This List of University of Oregon faculty and staff includes presidents, staff, and faculty of the University of Oregon.
Name | Term | Position(s) and notes | Reference |
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John Wesley Johnson | 1876–1893 | President, professor of Greek and Latin | [1] |
Charles Hiram Chapman | 1893–1899 | President | [1] |
Frank Strong | 1899–1902 | President | [1] |
Prince Lucien Campbell | 1902–1925 | President | [1] |
Arnold Bennett Hall | 1926–1932 | President | [2] |
Clarence Valentine Boyer | 1934–1938 | President | [1] |
Donald M. Erb | 1938–1943 | President, professor of economics, eponym of Erb Memorial Union | [2] |
Harry K. Newburn | 1945–1953 | President | [1] |
O. Meredith Wilson | 1954–1960 | President | [1] |
Arthur S. Flemming | 1961–1968 | President (previously Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the latter part of the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower; subsequently, President of Macalester College) | [1] |
Robert D. Clark | 1969–1975 | President | [1] |
William Beaty Boyd | 1975–1980 | President | [1] |
Paul Olum | 1980–1989 | President, provost and mathematics professor | [1] |
Myles Brand | 1989–1994 | President (subsequently President of Indiana University and President of the NCAA) | [1] |
Dave Frohnmayer | 1994–2009 | President, law school dean and professor | [1] |
Richard Lariviere | 2009–2011 | President | [1] |
Michael R. Gottfredson | 2012–2014 | President | [1] |
Michael H. Schill | 2015–2022 | President | [3] |
John Karl Scholz | 2023–present | President |
The following have served as interim presidents: John Straub (1893), Orlando John Hollis (1944–1945), Victor Pierpont Morris (1953–1954), William C. Jones (1960–1961), Charles Ellicott Johnson (1968–1969), N. Ray Hawk (1969), Robert M. Berdahl (2011–2012), Scott Coltrane (2014–2015), Patrick Phillips (2022-2023), and Jamie Moffitt (March 14, 2023-June 30, 2023). [1]
Name | Term | Position(s) | Notability | Reference |
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G.Z. "Charlie" Brown | Philip H. Knight Professor of Architecture | Director, Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory; author, Sun, Wind and Light: Architectural Design Strategies | [4] | |
Arthur Erickson | 1954-? | Professor of architecture | Canadian architect | [5] |
Kenneth Helphand | Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Allied Arts | Author: Colorado: Visions of an American Landscape; Yard Street Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space; Dreaming Gardens: Landscape Architecture & the Making of Modern Israel; Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime | [6] | |
David W. Hulse | Philip H. Knight Professor of Landscape Architecture | Founding member, Institute for a Sustainable Environment. Expertise in geographic information systems and computer-based tools facilitating land and water use planning and natural resource decision-making | [7] | |
Jeffrey M. Hurwit | Philip H. Knight Professor of Art History and Classics | Ancient Greek art scholar and author, The Art and Culture of Early Greece; The Athenian Acropolis: History, Mythology, and Archaeology from the Neolithic Era to the Present; and The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles | [8] | |
LaVerne Krause | 1966–1986 | Professor of Art | Established printmaking program; outstanding contributions as an educator, studio artist, and arts activist; national president of Artists Equity | [9] |
Ellis F. Lawrence | Founder and former dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts | Architect of Knight Library, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, McArthur Court | ||
Robert Murase | Former professor of landscape architecture | Landscape architect | [10] |
Name | Term | Position(s) | Notability | Reference |
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Michael Crooke | Professor of Practice, Lundquist School of Business | Former CEO of Patagonia; ex-Navy Seal | ||
Sergio Koreisha | Philip H. Knight Professor of Business | Operations and Business Analytics | [11] | |
Dennis R. Howard | Philip H. Knight Professor of Business Endowed Chair | Warsaw Sports Marketing Center | [12] |
Name | Term | Position(s) | Notability | Reference |
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Edward Kame'enui | Philip H. Knight Professor of Education | Founding Commissioner of the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education | [13] | |
Gerald Tindal | Castle-McIntosh-Knight Professor of Education | Director of Behavioral Research & Teaching | [14] | |
Michael Bullis | Somerville Knight Professor College of Education | Development and community adjustment of at-risk adolescents | [15] |
Name | Term | Position(s) | Notability | Reference |
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Henry Alley | Professor emeritus of literature | Author | ||
A. Aneesh | 2022–present | Executive Director of the School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon and a professor of Global Studies and Sociology | Author, Sociologist | [16] |
Homer Barnett | Professor emeritus of anthropology | Anthropologist | ||
Judith R. Baskin | Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities | Religious studies scholar, author | [17] | |
Robert Berdahl | Former professor of history and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences | President of the Association of American Universities, former president of the University of Texas at Austin, former chancellor of University of California, Berkeley | ||
Bruce Blonigen | Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science | Economist | [18] | |
Luther Cressman | Founder of the Department of Anthropology, former professor of sociology | Anthropologist | ||
John Erlandson | Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Sciences | Anthropologist | [19] | |
Alice Henson Ernst | 1924–1950 | Professor of English | Playwright, teacher, freelance writer and a reporter | |
Phil A. Fisher | Philip H. Knight Chair in Psychology | Psychologist | [20] | |
Jon Franklin | Former professor of creative writing | Pulitzer Prize winner (1979 in feature writing, 1985 in explanatory writing) | [21] | |
Thomas Milton Gatch | Former professor of history and English literature | Former President of University of Washington and Oregon Agricultural College | [22] | |
Warren Ginsberg | Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities | Comparative literature | [23] | |
Talmy Givón | Professor emeritus of linguistics | Linguist | ||
Dennis Jenkins † | Co-director of Archaeological Field School | Archaeologist | [24] | |
Mark Johnson | Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Linguist, philosopher | [25] | |
Barbara Corrado Pope | Professor emerita | Novelist, historian, a former director of UO's Clark Honors College, and the founding director of Women's and Gender Studies at the university | [26] | |
Steadman Upham | Former vice provost for research, dean of the graduate school, and professor of anthropology | President of the University of Tulsa | ||
Mark Thoma | Professor of Economics | Prominent economics blogger | ||
Alex Tizon † | ?-present | Assistant professor of journalism | Pulitzer Prize winner (1997, Investigative Journalism) | [27] |
Lois Youngen | 1960–1996 | Professor emeritus of physical education | Catcher and outfielder in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League | |
Edward Diller | 1965–1985 | Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature | Visiting Fulbright Lecturer to Germany in 1967 and Fulbright grantee |
Name | Term | Position(s) | Notability | Reference |
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Arno H. Denecke | Former professor of law | Former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice | ||
Dave Frohnmayer | Former dean and professor of law | Former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice | ||
Wilma Mankiller | 2005–2006 | Former Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics | First female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation | [28] |
Wayne Morse | Former dean of the School of Law, former assistant professor of law | Former US Senator | ||
Charles Ogletree | 2001–2002 | Former Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics | [29] | |
Kenneth J. O'Connell | Former professor of law | Former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice | ||
David Schuman | 1987–1997, 2001 | Former associate dean of academic affairs, former professor of law | Current Oregon Court of Appeals Judge | [30] |
Mary Christina Wood | Philip H. Knight Professor of Law | Director of the University of Oregon School of Law's Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program | [31] |
Name | Term | Position(s) | Notability | Reference |
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Kyu Ho Youm | Professor of journalism | Journalism and communication law scholar | [32] |
Name | Term | Position(s) | Notability | Reference |
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David Crumb | Assistant professor of composition | Composer | ||
Robert Kyr | Philip H. Knight Professor of Composition and Theory | Composer | [33] |
Name | Term | Position(s) | Notability | Reference |
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James E. Brau | Philip H. Knight Professor of Natural Science; Director, Center for High Energy Physics | High Energy Particle Physicist; ATLAS experiment, Large Hadron Collider, CERN; LIGO; International Linear Collider | [34] | |
Carlos Bustamante | Former professor of chemistry | Molecular Biologist | ||
Patrick G. Carrick | Former Director of the Shared Laser Facility | |||
Katharine Cashman | Former Philip H. Knight Professor of Natural Science | Geologist, vulcanologist | [35] | |
Thomas Condon | Former professor of Geology | Geologist and paleontologist | ||
Russell Donnelly | 1966–1972 1982–1983 | Former Physics Department chair; retired Professor of Physics | Physicist renowned in the field of low temperature physics | [36] |
Jon Driver | 1990–1991 | Former visiting assistant professor of Psychology | [37] | |
