List of Antioch College people

This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Antioch College.

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]
• James A.F. Stoner (Antioch College B.S. in Engineering science in 1959) Educator, holder of James A.F. Stoner Chair in Global Quality Leadership at Fordham university and author

Entertainment

• Peter Adair (1967), filmmaker
• Peggy Ahwesh (1978), filmmaker and video artist
• Nick DeMartino, former Senior Vice President, Media and Technology for the American Film Institute
• 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), 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
• LaShann Moutique DeArcy Hall, District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• 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); Chief Judge of the Third Circuit from 1990-1991; 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
• Eliza Archard Conner (1838-1912), journalist, lecturer, and feminist
• 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

• Tim Barrett (B.A. 1973), papermaker^[4]
• Lisa Delpit (B.A. 1974), education reform leader^[5]
• Wendy Ewald (B.A. 1974), photographer^[6]
• Stephen Jay Gould (B.S. 1963), paleontologist^[7]
• Virginia Hamilton (attended 1952–55), writer^[8]
• Deborah Meier (attended 1949-1951), education reform leader^[9]
• Mark Strand (B.A. 1957), poet and writer^[10]

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 (B.A. 1958), printmaker, writer, lecturer, entrepreneur and founder of Crown Point Press^[11]
• Wendy Ewald (B.A. 1974), photographer, professor at Duke University^[12]
• Brian Shure (B.A. 1974), has taught 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