List of University of Florida faculty and administrators

The List of University of Florida faculty and administrators contains people currently and formerly serving the University of Florida as professors, deans, or in other educational capacities. The faculty has included Pulitzer Prize winning authors John Kaplan and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings in its writing department, and noted photographer Jerry Uelsmann in its School of Art and Art History.

Deans, directors and chairmen

* Douglas J. Barrett, Professor of Pediatrics, Head of the J. Hillis Miller Health Science Center
* George F. Baughman, Former president of New College of Florida; held the position of vice president of business affairs at UF until 1955
* George H. Burgess, World renowned shark expert; director of the International Shark Attack File
* Anthony Catanese, Professor of Architecture, former Dean of the College of Architecture and current President of Florida Institute of Technology
* Paul D'Anieri, Current Dean of the University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
* Teresa A. Dolan, Current Dean of the University of Florida College of Dentistry
* Jon Earle, Award winning Professor of Engineering and current Dean of Student Affairs
* Catherine Emihovich, Current Dean of the University of Florida College of Education
* Jeremy Foley, Current Athletic Director for the University of Florida
* Joseph Glover, Current Provost for the University of Florida
* Bob Graham, Former Florida governor and U.S. Senator, founder of the Bob Graham Center for Public Service
* Peter E. Hildebrand, Professor and Director Emeritus in Food Resource Economics
* Karen Holbrook, Former Professor and Vice President of Research, and former President of Ohio State University
* Dennis Jett, American diplomat and academic; former Dean of the International Center
* Robert Jerry, Current Dean of the University of Florida Levin College of Law
* Rudolf Kalman, American-Hungarian mathematical system theorist, winner of the "IEEE Medal of Honor", and former Graduate Research Professor and Director at the Center for Mathematical System Theory
* Bruce Kone, Current Dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine
* Pramod Khargonekar, Current Dean of the University of Florida College of Engineering
* John Kraft, Current Dean of the Warrington College of Business Administration
* Thomas H. Maren, Founding father of the University of Florida College of Medicine, and inventor of the drug Trusopt
* Roderick J. McDavis, Former Dean of the University of Florida College of Education and current President of Ohio University
* William McKeen, Professor and chair of the Department of Journalism
* Alan G. Merten, Former Dean of the College of Business, current President of George Mason University
* Howard T. Odum, American ecologist; started and directed the Center for Environmental Policy at the University of Florida and founded the University's Center for Wetlands in 1973
* William H. Riffee, Current Dean of the University of Florida College of Pharmacy
* Peter Henry Rolfs, American agronomist and former Dean of the College of Agriculture
* Judith C. Russell, Current Dean of the University of Florida Library System
* Sartaj Sahni, Computer scientist and chairman of the CISE department
* Betty L. Siegel, Author, former president of the University System of Georgia and former Dean academy affairs for continuing education
* Martin A. Uman, World's foremost authority on the physics of lightning and Director of the UF Lightning Research Laboratory
* Rudolph Weaver, First Professor of Architecture, first Dean of Architecture and second architect for the Florida Board of Control

