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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

No. Image Name Term Position(s) and notes Ref.
1 John Wesley Johnson 1876–1893 President, professor of Greek and Latin
John Straub 1893 Interim president
2 Charles Hiram Chapman 1893–1899 President
3 Frank Strong 1899–1902 President
4 Prince Lucien Campbell 1902–1925 President
5 Arnold Bennett Hall 1926–1932 President
6 Clarence Valentine Boyer 1934–1938 President
7 Donald M. Erb 1938–1943 President, professor of economics, eponym of Erb Memorial Union
Orlando John Hollis 1944–1945 Interim president
8 Harry K. Newburn 1945–1953 President
Victor Pierpont Morris 1953–1954 Interim president
9 O. Meredith Wilson 1954–1960 President
William C. Jones 1960–1961 Interim president
10 Arthur S. Flemming 1961–1968 President (previously Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the latter part of the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower; subsequently, President of Macalester College)
Charles Ellicott Johnson 1968–1969 Interim president
N. Ray Hawk 1969 Interim president
11 Robert D. Clark 1969–1975 President
12 William Beaty Boyd 1975–1980 President
13 Paul Olum 1980–1989 President, provost and mathematics professor
14 Myles Brand 1989–1994 President (subsequently President of Indiana University and President of the NCAA)
15 Dave Frohnmayer 1994–2009 President, law school dean and professor
16 Richard Lariviere 2009–2011 President
Robert M. Berdahl 2011–2012 Interim president
17 Michael R. Gottfredson 2012–2014 President
Scott Coltrane 2014–2015 Interim president
18 Michael H. Schill 2015–2022 President
Patrick Phillips 2022-2023 Interim president
Jamie Moffitt March 14, 2023-June 30, 2023 Interim president
19 John Karl Scholz 2023–present President

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
Arthur Erickson 1954-? Professor of architecture Canadian architect
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

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
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
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
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

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
Dennis R. Howard Philip H. Knight Professor of Business Endowed Chair Warsaw Sports Marketing Center

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
Gerald Tindal Castle-McIntosh-Knight Professor of Education Director of Behavioral Research & Teaching
Michael Bullis Somerville Knight Professor College of Education Development and community adjustment of at-risk adolescents

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
Homer Barnett Professor emeritus of anthropology Anthropologist
Judith R. Baskin Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities Religious studies scholar, author
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
Luther Cressman Founder of the Department of Anthropology, former professor of sociology Anthropologist
John Erlandson Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Sciences Anthropologist
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
Jon Franklin Former professor of creative writing Pulitzer Prize winner (1979 in feature writing, 1985 in explanatory writing)
Thomas Milton Gatch Former professor of history and English literature Former President of University of Washington and Oregon Agricultural College
Warren Ginsberg Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities Comparative literature
Talmy Givón Professor emeritus of linguistics Linguist
Dennis Jenkins Co-director of Archaeological Field School Archaeologist
Mark Johnson Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences Linguist, philosopher
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
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)
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
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
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
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

Journalism and communication

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

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

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
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
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
Jon Driver 1990–1991 Former visiting assistant professor of Psychology
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
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
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
Brian Matthews Professor emeritus of physics Biochemist, biophysicist
Helen Neville 1995–present Professor of psychology and neuroscience Neuroscientist
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
Michael Posner Professor emeritus of neuroscience Neuroscientist; member of National Academy of Sciences; National Medal of Science
Gregory Retallack 1981–2022 Professor emeritus of Earth Sciences Paleopedologist, wrote the book on fossil soils
Geraldine Richmond 1985–present Professor of Chemistry Chemist, Recipient of the National Medal of Science
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)
Joseph Thornton 2002–2012 Former professor of biology Evolutionary biologist
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

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

Notes

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

References

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