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 ConsortiumArchived 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
• 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

No.	Image	Name	Term	Notes
1		Amos Dean	1855–1859
2		Silas Totten	1859–1862
3		Oliver M. Spencer	1862–1867
–		Nathan Ransom Leonard (acting)	1867–1868
4		James Black	1868–1870
–		Nathan Ransom Leonard (acting)	1870-1871
5		George Thacher	1871–1877
–		Christian W. Slagle (acting)	1877–1878
6		Josiah Little Pickard	1878–1887
7		Charles Ashmead Schaeffer	1887–1898
–		Amos Noyes Currier (acting)	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
–		Chester Arthur Phillips (acting)	1940
13		Virgil Melvin Hancher	1940–1964
14		Howard Rothmann Bowen	1964–1969
15		Willard L. Boyd	1969–1981
–		Duane C. Spriestersbach (acting)	1981–82
16		James O. Freedman	1982–1987
–		Richard D. Remington (acting)	1987–1988
17		Hunter R. Rawlings III	1988–1995
–		Peter E. Nathan (acting)	1995
18		Mary Sue Coleman	1995–2002
–		Willard L. Boyd (interim)	2002-April 30, 2003
19		David J. Skorton	March 1, 2003 – June 30, 2006
–		Gary Fethke (interim)	July 1, 2006 – July 31, 2007
20		Sally Mason	August 1, 2007 – August 1, 2015	[12]
–		Jean Robillard (interim)	August 2, 2015 – November 1, 2015
21		Bruce Harreld	November 2, 2015 – May 16, 2021	[13]
–		John Keller (interim)	May 17, 2021 – July 14, 2021	[14]
22		Barbara J. Wilson	July 15, 2021 – 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.
12. "President Mason to retire from the University of Iowa". Iowa Now. University of Iowa. January 15, 2015.
13. Hildebrandt, Eleanor (March 30, 2021). "From 'disappointment' to a 'seat at the table', how Harreld changed shared governance". The Daily Iowan.
14. "John Keller named UI's interim president". Iowa Now. University of Iowa. March 25, 2021.