Sarah Ann Douglas | Professor Emerita of Computer & Information Science | Known for her pioneering research in human-computer interaction; elected to European Academy of Sciences, June 2002 | ||
Ira Herskowitz | 1972–1981 | Former professor at the Institute of Molecular Biology | Geneticist | [38] |
Stephen Hsu | Former professor of theoretical physics | Co-founder of SafeWeb | ||
Ray Hyman | Professor emeritus of psychology | One of the founders of the modern skeptical movement | [39] | |
Ramesh Jasti | 2014–present | Professor of chemistry | First organic chemist to synthesize the elusive cycloparaphenylene | |
Eugene Luks | Professor emeritus of computer science | Known for his research on the graph isomorphism problem and on algorithms for computational group theory | ||
Stephanie A. Majewski | Assistant professor of physics | Experimental high energy particle physics; Department of Energy Early Career Research award | [40] | |
Brian Matthews | Professor emeritus of physics | Biochemist, biophysicist | [38] | |
Helen Neville | 1995–present | Professor of psychology and neuroscience | Neuroscientist | [41] |
Ivan M. Niven | Former professor of mathematics | Number theorist; former president of the Mathematics Association of America | ||
Aaron Novick | Founder of the Institute of Molecular Biology | Member of the Manhattan Project | [38] | |
Michael Posner | Professor emeritus of neuroscience | Neuroscientist; member of National Academy of Sciences; National Medal of Science | [42] | |
Gregory Retallack | 1981–2022 | Professor emeritus of Earth Sciences | Paleopedologist, wrote the book on fossil soils | [43] |
Geraldine Richmond | 1985–present | Professor of Chemistry | Chemist, Recipient of the National Medal of Science | [44] |
Paul Slovic | Professor of psychology | Judgement and decision making | ||
Davison Soper | Professor of Physics | J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, is presented by the American Physical Society | ||
Franklin Stahl | Professor emeritus of biology | Conducted Meselson–Stahl experiment in 1958 | ||
William H. Starbuck | Professor of management | Cognitive psychologist on organizational behavior | ||
George Streisinger | Former professor of biology | First person to clone a vertebrate (1981) | [45] | |
Joseph Thornton | 2002–2012 | Former professor of biology | Evolutionary biologist | [46] |
Leona E. Tyler | Former dean of the graduate school and former professor of psychology | Former president of the American Psychological Association | ||
Marie A. Vitulli | 1976-2011 | Professor Emerita of mathematics | commutative algebraist; Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the Association for Women in Mathematics | |
Roger J. Williams | Former professor of chemistry | Discovered pantothenic acid; former president of the American Chemical Society | ||
David J. Wineland | 2017–present | Research professor | Nobel Prize laureate in physics, 2012 | [47] |
Name | Term | Position(s) | Notability | Reference |
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Dana Altman | Current Basketball Head Coach | ‡ | ||
Mike Bellotti | Former athletic director, football head coach, and offensive coordinator | ‡ESPN analyst | ||
Bill Bowerman † | Former track and field head coach | ‡ | ||
Rich Brooks | Former football head coach | ‡Former football head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats | ||
Gary Crowton | Former football offensive coordinator | Former head coach of BYU | ||
Bill Dellinger † | Former track and field head coach | ‡ | ||
Dick Harter | Former basketball head coach | Former head coach of the Charlotte Hornets | ||
Bill Hayward | Former track and field coach, former athletic director | ‡Former Olympic coach | ||
Howard Hobson | Former basketball head coach | ‡ | ||
George Horton | Baseball head coach | ‡Former baseball head coach of the Cal State Fullerton Titans | ||
Chip Kelly | Former football head coach, former offensive coordinator | ‡ | ||
Patrick Kilkenny † | Former athletic director | ‡ | ||
Ernie Kent † | Former basketball head coach | ‡ | ||
Dirk Koetter | Former football offensive coordinator | Former football head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils | ||
Vin Lananna | Associate athletic director and track and field head coach | ‡Former track and field head coach of the Stanford Cardinal | ||
Harry Marra | Assistant track and field head coach | ‡Former track and field head coach of the San Francisco State Gators, personal coach for Ashton Eaton (decathlon and indoor heptathlon world record holder, double Olympic gold medalist, now special consultant for Indonesia | ||
Chris Petersen | Former wide receivers coach | Football head coach of the Boise State Broncos | ||
George Seifert | Former assistant football coach | Former football head coach of the San Francisco 49ers | ||
Jeff Tedford | Former football offensive coordinator | Football head coach of the California Golden Bears |
† Was also an alumnus of the University of Oregon
‡ Notability inherent within the position at the University of Oregon
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