List_of_University_of_Iowa_faculty
This list of University of Iowa faculty includes past and present instructors, researchers, and administrators at the University of Iowa.
- 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]
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Miller, Vanessa (April 10, 2018). "Another University of Iowa administrator to leave". The Gazette. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- Retired/former faculty (or staff) member.
- "Dewey Stuit, 98". Iowa City Press-Citizen. Iowa City, IA. January 14, 2008. p. 4. Retrieved May 29, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- Current faculty or staff member
- "Linda Crist (1944-2005)". University of Iowa. Archived from the original on 2 January 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
- University of Iowa. "John Dilg, Professor Emeritus," People. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
- "GEORGE STODDARD DIES AT 84 – EDUCATOR LED 4 UNIVERSITIES – NYTimes.com". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- 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.
- "Legendary Iowa space physicist Donald Gurnett dies". 13 January 2022.
- "Obituary for Lee Edward Travis". Iowa City Press-Citizen. 13 October 1987. p. 12. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
