Cynthia Chou is a socio-cultural anthropologist with a research focus in sociocultural and medical anthropology across South Asia, specifically the Malay world. She has held the C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Chair of Asian Studies at the University of Iowa since 2016. This chair supports a professor whose research is geographically specialized in East or Southeast Asia with an emphasis on transnational and cross-cultural topics.

Steven W. Duck has held the Daniel and Amy Starch Research Chair at the University of Iowa since 1986. His research includes personal relationships and the way they are rhetorically presented in everyday life interactions. He has served in a number of leadership roles in the college.

Eric Hunter is the Chair (DEO) of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Iowa. As of 2023, he holds the Harriet B. and Harold S. Brady Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences. His main research interests are occupational voice use, signal processing, biomechanics of speech articulators and biomechanical models of the vocal system, and muscle mechanics and muscle models.

Since 1993, Garrett Stewart has held the James O. Freedman Chair or Professor in Letters at the University of Iowa. He has taught fiction, film and textual theory at the UI since 1993, with his teaching and research focused on Victorian Fiction, Narrative Theory, Textual Poetics, and Visuality Studies. He is the author of multiple books on fiction and film and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

As of 2022, Fred Boehmke is the first Marvin and Rose Lee Pomerantz Chair in Political Science at the University of Iowa. This award supports a legislative studies scholar at the university. Boehmke’s research areas of interest include American politics, political methodology, formal theory, and the effect of direct democracy on interest groups. He currently serves as director of the Iowa Social Science Research Center.

Jodie Plumert is a professor in human physiology. As of 2023, she holds the Russel B. Day and Florence D. Day Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences. Her research interests include risk taking in typically- and atypically-developing populations, perceptual-motor development, unintentional childhood injuries, parent-child communication, development of spatial memory and communication.

Sara Sanders is the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Since 2021, she has held the UI Alumni Association Dean’s Chair in the Liberal Arts and Sciences. Through this position, she provides educational leadership and promotes the academic quality and welfare of the college’s faculty and students. She is also a Hartford Faculty Scholar.

Since 2019, Kristy Nabhan-Warren has held the V.O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair in Catholic Studies, an award established to support catholic studies in the Department of Religious Studies. Her teaching focuses on American religions and ethnographic approaches to the study of religion. She is an active member of the American Academy of Religion and has just published her most recent book, Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland.