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Revision as of 00:23, 13 October 2008
Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of Brandeis University.
Notable alumni
Academia
- Bonnie Berger: Professor of Applied Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- David Bernstein: Law professor and blogger [1]
- Deborah Bial: Education strategist, Founder and President of Posse Foundation, MacArthur Fellow
- Arthur L. Caplan: Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Donna Robinson Divine: Professor at Smith College
- Jean Bethke Elshtain: Professor at the University of Chicago, feminist, political philosopher
- Daniel A. Foss: Sociologist
- John Hopps: Physicist, politician
- Arthur Levine: President of Columbia University Teachers College; recently appointed Woodrow Wilson Foundation[2]
- Deborah Lipstadt: Historian[3]
- Fatema Mernissi: Moroccan sociologist.[4]
- Elisa New: Harvard University Professor and wife of Lawrence Summers, former President of Harvard University [5]
- Alicia Ostriker: Poet, professor at Rutgers University
- Philip Rubin: Cognitive scientist, CEO and senior scientist, Haskins Laboratories
- Paul Sally: Professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago
- Fr. Antonio S. Samson: President of Jesuit-run Ateneo de Davao University in the Philippines[6]
- Judith Shapiro: President, Barnard College
- Thomas M. Shapiro: Sociologist, author [7]
- Robert F.X. Sillerman: Chancellor of Southampton College of Long Island University
- Michael Walzer: Professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey Walzer's CV (PDF)
- Robert J. Zimmer: President of the University of Chicago[8]
Arts and media
- Kathy Acker: Novelist
- Mitch Albom: Sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press, author of Tuesdays With Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven[1]
- Paula Apsell: Executive Producer of Nova, the longest-running science documentary series and winner of eight Emmy Awards
- Morton Brilliant: Wikipedia-using campaign manager[9]
- Peter Child: Composer
- Joe Conason: Political columnist for The New York Observer
- Shoshana Cooper: Artist.
- David Crane: Co-creator, writer, and executive producer of television series Friends [10]
- Tyne Daly: Actress[11], co-starred in TV series Cagney & Lacey
- Stuart Damon (Stuart Michael Zonis): Actor, played Dr.Alan Quartermaine for thirty years on the TV soap opera General Hospital
- Loretta Devine: Actress in TV series Boston Public and Grey's Anatomy, and films, including Crash [12]
- Irving Fine: Composer
- Thomas Friedman: Foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times; winner of National Book Award and three-time winner of Pulitzer Prize.[13]
- Gary David Goldberg: Television producer
- Tony Goldwyn: Actor and director
- Mark Halliday: Poet
- Marshall Herskovitz: TV and film producer, director and screenwriter [14]
- Kay Hymowitz: conservative commentator, Manhattan Institute scholar
- Chuck Israels: Jazz musician, bassist
- Margo Jefferson: The New York Times Sunday theater critic and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
- Ha Jin: Novelist [15], winner of the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award
- Michael Kaiser: President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
- Marta Kauffman: Executive Producer and co-creator of the Emmy Award-winning television series Friends
- Jon Landau: Music critic, manager and record producer
- Louise Lasser: Actress, ex-wife of Woody Allen
- Peter Lieberson: Composer
- Mark Leyner: Novelist
- Steven Mackey: Composer
- Michael McDowell: Novelist and script writer
- Gates McFadden: Actress, best known as Dr. Beverly Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation[16]
- Debra Messing: Actress in television series Will & Grace [17]
- Walter Mossberg: Wall Street Journal Technology Columnist[18]
- Josh Mostel: Actor in television shows and films, son of actor Zero Mostel
- Barry Newman: Actor
- Anand Patwardhan: Documentary filmmaker
- Martin Peretz: Editor-in-chief of The New Republic[19]
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Author, journalist, social activist, a founding editor of Ms. Magazine
- Tom Rapp: Singer/songwriter, previously of Pearls Before Swine
- Theresa Rebeck: Playwright and novelist.
- Beth Rosenberg: Author and editor.
- Jeff Rubens: Bridge player, writer and editor.
