<p>The field you would most expect to find a nobel winner at a LAC would be literature. The Nobel committee in its wisdom seems to like to recognize literature in many countries and languages. A perusal of the list of winners over the last 40 years finds very few Americans. And several of them don’t/didn’t teach at any college or University.</p>
<p>AFAICT, unless you are at Chicago (bellow) or Princeton (Morrison) you are/were out of luck, as far as literature laureates.</p>