List of Claremont Graduate University people
These are lists of encyclopedic persons (students, alumni, faculty or academic affiliates) associated with the Claremont Graduate University in California, United States. With about twenty thousand alumni[1], people listed here are CGU distinguished alumni award recipients, distinguished alumni service award recipients, names in the alumni hall of fame, among others.
Notable faculty and staff
Humanities
- Douglass Adair - American historian and historiographer
- Richard Armour - poet and author who wrote over sixty-five books
- Leonard Levy - Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor of Humanities and Chairman of the Graduate Faculty of History
- John Lemmon - logician and philosopher
- Michael S. Roth - Arts & Humanities; historian, author, curator; 16th president of Wesleyan University; 8th president of California College of the Arts
Social sciences
- Alfred Balitzer - professor of government
- Eric Helland - Professor at Claremont McKenna College and CGU; Senior Economist, Institute for Civil Justice, RAND Corporation
- Alan Heslop - American academic and government consultant
- Charles R. Kesler - professor of Government/Political Science at Claremont McKenna College and CGU; editor of the Claremont Review of Books
- Jacek Kugler - World Politics scholar, past President of International Studies Association, and Peace Science Society
- Hilton Root - academic and policy specialist in international political economy and development
- Michael Uhlmann - assistant attorney general in the Gerald Ford administration as well as special assistant to the President during Ronald Reagan’s first term in office.
- Paul J. Zak - Center for Neuroeconomics Studies
Behavioral and organizational sciences
- Dale Berger - cognitive psychologist and research methodologist
- William Crano - Fellow of the American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - psychology professor who is noted for work in the study of happiness, creativity, and as the architect of the notion of flow
- Stewart Donaldson - psychologist, specializing in evaluation science and optimal human and organizational functioning; and Dean of the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences
- Michael Hogg - one of the most influential social psychologist in northern America
- Kathy Pezdek - cognitive psychologist specializing in the study of eyewitness memory
- Michael Scriven - past president of the American Educational Research Association and the American Evaluation Association
- Allan Wicker - recognized for contributions to ecological psychology and the attitude-behavior relationship
Business and management
- Jean Lipman-Blumen - Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior
- Peter Drucker - one of the best-known and most widely influential thinkers and writers on the subject of management theory and practice, and self-described "social ecologist"
- Ira Jackson - Dean of Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management
- Roger Johnson - businessman and government official
- Ikujiro Nonaka - one of the most influential persons on business thinking who is best known for his study of Knowledge Management
Mathemetics and information
- Paul Gray - School of Information Systems and Technology (Emeritus)
- William J. LeVeque - American mathematician and administrator; executive director of the American Mathematical Society
Health and sciences
- Sherwin Carlquist - American botanist and photographer
- C. Anderson Johnson - School of Community and Global Health
- Robert Folger Thorne - botanist
Arts
- Peter Boyer - American composer, conductor, and professor of music
- Roger Edward Kuntz - American landscape painter; member of the Claremont Group of painters
- David Pagel - art critic
Religion
- Richard Bushman - Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies
- John Hick - philosopher of religion and theologian
- Jack Miles - American author and winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship.
- Rosemary Radford Ruether - American feminist scholar and theologian
Notable alumni
Government, Politics, and International Organizations
- Gerald W. Bush (MA 1959) Director of Training for the Far East and Special Assistant to the first Director of the Peace Corps Sargent Shriver; professor at Brandeis University[2][3]
- Stephen Cambone (Ph.D. 1982) the first U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.
- William A. Cohen (MA/Ph.D. 1978/79) President of the Institute of Leader Arts; Instructor at University of Southern California and CGU; Major General, U.S. Air Force[4][5]
- Enid H. Douglass (MA 1959) City Council member and then Mayor, Claremont, CA from 1982-6; oral historian[6][7]
- David Dreier (MA 1976) Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing California's 26th congressional district.
