List of Temple University people

This is a list of notable faculty and alumni of Temple University, a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Presidents

The followings have served as president of Temple University:^[1]^[2]

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No.	President	Term start	Term end	Refs.
1	Russell Conwell	October 14, 1887	December 6, 1925^[a]
2	Charles Ezra Beury	January 22, 1926	August 30, 1941
3	Robert Livingston Johnson	September 17, 1941	June 30, 1959
4	Millard E. Gladfelter	July 1, 1959	July 31, 1967
5	Paul R. Anderson	August 1, 1967	June 30, 1973
6	Marvin Wachman	July 1, 1973	June 30, 1982
7	Peter J. Liacouras	July 1, 1982	August 1, 2000	^[3]^[4]
8	David Adamany	August 2, 2000	June 30, 2006	^[5]^[6]^[7]
9	Ann Weaver Hart	July 1, 2006	June 30, 2012^[b]	^[8]^[9]^[10]
acting	Richard Englert	July 1, 2012	December 31, 2012	^[11]
10	Neil D. Theobald	January 1, 2013	July 21, 2016^[c]	^[12]
acting	Richard Englert	July 21, 2016	October 11, 2016	^[13]
11	Richard Englert	October 11, 2016	June 30, 2021	^[14]^[15]
12	Jason Wingard	July 1, 2021	March 31, 2023	^[16]^[17]^[18]
13 acting	JoAnne A. Epps	April 11, 2023	September 19, 2023^[a]	^[19]^[20]
14 interim	Richard M. Englert	September 26, 2023	October 31, 2024	^[21]^[22]
15	John A. Fry	November 1, 2024	present	^[23]

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Table notes:

[a]
Died in office
[b]
Resigned to head the University of Arizona
[c]
Replaced immediately during board of trustees meeting

Faculty

Biology

Business

Subodha Kumar

Communication

Joseph P. Folger

English

Sebastian Castillo
Samuel R. Delany – science fiction author
George W. Johnson – former chair of the Temple Department of English; later president of George Mason University (1979–1996)^[24]
Thomas Kinsella – Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher; author of numerous volumes of poetry and a translation of the ancient Irish epic The Tain (Táin Bó Cúailnge); while at Temple, he developed a program for students to study in Ireland called "the Irish Experience"
Liz Moore – author of the New York Times bestseller The God of the Woods
Miles Orvell – cultural historian, editor of the Encyclopedia of American Studies
Sonia Sanchez – poet

Film

History

Law

Jim Drucker – former commissioner of the Continental Basketball Association, former commissioner of the Arena Football League, and founder of NewKadia Comics
C. Darnell Jones II
David Kairys
David G. Post

Mathematics

Emil Grosswald
John Allen Paulos – author of Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences

Music

Jeanne Behrend – pianist, musicologist, educator, and composer^[25]
Katherine Ciesinski
Joseph Conyers – bassist
Rollo Dilworth – choral composer, conductor
John Douglas – conductor and voice teacher; head of Temple's Opera Theatre program for two decades
Cynthia Folio – composer, flutist, and music theorist
Matthew Greenbaum – composer
Aaron Levinson – Grammy Award-winning producer and musician
Dick Oatts – saxophonist
Terell Stafford – trumpet player

Philosophy

Psychology

Lauren Alloy
Rinad Beidas
Laurence Steinberg
Joseph Wolpe – South African psychiatrist and founding figure in behavior therapy

