•
Clement Clarke Moore (1798), son of bishop
Benjamin Moore; professor of Oriental and Greek literature; attributed author of
The Night Before Christmas •
John Anthon (1801), jurist •
John Church Hamilton (1809), son of
Alexander Hamilton, American historian •
Charles Anthon (1815), classical scholar and translator known for the
Anthon Transcript •
Henry Drisler (1839), classical scholar and acting president of Columbia College •
Julius Sachs (1867), founder of
Dwight School, professor at
Teachers College, Columbia University and scion of the
Goldman–Sachs family •
William Milligan Sloane (1868), historian, president of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters and founder of the
United States Olympic Committee •
Felix Adler (1870), professor of political and social ethics, founder of the
Ethical Culture movement and the
Ethical Culture Fieldston School •
Brander Matthews (1871), first professor of dramatic literature in the United States •
Charles Waldstein (A.M. 1873), Anglo-American
archeologist, director of the
Fitzwilliam Museum and
American School of Classical Studies at Athens; first Jewish American athlete in the
Olympic Games •
John Aaron Browning (1875), American educator, founder of the
Browning School •
Richard T. Ely (1876), American economist, founder and president of the
American Economic Association •
Edward Washburn Hopkins (1878), professor of
Sanskrit at
Yale University •
Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1879), American
economist •
William Archibald Dunning (1881), founder of the
Dunning School of
Reconstruction •
James Chidester Egbert Jr. (1881), classical scholar and educator •
Richard James Horatio Gottheil (1881), American Zionist scholar, founder of the first Jewish fraternity
Zeta Beta Tau •
Harry Thurston Peck (1881), literary critic and editor of
The Bookman •
A. V. Williams Jackson (1883), American specialist on
Indo-European languages •
Charles Knapp (1887), classical scholar •
Frank Moore Colby (1888), American historian and editor of
The New International Encyclopedia •
Charles Sears Baldwin (1888), American scholar and professor of rhetoric at
Yale University •
John Dyneley Prince (1888), American linguist;
United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia •
George Louis Beer (1892), renowned historian of the
"Imperial school" •
Benjamin Lord Buckley (1892), American educator, founder and headmaster of
Buckley School •
Judah A. Joffe (1893), Yiddish philologist •
William Robert Shepherd (1893), American
cartographer, historian •
John Driscoll Fitz-Gerald (1895), American
Hispanic scholar •
Joel Elias Spingarn (1895), professor of comparative literature •
Mortimer Lamson Earle (1896), American classical scholar •
Alfred L. Kroeber (1896), pioneering
cultural anthropologist •
William Popper (1896), Orientalist and professor •
Frederick Paul Keppel (1898), American educator, former president of the
Carnegie Corporation of New York •
Frank Sutliff Hackett (1899), American educator, founder of
Riverdale Country School •
John Erskine (1900),
Great Books pioneer •
Alexander Goldenweiser (1902), Russian-born
anthropologist and
sociologist •
Emanuel Goldenweiser (1903), economist and president of the
American Economic Association •
Robert Livingston Schuyler (1903), scholar on American history, president of the
American Historical Association •
Carlton J. H. Hayes (1904), pioneering cultural historian; former
United States Ambassador to Spain •
Edward Sapir (1904), linguist and co-creator of the
Sapir–Whorf hypothesis •
Frank Speck (1904), anthropologist, professor at the
University of Pennsylvania •
William Stuart Messer (1905), professor of Latin at
Dartmouth College, recipient of a 1922
Rome Prize •
Mark Raymond Harrington (1907), curator at the
Southwest Museum of the American Indian and owner of the
Rómulo Pico Adobe •
Edwin Borchard (1908), International legal scholar;
Sterling Professor at the
Yale Law School •
Richard F. Bach (1909),
curator with the
Metropolitan Museum of Art •
Rhys Carpenter (1909), American classical art historian and professor at
Bryn Mawr College •
F. Stuart Chapin (1909), American sociologist and former president of the
American Sociological Association •
Harold Gould Henderson (1910), American Japanologist and former president of the
Japan Society, founder of the
Haiku Society of America •
Armin K. Lobeck (1911), American
cartographer •
Carl Zigrosser (1911), curator of the
Philadelphia Museum of Art •
