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 Carl Emil Seashore, born Sjöstrand (January 28, 1866 – October 16, 1949) was a prominent American psychologist and educator. He was the author of numerous books and articles principally regarding the fields of speech–language pathology, music ...

dean of the graduate college 1908–37 *

Dewey Stuit Dewey Stuit (pronounced ''stew-it'', January 24, 1909 - January 9, 2008) was an American educational psychologist and academic administrator. He was the dean of the College of Arts at the University of Iowa from 1948 to 1977. Early life Stuit was ...

dean of the College of Arts from 1948 to 1977

Humanities

* Timothy Barrett papermaker and paper-making researcher. 2009 MacArthur Fellow. *

Hans Breder Hans Dieter Breder (October 20, 1935 June 18, 2017) was a German-American interdisciplinary artist. He lived and worked in Iowa. Early life Breder studied painting under Willem Grimm at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and received ...

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 Philip Greeley Clapp (August 4, 1888 – April 9, 1954) was an American educator, conductor, pianist, and composer of classical music. He served as Director of the School of Music at the University of Iowa for more than three decades (1919–1953) ...

director of school of music 1919–53 *

Linda Crist Linda Ann Crist (1944 - 8 March 2005) was a noted labanotationist, documenting, writing, and teaching labanotation. Labanotation is a type of notation that captures dance movements on paper, similar to how musical notation captures musical performan ...

- 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 Nicholas Johnson (born September 23, 1934) is an American academic and lawyer. He wrote ''How to Talk Back to Your Television Set'' and was a Federal Communications Commission commissioner from 1966 to 1973. He is retired from teaching at the Un ...

forme
FCC commissioner 1966–1973
U.S. Maritime Administrator. Professor, Department of Communication Studies an
founding member of the Iowa Progressive Caucus
*

Douglas W. Jones Douglas W. Jones is an American computer scientist at the University of Iowa. His research focuses primarily on computer security, particularly electronic voting. Jones received a Bachelor of Science, B.S. in physics from Carnegie Mellon Univer ...

electronic voting reform expert and cofounder of th
Open Voting Consortium
Professor of Computer Science *

Tisch Jones Tisch may refer to: *Tisch School of the Arts at New York University *Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University *Tisch Library, the main library of Tufts University *''Tisch'', a novel by Stephen Dixon Peopl ...

, theatre arts and theatre history professor *

Mauricio Lasansky Mauricio Leib Lasansky (October 12, 1914 – April 2, 2012) was an Argentine artist and educator known both for his advanced techniques in intaglio printmaking and for a series of 33 pencil drawings from the 1960s titled "The Nazi Drawings." ...

renowned printmaker, creator of '' The Nazi Drawings'' *

Erik Lie Erik Lie is a Norwegian finance professor at the University of Iowa who published a report about options backdating that led to many investigations by the SEC into the potentially illegal practice. He was the subject of profile in '' Business W ...

Associate Professor of Finance, Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow. Discovered the stock options backdating scandal *

Kembrew McLeod Kembrew McLeod is an American artist, activist, and professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. He is best known as a performance artist or "media prankster" who filed an application in 1997 to register the phrase "Freedom of ...

media activist and prankster * Philip Roth 1960 National Book Award winning author of ''

Goodbye, Columbus ''Goodbye, Columbus'' is a 1959 collection of fiction by the American novelist Philip Roth, comprising the title novella "Goodbye, Columbus"—which first appeared in ''The Paris Review''—and five short stories. It was his first book and was ...

'', taught creative writing *

Wiley B. Rutledge Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr. (July 20, 1894 – September 10, 1949) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1943 to 1949. The ninth and final justice appointed by President Frankli ...

United States Supreme Court Justice; Dean of College of Law, 1935–1939 * Palagummi Sainathvisiting instructor
in International Programs. An award-winning Indian development journalist described as one of the world's greatest experts on

famine A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, natural disasters, crop failure, Demographic trap, population imbalance, widespread poverty, an Financial crisis, economic catastrophe or government policies. Th ...

and hunger. * George Seifertformer assistant football coach 1966
and former head coach of

NFL The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the major ...

San Francisco 49ers *

George D. Stoddard George Dinsmore Stoddard (October 8, 1897 – December 28, 1981) was the president of University of Illinois and the University of the State of New York. He was also the chancellor of New York University and Long Island University. Early life ...

former chair of the Psychology Department, and former president of the University of Illinois *

Phil Stong Philip Duffield Stong (January 27, 1899 – April 26, 1957) was an American author, journalist and Hollywood scenarist. He is best known for the 1932 novel ''State Fair'', which was adapted as a film three times ( 1933, 1945 and 1962) and as a B ...

Writing Instructor, author of the novel State Fair and others *

Bohumil Shimek Bohumil Shimek (June 25, 1861 – January 30, 1937) was an American naturalist, conservationist, and a professor at the University of Iowa. The Shimek State Forest in Iowa is named after him. Life Family and early life Shimek was born on a farm ne ...

naturalist and conservationist whom the

Shimek State Forest Shimek State Forest is an Iowa state forest maintained by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Its five units are strung along the Des Moines River a few miles above its confluence with the Upper Mississippi River in Lee County, Iowa, Lee an ...

is named after *

C. Vivian Stringer Charlaine Vivian Stringer (born March 16, 1948) is an American former basketball coach. She holds one of the best coaching records in the history of women's basketball. She was the head coach of the Rutgers University women's basketball team from ...

former women's basketball coach who is only coach in NCAA history to take three different teams to final four. *

Phebe Sudlow Phebe W. Sudlow (July 11, 1831 - June 8, 1922) was a pioneer for women in the education field and was the first female superintendent of a public school system in the United States. Sudlow also became the first female professor at the University o ...

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. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and ...

American novelist and satirist, Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty 1965–66 * Himie Voxman alumnus, director of the School of Music from 1954–80 *

Christine Whelan Christine Barrett Whelan (born July 5, 1977) is a writer, journalist, and commentator. She is the author of two books about marriage, two self-help books for young-adults and Great Courses Audible Original lecture series on purpose. She is a clini ...

visiting assistant professor of Sociology, author of ''Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women'' *

Grant Wood Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891 February 12, 1942) was an American painter and representative of Regionalism, best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. He is particularly well known for '' American Gothic'' (193 ...

American painter who painted ''

American Gothic ''American Gothic'' is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood was inspired to paint what is now known as the ''American Gothic'' House in Eldon, Iowa, along with "the kind of people efancied shoul ...

'', instructor and director of WPA art projects

Sciences

Nancy C. Andreasen Nancy Coover Andreasen (born November 11, 1938) is an American neuroscientist and neuropsychiatrist. She currently holds the Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa. ...

Current faculty or staff member alumna and

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...

, 2000 National Medal of Science Recipient, Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry, Director of the Psychiatric Iowa Neuroimaging Consortium * Kevin Campbell

muscular dystrophy Muscular dystrophies (MD) are a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of rare neuromuscular diseases that cause progressive weakness and breakdown of skeletal muscles over time. The disorders differ as to which muscles are primarily affe ...

scientist, Investigator for the

Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is an American non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded in 1953 by Howard Hughes, an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, fil ...

and Professor and Head of Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics *

Samuel Calvin Samuel Calvin (July 30, 1811 – March 12, 1890) was a Whig Party (United States), Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Biography Samuel Calvin was born in Washingtonville, Pennsylvania. He attended the comm ...

–(1840–1911) pioneering geologist. * Zada Mary Cooper (1875–1961) - alumna and pharmacist - assistant, instructor, assistant professor, and associate professor. Founder of

Kappa Epsilon Kappa Epsilon () is an American professional women's pharmacy fraternity founded in Iowa in 1921. Today, KE has 43 collegiate chapters and ten alumni chapters. Over 20,000 women and men have been initiated into ΚΕ since its founding. History ...

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 Robert Vincent ("Bob") Hogg (8 November 1924 – 23 December 2014) was an American statistician and professor of statistics of the University of Iowa. Hogg is known for his widely used textbooks on statistics (with his 1963 Ph.D. student Elliot A ...

1950 Ph.D. in mathematics and professor of Statistics from 1951–2001, former

President of the American Statistical Association The president of the American Statistical Association is the head of the American Statistical Association (ASA). According to the association's bylaws, the president is an officer, and a member of the board of directors and of the executive commit ...

. *

Wendell Johnson Wendell Johnson (April 16, 1906 – August 29, 1965) was an American psychologist, author and was a proponent of general semantics (or GS). He was born in Roxbury, Kansas and died in Iowa City, Iowa where most of his life's work was based. The W ...

(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 Donald Alfred Gurnett (April 11, 1940 – January 13, 2022) was an American physicist and professor at the University of Iowa who specialized in plasma physics. Early life and education Gurnett grew up in Fairfax, Iowa. In his spare time he bui ...

