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

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

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

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

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

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]