1. Alumni
     Art, Architecture, and Engineering    Activists   Business  Education  Entertainment  Government  Literature   MacArthur Fellows   Science 

2. Faculty

3. References

This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Antioch College.

Alumni

Art, Architecture, and Engineering

• Kathan Brown (B.A. 1958), printmaker, writer, lecturer, entrepreneur and founder of Crown Point Press^[1]
• Peter Calthorpe (B.A. 1972), architect, urban designer, urban planner, and author. Founding member of [https://www.cnu.org The Congress for the New Urbanism].
• Jewell James Ebers (1946), electrical engineer
• Wendy Ewald (B.A. 1974), photographer, professor at Duke University^[2]
• Carole Harmel (B.A. 1969), photographer, artist, educator, co-founder of Artemisia Gallery women's cooperative in Chicago (1973)^[3]
• Brian Shure (B.A. 1974), has taught in the printmaking department at Rhode Island School of Design since 1996^[4]
• Renata Mennasse Schwebel (B.A. 1953), sculptor

Activists

• John Bachtell (1978), Chairman of the Communist Party USA
• Olympia Brown (1860), suffragist, women's rights activist, minister
• Leo Drey (1939), conservationist
• Jeff Mackler (1963), socialist activist (Socialist Action)
• José Ramos-Horta (1984), co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, East Timor independence activist, Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau, former Prime Minister and President of East Timor
• Coretta Scott King (1951), human rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.^[4]
• Frances Cress Welsing (1957), psychiatrist and author of The Isis Papers

Business

• Warren Bennis (1951), distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California; Chair of the Advisory Board of the Harvard University Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership; author of more than thirty books on leadership
• Theodore Levitt (1949), economist
• Jay W. Lorsch (1955), Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School^[5]

Education

• Edythe Scott Bagley (1947), Professor of Theater and Performing Arts, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
• Shelton H. Davis (1965), public-interest anthropologist
• Lisa Delpit (1974), author of Other People's Children; director of the Center for Urban Educational Excellence
• Frances Degen Horowitz (B.A. 1954), educator and psychologist, President Emerita of City University of New York Graduate School and University Center.
• Deborah Meier (1954), educator, considered the founder of the modern small schools movement
• Tom Mooney (educator) (B.A. 1975), American labor leader and teacher
• Brian Shure (Antioch College B.A. in 1974), teaching in the printmaking department at Rhode Island School of Design since 1996^[6]
• James A.F. Stoner (Antioch College B.S. in Engineering science in 1959) Educator, holder of James A.F. Stoner Chair in Global Quality Leadership at Fordham university and author

Entertainment

• Peter Adair (1967), filmmaker
• Peggy Ahwesh (1978), filmmaker and video artist
• Nick DeMartino, former Senior Vice President, Media and Technology for the American Film Institute
• Nathaniel Dorsky (1943), video artist and author
• Suzanne Fiol, founder of ISSUE Project Room
• John Flansburgh (1983), singer/songwriter, They Might Be Giants
• Herb Gardner (1958), playwright
• Miles Goodman (1972), film composer and record producer
• John Hammond, Jr., blues guitarist/vocalist
• Victoria Hochberg (1964), film/television writer/director
• Ken Jenkins, actor on Scrubs
• Nick Katzman, blues musician
• Jorma Kaukonen (1962), guitarist/vocalist, Jefferson Airplane
• John Korty (1959), TV and screenwriter, Emmy for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Oscar for documentary of Japanese internment camps
• Peter Kurland, Academy Award-nominated sound mixer
• Leonard Nimoy (MA 1977), actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer; played the role of Mr. Spock in the original Star Trek TV series
• Julia Reichert (BA 1970), documentary filmmaker, director, producer
• Linda Reisman (BA 1980), film producer
• Cliff Robertson (1946), Academy Award-winning actor
• Rod Serling (1950), creator of The Twilight Zone TV series
• Jay Tuck (1968), television producer, ARD German Television, author
• David Wilcox, folk musician and singer-songwriter
• Mia Zapata (1989), lead singer of The Gits

Government

• Chester G. Atkins (1970), former United States Representative
• Joseph H. Ball (1929), journalist, politician and businessman, United States Senator
• Lynn J. Bush (1948), Senior Judge for the United States Court of Federal Claims
• LaDoris Cordell (BA 1971), retired judge of the Superior Court of California
• Bill Bradbury (1960), Oregon Secretary of State
• John de Jongh (1981), United States Virgin Islands Governor
• LaShann Moutique DeArcy Hall (1992), District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• Hattie N. Harrison, member of the Maryland House of Delegates
• A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (1949), civil rights advocate; author; Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1977-1993), and of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1964-1977); Chief Judge of the Third Circuit from 1990-1991; received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995
• J. Warren Keifer, prominent U.S. politician during the 1880s, 30th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Gail D. Mathieu (1973), B.A., current United States Ambassador to Namibia and former United States Ambassador to Niger^[7]
• Eleanor Holmes Norton (1960), Congressional Delegate, representing the District of Columbia
• Americus V. Rice, Civil War general, U.S. Representative
• Richard Socarides (BA 1976), political strategist, commentator
• E. Denise Simmons, mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the first openly lesbian African-American mayor of an American city
• Webster Street, Arizona Territorial Judge

Literature

• Lawrence Block (1960), author
• Peg Bracken (1940), humorist
• Eliza Archard Conner (1838-1912), journalist, lecturer, and feminist
• James Galvin (1974), poet and author
• Michael Goldfarb (1972), author and journalist
• Jaimy Gordon (1966), author of Lord of Misrule, winner of the National Book Award
• Karl Grossman (1964), journalist and author
• Virginia Hamilton (1957), children's books author and MacArthur Fellow
• Peter Irons (1966), legal historian and author
• Laurence Leamer (1964), author and journalist
• Franz Lidz (1973), journalist and author whose memoir, Unstrung Heroes, became a 1995 feature film directed by Diane Keaton
• Sylvia Nasar (1970), author, A Beautiful Mind
• Cary Nelson (1967), higher education activist, author
• John Robbins (1976), author of Diet for a New America; pioneer environmentalist; veganism advocate
• Mark Strand (1957), poet
• Nova Ren Suma (1997), author of young adult novels
• Terri Windling (1979), influential mythic fiction and speculative fiction editor, author and artist

MacArthur Fellows

• Tim Barrett (B.A. 1973), papermaker^[8]
• Lisa Delpit (B.A. 1974), education reform leader^[9]
• Wendy Ewald (B.A. 1974), photographer^[10]
• Stephen Jay Gould (B.S. 1963), paleontologist^[11]
• Virginia Hamilton (attended 1952–55), writer^[12]
• Sylvia A. Law (B.A. 1964), human rights lawyer^[13]
• Deborah Meier (attended 1949-1951), education reform leader^[14]
• Mark Strand (B.A. 1957), poet and writer^[15]

Science

• Joseph Young Bergen (1872), botanist
• Mario Capecchi (B.S. 1961), co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007
• Don Clark (1953), clinical psychologist, author
• Leland C. Clark, Jr. (B.S. 1941), biochemist and inventor
• George W. Comstock (1937), physician, public health expert, lead researcher in seminal studies demonstrating the effectiveness of isoniazid for treating latent tuberculosis infection
• William A. Gamson (1946), sociologist, President of American Sociological Association
• Clifford Geertz (1950), anthropologist
• Stephen Jay Gould (1963), geologist, evolutionary biologist, author
• Robert Manry (1949), nautical explorer
• Richard Pillard (1955), professor of psychiatry at Boston University; first openly gay psychiatrist in the U.S.
• Allan Pred (1957), geographer
• Sonya Rose (1958), sociologist and historian
• Joan Steitz (1963), molecular biologist and Sterling Professor at Yale University; 2018 Lasker Award recipient
• Judith G. Voet (B.S. 1963), professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Swarthmore College; author of several widely used biochemistry textbooks

Faculty

• Irwin Abrams, professor of History, pioneer in the field of peace research
• G. Stanley Hall, professor of English and philosophy; first president of the American Psychological Association and Clark University
• Edward Orton, Sr., first president of the Ohio State University
• Cecil Taylor, American pianist and poet, pioneer of free jazz
• Horace Mann, Founding president of Antioch College and "father of American Education"
• Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, American author and educator
• Arthur Ernest Morgan, President of Antioch and chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority

References

• West Drayton station
• West Drayton tube station
• West Dryden Methodist Episcopal Church
• West dublin bart
• West Dublin, Nova Scotia
• West Dublin/Pleasanton (BART station)
• West dublin/pleasanton bart station
• West Dulwich station
• West Dumbartonshire
• West Dummerston Covered Bridge
• West Dunbartonshire (council area)
• West Dunbartsonshire
• West Durham
• West Durham Methodist Church
• West Durham Wind Farm
• West Durris Estate
• Westea
• Westea banksiae
• West Ealing station
• West Ealing tube station
• We Steal Things
• We Steal Things.
• West-Eastern Divan (band)
• West-East Gas Pipeline
• West-East Pipeline