- Mansour Farhang (Ph.D. 1980) Former Iranian ambassador to the United Nations; professor in International Relations[8]
- Frank Farner (MA/Ph.D. 1957/60) administrator of the Graduate Scholarship Program and Principal Human Resources Economist, World Bank; founding President, Federal City College[9]
- Jonathan D. Farrar (MA) current Chief of Mission of the United States Interests Section in Havana, Cuba
- Thomas Farrell (MA 1973) Deputy assistant secretary for academic programs, U.S. Department of State, and Vice Provost for Global Engagement at University of Nebraska
- Miguel Hakim Simón (Ph.D. 1988)[10] Former Mexican Deputy Foreign Minister (as the title "Under-secretary" in Mexico)[11]; Secretary for Ibero-American Cooperation of the SEGIB[12]
- Steven F. Hayward (Ph.D./MA) American author, political commentator, and AEI policy scholar
- Teresa P. Hughes (Ph.D. 1973) professor of education at California State University, Los Angeles; California State Assembly Member (1975-1992); California State Senator (1993-2000)[13]
- Sherry Bebitch Jeffe (Ph.D. 1980) senior Fellow at the University of Southern California and political analyst[14]
- Susan M. Leeson (Ph.D. 1971) Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
- Ronald F. Lehman (Ph.D. 1975) currently Director of the Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; Department of State's U.S. Chief Negotiator on (START I); and Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
- Mary Parker Lewis (MA) political consultant
- Philippe Maystadt (MA 1973) former Belgian Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister of Finance, and Deputy Prime Minister as well as current President of European Investment Bank, Luxembourg, Belgium
- Brian McGowan, (Ph.D./MA) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce[15]
- Paul O'Neill (MA in Economics, 1961) United States Secretary of the Treasury; chairman of the RAND Corporation
- Susan Orr (Ph.D. '92) head of the Office of Population Affairs and United States Children's Bureau
- Robert Reilly (MA 1978) Director, Voice of America[16]
- Terry T. Saario (Ph.D. 1970) special Assistant to President Carter's Assistant for Women's Affairs; Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Department of Education; Program Officer of Ford Foundation[17]
- Peter W. Schramm (Ph.D. 1981) Professor of Political Science; the Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs
- Jack Scott (Ph.D. 1970) California State Senator; Chancellor, California Community Colleges
- Jerry Silverman (Ph.D. 1967) Regional Manager & Principal Institutional Development Specialist, World Bank[18]
- Michael Uhlmann (Ph.D. '78) visiting professor of government in the department of politics and policy at Claremont Graduate University and Claremont McKenna College; assistant attorney general in the Gerald Ford administration; special assistant to President Ronald Reagan.
- Jerry Voorhis (MA) Democratic US House of Representatives from California
- Diane Watson (Ph.D. 1988) member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing California's 33rd congressional district.
Academia and Science
- Joyce Appleby (Ph.D. 1966) American historian at UCLA; President of the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association
- Sacvan Bercovitch (Ph.D. 1965) Americanist, Literary and Cultural Critic; Powell M. Cabot Research Professor at Harvard University; visiting faculty member at the School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College.
- David M. Carr (M.A., Ph.D. 1988) Professor of Old Testament at Union Theological Seminary
- David Cordray (Ph.D. 1979) Professor of Public Policy and Psychology at Vanderbilt University; has worked with the U.S. Congress[19]
- Nicholas Cummings (MA) psychologist and former president of the American Psychological Association
- Stephen T. Davis (Ph.D.) Philosopher, Claremont McKenna College[20]
- Jacqueline Powers Doud (Ph.D. 1976) President of Mount St. Mary's College
- William N. Dunn (MA/Ph.D. 1966/69) Associate Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh[21]
- John C. Eastman (Ph.D.) Donald P. Kennedy Chair in Law and former Dean at Chapman University School of Law; politician
- David H. French (MA 1940) American anthropologist and linguist
- Edmond Haddad (Ph.D. 1982) President, Middle East University in Beirut, Lebanon[19]
- David Hitchcock (Ph.D. Philosophy) Philosophy professor at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
- Donald Hossler (Ph.D. 1979) Vice Chancellor and Professor, Indiana University[19]
- Arthur Janov (Ph.D. in psychology) American psychologist, psychotherapist, and the creator of primal therapy
