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

University of Oregon

-Colleges and schools:The University of Oregon is organized into eight schools and colleges—six professional schools and colleges, an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College.- School of Architecture and Allied Arts :...

Presidents of the University of Oregon

Name	Term	Position(s) and notes	Reference
	1876-1893	President, professor of Greek Greek language Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;... and Latin Latin Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
	1893-1899	President
	1899-1902	President
	1926-1932	President
	1938-1943	President, professor of Economics
	1945-1953	President
	1954-1960	President
	1954-1960	President (previously Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the latter part of the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army... , subsequently, President of Macalester College Macalester College Macalester College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 as a Presbyterian-affiliated but nonsectarian college. Its first class entered September 15, 1885. The college is located on a campus in a historic residential neighborhood... )
	1969-1975	President
	1975-1980	President
	1980-1989	President, provost and mathematics professor
	1989-1994	President (subsequently President of Indiana University Indiana University Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000... and President of the NCAA)
	1994-2009	President, law school dean and professor
	2009-	President

The following have served as interim presidents: John Straub (1893), Orlando John Hollis (1944–1945), Victor Pierpont Morris (1953–1954), William C. Jones (1960–1961), Charles Ellicott Johnson (1968–1969), and N. Ray Hawk (1969)

Art, architecture and design

Name	Term	Position(s)	Notability	Reference
		Assistant professor of composition	Composer
		Professor of composition	Composer
		Founder and former dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts	Architect
		Former Professor of landscape architecture	Landscape architect

Humanities

Term	Position(s)	Notability
	Professor emeritus of anthropology	Anthropologist
	Former professor of history and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences	President of the Association of American Universities Association of American Universities The Association of American Universities is an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education... , former president of the University of Texas at Austin University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin... , former chancellor of University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
	Founder of the Department of Anthropology, former professor of sociology	Anthropologist
	Former professor of history and English literature	Former President of University of Washington University of Washington University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University... and Oregon Agricultural College
	Professor emeritus of linguistics	Linguist
	Professor of philosophy	Linguist
	Former vice provost for research, dean of the graduate school, and professor of anthropology	President of the University of Tulsa University of Tulsa The University of Tulsa is a private university awarding bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. It is currently ranked 75th among doctoral degree granting universities in the nation by US News and World Report and is listed as one of the "Best 366 Colleges" by...
1960-1996	Professor emeritus of physical education	Catcher and outfielder in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League All-American Girls Professional Baseball League The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was a women's professional baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley which existed from 1943 to 1954. During the league's history, over 600 women played ball.-History:...
1965-1985	Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature	visiting Fulbright Lecturer to Germany in 1967 and Fulbright grantee

Law and politics

Term	Position(s)	Notability
	Former professor of law	Former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice
	Former Morse Chair Professor of Law and Politics	First female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation Cherokee Nation The Cherokee Nation is the largest of three Cherokee federally recognized tribes in the United States. It was established in the 20th century, and includes people descended from members of the old Cherokee Nation who relocated voluntarily from the Southeast to Indian Territory and Cherokees who...
	Former Dean of the School of Law, Former Assistant Professor of Law	Former US Senator
	Former professor of law and politics
	Former professor of law	Former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice
1987–1997, 2001	Former associate dean of academic affairs, former professor of law	Current Oregon Court of Appeals Judge

Literature

Name	Term	Position(s)	Notability	Reference
		Professor emeritus of literature	Author
		Former professor of creative writing	Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City... winner (1979 in feature writing, 1985 in explanatory writing)
		Professor of journalism	Journalism and communication law scholar

Science and mathematics

Name	Term	Position(s)	Notability	Reference
		Former professor of chemistry	Molecular Biologist
		Former Director of the Shared Laser Facility
		Former Professor of Geology	Geologist and Paleontologist
		Professor of theoretical physics	Co-founder of SafeWeb
		Professor emeritus of psychology
		Former professor of mathematics	Number theorist, Former president of the Mathematics Association of America
		Professor emeritus of neuroscience	Neuroscientist
		Professor emeritus of biology	Conducted Meselson-Stahl experiment Meselson-Stahl experiment The Meselson–Stahl experiment was an experiment by Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl in 1958 which supported the hypothesis that DNA replication was semiconservative. Semiconservative replication means that when the double stranded DNA helix was replicated, each of the two double stranded DNA... in 1958
		Professor of management	Cognitive psychologist on organizational behavior
		Former professor of biology	First person to clone a vertebrate in 1981
		Former dean of the graduate school and former professor of psychology	Former president of the American Psychological Association American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States. It is the world's largest association of psychologists with around 154,000 members including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. The APA...
		Former professor of chemistry	Discovered pantothenic acid, Former president of the American Chemical Society American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 161,000 members at all degree-levels and in all fields of chemistry, chemical...

Athletic Staff

Name	Position(s)	Notability
	Former Athletic Director, football head coach, and offensive coordinator	‡ESPN analyst
†	Former track and field head coach	‡
	Former football head coach	‡Former football head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats Kentucky Wildcats The Kentucky Wildcats are the men's and women's intercollegiate athletic squads of the University of Kentucky , a founding member of the Southeastern Conference...
	Former football offensive coordinator	Former head coach of BYU BYU -Education:* Brigham Young University, a university located in Provo, Utah, USA administered by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.**BYU Salt Lake Center, a satellite center in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA...
†	Former track and field head coach	‡
	Former basketball head coach	Former head coach of the Charlotte Hornets
	Former track and field coach, former athletic director	‡Former Olympic coach
	Former basketball head coach	‡
	Baseball head coach	‡Former baseball head coach of the Cal State Fullerton Titans
	Football head coach, former offensive coordinator	‡
†	Former athletic director	‡
†	Former basketball head coach	‡
	Former football offensive coordinator	Former football head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils
	Associate athletic director and track and field head coach	‡Former track and field head coach of the Stanford Cardinal Stanford Cardinal The Stanford Cardinal is the nickname of the athletic teams at Stanford University.-Nickname and mascot history:Following its win over Cal in the first-ever Big Game in 1892, the color cardinal was picked as the primary color of Stanford's athletic teams...
	Former wide receivers coach	Football head coach of the Boise State Broncos Boise State Broncos The Boise State Broncos are the official athletic program of Boise State University. The Broncos compete in a wide variety of sports. Perhaps the most well-known of these sports is the football program. The program attained a 13-0 season in 2006 capped by a memorable overtime win in the 2007 Fiesta...
	Former assistant football coach	Former football head coach of the San Francisco 49ers San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and...
	Former football offensive coordinator	Football head coach of the California Golden Bears California Golden Bears The California Golden Bears is the nickname used for 29 varsity athletic programs and various club teams of the University of California, Berkeley...