The following is a list of notable people associated withSwarthmore College, aprivate,independentliberal arts college located in the borough ofSwarthmore, Pennsylvania. Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore has graduated 156 classes of students. As of 2022, the College enrolls 1,689 students and has roughly 21,300 living alumni.

• Patrick Awuah Jr. (1988) – president ofAshesi University
• David Baltimore (1960) – president ofCalifornia Institute of Technology; recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975^[1]
• Nancy Y. Bekavac – first female president ofScripps College
• Detlev Bronk (1920) – former president ofJohns Hopkins University and theNational Academy of Sciences^[2]
• Mary Schmidt Campbell – president ofSpelman College
• Kimberly Wright Cassidy – president ofBryn Mawr College
• Sean M. Decatur – president ofKenyon College
• Neil Grabois – president ofColgate University and former provost ofWilliams College
• Tori Haring-Smith – president ofWashington and Jefferson College
• Clark Kerr (1932) – first chancellor of theUniversity of California, Berkeley; president of theUniversity of California
• Richard Wall Lyman – former president ofStanford University
• Christina Hull Paxson (1982) – president ofBrown University
• David H. Porter (1958) – former president ofSkidmore College
• Robert Prichard – former president of theUniversity of Toronto
• Lawrence Schall (1975) – president ofOglethorpe University
• Alan Valentine – former president of theUniversity of Rochester

• Paul Courant – provost of theUniversity of Michigan
• Phyllis Wise – provost of theUniversity of Washington

• T. Alexander Aleinikoff (1974) – dean of theGeorgetown University Law Center
• William Boulding – dean of theFuqua School of Business^[3]
• Christopher Edley Jr. (1973) – dean of theUC Berkeley School of Law
• Frances Halsband (1965) – former dean of the School of Architecture atPratt Institute
• James C. Hormel (1955) – former dean of theUniversity of Chicago Law School
• Stewart J. Schwab (1975) – dean and professor of law at theCornell Law School
• Daniel L. Schwartz (1979) – dean of theStanford University Graduate School of Education

• Adrienne Asch – founding director of theCenter for Ethics at Yeshiva University
• Anne Pippin Burnett (1946)- chair of the Department of Classical Languages at theUniversity of Chicago
• Marjorie Garber – director of the Humanities Center atHarvard University;Shakespeare scholar
• Jeffrey Miron (1979) – chairman of the Department of Economics atBoston University; director of undergraduate studies atHarvard University; director of economic studies at theCato Institute
• David Page (1978) – professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; director ofWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
• Hans Stoll (1962) – professor of finance and director of the Financial Markets Research Center at theOwen Graduate School of Managementat
• Robert Storr (1972) – dean of theYale School of Art; curator
• Christopher Udry (1981) – professor of economics atNorthwestern University; co-founder and co-director of the Global Poverty Research Lab at theKellogg School of Management

• Ted Abel – professor of biology at theUniversity of Pennsylvania
• Margaret L. Anderson – historian and professor atUniversity of California, Berkeley
• Elizabeth S. Anderson (1981) – professor of philosophy and women's studies atUniversity of Michigan; MacArthur Fellow 2019
• Dave Bayer –professor ofmathematics atBarnard College
• Leo Braudy (1963) – professor of English and American literature at theUniversity of Southern California
• Christopher Chyba (1982) – professor of astrophysical sciences and international affairs at thePrinceton School of Public and International Affairs
• Robert Cooter (1967) – professor atUC Berkeley School of Law
• Christina Crosby – professor of English, feminist, gender, and sexuality studies atWesleyan University
• Pamela Kyle Crossley – professor of historyDartmouth College
• Paul Crowell – professor of physics at theUniversity of Minnesota
• Philip Curtin (1948) – distinguished professor of African history atJohns Hopkins University^[4]
• Jonathan Dewald – professor of history atState University of New York at Buffalo^[5]
• Cora Diamond – emeritus professor of philosophy at theUniversity of Virginia
• Bruce T. Draine – professor of astrophysical sciences atPrinceton University
• Lara Estroff – materials scientist and professor atCornell University
• Sandra Faber (1966) – professor ofastronomy andastrophysics at theUniversity of California, Santa Cruz^[6]
• Andre Gunder Frank (1950) – professor of sociology and economics at theUniversity of Chile; developer ofdependency theory andworld-systems theory^[7]
• Sorelle Friedler (2004) – professor of computer science atHaverford College, former assistant director for data and democracy in theWhite House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Robert P. George – professor atPrinceton University
• Neil Gershenfeld – associate professor of media arts and sciences atMassachusetts Institute of Technology
• Allan Gibbard (1963) – professor of philosophy emeritus at theUniversity of Michigan^[8]
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore – professor ofgeography in at theGraduate Center of the City University of New York
• William H. Green – professor of chemical engineering atMassachusetts Institute of Technology
• Michael Greenstone (1991) – professor of environmental economics at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, director of theHamilton Project
• Michael Hardt – professor of literature atDuke University; author ofEmpire
• Gilbert Harman – professor of philosophy ofPrinceton University
• Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. – law professor
• Daniel R. Headrick – historian and professor atRoosevelt University,Tuskegee University, andHawaii Pacific University
• Arlie Russell Hochschild – sociologist, author, and professor emeritus of sociology at theUniversity of California, Berkeley^[9]
• John Hopfield (1954) – professor ofmolecular biology atPrinceton University; recipient of theNobel Prize in Physics in 2024^[10]

