List of Brandeis University people

Academia

Eve Adler: Classicist, professor at Middlebury College

Amnon Albeck: Chemist, professor and University’s Vice-Rector at Bar-Ilan University

Arjun Appadurai: Anthropologist and editor of Public Culture

Elliot Aronson: Social psychologist known for research on the theory of cognitive dissonance

Seyla Benhabib: Professor of political science and philosophy at Yale University

Bonnie Berger: Professor of applied mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Steven Berk: Dean of medicine at Texas Tech University; author of Anatomy of a Kidnapping: A Doctor's Story, based on his own kidnapping

Ilan Berman: Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council

David Bernstein: Law professor and blogger

Deborah Bial: Education strategist, founder and President of Posse Foundation, MacArthur Fellow

Richard Burgin: Professor, fiction writer, critic, founder and editor of Boulevard literary magazine.

Arthur L. Caplan: Professor and head of the Division of Bioethics at New York University Medical Center

Nancy Chodorow: Feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst

David Cutler: Award-winning teacher, history at Brimmer and May School. Education writer for Edutopia and The Atlantic

Donna Robinson Divine: Professor, Smith College

Jean Bethke Elshtain: Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, feminist, political philosopher

David H. Farb, Ph.D.: Professor and Chairman, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine.

Daniel A. Foss: Sociologist

Perry A. Frey: Professor of biochemistry at University of Wisconsin–Madison

Robert Gallucci: President of the MacArthur Foundation

Robert Glennon: Author; Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Arizona

Veronica Guerrieri: Macroeconomist at Booth School of Business

John Hopps: Physicist, politician

Evelyn Fox Keller: Historian and philosopher of science, MacArthur Fellow 1992

Robert Emmet Kennedy, Jr.: Historian of France, Professor at George Washington University.

Barak Kushner: University Lecturer in Modern Japanese History, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Deborah Lipstadt: History professor, Emory University

George Loewenstein: Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University

Roderick MacKinnon: Professor at Rockefeller University, Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Fatema Mernissi: Moroccan sociologist.

Elisa New: Professor, Harvard University, wife of Lawrence Summers, former President of Harvard University

David Oshinsky: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, professor

Alicia Ostriker: Poet, professor at Rutgers University

Lawrence Rosen: Anthropologist and law professor

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 Ateneo de Davao University in the Philippines

Michael Sandel: Professor of political philosophy, Harvard University and former member of The President's Council on Bioethics

Lawrence Schiffman: Historian of ancient Judaism and Vice-Provost at Yeshiva University

Joan Wallach Scott: Historian of France and pioneer in the field of gender history

Milette Shamir: English professor, Tel Aviv University

Judith Shapiro: Former President, Barnard College

Hortense Spillers: Literary critic, Black Feminist scholar and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University

Alan Taylor: Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian, professor at UC Davis

Fernando Torres-Gil: Associate Dean and professor of public policy, UCLA School of Public Affairs

Paul Townsend: Physicist, notable for work on String Theory

Karen Uhlenbeck: Mathematics professor, MacArthur Fellow, awarded Leroy P. Steele Prize for research

Judith G. Voet: Professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Swarthmore College, author of biochemistry textbooks

Theo Wallimann: Professor, Biochemist/Cell Biologist at ETH Zurich

Michael Walzer: Professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study

Edward Witten: Physicist, awarded Fields Medal in 1990

Rich Yampell: Grammarian, Klingon Language Institute

David B. Yoffie: Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School

Robert J. Zimmer: President, University of Chicago

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.

Ashley Boone, Jr.: Motion Picture Executive

David Brudnoy: Talk radio host in Boston

Elizabeth Bruenig: Opinion editor at the Washington Post

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

Steven Culp: Actor

Josh Gondelman: Emmy-nominated writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Tyne Daly: Actress, 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

Alan Ehrenhalt: Senior editor of Governing, contributing writer to The New York Times, etc.

