economics
Name Class year Notes Ref.
Leonard Berry 1968 (PhD) Professor of marketing [13]
Trish Corner Professor of strategic entrepreneurship [14]
Reza Hamzaee 1985 (PhD) Professor of economics [15]
Dean T. Kashiwagi 1983 (MS) Economist and performance-based systems specialist [16]
Joseph R. Mason 1990 Professor of finance [17]
Justin Vélez-Hagan Adjunct professor and advisor to the Virginia state government [18]

Education

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Academia: Education
Name Class year Notes Ref.
Janet S Gaffney 1984 (PhD) Professor of education [19]
Kris Gutiérrez 1982 (MA) Professor of education [20]
Jeong-Hee Kim 2000 (MAT) Professor of education [21]
Joseph C. Kush 1984 (PhD) Professor of school psychology [22]
Douglas E. Lynch 1987 Professor of education [23]
Robert A. Reiser 1974 (MA) Professor of education [24]

Humanities

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Academia: Humanities
Name Class year Notes Ref.
Maysoon al-Nahar 2000 (PhD) Jordanian archaeologist [25]
Mark Ashurst-McGee 2008 (PhD) Historian for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [26]
Barbara Blackmun 1971 (MA) Scholar of African art history [27]
Myla Vicenti Carpio 1995 (MA) Historian, author of the book Indigenous Albuquerque [28]
E. David Cook 1968 Professor of faith and learning [29]
Laura Harris Hales 2020 (MA) Specialist in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [30]
Susan Lee Johnson 1984 (MA) Professor of history [31]
J. David Markham (MAE) Specialist in Napoleonic history [32]
Valerie Matsumoto Asian American historian [33]
Christopher Mott English lecturer; played football at ASU [34]
Eduardo Obregón Pagán Professor of history at ASU [35]
Keith W. Perkins Professor of LDS Church history [36]
Lydia V. Pyne Historian and science writer [37]
John Radzilowski 1999 (PhD) Professor of history [38]
Jennifer Reeder Historian for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [39]
Larry Schweikart 1972 Conservative author and popular historian best known for A Patriot's History of the United States [40]
Jim G. Shaffer 1965 Archaeologist [41]
Rena Torres Cacoullos 1993 Linguist [42]
Virginia Tufte (MA) Professor of English [43]
Gary Varner 1980 Professor of philosophy [44]
Gary Witherspoon — Professor of American Indian studies (attended) [45]

Social sciences

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Academia: Social sciences
Name Class year Notes Ref.
Randall Amster Professor of peace studies [46]
Dan Blumberg 1993 (PhD) Geographer [47]
Thom Brooks Political philosopher and legal scholar [48]
Mathilda B. Canter 1961 (MA) Psychologist known as the "First Lady of Arizona psychology" [49][50]
Karma Chávez 2007 (PhD) Chair, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, at the University of Texas at Austin [51]
Raymond Dean 1978 (PhD) Psychologist [52]
Matthew Desmond 2002 Sociologist [2]
James Price Dillard 1978 (MA) Professor of communication [53]
Karla Gower (MA) Professor of public relations [54]
John Hunter Gray 1958 Sociologist; participated in a 1963 sit-in in Jackson, Mississippi [55]
Kishonna Gray (PhD) Communication and gender studies researcher [56]
Annegret Hannawa 2009 (PhD) Communication scientist [57]
Julia Heiman 1970 Sexologist [58]
Tania Israel (PhD) Expert in LGBTQ intervention research and dialogue across political disagreement [59]
Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman Anthropologist and urbanist [60]
Ruth Kanfer 1981 (PhD) Professor of organizational psychology [61]
Douglas T. Kenrick 1976 (PhD) Professor of psychology at ASU [62]
Jon Maner 2003 (PhD) Professor of psychology [63]
Daniel R. Montello 1988 (PhD) Professor of geography [64]
Robert O. Pihl (MA and PhD) Professor of psychology [65]
Lyn Ragsdale 1974 Political scientist [66]
Irving J. Rein (MA) Professor of communication studies [67]
Christopher J. Schneider 2008 (PhD) Sociologist [68]
Nevzat Soguk 1995 (PhD) Professor of political science [69]
Melissa Steyn 1996 (MA) Diversity studies scholar [70]
Joshua Tybur 2004 Professor of psychology [71]
Montgomery Van Wart (PhD) Professor of public administration [72]
Lynn Vavreck 1990 Professor of political science [73]

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