# 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.

## Administration

* Lena Hill interim chief diversity officer and associate vice president 2017–2018
* Carl Seashore dean of the graduate college 1908–37
* Dewey Stuit dean of the College of Arts from 1948 to 1977

## Humanities

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

## Sciences

* Nancy C. Andreasen alumna and psychiatrist, 2000 National Medal of Science Recipient, Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry, Director of the Psychiatric Iowa Neuroimaging Consortium
* Kevin Campbell muscular dystrophy scientist, Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor and Head of Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
* Samuel Calvin–(1840–1911) pioneering geologist.
* Zada Mary Cooper (1875–1961) - alumna and pharmacist - assistant, instructor, assistant professor, and associate professor. Founder of Kappa Epsilon and Rho Chi
* Antonio Damasio 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 1950 Ph.D. in mathematics and professor of Statistics from 1951–2001, former President of the American Statistical Association.
* Wendell Johnson (1904–1965) former head of the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology; Pioneer in the field. See http://nicholasjohnson.org/wjohnson/
* Everett Franklin Lindquist developer of the ITBS and ACT exams.
* Nancy E. Goeken immunologist
* Donald Gurnett Physicist
* Charles F. Lynch Epidemiologist
* George Willard Martin noted mycologist. Head of the Department of Botany from 1953 to 1955.
* Ignacio Ponseti physician internationally known for non-surgical treatment of clubfoot
* J. Roger Porter chair Dept. of Microbiology 1949–1977, internationally known microbiologist
* David W. Murhammer Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
* Aliasger K. Salem Professor and Head of Division of Pharmaceutics and Translational Therapeutics, College of Pharmacy
* Ingo Titze 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 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 men's head basketball coach 1999-2007
* Sam Barry 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 head football coach 1999–present
* Hayden Fry 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 head basketball coach 1974–1983
* Otto Vogel - head baseball coach 1925-1942; 1946-1966

## University of Iowa Presidents

| No. | Name | Term |
| 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 |
| – | Jean Robillard (interim) | August 2, 2015 – November 1, 2015 |
| 21 | Bruce Harreld | November 2, 2015 – May 16, 2021 |
| – | John Keller (interim) | May 17, 2021 – July 14, 2021 |
| 22 | Barbara J. Wilson | July 15, 2021 – present |