List of University of California, Santa Cruz people
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This page lists notable alumni and faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz; alumni may have attended without graduating.
Contents
Notable alumni
Academia
- William Drea Adams – President of Colby College, Waterville, Maine
- Chester Dunning, B.A. 1971 - historian at Texas A&M University, specializes in Russian studies
- Kristen R. Ghodsee, B.A. 1993 - Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College; winner of 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship
- Alexander Gonzalez, Ph.D 1979 – President of California State University, Sacramento
- Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, artist and writer, School of Visual Arts
- Caren Kaplan, Ph.D. - Professor of American Studies at UC Davis
- Steven G. Krantz, B.A - Professor of Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis; winner of the Chauvenet Prize
- Annette Lareau, B.A. 1974 - Professor of Sociology at University of Pennsylvania
- Lisa Lowe, Ph.D. - Professor of Literature at Tufts
- Patricia Nelson Limerick - Professor of History at University of Colorado and a leading historian of the American West
- Tod Machover – MIT Media Lab
- Austin E. Quigley, Ph.D - Dean of Columbia College of Columbia University
- John R. Rickford, B.A. 1971 - Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University and African American Vernacular English or Ebonics expert
- Sally Sedgwick, B.A. 1978 - Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at University of Illinois at Chicago
Arts and letters
- Will Bagley, BA 1971 - historian of 1800s American West
- Michael A. Bellesiles, BA 1975 - author of a book "Arming America: The origins of a National Gun Culture" which won the Bancroft Prize in 2001; the prize was rescinded by Columbia University in 2002 as for having "violated basic norms of scholarship and the high standards expected of Bancroft Prize winners." Called a con-man by author Gary Wills, he was forced to resign from Emory University that year.
- Susie Bright - writer, sex activist and sex therapy focus leader
- Gail Carriger, MA 2008 - steampunk author
- William Finnegan- writer, journalist
- Laurie Garrett, BA 1975 - Newsday science reporter and author, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Philip Kan Gotanda - playwright
- Reyna Grande, BA 1999 - author, American Book Award winner
- Kira Lynn Harris, MFA 1998 - artist
- bell hooks, PhD 1983 - feminist social critic
- Miranda July[1] - filmmaker and writer
- Jayne Ann Krentz, BA 1970 - New York Times bestselling author
- Katerina Lanfranco, BA 2001 - artist
- Deborah Madison, BA 1968 - cookbook author, founding chef of the Greens Restaurant
- Steve Martini, BA 1968 - bestselling mysteries author
- Omar Musa - award-winning Australian author, poet and rapper
- Kent Nagano, BA 1974 - conductor of the Los Angeles Opera and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra
- Larry Polansky, BA - composer
- Dana Priest, BA 1981 - Washington Post reporter and author; winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting and 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
- Michael Schennum, BA 2000 - photojournalist
- Lore Sjöberg[1] - writer
- Andrea Smith, PhD 2002 - Cherokee activist and author
- David Talbot, BA - founder of Salon.com, author, journalist
- Mark Teague, BA 1985 - author and illustrator of children's books
- Hector Tobar, BA - Los Angeles Times columnist, author, winner of Pulitzer Prize in 1992
- Bernt Wahl, BA 1984, BS 1986 - author and entrepreneur, Fulbright Fellow. November 1985 coined UC Santa Cruz motto "Fiat Slug"
- Annie Wells, BA 1981 - photographer, filmmaker, winner of Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1997
- Lawrence Weschler, 1974 - author
- Richard White – historian of American West, Native American history, and environmental history; MacArthur Foundation fellowship, 1995
- Daniel James Wolf, BA 1983 - composer
- Laurence Yep – author
Business
- Shel Kaphan, BA 1980 Mathenmatics Amazon's first employee and founding member of its technical team
- Jonah Peretti, BS 1996 - founder of BuzzFeed and Huffington Post
- Susan Wojcicki, MS - senior vice president, advertising at Google
Entertainment and broadcasting
- Lorin Ashton, aka Bassnectar - free-form electronic music artist and DJ
- Jello Biafra[1] - singer and songwriter of the Dead Kennedys
- Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, BA, filmmaker (V/H/S, Southbound) and guitarist for Link 80
- Brannon Braga[1] - award-winning film writer for Star Trek Generations and an executive producer of 24
- Bill Carter, BA Politics, Economics - documentary film director and author
- Rick Carter, BA, Oscar-winning art director and production designer
- John Craigie, BA Mathematics 2002 - folk singer
- Dennis Delaney, BA Anthropology 1976 - writer and actor
- Brett Dennen - singer, songwriter
- Jacob Aaron Estes, BA 1994 - film screenwriter and director
- Anne Flett-Giordano, BA 1976 - television writer and producer (Kate & Allie, Frasier, Desperate Housewives)
- Cary Joji Fukunaga, BA 1999 - Sundance Award-winning filmmaker (Sin Nombre)
- Matthew Gray Gubler,[1] BA – actor (Criminal Minds') and director
- Richard Gunn, BA 1997 - actor (Dark Angel, Granite Flats, and For the Love of Money)
- Richard Harris - National Public Radio science reporter
- Antony Hegarty - attended in late 1980s - Composer and singer for Antony and the Johnsons, and visual artist
- Alice Inoue - former television presenter and author
- Victor Krummenacher[1] - bassist for Camper Van Beethoven, Monks of Doom
- David Lowery, BA 1984 - singer and songwriter for Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker
- Camryn Manheim, BA 1984 - actress
- Barry Mendel - film producer (Rushmore, Sixth Sense, Munich, Funny People)
- Stephen Mirrione, BA - Academy Award-winning film editor
- Bradley Nowell,[1] singer and songwriter with Sublime
- Marti Noxon, BA - TV producer
- Joe Palca, PhD 1982 - National Public Radio science reporter
- Jack Passion, BA 2006 - competitive beard grower and star of IFC's Whisker Wars
- Chuck Ranberg, BA 1977 - television writer and producer, Frasier, Desperate Housewives
- Rebecca Romijn[1] - supermodel, actress
- Maya Rudolph, BA 1995 - SNL cast member
- Andy Samberg,[1] BA - Saturday Night Live cast member
- Tim Schafer[1] - game designer for LucasArts and founder of Doublefine Productions
- Akiva Schaffer, BA - Saturday Night Live writer, filmmaker
- Stuart Schuffman, aka Broke-Ass Stuart, BA 2003 - travel writer, poet, host of IFC's Young Broke & Beautiful
- Jonathan Segel, BA 1985 - composer, multi-instrumentalist for Camper Van Beethoven
- Nikki Silva, BA 1973 - one half of The Kitchen Sisters, who are regularly featured on NPR
- Chris Tashima[1] - actor, Academy Award-winning filmmaker
- Jesse Thorn, BS - host of NPR's Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
- Rubén Valtierra, BA - keyboardist for "Weird Al" Yankovic
- Ally Walker, BS - actress known for roles in Profiler, Sons of Anarchy, and The Protector
- Gillian Welch, BA 1990 - singer and songwriter
- Rich Wilkes, BA 1988 - writer, filmmaker (Billy Madison, Stoned Age, Beer Money, XXX, Airheads)
Law
- Vince Girdhari Chhabria, BA 1991 - judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- Joan E. Donoghue, BA 1978 - judge, International Court of Justice
- Ellen Leonida, defense attorney for Scott Dyleski
Politics and public life
- Bettina Aptheker, PhD - leader in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement
- Katherine Canavan, BA - former United States Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana and United States Ambassador to Lesotho
- John Doolittle, BA 1972 - Member, U.S. House of Representatives, California 4th Congressional District
- Ron Gonzales, BA - Mayor of San Jose, California, 1999–2006
- Victor Davis Hanson, BA 1975 - Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
- James Charles Kopp, BA Biology 1976 - murderer of Buffalo abortion doctor Bernard Slepian in 1998; convicted in 2003 and serving sentence of 25 years to life
- John Laird, BA 1972 - California Natural Resources Agency Secretary, former California Assemblyman, and Mayor of Santa Cruz
- Azadeh Moaveni, BA - journalist and writer
- Huey P. Newton, BA 1974, PhD 1980 - Co-founding member of the Black Panther Party
- Aaron Peskin, San Francisco Board of Supervisors member
- Drummond Pike, BA 1970 - Tides Foundation founder, philanthropist, and social entrepreneur
- Art Torres, BA 1968 - California Democratic Party Chairman, former California State Senator
Science
- Richard Bandler, MA 1975[2] - co-creator of neuro-linguistic programming
- Joseph DeRisi, BA 1992 - molecular biologist, professor at UC San Francisco, MacArthur Fellow, known for work on SARS and malaria
- Alan Dressler, PhD 1976, staff astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science, member of the National Academy of Sciences, cosmologist, author