- David Ian Salter: Film editor of Toy Story 2 and Finding Nemo[20]
- Bill Schneider: CNN's senior political analyst [21]
- Bob Simon: CBS Television correspondent for 60 Minutes
- Christina Hoff Sommers: Author, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research [22]
- Karen Sosnoski: Author and filmmaker
- Penelope Trunk: Author of Brazen Careerist: New Rules for Success [23], columnist, The Boston Globe and Yahoo! Finance[24]
- Jonathan Vankin: Senior Editor, Vertigo Comics
- Robin Weigert: Actress (Calamity Jane in HBO's Deadwood)
Business
- Leonard Asper: CanWest CEO [25]
- Mitch Caplan: President and CEO, E* TRADE Group [26]
- Jeri Bloch Finard: Chief Marketing Officer, Kraft Foods, Inc.[27]
- Ellen Gordon: Chief Operating Officer, Tootsie Roll Industries [28]
- Christie Hefner: Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Playboy Enterprises, Inc., daughter of Hugh Hefner [29] [30]
- Myra Hiatt Kraft: Philanthropist and wife of Bob Kraft, owner of New England Patriots
- Suk-Won Kim: Chair of Ssangyong Business Group, one of the largest companies in the Republic of Korea[31]
- Jeffrey Lurie: Owner of Philadelphia Eagles football team
- Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson: Vice president of Time Warner Digital Media - Former CEO and president of Sony Interfactive Entertainment and responsible for the introduction of PlayStation
- Robert F.X. Sillerman: Media entrepreneur; CEO of CKX (owner of Elvis Presley Enterprises and American Idol);Chairman, SFX Entertainment [32]
Government, law and politics
- Jack Abramoff: Republican activist, founder of International Freedom Foundation, lobbyist who pleaded guilty to three felonies in 2006, writer and producer of the movie Red Scorpion
- Sidney Blumenthal: Adviser to President Bill Clinton and journalist[33]
- Naomi Reice Buchwald: United States District Court Judge, Southern District of New York [34]
- Bernard Coard: Grenadian politician who led the coup that ousted Maurice Bishop[35]
- Jennifer Casolo: Peace activist
- Angela Yvonne Davis: Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, political activist
- Geir Haarde: Prime Minister of Iceland[2][3]
- Wakako Hironaka: Member of the Diet of Japan, State Minister, Director-General of the Environment Agency (1993-94)
- Abbie Hoffman: Social and political activist, Co-founder of the Youth International Party ("Yippies")[36]
- Naomi Jaffe : Social and political activist, member of the Weatherman (organization).
- Otis Johnson : Mayor of Savannah, Georgia
- Marcel Kahan: Published legal pundit and corporate law professor at the New York University School of Law.
- Joette Katz: Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
- Osman Faruk Loğoğlu: Former Ambassador to the United States from the Republic of Turkey
- Katherine Ann Power: Anti-war activist and former fugitive from justice[4]
- Vineeta Rai: Indian Administrative Service officer; Former Revenue Secretary, Government of India; Voted one of 25 Most Powerful Women in Business in India[5]
- Dimitrij Rupel: Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia[37]
- George Saitoti: Former Vice President of the Republic of Kenya and former Minister of Finance, Government of Kenya
- Michael Sandel: Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard University and former member of the President's Council on Bioethics
- Susan Edith Saxe: Anti-war activist and former fugitive from justice
- Ari Schwartz: Chief operating officer, Center for Democracy and Technology
- Eli J. Segal: Assistant to the President of the United States from 1993 - 1996[38]
- Stephen J. Solarz: Former U.S. Representative from Brooklyn, New York[39]
- Shen Tong: Student leader in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989[40]
- Nikolai Vassilliev: Deputy prime minister of Bulgaria [41]
- Laura Whitehorn: Member of the Weatherman (organization), she participated in the Battle of Boston during the Boston Bus Crisis.
- Gerald Zerkin: Attorney for Zacarias Moussaoui.
Science
- Nathan (Nathaniel) Cohen: Physicist and inventor
- Judith Rich Harris: Psychologist
- Leslie Lamport: Computer scientist and inventor of LaTeX, a widely-used document preparation system
- Roderick MacKinnon: Recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, head of the Rockefeller University Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics,
- Janet Akyüz Mattei: Turkish-American astronomer and former director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
- Patrick Tufts: Computer scientist and inventor
- Karen Uhlenbeck: Mathematician
- Edward Witten: Physicist, recipient of the Fields Medal in 1990[42]
- Aafia Siddiqui -Neuroscientist (alleged Al-Qaeda operative)
Sports
- Nelson Figueroa: Major League Baseball pitcher for the New York Mets, Arizona Diamondbacks, Philadelphia Phillies, Milwaukee Brewers and Pittsburgh Pirates. [43].