• Alexander Huk – professor of neuroscience at theUniversity of Texas at Austin
• Pieter Judson – history professor at theEuropean University Institute
• Pinar Karaca-Mandic (1998) – health economist and professor of management atCarlson School of Management
• Peter J. Katzenstein (1967) – professor of International Studies atCornell University; member of theCouncil on Foreign Relations
• Joshua Landis (1979) – professor in Middle East Studies at theUniversity of Oklahoma
• Thomas W. Laqueur –historian,sexologist, and professor at theUniversity of California, Berkeley
• Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1966) – professor of education atHarvard Graduate School of Education
• David Lewis (1962) – professor of philosophy atPrinceton University, rated as one of the fifteen most important philosophers in the past 200 years^[11][12]
• Linda Datcher Loury (1973) – social economist and professor atTufts University
• Ray Jackendoff – professor of linguistics atTufts University
• Robert MacPherson (1966) – mathematician at theInstitute for Advanced Study andPrinceton University; recipient of theNational Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics (1992)
• Rogers McVaugh – research professor ofbotany and curator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; professor emeritus of botany in theUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Eben Moglen (1980) – professor of law and legal history atColumbia University
• David Montgomery – professor of history atYale University
• John H. Morrow Jr. – professor of history at theUniversity of Georgia
• Alexander Nehamas – professor of humanities and comparative literature atPrinceton University
• Rebecca J. Nelson (1982) – professor of plant pathology atCornell University
• Barbara Partee – emeritus professor of linguistics and philosophy at theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
• Edward C. Prescott (1962) – economist associated withCarnegie Mellon University and theAustralian National University; winner of 2004Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics^[13]
• Robert D. Putnam –social capital theorist andHarvard University professor; author ofBowling Alone^[14]
• Jane S. Richardson (1962) –Duke University biochemistry professor; inventor ofRibbon diagrams^[15]
• William Rubinstein – professor of history atDeakin University and theUniversity of Wales
• Michael Schudson (1969) – professor of journalism atColumbia University
• Nayan Shah – history professor at theUniversity of California at San Diego
• Herbert W. Smyth (1876) – professor ofclassics whose comprehensive grammar ofAncient Greek has become a standard reference
• Karen B. Strier – professor ofbiological anthropology at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
• Daniel F. Styer (Ph.D. 1983) – professor ofphysics atOberlin College
• Joseph Takahashi – neuroscientist and professor atNorthwestern University
• Peter Temin (1959) – economic historian, professor of economics atMassachusetts Institute of Technology
• Peter Unger – professor of philosophy atNew York University
• Emma Vyssotsky –astronomer at theUniversity of Virginia
• E. Roy Weintraub (1964) – professor of economics atDuke University
• Martin Weitzman (1963) – professor of economics atHarvard University
• Helen Magill White – first woman in the US to earn a Ph.D., professor atEvelyn College for Women, organizer ofHoward Collegiate Institute
• Gavin Wright (1965) – professor of economics atStanford University
• Miles Yu – professor of military history and modern China at theUnited States Naval Academy
• Tara Zahra (1988) – history professor at theUniversity of Chicago

• Albert Cook Myers – secretary of thePennsylvania State Historical Commission
• Brian Tomasik (2009) – researcher and ethicist with the Center on Long-Term Risk^[16]

