List of University of Oregon faculty and staff

This List of University of Oregon faculty and staff includes presidents, staff, and faculty of the University of Oregon.

Presidents of the University of Oregon

The following persons had served as president of the university:^[1]

No.	Image	Name	Term start	Term end	Notes	Ref.
1		John Wesley Johnson	1876	1893		[1]
Interim		John Straub	1893	1893		[1]
2		Charles Hiram Chapman	1893	1899		[1]
3		Frank Strong	1899	1902		[1]
4		Prince Lucien Campbell	1902	1925		[1]
5		Arnold Bennett Hall	1926	1932		[2]
6		Clarence Valentine Boyer	1934	1938		[1]
7		Donald M. Erb	1938	1943		[2]
Interim		Orlando John Hollis	1944	1945		[1]
8		Harry K. Newburn	1945	1953		[1]
Interim		Victor Pierpont Morris	1953	1954		[1]
9		O. Meredith Wilson	1954	1960		[1]
Interim		William C. Jones	1960	1961		[1]
10		Arthur S. Flemming	1961	1968		[1]
Interim		Charles Ellicott Johnson	1968	1969		[1]
Interim		N. Ray Hawk	1969	1969		[1]
11		Robert D. Clark	1969	1975		[1]
12		William Beaty Boyd	1975	1980		[1]
13		Paul Olum	1980	1989		[1]
14		Myles Brand	July 1, 1989	June 30, 1994		[1]
15		Dave Frohnmayer	July 1, 1994	June 30, 2009		[1][3]
16		Richard Lariviere	July 1, 2009	December 2011		[1][4][5]
Interim		Robert M. Berdahl	December 9, 2011	July 31, 2012		[1][6]
17		Michael R. Gottfredson	August 1, 2012	August 6, 2014		[7][8]
Interim		Scott Coltrane	August 7, 2014	June 30, 2015		[1][9]
18		Michael H. Schill	July 1, 2015	August 19, 2022		[10][11]
Interim		Patrick Phillips	August 20, 2022	March 13, 2023		[1][12]
Interim		Jamie Moffitt	March 14, 2023	June 30, 2023		[1][13]
19		Karl Scholz	July 1, 2023	present		[14]

Academic faculty

Architecture and allied arts

Name	Term	Position(s)	Notability	Reference
G.Z. "Charlie" Brown		Philip H. Knight Professor of Architecture	Director, Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory; author, Sun, Wind and Light: Architectural Design Strategies	[15]
Arthur Erickson	1954-?	Professor of architecture	Canadian architect	[16]
Kenneth Helphand		Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Allied Arts	Author: Colorado: Visions of an American Landscape; Yard Street Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space; Dreaming Gardens: Landscape Architecture & the Making of Modern Israel; Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime	[17]
David W. Hulse		Philip H. Knight Professor of Landscape Architecture	Founding member, Institute for a Sustainable Environment. Expertise in geographic information systems and computer-based tools facilitating land and water use planning and natural resource decision-making	[18]
Jeffrey M. Hurwit		Philip H. Knight Professor of Art History and Classics	Ancient Greek art scholar and author, The Art and Culture of Early Greece; The Athenian Acropolis: History, Mythology, and Archaeology from the Neolithic Era to the Present; and The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles	[19]
LaVerne Krause	1966–1986	Professor of Art	Established printmaking program; outstanding contributions as an educator, studio artist, and arts activist; national president of Artists Equity	[20]
Ellis F. Lawrence		Founder and former dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts	Architect of Knight Library, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, McArthur Court
Robert Murase		Former professor of landscape architecture	Landscape architect	[21]

Business

Name	Term	Position(s)	Notability	Reference
Michael Crooke		Professor of Practice, Lundquist School of Business	Former CEO of Patagonia; ex-Navy Seal
Sergio Koreisha		Philip H. Knight Professor of Business	Operations and Business Analytics	[22]
Dennis R. Howard		Philip H. Knight Professor of Business Endowed Chair	Warsaw Sports Marketing Center	[23]

Education

Name	Term	Position(s)	Notability	Reference
Edward Kame'enui		Philip H. Knight Professor of Education	Founding Commissioner of the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education	[24]
Gerald Tindal		Castle-McIntosh-Knight Professor of Education	Director of Behavioral Research & Teaching	[25]
Michael Bullis		Somerville Knight Professor College of Education	Development and community adjustment of at-risk adolescents	[26]

