Downing Thomas
Downing Thomas
Contact Information
Downing Thomas
1111-C UCC
Phone: 319-335-0373
E-mail: downing-thomas@uiowa.edu
Title
Associate Provost & Dean
About Downing
Associate dean of International Programs and director of the UI Center for Human Rights during 2007-08, Downing A. Thomas is associate provost for academic affairs and dean of International Programs and a professor in the UI's French and Italian Department in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Thomas received his doctorate in French literature from New York University in 1991 and joined the UI faculty that year.
He has served on the Board of Regents, State of Iowa's International Studies Committee and as a UI International Programs representative to the Internationalization Laboratory of the American Council on Education, and has chaired the IP Strategic Planning Committee.
In 2005, the French government honored him as Chevalier, or Knight, in the Order of Academic Palms. In February 2007, Thomas was elected to a one-year term as president of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, an organization including 1,000 schools in the United States and Canada. In addition to his current leadership positions, he served as chairman of the Department of French and Italian from 1999 to 2007.