List of Swarthmore College people

The following is a list of notable people associated with Swarthmore College, a private, independent, liberal arts college located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Nobel laureates

Listed chronologically by year of the award.

Name	Degree/year	Award category/year	Reason	Nobel profile
Christian B. Anfinsen	B.S., 1937	Chemistry, 1972	Ribonuclease/amino acid sequence research	^[1]
David Baltimore	B.S., 1960	Physiology or Medicine, 1975	Discovery of reverse transcriptase	^[2]
Howard Martin Temin	B.S., 1955, biology	Medicine, 1975	Research on tumor viruses' effect on genetic cellular material	^[2]
Edward C. Prescott	B.A., 1962, mathematics	Economics, 2004	Real business cycle theory	^[3]
John C. Mather	B.S., 1968, physics	Physics, 2006	Discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation	^[4]

MacArthur Fellows

Listed chronologically by year of the grant.

Name	Degree/year/major	Field	Year	Work
Philip Curtin	B.A., 1948, history	History	1983	Johns Hopkins University professor; researcher of Caribbean/African history and comparative history
John J. Hopfield	B.A., 1954, physics	Molecular biology	1983	Princeton University professor; computational neurobiology, computing network] researcher
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot	B.A., 1966, psychology	Sociology/education	1984	Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University; researches education, socialization; developed portraiture approach
Jane S. Richardson	B.A., 1968, philosophy	Biochemistry	1985	Duke University biochemistry professor; proteins researcher, especially three-dimensional structure and means of formation
David Page	B.A., 1978, chemistry	Biology/medicine	1986	MIT biology professor; director of Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; sequenced the Y-chromosome
Ellen M. Barry	B.A., 1975	Criminology/penology	1998	Prison reform advocate; founder of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and the National Network for Women in Prison
Rebecca J. Nelson	B.A./B.S., 1982	Plant pathology	1998	Researcher of molecular genetics, crop disease, and crop management; professor of plant pathology at Cornell University
Christopher F. Chyba	B.A., 1982, physics	Science/international security	2001	Princeton University professor; co-director of Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation; former science, technology, and national security adviser to the Clinton administration
Tara Zahra	B.A., 1998, history and economics	History	2014	University of Chicago professor; European history author; Harvard Society Fellow

List of alumni

Listed in alphabetical order by surname.

Architecture

Frances Halsband - FAIA – former Dean of School of Architecture at Pratt Institute
Margaret Helfand - FAIA (attended 1965–68)
Steven Izenour
Marianne McKenna - RIBA
Catherine Paplin

Arts, film, theatre, and broadcasting

Joseph Altuzarra – fashion designer, winner of the 2011 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award
Lisa Albert – television producer and writer, Mad Men, Beautiful People, Living Single, Becker, Murphy Brown, Major Dad
Ed Ayres - environmentalist; writer; editor; publisher of Running Times magazine; author of God's Last Offer: Negotiating for a Sustainable Future and Crossing the Energy Divide: Moving from Fossil-Fuel Dependence to a Clean Energy Future
Peter Bart – Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Variety
Gabriel Quinn Bauriedel — Co-Artistic Director of Pig Iron Theatre Company
Al Carmines – composer of Off-Broadway musicals; pastor
Marshall Curry – documentary filmmaker of Street Fight, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, Racing Dreams, and Point and Shoot; 2006 Oscar nominee for Documentary Feature; 2006 News & Documentary Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story: Long Form; 2012 Oscar nominee for Documentary Feature
David Dye – radio personality and host of the World Cafe
Judith Edelman – musician
Michael Forster Rothbart – photojournalist
David Gelber – Executive Producer, 60 Minutes on CBS
Evan Gregory - member of The Gregory Brothers (creators of Auto-tune the News)^[5]
Steven Izenour – architect; co-author of Learning from Las Vegas
Susan Jolles – harpist
Nick Kazan (1969) – screenwriter
H. C. Robbins Landon – musicologist
Stephen Lang – Tony Award-nominated actor and playwright; star of Gods and Generals, Gettysburg, Tombstone, and Terra Nova
David Linde – Executive Producer of 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
Richard Martin (1967) - art and fashion historian; former Curator-in-Chief of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dawn Porter (1988) - documentary filmmaker, director of Gideon's Army, nominee for News & Documentary Emmy Award
Erik Rehl – Art Director for Oscar-winning Best Live Action Short Film 2006, Six Shooter, by Martin McDonagh
Dan Rothenberg — Co-Artistic Director of Pig Iron Theatre Company
Ike Schambelan – founder, Theater Breaking Through Barriers in New York City
Peter Schickele – composer, often under the comic pseudonym P. D. Q. Bach
Tom Snyder - founder of Soup2Nuts (formerly Tom Snyder Productions) animation studio; co-creator and Executive Producer, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist; Executive Producer, Home Movies
Robert Storr – Dean of the Yale School of Art; curator; painter; critic; director of Venice Biennale 2007
Darko Tresnjak (1988) – Director, Artistic Director of the Old Globe Shakespeare Festival in San Diego; CA; 2014 Tony Award winner for Best Direction of a Musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Kenneth Turan – movie reviewer, Los Angeles Times
Robert C. Turner – ceramic artist
Dito van Reigersberg — Co-Artistic Director of Pig Iron Theatre Company
Michael J. Weithorn (1978) – television producer and writer, The King of Queens, Family Ties, Ned & Stacey, The Goldbergs
Paul Williams – founder and publisher of Crawdaddy!
Miyuki Baker – mixed-media artist and activist

