List of Swarthmore College people

Nobel laureates

Name	Degree/year	Award category/year	Reason	Nobel profile
Christian B. Anfinsen	B.S., 1937	Chemistry, 1972	Ribonuclease/amino acid sequence research
David Baltimore	B.S., 1960	Physiology or Medicine, 1975	Discovery of reverse transcriptase
Howard Martin Temin	B.S., 1955, biology	Medicine, 1975	Research on tumor viruses' effect on genetic cellular material
Edward C. Prescott	B.A., 1962, mathematics	Economics, 2004	Real Business Cycle Theory
John C. Mather	B.S., 1968, physics	Physics, 2006	Discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation

MacArthur Fellows

List of Alumni

Architecture

• Frances Halsband, FAIA - Former Dean of School of Architecture at Pratt Institute
• Margaret Helfand, FAIA (Attended 1965-68)
• Steven Izenour
• Marianne McKenna, RIBA

Arts, film, theatre, and broadcasting

• Peter Bart - Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Variety
• Al Carmines - Composer of Off-Broadway musicals, Pastor
• Marshall Curry - Documentary Filmmaker of Street Fight, 2006 Oscar nominee for Documentary Feature
• David Dye - Radio personality and host of the World Cafe
• Judith Edelman - Musician
• David Gelber - Executive Producer, 60 Minutes on CBS
• Steven Izenour - Architect. Co-author of Learning from Las Vegas
• Stephen Lang - Tony Award nominated actor and playwright. Star of Gods and Generals, Gettysburg, and Tombstone.
• Nick Kazan (1969) - Screenwriter.
• H. C. Robbins Landon - Musicologist
• David Linde - Executive Producer of the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Y Tu Mamá También, co-founder of Focus Features, Co-Chair of Universal Studios
• Beth Littleford - Former Daily Show correspondent, Comedy Central personality, and actress
• Dana Lyons (1982) - Independent singer/songwriter
• Erik Rehl - Art Director for Oscar Winning Best Live Action Short Film 2006, Six Shooter, by Martin McDonagh
• Ike Schambelan - Founder, the Theater By the Blind in New York City
• Peter Schickele - Composer (often under the comic pseudonym P. D. Q. Bach).
• Darko Tresnjak (1988) - Director, Artistic Director of the Old Globe Shakespeare Festival in San Diego, CA.
• Kenneth Turan - movie reviewer, Los Angeles Times.
• Robert C. Turner - Ceramic artist
• Paul Williams - Founder and Publisher of Crawdaddy!

Business

• Burt Alper (1991) - CEO, Catchword
• Neil R. Austrian (1961) - Former President of NFL, Interim Chairman and CEO, Office Depot
• Sherry F. Bellamy (1974) - President & CEO, Bell Atlantic-Maryland
• Mark Benerofe (1981) - Vice-President, Sony Online Ventures
• Peter Cohan (1979) - President, Peter S. Cohan & Associates
• John Diebold (1949) - Founder of Diebold Group, Diebold, Inc., and The Diebold Institute for Public Policy
• John D. Goldman (1971) - CEO, Richard N. Goldman & Co. Insurance Services, President, San Francisco Symphony
• Samuel L. Hayes III (1957) - Director, Tiffany & Co., Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School
• Mickey Herbert (1967) - President and CEO, the Bridgeport Bluefish Baseball Club
• Roger Holstein (1974) - CEO, WebMD
• Gil Kemp (1972) - President and Founder, Home Decorators Collection
• Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. (1946) - Billionaire (Forbes 400 Richest in America), Co-founder, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
• Frederick W. Kyle (1954) - Chairman, BioRexis Pharmaceutical Corporation
• Eugene M. Lang (1938) - Founder of REFAC Technology Development Corporation, philanthropist
• Randall Larrimore (1969) - Former President and CEO, United Stationers Inc., a Fortune 500 company
• Leland S. MacPhail (1939) - President, National League Baseball, General Manager, the New York Yankees
• Thomas B. McCabe (1915) - Chairman, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, President, Scott Paper
• John N. Montgomery (1977) - Founder, President, and Director of Bridgeway Funds
• Thomas Rowe Price, Jr. - Founder of T. Rowe Price
• Carl Russo (1979) - President and CEO, Calix, Former Vice President of Optical Strategy Cisco Systems
• Shola Abidoye (1997) - Co-Founding Manager, Africast.com
• Michael Wing (1970) - Vice President, Strategic Communications, IBM

Education

• Patrick Awuah - Founder, Ashesi University, Ghana's first liberal arts college
• David Baltimore (1960) - President of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Nobel Prize winner
• Nancy Y. Bekavac - First female president of Scripps College
• Detlev W. Bronk - Former President, Johns Hopkins University
• Paul N. Courant - Provost, University of Michigan
• Christopher Edley, Jr. - Dean University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
• Neil R. Grabois - Former President, Colgate University
• Tori Haring-Smith - President, Washington and Jefferson College
• John H. Jacobson - Former President, Hope College
• Clark Kerr - First Chancellor, the University of California, Berkeley and 12th President, the University of California.
• Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1966) - Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education; Chairman of the Board, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; first African-American woman in Harvard University's history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor
• Richard Wall Lyman - Former President (7th), Stanford University
• Robert Prichard - Former President (13th), University of Toronto
• Helen Magill White - The first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D.
• Phyllis Wise - Provost, University of Washington
• Lawrence Schall (1975) - President, Oglethorpe University

Historians

• Pamela Kyle Crossley - Dartmouth College
• Andre Gunder Frank
• Daniel Headrick - Roosevelt University
• David Montgomery - Yale (emeritus)
• Nayan Shah - University of California at San Diego
• Linda Gordon - New York University (NYU)
• Matthew H. Sommer - Stanford
• Seth Koven - Rutgers
• Margaret Lavinia Anderson - University of California at Berkeley
• John H. Morrow Jr. - University of Georgia at Athens

Humanities and Law

• Elizabeth Anderson - Professor of Philosophy (ethics, social and political philosophy), University of Michigan
• Philip Curtin - Distinguished professor of African history, Johns Hopkins University
• Marjorie Garber - Director, the Humanities Center at Harvard University, Shakespeare scholar, cultural critic
• Allan Gibbard - Professor of Philosophy (ethics), University of Michigan
• Michael Hardt - Professor of Literature, Duke University. Author of Empire.
• Gilbert Harman - Professor of Philosophy (metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind), Princeton University
• David Lewis - (d. 2001) Professor of Philosophy (philosophical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics), Princeton University
• Alexander Nehamas - Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature (Greek philosophy, philosophy of art), Princeton University
• Jerry (Jerome) Ravetz - Philosopher of Science, pioneer of post-normal science, founder of The Research Methods Consultancy, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
• Lawrence Schall (1975) - President of Oglethorpe University
• Jerome Schiller - Emeritus Professor of Philosophy (ancient philosophy), Washington University
• Barbara Partee - Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Peter Unger - Professor of Philosophy (epistemology, metaphysics), New York University
• Melissa Zeiger Professor of English Literature - Dartmouth College
• Cora Diamond - Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia
• Ray Jackendoff - Professor of Linguistics - Tufts University
• T. Alexander Aleinikoff (1974) - Dean, Georgetown University Law Center (law school)
• Christopher Edley, Jr. (1973) - Dean, Boalt Hall (University of California, Berkeley law school)
• Frank H. Easterbrook (1970) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• James C. Hormel (1955) - Former dean, University of Chicago Law School
• Stewart J. Schwab (1975) - Dean and Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
• Wilma A. Lewis (1978) - Former United States Attorney, District of Columbia
• Eben Moglen (1980) - Professor of law and legal history, Columbia University, General counsel and board member at the Free Software Foundation, co-author of the original GNU General Public License
• Alexander Mitchell Palmer (1891) - United States Attorney General (1919-1921)
• Richard D. Parker (1967) - Professor, Harvard Law School
• Jed S. Rakoff (1964) - legal scholar, judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Dorothy Kathryn Robinson (1972) - Vice President and General Counsel of Yale University
• Charles F.C. Ruff (1960) - Special Prosecutor during the Watergate scandal, defender of Anita Hill during confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas, counsel to President Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal
• Randy Holland (1969) - Justice, Delaware Supreme Court
• Mary M. Schroeder (1962) - Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Mark D. Schwartz (1975) - attorney in private practice; former first vice president of Prudential-Bache Securities's public-finance department (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Natural Science, Medicine, and Engineering

