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.

The University of Iowa

Type	Flagship Public Space grant
Established	1847
Administrative staff	2,296
Location	Iowa City , Iowa , US
Website	uiowa.edu

Administration

• Carl Seashore[1] dean of the graduate college 1908–37
• Dewey Stuit - dean of the College of Arts from 1948 to 1977[2]

Humanities

• Timothy Barrett[3] papermaker and paper-making researcher. 2009 MacArthur Fellow.
• Hans Breder[1] artist, founder of the Intermedia department, served as Professor 1966–2000.
• Chunghi Choo[3] (born 1938) jewelry designer and metalsmith
• Frank Conroy[1] author, former head of Iowa Writers' Workshop
• Philip Greeley Clapp[1] director of school of music 1919–53
• Linda Crist - Associate Emeritus Professor - labanotationist[4]
• George De La Pena[3] actor Associate Professor of Dance
• Robert Dick[1] former visiting professor of flute 2002–03
• John Dilg (born 1945), artist and professor in the School of Art and Art History (1975–2017)[5]
• Hualing Nieh Engle[1] novelist, co-founder and former director of the International Writing Program.
• Paul Engle[1] 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[3] 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[3] electronic voting reform expert and cofounder of the Open Voting Consortium, Professor of Computer Science
• Mauricio Lasansky[1] renowned printmaker, creator of The Nazi Drawings
• Erik Lie[3] Associate Professor of Finance, Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow. Discovered the stock options backdating scandal
• Kembrew McLeod[3] media activist and prankster
• Philip Roth[1] 1960 National Book Award winning author of Goodbye, Columbus, taught creative writing
• Wiley B. Rutledge[1] United States Supreme Court Justice; Dean of College of Law, 1935–1939
• Palagummi Sainath[1] 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[1] former assistant football coach 1966, and former head coach of NFL San Francisco 49ers
• Phil Stong[1] Writing Instructor, author of the novel State Fair and others
• Bohumil Shimek[1] naturalist and conservationist whom the Shimek State Forest is named after
• C. Vivian Stringer[1] former women's basketball coach who is only coach in NCAA history to take three different teams to final four.
• Phebe Sudlow[1] first female professor at the University of Iowa
• Basil Thompson[1] former ballet master of the Joffrey Ballet and artistic director of the Milwaukee Ballet.
• James Van Allen[1] physicist and discoverer of two radiation belts (the Van Allen Belts) that surround the earth, Emeritus Carver Professor of Physics
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.[1] American novelist and satirist, Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty 1965–66
• Himie Voxman[1] alumnus, director of the School of Music from 1954–80
• Christine Whelan[3] visiting assistant professor of Sociology, author of Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women
• Grant Wood[1] American painter who painted American Gothic, instructor and director of WPA art projects

Sciences

• Nancy C. Andreasen[3] alumna and psychiatrist, 2000 National Medal of Science Recipient, Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry, Director of the Psychiatric Iowa Neuroimaging Consortium
• Kevin Campbell[3] muscular dystrophy scientist, Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor and Head of Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
• Samuel Calvin[1]–(1840–1911) pioneering geologist.
• Zada Mary Cooper[6] (1875–1961) - alumna and pharmacist - assistant, instructor, assistant professor, and associate professor. Founder of Kappa Epsilon and Rho Chi
• Antonio Damasio[1] 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[1] 1950 Ph.D. in mathematics and professor of Statistics from 1951–2001, former President of the American Statistical Association.
• Wendell Johnson[1] (1904–1965) former head of the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology; Pioneer in the field. See http://nicholasjohnson.org/wjohnson/
• Everett Franklin Lindquist[1] developer of the ITBS and ACT exams.
• Charles F. Lynch[3] Epidemiologist
• George Willard Martin[1] noted mycologist. Head of the Department of Botany from 1953 to 1955.
• Ignacio Ponseti[1] physician internationally known for non-surgical treatment of clubfoot
• J. Roger Porter[1] chair Dept. of Microbiology 1949–1977, internationally known microbiologist
• David W. Murhammer[3] Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
• Aliasger K. Salem[3] Professor and Head of Division of Pharmaceutics and Translational Therapeutics, College of Pharmacy
• Ingo Titze[3] 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

Sports

• Steve Alford[1] former men's basketball coach
• Sam Barry[1] 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.
• Hayden Fry[1] football coach inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame
• Lute Olson[1] head basketball coach 1974–1983
• Kirk Ferentz[3] Iowa's Head football coach

University of Iowa Presidents

• Amos Dean 1855–59
• Silas Totten 1859–62
• Oliver M. Spencer 1862–67
  • Acting President: Nathan Ransom Leonard, 1867–68
• James Black 1868–70
  • Acting President: Nathan Ransom Leonard, 1870–71
• George Thacher 1871–77
  • Acting President: Christian W. Slagle, 1877–78
• Josiah Little Pickard 1878–87
• Charles Ashmead Schaeffer 1887–98
  • Acting President: Amos Noyes Currier, 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
  • Acting President: Chester Arthur Phillips, 1940
• Virgil Melvin Hancher 1940–64
• Howard Rothmann Bowen 1964–69
• Willard L. Boyd, 1969–81
  • Acting President: Duane C. Spriestersbach, 1981–82
• James O. Freedman 1982–1987
  • Acting President: Richard D. Remington, 1987–1988
• Hunter R. Rawlings III 1988–1995
  • Acting President: Peter E. Nathan, 1995
• Mary Sue Coleman 1995–2002
  • Interim President: Willard L. Boyd
• David J. Skorton 2003–2006
  • Interim President: Gary Fethke 2006–2007
• Sally Mason 2007–2015
  • Interim President: Jean Robillard - August 2 November 2, 2015
• J. Bruce Harreld — 2015 to present

References

1. Retired/former faculty (or staff) member.
2. "Dewey Stuit, 98". Iowa City Press-Citizen. Iowa City, Iowadate=January 14, 2008. p. 4. Retrieved May 29, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.CS1 maint: location (link)
3. Current faculty or staff member
4. "Linda Crist (1944-2005)". University of Iowa. Archived from the original on 2 January 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
5. University of Iowa. "John Dilg, Professor Emeritus," People. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
6. Henderson, Metta Lou (1998). "Zada Mary Cooper: Grand and Glorious Lady of Pharmacy". Pharmacy in History. American Institute of the History of Pharmacy. 40 (2/3): 77–84. JSTOR 41111877.