List of University of Iowa faculty

The University of Iowa

Type	Flagship Public Space grant
Established	1847 (1847)
Administrative staff	2,296
Location	Iowa City , Iowa , US
Website	uiowa.edu

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 Consortium Archived 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
• Michael Lewis-Beck ^[2] Professor Emeritus, F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science
• 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

1. Miller, Vanessa (April 10, 2018). "Another University of Iowa administrator to leave". The Gazette. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
2. Retired/former faculty (or staff) member.
3. "Dewey Stuit, 98" . Iowa City Press-Citizen. Iowa City, IA. January 14, 2008. p. 4. Retrieved May 29, 2018– via Newspapers.com.
4. Current faculty or staff member
5. "Linda Crist (1944-2005)". University of Iowa. Archived from the original on 2 January 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
6. University of Iowa. "John Dilg, Professor Emeritus," People. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
7. "GEORGE STODDARD DIES AT 84 – EDUCATOR LED 4 UNIVERSITIES – NYTimes.com". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
8. Henderson, Metta Lou (1998). "Zada Mary Cooper: Grand and Glorious Lady of Pharmacy". Pharmacy in History. 40 (2/3). American Institute of the History of Pharmacy: 77–84. JSTOR   41111877.
9. Campbell, Jan; Crowe, Raymond R.; Goeken, Nancy; Pfohl, Bruce; Pauls, David; Palmer, Dolores (August 1984). "Affective disorder not linked to HLA in a large bipolar kindred". Journal of Affective Disorders. 7 (1): 45–51. doi:10.1016/0165-0327(84)90063-6.
10. "Legendary Iowa space physicist Donald Gurnett dies". 13 January 2022.
11. "Obituary for Lee Edward Travis". Iowa City Press-Citizen. 13 October 1987. p. 12. Retrieved 2 January 2024.