UM Regents' Professors
The title of Regents' Professor is awarded to a very select group of full-time faculty with an outstanding record of commitment to the University; who have demonstrated true excellence in all three areas of University expectation: instruction, scholarship, and service; and who have demonstrated distinctive impact through their work as a faculty member. (
Cory Cleveland (2023)
Cory Cleveland Regents Professor of Ecology, has been called one of the top scientists this century in the field of ecosystem science. His work has been cited by researchers around the world more than 29,000 times. Before joining the UM family, Cory earned his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, worked as a researcher with the CU Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research for six years. Cory joined the UM Department of Ecosystem & Conservation Sciences in 2007, and in 2011 became a charter faculty member of . He and his students have published more than 110 papers in leading national and international scientific publications. One paper, “Nitrogen cycles: past, present and future,” is described by nominators as something of a classic, as it alone has been cited nearly 6,000 times. In 2018, Cleveland became the first 猎奇重口n ever named a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. He also has earned more than $5 million in competitive research grants – mostly from the National Science Foundation. Additionally, Cleveland has championed graduate education at UM, mentoring 14 of his own graduate students and serving on more than 40 graduate committees in departments across campus. His nominators wrote that many of those trainees are listed as first authors on papers they publish with Cleveland and “perhaps the strongest signal of this outstanding graduate and research training is that all his graduate students have gone on to careers in science and natural resources, with six in tenure-track positions in academia across the U.S.”
Douglas J. Emlen (2020)
Douglas J. Emlen Regents Professor of Biology, Division of Biological Sciences. Studied at Cornell University (B.A. 1989), Princeton University (Ph. D. 1994), and Duke University (Postdoctoral Research Fellow 1994-1997), before joining the faculty at the 猎奇重口 where he is a full professor and recently served as director of Ecology and Evolution, one of UM’s three “Programs of National Distinction.” Emlen’s courses cover genetics, evolution, and animal behavior, and his research focuses on the development and evolution of extreme animal weapons, in particular the horns of scarab beetles. He is the first scholar from any 猎奇重口 institution to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016) and was the first 猎奇重口n to receive the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (2002). Emlen has earned more than $3.5 million in multiple research awards from the National Science Foundation, including their five-year CAREER award, as well as a Young Investigator Prize and the E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award from the American Society of Naturalists. In 2014 he was awarded UM’s Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2015 the Carnegie/CASE Professor of the Year Award for the State of 猎奇重口. His book Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle(Henry Holt, 2014) won the Phi Beta Kappa science book of the year award in 2015, and his textbook Evolution: Making Sense of Life (co-authored with award-winning journalist Carl Zimmer, Macmillan Publishing, 3rd edition 2020), is presently adopted by more than 250 universities and colleges. His research has been featured in outlets including The New York Times, National Public Radio’s Fresh Air and Science Friday, and YouTube’s SciShow and MeatEater.< He recently starred in documentaries about his work for the BBC (Nature’s Wildest Weapons) and NOVA (Extreme Animal Weapons, now available on Netflix), and his first narrative nonfiction book for middle school readers (Beetle Battles: One Scientist's Journey of Adventure and Discovery, Roaring Brook/Macmillan) appeared on shelves in December, 2019.
Anna Prentiss (2018)
Anna Marie Prentiss is Regents Professor of Anthropology. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in anthropology from the University of South Florida and Ph.D. in archaeology from Simon Fraser University. Since arriving at the 猎奇重口 in 1995 she has taught courses in cultural resources management, hunter-gatherer archaeology, stone tool technology, evolutionary theory, proposal preparation and research design, and the ancient history of the Americas with specializations in the northern Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Pacific Northwest, and Arctic regions. She has mentored and chaired theses and dissertations of over 50 M.A. and six Ph.D. students with completed degrees. In 2003, she earned the Helen and Winston Cox Educational Excellence Award and in 2018 she was Visiting Scholar at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.
Dr. Prentiss has been awarded multiple grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her research emphasizes the ecology of hunter-gatherer adaptations, the development of sedentary villages, the emergence of social inequality, and the evolution of ancient technology. She has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers and seven books. She played a significant role in establishing the theoretical paradigm in archaeology known as cultural macroevolution and has brought rigor to the study of early complex societies. She has given invited lectures on origins of food production, early social complexity, colonial experiences of indigenous groups, and cultural evolutionary process at events including the UNESCO HEADS symposium on early food production in Puebla, Mexico, the Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies in Vienna, Austria, the World Archaeological Congress in Kyoto, Japan, and the Dorothy Garrod Series at the University of Cambridge. In 2018, she was invited to join the research team “Lives of Bronze Age Women” at the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was named the William D. Lipe Visiting Scholar by the Department of Anthropology, Washington State University for 2019.
Professor Prentiss has served as editor of the SAA Archaeological Record, open-access magazine of the Society of American Archaeology (2013-2019). She sits on multiple editorial boards including American Antiquity, the leading journal of American archaeology and the book series, Interdisciplinary Evolution Research, from Springer. She remains an active peer reviewer for the National Science Foundation, various publishing houses, and many scholarly journals.
Anya Jabour (2016)
Anya Jabour is a Regents Professor of History at the 猎奇重口, where she has taught since 1996. Professor Jabour earned her B.A. from Oberlin College, her M.A. from Rice University, and her Ph.D. from Rice University. Anya Jabour is a professor in the History Department and a past co-director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the 猎奇重口. She teaches courses in U.S. women’s history, family history, and southern history as well as several upper-division writing courses. Professor Jabour was the 2001 recipient of the Helen and Winston Cox Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2014 recipient of the Paul Lauren Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor Award.
She has authored three books, Marriage in the Early Republic, Scarlett’s Sisters, and Topsy-Turvy, and has edited a collection on Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children and another on Family Values in the Old South, and has published numerous articles and essays. In 2013, she was named the 猎奇重口's Distinguished Scholar; in 2014 she received the George M. Dennison Presidential Faculty Award for Distinguished Accomplishment.
Professor Jabour is currently working on a biography of educator and reformer Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge (1866-1948), for which she received a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She also is a historical consultant for a forthcoming 猎奇重口 PBS documentary about Butte author Mary MacLane and for a new PBS Civil War-era miniseries, "Mercy Street."
Jakki Mohr (2008)
Jakki Mohr (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) is the Regents Professor of Marketing and the Jeff & Martha Hamilton Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the 猎奇重口. An international expert and innovator in the field of marketing high-technology products and services, Mohr has achieved international acclaim for (co-authored with S. Sengupta and S. Slater, with translations in Chinese, Portuguese, and Korean as well as European and India/SE Asia editions). Motivated by the desire to bring the promise of new technologies to solve social and global problems, she has provided training to companies and universities worldwide in strategic market planning to commercialize innovation. She has received numerous teaching awards, including the Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award (presented by the Academy of Marketing Science), the Carnegie Foundation CASE Professor of the Year Award, and the Most Inspirational Teacher of the Year Award at The 猎奇重口, as well as the Distinguished Scholar Award, the John Ruffatto Memorial Award and the Dennison Presidential Faculty Award for Distinguished Accomplishment. Professor Mohr served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Montevideo, Uruguay. Dr. Mohr's research has received national awards, and has been published in the Journal of Marketing, the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, among others. In addition, in research sponsored by the Marketing Science Institute, she studies how companies use biomimicry (innovations inspired by nature, based on underlying biological mechanisms) to solve technical and engineering challenges, the basis of her TEDxSanDiego talk in 2011.