List of Bryn Mawr College people
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 |
| Nadia Abu El Haj | 1984 | Anthropologist at Barnard College |
| 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 |
| Genevieve Bell | 1990 | Cultural anthropologist at Intel Labs |
| Florence Bird | 1928 | Canadian journalist and politician |
| Eleanor Albert Bliss | 1921 | Bacteriologist |
| Katharine Burr Blodgett | 1917 | Chemist and engineer |
| Grace Lee Boggs | Ph.D. 1940 | Activist and author |
| Sarmila Bose | 1981 | Journalist |
| Ana Patricia Botin | 1981 | CEO of Santander UK, CEO of Banesto |
| Kathy Boudin | 1965 | Weathermen member convicted of murder and bank robbery |
| Frances Schreuder ~ Bradshaw | non-degreed | convicted in 1983 of the 1978 Franklin Bradshaw murder that she forced her son, Marc, to perform. |
| Annie Leigh Hobson Broughton | A.B. 1930, M.A. 1936 | Advocate for women's education |
| Carol Burns | 1977 | Architect, co-founder of Taylor & Burns Architects |
| 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 |
| Marjorie Constance Caserio | MA in chemistry in 1951, PhD in 1956 | Chemist |
| Birutė Ciplijauskaitė | Ph.D. 1964 | Vilas Professor of Spanish University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Susy Clemens | did not graduate | daughter of American author Mark Twain |
| Bruce Cole | Ph.D. 1969 | Chairman of National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Soraya Coley | M.S.S. 1974 | current president of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
| Joyce Mitchell Cook | 1955 | First African American woman to receive a PhD in philosophy and the first woman to be appointed to an assistant teacher position at Yale |
| 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 |
| Mary Maples Dunn | M.A. 1956, Ph.D. 1959 | former president of Smith College |
| 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 |
| Mary Peters Fieser | 1930 | Chemist and writer |
| Catherine Clarke Fenselau | 1961 | Chemist, pioneer in mass spectrometry |
| Shaun Gallagher | Ph.D. | University of Central Florida philosophy professor |
| Julia Anna Gardner | 1905 A.B., 1907 M.A. | Geologist, paleontologist |
| Martha A. Geer | 1980 | Associate Justice of the North Carolina Court of Appeals[5] |
| 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 |
| Margaret Healey | Ph.D. 1969 | former president of Rosemont College |
| Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn | 1899 | Suffragist and family planning advocate |
| Katharine Hepburn | 1928 | Academy Award-winning actress |
| Betsy Hodges | 1991 | current Mayor of Minneapolis |
| Edith Houghton Hooker | 1901 | Suffragist |
| Margaret Hoover | 2001 | Political contributor for CNN, media personality, and author. She is a great-granddaughter of former U.S. President Herbert Hoover. |
| Matina Horner | 1961 | former president of Radcliffe College and psychologist who pioneered the concept of "fear of success"[6] |
| Sari Horwitz | 1979 | Journalist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winnere Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Beryl Howell | 1978 | Federal Court Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
| Agnes Hsu-Tang | Archaeologist and host of History Channel Asia’s “Mysteries of China” series | |
| 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[7] |
| Michi Kawai | 1904 | Founder of Keisen University |
| Emily Kimbrough | 1921 | Writer[8] |
| Helen Dean King | Ph.D. 1899 | Biologist |
| Karl Kirchwey | Associate professor 2000–present | Poet[9][10] |
| Anna Kisselgoff | 1958 | cultural news reporter and former Chief Dance Critic for the New York Times |
| Karen Kornbluh | 1985 | Ambassador and U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt | 1923 | Children's author, best known for Pat the Bunny.[11] Both her daughters are also Bryn Mawr alumnae. |
| 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 |
| Anna B. Lawther | 1897 | leader in the women's suffrage movement |
| Mimi Lee | 1943 | Chemist and First Lady of Maryland from 1977 to 1979[12] |
| Helen Taft Manning | 1915 | Historian, professor and dean of Bryn Mawr College, suffragist, daughter of President William Howard Taft[13] |
| 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 |
| Katharine McBride | A.B. 1925 M.A. 1927 Ph.D. 1932 | former president of Bryn Mawr College |
| Millicent Carey McIntosh | 1920 | head of the Brearley School and the first president of Barnard College. She was the first married woman to head one of the Seven Sisters, she was "considered a national role model for generations of young women who wanted to combine career and family," advocating for working mothers and for child care as a dignified profession.[14] |
| 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[15] |
| Mary Meigs | 1939 | Writer[16] |
| 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 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 |
| Marion Edwards Park | A.B. 1898 M.A. 1899 Ph.D. 1918 | former president of Bryn Mawr College |
| Jo Ellen Parker | 1975 | current president of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh; former president of Sweet Briar College |
| Judith Peabody | Socialite and philanthropist[17] | |
| 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. Rovner was the first woman appointed to the Seventh Circuit |
| Edith Finch Russell | Author, biographer of Bryn Mawr College President M. Carey Thomas | |
| Maggie Siff | 1996 | Actress, Mad Men, Sons of Anarchy, Billions |
| 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[18] |
| Teresita Currie Schaffer | 1966 | Diplomat and former director of the Foreign Service Institute |
| Dorothy Schiff | 1921 | Newspaper publisher |
| Lisa Schiffren | 1981 | Journalist, Political speechwriter: Dan Quayle's "Murphy Brown" speech, Conservative activist |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Nina Straight | 1959 | American author, journalist, and socialite.[19] She is the mother of writer/director Burr Steers and artist Hugh Auchincloss Steers, half-sister of Gore Vidal, step-sister of First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier and actress Lee Radziwill.[20] |
| Anne Strainchamps | 1982 | Host of "To the Best of our Knowledge" |
| Margaret Suckley | 1912-14 (did not graduate) | First archivist of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum |
| Mary Hamilton Swindler | Ph.D. 1912 | Former professor of archaeology of Bryn Mawr College |
| Olga Taussky-Todd | Fellow | Mathematician |
| Lily Ross Taylor | Ph.D. 1912 | Former professor and dean of Bryn Mawr College |
| Dorothy Burr Thompson | 1923 | Archaeologist and art historian |
| Tony Thurmond | MSS 1995, MSLP 1996 | American politician and member of the California State Assembly |
| Adrian Tinsley | 1958 | former president of Bridgewater State University |
| Kaity Tong | 1969 | 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 |
| P. Gregory Warden | M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1978 | president of Franklin University Switzerland |
Noted faculty and administrators
- Asoka Bandarage
- Florence Bascom, petrologist, founder of Bryn Mawr's Geology Department
- Marland Pratt Billings, Structural Geologist
- Rhys Carpenter, Art history (1914?-1955)
- Kimberly Wright Cassidy (born ca. 1963), Psychology, ninth president of Bryn Mawr College
- Maria Luisa Crawford, Geology, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient
- Arthur C. Cope, chemist, developer of the Cope rearrangement and the Cope elimination, namesake of the Arthur C. Cope Award of the American Chemical Society (1934-1941)
- Louis Fieser, chemist, developer of synthetic napalm, researcher of vitamin K (1925-1930)
- Arthur Lindo Patterson, founder of the Patterson function used in X-ray crystallography (1936-1949)
- Michelle Francl, computational chemistry
- Alice M. Hoffman, labor and oral historian
- 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[13]
- Berthe Marti, Latin and French (1930–1963)
- Cornelia Meigs, English (1932–1950)[15]
- Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels, Latin (1934–1975)
- José Ferrater Mora, Philosophy (1949–1980).
- Thomas Hunt Morgan, geneticist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (1866–1946)
- Emmy Noether, Mathematics (1933–1935)
- Jane M. Oppenheimer, Embryology and History of Science (1938-1980)
- John Oxtoby, Mathematics (1939-1979)
- Charlotte Scott, Mathematics (1885–1917)
- Hilda Worthington Smith, labor educator, social worker, and poet (1888-1984)
- 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)
- Edward Warburg (1908-1992), taught Modern Art.[21]
- Woodrow Wilson, (1885–1888)
Noted fictional alumni
- Pamela Abbott (A.B.), Inventing the Abbotts (1997), played by Liv Tyler
- C.C. Babcock, The Nanny (1993), played by Lauren Lane
- Erica Barry (A.B.), Something's Gotta Give lead character, played by Diane Keaton
- Amanda Bonner (A.B.), Adam's Rib (1949), played by Katharine Hepburn
- Dale Cooper (B.A.) Twin Peaks (1990-10), played by Kyle MacLachlan
- Betty Draper (A.B. in Anthropology), Mad Men (2007), played by January Jones
- Nancy Drew & Carolyn Keene, Confessions of a Teen Sleuth (book published in 2005)
- Allison R. Hart-Burnett (A.B.) (1980s), Lady Jaye (a fictional character in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy line)
- Edna Krabappel (M.A.), The Simpsons teacher
- Vivian Schuyler (B.A.),"The Secret Life of Violet Grant" by Beatriz Williams
- Bunny Watson (A.B.), Desk Set (1957), played by Katharine Hepburn
Notes
- ^ "Reporters and Writers: Renata Adler". Reporting Civil Rights. Retrieved 2013-06-19.
- ^ "Bryn Mawr Now: Ellis Avery '93 to read from ''The Teahouse Fire''". Brynmawr.edu. Retrieved 2013-06-19.
- ^ "A. S. Byatt," MSN Encarta. Archived 2009-10-31.
- ^ "Biography". Publish.uwo.ca. Retrieved 2013-06-19.
- ^ Biography Archived April 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Sex and Success, Time, March 20, 1972.
- ^ http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/web/ocelibra.nsf/504ca249c786e20f85 Archived September 24, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ http://www.bsu.edu/libraries/collections/archives/findingaids/MSS061.pdf
- ^ "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) - ^ Zipes, Jack David, ed. (2006). "Kunhardt, Dorothy". Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195146561.
- ^ Rasmussen, Frederick N. (2011-08-13). "Mathilde B. "Mimi" Lee, former acting first lady of Maryland, dies at 91". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
- ^ a b "Helen Taft Manning, Ex-Dean of Bryn Mawr". The New York Times. 1987-02-23.
- ^ Arenson, Karen W. (January 5, 2001). "Millicent McIntosh". The New York Times.
- ^ a b "Meigs, Cornelia". Pabook.libraries.psu.edu. Retrieved 2013-06-19.
- ^ "Mary Meigs Papers | Special Collections | Bryn Mawr College Library". Brynmawr.edu. Retrieved 2013-06-19.
- ^ Weber, Bruce. "Judith Peabody, Socialite and Volunteer, Dies at 80", The New York Times, July 27, 2010. Accessed July 27, 2010.
- ^ 60secondrecap.com
- ^ Vespa, Mary (May 11, 1981). "Jackie & Gore Launch a Gossipy Novel—and Make a Name for Nina Straight". People Magazine. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ^ "Mrs. Steers Wed to Michael Straight". The New York Times. May 2, 1974. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
- ^ Pace, Eric (September 22, 1992). "Edward Warburg, Philanthropist And Patron of the Arts, Dies at 84". The New York Times. Retrieved October 11, 2015.