List of University of Florida faculty and administrators

Last updated March 31, 2024

The List of University of Florida faculty and administrators contains people currently and formerly serving the University of Florida as professors, deans, or in other educational capacities.

Academic administrators

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Lise Abrams, chair of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College
Ruth H. Alexander, former Chair to the Physical Education Department at the University of Florida
Orland K. Armstrong, founded the University of Florida School of Journalism and former member of the United States House of Representatives
Sharon Wright Austin, Director of the African-American Studies Program at the University of Florida
George Burgess, world-renowned shark expert; director of International Shark Attack File
Roy C. Craven, founding director of the University Gallery and art professor
David R. Colburn, professor of history and author
Mark S. Gold, chairman of Department of Psychiatry and Distinguished Alumni Professor of University of Florida
Bob Graham, former Florida Governor and U.S. Senator, founder of Bob Graham Center for Public Service
Peter E. Hildebrand, director emeritus for the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and professor
Rudolf Kálmán, director at Center for Mathematical System Theory and mathematical system theorist, winner of IEEE Medal of Honor, and former graduate research professor
Thomas Maren, founding father of the University of Florida College of Medicine, inventor of the drug Trusopt
William McKeen, professor and chairman of Department of Journalism
Jerald T. Milanich, anthropologist and archaeologist; curator of archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History
Howard Odum, ecologist; started and directed Center for Environmental Policy at the University of Florida, founded the University's Center for Wetlands in 1973
John Anderson Palmer, philosopher and chairman of Department of Philosophy
Leland Patouillet, former director of the University of Florida Alumni Association
Ernest C. Pollard, professor of physics and biophysics; research scholar
Sam Proctor, American historian, and founder of the oral history program; first UF Historian and Archivist
Sartaj Sahni, computer scientist and chairman of the CISE department
Richard L. Shriner, medical director, Shands Vista Psychiatric Hospital
David Steadman, curator of ornithology at the Florida Museum of Natural History
Lee Sweeney, current director of the Myology Institute and professor with the University of Florida College of Medicine
Martin Uman, leading authority on physics of lightning, director of the UF Lightning Research Laboratory
Baba C. Vemuri, Director of Laboratory for Vision Graphics and Medical Imaging at University of Florida and professor
Sarah Whiting, currently director at Princeton University School of Architecture

Athletic Directors

Alfred Buser, 1917–1920
William Kline, 1920–1923
James White, 1923–1925
Everett Yon, 1925–1928
Charlie Bachman, 1928–1930
Edgar Jones, 1930–1936
Josh Cody, 1936–1939
Tom Lieb, 1940–1945
Raymond Wolf, 1946–1949
Bob Woodruff, 1950–1959
Ray Graves, 1960–1979
Bill Carr, 1979–1986
Bill Arnsparger, 1986–1992
Jeremy Foley, 1992–2016
Scott Stricklin, 2016–present

Distinguished Professors

Barry Ache, Distinguished Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience
Alan Agresti, Distinguished Professor of Statistics
Kenneth Berns, Distinguished Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
George Casella, former Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida
George Christou, currently the Drago and Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida
Hartmut Derendorf, Distinguished professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Roger Fillingim, Distinguished Professor and psychologist
Malay Ghosh, Distinguished Professor and Indian statistician
Jeff Gill, Distinguished Professor of Government
Mark S. Gold, Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry
Raphael Haftka, Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Arthur F Hebard, Distinguished Professor of Physics
Peter Hirschfeld, Distinguished Professor of Physics
Brian Iwata, Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Walter Stephen Judd, Distinguished Professor of Botany
John R. Klauder, Distinguished Professor, Physics and Math, Department of Physics
Louis J. Lanzerotti, Distinguished Professor of Physics
Mark Law, Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Phil Lounibos, Distinguished Professor of Entomology
Charles R. Martin, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Bruce MacFadden, Distinguished Professor of Paleontology
Guenakh Mitselmakher, Distinguished Professor of Physics
Leonid Moroz, Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience
Brij Moudgil, Distinguished Professor of Material Science
P. K. Ramachandran Nair, Distinguished Professor of Agroforestry and International Forestry
Mark Orazem, Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Panos M. Pardalos, Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Stephen Pearton, Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Material Science
Scott Powers, Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Jose Principe, Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Ann Progulske-Fox, Distinguished Professor of Dentistry and Program Director
Pierre Ramond, Distinguished Professor of Physics
Fan Ren, Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Sartaj Sahni, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Kirk Schanze, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Pierre Sikivie, Distinguished Professor of Physics
Paul Sindelar, Distinguished Professor of Education
Douglas E. Soltis, Distinguished Professor with the Florida Museum of Natural History
Pamela S. Soltis, Distinguished Professor with the Florida Museum of Natural History
Weihong Tan, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
David B. Tanner, Distinguished Professor of Physics
Leslie Thiele, Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Martin A. Uman, Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Clifford Martin Will, Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics

Professors and faculty

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Richard Adams, English novelist
Sean Adams, historian who specializes in the history of American capitalism and energy
Kole Ade-Odutola, poet
Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, medical biophysicist, structural virologist, and a professor of structural biology
Ravindra K. Ahuja, computer scientist
Ronald Akers, criminologist and professor emeritus of criminology and law
John Algeo, former assistant dean of the graduate school and professor of English
Krishnaswami Alladi, Indian-American mathematician who specializes in number theory
Warder Clyde Allee, zoologist
Ida Altman, historian of colonial Spain and Latin America
Dominick Angiolillo, Italian cardiologist
Lisa Anthony, computer scientist
Susan C. Antón, biological anthropologist and paleoanthropologist
George J. Armelagos, anthropologist, and Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology at Emory University
Donald Ault, Professor of English at the University of Florida
James H. Austin, neurologist and author

B

Stanley Ballard, physicist specializing in optics
Aida Bamia, professor of Arabic language and literature
Turpin Bannister, architectural historian
Barbara Barletta, classical archaeologist and architectural historian
Rodney J. Bartlett, Professor of Chemistry and Physics
Linda Bartoshuk, Presidential Endowed Professor of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Sciences
Merle Battiste, chemist and emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Florida
Fuller Bazer, animal scientist and Regents Fellow
Robert de Beaugrande, Professor of English Linguistics
Leonard Beeghley, sociologist
Cynthia D. Belar, clinical psychologist
Steven Albert Benner, molecular biologist
Suresh Kumar Bhatia, chemical engineer, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Thomas S. Bianchi, oceanographer and biogeochemist
Buster Bishop, physical education professor and coach for the Florida Gators men's golf team
Karen Bjorndal, biologist
Meredith Blackwell, mycologist
David Boger, Australian chemical engineer
Miklós Bóna, mathematician
Camille Bordas, French writer
H. Jane Brockmann, biologist and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
James Broselow, Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine
Babette Brumback, biostatistician known for her work on causal inference
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, historian
Stuart Buchanan, voice actor, announcer, and educator
George H. Burgess, ichthyologist and fisheries biologist with the Florida Museum of Natural History
Robert Burne, microbiologist
David Bushell, Latin American historian, one of the first Americans to study Colombia

C

Robert Cade, co-inventor of Gatorade
William Calin, senior scholar of Medieval French literature and French Poetry at the University of Florida
Clay Calvert, mass communications scholar
Pierre Capretz, Professor of French
Archie Carr, zoologist, conservationist, and founder of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation
Gwendolen M. Carter, Canadian-American political scientist
Jean C. Chance, Professor of Journalism
Colin Chapman, professor and Canada Research Chair in Primate Ecology and Conservation at McGill University
Shigang Chen, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Paul Chun, professor of thermodynamics
John Ciardi, etymologist
Jill Ciment, writer and Guggenheim Fellow
Ronald A. Cohen, neuropsychologist and Evelyn F. McKnight chair for clinical translational research in cognitive aging and memory
Theo Colborn, zoologist and environmental health analyst
Suzy Covey, comics scholar and former university librarian emerita
Patricia Craddock, author and professor of English
Harry Crews, novelist
Florin Curta, Romanian historian, medievalist and archaeologist on Eastern Europe