Business

Shola Abidoye (1997) – Co-Founding Manager, Africast.com
Burt Alper (1991) – CEO, Catchword
Neil R. Austrian (1961) – former President of NFL, Interim Chairman and CEO, Office Depot
Sherry F. Bellamy (1974) – President and 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
Frank Herbert Martin (1956) CEO of C F Martin & Company
Nick Martin (2004) – founder and CEO of TechChange
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
Arthur S. Obermayer, founder of the Moleculon Research Corporation; Jewish-American philanthropist.
Thomas Rowe Price, Jr. (1919) – founder of T. Rowe Price
Carl Russo (1979) – President and CEO, Calix Inc., former Vice President of Optical Strategy, Cisco Systems
Kate Warne - Principal, Investment Strategist, Edward Jones Investments
Michael Wing (1970) – Vice President, Strategic Communications, IBM

Economics

David Andrews (1982) - economics historian, professor at State University of New York at Oswego, author of Keynes and the British Humanist Tradition: The Moral Purpose of the Market
Dean Baker (1981) – macroeconomist; co-founder and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
Robert Cooter (1967) – scholar in law and economics, Professor at UC Berkeley School of Law
Andre Gunder Frank (1957) – German-American economic historian and sociologist; developer of dependency theory
Diana Furchtgott-Roth (1979) – former Chief Economist of the United States Department of Labor, former chief of staff of President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute
Michael Greenstone (1991) – 3M Professor of Environmental Economics at MIT, director of the Hamilton Project
Peter J. Katzenstein (1967) – Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University; member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Clark Kerr (1932) – industrial economist, first chancellor of University of California, Berkeley, twelfth president of the University of California
William N. Kinnard (1947) – former Director of the Institute of Urban Research; Founding Director of the Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics; leading author, lecturer, and expert on the topic of real estate valuation; his text, Income Property Valuation, published in 1971, is still considered a classic in the field
Arnold Kling (1975) - founder and co-editor of EconLog, a popular economics blog
Thomas Bayard McCabe (1893-1982) - Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (1948-1951)
Jeffrey Miron (1979) – chairman of the Department of Economics at Boston University, 1992-1998; director of undergraduate studies in the Harvard University Department of Economics, director of economic studies at the Cato Institute
William Poole (1959) – eleventh president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Edward C. Prescott (1962) – winner of 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Iqbal Quadir (1982) – founder of Gonofone and GrameenPhone; founder and Director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT
Hans Stoll (1962) – The Anne Marie and Thomas B. Walker, Jr. Professor of Finance and Director of the Financial Markets Research Center at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management; former president of American Finance Association
Peter Temin (1959) – economic historian, Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E. Roy Weintraub (1964) – Professor of Economics at Duke University focusing on the history of the interconnection between mathematics and economics in the twentieth century
Martin Weitzman (1963) – Environmental economist and Professor of Economics at Harvard University

