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This list of Oberlin College and Conservatory People contains links to Wikipedia articles about notable alumni of and other people connected to
Oberlin College , including the
Conservatory of Music and the Graduate School of Theology.
Notable alumni
Award winners
Nobel laureates
Joshua Angrist (B.A. Economics 1982), Nobel laureate (Economic Sciences 2021), shared with
David Card and
Guido W. Imbens "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships."
[1]
Stanley Cohen (M.A. zoology, 1945),
Nobel (Physiology and Medicine, 1986), for "discoveries of
growth factors "
[2]
Robert Millikan (B.A. 1891),
Nobel laureate (Physics, 1923) "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the
photoelectric effect "
[3]
Roger Wolcott Sperry (B.A. English 1935, M.A. psychology 1937), neurobiologist who studied
split-brain research, Nobel laureate (Medicine, 1981), "for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the
cerebral hemispheres "
[4]
Pulitzer Prize
Carl Dennis (transferred to
University of Chicago ,
University of Minnesota ),
Pulitzer Prize -winning poet of Practical Gods ;
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
[5]
Michael Dirda (BA 1970
[6] ), Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reviewer, author
Du Yun (BM 2001),
composer , winner of the 2017
Pulitzer Prize for Music for
opera
Angel's Bone .
Emily Nussbaum (BA 1988), winner of the 2016
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
[7]
Christopher Rouse (BM 1971
[8] ), winner of the 1993
Pulitzer Prize for Music for
Trombone Concerto
Vijay Seshadri (BA 1974), winner of the 2014
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for 3 Sections
George Walker (1941, honorary degree 1983), composer, first African American
[9] to be awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for Music (1996, for Lilacs )
Thornton Wilder (transferred to
Yale ),
playwright and
novelist ; three
Pulitzer Prizes — for the novel
The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for two plays
Our Town and
The Skin of Our Teeth ; U.S.
National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day
[10]
Franz Wright (BA
[11] 1977),
[10] recipient of the 2004
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Walking to Martha's Vineyard
[12]
French Legion of Honor
Academy, Grammy, Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe awards
Sibbi Bernhardsson (1995), violinist,
[13] recipient of a Grammy Award with the
Pacifica Quartet , 2008. Best Chamber Music Performance for Elliott Carter: String Quartets Nos. 1 And 5 .
[14]
Montana Levi Blanco (2006), costume designer, recipient of a Tony Award for
The Skin of Our Teeth (2022)
[15]
Mark Boal (1995), screenwriter, recipient of two Academy Awards (Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay for
The Hurt Locker , 2009)
James Burrows (1962),
[16] producer and creator of
Cheers and
Emmy award -winning director of
Will & Grace ,
Wings ,
News Radio
Francois S. Clemmons (1976), sang the role of Sportin' Life in
Gershwin's
Porgy & Bess , recipient of a company
Grammy Award
Best Opera Recording
Marc Cohn (1981), singer-songwriter, recipient of a
Grammy Award (1991,
Best New Artist )
Lena Dunham (2008), recipient of the 2013 Golden Globe Awards for Best TV Series - Music or Comedy, and Best Actress in a TV Series, the HBO series
Girls
Chris Eldridge (2004), guitarist in
Punch Brothers ,
[17] formerly in the
Infamous Stringdusters
Rhiannon Giddens (2000), member of the
Carolina Chocolate Drops ; Grammy winner (2010,
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album )
[18]
William Goldman (1952
[16] ), novelist (
The Princess Bride ) and recipient of
Academy Awards for the screenplays of
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and
All the President's Men (1976)
[19]
Charles Harbutt (1983), classical recording engineer, Grammy recipient (2000 and 2003)
[20] [
failed verification ]
Bill Irwin (1973
[16] ), actor and clown, 1984
MacArthur Fellow , recipient of a Tony Award for
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2005)
[21]
Natasha Katz (1981), lighting designer, recipient of seven Tony Awards for
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2023),
MJ the Musical (2022),
Long Day's Journey into Night (2016),
The Glass Menagerie (2014),
Once (2012),
The Coast of Utopia (2007), and
Aida (2000)
[22]
Alex Klein (1987),
oboist , recipient of a Grammy Award (2002,
Best Solo Instrumentalist with Orchestra )
[23]
John McClure , record producer, received four Grammy Awards for Stravinsky Conducts Columbia Symphony Orchestra –
Le Sacre Du Printemps (1962), Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic –
Symphony No. 3 Kaddish (1965),
Mahler, Symphony of a Thousand (1968), and Bernstein's
West Side Story with Te Kanawa, Carreras, Troyanos, Ollmann, Horne (1986).
[24]
Michael Maguire (1977), (1987) recipient of
Tony Awards for Les Misérables ,
A Little Night Music (New York City Opera),
Kismet (Royal Canadian Opera),
Annie Get Your Gun (Miami Opera), currently prominent Beverly Hills divorce attorney; voted Super Lawyer/Rising Star (2011–13)
Gregory Mosher (1971), director, recipient of Tony Award for revivals of
Anything Goes (1984) and
Our Town (1989)[
citation needed ]
Christopher Rouse (BM 1971
[8] ),
Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for
Concert de Gaudí (2002)
Jeannette Sorrell (1990), founder and artistic director of the
Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra ; Grammy winner Songs of Orpheus (2018)
[25]
Toyin Spellman-Diaz ,
Imani Winds , Best Classical Compendium, Passion For Bach And Coltrane, 66th Anual Grammy Awards
[26]
MacArthur Fellows
The following alumni are fellows of the
MacArthur Fellows Program from the
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation . As this is an interdisciplinary award, they are listed here in addition to their listing in their field of accomplishment.