Humanities and social sciences

Name	Term	Position(s)	Notability	Reference
Henry Alley		Professor emeritus of literature	Author
A. Aneesh	2022–present	Executive Director of the School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon and a professor of Global Studies and Sociology	Author, Sociologist	[27]
Homer Barnett		Professor emeritus of anthropology	Anthropologist
Judith R. Baskin		Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities	Religious studies scholar, author	[28]
Robert Berdahl		Former professor of history and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences	President of the Association of American Universities, former president of the University of Texas at Austin, former chancellor of University of California, Berkeley
Bruce Blonigen		Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science	Economist	[29]
Luther Cressman		Founder of the Department of Anthropology, former professor of sociology	Anthropologist
John Erlandson		Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Sciences	Anthropologist	[30]
Alice Henson Ernst	1924–1950	Professor of English	Playwright, teacher, freelance writer and a reporter
Phil A. Fisher		Philip H. Knight Chair in Psychology	Psychologist	[31]
Jon Franklin		Former professor of creative writing	Pulitzer Prize winner (1979 in feature writing, 1985 in explanatory writing)	[32]
Thomas Milton Gatch		Former professor of history and English literature	Former President of University of Washington and Oregon Agricultural College	[33]
Warren Ginsberg		Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities	Comparative literature	[34]
Talmy Givón		Professor emeritus of linguistics	Linguist
Dennis Jenkins†		Co-director of Archaeological Field School	Archaeologist	[35]
Mark Johnson		Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences	Linguist, philosopher	[36]
Barbara Corrado Pope		Professor emerita	Novelist, historian, a former director of UO's Clark Honors College, and the founding director of Women's and Gender Studies at the university	[37]
Steadman Upham		Former vice provost for research, dean of the graduate school, and professor of anthropology	President of the University of Tulsa
Mark Thoma		Professor of Economics	Prominent economics blogger
Alex Tizon†	?-present	Assistant professor of journalism	Pulitzer Prize winner (1997, Investigative Journalism)	[38]
Lois Youngen	1960–1996	Professor emeritus of physical education	Catcher and outfielder in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Edward Diller	1965–1985	Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature	Visiting Fulbright Lecturer to Germany in 1967 and Fulbright grantee

Law

Name	Term	Position(s)	Notability	Reference
Arno H. Denecke		Former professor of law	Former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice
Dave Frohnmayer		Former dean and professor of law	Former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice
Wilma Mankiller	2005–2006	Former Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics	First female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation	[39]
Wayne Morse		Former dean of the School of Law, former assistant professor of law	Former US Senator
Charles Ogletree	2001–2002	Former Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics		[40]
Kenneth J. O'Connell		Former professor of law	Former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice
David Schuman	1987–1997, 2001	Former associate dean of academic affairs, former professor of law	Current Oregon Court of Appeals Judge	[41]
Mary Christina Wood		Philip H. Knight Professor of Law	Director of the University of Oregon School of Law's Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program	[42]

Journalism and communication

Name	Term	Position(s)	Notability	Reference
Kyu Ho Youm		Professor of journalism	Journalism and communication law scholar	[43]

Music and Dance

Name	Term	Position(s)	Notability	Reference
David Crumb		Assistant professor of composition	Composer
Robert Kyr		Philip H. Knight Professor of Composition and Theory	Composer	[44]

