Oxford currently has nearly 250 academic and research staff from the US, the University’s largest source of international academic talent. They include:
Professor Shamita Das
Shamita Das is Professor of Earth Sciences and Fellow of Exeter College. She is a leading seismologist specialising in tectonics, volcanoes and hazards and her recent work has focused on great earthquakes in Sumatra, Antarctica, and Indonesia. Her long-term research aims to contribute to the development of better earthquake prediction capabilities. She is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and has served on the UK Government's Natural Hazards Working Group.
Professor Das received her doctorate at MIT in 1976.
Professor Nancy Bermeo
Professor Nancy Bermeo is Nuffield Professor of Comparative Politics and fellow of Nuffield College. She has published extensively on inequality, federalism, and the causes and consequences of democratisation and regime change, with the focus of her recent work being on post-conflict democracies. She is the founding director of the Oxford University Centre for the Study of Inequality and Democracy which is the centre for collaborative research in comparative politics of democracies. In 2011 she was awarded an Oxford University Teaching Excellence Award as nominated and voted for by her students.
Professor Bermeo studied for her BA in Political Science at Mount Holyoke College and studied for her MPhil and doctorate in Political Science at Yale University.
American
students may also apply to the Fulbright-Oxford Clarendon Scholarships
which fund US citizens to study for a DPhil, and Marshall Scholarships
which provide students with two fully funded years of study, with a
possible third-year extension. Although they are not specific to Oxford,
the University consistently receives the largest proportion of Marshall
Scholars in the UK averaging approximately 40%. 
In media and broadcasting, Oxford alumni include: