List of University of Oregon faculty and staff

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This List of University of Oregon faculty and staff includes presidents, staff, and faculty of the University of Oregon.

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Presidents of the University of Oregon

The following persons had served as president of the university: [1]

No.ImageNameTerm startTerm endNotesRef.
1 Johnwesleyjohnson.jpg John Wesley Johnson 18761893 [1]
Interim Noimage.svg John Straub 18931893 [1]
2 Noimage.svg Charles Hiram Chapman 18931899 [1]
3 Frank Strong LCCN2014695986 (cropped).jpg Frank Strong 18991902 [1]
4 Prince Lucien Campbell 1922 public domain.jpg Prince Lucien Campbell 19021925 [1]
5 Noimage.svg Arnold Bennett Hall 19261932 [2]
6 Noimage.svg Clarence Valentine Boyer 19341938 [1]
7 Noimage.svg Donald M. Erb 19381943 [2]
Interim Noimage.svg Orlando John Hollis 19441945 [1]
8 Harry Newburn.jpg Harry K. Newburn 19451953 [1]
Interim Victor Pierpont Morris, NCC Interim President.jpg Victor Pierpont Morris 19531954 [1]
9 O. Meredith Wilson.jpg O. Meredith Wilson 19541960 [1]
Interim Noimage.svg William C. Jones19601961 [1]
10 Arthur S. Flemming.jpg Arthur S. Flemming 19611968 [1]
Interim Noimage.svg Charles Ellicott Johnson 19681969 [1]
Interim Noimage.svg N. Ray Hawk 19691969 [1]
11 Robert D Clark.jpg Robert D. Clark 19691975 [1]
12 Noimage.svg William Beaty Boyd 19751980 [1]
13 Olum-paul.gif Paul Olum 19801989 [1]
14 Noimage.svg Myles Brand July 1, 1989June 30, 1994 [1]
15 David B. Frohnmayer.jpg Dave Frohnmayer July 1, 1994June 30, 2009 [1] [3]
16 Richard Lariviere.jpg Richard Lariviere July 1, 2009December 2011 [1] [4] [5]
Interim Noimage.svg Robert M. Berdahl December 9, 2011July 31, 2012 [1] [6]
17 Michael R. Gottfredson.jpg Michael R. Gottfredson August 1, 2012August 6, 2014 [7] [8]
Interim Noimage.svg Scott ColtraneAugust 7, 2014June 30, 2015 [1] [9]
18 Noimage.svg Michael H. Schill July 1, 2015August 19, 2022 [10] [11]
Interim Noimage.svg Patrick Phillips August 20, 2022March 13, 2023 [1] [12]
Interim Noimage.svg Jamie MoffittMarch 14, 2023June 30, 2023 [1] [13]
19 Noimage.svg Karl Scholz July 1, 2023present [14]

Academic faculty

Architecture and allied arts

NameTermPosition(s)NotabilityReference
G.Z. "Charlie" Brown Philip H. Knight Professor of ArchitectureDirector, Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory; author, Sun, Wind and Light: Architectural Design Strategies [15]
Arthur Erickson 1954-?Professor of architectureCanadian architect [16]
Kenneth Helphand Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Allied ArtsAuthor:

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

[17]
David W. Hulse Philip H. Knight Professor of Landscape ArchitectureFounding 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 [18]
Jeffrey M. Hurwit Philip H. Knight Professor of Art History and ClassicsAncient 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 [19]
LaVerne Krause 1966–1986Professor of ArtEstablished printmaking program; outstanding contributions as an educator, studio artist, and arts activist; national president of Artists Equity [20]
Ellis F. Lawrence Founder and former dean of the School of Architecture and Allied ArtsArchitect of Knight Library, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, McArthur Court
Robert Murase Former professor of landscape architectureLandscape architect [21]

Business

NameTermPosition(s)NotabilityReference
Michael Crooke Professor of Practice, Lundquist School of BusinessFormer CEO of Patagonia; ex-Navy Seal
Sergio Koreisha Philip H. Knight Professor of BusinessOperations and Business Analytics [22]
Dennis R. Howard Philip H. Knight Professor of Business Endowed ChairWarsaw Sports Marketing Center [23]

Education

NameTermPosition(s)NotabilityReference
Edward Kame'enui Philip H. Knight Professor of EducationFounding Commissioner of the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education [24]
Gerald Tindal Castle-McIntosh-Knight Professor of EducationDirector of Behavioral Research & Teaching [25]
Michael Bullis Somerville Knight Professor College of EducationDevelopment and community adjustment of at-risk adolescents [26]

Humanities and social sciences

NameTermPosition(s)NotabilityReference
Henry Alley Professor emeritus of literatureAuthor
A. Aneesh 2022–presentExecutive Director of the School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon and a professor of Global Studies and SociologyAuthor, Sociologist [27]
Homer Barnett Professor emeritus of anthropologyAnthropologist
Judith R. Baskin Philip H. Knight Professor of HumanitiesReligious studies scholar, author [28]
Robert Berdahl Former professor of history and dean of the College of Arts and SciencesPresident 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 ScienceEconomist [29]
Luther Cressman Founder of the Department of Anthropology, former professor of sociologyAnthropologist
John Erlandson Philip H. Knight Professor of Social SciencesAnthropologist [30]
Alice Henson Ernst 1924–1950Professor of EnglishPlaywright, teacher, freelance writer and a reporter
Phil A. Fisher Philip H. Knight Chair in PsychologyPsychologist [31]
Jon Franklin Former professor of creative writing Pulitzer Prize winner (1979 in feature writing, 1985 in explanatory writing) [32]
Thomas Milton Gatch Former professor of history and English literatureFormer President of University of Washington and Oregon Agricultural College [33]
Warren Ginsberg Philip H. Knight Professor of HumanitiesComparative literature [34]
Talmy Givón Professor emeritus of linguisticsLinguist
Dennis Jenkins Co-director of Archaeological Field SchoolArchaeologist [35]
Mark Johnson Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and SciencesLinguist, philosopher [36]
Barbara Corrado Pope Professor emeritaNovelist, historian, a former director of UO's Clark Honors College, and the founding director of Women's and Gender Studies at the university [37]
Steadman Upham Former vice provost for research, dean of the graduate school, and professor of anthropologyPresident of the University of Tulsa
Mark Thoma Professor of EconomicsProminent economics blogger
Alex Tizon  ?-presentAssistant professor of journalism Pulitzer Prize winner (1997, Investigative Journalism) [38]
Lois Youngen 1960–1996Professor emeritus of physical educationCatcher and outfielder in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Edward Diller 1965–1985Professor of Germanic Languages and LiteratureVisiting Fulbright Lecturer to Germany in 1967 and Fulbright grantee

Law

NameTermPosition(s)NotabilityReference
Arno H. Denecke Former professor of lawFormer Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice
Dave Frohnmayer Former dean and professor of lawFormer Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice
Wilma Mankiller 2005–2006Former Wayne Morse Chair of Law and PoliticsFirst female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation [39]
Wayne Morse Former dean of the School of Law, former assistant professor of lawFormer US Senator
Charles Ogletree 2001–2002Former Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics [40]
Kenneth J. O'Connell Former professor of lawFormer Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice
David Schuman 1987–1997, 2001Former associate dean of academic affairs, former professor of lawCurrent Oregon Court of Appeals Judge [41]
Mary Christina Wood Philip H. Knight Professor of LawDirector of the University of Oregon School of Law's Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program [42]

Journalism and communication

NameTermPosition(s)NotabilityReference
Kyu Ho Youm Professor of journalismJournalism and communication law scholar [43]

Music and Dance

NameTermPosition(s)NotabilityReference
David Crumb Assistant professor of compositionComposer
Robert Kyr Philip H. Knight Professor of Composition and TheoryComposer [44]