• Margaret Helfand (non-degreed) – architect^[17]
• Steven Izenour (non-degreed) – architect withVenturi, Scott Brown & Associates; co-author ofLearning from Las Vegas^[18]
• Marianne McKenna (1972) – architect^[19]

• Bruce Cratsley (1966) – photographer specialized in still lives, portraits of friends, and gay life in New York City^[20]
• Njideka Akunyili Crosby (2004) – visual artist^[21]
• Alexandra Grant (1994) – visual artist
• Richard Martin (1967) – art and fashion historian; former curator-in-chief of theCostume Institute at theMetropolitan Museum of Art
• Robert C. Turner {1969) – ceramic artist

• Dean Baker (1981) – macroeconomist; co-founder and co-director of theCenter for Economic and Policy Research
• Bridget Boakye – Ghanaian entrepreneur
• Paul Booth – labor leader, executive assistant to the president ofAmerican Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
• Peter Cohan (1979) – president of Peter S. Cohan & Associates^[22]
• John Diebold (1949) – founder of Diebold Group, Diebold, Inc., and The Diebold Institute for Public Policy
• John D. Goldman (1971) – CEO of Richard N. Goldman & Co. Insurance Services
• Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. (1946) – co-founder ofKohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
• Rachel Jacobs (1997) – CEO ofApprenNet
• William N. Kinnard (1947) – author, lecturer, and expert on the topic of real estate valuation
• Eugene M. Lang (1938) – founder of REFAC Technology Development Corporation
• Nick Martin (2004) – founder and CEO ofTechChange
• Thomas B. McCabe (1915) – chairman of theFederal Reserve Board of Governors; president ofScott Paper
• Arthur S. Obermayer (1952) – founder of the Moleculon Research Corporation
• Karen Pence (1992) – deputy associate director of theFederal Reserve Board of Governors
• William Poole (1959) – eleventh president of theFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
• Thomas Rowe Price Jr. (1919) – founder ofT. Rowe Price
• Iqbal Quadir (1982) – founder of Gonofone and GrameenPhone
• Sam Schulhofer-Wohl (1998) – senior vice president and director of financial policy of theFederal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• Kate Warne (1976) – principal and investment strategist withEdward Jones Investments
• Robert Zoellick (1976) – former president of theWorld Bank^[23]
• Danna Azrieli – chair ofAzrieli Group

• Joseph Altuzarra (2005) – fashion designer, winner of the 2011 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award
• Lisa Albert (1981) – television producer and writer, know forMad Men,Beautiful People,Living Single,Becker,Murphy Brown,Major Dad
• Mark Alburger (1979) – composer; founder, and music director of theSan Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra; music director ofGoat Hall Productions
• Heywood Hale Broun – sportswriter andCBS Sports commentator^[24]
• Al Carmines (1958) – composer ofOff-Broadway musicals
• Marshall Curry (1992) –Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker ofStreet Fight,If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front,Racing Dreams, andPoint and Shoot
• David Dye (1972) – radio personality and host of theWorld Cafe
• Steven Gilborn (1969) – actor
• Evan Gregory (2001) – member ofThe Gregory Brothers^[25]
• Andrew Rose Gregory (2004) – member ofThe Gregory Brothers^[26]
• Grant S. Johnson (2014) – filmmaker
• Nicholas Kazan (1969) – screenwriter
• H. C. Robbins Landon (1946) – musicologist
• Stephen Lang (1972) –Tony Award-nominated actor and playwright; know forAvatar,Gods and Generals,Gettysburg,Tombstone, andTerra Nova^[27]
• Cynthia Ling Lee – dancer, choreographer, and dance scholar
• Michael Lessac (1961) – theater, television, film director, and screenwriter.
• David Linde (1982) – film producer; co-founder ofFocus Features; co-chair ofUniversal Studios
• Beth Littleford (non-degreed) – actress, formerThe Daily Show correspondent^[28]
• Dana Lyons (1982) – independent singer/songwriter
• François Picard (1988 ) – journalist who hosts theThe Debate andThe World This Week^[29][30]
• Dawn Porter (1988) – documentary filmmaker, director ofGideon's Army
• Peter Schickele (1957) – music composer and satirist, often under the comic pseudonymP. D. Q. Bach^[31]
• Aaron Schwartz (1970) – actor and director
• Tom Snyder (1972) – television producer and founder of Soup2Nuts animation studio
• Darko Tresnjak (1988) –Tony Award winning director
• Michael J. Weithorn (1978) – television producer and writer forThe King of Queens,Family Ties,Ned & Stacey,The Goldbergs
• Jenny Yang – writer and comedian.
• Michał Zadara (1999) – theatre director

