List of University of Iowa faculty
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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
- 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 Botony 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
- 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–
References
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