Lawrence K. Frank (1912),
social scientist; vice president of the
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and co-initiator of the
Macy conferences •
Arthur MacMahon (1912), American political scientist, president of the
American Political Science Association •
Clarence Manning (1912), prominent
slavicist at
Columbia University •
Parker LeRoy Moon (1913), professor and managing editor of the
Political Science Quarterly •
Benjamin Graham (1914), economist who pioneered
value investing •
Herbert Schneider (1915),
German American professor of philosophy and
religious studies scholar •
Irwin Edman (1916), philosopher •
Thomas Munro (1916), art historian at
Case Western Reserve University and curator at
Cleveland Museum of Art •
John Herman Randall Jr. (1918), philosopher •
Kenneth Burke* (1920), American literary theorist and philosopher •
Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1920), professor of
literature at
Hunter College; expert on
Edgar Allan Poe •
Richard McKeon (1920), philosopher •
Frank Tannenbaum (1920), Austrian-American
historian,
sociologist, and
criminologist; founder of the
Labeling theory in
criminology •
Fritz Roethlisberger (1921), management theorist at
Harvard Business School •
Louis M. Hacker (1922), professor of economics and proponent of
adult education •
Yuan Tung-li (1922), former director of the
National Library of China,
Peking University professor •
Mortimer Adler* (1923), philosopher and
Great Books pioneer •
Robert Beverly Hale (1923), curator of American paintings at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art •
Alexander Lesser (1923), anthropologist known for his documentation of the
Kitsai language •
Arthur V. Loughren (1923), electrical engineer, former president of the
Institute of Radio Engineers •
Leslie White (1923), American anthropologist known for his theories of the evolution of culture and for the scientific study of culture •
John Gassner (1924), historian of theater,
Sterling Professor at
Yale University •
Meyer Schapiro (1924), art historian •
Joseph Campbell (1925), mythologist •
Jerome Klein (1925), American art historian and co-founder of the
American Artists' Congress •
William York Tindall (1925),
James Joyce scholar at Columbia University •
Lionel Trilling (1925), literary critic •
Dwight C. Miner (1926), historian •
Jacques Barzun (1927), cultural historian •
Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie, historian, scholar of
Anglo-Saxon literature •
Robert C. Schnitzer (1927), arts teacher and administrator •
Francis Steegmuller (1927),
Flaubert scholar •
Gustave Von Groschwitz (1927), former director of the
Carnegie Museum of Art •
Carl Benjamin Boyer (1928), historian of science and mathematics •
Leon Keyserling (1928), head of the
Council of Economic Advisers under
Harry S Truman •
Edgar Lorch (1928), mathematics department chairman at
Columbia University •
Junius Bird (1930), American archaeologist and former curator of South American Archaeology at the
American Museum of Natural History •
Eli Ginzberg (1930), professor of economics at
Columbia University •
Niels Henry Sonne (1930), rare book collector and head librarian at
General Theological Seminary •
Maxwell Geismar (1931), American literary critic, author, and professor at
Sarah Lawrence College •
Francis Joseph Murray (1932), mathematician who developed the
Von Neumann algebra with
John von Neumann •
Walter H. Rubsamen (1933), professor of a musicology at the
University of California, Los Angeles •
Joseph Leon Blau (1934), professor of religion at
Columbia University •
M. A. Fitzsimons (1934), historian at the
University of Notre Dame, editor of
The Review of Politics •
Alan Gewirth (1934), American philosopher, professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, author of
Reason and Morality •
Robert M. Adams (1935), Kafka scholar and professor at the
University of California, Los Angeles •
Frederick Hartt (1935), Michelangelo expert, professor at
University of Virginia, member of the
Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program •
Herbert Aptheker (1936),
Marxist historian and political activist •
Maurice Matloff (1936), Chief Historian of the
United States Army from 1970 to 1981 •
John Alexander Moore (1936), professor of zoology at
University of California, Riverside •
Joseph Greenberg (1936), prominent linguist known for work in
linguistic typology and
genetic classification of languages •