- Robert Erwin Johnson (Ph.D. 1956) professor of history and considered "one of the finest scholars of the nineteenth century U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard"
- David Keirsey (Ph.D. 1967) internationally renowned psychologist
- Robert E. Kennedy (Ph.D.) President of California Polytechnic State University
- Marjorie Dean Lewis (Ph.D. 1992) President of Cypress College[19]
- Earl Maize (MA/Ph.D. 1977/81) Deputy program manager and manager for spacecraft operations for the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA[22]
- Munir Mandviwalla (Ph.D. 1995) Founding Chair, Department of MIS, Temple University[23]
- Christopher Manfredi (Ph.D. 1987) Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal[24]
- Mohand Merzkani (Ph.D. in Economics) Economic and Financial Advisor of Honduras National Port Authority and Dean of Puerto Cortes Campus of Honduras Technological University
- Eugene S. Mills (Ph.D. 1952) President, University of New Hampshire, 1974-79[25]
- Carlos Muñoz, Jr. (Ph.D. 1973) Professor Emeritus, Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley[26]
- Vincent Phillip Muñoz (Ph.D. 2001) Professor , Political Science, University of Notre Dame[27]
- Franklin Patterson first president of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts
- César Piña (MS 1987) Director of Information Sciences Institute’s Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service (MOSIS), University of Southern California[28][29]
- Margaret R. Preska (Ph.D. 1969) President, Minnesota State University, Mankato (1979-92); CEO and Provost, Immanuel Kant State University of Russia (1998-99)[30]
- Judy B. Rosener (Ph.D. 1979) Professor, University of California, Irvine[31]
- Kathleen Ross (Ph.D.) founding president of Heritage University
- Mark Rupert (Ph.D 1987) Professor and Chair, Political Science, Syracuse University[32]
- John D. Seelye (MA/Ph.D. 1956/61) Professor of American Literature at University of Florida, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, University of Connecticut and UC Berkeley
- F. Jay Taylor (MA 1950) President of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, 1962-1987[19]
- Laurence Thompson (MA 1947) USC professor of East Asian/Taiwanese[disambiguation needed] languages and cultures
- William Van Cleave (MA/Ph.D. 1965/67) advisor to President Ronald Reagan, Department of Defense, and Department of State; founder, the program of Defense and Strategic Studies at University of Southern California and Missouri State University
- Donald V. Weatherman (Ph.D) President, Lyon College[33]
- Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran (Ph.D. 1977) President, Kalamazoo College
- Steven Wood (Ph.D., Economics, 1978) Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Business and Industry
- Min-Shun "Diana" Chen (MBA 1997) Chairperson/CEO, Taipei World Financial Center (Taipei 101)
- Rajiv Dutta (MBA 1982) President of Skype and PayPal
- Charles C. Emery (MA/Ph.D. 1990/94) Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey[34]
- J. Michael Fay (Ph.D. 1974) President and founder of Claremont Financial Group, Inc.[35]
- Harold Gault (MA/Ph.D. 1968/75) Director of Contracts at L-3 Communications Ocean Systems[36]
- Sandy Lerner (MA 1977) Co-founder, Cisco Systems; founder, Urban Decay Cosmetics
- Steve Loyola (MA) President/CEO/Founder of Best Web Buys
- Ahmed M. Metwalli (MA 1987) President & Chief Operating Officer, Aerospace Products International, Inc.; former Vice President of International Operations, Lockheed Martin Corporation[37]
- Subramanyam Murthy (Ph.D. 1995) Chief Information Officer, QuickLogic[38]
- Badri Vijayaraghavan (MBA 1982) Executive Director of Marketing, Brakes India Ltd.
Fine Arts
- Bas Jan Ader (MA 1967) renowned Dutch conceptual artist, filmmaker, performance artist, and photographer.
- Lewis Baltz (MA 1971) visual artist; Professor for Photography at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland
- Bennett Bean (MA 1966) American ceramic artist
- Karl Benjamin (MA 1960) American painter of vibrant geometric abstractions
- Greg Colson (MFA 1980) American artist best known for wall sculptures constructed of salvaged materials.
- Kim Dingle contemporary artist working in paint, sculpture and installation
- John Frame (MFA '80) sculptor, photographer, composer and filmmaker
- Ferne Jacobs (MFA) American fiber artist and basket maker
- Allan Ludwig (MFA 2007) American artist
- Mary Martz (Ph.D. 1980) Director at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art[19]
- James Strombotne (MA 1959) American painter
- James Turrell (MA 1973) installation artist primarily concerned with light and space. Turrell's Roden Crater, the transformation of an extinct volcano in Arizona into an observatory, is a work in progress.