D

Robert Dana, poet
Radhika Ramana Dasa, Vaishnava scholar
Susmita Datta, professor of biostatistics at the University of Florida
Manning J. Dauer, political scientist, developed the 1967 reapportionment plan for Florida
Paul W. Davenport, physiologist
Jack E. Davis, environmental history and sustainability studies professor
Martha Ellen Davis, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist
Kathleen A. Deagan, archaeologist
George R. Dekle Sr., Legal Skills Professor at the Levin College of Law
Steven T. DeKosky, medical researcher and academic known for his work in the field of Alzheimer's disease
Joel S. Demski, accounting researcher and educator
Stanley Dermott, astronomer
Michael J. S. Dewar, Indian theoretical chemist
Nils J. Diaz, former Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
James Dickey, novelist
Lawrence Dodd, political scientist and Manning J. Dauer Eminent Scholar in Political Science
Ngô Đồng, entomologist and nematologist
Herbert Grove Dorsey, engineer, inventor and physicist
Jane Douglas, Professor of Management Communication
Russell S. Drago, professor of inorganic chemistry
Lester Dragstedt, surgeon and professor
Alexander Dranishnikov, Russian-American mathematician
Daniel C. Drucker, mechanical engineer, known for contributions to the theory of plasticity
Stewart Duncan, philosopher known for contributions on philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
Andrea Dutton, geologist
Boaz Dvir, Israeli-American professor, journalist, and filmmaker

E

Jonathan F. Earle, Professor of Engineering
William F. Enneking, orthopaedic oncologist
Georg Essl, Austrian Computer Scientist and Musician

F

Albert Fathi, Egyptian-French mathematician
Joe Feagin, sociologist and social theorist
Mark Fenster, attorney and professor with the Levin College of Law
Mark Flannery, economist
Kevin Folta, professor and chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida
David J. Foulis, mathematician

G

Robert B. Gaither, mechanical engineer, professor and chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Florida College of Engineering
Thomas Gallant, historian who specializes in modern Greek history and archaeology
J. Matthew Gallman, educator and author of books about nineteenth-century history
Michael Gannon, historian, former priest and author
Jeremy Gardiner, contemporary British landscape painter
Frank Garvan, Australian-born mathematician who specializes in number theory and combinatorics
Robert Franklin Gates, muralist, painter, and art professor
Patrick J. Geary, medieval historian
Alan Dale George, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Susan D. Gillespie, anthropologist and archaeologist
Mark S. Gold, researcher and author
Maureen Goodenow, scientist and Professor of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine
Malcolm Grant, former professor and current President of University College London
Debora Greger, poet and visual artist
David Grove, anthropologist, archaeologist, and academic
Jaber F. Gubrium, sociologist
Lillian Guerra, Professor of History and widely published author and speaker
Louis J. Guillette Jr, former professor of embryology

H

R. M. Hare, English moral philosopher
Mike Haridopolos, faculty member at the Bob Graham Center for Public Service
Willis Harman, social scientist and futurist
Marvin Harris, anthropologist
Molly Harrower, South African clinical psychologist
Melissa Hart, actress, singer, and teacher
Todd Hasak-Lowy, formerly an Associate Professor of Hebrew Literature at the University of Florida
Kenneth Heilman, behavioral neurologist
Sumi Helal, computer scientist
Seymour Hess, meteorologist and planetary scientist
So Hirata, Professor of Chemistry, received the Annual Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
Horton H. Hobbs, Jr., carcinologist
David A. Hodell, geologist
Michael Hofmann, German poet
Norman N. Holland, former literary critic and Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar Emeritus at the University of Florida
Noy Holland, writer
C. S. Holling, Canadian ecologist and winner of the Volvo Environment Prize
Aparna V. Huzurbazar, statistician

