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THE NATION'S MOST INFLUENTIAL & IMAGINATIVE COLLEGE PROFESSORS HONORED IN PLAYBOY'S OCTOBER ISSUE

Twenty Academic Superstars who are Reinventing the

Classroom Featured in The Playboy Honor Roll

As part of Playboy's annual October college issue (on newsstands and available at www.playboydigital.com Friday, September 17), The Playboy Honor Roll identifies 20 of the country's most influential college professors who are reinventing the classroom and shaping a future generation.

The list honors an assortment of the nation's most brilliant educational leaders in their various academic fields. Following are the honored professors:

Dan Archer & Adam Johnson

Graphic Pioneers

Stanford University

Arthur Aron

Love Doctor

SUNY Stony Brook

Mark-Evan Blackman

Clotheshorse Whisperer

Fashion Institute of Technology

Tod Machover

Music Futurist

MIT

Ian Bogost

Indie Gamer

Georgia Institute of Technology

Mahmoud Elsohly

Master of Medicinal Marijuana

University of Mississippi

Anthony Amsterdam

Legal Legend

New York University School of Law

James Hendler

Internet Visionary

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Dan Kammen

Energy Troubleshooter

University of California, Berkeley

Glenn Loury

Public Provocateur

Brown University

John Mueller

Terrorism Naysayer

Ohio State University

Nalini Nadkarni

Science Populist

Evergreen State College

Eugene Volokh

Free-Speech Pitbull

UCLA School of Law

Wendy Doniger

Kama Sutrist

University of Chicago

Charles Bamforth

Brewmaster General

University of California, Davis

P.Z. Myers

Irascible Intelligent-Design Critic

University of Minnesota, Morris

Robert Thomas

Reform Schooler

University of Montana, Western

Benjamin Shepard

Street Theorist

New York City College of Technology

Jennifer Richeson

Bias Hunter

Northwestern University