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| [[Rosemarie Said Zahlan]] || 1958 || Palestinian-American historian and writer |
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Revision as of 03:34, 20 March 2011
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 alumnae and alumni
| Name | Year | Notable |
|---|---|---|
| Renata Adler | 1959 | Writer [1] |
| 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 [2] |
| 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 [3] |
| 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 [4] |
| 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 |
| Martha A. Geer | 1980 | Associate Justice of the North Carolina Court of Appeals [5] |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| Victoria S. Kaufman | 1986 | Bankruptcy judge in the Central Discrict of California [6] |
| Emily Kimbrough | 1921 | Writer |
| Helen Dean King | Ph.D. 1899 | Biologist |
| Karl Kirchwey | Associate professor 2000–present | Poet[7][8] |
| 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 |
| Helen Taft Manning | 1915 | Historian, professor and dean of Bryn Mawr College, suffragist, daughter of President William Howard Taft [9] |
| 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 [10] |
| Mary Meigs | 1939 | Writer [11] |
| 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 |
| 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[12] | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
Noted faculty and administrators
- Rhys Carpenter, Art history (1914?-1955)
- Maria Luisa Crawford, Geology, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient
- Marland Pratt Billings, Structural Geologist
- 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 [9]
- Berthe Marti, Latin and French (1930-1963)
- Cornelia Meigs, English (1932-1950) [10]
- 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 alumnae
- 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
- Liz Lemon (A.B.), 30 Rock (2006), played by Tina Fey
- C.C. Babcock, The Nanny (1993), played by Lauren Lane
Notes
- ^ Reporting Civil Rights: Reporters and Writers: Renata Adler
- ^ Bryn Mawr Now: Ellis Avery ’93 to read from The Teahouse Fire
- ^ "A. S. Byatt," MSN Encarta. Archived 2009-10-31.
- ^ Biography
- ^ Biography
- ^ http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/web/ocelibra.nsf/504ca249c786e20f85
- ^ "Faculty 2010-2011". Bryn Mawr. 2010-10-15. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Karen Heller (May 1, 2003). "Bryn Mawr shows creative side as it makes way for arts". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b Helen Taft Manning, Ex-Dean of Bryn Mawr - New York Times
- ^ a b Meigs, Cornelia
- ^ Mary Meigs Papers | Special Collections | Bryn Mawr College Library
- ^ Weber, Bruce. "Judith Peabody, Socialite and Volunteer, Dies at 80", The New York Times, July 27, 2010. Accessed July 27, 2010.