Jad Abumrad (1995), radio producer, known for the NPR-distributed
Radiolab
[28]
Alison Bechdel (1981), pioneering
LGBT cartoonist, author of
Dykes to Watch Out For and
Fun Home
[29]
Claire Chase (2001), flautist and arts entrepreneur
[30]
Jeremy Denk (1990), pianist and writer
[31]
Rhiannon Giddens (2000), musician, MacArthur Fellowship awarded 2017
Ralf Hotchkiss (1969), engineer and businessman[
citation needed ]
Bill Irwin (1973), actor
Kiese Laymon (1998), writer
[32]
Richard Lenski (1977), biologist[
citation needed ]
Diane E. Meier (1973), doctor, MacArthur Fellowship awarded 2008
Thylias Moss (1981), poet and playwright
[33]
Julie Taymor (1974), director, MacArthur Fellowship awarded 1991
Paul Wennberg (1985), chemist
Courtney Bryan (2004)
[34]
Academia
Louisa Lydia Alexander (1856), schoolteacher
Joshua Angrist (1982), labour market economist
Lauren Berlant (1979), feminist, queer cultural studies scholar
Helen E. Blackwell (1994), organic chemist and chemical biologist, Professor of Chemistry at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Richard D. Brown (1961), historian of colonial and revolutionary America, now emeritus professor at the
University of Connecticut
Christopher Browning (1968), historian of
the Holocaust
Miriam Eliza Carey (1858–1937), librarian who helped put the first libraries in American institutions
Samuel Charache (1951),
[37] hematologist, discoverer of the first effective treatment for sickle cell disease
Mabel Augusta Chase (1888), physicist and professor
Dr. Francois S. Clemmons (1997–2013), Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence, now Emeritus Professor at
Middlebury College
Johnnetta B. Cole (1957), first female African-American president of
Spelman College , president of
Bennett College 2002–07
John R. Commons (1888), institutional economist and labor historian
Carol Blanche Cotton (1904), African-American psychologist who worked on spastic paralysis in children
Ethel McGhee Davis (1923), educator, social worker, and college administrator
Walter B. Denny (1964), art historian
Jon Michael Dunn , philosopher (logician)
John Millott Ellis (1851), acting President of Oberlin College and
abolitionist
George Fairchild (1862), third President of
Kansas State University
Peter Tyrrell Flawn (1947), geologist and former President of the
University of Texas at Austin
Jeffrey I. Gordon (1969), biologist and Professor
Daniel McBride Graham (1843), inventor, Free Will Baptist pastor, first president of
Hillsdale College
[38]
Joseph L. Graves , Jr. (1977), Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Biological Studies
Matthew D. Green , (1999), Associate Professor of Computer Science at The Johns Hopkins University
James Monroe Gregory (transferred to Howard University), Dean of Collegiate Department at Howard University
Erwin Griswold (1925), lawyer,
Solicitor General of the United States and dean of
Harvard Law School
Dennis Hale , 1966, Professor of Political Science,
Boston College
Walter Heller , 1935, economist and educator
Robert Hutchins , educational philosopher, president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the
University of Chicago
Lawrence R. Jacobs , American political scientist and founder and director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the
University of Minnesota
Dale Jacquette , 1975, analytic philosopher.
Charlene Drew Jarvis , 1962, president of
Southeastern University
Robert Jervis (1962),
International Relations professor
Barbara Johnson (1969), literary critic, professor
Amy Kelly , educator, historian, best-selling author
Anne Osborn Krueger (1953), economist, World Bank Chief Economist (1982-1986)
Edward O. Laumann (1960), George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the college; editor of the
American Journal of Sociology (1978-1984, 1995–1997); Chair of the Department of Sociology at
the University of Chicago ; Dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago; Provost of the University of Chicago; director of the Ogburn Stouffer Center for Population and Social Organization at the University of Chicago
Sarah Cowles Little (1838–1912), educator
Susie Linfield , critic, editor, journalist, author and
NYU professor
Maud Mandel (1989), historian, Dean of the
College of Brown University ; 18th president,
Williams College
[39]
John Jay McKelvey, Sr. (1884), Attorney, Founder of
Harvard Law Review
Alan Wilfrid Cranbrook Menzies FRSE (1877–1966), Scottish-born professor, chemist who taught at Princeton University.