• Dave Bayer - Math consultant, A Beautiful Mind (feature film)
• Sandra Moore Faber - Astronomer, member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, diagnosis and repair of the Hubble Space Telescope's spherical aberration, design of the DEep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph (DEIMOS) for the Keck Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii
• Dean Freed (1943) - Former CEO and Chairman of EG&G (now called PerkinElmer, Inc.)
• Neil Gershenfeld - Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms
• William H. Goldstein - Associate Director for Physics & Advanced Technologies, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
• John J. Hopfield - Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society
• Martin Krafft (2001) - Free software researcher and activist, Debian developer
• Tyler Lyson (2006) - Discovered a mummifed hadrosaur
• John C. Mather - Senior Astrophysicist, Infrared Astrophysics Branch at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, 2006 Nobel laureate in physics for his work on the cosmic microwave background
• Holbrook Mann MacNeille - Mathematician, Professor, Scientific Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, chief of the Fundamental Research Branch of the United States Atomic Energy Commission
• Ted Nelson - Computer visionary. Coined the term hypertext
• Frank Oski - Director of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
• Nancy Roman - Astronomer. One of "the inspirational women" of NASA.
• Anne Schuchat - Acting Director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), Center for Disease Control (CDC)
• Maxine Frank Singer - Biochemist, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington since 1988
• Charlotte Moore Sitterly - Astronomer. Identified chemical elements in the sun using spectroscopy.
• Richard Vallee - Pathologist, Columbia University Medical Center, discoverer of cytoplasmic dynein
• Peter J. Weinberger - Computer Scientist. Former head of CS Research at Bell Labs, inventor of the AWK programming language.
• Joseph Takahashi - Neuroscientist, Northwestern University. Member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator; identified key genes involved in mammalian circadian rhythms.
• Rogers McVaugh- botanist. He is a research professor of botany and the UNC Herbarium's curator of Mexican plants. He is also Adjunct Research Scientist of the Hunt Institute in Carnegie Mellon University and a Professor Emeritus of botany in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Politics

• Samuel Assefa Ethiopian Ambassador to the United States.
• William H. Brown, Jr., parliamentarian, the United States House of Representatives
• John S. Burns, Director for Tax and Budget Policy at the Center for American Progress author of ArgMax.com, declared one of the top five economics blogs by Forbes magazine
• Peter Deutsch, member of the House of Representatives from 1993-2005. Represented 20th district of Florida. Democrat
• Michael Dukakis - Former Governor of Massachusetts. 1988 Democratic Presidential candidate
• Robert P. George - Member, President's Council on Bioethics. Professor, Princeton University
• Mark Hanis - Co-founder of the Genocide Intervention Network
• Leon Henderson (1895-1986), administrator of the Office of Price Administration from 1941 to 1942.
• James Hormel - Former Ambassador to Luxembourg, the first openly gay U.S. Ambassador.
• Carl Levin - Member, the United States Senate (D-Michigan)
• Eugene M. Lang - Philanthropist, founder of the I Have A Dream Foundation, 1996 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Alice Paul - Women's suffrage leader from 1913 onwards, author of first Equal Rights Amendment proposal
• Amos J. Peaslee - Former US Ambassador to Australia
• Robert D. Putnam - Theorist of social capital. Author of Bowling Alone. Professor, Harvard University
• Antoinette Sayeh - Minister of Finance, Liberia
• William C. Sproul - Former Governor of Pennsylvania
• Chris Van Hollen - Member, the United States House of Representatives (D-Maryland)
• Cathy Wilkerson - radical activist and former member of the Weather Underground best known for being present at the 1970 Greenwich Village townhouse explosion
• Molly Yard - Former President of the National Organization for Women
• Robert Zoellick - President, World Bank

Psychology

• Dorwin P. Cartwright - Pioneer in topological psychology
• Eugene Galanter - Pioneer in Cognitive psychology and Psychometrics, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
• Carol Gilligan - Recipient, Grawemeyer Award. Professor, New York University.
• Isabel Myers - Co-creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
• Robert Rescorla - Co-creator of the Rescorla-Wagner model Professor, University of Pennsylvania.

