List of Antioch College people
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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
- 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), the 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
- 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). Judge Higginbotham served as Chief Judge of the Third Circuit from 1990-1991 and he 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
- LaShann Moutique DeArcy Hall, District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
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
- Deborah Meier, (attended Antioch College (1949-1951), MA Univ Chicago 1955) Education Reform Leader.[4]
- Mark Strand, Antioch College B.A., (1957); B.F.A. (1959) Yale; M.A. (1962) University of Iowa). Poet and Writer.[5]
- Virginia Hamilton (attended Antioch College (1952–55), Ohio State University (1957–58), New School of Social Research (1958-1960). Writer.[6]
- Stephen Jay Gould Antioch College B.S. (1963); PhD (1967) Columbia Univ. Paleontologist.[7]
- Silvia Law, Antioch College B.A. (1964); J.D. (1968) NY University Law School. Human Rights Lawyer.[8]
- Tim Barrett, Antioch College B.A. (1973); training in papermaking: Twinrocker (1973-1975); Saitama Prefecture Japan (1975-1977); Papermaker.[9]
- Lisa Delpit, Antioch College B.A. (1974); Ed.M. (1980) and Ed.D. (1984) Harvard. Education Reform Leader.[10]
- Wendy Ewald, Antioch College B.A. (1974); Photographer.[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 (Antioch College B.A. in 1958) printmaker, writer, lecturer, entrepreneur and founder of Crown Point Press.[12]
- Wendy Ewald (Antioch College B.A. in 1974), photographer, professor at Duke University[13]
- Brian Shure (Antioch College B.A. in 1974), teaching 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
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