Scott Feinberg: awards columnist for The Hollywood Reporter

Thomas Friedman: Foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times; winner of the National Book Award and three Pulitzer Prizes.

Lindsay Gardner: Chief Content Officer Layer3 TV, former President Fox Television, Democratic strategist and fundraiser.

Gary David Goldberg: Television writer and producer

Tony Goldwyn: Actor and director

Karen Lynn Gorney: Actress

Debra Granik: Film director and screenwriter

Robert "Bobby" Haber: founder and former CEO of CMJ; current CEO of Mondo.NYC

Mark Halliday: Poet

Marshall Herskovitz: TV and film producer, director and screenwriter

Dan Hirschhorn: Time.com

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, 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

Jesse Kellerman: Novelist and playwright, son of novelists Jonathan Kellerman and Faye Kellerman

Amanda Kelly: Miss Massachusetts 2009

Jon Landau: Music critic, manager and record producer

Louise Lasser: Actress, ex-wife of Woody Allen

Abby Leigh: Artist

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

Debra Messing: Actress in television series Will & Grace and The Starter Wife

Walter Mossberg: Wall Street Journal Technology Columnist

Josh Mostel: Actor, son of actor Zero Mostel

Susana Naidich: Argentine singer

Barry Newman: Actor

Anand Patwardhan: Documentary filmmaker

Martin Peretz: Editor-in-chief of The New Republic

Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Author, journalist, social activist, a founding editor of Ms. Magazine

Patrik-Ian Polk: Writer-producer of Noah's Arc.

Deborah Porter: Critic, non-profit director, founder of the Boston Book Festival

Ari Rabin-Havt: Host of The Agenda radio show on SiriusXM, Senior Fellow at People for the American Way

Tom Rapp: Singer/songwriter, previously of Pearls Before Swine

Guy Raz: Host of National Public Radio's "All Things Considered". 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.

Richard Rubin: Actor, television personality, and reality star of Beauty and the Geek.

David Ian Salter: Film editor of Toy Story 2 and Finding Nemo

Bill Schneider: CNN's senior political analyst

Bob Simon: CBS Television correspondent for 60 Minutes

Arunoday Singh: Bollywood actor; grandson of Indian politician Arjun Singh

Sunny Singh: Writer

Daniel Smith: Writer

Laura J. Snyder: Historian, philosopher, and author

Paul Solman: Journalist for PBS

Christina Hoff Sommers: Author, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute

Karen Sosnoski: Author and filmmaker

Michael Sugar: Film and TV producer/Oscar winner for Spotlight

Veronica Taylor: Voice actress, Ash Ketchum seasons 1-8 on Pokemon

Jonathan Vankin: Senior Editor, Vertigo Comics

Adam D. Weinberg: Director Whitney Museum of American Art

Robin Weigert: Actress, played Calamity Jane in Deadwood on HBO

Eliza Wyatt: Playwright,author, and sculptor

Lois Zetter: Actress, singer and talent manager.

Business

Leonard Asper: Chief Operating Officer, CanWest

Mia Bauer: Co-founder of Crumbs Bake Shop, the largest cupcake chain in the United States

Mitch Caplan: Former president and CEO, E*Trade Financial Corporation

Jeri Bloch Finard: Chief Marketing Officer, Kraft Foods, Inc.