• Ellen Barry (1975), prison reform advocate; founder of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and the National Network for Women in Prison
• Frank H. Easterbrook (1970) – judge with theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Arianna Freeman (2001) – judge with theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Wilma A. Lewis (1978) – formerUnited States Attorney for theDistrict of Columbia
• Lara Montecalvo (1996) – judge with theUnited States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• Alexander Mitchell Palmer (1891) –United States Attorney General
• Ellen Ash Peters (1951) – chief justice of theConnecticut Supreme Court
• Jed S. Rakoff (1964) – judge on theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Charles F.C. Ruff (1960) –special prosecutor during theWatergate scandal, defender ofAnita Hill during confirmation hearings forClarence Thomas, and counsel to presidentBill Clinton during theLewinsky scandal
• Mary M. Schroeder (1962) – chief judge with theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Mark D. Schwartz (1975) – attorney in private practice; former first vice president ofPrudential-Bache Securities's public-finance department
• Phil Weiser –Colorado Attorney General
• Jennifer P. Wilson (1997) – judge of theUnited States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

• Eliot Asinof – writer, especially about baseball
• Peter Bart – vice president and editor-in-chief ofVariety
• Lauren Belfer – author of novelCity of Light
• Peter Biskind – author ofEasy Riders, Raging Bulls
• David G. Bradley – chair ofThe Atlantic Monthly and National Journal Group, Inc.
• Ben Brantley – chief theater critic ofThe New York Times
• Amy Fine Collins – author and contributor atVanity Fair
• Arthur Chu – columnist^[32]
• Linda Grant DePauw – historian and author
• Diane Di Prima –Beat generation poet
• Kurt Eichenwald – reporter withTheNew York Times and author of books onwhite-collar crime
• Julie Falk (1998) – executive director ofBitch (magazine)
• Jessica Fisher – poet, translator, critic; winner of theRome Prize andYale Series of Younger Poets
• Michael Forster Rothbart (1994) – photojournalist
• Jonathan Franzen (1981) – novelist, essayist, and author ofThe Corrections; winner of the 2001National Book Award for Fiction^[33][34]
• John Freeman (1996) – writer, literary critic, former editor ofGranta, and executive editor atAlfred A. Knopf.
• Daisy Fried (1989) – poet
• Gregory Gibson – author
• Linda Gordon – historian and author
• Justin Hall – pioneerblogger
• Adam Haslett (1992) – short story writer and author;Pulitzer Prize finalist andNational Book Award finalist
• John Russell Hayes (1888) – poet and librarian
• Marni Hodgkin – children's book editor^[35]
• Anick Jesdanun (1991) – technology reporter, editor, and the first Internet writer for theAssociated Press^[36]
• Josef Joffe – editor in chief ofDie Zeit
• Christopher Lehmann-Haupt – journalist, book review and obituary editor forTheNew York Times
• Cynthia Leive – editor in chief ofGlamour
• Arnold Kling (1975) – founder and co-editor of EconLog
• Helen Reimensnyder Martin – novelist
• Daniel Menaker – fiction editor forThe New Yorker and executive editor-in-chief ofRandom House
• James A. Michener (1929) – novelist^[37]
• Lulu Miller – writer, artist, and science reporter forNational Public Radio
• Victor Navasky – publisher and editorial director ofThe Nation and chair ofColumbia Journalism Review
• Yongsoo Park (1994) – novelist
• Drew Pearson – journalist
• Julie Phillips – journalist, writer, and biographer
• Jonathan Raymond – novelist and short story writer
• Rishi Reddi – short story writer
• Rudy Rucker –cyberpunk novelist; winner of twoPhilip K. Dick Award
• Norman Rush – novelist, winner of the 1991National Book Award forMating
• William Saletan – author and chief national correspondent forSlate
• Jonathan Shainin (2000) – head of opinion atThe Guardian
• Anna Shechtman – journalist and crossword compiler
• Kenneth Turan (1967) – film critic for theLos Angeles Times^[38]
• Mark Vonnegut – physician and author of the memoir of schizophrenia,The Eden Express
• Nora Waln – journalist and memoirist on China and Nazi Germany
• Paul Williams (1969) – founder and publisher ofCrawdaddy!
• Mary Wiltenburg – journalist
• Valerie Worth – poet and writer
• Rowan Ricardo Phillips – poet and writer