I

Lonnie Ingram, microbiologist and Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and Society of Industrial Microbiology

J

Suzanne Bennett Johnson, psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association
Donald Justice, poet and Pulitzer Prize winner

K

Lynda Lee Kaid, former Telecommunications and Research Foundation Professor in the College of Journalism and Communications
Rudolf E. Kálmán, Hungarian-born American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor
Henry Kandrup, astrophysicist and professor at the University of Florida
John Kaplan, photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner
Akito Y. Kawahara, American and Japanese entomologist, scientist, and advocate of nature education
Ken Kerslake, archivist and Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus for the University of Florida
Solon Kimball, anthropologist
Elmer E. Kirkpatrick, former Assistant Professor in the College of Architecture at the University of Florida
Karen Koch, plant biologist in the horticultural science department in the University of Florida
Marvin Krohn, criminologist
G. Pradeep Kumar, cell biologist and a scientist

L

Elizabeth Lada, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Florida
Louis J. Lanzerotti, Professor of Physics
Jean A. Larson, mathematician; professor at the University of Florida
Robert Lawless, cultural anthropologist
David Leavitt, novelist and Professor of English
David Lee, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1996, and Professor
René Lemarchand, French political scientist
Tracy R. Lewis, professor of economics
Bernard J. Liska, food scientist
William Logan, poet, critic, and scholar
Ira Longini, biostatistician and infectious disease epidemiologist
Prakash Loungani, macroeconomist
Per-Olov Löwdin, Swedish physicist
Andrew Nelson Lytle, Professor of Literature; helped start the Masters of Fine Arts program at UF

M

Neill W. Macaulay Jr., writer and professor
Murdo J. MacLeod, Scottish historian of Latin America
G. S. Maddala, Indian-American economist and mathematician
John K. Mahon, historian
William R. Maples, forensic anthropologist; worked with the Florida Museum of Natural History
Maxine Margolis, anthropologist; American Academy of Arts and Sciences inductee
A. H. de Oliveira Marques, Portuguese historian
Fletcher Martin, painter
William Clifford Massey, anthropologist
Walter Mauderli, Swiss professor of Medical physics
Lisa McElwee-White, Colonel Allen R. and Margaret G. Crow Professor of Chemistry at the University of Florida
Robert McMahon, international relations expert
William McRae, lawyer and judge for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
Kenneth Megill, philosopher, trade unionist, social activist, records and knowledge manager
Jawahar L. Mehta, former Professor of Medicine
John H. Moore, anthropologist and former Chair of the Anthropology Department
Jacques Morcos, neurologist and fellow with the University of Florida
Charles W. Morris, semiotician and philosopher
Michael Moseley, anthropologist
William Murrill, mycologist

N

Vasudha Narayanan, scholar of Hinduism at University of Florida and former President of the American Academy of Religion
Charles Nelson, legal scholar and former U.S. Representative from Maine
Wilmon Newell, entomologist
Wayne Nicholson, biologist

O

Howard T. Odum, ecologist
Neil D. Opdyke, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Florida
Ants Oras, Estonian translator and writer
Paul Ortiz, historian
Harry Ostrer, geneticist

P

John Anderson Palmer, philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Florida and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
Alfred Browning Parker, Modernist architect
Karen F. Parker, sociologist and criminologist known for her research on urban violence
Rembert W. Patrick, historian, longtime University of Florida history professor, and author
Simon Penny, professor in the field of interactive art
Michael Perfit, geologist
Anna L. Peterson, scholar of religious studies
Nicole Leeper Piquero, criminologist
S. Jay Plager, professor with the Levin College of Law and judge with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Philip Podsakoff, professor of management
Ernest C. Pollard, professor of physics and biophysics and an author
Frank Moya Pons, leading contemporary historian on the Dominican Republic
Padgett Powell, novelist
Frank W. Putnam, biologist and author