Ellen Gordon: President, Chief Executive Officer, Tootsie Roll Industries

Christie Hefner: Former Chairman & CEO, Playboy Enterprises, Inc., daughter of Hugh Hefner

Scott M. Herman: Co-Founder and Former Chief Operating Officer, iNNOVATIVE Debt Solutions, Managing Director Lynch Lehman Fund [2]

Myra Hiatt Kraft: Philanthropist and late 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

Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson: Executive Vice President of Time Warner, former CEO and president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, responsible for the introduction of PlayStation

Bobby Sager: Philanthropist, photographer, former president of Gordon Brothers Group

Robert F.X. Sillerman: Media entrepreneur; CEO of CKX, Inc. (owner of Elvis Presley Enterprises and American Idol)

Louise Sunshine: Real estate professional and founder of the Sunshine Group

Perry Traquina: Chief Executive Officer, Wellington Management Company

Sundar Subramaniam: Co-Founder, Executive Chairman of Knome

Government, law, politics and non-profits

Jack Abramoff: Republican activist; founder, International Freedom Foundation, former lobbyist (convicted of mail fraud, conspiracy to bribe public officials, and tax evasion)

Donna Arzt: Human rights attorney, law professor

Françoise Blime-Dutertre: French philosopher

Sidney Blumenthal: Adviser to President Bill Clinton and journalist

Naomi Reice Buchwald: United States District Court Judge, Southern District of New York

Jennifer Casolo: Peace activist

Bernard Coard: Grenadian politician who led the coup that ousted Maurice Bishop

Angela Yvonne Davis: Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, political activist

Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech: Member of the House of Lords, UK http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/ruth-deech/46359

Marc D. Falkoff: Professor at Northern Illinois University College of Law, co-counsel of Guantanamo Bay detainees

Geir Haarde: 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")

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

Meyer Koplow: Partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, principal negotiator of the Master Settlement Agreement that resolved issues between the major tobacco companies and the states.

Lisa Kubiske: United States Ambassador to Honduras

Osman Faruk Loğoğlu: Ambassador to The United States from the Republic of Turkey

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

Lois Galgay Reckitt: Executive director, Family Crisis Services of Portland, Maine

Lauren Rikleen: Author, lawyer, workplace expert

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

George Saitoti: Vice President of the Republic of Kenya

Daniel B. Shapiro: Current United States Ambassador to Israel

Ari Schwartz: Chief operating officer, Center for Democracy and Technology

Eli J. Segal: Assistant to the President of the United States from 1993–1996

Daniel Sokatch: CEO of the New Israel Fund

Stephen J. Solarz: Former U.S. Representative from Brooklyn, New York

Beth Teper: Director of COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere)

Shen Tong: Student leader in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

Nikolai Vassilliev: Deputy prime minister of Bulgaria

Gerald Zerkin: Attorney for Zacarias Moussaoui.

Science

Larry Abbott: Senior Fellow at Janelia Farms (HHMI), Co-director, Columbia Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, member of the National Academy of Sciences

Paul T. Anastas: Assistant Administrator for Office of Research & Development and Science Advisor, Environmental Protection Agency

V. Balakrishnan: Indian theoretical physicist

Sheeri Cabral: DBA, notable for work in the MySQL community

Adam Cheyer: AI and CS scientist, co-founder of Siri, the company behind Apple's personal assistant on iOS

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 document preparation system

Janet Akyüz Mattei: Astronomer, former director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers

Siddhartha Roy: Structural biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate

Robert H. Singer: Senior Fellow at Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chair of Anatomy and Structural Biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Ron Sun: Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science, RPI.

Patrick Tufts: Computer scientist and inventor

Rachel Zimmerman: Space scientist and inventor, inventor of the Blissymbol Printer, which simplifies communication for users with physical disabilities

Sports

Nelson Figueroa: Major League Baseball pitcher.

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.

Crime, political crimes, and terrorism

Naomi Jaffe: Social and political activist, member of the Weather Underground organization.

Katherine Ann Power: Anti-war activist and former fugitive from justice

Susan Edith Saxe: Anti-war activist and former fugitive from justice

Aafia Siddiqui: Neuroscientist (alleged al-Qaeda operative), convicted of assaulting and attempting to kill U.S. soldiers and FBI agents.

Laura Whitehorn: Member of the Weather Underground organization, participated in the Battle of Boston during the Boston busing crisis.