Physicist * Charles F. Lynch Epidemiologist * George Willard Martin noted mycologist. Head of the Department of Botany from 1953 to 1955. *

Ignacio Ponseti Ignacio Ponseti (3 June 1914 – 18 October 2009) was a Spanish-American physician, specializing in orthopedics. He was born on 3 June 1914 in Menorca, part of the Balearic Islands, Spain, Ponseti was the son of a watchmaker and spent his child ...

physician internationally known for non-surgical treatment of

clubfoot Clubfoot is a birth defect where one or both feet are rotated inward and downward. Congenital clubfoot is the most common congenital malformation of the foot with an incidence of 1 per 1000 births. In approximately 50% of cases, clubfoot aff ...

J. Roger Porter J. Roger Porter (1909 in Alma, Nebraska – 1979 in Iowa City, Iowa) was an internationally known microbiologist. Porter married Majorie Ann Perkins in 1934. He was the father of four children (Roberta, Carol, Katherine, and John). Life and wo ...

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 Ingo R. Titze is a voice scientist and executive director of the National Center for Voice and Speech and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He also teaches at t ...

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 The National Center for Voice and Speech (NCVS), is a multi-site research and teaching organization dedicated to studying the characteristics, limitations and enhancement of human voice and speech. The NCVS is located in Salt Lake City, Utah with th ...

, centered at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts; father of

vocology Vocology is the science and practice of vocal habilitation, or vocal training and therapy.Titze IR. (1996). What is vocology? Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 21:5-6. Its concerns include the nature of speech and language pathology, the defects of ...

, a specialty within speech-language pathology; creator of Pavorobotti, a singing (voice simulation) robot featured on National Public Radio *

Lee Edward Travis Lee may refer to: Name Given name * Lee (given name), a given name in English Surname * Chinese surnames romanized as Li or Lee: ** Li (surname 李) or Lee (Hanzi ), a common Chinese surname ** Li (surname 利) or Lee (Hanzi ), a Chinese ...

alumnus, noted psychiatrist, Director of the university's first psychology clinic

Sports

Steve Alford Stephen Todd Alford (born November 23, 1964) is an American men's college basketball coach and former professional player who is the head coach for the Nevada Wolf Pack of the Mountain West Conference (MWC). Born and raised in Indiana, he was a ...

Retired/former faculty (or staff) member. 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 Francis Xavier Cretzmeyer, Jr. (January 7, 1913 – April 2, 2001) was the greatest track and field coach at the University of Iowa in the 20th century, leading their team the Hawkeyes to multiple Big Ten team titles. Before being a coach, he was ...

- 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 The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and interactive attraction devoted to college football. The National Football Foundation (NFF) founded the Hall in 1951 to immortalize the players and coaches of college football that were vote ...

* Dan Gable - head wrestling coach 1976-1997 *

Pops Harrison Lawrence C. "Pops" Harrison (August 29, 1906 – August 19. 1967) was an American basketball coach and administrator. He was the head coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball, Iowa Hawkeyes from 1942 to 1950. Harrison was born and raised in Io ...

- head basketball coach 1942-1950 *

Ralph Miller Ralph H. Miller (March 9, 1919 – May 15, 2001) was an American college basketball coach, a head coach for 38 years at three universities: Wichita (now known as Wichita State), Iowa, and Oregon State. With an overall record of , his teams had ...

- head basketball coach 1964-1970 *

Lute Olson Robert Luther "Lute" Olson (September 22, 1934 – August 27, 2020) was an American basketball coach, who was inducted into both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. He was the head co ...

head basketball coach 1974–1983 *

Otto Vogel Otto Henry Vogel (October 26, 1899 – July 19, 1969) was a Major League Baseball player. Vogel played for the Chicago Cubs in the 1923 and 1924 seasons. in 111 career games, Vogel had 63 hits in 253 at-bats, with a .249 batting average. Be ...

- head baseball coach 1925-1942; 1946-1966

University of Iowa Presidents

Amos Dean Amos Dean (January 16, 1803 – January 26, 1868) was an American academic administrator and attorney who served as the first president of the University of Iowa, serving from 1855 to 1859. Dean was born in Barnard, Vermont. He attended Union Col ...

1855–59 *

Silas Totten Silas Totten (March 26, 1804 – October 7, 1873)was an American academic and college president. He served as the third President of Trinity College from 1837 to 1848. He then served as Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at the College ...

1859–62 * Oliver M. Spencer 1862–67 * Nathan Ransom Leonard (acting) 1867–68; (acting) 1870-71 * James Black 1868–70 *

George Thacher George Thacher (July 25, 1817 – December 27, 1878) was the fifth President of the University of Iowa, serving from 1871 to 1877. Thacher, son of Peter and Anne (Parks) Thacher, was born in Hartford, Conn., July 25, 1817. He was the brother ...

