Shuang Chen is the 2025 C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Hua Hsia Associate Professor in Chinese Culture and Institutions. She earned a BA and MA in history from Peking University, and PhD in history from the University of Michigan. She joined the Department of History in 2010. As a historian of late imperial and modern China, her research interest encompasses social, economic, and political history, with an emphasis on exploring how the interplay of state and local institutions over the long term shaped modern Chinese society.

John Freeman is a professor in the department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa. He is the 2023 Dewey B. and Velma P. Professor in Psychology. His research interests include behavioral neuroscience, neurobiology of learning and memory, and developmental psychobiology of learning.

Grazyna Kochanska has been the Dewey B. and Velma P. Stuit Professor in Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa since 1997. Her research interests include social psychology, developmental psychopathology, and social development.

Susan Lutgendorf is the 2023 Dewey B. and Velma P. Stuit Professor in Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Her research involves psychoneuroimmunology, psycho-oncology, stress management and mindfulness for chronic illness.

Ed Wasserman has been the Dewey B. and Velma P. Stuit Professor in Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences since 1997. His research involves behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, with special interests in comparative analysis of learning, memory, and cognition, and special interests in conceptualization, causation, and visual perception.

Cesare Tinelli is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa was named an Erich Funke Professor in 2026. His work has focused on software verification and on automated reasoning, in particular in Satisfiability Modulo Theory (SMT), a field he helped establish through his research and service activities.

Travis Vogan is a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and was named an Erich Funke Professor in 2026. His research and teaching center on sport, media, and U.S. culture. He is especially interested in film and television, media industries, documentary, and how understandings of "high" and "low" culture figure into these topics.

John D’Agata is an F. Wendell Miller Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Iowa. He has been a faculty member of the university’s graduate Nonfiction Writing Program since 2005, having revamped graduate and undergraduate nonfiction writing courses throughout his time at the university. He was also previously named the M.F. Carpenter Professor of English and Creative Writing.

Bob McMurray is an F. Wendell Miller Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa. His research is concerned with developmental science, with specialized interest in spoken word recognition and speech perception, use of eye tracking, cognitive neuroscience and computational modeling of perception and perceptual development.

Yu-Hsiang Wu (pronounced Yu-Shang Wu) is an F. Wendell Miller Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Iowa. His research focuses on audiology and hearing science. He received his PhD in Hearing Sciences from Iowa and holds the long-term research goal of improving hearing aid outcomes for older adults.

Terry Conrad is an associate professor in the School of Art, Art History, and Design at the University of Iowa. In 2024, he was named the Iowa Print Media Associate Professor. His work focuses on the community and social aspects of printmaking and has been showcased and praised in exhibitions across the U.S. and around the world. 

Robert Cargill is an associate professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Iowa. He was named the Roger A. Hornsby Associate Professor in the Classics in 2023. His research focuses on Second Temple Jewish literature and archaeology from the Persian period to the rise of early Christianity.

Brenda Longfellow is an associate professor in the School of Art, Art History, and Design at the University of Iowa. She was named the Roger A. Hornsby Associate Professor in the Classics in 2023. Her research is focused on the art, architecture, and hydraulics of the ancient Roman Empire.

Kaveh Akbar is the Director of the English and Creative Writing Major and a Professor in the Department of English. He is the Roy J. Carver Professor since 2025. He is a New York Times bestselling author, the founding editor of Divedapper, and since 2020, has served as poetry editor for The Nation.

Melissa Febos is the Director of the Nonfiction Writing Program and Professor in the Department of English. She is the Roy J. Carver Professor since 2025. Melissa is the author of five books, co-curated the Mixer Reading and Music Series in Manhattan for ten years and served on the Board of Directors for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts for five. 

James Gloer is the Ralph L. Shriner – Roy J. Carver Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Iowa. His research is dedicated mainly to the discovery, isolation, and structure determination of novel biological active natural products from fungi within the field of organic chemistry. He also formerly served as Chair (DEO) of the Department of Chemistry.

Dorothy Johnson is a Roy J. Carver Professor of Art History for the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa. This named professorship was created to provide recognition for outstanding research and scholarly contributions to an educator’s respective department. Johnson specializes in 18th and 19th century French and European Art. She is also the recipient of the Distinguished Achievements in Art and Humanities Research Award and the UI Graduate College Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts.