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

Alumni

Art, architecture, and engineering Emma Amos (B.A. 1968), postmodernist African-American painter and printmaker Kathan Brown (B.A. 1958), printmaker, writer, lecturer, entrepreneur and founder of Crown Point Press Peter Calthorpe (B.A. 1972), architect, urban designer, urban planner, and author; founding member of the Congress for the New Urbanism Jewell James Ebers (1946), electrical engineer Wendy Ewald (B.A. 1974), photographer, professor at Duke University Carole Harmel (B.A. 1969), photographer, artist, educator, co-founder of Artemisia Gallery women's cooperative in Chicago (1973)Carol Harmel photography website. Retrieved April 15, 2018. Peter Jacobs (B.A. 1961), landscape architect, emeritus professor of Landscape Architecture, Université de Montréal, awarded Order of Canada Brian Shure (B.A. 1974), has taught in the printmaking department at Rhode Island School of Design since 1996 Leilah Weinraub (2003), filmmaker, conceptual artist

Activists John Bachtell (1978), chairman of the Communist Party USA 2014–2019 Olympia Brown (1860), suffragist, women's rights activist, minister Mariana Wright Chapman (ca. 1857), social reformer, suffragist Lucy Salisbury Doolittle (circa 1852), philanthropist Leo Drey (1939), conservationist Philip Isely (1937), peace activist, writer and founder of WCPA and GREN/EFM Jeff Mackler (1963), national secretary of 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 Marty Rosenbluth (1999), immigration attorney and civil rights activist Coretta Scott King (1951), human rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr. 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 30 books on leadership Margaret Isely, businesswomen, founder of the health food chain Natural Grocers Theodore Levitt (1949), economist, Harvard Professor Jay W. Lorsch (1955), Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School

Education Edythe Scott Bagley (1947), professor of Theater and Performing Arts, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania Harry M. Cleaver (B.A. 1967 economics), Marxist theoretician, and professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin Drucilla Cornell (1978), philosopher, feminist theorist, and legal theorist 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 (B.A. 1975), labor leader and teacher Brian Shure (B.A. 1974), has taught in the printmaking department at Rhode Island School of Design since 1996 James A.F. Stoner (B.S. 1959 engineering), holder of James A.F. Stoner Chair in Global Quality Leadership at Fordham University, author Joan Straumanis (B.A. 1957 mathematics, political science), first female president of Antioch College, her alma mater; philosopher and women's studies pioneer at Denison University; dean at Kenyon College, Rollins College, Lehigh University, president also at Metropolitan College of New York

Entertainment Idris Ackamoor (1973), musician, founder of jazz collective The Pyramids Peter Adair (1967), filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh (1978), filmmaker and video artist Ray Benson (1974), front man of Asleep at the Wheel, actor and voice actor 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 Theo Hakola (1977), singer/songwriter/musician and novelist John Hammond Jr., blues guitarist/vocalist Victoria Hochberg (1964), film/television writer/director Ken Jenkins (1963), actor on Scrubs Nick Katzman, blues musician Jorma Kaukonen (1962), guitarist/vocalist, Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna James Klein (BA 1968), documentary filmmaker, director, producer, two-time Academy Award nominee 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 Arthur Lithgow (1938), actor, director, pioneer of regional theater Alan Lloyd, composer closely associated with the works of Robert Wilson 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, Academy Award Winner- Documentary film Linda Reisman (BA 1980), film producer Cliff Robertson (1946), Academy Award-winning actor Rod Serling (1950), creator of The Twilight Zone TV series Louise Smith (BA 1977), playwright and actress; Obie Award recipient Jay Tuck (1968), television producer for 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 Bill Bradbury (1960), Oregon secretary of state 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 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 Joanne Head, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives 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 to 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 Eleanor Holmes Norton (1960), Congressional delegate, representing the District of Columbia; chair, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1977–1981 (first female chair of USEEOC); professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center (1982–2019) Americus V. Rice, Civil War general, U.S. representative E. Denise Simmons, mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts; first openly lesbian African-American mayor of an American city Richard Socarides (BA 1976), political strategist, commentator Webster Street, Arizona territorial judge

Literature and journalism 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 Gregory Orr, poet and author Tito Perdue, novelist, attended Antioch (1956–57) but was sent down before graduation for cohabiting with a fellow student who was not yet his wifeR. Stacy McCain, "Tito Perdue, Literary Genius," The Other McCain (17 April 2009). Marc Anthony Richardson (1995), novelist and artist, American Book Award winner for Year of the Rat John Robbins (1976), author of Diet for a New America; pioneer environmentalist; veganism advocate Bianca Stone (2006), poet and visual artist Mark Strand (1957), poet Nova Ren Suma (1997), author of young adult novels Ed Ward, journalist, writer, historian of rock Terri Windling (1979), influential mythic fiction and speculative fiction editor, author and artist

MacArthur Fellows Timothy Barrett (B.A. 1973), papermaker, researcher, and paper historian Lisa Delpit (B.A. 1974), education reform leader Wendy Ewald (B.A. 1974), photographer Stephen Jay Gould (B.S. 1963), paleontologist; professor at Harvard University Virginia Hamilton (attended 1952–55), writer Sylvia A. Law (B.A. 1964), human rights lawyer Deborah Meier (attended 1949–1951), education reform leader Mark Strand (B.A. 1957), poet and writer

Science and medicine Barbara Almond (B.S. 1959), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Joseph Young Bergen (1872), botanist Mario Capecchi (B.S. 1961), PhD Harvard University, 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), PhD, 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), PhD. Harvard, Professor of Social Science, Univ. of Chicago and Princeton Univ. Stephen Jay Gould (1963), Harvard professor, geologist, evolutionary biologist, author Robin Kanarek (B.A. 1968), physiological psychologist and academic administrator 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, Harvard PhD Judith G. Voet (B.S. 1963), professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Swarthmore College; author of several widely used biochemistry textbooks, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Technology Brian Aker (B.S. 1994), open-source hacker

Faculty Irwin Abrams, professor of history, pioneer in the field of peace research Tony Conrad, video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher, and writer Louis C. Fraina, professor of economics, founding member of the Communisty Party in the United States G. Stanley Hall, professor of English and philosophy; first president of the American Psychological Association and Clark University Horace Mann, founding president of Antioch College and "father of American education" Arthur Ernest Morgan, president of Antioch and chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority Edward Orton, Sr., first president of the Ohio State University Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, author and educator Cecil Taylor, pianist and poet, pioneer of free jazz Hendrik Willem van Loon, historian, geographer, journalist, author

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