Natural sciences

Name	Term	Position(s)	Notability	Reference
James E. Brau		Philip H. Knight Professor of Natural Science; Director, Center for High Energy Physics	High Energy Particle Physicist; ATLAS experiment, Large Hadron Collider, CERN; LIGO; International Linear Collider	[45]
Carlos Bustamante		Former professor of chemistry	Molecular Biologist
Patrick G. Carrick		Former Director of the Shared Laser Facility
Katharine Cashman		Former Philip H. Knight Professor of Natural Science	Geologist, vulcanologist	[46]
Thomas Condon		Former professor of Geology	Geologist and paleontologist
Russell Donnelly	1966–1972 1982–1983	Former Physics Department chair; retired Professor of Physics	Physicist renowned in the field of low temperature physics	[47]
Jon Driver	1990–1991	Former visiting assistant professor of Psychology		[48]
Sarah Ann Douglas		Professor Emerita of Computer & Information Science	Known for her pioneering research in human-computer interaction; elected to European Academy of Sciences, June 2002
Ira Herskowitz	1972–1981	Former professor at the Institute of Molecular Biology	Geneticist	[49]
Stephen Hsu		Former professor of theoretical physics	Co-founder of SafeWeb
Ray Hyman		Professor emeritus of psychology	One of the founders of the modern skeptical movement	[50]
Ramesh Jasti	2014–present	Professor of chemistry	First organic chemist to synthesize the elusive cycloparaphenylene
Eugene Luks		Professor emeritus of computer science	Known for his research on the graph isomorphism problem and on algorithms for computational group theory
Stephanie A. Majewski		Assistant professor of physics	Experimental high energy particle physics; Department of Energy Early Career Research award	[51]
Brian Matthews		Professor emeritus of physics	Biochemist, biophysicist	[49]
Helen Neville	1995–present	Professor of psychology and neuroscience	Neuroscientist	[52]
Ivan M. Niven		Former professor of mathematics	Number theorist; former president of the Mathematics Association of America
Aaron Novick		Founder of the Institute of Molecular Biology	Member of the Manhattan Project	[49]
Michael Posner		Professor emeritus of neuroscience	Neuroscientist; member of National Academy of Sciences; National Medal of Science	[53]
Gregory Retallack	1981–2022	Professor emeritus of Earth Sciences	Paleopedologist, wrote the book on fossil soils	[54]
Geraldine Richmond	1985–present	Professor of Chemistry	Chemist, Recipient of the National Medal of Science	[55]
Paul Slovic		Professor of psychology	Judgement and decision making
Davison Soper		Professor of Physics	J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, is presented by the American Physical Society
Franklin Stahl		Professor emeritus of biology	Conducted Meselson–Stahl experiment in 1958
William H. Starbuck		Professor of management	Cognitive psychologist on organizational behavior
George Streisinger		Former professor of biology	First person to clone a vertebrate (1981)	[56]
Joseph Thornton	2002–2012	Former professor of biology	Evolutionary biologist	[57]
Leona E. Tyler		Former dean of the graduate school and former professor of psychology	Former president of the American Psychological Association
Marie A. Vitulli	1976-2011	Professor Emerita of mathematics	commutative algebraist; Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the Association for Women in Mathematics
Roger J. Williams		Former professor of chemistry	Discovered pantothenic acid; former president of the American Chemical Society
David J. Wineland	2017–present	Research professor	Nobel Prize laureate in physics, 2012	[58]

Athletic staff

Name	Term	Position(s)	Notability	Reference
Dana Altman		Current Basketball Head Coach	‡
Mike Bellotti		Former athletic director, football head coach, and offensive coordinator	‡ESPN analyst
Bill Bowerman†		Former track and field head coach	‡
Rich Brooks		Former football head coach	‡Former football head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats
Gary Crowton		Former football offensive coordinator	Former head coach of BYU
Bill Dellinger†		Former track and field head coach	‡
Dick Harter		Former basketball head coach	Former head coach of the Charlotte Hornets
Bill Hayward		Former track and field coach, former athletic director	‡Former Olympic coach
Howard Hobson		Former basketball head coach	‡
George Horton		Baseball head coach	‡Former baseball head coach of the Cal State Fullerton Titans
Chip Kelly		Former football head coach, former offensive coordinator	‡
Patrick Kilkenny†		Former athletic director	‡
Ernie Kent†		Former basketball head coach	‡
Dirk Koetter		Former football offensive coordinator	Former football head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils
Vin Lananna		Associate athletic director and track and field head coach	‡Former track and field head coach of the Stanford Cardinal
Harry Marra		Assistant track and field head coach	‡Former track and field head coach of the San Francisco State Gators, personal coach for Ashton Eaton (decathlon and indoor heptathlon world record holder, double Olympic gold medalist, now special consultant for Indonesia
Chris Petersen		Former wide receivers coach	Football head coach of the Boise State Broncos
George Seifert		Former assistant football coach	Former football head coach of the San Francisco 49ers
Jeff Tedford		Former football offensive coordinator	Football head coach of the California Golden Bears

See also

• University of Oregon
• List of University of Oregon alumni
• Oregon Ducks
• Lists of Oregon-related topics

Notes

† Was also an alumnus of the University of Oregon
‡ Notability inherent within the position at the University of Oregon