Education

Patrick Awuah, Jr. (1988) – founder, Ashesi University, Ghana's first liberal arts college
David Baltimore (1960) – President of Caltech; Nobel Prize winner
Nancy Y. Bekavac – first female president of Scripps College
Detlev W. Bronk – former President, Johns Hopkins University
Kimberly Wright Cassidy – President, Bryn Mawr College
Paul Courant – Provost, University of Michigan
Sean M. Decatur – President, Kenyon College
Christopher Edley, Jr. – Dean of University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Neil R. Grabois – former Provost, Williams College; former President, Colgate University
Tori Haring-Smith – President, Washington and Jefferson College
Rachel Jacobs (1997)
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^[6]
Richard Wall Lyman – former President (7th), Stanford University
Christina Hull Paxson (1982)- President-elect (19th), Brown University
David H. Porter (1958) - former President, Skidmore College
Robert Prichard – former President (13th), University of Toronto
Dorothy Kathryn Robinson (1972) – Vice President and General Counsel of Yale University^[7]
Lawrence Schall (1975) – President, Oglethorpe University
Alan Valentine – former President, University of Rochester
Helen Magill White – first woman in the US to earn a Ph.D.
Phyllis Wise – Provost, University of Washington

Historians

Margaret Lavinia Anderson – University of California, Berkeley
Pamela Kyle Crossley – Dartmouth College
Philip Curtin – Distinguished professor of African history, Johns Hopkins University^[8]
Linda Gordon – New York University (NYU)
Daniel Headrick – Roosevelt University
Pieter M. Judson – Swarthmore College
Seth Koven – Rutgers
Thomas Laqueur – University of California, Berkeley
David Montgomery – Yale (emeritus)
John H. Morrow Jr. – University of Georgia at Athens
Nayan Shah – University of California at San Diego
Barbara Sicherman – Trinity College
Matthew H. Sommer – Stanford
Gavin Wright – Stanford University
Tara Zahra – University of Chicago

Humanities and law

T. Alexander Aleinikoff (1974) – Dean, Georgetown University Law Center (law school)
Robert R. Ammerman (1952) - Emeritus Professor of Philosophy (Wittgenstein, analytic philosophy), University of Wisconsin-Madison
Elizabeth Anderson – Professor of Philosophy (ethics, social and political philosophy), University of Michigan
Adrienne Asch (1946-2013) – founding director of the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University
Leo Braudy (1963) - University and Leo S. Bing Professor of English and American Literature, University of Southern California
Cora Diamond – Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia
Stephen Diamond – Professor of Law, University of Miami
Frank H. Easterbrook (1970) – Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Christopher Edley, Jr. (1973) – Dean, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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
Randy Holland (1969) – Justice, Delaware Supreme Court
James C. Hormel (1955) – former dean, University of Chicago Law School
Ray Jackendoff – Professor of Linguistics – Tufts University
David Lewis – Professor of Philosophy (philosophical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics), Princeton University
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 Nehamas – Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature (Greek philosophy, philosophy of art), Princeton University
Alexander Mitchell Palmer (1891) – United States Attorney General (1919–1921)
Richard D. Parker (1967) – professor, Harvard Law School
Barbara Partee – Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jed S. Rakoff (1964) – legal scholar, judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
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
Dorothy Kathryn Robinson (1972) – Vice President and General Counsel of Yale University^[9]
Hillyer Rudisill III – Professor of Philosophy (philosophy, ethics), Trident Technical College
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
Jerome Schiller – Emeritus Professor of Philosophy (ancient philosophy), Washington University
Mary M. Schroeder (1962) – Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Stewart J. Schwab (1975) – Dean and Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
Mark D. Schwartz (1975) – attorney in private practice; former first vice president of Prudential-Bache Securities's public-finance department
Peter Unger – Professor of Philosophy (epistemology, metaphysics), New York University
Melissa Zeiger - Professor of English Literature, Dartmouth College
Christina Crosby - Professor of English Literature, Professor of English, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Wesleyan University

