List of Bryn Mawr College people

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The following is a list of individuals associated with Bryn Mawr College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.

Noted alumni

Name	Year	Notable
Layla AbdelRahim	1993	Author and anthropologist
Renata Adler	1959	Writer
Katharine Sergeant Angell White	1914	Editor of The New Yorker
Maya Ajmera	1989	Founder of The Global Fund for Children
Donna Amenta	M.A. 1971, Ph.D 1974	Professor of Chemistry and Department Head at James Madison University
Anastasia Ashman	1986	Writer
Ellis Avery	1993	Novelist
Emily Greene Balch	1889	Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1946
Margaret Ayer Barnes	1907	Writer, Pulitzer Prize for the Novel winner, 1931
Florence Bird		Canadian journalist and politician
Grace Lee Boggs	Ph.D. 1940	Activist and author
Katharine Burr Blodgett	1917	Chemist and engineer
Sarmila Bose		Journalist
Ana Patricia Botin	1981	CEO of Banesto
Kathy Boudin	1965	Weathermen member convicted of murder and bank robbery
Annie Leigh Hobson Broughton	A.B. 1930, M.A. 1936	Advocate for women's education
A. S. Byatt	graduate work 1957-1958, did not graduate	Postmodern novelist
Jane Calvin	1959	Artist
John D. Caputo	Ph.D. 1968	Philosophy professor at Syracuse University
Birutė Ciplijauskaitė	Ph.D. 1964	Vilas Professor of Spanish University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bruce Cole	Ph.D.	Chairman of National Endowment for the Humanities
Mary Little Cooper	1968	Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
H.D.	did not graduate	Modernist poet
Regna Darnell	1965	Anthropologist
Eleanor Lansing Dulles	1917	Economist
Helen Flanders Dunbar	1923	Important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine
Lee McGeorge Durrell	1971	Author, television presenter, zookeeper
Drew Gilpin Faust	1968	Twenty-Eighth President of Harvard University, former Dean of Radcliffe Institute
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese	1963	Historian and conservative feminist
Shaun Gallagher	Ph.D.	University of Central Florida philosophy professor
Julia Anna Gardner	A.B. 1905, M.A. 1907	Geologist, paleontologist
Martha A. Geer	1980	Associate Justice of the North Carolina Court of Appeals
Carolyn Goodman	1961	Mayor of Las Vegas, founder of the Meadows School
Dorothy Goodman		Teacher, charter school advocate, founder of International Baccalaureate Organization
Hanna Holborn Gray	1950	Former president of University of Chicago
David Gress	Ph.D 1981	Historian
Edith Hamilton	M.A. 1894	Classical scholar
Naomi Halas	M.A. 1984, Ph.D. 1986	Professor of Chemistry and Computer Engineering at Rice University
Elaine Hammerstein	1917	Actress. There is no evidence in the College Archives that Hammerstein attended the school.
Carmelita Hinton	1912	Progressive educator
Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn	1899	Suffragist and family planning advocate
Katharine Hepburn	1928	Academy Award-winning actress
Sari Horwitz	1979	Journalist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner
Beryl Howell	1978	Federal Court Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Barbara Marx Hubbard	1951	Writer and public speaker
Salima Ikram	1986	Egyptologist and professor at American University in Cairo
Sarah Jones	did not graduate	Actress, poet, playwright
Rosabeth Moss Kanter	1964	Professor in business at Harvard Business School, former editor of the Harvard Business Review
Victoria S. Kaufman	1986	Bankruptcy judge in the Central Discrict of California
Michi Kawai	1904	Founder of Keisen University
Emily Kimbrough	1921	Writer
Helen Dean King	Ph.D. 1899	Biologist
Karl Kirchwey	Associate professor 2000–present	Poet
Karen Kornbluh	1985	Ambassador and U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Gertrude Prokosch Kurath	1928	Dancer and dance researcher
Leslie Kurke	1981	Professor of classics at University of California-Berkeley and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient in 1999
Ellen Kushner	did not graduate	Fantasy writer
Frederica de Laguna	1927	Anthropologist
Ruth Langer	1981	Professor of Religion
Mimi Lee	1943	Chemist and First Lady of Maryland from 1977 to 1979
Helen Taft Manning	1915	Historian, professor and dean of Bryn Mawr College, suffragist, daughter of President William Howard Taft
Gerald Mara	Ph.D.	Dean and Professor of Government at Georgetown University
Jacqueline Mars	1961	Heiress to Mars candy fortune
Berthe Marti	M.A. 1926, Ph.D. 1934	Professor of Latin at Bryn Mawr College
Mary A. McLaughlin	M.A. 1969	Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
A. Thomas McLellan	M.S., Ph.D.	Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, nominee for Deputy Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
Mary Patterson McPherson	Ph.D.	Former President of Bryn Mawr College
Cornelia Meigs	1908	Newbery Medal winner in 1934
Mary Meigs	1939	Writer
Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt	A.B. 1927, M.A. 1928, Ph.D. 1935	Classical archaeologist
Lynne Meadow	1968	Theatrical producer and director
Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels	A.B., M.A., Ph.D.	Classical scholar and former professor at Bryn Mawr College
Victoria S. Middleton	1971	Diplomat
Elizabeth Bissell Miller	1998	Diplomat, Youth Ambassador to the Former Soviet Union
Elizabeth Mosier	1984	Writer, Author of My Life as a Girl
Marianne Moore	1909	Poet
Tony D. Morinelli	Ph.D. 1990	Educator, playwright, painter
Margaret M. Morrow	1971	Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Catherine Gilbert Murdock		Writer
Emily Cheney Neville	1940	Newbery Medal winner in 1964
Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover		Member of the U.K. House of Lords
Sherry Ortner	1962	Anthropologist, professor at UCLA, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient
Diana Oughton	1963	Militant Weathermen member
Judith Peabody		Socialite and philanthropist
Candace Pert	1970	Neuroscientist
Jeannette Piccard	1918	Teacher, scientist, balloon pilot, priest
Bertha Putnam	1893	Historian
Virginia Ragsdale	A.B., Ph.D.	Mathematician
Paul Rehak	M.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1985	Archaeologist
Alice Rivlin	1952	Economist, first director of Congressional Budget Office
Phyllis Ross		Economist, former chancellor of University of British Columbia
Ilana Kara Diamond Rovner	1960	Judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Edith Finch Russell		Author, biographer of Bryn Mawr College President M. Carey Thomas
Maggie Siff	1996	Actress, Mad Men
Gabrielle M. Spiegel	1964	Chair of the History Department at Johns Hopkins University, President of the American Historical Association, 2008–2009
Rosemarie Said Zahlan	1958	Palestinian-American historian and writer
Lavanya Sankaran	1990	Writer
Bernadette Sargeant	1983	Attorney and former adviser to the U.S. House Ethics Committee
Jenny Sawyer	2002	literary critic, internet entrepreneur ( http://www.60secondrecap.com )
Teresita Currie Schaffer	1966	Diplomat and former director of the Foreign Service Institute
Dorothy Schiff	1921	Newspaper publisher
Allyson Schwartz	M.A. 1972	U.S. Representative
Elaine Showalter	1962	Feminist literary critic and former president of the Modern Language Association
Fatima Siad	2007	contestant on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 10 and fashion model
Maggie Siff	1996	Actress
Rachel Simon	1981	Writer
Cornelia Otis Skinner	did not graduate	Actress and author
Joan Slonczewski	1977	Biology professor at Kenyon College, science fiction writer
Deborah Spungen	M.S.W. 1989	Author
Nettie Stevens	Ph.D. 1903	Geneticist
Caroline Stevermer	1977	Fantasy writer
Lily Ross Taylor	Ph.D. 1912	Former professor and dean of Bryn Mawr College
Dorothy Burr Thompson	1923	Archaeologist and art historian
Kaity Tong		Broadcast journalist
Anne Truitt	1943	Minimalist sculptor
Umeko Tsuda	1889–1892	First Japanese student. Founder of Tsuda College & first president of YWCA in Japan
Neda Ulaby	1993	NPR Reporter
Emily Vermeule	A.B. 1950, Ph.D. 1956	Classical scholar, archaeologist, poet
Elizabeth Gray Vining	1923	Newbery Medal winner
Betty Peh T'i Wei	1953	Historian
Mai Yamani	1979	Anthropologist and Saudi Arabian activist
Genevieve Vaughan	1961	Philanthropist and feminist activist