Carl E. Schorske (1936), cultural historian and winner of the 1981
Pulitzer Prize for History •
Quentin Anderson (1937), cultural historian and literary critic •
Charles Frankel (1937), political philosopher,
Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs •
Herbert Hyman (1939), American sociologist and expert on
Opinion polling •
Herbert E. Klarman (1939), American professor of the economics of healthcare at
New York University •
Barry Ulanov (1939), English professor and scholar of jazz and religion •
Robert J. Alexander (1940), American political activist, writer, and professor at
Rutgers University •
John Hine Mundy (1940), British-American medievalist, professor at
Columbia University, former president of the
Medieval Academy of America •
Donald Barr (1941), American educator and author; former headmaster of
Dalton School; initiated the
Columbia University Science Honors Program •
Ted de Bary (1941), East Asian studies expert and
provost of
Columbia University •
Leon Henkin (1941), mathematician and logician at
University of California, Berkeley •
Donald Keene (1942), scholar of Japanese culture •
Robert Lekachman (1942), economist •
Philip Yampolsky (1942), scholar of
Zen Buddhism •
Francesco Cordasco (1943), professor of education at
Montclair State University •
Bernard Russell Gelbaum (1943), professor of mathematics at
University of California, Irvine •
Martin S. James (1943), American art historian, translator of
Piet Mondrian •
Martin J. Klein (1943), American historian of science and recipient of the
Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics •
Bernard Weisberger (1943), American historian of the
Reconstruction Era •
Alan Hoffman (1944),
mathematician known for constructing the
Hoffman–Singleton graph •
Bruce Mazlish (1944), American historian and professor at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, son-in-law of
David Rockefeller •
Richard Popkin (1944), American philosopher •
Jack Greenberg (1945), counsel for the
NAACP, in which capacity he argued
Brown v. Board of Education; former professor at Columbia Law School and dean of
Columbia College •
Murray Rothbard (1945), leading exponent of the
Austrian School of economics •
Gilbert Y. Steiner (1945), American scholar of social policy and fourth president of the
Brookings Institution •
Richard Heffner (1946), professor and host of
The Open Mind •
Fritz Stern (1946), Seth Low Professor of History Emeritus; pre-eminent in German studies •
George Herbert Borts (1947), economist at
Brown University and managing editor of
The American Economic Review from 1969 to 1980 •
William Bell Dinsmoor Jr. (1947),
Classical archaeologist and architectural historian •
John Michael Montias (1947), American economist and art historian at
Yale University •
Harold E. Pagliaro (1947), professor of English literature at
Swarthmore College •
Howard Stein (1947), philosopher at the
University of Chicago •
Lambros Comitas (1948), anthropologist •
Elihu Katz (1948), sociologist and communication scholar, known for developing the
two-step flow of communication theory •
Norman Kelvin (1948), literary scholar, professor at
City College of New York and
Graduate Center, CUNY •
Victorino Tejera (1948), professor of philosophy and comparative literature at
Stony Brook University •
Uriel Weinreich (1948), linguist and professor at
Columbia University •
Albert Elsen (1949), professor at
Stanford University and
Auguste Rodin expert •
Donald M. Friedman (1949), professor of Renaissance literature at
University of California, Berkeley •
Marvin Harris (1949), American anthropologist famous for developing
cultural materialism •
Anthony Leeds (1949), anthropologist, professor at
Boston University •
Robert F. Murphy (1949), professor of anthropology at
Columbia University •
Arthur Melvin Okun (1949), chairman of the
Council of Economic Advisers, proposed
Okun's law •
William Rubin (1949), curator at the
Museum of Modern Art •
James P. Shenton (1949), American historian, professor of
Columbia University, mentor of
Bancroft Prize winners •
John D. Rosenberg (1950), American scholar of
Victorian literature, professor at
Columbia University •
Burton Watson (1950), American scholar and translator of Chinese and Japanese literature •
George Keller (1951), professor of higher education studies at the
University of Pennsylvania •
Joseph Rothschild (1951), professor of
Central European and
Eastern European history at
Columbia University •
Immanuel Wallerstein (1951), sociologist who defined