Steven Mintz (1973) – Professor of History,
University of Texas at Austin
Peter Molnar (1965), Professor of Geophysics,
University of Colorado Boulder
[40]
Roger Montgomery (1949), Dean of Architecture, City Planning, and Landscape Architecture,
University of California, Berkeley
Edward F. Mooney (1962), Professor of Religion,
Syracuse University
Anne Eugenia Felicia Morgan (1845–1909), professor, philosopher, writer, and game inventor
L. L. Nunn , founder of
Telluride Association and
Deep Springs College
Tom Novak (1977), Denit Trust Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Marketing,
The George Washington University
David Novak (1977), Professor of Ethnomusicology,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel Orr (1954), professor, writer and chair of economics at
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Mary Jane Patterson (1862), educator and first African-American woman to receive a B.A (A.B.) degree
Hugh V. Perkins (1941), author and former professor of education, Institute for Child Study, Department of Human Development,
University of Maryland, College Park
Laurence Perrine , author and professor
Paul Pierson (1981), professor of political science
Willard V. O. Quine (1930), philosopher and logician
Albert Rees , former
University of Chicago and
Princeton economics professor, former
Provost at
Princeton , advisor to President
Gerald Ford
[41]
Charles A. Reich (1949), legal and social scholar
Thomas L. Riis (1950), musicologist, specialist in American music
William Sanders Scarborough (1875), classical scholar
John E. Schwarz (1961), political scientist and author
Robert E. Scott (1965), law professor
Donald S. Strong (1912-1995), political scientist.
[42]
Meredeth Turshen ,
political science professor
Kenneth Waltz (1948),
political science professor
Barbara Wertheimer (1946), historian and labor organizer
Edwina Whitney (1894), librarian and educator
C. Martin Wilbur (1931), historian, Sinologist
Garnet C. Wilkinson (1902), educator and administrator
Robert Shaw Wilkinson (1891), second president of
South Carolina State University
Warren Wilson, namesake of
Warren Wilson College in
North Carolina
Sheldon S. Wolin (1944),
political theorist
Business
Joani Blank (1959), founder of
Good Vibrations
Marc Canter (1980), co-founder of
MacroMind (predecessor company of Macromedia)
Jerry Greenfield (1973), co-founder of
Ben & Jerry's ice cream
John Gutfreund (1951), executive, former
CEO of
Salomon Brothers Inc.;
Business Week named him "King of Wall Street" in the 1980s
Charles Martin Hall (1885), co-discoverer of the
electrolytic process for producing
aluminium ; founder of
Alcoa , Inc. (and contributor to the American spelling of "aluminum")
Ralf Hotchkiss (1969), co-founder of Whirlwind Wheelchair International; 1989 MacArthur Foundation Fellow
Kamal Quadir (1996), founder and CEO of
bKash , which provides financial services to over 40 million customers
Levancia Holcomb Plumb (1861, BA; 1865, MA), president and chief stockholder of the Union National Bank of Streator, Illinois
David Shapira (1963), Executive Chairman
Giant Eagle
Nova Spivack (1991), entrepreneur
Politics, government
Premiers
Legislators
Blanche Bruce , second African-American Senator from Mississippi, serving 1874–1881
Yvette Clarke (transferred from
Medgar Evers College ), Democratic representative for
New York's 11th congressional district , 2007–present
Jacob Dolson Cox , politician and author, governor of Ohio (1866–1888), US Secretary of the Interior (1869–1870)
Paul Drennan Cravath (1882), lawyer, partner of
Cravath, Swaine & Moore ; creator of the "Cravath System"; founding Vice President of the
Council on Foreign Relations
Richard A. Dawson , lawyer and state legislator in Arkansas
Heather Deal (BA, 1983) City Councillor 2005–present,
Vancouver City Council
Ruth Hardy (BA, 1992) member,
Vermont Senate
[43]
John Langalibalele Dube , first (founding) President of the
African National Congress
Myron T. Herrick ,
42nd Governor of Ohio
[44]
Richard Hodges (1986), member of the
Ohio House of Representatives , 1993–1999
Hsiao Bi-khim (1993),
Taiwan Representative to the United States; former member of the Legislative Yuan (Parliament) of Taiwan, representing the
Democratic Progressive Party
Alfred A. Laun Jr. ,
Wisconsin State Senator
Jen Metzger (1987),
County Executive for
Ulster County , Former
New York State Senator
Charles Mosher (1928) United States House of Representatives 1961-1977.
Eduardo Mondlane (1953), Mozambican political leader
Edward Schwartz (BA, 1965), at-large City Councilman 1984–87, Philadelphia City Council; first Councilman with a Pd.D[
citation needed ] (doctorate in political theory, Rutgers University); first Philadelphia Councilman to computerize his constituent services
Delazon Smith , senator from Oregon. Smith was expelled from Oberlin.
Harrison A. Williams (1941), U.S. senator and congressman from New Jersey
Mayors
Executive council
Bruce Cole (1964), chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under George W. Bush
Erwin Griswold (1925), solicitor general under presidents Johnson and Nixon
Richard N. Haass (1973), president of the
Council on Foreign Relations and former
Director of Policy Planning for the U.S.