- Tim Morehouse: Fencer who won a Silver Medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Men's Team Sabre
Notable faculty and staff
- Teresa M. Amabile: Social and organizational psychologist
- Robert J. Art: International politics
- Leonard Bernstein: Composer and conductor
- Frank Bidart: Poet
- Olga Broumas: Poet
- Mary Baine Campbell: Poet and critic
- Stephen Cecchetti: Economist
- Jacob "Jerry" Cohen: Expert on conspiracy theories (particularly the assassination of JFK)
- J.V. Cunningham: Poet and literary critic
- Thomas Doherty: Film studies expert, author of Pre-Code Hollywood
- Mark Feeney: Pulitzer Prize-winning arts critic for The Boston Globe
- Gordie Fellman: Peace Studies pioneer, author of Rambo and the Dalai Lama
- Irving Fine: Composer
- David Hackett Fischer: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author
- Benny Friedman: Pro Football Hall of Fame Quarterback; former Athletic Director (1949-1961) and the final Coach of Brandeis' football team (1951-1959)
- Thomas Friedman: columnist for The New York Times; three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize; author of The World is Flat and expert on globalization
- Lawrence "Larry" Fuchs: Founder of the American Studies Department at Brandeis and immigration policy expert
- Arthur Green: Jewish spirituality and thought
- Allen Grossman: MacArthur Foundation "genius-award" winning poet and critic
- Timothy J Hickey: Computer scientist
- Anita Hill: Lawyer and social policy expert
- Heisuke Hironaka: Mathematician, Fields Medal winner.
- Irving Howe: Political theorist, editor and founder of Dissent
- Paul Jankowski: Historian
- William E. Kapelle: Medieval historian
- Dorothee Kern: Biochemist, former basketball player for the German national team
- Walter Laqueur: Historian and political commentator.
- Max Lerner: Author, syndicated columnist, and editor
- Martin Levin: Public Policy expert.
- Kanan Makiya: Iraqi dissident, advocate of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
- Herbert Marcuse: Social theorist and member of the Frankfurt School
- Abraham Maslow: Psychologist noted for humanistic approach
- Eileen McNamara: Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Boston Globe
- Pauli Murray: Feminist and civil rights expert.
- Ulric Neisser: A pioneer in development of cognitive psychology
- Irene Pepperberg: Psychologist noted for research on cognition in animals, particularly for her intensive work with Alex,an African Grey Parrot
- James Pustejovsky: Linguist, proposer of Generative Lexicon theory
- Philip Rahv: Literary and social critic, editor and founder of Partisan Review
- David Rakowski: Music, runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in Music (1999, 2002)
- Robert Reich: United States Secretary of Labor, 1993 - 1997, candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 2002
- Philip Rieff: Sociologist and cultural critic
- Margret Rey: Author and illustrator
- Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the United States
- Dennis Ross: Special envoy/ambassador to Middle East under President Bill Clinton
- George Ross: Political sociology
- Jonathan Sarna: Sociologist and author
- Morrie Schwartz: Sociologist; subject of Mitch Albom's bestselling novel, Tuesdays with Morrie.
- Marion Smiley: J.P. Morgan Chase Chair in Ethics
- Thomas Sowell: Economist, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
- Andreas Teuber: Chair, Department of Philosophy, Member and Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Fulbright Scholar, National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Recipient, actor in the movie Doctor Faustus.
- Gina Turrigiano: Neuroscientist, winner of the 2000 MacArthur "Genius" Award
- Stephen J. Whitfield: Expert on American Jewish history
- Leslie Zebrowitz: Social psychologist
References
- ^ "Mitch Albom bio".
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- ^ David E. Nathan (2006-05-25). "Two to receive Brandeis Alumni Achievement Awards". Brandeis University. Retrieved 2006-06-07.
- ^ Hook, Sidney (1995). Letters of Sidney Hook: Democracy, Communism, and the Cold War. M. E. Sharpe. ISBN 1-56324-487-X. p. 297: "In 1970, Katherine Anne Power, then a senior at Brandeis University, took part in a robbery in Boston of the State Street Bank and Trust..."; "Q & A with Katherine Power's Parents," The Boston Globe, October 28, 1981: "Among the radical '60s activists still underground is Katherine Ann Power who, while a 22-year-old student at Brandeis University, allegedly participated in the robbery of a Boston bank during which a police officer was killed."
- ^ "Business Today: 25 Most Powerful Women in Business".
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