world-systems theory •
A. James Gregor (1952), professor of political science at the
University of California, Berkeley •
George Kateb (1952), professor of political science at
Princeton University •
Elliott Mendelson (1952), American
logician; professor of
mathematics at
Queens College, City University of New York •
Andrew P. Vayda (1952), professor emeritus of
anthropology and
ecology at
Rutgers University •
Melvin Ember (1953), professor of the
City University of New York and editor of
Cross-Cultural Research •
Julian Wolpert (1953), professor of urban planning at the
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs •
Demetrios James Caraley (1954), editor of
Political Science Quarterly and president of the
Academy of Political Science •
Peter Kenen (1954), provost,
Columbia University and expert in
Optimum currency area theory •
Henry Littlefield (1954), educator, author, historian who initiated
political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz •
Stephen Orgel (1954), Shakespeare and Renaissance literature scholar •
David Rosand (1954), Art historian,
Columbia University •
Haldon Chase (1955), Denver-based archeologist, early figure of the
Beat Generation •
Warren I. Cohen (1955), historian at
University of Maryland, Baltimore County •
Harry N. Scheiber (1955), professor and director of the
Institute for Legal Research at the
UC Berkeley School of Law •
Jerry Fodor (1956), philosopher at
Rutgers University •
Roy Lubove (1956), professor of social welfare at the
University of Pittsburgh •
Seymour J. Mandelbaum (1956), professor at the
University of Pennsylvania School of Design •
Kenneth Silverman (1956), professor at
New York University and
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer •
Robert Alter (1957), professor of
Hebrew and
comparative literature at the
University of California, Berkeley; president of the
Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers •
Stanley Corngold (1957), professor of literature at
Princeton University •
George Dargo (1957), American legal scholar, professor at
New England Law Boston •
Erich S. Gruen (1957), American
classicist and
ancient historian; president of the
Society for Classical Studies in 1992 •
Stanley Insler (1957), American philologist and professor at
Yale University •
Jonathan Lubin (1957), professor of mathematics at
Brown University; introduced
Lubin–Tate formal group law •
Robert Chazan (1958), professor of Judaic studies at
New York University •
Gerald Feldman (1958), American historian who specializes in 20th-century German history; professor at
University of California, Berkeley •
Robert M. Fogelson (1958), American urban historian at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology •
Robert W. Hanning (1958), professor of English literature at
Columbia University •
Neil Harris (1958), professor of art history at the
University of Chicago •
Joachim Neugroschel (1958), prolific multilingual translator •
David Rothman (1958), professor of social medicine and president of the
Institute on Medicine as a Profession •
John Clubbe (1959), professor of English at the
University of Kentucky •
Benjamin Cohen (1959), political economist and authority on
International political economy •
Richard Fremantle (1959), Anglo-American art historian, son of writer
Anne Fremantle •
Robert Nozick (1959),
libertarian philosopher known for his book
Anarchy, State, and Utopia •
Isser Woloch (1959), historian of the
French Revolution •
Arnold A. Offner (1959), professor of history at
Lafayette College and past president of
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations •
Riordan Roett (1959), political scientist and Latin American specialist at
Johns Hopkins University •
Bruce M. Stave (1959), American historian specializing in
oral history and
urban history •
Alvin Goldman (1960), professor of philosophy at
Rutgers University and leading figure in
epistemology •
William Landes (1960), economist and professor at
University of Chicago Law School •
Rudolf Makkreel (1960), professor of philosophy at
Emory University •
Thomas Vargish (1960), professor of English at
Dartmouth College •
Eugene Bardach (1961), public policy scholar, professor at
University of California, Berkeley •
Marshall Berman (1961), urbanologist •
Martin Eidelberg (1961), art historian at
Rutgers University •
David Konstan (1961), professor of classics at
New York University •
Victor Hao Li (1961), professor at
Stanford Law School, President of