Notable faculty and staff, past and present

John B. Anderson: United States Congressman, third party candidate for President of the United States in 1980

Alexander Altmann: Professor of Jewish Philosophy and History of Ideas

Stuart Altman: Healthcare policy economist, member of the Institute of Medicine

Teresa Amabile: Social and organizational psychologist

Robert J. Art: International politics

Kathleen Barry: Feminist and sociologist

Michael Brenner: Professor for Jewish history and culture

Leonard Bernstein: Composer and conductor

Frank Bidart: Poet, awarded Bollingen Prize

Egon Bittner: Sociologist and police science scholar

Bernadette Brooten: Professor of Christian studies, member of the MacArthur Fellows Program

Olga Broumas: Poet

Edgar H. Brown, Jr.: (emeritus), Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences

David Buchsbaum: (emeritus), Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Mary Baine Campbell: Poet and critic

Stephen Cecchetti: Economist

Carolyn Cohen: Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Saul Cohen: (emeritus) Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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

Pamela Dellal: Mezzo-soprano

David DeRosier: (emeritus), Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Stanley Deser: (emeritus), Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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

Gish Jen: Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Paul Georges, Member National Academy Museum

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

James Haber: Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Jeff Hall: (emeritus), member American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Timothy J Hickey: Computer scientist

Anita Hill: Lawyer and social policy expert

Heisuke Hironaka: Mathematician, Fields Medal winner

Michelle Hoover: Writer-in-residence, author

Irving Howe: Political theorist, editor and founder of Dissent

Hugh Huxley: (emeritus), Member of the National Academy of Science

Ray Jackendoff: (emeritus), Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Paul Jankowski: Historian

William Jencks: Biochemist

William E. Kapelle: Medieval historian

Mickey Keller: Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Dorothee Kern: Biochemist, former basketball player for the East German national team

Jytte Klausen: European politics, author of The Cartoons that Shook the World

Walter Laqueur: Historian and political commentator

Max Lerner: Author, syndicated columnist, and editor

Martin Levin: Public policy expert

Henry Linschitz: (emeritus), Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Alvin Lucier: Composer of experimental music

Alasdair MacIntyre: Philosopher

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

Chris Miller: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

Pauli Murray: Feminist, civil rights advocate, lawyer, and ordained priest

Ulric Neisser: Pioneer in development of cognitive psychology

Irene Pepperberg: Psychologist noted for research on cognition in animals, particularly for her 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)

Alfred Redfield: (emeritus), Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Robert Reich: United States Secretary of Labor, 1993–1997

Adrienne Rich: Poet, essayist and feminist

Philip Rieff: Sociologist and cultural critic

Margret Rey: Author and illustrator of children's books, notably the Curious George series

Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the United States

Michael Rosbash: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Dennis Ross: Special envoy/ambassador to Middle East under President Bill Clinton

George Ross: Political sociology

Jonathan Sarna: Historian of American Judaism

Nahum Sarna: Biblical scholar, father of Jonathan Sarna

Morrie Schwartz: Sociologist; subject of Mitch Albom's bestselling novel, Tuesdays with Morrie

Sam Schweber: (emeritus), Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Arnold S. Shapiro: Mathematician

Thomas M. Shapiro: Sociologist, author

Mitchell Siporin: Artist

Marion Smiley: J.P. Morgan Chase Chair in Ethics

Thomas Sowell: Economist, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution

Andrew Szent-Györgyi: (emeritus), Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Andreas Teuber: Philosophy professor, actor

Samuel O. Thier: President of both Massachusetts General Hospital and Brandeis University

Gina G. Turrigiano: Neuroscientist, winner of the MacArthur "Genius" Award

Claude Vigée: Poet

Stephen J. Whitfield: Expert on American Jewish history

Kurt Heinrich Wolff: Sociologist

Franz Wright: Poet, awarded Pulitzer Prize

Yehudi Wyner: Composer, awarded Pulitzer Prize

Leslie Zebrowitz: Social psychologist