List of Antioch College people
This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Antioch College.
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Alumni
Activists
- John Bachtell (1978), Chairman of the Communist Party USA
- Olympia Brown (1860), suffragist, women's rights activist, minister
- Leo Drey (1939), conservationist
- José Ramos-Horta (1984), co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, East Timor independence activist, Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau, former Prime Minister and President of East Timor
- Coretta Scott King (1951), human rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.[1]
Business
- Warren Bennis (1951), distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California; Chair of the Advisory Board of the Harvard University Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership; author of more than thirty books on leadership
- Theodore Levitt (1949), economist
Education
- Edythe Scott Bagley, Professor of Theater and Performing Arts, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
- Shelton H. Davis (1965), public-interest anthropologist
- Lisa Delpit (1974), author of Other People's Children; director of the Center for Urban Educational Excellence
- Deborah Meier (1954), educator, considered the founder of the modern small schools movement
- Brian Shure (Antioch College B.A. in 1974), teaching in the printmaking department at Rhode Island School of Design since 1996[2]
Entertainment
- Peter Adair (1967), filmmaker
- Peggy Ahwesh (1978), filmmaker and video artist
- Nick DeMartino, former Senior Vice President, Media and Technology for the American Film Institute
- Nathaniel Dorsky (1943), video artist and author
- Suzanne Fiol, founder of ISSUE Project Room
- John Flansburgh (1983), singer/songwriter, They Might Be Giants
- Herb Gardner (1958), playwright
- Miles Goodman, film composer and record producer
- John Hammond, Jr., blues guitarist/vocalist
- Ken Jenkins, actor on Scrubs
- Nick Katzman, blues musician
- Jorma Kaukonen (1962), guitarist/vocalist, Jefferson Airplane
- John Korty (1959), TV and screenwriter, Emmy for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Oscar for documentary of Japanese internment camps
- Peter Kurland, Academy Award-nominated sound mixer
- Leonard Nimoy (MA 1977), actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer; played the role of Mr. Spock in the original Star Trek TV series
- Cliff Robertson (1946), Academy Award-winning actor
- Rod Serling (1950), creator of The Twilight Zone TV series
- Jay Tuck (1968), television producer, ARD German Television
- David Wilcox, folk musician and singer-songwriter
- Mia Zapata (1989), lead singer of The Gits
Government
- Chester G. Atkins (1970), former United States Representative
- Bill Bradbury (1960), Oregon Secretary of State
- John de Jongh, United States Virgin Islands Governor
- LaShann Moutique DeArcy Hall, District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- Hattie N. Harrison, member of the Maryland House of Delegates
- A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (1949), civil rights advocate; author; Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1977-1993), and of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1964-1977); Chief Judge of the Third Circuit from 1990-1991; received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995
- Gail D. Mathieu, B.A., current United States Ambassador to Namibia and former United States Ambassador to Niger[3]
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (1960), Congressional Delegate, representing the District of Columbia
- Americus V. Rice, Civil War general, U.S. Representative
- E. Denise Simmons, mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the first openly lesbian African-American mayor of an American city
- Webster Street, Arizona Territorial Judge
Literature
- Lawrence Block (1960), author
- Peg Bracken (1940), humorist
- James Galvin (1974), poet and author
- Karl Grossman (1964), journalist and author
- Virginia Hamilton (1957), children's books author and MacArthur Fellow
- Peter Irons (1966), legal historian and author
- Laurence Leamer (1964), author and journalist
- Franz Lidz (1973), journalist and author whose memoir, Unstrung Heroes, became a 1995 feature film directed by Diane Keaton
- Sylvia Nasar (1970), author, A Beautiful Mind
- Cary Nelson (1967), higher education activist, author
- John Robbins (1976), author of Diet for a New America; pioneer environmentalist; veganism advocate
- Mark Strand (1957), poet
- Nova Ren Suma (1997), author of young adult novels
MacArthur Fellows
- Tim Barrett (B.A. 1973), papermaker[4]
- Lisa Delpit (B.A. 1974), education reform leader[5]
- Wendy Ewald (B.A. 1974), photographer[6]
- Stephen Jay Gould (B.S. 1963), paleontologist[7]
- Virginia Hamilton (attended 1952–55), writer[8]
- Silvia Law (B.A. 1964), human rights lawyer[9]
- Deborah Meier (attended 1949-1951), education reform leader[10]
- Mark Strand (B.A. 1957), poet and writer[11]
Science
- Mario Capecchi (B.S. 1961), co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007
- Don Clark (1953), clinical psychologist, author
- Leland C. Clark, Jr. (B.S. 1941), biochemist and inventor
- George W. Comstock (1937), physician, public health expert, lead researcher in seminal studies demonstrating the effectiveness of isoniazid for treating latent tuberculosis infection
- Jewell James Ebers (1946), electrical engineer
- William A. Gamson (1946), sociologist
- Clifford Geertz (1950), anthropologist
- Stephen Jay Gould (1963), geologist, evolutionary biologist, author
- Robert Manry (1949), nautical explorer
- Richard Pillard (1955), professor of psychiatry at Boston University; first openly gay psychiatrist in the U.S.
- Allan Pred (1957), geographer
- Sonya Rose, sociologist and historian
- Joan Steitz (1963), molecular biologist and Sterling Professor at Yale University
- Judith G. Voet (B.S.), professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Swarthmore College; author of several widely used biochemistry textbooks
Visual artists
- Kathan Brown (B.A. 1958), printmaker, writer, lecturer, entrepreneur and founder of Crown Point Press[12]
- Wendy Ewald (B.A. 1974), photographer, professor at Duke University[13]
- Brian Shure (B.A. 1974), has taught in the printmaking department at Rhode Island School of Design since 1996[2]
Faculty
- G. Stanley Hall, professor of English and philosophy; first president of the American Psychological Association and Clark University
- Edward Orton, Sr., first president of the Ohio State University
References
- ↑ "Antioch College to Celebrate the Life and Work of Alumna Coretta Scott King". Antioch College. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- 1 2 "Brian Shure". RISD. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- ↑ "Biography – Gail D. Mathieu". US Department of State. Archived from the original on June 16, 2010. Retrieved June 9, 2010.
- ↑ "Timothy Barrett — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- ↑ "Lisa Delpit — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- ↑ "Wendy Ewald — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- ↑ "Stephen Jay Gould — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- ↑ "Virginia Hamilton — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- ↑ "Sylvia A. Law — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- ↑ "Deborah W. Meier — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- ↑ "Mark Strand — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- ↑ "Kathan Brown". Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF). Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- ↑ "Two artists with Antioch College ties win prestigious Guggenheim award". Antioch College. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
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