Natural sciences

NameTermPosition(s)NotabilityReference
James E. Brau Philip H. Knight Professor of Natural Science; Director, Center for High Energy PhysicsHigh Energy Particle Physicist; ATLAS experiment, Large Hadron Collider, CERN; LIGO; International Linear Collider [45]
Carlos Bustamante Former professor of chemistryMolecular Biologist
Patrick G. Carrick Former Director of the Shared Laser Facility
Katharine Cashman Former Philip H. Knight Professor of Natural ScienceGeologist, vulcanologist [46]
Thomas Condon Former professor of GeologyGeologist and paleontologist
Russell Donnelly 1966–1972
1982–1983
Former Physics Department chair; retired Professor of PhysicsPhysicist renowned in the field of low temperature physics [47]
Jon Driver 1990–1991Former visiting assistant professor of Psychology [48]
Sarah Ann Douglas Professor Emerita of Computer & Information ScienceKnown for her pioneering research in human-computer interaction; elected to European Academy of Sciences, June 2002
Ira Herskowitz 1972–1981Former professor at the Institute of Molecular BiologyGeneticist [49]
Stephen Hsu Former professor of theoretical physicsCo-founder of SafeWeb
Ray Hyman Professor emeritus of psychologyOne of the founders of the modern skeptical movement [50]
Ramesh Jasti 2014–presentProfessor of chemistryFirst organic chemist to synthesize the elusive cycloparaphenylene
Eugene Luks Professor emeritus of computer scienceKnown for his research on the graph isomorphism problem and on algorithms for computational group theory
Stephanie A. Majewski Assistant professor of physicsExperimental high energy particle physics; Department of Energy Early Career Research award [51]
Brian Matthews Professor emeritus of physicsBiochemist, biophysicist [49]
Helen Neville 1995–presentProfessor of psychology and neuroscienceNeuroscientist [52]
Ivan M. Niven Former professor of mathematicsNumber theorist; former president of the Mathematics Association of America
Aaron Novick Founder of the Institute of Molecular BiologyMember of the Manhattan Project [49]
Michael Posner Professor emeritus of neuroscienceNeuroscientist; member of National Academy of Sciences; National Medal of Science [53]
Gregory Retallack 1981–2022Professor emeritus of Earth SciencesPaleopedologist, wrote the book on fossil soils [54]
Geraldine Richmond 1985–presentProfessor of ChemistryChemist, Recipient of the National Medal of Science [55]
Paul Slovic Professor of psychologyJudgement and decision making
Davison Soper Professor of PhysicsJ. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, is presented by the American Physical Society
Franklin Stahl Professor emeritus of biologyConducted Meselson–Stahl experiment in 1958
William H. Starbuck Professor of managementCognitive psychologist on organizational behavior
George Streisinger Former professor of biologyFirst person to clone a vertebrate (1981) [56]
Joseph Thornton 2002–2012Former professor of biologyEvolutionary biologist [57]
Leona E. Tyler Former dean of the graduate school and former professor of psychologyFormer president of the American Psychological Association
Marie A. Vitulli 1976-2011Professor Emerita of mathematicscommutative algebraist; Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the Association for Women in Mathematics
Roger J. Williams Former professor of chemistryDiscovered pantothenic acid; former president of the American Chemical Society
David J. Wineland 2017–presentResearch professor Nobel Prize laureate in physics, 2012 [58]

Athletic staff

NameTermPosition(s)NotabilityReference
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 coordinatorFormer head coach of BYU
Bill Dellinger Former track and field head coach
Dick Harter Former basketball head coachFormer 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 coordinatorFormer 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 coachFootball head coach of the Boise State Broncos
George Seifert Former assistant football coachFormer football head coach of the San Francisco 49ers
Jeff Tedford Former football offensive coordinatorFootball head coach of the California Golden Bears

See also

Notes

† Was also an alumnus of the University of Oregon
‡ Notability inherent within the position at the University of Oregon

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