East–West Center from 1981 to 1989 •
Donald F. Roberts (1961), professor of communications at
Stanford University •
David Syrett (1961), professor of military history at
Queens College, City University of New York; former president of the
New York Military Affairs Symposium •
Zvi Gitelman (1962),
Jewish scholar at the
University of Michigan •
Ken Jowitt (1962), American
political scientist and professor at
University of California, Berkeley and senior fellow of the
Hoover Institution •
Stephen Koss (1962), American historian on British history •
Joel Moses (1962), mathematician,
Institute Professor at and provost of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology •
Lawrence S. Wittner (1962), historian on peace movements •
Peter Winn (1962), professor of history at
Tufts University •
Richard Alba (1963), American sociologist, professor at
Graduate Center, CUNY •
David Berlinski (1963), American mathematician, professor at •
Eric Foner (1963), preeminent historian of
Reconstruction, winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for History and former president of
American Historical Association •
David Orme-Johnson (1963), professor of
psychology at the
Maharishi University of Management •
Michael Klare (1963), professor of security studies at
Hampshire College •
Victor Margolin (1963), professor of
design history at the
University of Illinois at Chicago •
Jonah Raskin (1963), American writer, professor on counterculture •
Howard Spodek (1963), American historian specializing in urban studies; professor at
Temple University •
Robert J. Art (1964), professor of
international relations at
Brandeis University •
Richard P. Appelbaum (1964), professor of sociology at
University of California, Santa Barbara •
Jonathan R. Cole (1964), American sociologist and
provost of
Columbia University from 1989 to 2003 •
Peter S. Donaldson (1964), professor of English literature at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology •
Richard Epstein (1964), libertarian law scholar •
Richard S. Kayne (1964), professor of
linguistics at
New York University •
Peter Kolchin (1964), professor at the
University of Delaware and winner of the 1988
Bancroft Prize •
John H. Langbein (1964),
Sterling Professor at Yale Law School •
Peter K. Machamer (1964), American philosopher and
historian of science; professor at the
University of Pittsburgh •
Mike Wallace (1964), historian and winner of the 1999
Pulitzer Prize for History for
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 •
Jonathan Goldberg (1964), professor at
Emory University •
Michael M. Gunter (1964), professor at
Tennessee Technological University, authority in
Kurdish studies •
Miles Orvell (1964), professor at
Temple University, former editor of the
Encyclopedia of American Studies •
Jonathan M. Weiss (1964), American scholar of
French literature and
politics •
George R. Goldner (1965), former curator at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art •
J. Bruce Jacobs (1965), Australian orientalist who specialized in Taiwan studies, professor at
Monash University •
Richard Kagan (1965), American historian, professor of
Spanish history at
Johns Hopkins University •
Richard Taruskin (1965), American
musicologist •
Walter Reich (1965), former director of
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and professor at
George Washington University •
Mark Steiner (1965), professor of philosophy at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem •
Raymond Geuss (1966), specialist in
Jürgen Habermas •
Steven Handel (1966), restoration ecologist, professor at
Rutgers University •
Michael Hechter (1966), professor of political science at
Arizona State University •
Ira Katznelson (1966), American political scientist and historian, professor at
Columbia University •
Mark D. Naison (1966), former political activist; professor of history at
Fordham University •
T. J. Pempel (1966), professor of
political science and former director of the Institute of Asian Studies at the
University of California, Berkeley •
Roger Sanjek (1966), professor of anthropology at
Queens College, City University of New York •
David Weissbrodt (1966), legal scholar at the
University of Minnesota Law School known for drafting the
Minnesota Protocol •
Jay Winter (1966), World War I specialist at
Yale University •
Paul Gewirtz (1967), constitutional law scholar •
Karl Klare (1967),
Critical Legal Studies theorist •
Norman Friedman (1967), American author and naval analyst •
