This List of University of Oregon faculty and staff includes presidents, staff, and faculty of the University of Oregon.
| Name | Term | Position(s) and notes | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1876–1893 | President, professor of Greek and Latin | [1] | ||
| 1893–1899 | President | |||
| 1899–1902 | President | |||
| 1902–1925 | President | |||
| 1926–1932 | President | [2] | ||
| 1934–1938 | President | |||
| 1938–1943 | President, professor of economics, eponym of Erb Memorial Union | |||
| 1945–1953 | President | |||
| 1954–1960 | President | |||
| 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) | |||
| 1969–1975 | President | |||
| 1975–1980 | President | |||
| 1980–1989 | President, provost and mathematics professor | |||
| 1989–1994 | President (subsequently President of Indiana University and President of the NCAA) | |||
| 1994–2009 | President, law school dean and professor | |||
| 2009–2011 | President | |||
| 2012–2014 | President | |||
| 2015–2022 | President | [3] | ||
| John Karl Scholz | 2023-Present | 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), N. Ray Hawk (1969), Robert M. Berdahl (2011–2012), Scott Coltrane (2014–2015), Patrick Phillips (2022-2023), and Jamie Moffitt (March 14, 2023-June 30, 2023).[1]
| Name | Term | Position(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philip H. Knight Professor of Architecture | Director, Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory; author, Sun, Wind and Light: Architectural Design Strategies | [4] | |||
| 1954-? | Professor of architecture | Canadian architect | [5] | ||
| 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 | [6] | |||
| 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 | [7] | |||
| 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 | [8] | |||
| 1966–1986 | Professor of Art | Established printmaking program; outstanding contributions as an educator, studio artist, and arts activist; national president of Artists Equity | [9] | ||
| Founder and former dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts | Architect of Knight Library, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, McArthur Court | ||||
| Former professor of landscape architecture | Landscape architect | [10] |
| Name | Term | Position(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor of Practice, Lundquist School of Business | Former CEO of Patagonia; ex-Navy Seal | ||||
| Philip H. Knight Professor of Business | Operations and Business Analytics | [11] | |||
| Philip H. Knight Professor of Business Endowed Chair | Warsaw Sports Marketing Center | [12] |
| Name | Term | Position(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | [13] | |||
| Castle-McIntosh-Knight Professor of Education | Director of Behavioral Research & Teaching | [14] | |||
| Somerville Knight Professor College of Education | Development and community adjustment of at-risk adolescents | [15] |
| Name | Term | Position(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | [16] | |
| Professor emeritus of anthropology | Anthropologist | ||||
| Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities | Religious studies scholar, author | [17] | |||
| 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 | ||||
| Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science | Economist | [18] | |||
| Founder of the Department of Anthropology, former professor of sociology | Anthropologist | ||||
| John Erlandson | Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Sciences | Anthropologist | [19] | ||
| 1924–1950 | Professor of English | Playwright, teacher, freelance writer and a reporter | |||
| Phil A. Fisher | Philip H. Knight Chair in Psychology | Psychologist | [20] | ||
| Former professor of creative writing | Pulitzer Prize winner (1979 in feature writing, 1985 in explanatory writing) | [21] | |||
| Former professor of history and English literature | Former President of University of Washington and Oregon Agricultural College | [22] | |||
| Warren Ginsberg | Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities | Comparative literature | [23] | ||
| Professor emeritus of linguistics | Linguist | ||||
| † | Co-director of Archaeological Field School | Archaeologist | [24] | ||
| Philip H. Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Linguist, philosopher | [25] | |||
| 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 | [26] | |||
| Former vice provost for research, dean of the graduate school, and professor of anthropology | President of the University of Tulsa | ||||
| Professor of Economics | Prominent economics blogger | ||||
| † | ?-present | Assistant professor of journalism | Pulitzer Prize winner (1997, Investigative Journalism) | [27] | |
| 1960–1996 | Professor emeritus of physical education | Catcher and outfielder in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League | |||
| 1965–1985 | Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature | Visiting Fulbright Lecturer to Germany in 1967 and Fulbright grantee |
| Name | Term | Position(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Former professor of law | Former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice | ||||
| Former dean and professor of law | Former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice | ||||
| 2005–2006 | Former Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics | First female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation | [28] | ||
| Former dean of the School of Law, former assistant professor of law | Former US Senator | ||||
| 2001–2002 | Former Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics | [29] | |||
| 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 | [30] | ||
| 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 | [31] |
| Name | Term | Position(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assistant professor of composition | Composer | ||||
| Philip H. Knight Professor of Composition and Theory | Composer | [33] |
| Name | Term | Position(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | [34] | |||
| Former professor of chemistry | Molecular Biologist | ||||
| Former Director of the Shared Laser Facility | |||||
| Former Philip H. Knight Professor of Natural Science | Geologist, vulcanologist | [35] | |||
| Former professor of Geology | Geologist and paleontologist | ||||
| 1966–1972 1982–1983 | Former Physics Department chair; retired Professor of Physics | Physicist renowned in the field of low temperature physics | [36] | ||
| 1990–1991 | Former visiting assistant professor of Psychology | [37] | |||
| Professor Emerita of Computer & Information Science | Known for her pioneering research in human-computer interaction; elected to European Academy of Sciences, June 2002 | ||||
| 1972–1981 | Former professor at the Institute of Molecular Biology | Geneticist | [38] | ||
| Former professor of theoretical physics | Co-founder of SafeWeb | ||||
| Professor emeritus of psychology | One of the founders of the modern skeptical movement | [39] | |||
| 2014–present | Professor of chemistry | First organic chemist to synthesize the elusive cycloparaphenylene | |||
| 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 | [40] | ||
| Professor emeritus of physics | Biochemist, biophysicist | ||||
| 1995–present | Professor of psychology and neuroscience | Neuroscientist | [41] | ||
| Former professor of mathematics | Number theorist; former president of the Mathematics Association of America | ||||
| Founder of the Institute of Molecular Biology | Member of the Manhattan Project | ||||
| Professor emeritus of neuroscience | Neuroscientist; member of National Academy of Sciences; National Medal of Science | [42] | |||
| 1981–2022 | Professor emeritus of Earth Sciences | Paleopedologist, wrote the book on fossil soils | [43] | ||
| 1985–present | Professor of Chemistry | Chemist, Recipient of the National Medal of Science | [44] | ||
| Professor of psychology | Judgement and decision making | ||||
| Professor of Physics | J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, is presented by the American Physical Society | ||||
| Professor emeritus of biology | Conducted Meselson–Stahl experiment in 1958 | ||||
| Professor of management | Cognitive psychologist on organizational behavior | ||||
| Former professor of biology | First person to clone a vertebrate (1981) | [45] | |||
| 2002–2012 | Former professor of biology | Evolutionary biologist | [46] | ||
| 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 | ||
| Former professor of chemistry | Discovered pantothenic acid; former president of the American Chemical Society | ||||
| 2017–present | Research professor | Nobel Prize laureate in physics, 2012 | [47] |
| Name | Term | Position(s) | Notability | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current Basketball Head Coach | ‡ | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Former football offensive coordinator | Former head coach of BYU | ||||
| † | 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 | ||||
| Former 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Former wide receivers coach | Football head coach of the Boise State Broncos | ||||
| Former assistant football coach | Former football head coach of the San Francisco 49ers | ||||
| Former football offensive coordinator | Football head coach of the California Golden Bears |
† Was also an alumnus of the University of Oregon
‡ Notability inherent within the position at the University of Oregon