Writers, Journalists, & Publishers

• Peter Bart - Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Variety (magazine)
• David G. Bradley - chair of The Atlantic Monthly and National Journal Group, Inc.
• Heywood Hale Broun - Sportswriter and CBS Sports Commentator
• Ben Brantley - Chief Theater Critic of The New York Times
• Maureen B. Cavanaugh Eleusis and Athens: Documents in Finance, Religion, and Politics in the Fifth Century B.C. (Scholars Press 1996) (American Classical Studies, no. 35) Professor of Classics
• Samuel H. Day (d. 2001) - formerly Managing Editor of The Progressive
• Kurt Eichenwald - New York Times reporter and author of books on white-collar crime (Serpent on the Rock, The Informant, Conspiracy of Fools)
• Diane Di Prima - Beat generation Poet
• Jonathan Franzen - Author of The Corrections. Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction
• Robyn Geary - Managing Editor, The Washingtonian
• Justin Hall - pioneer blogger
• Adam Haslett (1992) - Author of You Are Not a Stranger Here (Pulitzer Prize finalist, National Book Award finalist, and 2002 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award winner); stories in The New Yorker, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, Zoetrope All-Story, and National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts
• Josef Joffe - Editor in Chief, Die Zeit
• Cynthia Leive - Editor in Chief, Glamour magazine
• Helen Reimensnyder Martin (1868-1939) - Novelist
• James A. Michener - Novelist
• Victor Navasky, Publisher and Editorial Director of The Nation (1995-2005), Chair of Columbia Journalism Review
• Drew Pearson - Journalist
• Rishi Reddi - short story writer
• Rudy Rucker - Cyberpunk Novelist. Winner of two Philip K. Dick Awards
• Norman Rush - novelist, winner of the 1991 National Book Award for Mating
• William Saletan - Chief National Correspondent for Slate.com, author of Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War
• Valerie Worth (d. 1994) - Poet and writer; especially known for her children's poems
• Jason Zengerle - Senior Editor, The New Republic
• Gregory Gibson - author of Gone Boy, Demon of the Waters, and Hubert’s Freaks

Notable professors

Current faculty

• James Kurth, political science, Editor of Orbis
• Nathaniel Deutsch, religion
• K. David Harrison, linguistics
• Donna Jo Napoli, linguistics
• Raymond F. Hopkins, political science
• Kenneth Gergen, psychology
• Barry Schwartz, psychology
• Gerald Levinson, music
• Philip Jefferson, economics

Former faculty

• Solomon Asch, Psychology
• W. H. Auden (poet), Literature
• Frank Aydelotte (Swarthmore President)
• Brand Blanshard, Philosophy
• Monroe Beardsley, Philosophy
• Daniel J. Boorstin, History
• Ralph Bunche
• Bruce Cumings, International Relations
• J. William Frost, Religion
• Robert Gallucci
• Harold Clarke Goddard, English, Shakespeare Studies
• Rush D. Holt, Jr., Physics
• Robert Jancewicz, Physics
• Nannerl O. Keohane, Political Science
• Wolfgang Köhler, Psychology
• Joseph Leidy, Natural History
• George W. Lewis, Engineering
• Judith Moffett, English
• Jonathan D. Moreno
• Scott Nearing, Economics
• Bernard Saffran, Economics
• Maria L. Sanford, History
• Clair Wilcox, Economics
• Wolfgang F. Stopler, Economics
• Robert Keohane, Political Science
• Kenneth Waltz, Political Science
• Mark Vonnegut, author of The Eden Express and son of Kurt Vonnegut

National Awards and Honors (since the 1970's)

• 135 Fulbright Scholarships
• 27 Rhodes Scholarships
• 8 Marshall Scholarships
• 13 Luce Scholarships
• 1 Insight Fellowship
• 68 Watson Fellowships
• 21 Truman Scholarships

References