• Margaret Allen – first femaleheart transplant surgeon^[39]
• Marcella Nunez-Smith – physician and co-chair of theCOVID-19 Advisory Board
• Frank Oski – director of pediatrics atJohns Hopkins School of Medicine
• Anne Schuchat – acting director of theNational Center for Infectious Diseases,Centers for Disease Control
• Howard Martin Temin (1955) – recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975

• M. Evelyn Killen – president of Delaware StateWoman's Christian Temperance Union^[40]
• Eugene M. Lang – founder of theI Have A Dream Foundation
• Alice Paul (1905) –women's suffrage leader,National Woman's Party founder, and author of firstEqual Rights Amendment proposal^[41]
• Micah White – creator ofOccupy Wall Street
• Cathy Wilkerson – activist and former member of theWeather Underground
• Carl Wittman –LGBT rights activist and member of the national council ofStudents for a Democratic Society
• Molly Yard – former president of theNational Organization for Women

• Samuel Assefa – Ethiopian ambassador to the United States
• Erica Barks-Ruggles –U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda
• Peter Berkowitz –Director of Policy Planning at theUnited States Department of State
• William H. Brown, Jr. –Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives
• Armond Budish –Ohio House of Representatives
• Dennis Cheng (2001) – national finance director of the2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton
• David L. Cohen (1977) –United States Ambassador to Canada^[42]
• Scott Cowger –Maine House of Representatives andMaine Senate
• Peter Deutsch –United States House of Representatives
• Michael Dukakis –Governor of Massachusetts; Democratic nominee in the1988 presidential election^[43]
• Christiana Figueres (1979) – Costa Rican diplomat, executive secretary of theUN Framework Convention on Climate Change^[44]
• Diana Furchtgott-Roth (1979) – former chief economist of theUnited States Department of Labor, former chief of staff of theCouncil of Economic Advisers, senior fellow atManhattan Institute for Policy Research
• Josh Green (1992) –Governor of Hawaii andLieutenant Governor of Hawaii^[45]
• Kevin Hassett (1984) – chair of theCouncil of Economic Advisers
• Rush Holt Jr. –United States House of Representatives
• Leon Henderson – administrator of theOffice of Price Administration^[46]
• James Hormel – formerUnited States Ambassador to Luxembourg
• John Brady Kiesling – writer, former U.S. diplomat
• Carl Levin (1956) –United States Senate^[47]
• Carl Levin –United States Senate
• Mary B. Newman – member of theMassachusetts House of Representatives
• Amos J. Peaslee –United States Ambassador to Australia
• Antoinette Sayeh –Minister of Finance,Liberia
• William C. Sproul –Governor of Pennsylvania
• Chris Van Hollen –United States Senator andUnited States House of Representatives^[48]
• James M. Wilson Jr. –United States Assistant Secretary of State

• Bird Thomas Baldwin – psychologist; pioneer in child development
• Adele Diamond – pioneer indevelopmental cognitive neuroscience
• Ward Edwards – psychologist; pioneer indecision analysis
• Eugene Galanter – pioneer incognitive psychology andpsychometrics
• Carol Gilligan (1958) – feminist, ethicist, and psychologist^[49]
• Rachel Hare-Mustin – feminist psychologist
• Isabel Briggs Myers (1919), co-creator of theMyers–Briggs Type Indicator assessment.^[50]
• Robert Rescorla – co-creator of theRescorla-Wagner model

• Christian B. Anfinsen (1937) – recipient of theNobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972^[51]
• Frank Hastings Griffin (1910) – chemist who inventedRayon
• Tyler Lyson (2006) – curator ofvertebrate paleontology at theDenver Museum of Nature and Science
• John C. Mather (1968) – senior astrophysicist atGoddard Space Flight Center; recipient of the 2006Nobel Prize in Physics^[52]
• Holbrook Mann MacNeille – mathematician; scientific director of theOffice of Scientific Research and Development; chief of the fundamental research branch of theUnited States Atomic Energy Commission
• Newton Morton – population geneticist, one of the founders of the field ofgenetic epidemiology
• Ted Nelson (1959) – pioneer of information technology, computer visionary who coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia".^[53]
• G. Raymond Rettew – chemist; pioneered mass production of penicillin during World War II
• Sally Ride (non-graduate) –NASA astronaut and physicist, first American woman in space^[54]
• Nancy Roman (1946) – NASA's first chief of astronomy in the Office of Space Science, considered the "mother of theHubble Space Telescope"^[55][56]
• Maxine Frank Singer – biochemist and president of theCarnegie Institution of Washington
• Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1920) –astronomer who identifiedchemical elements in thesun usingspectroscopy^[57]
• Peter J. Weinberger (1964) –computer scientist; former head of CS research atBell Labs; inventor of theAWK programming language^[58]

