List of Brandeis University people

Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of Brandeis University.

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Notable alumni

Academia

• Eve Adler: Classicist, professor at Middlebury College
• Elliot Aronson: Social psychologist known for research on the theory of cognitive dissonance
• 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, Smith College
• Jean Bethke Elshtain: Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, feminist, political philosopher
• Daniel A. Foss: Sociologist
• Robert Gallucci: Dean, Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, President of the MacArthur Foundation
• Robert Glennon: Author; Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Arizona
• John Hopps: Physicist, politician
• Arthur Levine: President, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation [2]; former president of Columbia University Teachers College
• Deborah Lipstadt: History professor, Emory University [3]
• Fatema Mernissi: Moroccan sociologist.[4]
• Elisa New: Professor, Harvard University, wife of Lawrence Summers, former President of Harvard University [5]
• David Oshinsky: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, professor
• Alicia Ostriker: Poet, professor at Rutgers University
• Philip Rubin: Cognitive scientist, CEO and senior scientist, Haskins Laboratories
• Paul Sally: Professor of mathematics, University of Chicago
• Fr. Antonio S. Samson: President of Jesuit-run Ateneo de Davao University in the Philippines[6]
• Michael Sandel: Professor of political philosophy,Harvard University and former member of The President's Council on Bioethics
• Judith Shapiro: Former President, Barnard College
• Fernando Torres-Gil: Associate Dean and professor of public policy, UCLA School of Public Affairs
• Karen Uhlenbeck: Mathematics professor, MacArthur Fellow, awarded Leroy P. Steele Prize for research
• Michael Walzer: Professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey Walzer's CV (PDF)
• Rich Yampell: Grammarian, Klingon Language Institute
• Robert J. Zimmer: President, University of Chicago[7]

Arts and media

• Kathy Acker: Novelist
• Mitch Albom: Sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press, author of Tuesdays With Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven
• Paula Apsell: Executive Producer of Nova, the longest-running science documentary series and winner of eight Emmy Awards
• Stanley Bing (aka Gil Schwartz): Author, columnist for Fortune and Esquire, and Executive Vice President CBS Corporation.
• David Brudnoy: Talk radio host in Boston
• Samrat Chakrabarti: British-American actor
• Peter Child: Composer
• Joe Conason: Political columnist for The New York Observer
• David Crane: Co-creator, writer, and executive producer of television series Friends [8]
• Tyne Daly: Actress[9], 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 [10]
• Thomas Friedman: Foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times; winner of the National Book Award and three Pulitzer Prizes.[11]
• Gary David Goldberg: Television writer and producer
• Tony Goldwyn: Actor and director
• Mark Halliday: Poet
• Marshall Herskovitz: TV and film producer, director and screenwriter [12]
• Kay Hymowitz: Conservative commentator, Manhattan Institute scholar
• Chuck Israels: Jazz musician, bassist
• Margo Jefferson: The New York Times theater critic, winner of Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
• Ha Jin: Novelist [13], winner of the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award
• Michael Kaiser: President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
• Myq Kaplan: comedian
• 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: Postmodern 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[14]
• Debra Messing: Actress in television series Will & Grace and The Starter Wife [15]
• Walter Mossberg: Wall Street Journal Technology Columnist[16]
• 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[17]
• Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Author, journalist, social activist, a founding editor of Ms. Magazine
• Patrik-Ian Polk: Writer-producer of Noah's Arc.[18]
• Tom Rapp: Singer/songwriter, previously of Pearls Before Swine
• Guy Raz: Host of National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" weekend edition. See http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2009/july/raz-atcwehost.html
• Theresa Rebeck: Playwright and novelist.
• Burt Rosen: Founder of C/F International, television producer, winner of Emmy, Peabody and Christopher awards.
• Jeff Rubens: Bridge player, writer and editor.
• David Ian Salter: Film editor of Toy Story 2 and Finding Nemo[19]
• Bill Schneider: CNN's senior political analyst [20]
• Bob Simon: CBS Television correspondent for 60 Minutes
• Arunoday Singh: Bollywood actor; grandson of Indian politician Arjun Singh
• Christina Hoff Sommers: Author, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research [21]
• Karen Sosnoski: Author and filmmaker
• Jonathan Vankin: Senior Editor, Vertigo Comics
• Robin Weigert: Actress, played Calamity Jane in Deadwood on HBO