Mott T. Greene (1967), historian of science, professor at
University of Puget Sound •
Reza Sheikholeslami (1967),
Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies at
Wadham College, Oxford •
Jeremy Siegel (1967), professor of the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania •
Terrell Carver (1968), political theorist; professor at the
University of Bristol •
Samuel R. Gross (1968), professor at the
University of Michigan Law School; editor of the
National Registry of Exonerations project •
Charles Lindholm (1968), University Professor of Anthropology at
Boston University •
Alfred W. McCoy (1968),
historian of
Southeast Asia; professor at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison •
Lawrence Susskind (1968), urban planner and mediator; professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology •
Jerry Avorn (1969), professor at the
Harvard Medical School •
William Boone Bonvillian (1969), scholar of innovation technology policy, former director of
MIT's
Washington, D.C. office •
Chris Iijima (1969), legal scholar, folksinger •
Andrei Markovits (1969), professor of comparative politics at the
University of Michigan •
Michel Rosenfeld (1969), constitutional law scholar •
Mark Rosenzweig (1969), professor of economics at
Yale University •
Steven M. Cohen (1970), sociologist, director of
Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU's
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service •
Sheldon Danziger (1970), political scientist at the
University of Michigan •
Lennard J. Davis (1970), professor of English at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, specialist in
disability studies •
John D'Emilio (1970), professor of history and
gender studies at the
University of Illinois at Chicago; winner of the
Bill Whitehead Award in 2013 •
Samuel Estreicher (1970), professor at the
New York University School of Law •
Peter Grossman (1970), professor of economics at
Butler University; columnist,
The Indianapolis Star •
Robert A. Leonard (1970), American forensic linguist at
Hofstra University and former member of rock band
Sha Na Na •
Michael P. Mezzatesta (1970), art historian, director of the
Nasher Museum of Art from 1987 to 2003 •
Paul Starr (1970), sociologist; co-founder of
The American Prospect and winner of the 1984
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction •
Paul Berman (1971), historian and social critic •
Philip Nord (1971), historian and professor at
Princeton University •
Steven J. Ross (1971), historian and professor at
University of Southern California, 2018
Pulitzer Prize for History finalist •
Roy Rosenzweig (1971), historian and director of the
Center for History and New Media at
George Mason University •
Scott Atran (1972), American anthropologist; director at
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and presidential scholar at
John Jay College of Criminal Justice •
Joel Black (1972), literature and film scholar •
Michael Gerrard (1972), professor at
Columbia Law School •
Jerome Groopman (1972),
Harvard Medical School professor and medical writer for
The New Yorker •
Robert Hymes (1972), professor of Chinese history at
Columbia University, winner of two
Joseph Levenson Book Prizes •
George Klosko (1972), professor of philosophy at the
University of Virginia •
Mark J. Roe (1972), professor at
Harvard Law School •
John Servos (1972), professor and historian of science; president of the
History of Science Society •
David Stern (1972), professor of Hebrew literature at
Harvard University •
Tom R. Tyler (1972), professor of psychology at
Yale Law School •
Harold Aram Veeser (1972), professor at
City College of New York, known for contribution to
new historicism •
Sean Wilentz (1972), historian and winner of the
Bancroft Prize; chair of
American Studies at
Princeton University •
Angelo Falcón (1973), political scientist, President and Founder of the
National Institute for Latino Policy •
Steven Messner (1973), sociologist, professor of the
University at Albany, SUNY, former president of the
American Society of Criminology •
William C. Sharpe (1973), professor of English at
Barnard College •
Stewart Sterk (1973), professor of law at the
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law •
Richard Briffault (1974), professor of law at
Columbia Law School •
David S. Katz (1974), professor of early modern European history at
Tel Aviv University •
James R. Russell (1974), professor of