- Claire Van Vliet (MA) fine artist, illustrator and typographer
Literature and Performing Arts
- Ashleigh Brilliant (MA 1958) author and syndicated cartoonist
- Ian Fowles (MA 2008) American musician and author
- Fatima Hoang (MFA 2005) 2005 U.S. Air Guitar Champion
- Daniel Lewis (MA 1951) American orchestral conductor and pedagogue; Professor Emeritus at University of Southern California
- Suzanne Muchnic (MFA 1963) art critic and art writer for the Los Angeles Times; lecturer on Art History and Criticism at CGU and University of Southern California[39]
- Edith Pattou (MA 1979) author
- Robert G. Pielke (Ph.D 1973) author & professor of philosophy
- Rachel Pollack (MA) American science fiction author; comic book writer; expert on divinatory tarot
- Stephen D. Rountree (MA) President and Chief Executive Officer, Music Center of Los Angeles County, one of the three largest performing arts centers in U.S.
- Benjamin Saltman (Ph.D. 1967) American poet and Professor of verse writing and contemporary American literature
- Michael Shermer (Ph.D. in history of science 1991) Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine; monthly columnist for Scientific American, and the author of Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, and Why People Believe Weird Things
- Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (Ph.D.) American author, military historian and illustrator
Religion
- Bhikkhu Bodhi (Ph.D. 1972)
- Craig A. Evans (MA/Ph.D.) Theologian Acadia Divinity College
- David Ray Griffin (Ph.D. 1970) professor of philosophy of religion and theology
- Nancy R. Howell (MA/Ph.D.) Professor of Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Others
- Sandra A. Glass (Ph.D. 1981) Program Vice President for the W. M. Keck Foundation which founds the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, member of the Claremont Colleges
- Seth Leibsohn (MA) writer, editor, communications expert, political consultant, Chief of Staff to Education Secretary William J. Bennett
- Carol Baker Tharp (Ph.D. 2003)
- John G. West (Ph.D. 1992) Senior Fellow at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute; Associate Director and Vice President for Public Policy and Legal Affairs of its Center for Science and Culture
External links
- CGU Distinguished Alumni Award
- CGU Distinguished Alumni Service Award
- CGU Alumni Hall of Fame
- Flame: The Magazine of Claremont Graduate University
- Flame online pdf archive
References
- ^ CGU Facts
- ^ Gerald Bush
- ^ Gerald W. Bush Personal Papers JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
- ^ MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM A. COHEN U.S. Air Force
- ^ CGU Distinguished Alumni Service Award
- ^ Enid Douglass
- ^ Enid Douglass, oral history pioneer, dies at 81
- ^ Mansour Farhang Bennington College
- ^ Claremont Conversation Online
- ^ [1]
- ^ Chronicle on Cuba 11/01/03
- ^ [2] October 17, 2005
- ^ Teresa P. Hughes, California Legislator
- ^ Sherry Bebitch Jeffe School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California
- ^ Brian P. McGowan The Washington Post
- ^ Robert R. Reilly Appointed VOA's Twenty-Fifth Director
- ^ Terry Tinson Saario Ph.D.
- ^ [3]
- ^ a b c d e f CGU Alumni Hall of Fame
- ^ Faculty Profile
- ^ Faculty Directory
- ^ California Institute of Technology
- ^ [4]
- ^ CGU Flame
- ^ [5]
- ^ Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
- ^ Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
- ^ Director, MOSIS
- ^ César Piña
- ^ Margaret Preska Winona State University
- ^ [6]
- ^ Professor and Chair, Political Science, Maxwell School of Syracuse University
- ^ http://www.lyon.edu/donald-v.-weatherman.htm Office of the President], Lyon College
- ^ Socket Mobile, Inc.
- ^ The CFG Team
- ^ Harold Gault
- ^ Executive Leadership
- ^ Subramanyam Murthy, Ph.D., Information Science, 1995
- ^ Alumnae in Profile: Suzanne Muchnic '62