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 ^[2] 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
• David G. Stern, professor of philosophy
• 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
• Albert Erives ^[4] developmental geneticist
• 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
• Asgar Zaheer, neuroscientist and retired Professor of Neurology at the University of Missouri at Columbia

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

The following persons served as president of the University of Iowa: ^{[12] [13]}

No.	Image	Name	Term start	Term end	Refs.
1		Amos Dean	1855	1859
2		Silas Totten	1859	1862
3		Oliver M. Spencer	1862	1867
acting		Nathan Ransom Leonard	1867	1868
4		James Black	1868	1870
acting		Nathan Ransom Leonard	1870	1871
5		George Thacher	1871	1877
acting		Christian W. Slagle	1877	1878
6		Josiah Little Pickard	1878	1887
7		Charles Ashmead Schaeffer	1887	1898
acting		Amos Noyes Currier	1898	1899
8		George Edwin MacLean	1899	1911
9		John Gabbert Bowman	1911	1914
10		Thomas Huston Macbride	1914	1916
11		Walter Albert Jessup	1916	1934
12		Eugene Allen Gilmore	1934	1940
acting		Chester Arthur Phillips	1940	1940
13		Virgil Melvin Hancher	1940	1964
14		Howard Rothmann Bowen	1964	1969
15		Willard L. Boyd	1969	1981
acting		Duane C. Spriestersbach	1981	1982
16		James O. Freedman	1982	1987
acting		Richard D. Remington	1987	1988
17		Hunter R. Rawlings III	1988	1995
acting		Peter E. Nathan	1995	1995
18		Mary Sue Coleman	1995	2002
interim		Willard L. Boyd	2002	April 30, 2003
19		David J. Skorton	March 1, 2003	June 30, 2006
interim		Gary Fethke	July 1, 2006	July 31, 2007
20		Sally Mason	August 1, 2007	July 31, 2015	[14] [15]
interim		Jean Robillard	August 1, 2015	November 1, 2015	[16]
21		Bruce Harreld	November 2, 2015	May 16, 2021	[17] [18]
interim		John Keller	May 17, 2021	July 14, 2021	[19]
22		Barbara J. Wilson	July 15, 2021	present	[20]

References

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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.
12. "UI Presidential Portrait Gallery". University of Iowa.
13. "List of interim UI presidents". University of Iowa.
14. "Purdue Provost Sally Mason named University of Iowa's 20th president". Purdue University. June 21, 2007.
15. "President Mason to retire from the University of Iowa". Iowa Now. University of Iowa. January 15, 2015.
16. "VP for medical affairs expects his transition to be seamless". University of Iowa. July 30, 2015.
17. "Bruce Harreld named 21st president". University of Iowa. September 3, 2015.
18. Hildebrandt, Eleanor (March 30, 2021). "From 'disappointment' to a 'seat at the table', how Harreld changed shared governance". The Daily Iowan .
19. "John Keller named UI's interim president". Iowa Now. University of Iowa. March 25, 2021.
20. "Barbara Wilson Named University of Iowa President". Iowa Board of Regents. April 30, 2021.