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

• Carl Seashore^[1]– dean of the graduate college 1908–37

Humanities

• Timothy Barrett^[2]– papermaker and paper-making researcher. 2009 MacArthur Fellow.
• Hans Breder^[1]– artist, founder of the Intermedia department, served as Professor 1966–2000.
• Chunghi Choo^[2] (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
• George De La Pena^[2]– actor – Associate Professor of Dance
• Robert Dick^[1]– former visiting professor of flute 2002–03
• 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^[2]– 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^[2]– 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^[2]– Associate Professor of Finance, Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow. Discovered the stock options backdating scandal
• Lester Longman^[1]– chairman of the art department 1936–58
• Edward C. Mabie^[1]– director of theatre arts 1925–56
• Harold McCarty^[1]– First chair of Dept. of Geography, pioneered regression analysis within economic geography
• Kembrew McLeod^[2]– 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^[2]– 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^[2]– alumna and psychiatrist, 2000 National Medal of Science Recipient, Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry, Director of the Psychiatric Iowa Neuroimaging Consortium
• John M. Buatti– radiation oncologist^[2]– Professor and Head of Radiation Oncology
• Kevin Campbell^[2]– 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.
• Keith Carter^[2]– ophthalmologist – Head of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
• Zada Mary Cooper^[3] (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
• Bruce Jay Gantz^[2]– Head of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Brian F McCabe Distinguished Chair in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
• Robert V. Hogg^[1]– 1950 Ph.D. in mathematics and professor of Statistics from 1951–2001, former President of the American Statistical Association.
• Matthew A. Howard^[2]– Head of Neurosurgery – Director of Human Brain Research Laboratory (HBRL)
• 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.
• 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^[2]– Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
• Joseph M. Reinhardt^[2]– Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering
• Aliasger K. Salem^[2]– Professor and Head of Division of Pharmaceutics and Translational Therapeutics, College of Pharmacy
• Michael M. Todd^[2]– Head of Anesthesiology – Editor-in-chief of the journal Anesthesiology
• Ingo Titze^[2]– 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^[2]– 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

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