Department of State
Cynthia Hogan (1979), Counsel to the
Vice President of the United States ,
Joe Biden , under President
Obama
Martha N. Johnson (1974), former official in the Clinton administration; Administrator of the United States
General Services Administration
Anne O. Krueger (1953), award-winning economist; deputy director of the
International Monetary Fund ; Oberlin trustee (1987–95)
Robert Kuttner (1965), co-founder and co-editor of
The American Prospect ; one of five co-founders of the
Economic Policy Institute
Charles Sawyer (1908), Secretary of Commerce to Harry S. Truman
Diplomats
John Mercer Langston (1849), U.S. Congressman representing Virginia's 4th Congressional District; US minister to Haiti under president Rutherford B. Hayes
Edwin O. Reischauer (1931), U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1961–1966
Marcie Berman Ries (1972), U.S. ambassador to Bulgaria (October 1, 2012–present)
Carl Rowan (1947), U.S. ambassador to Finland (1963); deputy assistant Secretary of State under President Kennedy; director of U.S. Information Agency under President Johnson
John S. Service (1931), foreign service officer,
China Hand
Durham Stevens (1871), assassinated diplomat to Japan
Tsiang Tingfu (1918), ambassador from
Republic of China to Russia (1936–1938), United Nations (1947–1962), and USA (1962–1965)
Hsiao Bi-Khim (1971),
Taiwan Representative to the United States (July 20, 2020 – 2023); member of the
Legislative Yuan (2002-2008 and 2012–2020); Taiwan vice president (2024-2028)
Other
Tom Balmer (1974), Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
Alonzo Barnard (1843), Presbyterian missionary and abolitionist with his wife Sarah Philena Babcock Barnard (1843)
[45]
[46]
Lee Fisher (1973), former Lieutenant Governor and former
Attorney General of Ohio
Erwin Griswold (1925), lawyer,
Solicitor General of the United States and dean of
Harvard Law School
Kan En Vong (1922), Chinese educator
Ruth A. Parmelee (1907), Christian missionary
Todd Portune (1980), former member of Cincinnati City Council (1993–2000); Hamilton County Commissioner (2001–2019)
Albert Rees (1943), advisor to President
Gerald Ford , former
University of Chicago and
Princeton economics professor, former
Provost at
Princeton
[41]
Moses Fleetwood Walker , first African American major league baseball player
Sylvia Williams (1957), former museum director for National Museum of African Art at Smithsonian Institution; pioneer in African art history
Activists
Nan Aron (1970), founder and president of Alliance for Justice
Josephine Penfield Cushman Bateham (1829-1901), social reformer, editor, writer
Kathleen Neal Cleaver (transferred to
Barnard College ), Senior Research Associate at
Yale Law School known for her involvement in the
Black Panther Party
Henry Roe Cloud ,
Native American political leader
Rennie Davis , anti-
Vietnam War activist and one of the
Chicago Seven
Ernie Dickerman (1931), wilderness preservationist, focused in the eastern United States,
The Wilderness Society (United States) staff from 1956 to 1976, Virginia Wilderness Committee president from 1976 to 1979, "Grandfather of Eastern Wilderness"
Matilda Evans (1891), first
African American woman to practice medicine in
South Carolina ; community health advocate
Ida Gibbs (1884), educator, civil rights and women's suffrage advocate
John Mercer Langston (1849), early
civil rights activist
James Lawson (Graduate School of Theology, 1950s), theoretician and tactician of
nonviolence in US civil rights movement
Caroline F. Putnam (1848), abolitionist and educator
Jerry Rubin , anti-Vietnam war activist and one of the Chicago Seven
William F. Schulz (1971), former executive director of
Amnesty International USA
Barbara Seaman (1956), principal member of the women's health feminism movement
Toyin Spellman-Diaz ,
Imani Winds , diversifying the classical music space
[47]
Peter Staley (1983), AIDS activist, founding director of the
Treatment Action Group
Lucy Stone (1847), feminist and abolitionist
Anna Louise Strong (1905), activist and author
Mary Church Terrell (1884/1888), author, activist
John Todd (1841), abolitionist, conspirator with
John Brown , founder of
Tabor College
Wayne Bidwell Wheeler (1894), attorney,
prohibitionist
Mary Evans Wilson (ca. 1897), civil rights activist
Journalism
Broadcast media
Jad Abumrad , radio journalist, host and producer of Radiolab
Michael Barone (1968), host,
Pipedreams
Alex Blumberg (1989), producer,
This American Life
Chris Broussard (1990),
Fox Sports sports analyst
Ben Calhoun (2001), radio journalist, producer for This American Life
Jon Hamilton (1983),
NPR science correspondent
Aleks Krotoski , television and radio presenter ("Digital Human" on
BBC Radio 4 )
Robert Krulwich (1969), television and radio journalist (RadioLab on
WNYC )
Roman Mars , radio producer and host, 99% Invisible on 91.7 KALW in San Francisco
Seth Rudetsky (1988), radio host, Broadway actor, pianist, writer
Alix Spiegel (1994), co-host of NPR's
Invisibilia ; producer for This American Life
[48]
Print and online
Peter Baker (1988),
New York Times senior White House correspondent and author
John K. Byrne (2003) Founder of news website
Raw Story
Wendell Dabney Influential civil rights activist
Michael Duffy (1980), writer, Washington Bureau Chief and editor of
Time magazine
Kim France (1987), founding editor of Lucky magazine
Lisa Jervis (1993), creator and editor of Bitch magazine
Fred Kaplan (1976), journalist and
Slate columnist
James Kim (1992), senior
CNET editor and technology analyst
Michelle Malkin (1992), writer (
Los Angeles Daily News ,
The Seattle Times ), author (
In Defense of Internment ), political commentator
James McBride (1979), journalist (
Boston Globe ,
The Washington Post ), author (
The Color of Water ), musician
Willis E. Mollison (1883), newspaper publisher and editor in Vicksburg, Mississippi
[49]
[50]
Adam Moss (1979), editor of
New York magazine
Emily Nussbaum (1988), television critic for
The New Yorker magazine
Jane Pratt (1984), creator of
Sassy and
Jane magazines
Tim Riley (1983), NPR critic; author (Tell Me Why , Lennon: Man, Myth, Music ); Emerson College journalism professor (aka Tim Mikesell)
Carl T. Rowan (1947), journalist
David Schlesinger (1982) Editor-in-Chief, Reuters news,
Thomson Reuters
Steve Silberman (1982), science writer for
Wired
Sonia Shah (1990), investigative journalist
Sophia Yan (2009), reporter for Bloomberg News
Literature
Rumaan Alam , author of
Leave The World Behind
Paolo Bacigalupi , author of The Windup Girl
Ishmael Beah (2004), author of
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Alison Bechdel (1981), cartoonist (
Dykes To Watch Out For ) and graphic novelist (
Fun Home )
Bill Beverly (1987), novelist, author of Dodgers
Geoffrey Blodgett (1953), historian and author of Cass Gilbert: The Early Years
Wendy Brenner (1987), author of Phone Calls From the Dead
Alice Rowe Burks (1942), author of Who Invented the Computer?: The Legal Battle that Changed Computing History
Michael Byers (1991), novelist and author of The Coast of Good Intentions , Long for This World , and Percival's Planet
Gail Carriger (1998), fantasy novelist of
Soulless
Tracy Chevalier (1984), novelist and author of
Girl with a Pearl Earring , Falling Angels , and The Lady and the Unicorn
Anna J. Cooper (1884), author and teacher, fourth African-American woman to receive a PhD
Alev Lytle Croutier , Turkish-American author
Charles D'Ambrosio (1982), essayist, short story writer
Josh Emmons (1995), novelist (The Loss of Leon Meed , Prescription for a Superior Existence )
Jim Fixx (1957), columnist and editor (Saturday Review , McCalls, Life ), author (The Complete Book of Running )
Darcy Frey (1983), non-fiction writer
Alan Furst (1962), novelist, author of Blood of Victory
Rosetta Luce Gilchrist (1870), physician, writer
[51]
Myla Goldberg (1993), novelist (
Bee Season ,
Wickett's Remedy )
Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey (1819-1901), educator, author, editor, and publisher
Melissa Fay Greene (1975), author (There Is No Me Without You )
Linda Gregerson (1971), award-winning poet (Waterborne , Magnetic North )
David Halperin (1973), author (One Hundred Years of Homosexuality )
Bill Henderson (1965) author of Stark Raving Elvis , I Killed Hemingway , I, Elvis: Confessions of a Counterfeit King
Joe Hickerson (1957), American folklorist
Donovan Hohn (1972), author of
Moby-Duck
Jonathan Holden (1963), poet (Knowing: New and Selected Poems )
Michael Hollinger (1984), playwright (Red Herring )
Cathy Park Hong (1998), poet (Translating Mo'um )
Tim Hurson (1967), speaker, writer, creativity theorist, author of Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking
Myung Mi Kim (1979), poet
Kiese Laymon (1997), professor and author of Long Division , How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America , and Heavy , the 2019
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Jason Little (1993), cartoonist and author of
Shutterbug Follies and Motel Art Improvement Service
Diane Louie (1975), poet and author of Fractal Shores , a 2019 winner of the National Poetry Series, and the 2021 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize
David Maine (1985), novelist (The Preservationist )
Megan McDonald (1981), writer of children's literature (Judy Moody , The Great Pumpkin Switch )
J. Hillis Miller (1948), literary critic (The Ethics of Reading , On Literature )
Wayne Miller , poet
Naeem Mohaiemen (1993), writer and artist whose projects research histories of the 1970s international left
Martha Moody (1977), author of Best Friends , Office of Desire , and Sometimes Mine
Thylias Moss (1981), poet, playwright, and 1996 MacArthur Fellow
Josh Neufeld (1989), cartoonist (
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge , A Few Perfect Hours ,
The Influencing Machine )
Thisbe Nissen (1994), novelist (Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night , Osprey Island )
Peggy Orenstein (1983), author (
Cinderella Ate My Daughter : Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture )
Rich Orloff (1973), playwright (Big Boys )