R

Michael L. Radelet, sociologist
Anil K. Rajvanshi, Indian engineer
Subramaniam Ramakrishnan, Indian polymer chemist
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, writer, Pulitzer Prize winner for the novel The Yearling
George Alan Rekers, psychologist and ordained Southern Baptist minister
David Reitze, professor of physics
Mary Robison, short-story writer and novelist
Yuli Rudyak, professor of mathematics
Katheryn Russell-Brown, legal scholar
Darrett B. Rutman, historian

S

Kevin Sabet, assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida
Helen Safa, anthropologist, feminist scholar and academic
Chih-Tang Sah, Professor of Physics, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robert Satcher, physician, chemical engineer, NASA astronaut, and fellow with the University of Florida College of Medicine
Paul Satz, psychologist, and one of the founders of the discipline neuropsychology
Lawrence Scarpa, architect, educator, leader in sustainable design
John Schrieffer, physicist, Nobel Prize winner
Samuel Sears, psychologist
Zachary Selden, former Deputy Secretary-General of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly; Associate Professor of international relations
Leland Shanor, mycologist and botanist
Wei Shyy, Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, religious scholar
Robert Singerman, Judaica bibliographer; held the position of University Librarian at the George A. Smathers Libraries where he was the bibliographer for Jewish Studies, Anthropology, and Linguistics
John C. Slater, physicist; made major contributions to the theory of the electronic structure of atoms, molecules and solids
Laura Sjoberg, international affairs scholar
Benjamin Smith, political scientist
Ottón Solís, scholar of Latin American studies
Alexander Stephan, specialist in German literature and area studies
Evon Streetman, faculty with the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
Neil Sullivan, Professor of Physics

T

Bron Taylor, scholar and conservationist
Mark Tehranipoor, researcher specializing in hardware security
My T. Thai, computer science engineer and professor in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering department
Henri Theil, Dutch econometrician
Michael C. Thomas, entomologist and writer; works for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as a Taxonomic Entomologist, Entomology Section Administrator, and curator of Coleoptera and Orthoptera
John G. Thompson, mathematician, Abel Prize and Fields Medal winner
Charles Thorn, Professor of Physics
Jalie Tucker, Professor of Clinical Psychology
James B. Twitchell, author and former professor of English

U

Jerry Uelsmann, photographer
Stanislaw Ulam, Polish mathematician
Gregory Ulmer, Professor of English at the University of Florida

V

James Van Fleet, Commander for the University of Florida ROTC Program, commanding General of U.S. Army and other United Nations forces during the Korean War
Carl Van Ness, University of Florida historian and archivist
Gonda Van Steen, Cassas Chair in Greek Studies
Manuel Vasquez, Professor of Latin American studies
Johannes Vieweg, Professor of Urology, Eminent Scholar Chair, College of Medicine
Harald von Boehmer, German immunologist

W

Sidney Wade, poet
Alexander Wagenaar, professor of health outcomes and policy at the University of Florida College of Medicine
Michael Warren, forensic anthropologist
Count Albert Wass, Hungarian Professor of Literature and History
James L. Wattenbarger, Professor of Education, and Father of the Community College System of Florida
Rudolph Weaver, first professor of architecture, first dean of architecture, second architect for Florida Board of Control
Wilse B. Webb, psychologist and sleep researcher
Phillip E. Wegner, Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar in English at the University of Florida
Colin Welford, Professor of Music, conductor
John Daniel Wild, philosopher
Hiram D. Williams, painter and professor of art at the University of Florida
Joy Williams, author
Lakiesha Williams, Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Kate Vixon Wofford, educator and elected official
William Woodruff, British Historian of World History
Donald E. Worcester, American historian who specialized in Southwestern United States and Latin American history
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, historian of the Southern United States

Y

Linda J. Young, Chief Mathematical Statistician at the National Agricultural Statistics Service

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List of University of Florida faculty and administrators

Contents

Academic administrators

Presidents and Chancellors

Provosts and Vice Presidents

Deans

Athletic Directors

Distinguished Professors

Professors and faculty

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