- J. Doyne Farmer, PhD 1981 - pioneer in chaos theory, Prediction Company, Santa Fe Institute
- Debra Fischer, PhD 1998, Professor of Astronomy at Yale University, planet finder
- Yoav Freund, PhD 1993 - computer scientist, professor at University of California, San Diego, inventor of AdaBoost
- John Grinder, PhD 1971 - linguist, co-creator of neuro-linguistic programming[3]
- Howard Hang, BS 1998 - Professor of Chemistry at Rockefeller University
- Steven Hawley, PhD 1977 - astronaut, Professor of Physics at Kansas University
- Geoffrey Marcy, PhD 1982 - Professor of Astronomy at UC Berkeley, planet finder, and member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Lara Mahal, BA 1996 - Professor of Chemistry at New York University
- Marc Okrand, BA 1972 - linguist, creator of the Klingon language
- Mark M. Phillips, PhD 1978 - staff astronomer at Las Campanas Observatory, inventor of the Phillips relationship, pioneer in supernova cosmology
- Rob Shaw, PhD 1980 - MacArthur Award for work on chaos theory, 1988
- Pamela Silver, BA 1974 - Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, first Director of Harvard University Systems Biology Graduate Program, synthetic biologist
- Kathryn D. Sullivan, BS 1973 - astronaut, science museum CEO (COSI Columbus), Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, NOAA Administrator
- Nicholas B. Suntzeff, PhD 1980 - Professor of Astronomy at Texas A&M University; cosmologist; co-founder of High-Z Supernova Search Team, which discovered dark energy
Sports
- Anton Peterlin[1] - soccer player
Notable faculty
- Ralph Abraham - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, notable for founding the Visual Mathematics Institute and for his pioneering work on chaos theory
- Bettina Aptheker - Professor of Feminist Studies and History
- Elliot Aronson - Professor Emeritus of Psychology; author of The Social Animal and Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion after Columbine; creator of the Jigsaw Classroom model; one of the few psychologists to win the American Psychological Association's highest honor in all three fields
- Reyner Banham - late Professor of Art History and a preeminent architectural historian, in particular of the modern era
- Tom Banks - Professor of Physics. Known for work on string theory, elementary particle physics, and cosmology
- Gregory Bateson - late lecturer and fellow of Kresge College; anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist
- George R. Blumenthal - Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz
- Norman O. Brown - late Professor Emeritus of Humanities
- William L. Burke - late Professor of Physics (cosmologist); chaos theory "godfather"
- James H. Clark - Assistant Professor of Information Science, founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape
- James Clifford - Professor of History of Consciousness, known for publications of postmodernist and postcolonial interpretations of anthropology and ethnography
- David Cope - Professor of Music; notable for his experiments in A.I. and computer-created musical compositions
- Angela Davis - Professor of History of Consciousness, writer, activist
- John Dizikes - Professor Emeritus of American Studies, author, won the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award
- Frank Drake - Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics; proposed the Drake Equation; member of the AAAS (elected 1974)[4]
- William Everson - late lecturer and poet-in-residence
- Sandra M. Faber - Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics; instrumental in inventing cold dark matter theory and fundamental work in the field of galaxy formation and evolution; member of the NAS (elected 1985), the AAAS (elected 1989),[4] and the American Philosophical Society (elected 2001)
- Alison Galloway - forensic anthropologist who worked in identifying the physical remains of Laci Peterson in the Scott Peterson Trial [4]
- Donna Haraway - Professor of History of Consciousness; doctorate in biology; often-cited author of feminist history of science and culture studies of cyborg
- David Haussler - Professor of Biomolecular Engineering; he and his team assembled the public draft human genome and developed the Genome Browser as part of the Human Genome Project; member of the AAAS (elected 2006)[4] and the National Academy of Sciences
- George Herbig - emeritus Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, pioneer in the study of star formation, discoverer of the Herbig Ae/Be stars and Herbig-Haro Objects, member of the National Academy of Sciences
- George Hitchcock - late lecturer, poetry and theater
- David A. Huffman - deceased; founding faculty of the Information and Computer Science Board; developed Huffman coding
- Frederic Jameson - Professor of History of Consciousness; cultural critic and theorist of the post-modern; published the essay "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism", a significant investigation into contemporary culture and the political economy
- Jim Kent — Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Biomolecular Engineering; directs the genome browser development and quality assurance staff of the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group; created the computer program that assembled the first working draft of the human genome sequence; participates in the public consortium efforts to produce, assemble, and annotate genomes
- Robert P. Kraft - Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, stellar astronomer, member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Tom Lehrer - lecturer in American Studies and Mathematics; known for his satire and songwriting
- Darrell Long - Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Chip Lord - Professor of Film and Digital Media; member of Ant Farm, a groundbreaking, experimental art and architecture collective he founded in 1968 with fellow architect Doug Michels
- Nathaniel Mackey - poet and editor
- Dominic W. Massaro - Professor of Psychology and Computer Engineering; originator of the fuzzy logical model of perception, one of the leading theories of speech perception
- Claire Ellen Max – Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, member of the AAAS (elected 2002)[4] and the National Academy of Sciences
- Gordon Mumma - Professor Emeritus of Music, composer
- Richard Abel Musgrave – member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1961)[4]
- Jerry Nelson - Professor of astronomy and astrophysics; pioneered the use of mirror segments, making the Keck telescopes possible; member of the NAS
- Harry Noller - Professor of Biology. RNA research; member of the [American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1969)[4] and the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1992)
- Donald E. Osterbrock – member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1968)[4] and the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1966)
- Micah Perks - fiction writer and memoirist
- Joel Primack - Professor of Physics, noted cosmologist; renowned for Cold Dark Matter Theory proposed along with Sandra Faber (see above) and Sir Martin Rees
- Geoffrey Pullum - Professor of Linguistics and Distinguished Professor of Humanities; co-author of Cambridge Grammar of the English Language; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2003)[4]
- Adrienne Rich - late professor, poet and essayist
- Page Smith – Historian
- Michael Ellman Soule – member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2005)[4]
- Ben Stein – former professor of economics, more notable for his work as a comedian, actor and political commentator
- Stephen Thorsett - Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics; Dean of Physical and Biological Science; known for work on properties of compact stars
- Anna Tsing - Professor of Anthropology; Guggenheim Fellow and Niels Bohr Professorship
- Noah Wardrip-Fruin - Associate Professor of Computer Science, digital media and interactive fiction researcher
- Hayden White – member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1991)[4]
- Jim Whitehead - Chair of Computer Science and creator of WebDAV
- Harold Widom – member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2006)[4]
- Stanford E. Woosley - Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics; noted for his work on supernova gamma ray bursts; member of the NAS (elected 2006) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2001)[4]
- Karen Tei Yamashita - author and playwright
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Attended but did not graduate.
- ↑ BA from UCSC in 1972, MA - Lone Mountain College, 1975
- ↑ John Grinder (1971). On deletion phenomena in English. Thesis (PhD. in Linguistics). University of California, San Diego. OCLC 17641707
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 Bulletin of the American Academy, Fall 2006, pp 66 - 104, "List of Active Members by Classes", accessed July 17, 2007