Professors

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* Richard Adams, English novelist
* Kern Alexander, Former President of Western Kentucky University and Murray State University
* Warder Clyde Allee, American Zoologist
* Ida Altman, American historian of colonial Spain and Latin America
* Donald Ault, Professor of English at the University of Florida
* Turpin Bannister, Notable American architectural historian
* Rodney J. Bartlett, Professor of Chemistry and Physics
* Fuller Bazer, American animal scientist and Regents Fellow
* Leonard Beeghley, Famous Sociologist
* Steven Albert Benner, Molecular Biologist
* Robert Cade, Co-inventor of Gatorade
* Pierre Capretz, Professor of French
* Archie Carr, Eminent American zoologist, famed conservationist, and founder of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation
* Jean C. Chance, Professor of Journalism
* Paul Chun, Professor of thermodynamics
* John Ciardi, American etymologist
* Jill Ciment, Writer and Guggenheim Fellow
* Theo Colborn, Zoologist and environmental health analyst
* Suzy Covey, Comics scholar and former university librarian emerita
* Harry Crews, American novelist
* Robert Dana, Award-winning American poet
* Manning J. Dauer, American political scientist, developed the 1967 reapportionment plan for Florida
* Joel S. Demski, American accounting researcher and educator
* Michael J. S. Dewar, Indian theoretical chemist
* Nils J. Diaz, Former Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
* James Dickey, American novelist
* Ngo Dong, Entomologist and Nematologist
* Jane Douglas, Professor of Management Communication
* Joe Feagin, American sociologist and social theorist
* Michael Gannon, Historian, former priest and author
* Jeff Gill, Professor of statistics
* Malcolm Grant, Former Professor and current President of University College London
* Debora Greger, American poet and visual artist
* Jaber F. Gubrium, American sociologist
* R. M. Hare, English moral philosopher
* Mike Haridopolos, Faculty member at the Bob Graham Center of Public Service
* Willis Harman, American social scientist and futurist
* Marvin Harris, American anthropologist
* Molly Harrower, Clinical Psychologist
* Kenneth Heilman, American behavioral neurologist
* Lauren Hertel, Computer Scientist
* So Hirata, Professor of Chemistry, received the Annual Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
* Horton H. Hobbs, Jr., American carcinologist
* David A. Hodell, geologist
* Noy Holland, American writer
* C. S. Holling, Canadian ecologist and winner of the Volvo Environment Prize
* Michael Hofmann, Famous German poet
* Chris Jermaine, Professor of Engineering, winner of the Sloan Fellowship award
* Donald Justice, American poet, and Pulitzer Prize winner
* John Kaplan, American photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner
* Solon Kimball, American anthropologist
* John Klauder, American professor of physics and mathematics
* David Leavitt, American novelist and Professor of English
* David Lee, Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1996, and Professor
* René Lemarchand, French Political Scientist
* Tracy R. Lewis, Professor of economics
* Bernard J. Liska, American food scientist
* William Logan, American poet, critic, and scholar
* Per-Olov Löwdin, Swedish physicist
* Andrew Nelson Lytle, Professor of Literature; helped start the Masters of Fine Arts program at UF
* G. S. Maddala, Indian-American economist and mathematician
* John K. Mahon, American historian
* Maxine Margolis, American anthropologist
* Gordon Marino, Former professor of sports ethics
* Robert McMahon, American International Relations expert
* John H. Moore, Notable anthropologist
* Charles W. Morris, American semiotician and philosopher
* Harry Ostrer, American genetisist
* Simon Penny, Professor of in the field of Interactive Art
* Anil K. Rajvanshi, Indian Engineer
* Pierre Ramond, French physicist
* Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Writer, and Pulitzer Prize winner for the novel "The Yearling"
* David Reitze, Physicist heading Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, the largest NSF project ever created
* Darrett B. Rutman, American historian
* Chih-Tang Sah, Professor of Physics, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
* Paul Satz, Neuropsychologist
* John Schrieffer, American physicist, and Nobel Prize winner
*John C. Slater, Notable American physicist
* Daniel Smith, American political scientist
* Ottón Solís, Current Eminent Scholar of Latin American studies
* Alexander Stephan, Specialist in German literature and area studies
* Henri Theil, Dutch econometrician
* John G. Thompson, Mathematician, and Abel Prize and Fields Medal winner
* Charles Thorn, Professor of Physics
* Jerry Uelsmann, American photographer
* Stanislaw Ulam, Polish mathematician
* Gregory Ulmer, Professor of English at the University of Florida
* Manuel Vasquez, Professor of Latin American studies
* Sidney Wade, American poet
* Albert Wass, Hungarian Professor of Literature and History
* James L. Wattenbarger, Professor of Education, and Father of the Community College System of Florida
* Colin Welford, Professor of Music and Conductor
* John Daniel Wild, American philosopher
* Joy Williams, American author
* Miriam Zach, American musicologist
* Robert Zieger, Notable Labor Historian

Other faculty

* William R. Maples, American forensic anthropologist; worked with the Florida Museum of Natural History
* Jerald T. Milanich, American anthropologist and archaeologist; curator of archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History
* Ernest C. Pollard, Professor of physics and biophysics; research scholar
* Sam Proctor, American historian, and founder of the oral history program; first UF Historian and Archivist
* Robert Singerman, Recognized Judaica bibliographer; holds the position of University Librarian at the George A. Smathers Libraries where he was the bibliographer for Jewish Studies, Anthropology, and Linguistics.
* Michael C. Thomas, American entomologist and writer; works for the Florida Department of Agriculture in Gainesville as a Taxonomic Entomologist, an Entomology Section Administrator, and a Curator of Coleoptera and Orthoptera.
* Carl Van Ness, University Historian

ee also

* Presidents of the University of Florida
* List of notable alumni