List of Antioch College people

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

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

References

1. "Antioch College to Celebrate the Life and Work of Alumna Coretta Scott King". Antioch College. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
2. "Brian Shure". RISD. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
3. "Biography – Gail D. Mathieu". US Department of State. Archived from the original on June 16, 2010. Retrieved June 9, 2010.
4. "Deborah W. Meier — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
5. "Mark Strand — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
6. "Virginia Hamilton — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
7. "Stephen Jay Gould — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
8. "Sylvia A. Law — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
9. "Timothy Barrett — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
10. "Lisa Delpit — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
11. "Wendy Ewald — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
12. "Kathan Brown". Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF). Retrieved 2016-04-26.
13. "Two artists with Antioch College ties win prestigious Guggenheim award". Antioch College. Retrieved 2016-04-26.