1871–77 * Christian W. Slagle (acting) 1877–78 *

Josiah Little Pickard Josiah Little Pickard (March 17, 1824 – March 28, 1914) was the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin, 1860–1864, and the sixth President of the University of Iowa, 1878–1887. Born in Rowley, Massachusetts, Pickard grew up ...

1878–87 * Charles Ashmead Schaeffer 1887–98 *

Amos Noyes Currier Amos Noyes Currier (October 3, 1832 in Canaan, New HampshireCURRIER, Amos Noyes

(acting) 1898–99 *

George Edwin MacLean George Edwin MacLean (August 31, 1850 – May 3, 1938) was the eighth President of the University of Iowa, serving from 1899 to 1911. Biography George Edwin MacLean was born in Rockville, Connecticut on August 31, 1850. He was an alumnus of ...

1899–1911 * John Gabbert Bowman 1911–14 *

Thomas Huston Macbride Thomas Huston Macbride (July 31, 1848 – March 27, 1934) was the tenth president of the University of Iowa, serving from 1914 to 1916. Macbride was a naturalist and botanist, Macbride Hall at the University of Iowa is named for him. He often c ...

1914–16 * Walter Albert Jessup 1916–34 * Eugene Allen Gilmore 1934–40 *

Chester Arthur Phillips Chester Arthur Phillips (July 17, 1882 – December 1, 1976) was an acting President of the University of Iowa The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public university, public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, ...

(acting) 1940 *

Virgil Melvin Hancher Virgil Melvin Hancher (September 4, 1896 – January 30, 1965) was the thirteenth President of the University of Iowa The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public university, public research university in Iowa Cit ...

1940–64 *

Howard Rothmann Bowen Howard Rothmann Bowen (October 27, 1908 – December 22, 1989) was an American economist and college president, serving as the president of Grinnell College from 1955 to 1964 and as the fourteenth President of the University of Iowa from 1964 to 19 ...

1964–69 *

Willard L. Boyd Willard Lee Boyd (March 29, 1927 – December 13, 2022) was an American legal scholar, academic administrator and president of the University of Iowa and Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. He was latterly part of the faculty o ...

1969–81 *

Duane C. Spriestersbach Duane Caryl Spriestersbach (September 5, 1916 – April 25, 2011) was an acting President of the University of Iowa, serving from 1981 to 1982. Academic career Spriesterbach graduated from Winona State University in 1939, and received his MA in 1 ...

(acting) 1981–82 * James O. Freedman 1982–1987 * Richard D. Remington (acting) 1987–1988 *

Hunter R. Rawlings III Hunter Ripley Rawlings III (born December 14, 1944) is an American classics scholar and academic administrator. He is best known for serving as the 17th President of the University of Iowa from 1987 until 1995 and as the 10th President of Cornell ...

1988–1995 *

Peter E. Nathan Peter E. Nathan (born April 18, 1935) was an acting President of the University of Iowa, serving in 1995. Prior to that, he served as Provost of the University of Iowa from 1993 to 1995. Nathan received his B.A. in Social Relations from Harvard ...

(acting) 1995 *

Mary Sue Coleman Mary Sue Wilson Coleman (born October 2, 1943) is an American chemist and academic administrator who served as the president of the University of Iowa from 1995 to 2002, the 13th president of the University of Michigan from 2002 to 2014, and as ...

1995–2002 *

(interim) 2002-2003 *

David J. Skorton David Jan Skorton is an American physician and academic. He has been president and chief executive officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) since July 15, 2019. Prior to the AAMC, he led the Smithsonian Institution, the nat ...

2003–2006 * Gary Fethke (interim) 2006–2007 * Sally Mason 2007–2015 *

Jean Robillard Jean Robillard is a Canadian doctor and academic administrator, currently serving as the Vice President for Medical Affairs at the University of Iowa. He is also the dean of the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Following the retir ...

(interim) 2015 *

Bruce Harreld James Bruce Harreld (born December 12, 1950) is an American businessman and academic administrator who served as the 21st president of the University of Iowa. Formerly a business consultant, Harreld succeeded Sally Mason as president on November 2 ...

2015–2021 *

Barbara J. Wilson Barbara J. Wilson (born November 27, 1957) is an American academic who has served as the 22nd president of the University of Iowa since July 15, 2021. She previously was provost of the University of Illinois system. Early life and education Wil ...

2021 to present

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