List of University of Iowa faculty

This list of University of Iowa faculty includes past and present instructors, researchers, and administrators at the University of Iowa.

Administration

• Lena Hill interim chief diversity officer and associate vice president 2017–2018^[1]
• Carl Seashore dean of the graduate college 1908–37^[2]
• Dewey Stuit dean of the College of Arts from 1948 to 1977^[3]

Humanities

• Timothy Barrett^[4] papermaker and paper-making researcher. 2009 MacArthur Fellow.
• Hans Breder^[2] artist, founder of the Intermedia department, served as Professor 1966–2000.
• Chunghi Choo^[4] (born 1938) jewelry designer and metalsmith
• Frank Conroy^[2] author, former head of Iowa Writers' Workshop
• Philip Greeley Clapp^[2] director of school of music 1919–53
• Linda Crist - Associate Emeritus Professor - labanotationist^[5]
• George De La Pena^[4] actor Associate Professor of Dance
• Robert Dick^[2] former visiting professor of flute 2002–03
• John Dilg (born 1945), artist and professor in the School of Art and Art History (1975–2017)^[6]
• Hualing Nieh Engle^[2] novelist, co-founder and former director of the International Writing Program.
• Paul Engle^[2] poet and director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop for 24 years. Engle also founded the International Writing Program.
• Carrie Figdor Associate Professor of Philosophy and philosopher of mind
• Nicholas Johnson^[4] former FCC commissioner 1966–1973, U.S. Maritime Administrator. Professor, Department of Communication Studies and founding member of the Iowa Progressive Caucus.
• Douglas W. Jones^[4] electronic voting reform expert and cofounder of the Open Voting ConsortiumArchived 2013-11-27 at the Wayback Machine, Professor of Computer Science
• Tisch Jones, theatre arts and theatre history professor
• Mauricio Lasansky^[2] renowned printmaker, creator of The Nazi Drawings
• Erik Lie^[4] Associate Professor of Finance, Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow. Discovered the stock options backdating scandal
• Kembrew McLeod^[4] media activist and prankster
• Philip Roth^[2] 1960 National Book Award winning author of Goodbye, Columbus, taught creative writing
• Wiley B. Rutledge^[2] United States Supreme Court Justice; Dean of College of Law, 1935–1939
• Palagummi Sainath^[2] visiting instructor in International Programs. An award-winning Indian development journalist described as one of the world's greatest experts on famine and hunger.
• George Seifert^[2] former assistant football coach 1966, and former head coach of NFL San Francisco 49ers
• George D. Stoddard^[7] former chair of the Psychology Department, and former president of the University of Illinois
• Phil Stong^[2] Writing Instructor, author of the novel State Fair and others
• Bohumil Shimek^[2] naturalist and conservationist whom the Shimek State Forest is named after
• C. Vivian Stringer^[2] former women's basketball coach who is only coach in NCAA history to take three different teams to final four.
• Phebe Sudlow^[2] first female professor at the University of Iowa
• Basil Thompson^[2] former ballet master of the Joffrey Ballet and artistic director of the Milwaukee Ballet.
• James Van Allen^[2] physicist and discoverer of two radiation belts (the Van Allen Belts) that surround the Earth, Emeritus Carver Professor of Physics
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.^[2] American novelist and satirist, Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty 1965–66
• Himie Voxman^[2] alumnus, director of the School of Music from 1954–80
• Christine Whelan^[4] visiting assistant professor of Sociology, author of Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women
• Grant Wood^[2] American painter who painted American Gothic, instructor and director of WPA art projects