Business

• Leonard Asper: Chief Operating Officer, CanWest [22]
• Mitch Caplan: Former president and CEO, E*Trade Financial Corporation [23]
• Jeri Bloch Finard: Chief Marketing Officer, Kraft Foods, Inc.[24]
• Ellen Gordon: Chief Operating Officer, Tootsie Roll Industries [25]
• Christie Hefner: Former Chairman & CEO, Playboy Enterprises, Inc., daughter of Hugh Hefner [26] [27]
• Myra Hiatt Kraft: Philanthropist and wife of Bob Kraft, owner of New England Patriots NFL football team
• Suk-Won Kim: Chair of Ssangyong Business Group, one of the largest companies in the Republic of Korea[28]
• Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson: Executive Vice President of Time Warner, former CEO and president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, responsible for the introduction of PlayStation
• Robert F.X. Sillerman: Media entrepreneur; CEO of CKX, Inc. (owner of Elvis Presley Enterprises and American Idol) [29]

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
• Donna Artz: Human rights attorney, law professor
• Sidney Blumenthal: Adviser to President Bill Clinton and journalist[30]
• Naomi Reice Buchwald: United States District Court Judge, Southern District of New York [31]
• Bernard Coard: Grenadian politician who led the coup that ousted Maurice Bishop[32]
• Jennifer Casolo: Peace activist
• Angela Yvonne Davis: Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, political activist
• Marc D. Falkoff: Professor at Northern Illinois University College of Law, co-counsel of Guantanamo Bay detainees
• Geir Haarde: Former Prime Minister of Iceland
• 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")[33]
• 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
• Vineeta Rai: Indian Administrative Service officer; Former Revenue Secretary, Government of India; Voted one of 25 Most Powerful Women in Business in India
• Michael Ratner: President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a non-profit human rights litigation organization
• Stanley Roth: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 1997-2001
• Dimitrij Rupel: Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia[34]
• George Saitoti: Former Vice President of the Republic of Kenya
• 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[35]
• Stephen J. Solarz: Former U.S. Representative from Brooklyn, New York[36]
• Shen Tong: Student leader in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989[37]
• Nikolai Vassilliev: Deputy prime minister of Bulgaria [38]
• 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 Cohen: Physicist and inventor of fractal element antenna and wideband invisibility cloak
• 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: Astronomer, former director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers
• Paul Townsend: Physicist, notable for work on String Theory
• Patrick Tufts: Computer scientist and inventor
• Edward Witten: Physicist, awarded Fields Medal in 1990[39]

Sports

• Nelson Figueroa: Major League Baseball pitcher for the New York Mets and four other teams. [40].
• Jeffrey Lurie: Owner of Philadelphia Eagles NFL football team
• Tim Morehouse: Fencer, Silver Medal winner in Men's Team Sabre at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Notable faculty and staff

• Teresa Amabile: Social and organizational psychologist
• Robert J. Art: International politics
• Leonard Bernstein: Composer and conductor
• Frank Bidart: Poet, awarded Bollingen Prize
• Egon Bittner: Sociologist and police science scholar
• Olga Broumas: Poet
• Mary Baine Campbell: Poet and critic
• Stephen Cecchetti: Economist
• Jacob "Jerry" Cohen: Expert on conspiracy theories (particularly the assassination of JFK)
• Frank Conroy: Memoirist, fiction writer, and director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop
• Lewis A. Coser: Sociologist, one of the founders of Dissent magazine
• 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
• Benny Friedman: Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback; Brandeis athletic director and last football coach
• Lawrence "Larry" Fuchs: Founder of the American Studies Department at Brandeis and immigration policy expert
• Ray Ginger: Historian noted for his biography of Eugene V. Debs
• Arthur Green: Jewish spirituality and thought
• Allen Grossman: Poet, awarded Bollingen Prize and MacArthur Fellowship "genius" grant
• 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
• Eve Marder: Neuroscientist
• Abraham Maslow: Psychologist noted for humanistic approach
• Eileen McNamara: Pulitzer Prize- winning columnist for the Boston Globe
• Pauli Murray: Feminist, civil rights advocate, lawyer, and ordained priest
• 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
• Gregory Petsko: Biochemist
• 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 for 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 of children's books, including the Curious George series
• 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
• Thomas M. Shapiro: Sociologist, author [41]
• 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 of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Fulbright Scholar, actor in the movie Doctor Faustus
• Samuel O. Thier, health policy expert, and former president of both Massachusetts General Hospital and Brandeis University
• Gina Turrigiano: Neuroscientist, winner of the 2000 MacArthur "Genius" Award
• Claude Vigée: Poet
• Stephen J. Whitfield: Expert on American Jewish history
• Yehudi Wyner: Composer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music
• Leslie Zebrowitz: Social psychologist