Dzvinia Orlowsky (1975), poet (Except for One Obscene Brush Stroke )
Jena Osman (1985), poet (The Character )
Suzanne Paola (1980), memoirist and poet (Lives of The Saints )
Lia Purpura (1986), poet (Stone Sky Lifting ), essayist (Increase , On Looking )
David Rees (1994), cartoonist (My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable , Get Your War On )
S. J. Rozan (1972), novelist (Reflecting the Sky ), Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Award Winner, 2003
John C. Russell (1985), playwright (
Stupid Kids )
Kathy Lou Schultz (1990), poet (Some Vague Wife )
Elizabeth Searle (1983), novelist (Celebrities in Disgrace
[52] )
Stephen W. Sears (1954), author (Gettysburg )
Vijay Seshadri (1974), poet (The Long Meadow )
Matthew Sharpe (1984), novelist (Nothing is Terrible , The Sleeping Father , Jamestown )
Gary Shteyngart (1995), novelist (The Russian Debutante's Handbook , Absurdistan , Super Sad True Love Story )
Donald J. Sobol (1948), author of the
Encyclopedia Brown series
Matthew Stadler (1981), novelist (Allan Stein )
Jon Swan (1950), playwright, poet, librettist, and journalist
Marcia Talley (1965), novelist, Agatha and Anthony Award Winner, 2002, 2003, 2005
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Michael Teig (1990), poet (Big Back Yard )
Joseph Jeffrey Walters (1893), author of
Guanya Pau , the earliest surviving novel written in English by an African
Geoffrey Ward (1962), author (The West: An Illustrated History and The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 )
Bruce Weigl (1973), poet (Archeology of the Circle: New and Selected Poems )
William Drake Westervelt (1871 and 1874; honorary degree 1926),
Hawaiian historical writer
Christopher Robin "Kit" Woolsey (1964), writer (Matchpoints ), bridge internationalist and backgammon expert
John Wray (1993), novelist (The Right Hand of Sleep , Lowboy )
Franz Wright (1977), poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (Walking to Martha's Vineyard )
Religion
William Ament , controversial missionary to
China
Juanita Breckenridge Bates , Congregationalist minister, her application being the test case to determine the policy of the denomination; also first woman to be awarded a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Oberlin (1891)
Hobart Baumann Amstutz , bishop in
The Methodist Church
Thanissaro Bhikkhu , abbot of a Buddhist monastery in California
Antoinette Brown (1847), first ordained female minister in the U.S.
John M. Brown Bishop of the AME Church
Lewis Sperry Chafer (1891), theologian; one of the prominent proponents of Christian Dispensationalism; founder and first president of
Dallas Theological Seminary
Fanny Jackson Coppin (1865), influential educator and missionary
Marcus Dale , Early African-American preacher in New Orleans
Vernon Johns (1919), African-American preacher, widely hailed as the father of the
civil rights movement
William Weston Patton , African-American pastor, president of
Howard University
Martha Root (1890s),
Hand of the Cause in the Bahá'í Faith
Lorenzo Snow , fifth president and a prophet of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
John Todd , founder of
Tabor College (Iowa)
Henry Benjamin Whipple , Episcopal Bishop and advocate for the Native Americans, First Bishop of the
Diocese of Minnesota
Science
See also :
Nobel laureates
Arthur L. Benton (1931), neuropsychologist
Helen E. Blackwell (1994), organic chemist and chemical biologist, explorer of chemical signaling in bacteria
Mary Ann Bickerdyke , Civil War nurse and hospital administrator, post-war veteran advocate
Thaddeus Cahill (1889), physicist; inventor of the
teleharmonium , the first electromechanical musical instrument
Stuart Card (1966), pioneer in human-computer interaction
Patricia Charache , Microbiologist and infectious disease specialist
Kenneth Stewart Cole (1922), biophysicist, best known for creating the concept of the
voltage clamp
Joan Feynman (1948), solar
astrophysicist at
JPL in
Pasadena, California
[56]
[57] Sister of
Richard Feynman
Thomas Ebbesen (1966), physical chemist, pioneer in the field of
nanoscience for which he received the
Kavli Prize
Jim Fixx (1957), author of The Complete Book of Running
Thomas Frieden (1982), Director of the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Robert Galambos (1914–2010), researcher on bat
echolocation
[58]
John Gofman (1939), scientist in the
Manhattan Project ; activist on issues with
nuclear power and radiation danger
Elisha Gray , inventor of the
telephone beaten to the patent office by
Alexander Graham Bell ; credited with invention of the
electromechanical oscillator
Mary E. Green , physician
[59]
Matthew D. Green , (1999), co-inventor of ZCash, cryptocurrency.
Philip Hanawalt (1954), scientist, co-discoverer of
DNA excision repair
Robert Aimer Harper (1886), botanist, president of the
Botanical Society of America
Edward Haskell (1929), scientist and educator
Ellen Hayes (1878) astronomer and mathematician
Donald Henderson (1928-2016), epidemiologist
[60]
Ralph F. Hirschmann (1922–2009),
biochemist who led synthesis of the first enzyme.