Natural science, medicine, and engineering

Margaret Allen – first female heart transplant surgeon^[10]
Dave Bayer – math consultant, A Beautiful Mind
Paul Crowell - Professor of Physics, University of Minnesota
William J. Erdman II - physician; chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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 mummified hadrosaur^[11]
Robert MacPherson (1966) – mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University; National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics (1992); Leroy P. Steele Prize (2002, with Goresky); Heinz Hopf Prize (2009)
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
John C. Mather^[12] – Senior Astrophysicist, Infrared Astrophysics Branch at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center; 2006 Nobel laureate in physics for his work on the cosmic microwave background
Rogers McVaugh - professor of botany; UNC herbarium's curator of Mexican plants; Adjunct Research Scientist of the Hunt Institute in Carnegie Mellon University; Professor Emeritus of botany in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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), Centers 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
Frederick Snyder, M.D. (1948) - pioneer in the study of REM sleep
Joseph Takahashi – neuroscientist at Northwestern University; member of the National Academy of Sciences; Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator; identified key genes involved in mammalian circadian rhythms
Richard Vallee – pathologist, Columbia University Medical Center, discoverer of cytoplasmic dynein ^[13]
Peter J. Weinberger – computer scientist; former head of CS Research at Bell Labs; inventor of the AWK programming language

Politics and government

Samuel Assefa - Ethiopian Ambassador to the United States
Erica Barks-Ruggles - U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda
William H. Brown, Jr. - parliamentarian, the United States House of Representatives
Armond Budish - Democratic Minority Leader of Ohio 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
Scott Cowger - Democratic state legislator from Maine
Peter Deutsch - Democratic member of the House of Representatives, 1993–2005; represented Florida's 20th congressional district
Michael Dukakis – Governor of Massachusetts; Democratic nominee in the 1988 presidential election
Christiana Figueres – Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Robert P. George – member, President's Council on Bioethics; professor, Princeton University
Mark Hanis – co-founder of the Genocide Intervention Network
Leon Henderson - administrator of the Office of Price Administration, 1941-1942^[14]
James Hormel – former ambassador to Luxembourg, first openly gay U.S. Ambassador
Eugene M. Lang – philanthropist, founder of the I Have A Dream Foundation; 1996 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Carl Levin – Democratic U.S. Senator from Michigan
Alice Paul – women's suffrage leader from 1913 onwards, author of first Equal Rights Amendment proposal
Amos J. Peaslee – former ambassador to Australia
Robert D. Putnam – social capital theorist, author of Bowling Alone, Harvard University professor
Antoinette Sayeh – Minister of Finance, Liberia
William C. Sproul – former governor of Pennsylvania
Chris Van Hollen – Democratic U.S. Representative
Cathy Wilkerson – radical activist and former member of the Weather Underground, known for being present at the 1970 Greenwich Village townhouse explosion
James Morrison Wilson, Jr. - career diplomat; Foreign Service officer; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific; U.S. Deputy Representative for Micronesian Status Negotiations; Department of State Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs (1975–1977)
Carl Wittman – writer, LGBT rights activist and member of the national council of Students for a Democratic Society
Molly Yard – former President of the National Organization for Women

Psychology

Dorwin P. Cartwright – pioneer in topological psychology
Adele Diamond – pioneer in developmental cognitive neuroscience; professor at The University of British Columbia
Eugene Galanter – pioneer in cognitive psychology and psychometrics; Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
Carol Gilligan – recipient of Grawemeyer Award; professor at New York University
Isabel Myers – co-creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Robert Rescorla – co-creator of the Rescorla-Wagner model; professor at University of Pennsylvania

Sports

Ed Ayres (1963) - ultramarathon runner; winner of JFK 50 Mile; editor and publisher of Running Times magazine.
Robin Carpenter (2014) - professional road cyclist.
Ben Clime - NFL player
Dick Hall – former Major League Baseball pitcher; appeared in three World Series for the Baltimore Orioles, 1969–71
Morgan Langley – player with the Philadelphia Union in Major League Soccer
Ladulé Lako LoSarah – professional soccer player with FK Bregalnica Stip; first American to play in Macedonian Prva Liga
Tiny Maxwell - College Football Hall of Fame player and referee