Religion

Sociology

Annette Lareau

Sports

Nikki Franke – fencer and fencing coach

Other disciplines

Fauzia Ahmad – electrical engineer^[27]
Muhammad Ahmad – historian and Black freedom activist, cofounder of the Revolutionary Action Movement^[28]
Molefi Kete Asante – Africologist^[29] known for developing the theory of Afrocentricity and the nation's first PhD program in Black Studies^[30]
Earl Bradley – pediatrician
Emile B. De Sauzé – language educator known for developing the conversational method of learning a language
Happy Fernandez – politician
Mary Stuart Fisher – radiologist
John E. Fryer – psychiatrist and gay rights activist, also known as Dr. Henry Anonymous
Jacob Gershon-Cohen – professor of Research Radiology and developer of mammography for detecting breast cancer^[31]
Chevalier Jackson – pioneer physician in laryngology and endoscopy
Leah Modigliani – associate professor and program director of Visual Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Mark L. Nelson – chemist and inventor of Nuzyra, an antibiotic FDA approved in 2018
Waldo Nelson – "father of pediatrics," longtime editor of The Journal of Pediatrics; author of Nelson Book of Pediatrics
Theresa A. Powell – vice president of academic affairs^[32]
Lucia V. Streng – chemist
Ann M. Valentine – chemist

Alumni

Academia

Rebecca Alpert – activist, rabbi, and current chair of the religion department
Edwin David Aponte – author and educator, vice president for Academic Affairs, dean of the faculty, and professor of Christianity & Culture at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis
Leon Bass (Ph.D.) – educator
John Baugh – linguist known for developing theory of linguistic profiling, Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Susan H. Brandt – historian
David Bressoud (Ph.D.) – mathematician, former professor at Pennsylvania State University, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College
Linda Darling-Hammond – Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, where she launched the School Redesign Network
Miguel A. De La Torre – associate professor of Social Ethics; director of the Justice and Peace Institute at the Iliff School of Theology; author of several books concerning the marginalized
Angelo DiGeorge – physician and known for discovery of autoimmune disorder referred to as DiGeorge syndrome
David Drasin – mathematician, specializing in function theory
John Esposito – scholar of Middle East and Islamic studies, professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University
Louis Filler – eminent professor of American Studies
Gail F. Forrest – spinal cord researcher at Kessler Foundation and New Jersey Medical School
Ben Goertzel – chief scientist of financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings; chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC
Stephen G. Haines – organizational theorist and management consultant
Thomas Anthony Harris – psychiatrist and author of I'm OK – You're OK
Martin M. Kaplan (1915–2004) – virologist and WHO public health official
Katalin Karikó – 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Nathan Katz – former professor at Williams College, current Florida International University professor and expert on Jewish communities in India
Edmund Kornfeld – organic chemist
Donald Kraybill – expert on the Amish
Bill Mensch – computer scientist, founder, chairman and CEO of Western Design Center
Robert K. Merton – sociologist, former professor at Columbia University and Harvard University, former chairman of the Department of Sociology at Tulane University
Elizabeth D. Peña – professor and associate dean of Faculty Development & Diversity at the University of California, Irvine^[33]
Martin A. Pomerantz – physicist, astronomer, director of Bartol Research Institute, NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal and National Science Foundation's Distinguished Public Servant Award recipient
Glenda Price – former president of Marygrove College
JoAnne Robbins – noted authority on dysphagia, professor at University of Wisconsin
Charles Coleman Sellers – historian, biographer, and librarian, winner of the Bancroft Prize in 1970
Stephen Sheehi – Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, College of William and Mary; author of Foundations of Modern Arab Identity (2004), Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslim (2011), and Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography 1860–1910 (2016)
Shirley M. Tilghman – former professor and president of Princeton University
Patrick Henry Tolan – emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and the Charles S. Robb Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia
Alan Wolfe – political scientist and sociologist on the faculty of Boston College, as director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life

Art

Laura Marie Greenwood – painter
Trenton Doyle Hancock – artist
Andrew Hussie – webcomic artist
Simmie Knox – presidential portrait painter (Clinton)
Nicholas Muellner – photographer and writer
Ralph Rucci – designer
Paula Scher – designer
Sarai Sherman – artist
Aaron Shikler – presidential portrait painter
Jen Simmons – designer and web developer
Tammy Stoner – artist and writer
Ann Wilson – painter