[61]
James E. Humphreys , mathematician and LGBTQ activist
[62]
Ernest Ingersoll , naturalist
Richard Lenski (1977), biologist and 1996
MacArthur Fellow
John E. Mack (1951), psychologist, author (A Prince of Our Disorder )
Rollo May (1930), psychologist, author
Catherine McBride-Chang (1989), psychologist, researcher in cross-cultural development of early literacy skills
George Herbert Mead (1883), philosopher, leading figure of
American pragmatism
Ira Mellman (1973), cell biologist, discoverer of endosomes
John Wesley Powell (1858), geologist and explorer
[63]
Anita Roberts (1964),
molecular biologist who made pioneering observations of
TGF beta
Larry Squire (1963), Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at
University of California, San Diego
Lynne Talley (1976), Professor of Physical Oceanography,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Lauren V. Wood , allergist, immunologist, and Captain in the US Public Health Service
[64]
Paul Wennberg (1985), chemist and 2002 MacArthur Fellow
Felisa Wolfe-Simon , geomicrobiologist at the U.S. Geological Survey; Fellow of the NASA Astrobiology Institute
Visual and performing arts
Film and television
Kelly AuCoin (1989)
[65] actor (
The Americans ,
Billions )
Sarah-Violet Bliss (2006), screenwriter and director (
Search Party )
Eric Bogosian (1976), novelist, playwright (
Talk Radio ,
subUrbia ), and actor (
Law and Order: Criminal Intent )
Avery Brooks (1970;
[16] honorary degree in 1996), actor in
Uncle Tom's Cabin ,
American History X ,
Spenser: For Hire , best known as
Benjamin Sisko in
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Peter Buchman (1989), screenwriter for
Jurassic Park III and
Che
John Cazale (class of 1954, transferred to
Boston University ), actor in
The Godfather (portrayed
Fredo Corleone ) and
The Deer Hunter
Will Chase (1992), Tony-Nominated theater and television actor,
Dopesick ,
Sharp Objects ,
Nashville
Dr. Francois S. Clemmons (1968-1992) actor/singer best known as Officer Clemmons on
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Lena Dunham (2008), actor, director, writer, best known for
Tiny Furniture and the HBO series
Girls
Su Friedrich (1975), experimental filmmaker
Nancy Giles (1981), actress in
China Beach , commentator on
CBS News Sunday Morning .
[66]
Sean Gill (2006), writer and film editor
Ed Helms (1996
[16] ), actor (
The Office ,
The Hangover ), comedian, correspondent on
The Daily Show
Edward Everett Horton (1909; left his junior year; honorary degree 1953), actor (
The Front Page ,
Top Hat ,
Holiday ), voice actor (
Rocky & Bullwinkle )
Maggie Keenan-Bolger (2006), actress and writer, wrote
From the Inside, Out ; co-founder of 4th Meal Productions;
The Will Rogers Follies and
The Music Man national tours
Judy Kuhn (1981), singer, Broadway performer, and singing voice of Disney's
Pocahontas
Rex Lee (1990), actor, best known for his role on
Entourage
Daniel London (1995), actor (
Minority Report ,
Old Joy ,
Patch Adams )
Clare McNulty (2007), actress (
Search Party )
Chris Morocco (2003), professional chef and YouTube personality
Lloyd Morrisett (1951), co-founder of
Children's Television Workshop
[37]
Jim Newman (1955), founder of Dilexi Gallery and
Other Minds New Music Festival, San Francisco
Daniel Radosh (1991), journalist, blogger, writing staff of
The Daily Show
Oren Rudavsky (1979), filmmaker (Hiding and Seeking , And Baby Makes Two , The Treatment )
Lynn Shelton , filmmaker
Ben Sinclair (2006), actor, writer, director, and producer (
High Maintenance )
Corey Stoll (1998), stage and screen actor (
Intimate Apparel ,
Law & Order: LA ,
Midnight in Paris ,
House of Cards ,
Ant-Man )
Nick Wauters , television writer, creator of the NBC series
The Event
Alexander Whybrow (2003), professional wrestler under the name Larry Sweeney
Stage theater
John Kander (1951), of the musical theater team
Kander and Ebb (
Cabaret ,
Chicago )
Romulus Linney (1953, honorary degree 1994), playwright
Albert Marre (1944), Tony Award-winning director and producer
Julie Atlas Muz , burlesque dancer, actress, stage director
Richard Tatum (1988), stage and voice actor; Associate Artistic Director of the
ARK Theatre Company , Los Angeles
Mitch Weiss (1974), Broadway manager; (A Chorus Line, The Grapes of Wrath, Beauty & the Beast; Disney Theatricals, NY Shakespeare Festival)
Music
Benjamin Bagby (1974), vocalist, harpist, scholar, and founder of early music ensemble
Sequentia
MaVynee Betsch , piano and voice
Rafiq Bhatia (2010), guitarist for
Son Lux .
