List of Antioch College people
This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Antioch College.
Alumni
Art, Architecture, and Engineering
- Emma Amos (B.A. 1968), postmodernist African-American painter and printmaker
- Kathan Brown (B.A. 1958), printmaker, writer, lecturer, entrepreneur and founder of Crown Point Press[1]
- Peter Calthorpe (B.A. 1972), architect, urban designer, urban planner, and author. Founding member of The Congress for the New Urbanism.
- Jewell James Ebers (1946), electrical engineer
- Wendy Ewald (B.A. 1974), photographer, professor at Duke University[2]
- Carole Harmel (B.A. 1969), photographer, artist, educator, co-founder of Artemisia Gallery women's cooperative in Chicago (1973)[3]
- Peter Jacobs (B.A. 1961), landscape architect, Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture, Université de Montréal
- Brian Shure (B.A. 1974), has taught in the printmaking department at Rhode Island School of Design since 1996[4]
- Wendy Cadden (B.A. 1967) printmaker, activist, founder of Women's Press Collective, Oakland.
Activists
- John Bachtell (1978), chairman of the Communist Party USA
- Olympia Brown (1860), suffragist, women's rights activist, minister
- Leo Drey (1939), conservationist
- Jeff Mackler (1963), national secretary of Socialist Action
- 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
- Marty Rosenbluth (1999), immigration attorney and civil rights activist.
- Coretta Scott King (1951), human rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.[5]
- Frances Cress Welsing (1957), psychiatrist and author of The Isis Papers
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
- Jay W. Lorsch (1955), Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School[6]
Education
- Edythe Scott Bagley (1947), Professor of Theater and Performing Arts, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
- Drucilla Cornell (1978), philosopher, feminist theorist, and legal theorist
- Shelton H. Davis (1965), public-interest anthropologist
- Lisa Delpit (1974), author of Other People's Children; director of the Center for Urban Educational Excellence
- Frances Degen Horowitz (B.A. 1954), educator and psychologist, President Emerita of City University of New York Graduate School and University Center.
- Deborah Meier (1954), educator, considered the founder of the modern small schools movement
- Tom Mooney (educator) (B.A. 1975), American labor leader and teacher
- Brian Shure (B.A. 1974), teaching in the printmaking department at Rhode Island School of Design since 1996[4]
- James A.F. Stoner (B.S. in engineering science in 1959) Holder of James A.F. Stoner Chair in Global Quality Leadership at Fordham University, author.
Entertainment
- Peter Adair (1967), filmmaker
- Peggy Ahwesh (1978), filmmaker and video artist
- Ray Benson (1974), front man of Asleep at the Wheel, actor and voice actor
- 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 (1972), film composer and record producer
- John Hammond, Jr., blues guitarist/vocalist
- Victoria Hochberg (1964), film/television writer/director
- 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
- Arthur Lithgow (1938), actor, director, pioneer of regional theater
- Alan Lloyd, composer closely associated with the works of Robert Wilson
- Leonard Nimoy (MA 1977), actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer; played the role of Mr. Spock in the original Star Trek TV series
- Julia Reichert (BA 1970), documentary filmmaker, director, producer
- Linda Reisman (BA 1980), film producer
- Cliff Robertson (1946), Academy Award-winning actor
- Rod Serling (1950), creator of The Twilight Zone TV series
- Louise Smith (BA 1977), playwright and actress; Obie Award recipient
- Jay Tuck (1968), television producer for ARD German television, author
- David Wilcox, folk musician and singer-songwriter
- Mia Zapata (1989), lead singer of The Gits
Government
- Chester G. Atkins (1970), former United States Representative
- Joseph H. Ball (1929), journalist, politician and businessman, United States Senator
- Lynn J. Bush (1948), Senior Judge for the United States Court of Federal Claims
- LaDoris Cordell (BA 1971), retired judge of the Superior Court of California
- Bill Bradbury (1960), Oregon Secretary of State
- John de Jongh (1981), United States Virgin Islands Governor
- LaShann Moutique DeArcy Hall (1992), 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
- J. Warren Keifer, prominent U.S. politician during the 1880s, 30th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Gail D. Mathieu (1973), B.A., current United States Ambassador to Namibia and former United States Ambassador to Niger[7]
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (1960), Congressional Delegate, representing the District of Columbia; Chair, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1977-1981 (first female Chair is USEEOC); Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center (1982-2019).
- Perri Freeman (2015), member of the Burlington, Vermont City Council[8][9]
- Americus V. Rice, Civil War general, U.S. Representative
- Richard Socarides (BA 1976), political strategist, commentator
- 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 & Journalism
- Lawrence Block (1960), author
- Peg Bracken (1940), humorist
- Eliza Archard Conner (1838-1912), journalist, lecturer, and feminist
- James Galvin (1974), poet and author
- Michael Goldfarb (1972), author and journalist
- Jaimy Gordon (1966), author of Lord of Misrule, winner of the National Book Award
- 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
- Gregory Orr (poet) poet and author
- Marc Anthony Richardson (1995), novelist and artist, American Book Award winner for Year of the Rat
- John Robbins (1976), author of Diet for a New America; pioneer environmentalist; veganism advocate
- Bianca Stone (2006), poet and visual artist
- Mark Strand (1957), poet
- Nova Ren Suma (1997), author of young adult novels
- Terri Windling (1979), influential mythic fiction and speculative fiction editor, author and artist
MacArthur Fellows
- Tim Barrett (B.A. 1973), papermaker[10]
- Lisa Delpit (B.A. 1974), education reform leader[11]
- Wendy Ewald (B.A. 1974), photographer[12]
- Stephen Jay Gould (B.S. 1963), paleontologist[13]
- Virginia Hamilton (attended 1952–55), writer[14]
- Sylvia A. Law (B.A. 1964), human rights lawyer[15]
- Deborah Meier (attended 1949-1951), education reform leader[16]
- Mark Strand (B.A. 1957), poet and writer[17]
Science & Medicine
- Barbara Almond (B.S. 1959), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- Joseph Young Bergen (1872), botanist
- 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
- William A. Gamson (1946), sociologist, President of American Sociological Association
- 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 (1958), sociologist and historian
- Joan Steitz (1963), molecular biologist and Sterling Professor at Yale University; 2018 Lasker Award recipient
- Judith G. Voet (B.S. 1963), professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Swarthmore College; author of several widely used biochemistry textbooks
Technology
- Brian Aker, (B.S. 1994), open-source hacker
Faculty
- Irwin Abrams, professor of History, pioneer in the field of peace research
- 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
- Cecil Taylor, American pianist and poet, pioneer of free jazz
- Horace Mann, Founding president of Antioch College and "father of American Education"
- Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, American author and educator
- Arthur Ernest Morgan, President of Antioch and chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority
References
- "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.
- Carol Harmel photography website. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
- "Brian Shure". RISD. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- "Antioch College to Celebrate the Life and Work of Alumna Coretta Scott King". Antioch College. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- Lorsch, Jay W. "Jay W. Lorsch - Faculty - Harvard Business School". www.hbs.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
- "Biography – Gail D. Mathieu". US Department of State. Retrieved June 9, 2010.
- Quigley, Aidan (5 March 2019). "Election of 2 new Progressives shifts balance on Burlington City". VTDigger. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
- "Perri Freeman '15 elected to Burlington City Council". Antioch College. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
- "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 2019-03-19.
- "Deborah W. Meier — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- "Mark Strand — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
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