• Ed Ayres (1963) – ultramarathon runner; winner ofJFK 50 Mile; editor and publisher ofRunning Times magazine
• Robin Carpenter (2014) – professional road cyclist
• Ben Clime – professional football player
• Eran Ganot - college basketball head coach at the University of Hawaii
• Dick Hall – formerMajor League Baseball pitcher; appeared in threeWorld Series for theBaltimore Orioles
• Ladule Lako LoSarah – international footballer forthe Republic of South Sudan
• Morgan Langley – professional soccer player with thePhiladelphia Union
• Lee MacPhail (1939) – baseball executive, former president ofAmerican League; inducted into theBaseball Hall of Fame^[27]
• Tiny Maxwell –College Football Hall of Fame player and referee
• Curly Ogden – professional baseball pitcher
• Jack Ogden – professional baseball player

As of spring 2022, Swarthmore employs nearly 200 faculty members.

• William Hyde Appleton, 1889–1891
• Frank Aydelotte, 1921–1940
• William W. Birdsall, 1898–1902
• Alfred H. Bloom, 1991–2009
• Rebecca Chopp, 2009–2014
• Robert D. Cross, 1969–1971
• Charles De Garmo, 1891–1898
• David W. Fraser, 1982–1991
• Theodore W. Friend, 1973–1982
• Edward Hicks Magill, 1871–1889
• John W. Nason, 1940–1953
• Edward Parrish, 1865–1871
• Courtney C. Smith, 1953–1969
• Valerie Smith, 2015–
• Joseph Swain, 1902–1921

• Alan Baker, philosophy
• Amanda Bayer, economics
• Rodney Evans, film and media studies
• Theodore B. Fernald, linguistics
• K. David Harrison, linguistics and cognitive science
• Aimee Johnson, mathematics and statistics
• Donna Jo Napoli, linguistics
• Chinelo Okparanta, English literature
• Ron Tarver, art and art history
• Mark I. Wallace, religion, environmental studies

• Solomon Asch, psychology^[59]
• Nathalie Anderson, English literature
• W. H. Auden, poet, literature; professor from 1942 to 1945
• Monroe Beardsley, philosopher of art^[60]
• Brand Blanshard, philosophy
• Daniel J. Boorstin, history
• Richard Brandt, philosophy
• Ralph Bunche, political science, diplomat, andNobel Peace Prize laureate
• Joseph Church, music
• Bruce Cumings, international relations
• James Freeman, music
• Robert Gallucci
• Kenneth Gergen, psychology
• Scott F. Gilbert, biology
• Lila R. Gleitman, linguistics
• Harold Clarke Goddard, English and Shakespeare studies
• Frank Hastings Griffin, chemistry
• Rush D. Holt, Jr., physics
• Raymond F. Hopkins, political science
• Philip Jefferson, economics
• Jennie Keith, anthropology^[61]
• Nannerl O. Keohane, political science
• Robert Keohane, political science
• Wolfgang Köhler, psychology^[59]
• James Kurth, political science, editor ofOrbis
• Andrea Lee, English literature
• Joseph Leidy, natural history
• Gerald Levinson, music
• George W. Lewis, engineering
• Kenneth Lieberthal, political science
• James Magruder, theatre
• Michael Marissen, music
• Louis Massiah, black studies, film, and media studies
• Ann McNamee, music
• Judith Moffett, English
• Jonathan D. Moreno
• Scott Nearing, economics
• Harold E. Pagliaro, English
• Frederic Pryor, economics
• Maria L. Sanford, history
• Barry Schwartz, professor of psychology
• Wolfgang F. Stolper, economics
• Judith G. Voet, chemistry and biochemistry
• Hans Wallach, psychology
• Kenneth Waltz, political science
• Clair Wilcox, economics

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