Noted faculty and administrators

• Florence Bascom, petrologist, founder of Bryn Mawr's Geology Department
• Rhys Carpenter, Art history (1914?-1955)
• Maria Luisa Crawford, Geology, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient
• Marland Pratt Billings, Structural Geologist
• Howard S. Hoffman, Psychology (1925-2006), Behavioral Neuroscientist, leading scholar of the startle reflex and social attachment
• Frederica de Laguna, anthropologist and founder of Bryn Mawr's anthropology department (1906–2004)
• Mabel Lang, Greek (1943–1988); received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1943
• Richmond Lattimore, Greek (1935–1971)
• Helen Taft Manning, History (1917–1957), also served as dean
• Berthe Marti, Latin and French (1930–1963)
• Cornelia Meigs, English (1932–1950)
• Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels, Latin (1934–1975)
• Thomas Hunt Morgan, geneticist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (1866–1946)
• Emmy Noether, Mathematics (1933–1935)
• Charlotte Scott, Mathematics (1885–1917)
• Lily Ross Taylor, Latin (1927–1942), Dean of the Graduate School (1942–52)
• M. Carey Thomas, English, Dean of the College (1884–1908), President (1894–1922)
• Woodrow Wilson, (1885–1888)
• José Ferrater Mora, Philosophy (1949–1980).

Noted fictional alumni

• Allison R. Hart-Burnett (A.B.) (1980s), Lady Jaye
• Edna Krabappel (M.A.), Simpsons teacher
• Erica Barry (A.B.), Something's Gotta Give lead character played by Diane Keaton
• Pamela Abbott (A.B.), Inventing the Abbotts (1997), played by Liv Tyler
• Amanda Bonner (A.B.), Adam's Rib (1949), played by Katharine Hepburn
• Bunny Watson (A.B.), Desk Set (1957), played by Katharine Hepburn
• Nancy Drew & Carolyn Keene, Confessions of a Teen Sleuth (book published in 2005)
• Betty Draper (A.B.), Mad Men (2007), played by January Jones
• C.C. Babcock, The Nanny (1993), played by Lauren Lane