Sciences

• Nancy C. Andreasen^[4] alumna and psychiatrist, 2000 National Medal of Science Recipient, Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry, Director of the Psychiatric Iowa Neuroimaging Consortium
• Kevin Campbell^[4] muscular dystrophy scientist, Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor and Head of Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
• Samuel Calvin^[2]–(1840–1911) pioneering geologist.
• Zada Mary Cooper^[8] (1875–1961) - alumna and pharmacist - assistant, instructor, assistant professor, and associate professor. Founder of Kappa Epsilon and Rho Chi
• Antonio Damasio^[2] neurologist former M.W. Van Allen Professor and Head of Neurology 1989–2004, Director of USC Institute for the Neurological Study of Emotion and Creativity
• Robert V. Hogg^[2] 1950 Ph.D. in mathematics and professor of Statistics from 1951–2001, former President of the American Statistical Association.
• Wendell Johnson^[2] (1904–1965) former head of the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology; Pioneer in the field. See http://nicholasjohnson.org/wjohnson/
• Everett Franklin Lindquist^[2] developer of the ITBS and ACT exams.
• Nancy E. Goeken^[9] immunologist
• Donald Gurnett^[10] Physicist
• Charles F. Lynch^[4] Epidemiologist
• George Willard Martin^[2] noted mycologist. Head of the Department of Botany from 1953 to 1955.
• Ignacio Ponseti^[2] physician internationally known for non-surgical treatment of clubfoot
• J. Roger Porter^[2] chair Dept. of Microbiology 1949–1977, internationally known microbiologist
• David W. Murhammer^[4] Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
• Aliasger K. Salem^[4] Professor and Head of Division of Pharmaceutics and Translational Therapeutics, College of Pharmacy
• Ingo Titze^[4] University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology and the School of Music; Executive Director of the National Center for Voice and Speech, centered at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts; father of vocology, a specialty within speech-language pathology; creator of Pavorobotti, a singing (voice simulation) robot featured on National Public Radio
• Lee Edward Travis^[11] alumnus, noted psychiatrist, Director of the university's first psychology clinic

Sports

• Steve Alford^[2] men's head basketball coach 1999-2007
• Sam Barry^[2] former Iowa basketball coach (1922–1929), and Iowa baseball coach (1923–24) is only coach to have coached teams both to the Final Four and to the College World Series.
• Beth Beglin - head field hockey coach 1988-1999
• Francis X. Cretzmeyer - head men's and women's cross country and men's and women's track and field coach 1948-1977
• Forest Evashevski - head football coach 1952-1960
• Kirk Ferentz^[4] head football coach 1999–present
• Hayden Fry^[2] head football coach 1979-1998. Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame
• Dan Gable - head wrestling coach 1976-1997
• Pops Harrison - head basketball coach 1942-1950
• Ralph Miller - head basketball coach 1964-1970
• Lute Olson^[2] head basketball coach 1974–1983
• Otto Vogel - head baseball coach 1925-1942; 1946-1966

University of Iowa Presidents

• Amos Dean 1855–59
• Silas Totten 1859–62
• Oliver M. Spencer 1862–67
• Nathan Ransom Leonard (acting) 1867–68; (acting) 1870-71
• James Black 1868–70
• George Thacher 1871–77
• Christian W. Slagle (acting) 1877–78
• Josiah Little Pickard 1878–87
• Charles Ashmead Schaeffer 1887–98
• Amos Noyes Currier (acting) 1898–99
• George Edwin MacLean 1899–1911
• John Gabbert Bowman 1911–14
• Thomas Huston Macbride 1914–16
• Walter Albert Jessup 1916–34
• Eugene Allen Gilmore 1934–40
• Chester Arthur Phillips (acting) 1940
• Virgil Melvin Hancher 1940–64
• Howard Rothmann Bowen 1964–69
• Willard L. Boyd 1969–81
• Duane C. Spriestersbach (acting) 1981–82
• James O. Freedman 1982–1987
• Richard D. Remington (acting) 1987–1988
• Hunter R. Rawlings III 1988–1995
• Peter E. Nathan (acting) 1995
• Mary Sue Coleman 1995–2002
• Willard L. Boyd (interim) 2002-2003
• David J. Skorton 2003–2006
• Gary Fethke (interim) 2006–2007
• Sally Mason 2007–2015
• Jean Robillard (interim) 2015
• Bruce Harreld 2015–2021
• Barbara J. Wilson 2021 to present

References

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