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

• Carl Seashore– dean of the graduate college 1908–37

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
• George De La Pena– actor – Associate Professor of Dance
• Robert Dick– former visiting professor of flute 2002–03
• 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 Consortium, Professor of Computer Science
• Mauricio Lasansky– renowned printmaker, creator of The Nazi Drawings
• Erik Lie– Associate Professor of Finance, Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow. Discovered the stock options backdating scandal
• Lester Longman– chairman of the art department 1936–58
• Edward C. Mabie– director of theatre arts 1925–56
• Harold McCarty– First chair of Dept. of Geography, pioneered regression analysis within economic geography
• 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
• 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
• John M. Buatti – radiation oncologist – Professor and Head of Radiation Oncology
• 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.
• Keith Carter– ophthalmologist – Head of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
• 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
• Bruce Jay Gantz– Head of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Brian F McCabe Distinguished Chair in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
• Robert V. Hogg – 1950 Ph.D. in mathematics and professor of Statistics from 1951–2001, former President of the American Statistical Association.
• Matthew A. Howard– Head of Neurosurgery – Director of Human Brain Research Laboratory (HBRL)
• 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.
• George Willard Martin– noted mycologist. Head of the Department of Botony 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
• Joseph M. Reinhardt – Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering
• Michael M. Todd– Head of Anesthesiology – Editor-in-chief of the journal Anesthesiology
• 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

Sports

• Steve Alford– former men's basketball coach
• 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.
• Hayden Fry– football coach inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame
• Lute Olson– head basketball coach 1974–1983
• Kirk Ferentz– 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–