List of University of Iowa faculty

The University of Iowa
Type	Flagship; Public; Space grant
Established	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^[2] 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 Consortium Archived 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
David G. Stern, professor of philosophy
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
Albert Erives^[4] developmental geneticist
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

The following persons served as president of the University of Iowa:^[12]^[13]

No.	Name	Term start	Term end	Refs.
1	Amos Dean	1855	1859
2	Silas Totten	1859	1862
3	Oliver M. Spencer	1862	1867
acting	Nathan Ransom Leonard	1867	1868
4	James Black	1868	1870
acting	Nathan Ransom Leonard	1870	1871
5	George Thacher	1871	1877
acting	Christian W. Slagle	1877	1878
6	Josiah Little Pickard	1878	1887
7	Charles Ashmead Schaeffer	1887	1898
acting	Amos Noyes Currier	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
acting	Chester Arthur Phillips	1940	1940
13	Virgil Melvin Hancher	1940	1964
14	Howard Rothmann Bowen	1964	1969
15	Willard L. Boyd	1969	1981
acting	Duane C. Spriestersbach	1981	1982
16	James O. Freedman	1982	1987
acting	Richard D. Remington	1987	1988
17	Hunter R. Rawlings III	1988	1995
acting	Peter E. Nathan	1995	1995
18	Mary Sue Coleman	1995	2002
interim	Willard L. Boyd	2002	April 30, 2003
19	David J. Skorton	March 1, 2003	June 30, 2006
interim	Gary Fethke	July 1, 2006	July 31, 2007
20	Sally Mason	August 1, 2007	July 31, 2015	^[14]^[15]
interim	Jean Robillard	August 1, 2015	November 1, 2015	^[16]
21	Bruce Harreld	November 2, 2015	May 16, 2021	^[17]^[18]
interim	John Keller	May 17, 2021	July 14, 2021	^[19]
22	Barbara J. Wilson	July 15, 2021	present	^[20]