Technology

Nick Martin (2004) – founder and CEO of TechChange

Writers, journalists, and publishers

Rasheed Abou-Alsamh – Saudi writer and journalist
Peter Bart – Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Variety
David G. Bradley – chair of The Atlantic Monthly and National Journal Group, Inc.
Ben Brantley – chief theater critic of The New York Times
Heywood Hale Broun – sportswriter and CBS Sports commentator^[15]
Maureen B. Cavanaugh - professor of classics; author of Eleusis and Athens: Documents in Finance, Religion, and Politics in the Fifth Century B.C.
Amy Fine Collins - special correspondent on fashion, culture, style, and design for Vanity Fair
Samuel H. Day – former Managing Editor of The Progressive
Diane Di Prima – Beat generation poet
Kurt Eichenwald – New York Times reporter and author of books on white-collar crime (Serpent on the Rock, The Informant, Conspiracy of Fools)
Julie Falk (1998) - Executive Director of Bitch Media
Jonathan Franzen – author of The Corrections; winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction ^[16]
Daisy Fried (1989) – poet, author of My Brother is Getting Arrested Again and She Didn't Mean to Do It
Robyn Geary – Managing Editor, The Washingtonian
Gregory Gibson – author of Gone Boy, Demon of the Waters, and Hubert’s Freaks
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
Marni Hodgkin, children's book editor^[17]
Josef Joffe – Editor in Chief, Die Zeit
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt – journalist, book review and obit editor for New York Times
Cynthia Leive – Editor in Chief, Glamour
Mark Lotto – Senior Editor, GQ
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
Jon Raymond - novelist, short story writer, and co-writer of the films Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy
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
Martha Shirk – reporter, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1975-1996; co-author of On Their Own; Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs; Lives on the Line; and Super Family Vacations
Nora Waln - journalist and memoirist on China and Nazi Germany
Micah White – creator of Occupy Wall Street
Mary Wiltenburg – journalist
Valerie Worth (d. 1994) – poet and writer; especially known for her children's poems
Jason Zengerle – Senior Editor, The New Republic

College leadership

Presidents

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

Notable professors

Current faculty

K. David Harrison, linguistics
Gerald Levinson, music
Donna Jo Napoli, linguistics
Barry Schwartz, psychology

Former faculty

Solomon Asch, psychology
W. H. Auden (poet), literature
Frank Aydelotte, Swarthmore President
Bird T. Baldwin, experimental psychology
Monroe Beardsley, philosophy
Brand Blanshard, philosophy
Daniel J. Boorstin, history
Richard Brandt, philosophy
Ralph Bunche, political science
Malcolm Clendenin, art history
Bruce Cumings, international relations
J. William Frost, religion
Robert Gallucci
Kenneth Gergen, psychology
Lila R. Gleitman, linguistics
Harold Clarke Goddard, English, Shakespeare studies
Rush D. Holt, Jr., physics
Raymond F. Hopkins, political science
Robert Jancewicz, physics
Nannerl O. Keohane, political science
Robert Keohane, political science
Wolfgang Köhler, psychology
James Kurth, political science, editor of Orbis
Joseph Leidy, natural history
George W. Lewis, engineering
Kenneth Lieberthal, political science
Louis Massiah, black studies, film and media studies
Judith Moffett, English
Jonathan D. Moreno
Scott Nearing, economics
Frederic Pryor, economics
Bernard Saffran, economics
Maria L. Sanford, history
Wolfgang F. Stolper, economics
Judith G. Voet, chemistry and biochemistry
Hans Wallach, psychology
Kenneth Waltz, political science
Eugene Weber, German literature
Clair Wilcox, economics

National awards and honors (since the 1970s)

References

↑ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972
1 2 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975
↑ The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2004
↑ The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006
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↑ http://hugse9.harvard.edu/gsedata/Resource_pkg.profile?vperson_id=440/
↑ http://www.yale.edu/about/robinson.html
↑ http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/aprjun98/may0498/04curtin.html
↑ http://www.yale.edu/about/robinson.html
↑ "Margaret Allen, M.D.". United States National Library of Medicine. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
↑ "Dinosaur Mummy Found With Fossilized Skin And Soft Tissues". Science Daily. 2007-12-03.
↑ Archived April 6, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Cytoplasmic Dynein
↑ "Up Again Henderson", Time, May 1, 1939. Accessed October 1, 2007. "As a boy out of Millville, N.J., he worked his way through Swarthmore College, played basketball and football there."
↑ http://www.americansportscastersonline.com/brounmemorial.html
↑ The National Book Foundation
↑ Thwaite, Ann (25 March 2015). "Marni Hodgkin obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 May 2015.

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