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 Consortium, Professor of Computer Science
 * Tisch Jones, theatre arts and theatre history professor
 * 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
 * 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

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

 * Amos Dean 1855–59
 * Silas Totten 1859–62
 * Oliver M. Spencer 1862–67
 * Nathan Ransom Leonard (acting) 1867–68; (acting) 1870-71
 * James Black 1868–70
 * George Thacher 1871–77
 * Christian W. Slagle (acting) 1877–78
 * Josiah Little Pickard 1878–87
 * Charles Ashmead Schaeffer 1887–98
 * Amos Noyes Currier (acting) 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
 * Chester Arthur Phillips (acting) 1940
 * Virgil Melvin Hancher 1940–64
 * Howard Rothmann Bowen 1964–69
 * Willard L. Boyd 1969–81
 * Duane C. Spriestersbach (acting) 1981–82
 * James O. Freedman 1982–1987
 * Richard D. Remington (acting) 1987–1988
 * Hunter R. Rawlings III 1988–1995
 * Peter E. Nathan (acting) 1995
 * Mary Sue Coleman 1995–2002
 * Willard L. Boyd (interim) 2002-2003
 * David J. Skorton 2003–2006
 * Gary Fethke (interim) 2006–2007
 * Sally Mason 2007–2015
 * Jean Robillard (interim) 2015
 * Bruce Harreld 2015–2021
 * Barbara J. Wilson 2021 to present