[67]
[68]
Chris Brokaw (1986), rock drummer for
Codeine ; guitarist for
Come ,
Consonant
Alyson Cambridge (born 1980), operatic soprano and classical music, jazz, and American popular song singer
Brian Chase (2000), drummer for the
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Claire Chase , flautist
James David Christie , organist and pedagogue
John Austin Clark (2005), music director and harpsichordist
Dr. Francois S. Clemmons , (1980-2000) conductor, arranger, and founder/director of The Harlem Spiritual Ensemble
Stanley Cowell , jazz pianist
Theo Croker , jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger
David Daniels , conductor and author
Corey Dargel , composer and electronic musician
Dorothy DeLay , violinist
Jeremy Denk , pianist
R. Nathaniel Dett , conductor, pianist, composer, arranger
Allie Luse Dick (1859-1933), music teacher
Du Yun , Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, performance artist
Eighth Blackbird (all members), contemporary music sextet
Peter Evans , trumpeter
James Feddeck , Assistant Conductor of the
Cleveland Orchestra ; music director of the
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra
John Ferguson , organist and composer
Sullivan Fortner , jazz pianist
[69]
Rhiannon Giddens (2000), founding member of the
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Judith Gordon , pianist
Denyce Graves , opera singer
John Gurney , opera singer
Al Haig , jazz pianist
Megan Marie Hart (2006), opera singer
[70]
Dick Hensold (1981), folk musician, piper
Natalie Hinderas , professor, pianist and composer
Moses Hogan , conductor, composer, and arranger
Paul Horn (1952), jazz flautist
Matt Hubbard ,
Willie Nelson 's producer; member of
7 Walkers
International Contemporary Ensemble , contemporary music ensemble
Amy Ippoliti , yoga teacher, chant and mantra recordings
Steven Isserlis (1980), British cellist, director of the International Musicians' Seminar
John Kander , composer of the musicals
Chicago ,
Cabaret , and
Curtains
John Kennedy , composer and conductor
Carla Kihlstedt , violinist, singer
Alex Klein , oboist
Jennifer Koh (1997), violinist, 1994
International Tchaikovsky Competition winner
Judy Kuhn , actress, singer
Scott Lawton , conductor
Sylvia Olden Lee , vocal coach and accompanist
Michael Maguire , actor/singer, best known for playing
Enjolras in the original
Broadway production of
Les Misérables
David Maslanka , composer
James McBride , saxophonist, composer, author of
New York Times best-seller
The Color of Water
John McEntire (1991), drummer (
Tortoise )
John T. "Jack" Melick, Jr. , bandleader, pianist, and arranger
David Miller , tenor, member of the multi-platinum operatic pop quartet
Il Divo
Jason Molina , singer-songwriter and guitarist
Amy X. Neuburg (1984), classical and pop singer
Farnell Newton , composer and jazz trumpeter
Karen O , singer,
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Milt Okun (1948), arranger, producer and musical director for popular 1960s singers such as
Peter Paul and Mary , the
Chad Mitchell Trio , and
John Denver
Bob Ostertag , composer, performer, instrument builder, journalist, activist, historian
Doe Paoro (2006), singer-songwriter
James Paul , conductor
Alexander Perls (1998), songwriter, music producer
Liz Phair (1990), singer/songwriter
William Porter , organist and pedagogue
Nancy Priddy , singer-songwriter, back-up singer on
Leonard Cohen 's
debut album
Derek Lee Ragin , countertenor
Josh Ritter (1999), singer/songwriter
Lucy Wainwright Roche (2003), musician, half-sister of
Rufus Wainwright
[71]
Thomas Rosenkranz , pianist
Ned Rothenberg , woodwind multi-instrumentalist, composer
Christopher Rouse , Pulitzer Prize–winning composer
Michael Rudman (1960), award-winning theater director
Jonathan Sacks, orchestrator for films including
Toy Story and
Monsters, Inc.
Greg Saunier (1991), drummer for
Deerhoof
Alex Scally (Guitarist) Indie-Pop band
Beach House
Jenny Scheinman , jazz violinist
Andrew Shapiro (1998), composer
Arlene Sierra , composer
[72]
Robert Sims
Robert Spano (1983), music director of the
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Damin Spritzer , organist and academic
William Grant Still , composer
Dick Sudhalter (1960), jazz musician and critic
Jon Theodore , drummer,
The Mars Volta
Pyeng Threadgill , blues, soul blues and jazz singer (daughter of
Henry Threadgill )
Jen Trynin (1986), rock singer/songwriter
David Zinman , conductor
Visual arts
Notable faculty
Humanities
English and American Literature
French
History
Philosophy
Religion
Visual art and performance
Social science
Anthropology
Economics
Sociology
Natural science
Mathematics
Robert A. Bosch , author and recreational mathematician known for domino art and TSP art
Physics
Geology
Environmental science
Zoology
Music
Composition
Performance
Ryan Anthony , trumpeter with
Canadian Brass
David Boe , organ
Stephen Clapp , violin
Robin Eubanks , trombone
Diana Gannett
Stanislav Ioudenitch , piano
Hugh Ragin , trumpet
Peter Slowik , viola
John Solum
Robert Spano
Alexa Still , flute
Roland and Almita Vamos , viola
James Desano , trombone
[74]
Raymond Premru , trombone
[75]
Music theory
Voice
Theology
Administration
Presidents
Asa Mahan , 1835–50
[78]
Charles Grandison Finney , leader in the
Second Great Awakening , president 1851–66
[78]
James Fairchild , 1866–89
[78]
William Gay Ballantine, 1891–96
[78]
John Henry Barrows , 1899–1902
[78]
Henry Churchill King , 1902–27
[78]
Ernest H. Wilkins, 1927–46
[78]
William Stevenson , 1946–60
[78]
Robert K. Carr , 1960–69
[78]
Robert W. Fuller , 1970–74
[78]
Emil Danenberg , 1975–82
[78]
S. Frederick Starr , 1983–94
[78]
Nancy Dye , 1994–2007
[78]
Marvin Krislov , 2007–2017
[78]
Carmen Twillie Ambar , 2017–present
[79]
Athletics
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