Ancient Near Eastern studies at
Harvard University •
Steven Simon (1974), Middle East expert and former executive director of
International Institute for Strategic Studies-US; former senior director in the
United States National Security Council •
Haruo Shirane (1974), professor of Japanese literature of
Columbia University •
Jonathan Crary (1975), art critic, essayist, professor of art at
Columbia University •
Robert S. Levine (1975), professor of American literature at
University of Maryland, College Park •
Alexander J. Motyl (1975), professor of political science at
Rutgers University •
David Albert (1976), professor of philosophy at
Columbia University •
Louis Putterman (1976), professor of economics at
Brown University •
Thomas Alan Schwartz (1976), professor of history at
Vanderbilt University •
Barry Bergdoll (1977), chief curator of Architecture and Design at the
Museum of Modern Art •
M. Gregg Bloche (1977), professor at
Georgetown University Law Center •
Franco Mormando (1977), historian of Italy, professor at
Boston College •
James S. Shapiro (1977), Shakespearean authority •
Peter Christopher (1978), writer and professor at
Georgia Southern University •
Jorge Duany (1978), director of the Cuban Research Institute and professor of anthropology at
Florida International University •
Jay M. Harris (1978), professor of
Jewish studies at
Harvard University •
William D. Hartung (1978), director of the Arms & Security Project at the
Center for International Policy •
Kevin Salatino (1978), curator at
Art Institute of Chicago, former director of the
Bowdoin College Museum of Art and
Huntington Library's art collection •
Jeffry Frieden (1979), professor and department chair of political science at
Harvard University •
Steve Fuller (1979), American philosopher, sociologist in the field of
science and technology studies •
Alexander George (1979), professor of philosophy at
Amherst College; founder of AskPhilosophers.org •
Timothy Gilfoyle (1979), professor of history at
Loyola University Chicago •
Mark Statman (1980), professor emeritus of literary studies at
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts •
Sahotra Sarkar (1981), professor of philosophy at the
University of Texas at Austin •
Alan Tansman (1981), scholar of Japanese literature at
University of California, Berkeley •
Michael Bérubé (1982), professor of literature and cultural studies •
David Makovsky (1982), Middle East Scholar •
Eugene Rogan (1982), professor and director of
St Antony's College, Oxford's Middle East Centre •
James L. Gelvin (1983), professor of history at
University of California, Los Angeles •
Mark Ravina (1983), professor of Japanese history at the
University of Texas at Austin •
Jonathan Zimmerman (1983), Professor of History of Education at the
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education •
Gideon Rosen (1984), professor of philosophy at
Princeton University •
Jordan Sand (1984), professor Japanese history at
Georgetown University •
Thomas Sugrue (1984), historian of the 20th century United States •
Jamsheed Choksy (1985), chair of Eurasian studies at
Indiana University Bloomington •
Noam Elkies (1985), mathematician, youngest full professor at
Harvard •
William Deresiewicz (1985), literary critic •
Louis Warren (1985), professor of Western U.S. history at the
University of California, Davis •
Alexander Argüelles (1986), American polyglot and professor at the
American University in the Emirates; son of poet
Ivan Argüelles •
Tobias Hecht (1986), American
anthropologist,
ethnographer, and
translator; winner of the 2002
Margaret Mead Award •
Alva Noë (1986), professor of philosophy at
University of California, Berkeley •
Anthony B. Pinn (1986), professor of religion at
Rice University •
Ritu Birla (1987), historian of modern South Asia, director of
University of Toronto's Asian Institute •
Scott J. Shapiro (1987), professor of law and philosophy at
Yale Law School, director of the Yale Center for Law and Philosophy •
Irene Tucker (1987), literary critic, professor at
University of California, Irvine •
Katherine B. Crawford (1988), professor of
gender studies and history at
Vanderbilt University •
Leslie M. Harris (1988), expert on
African-American history at
Northwestern University •
Claudio Saunt (1989), professor at the
University of Georgia, author of
Unworthy Republic •
Nicholas Birns (1988),
Tolkien scholar •
William H. Sherman (1988), director of the
Warburg Institute,
University of London •
Stephanie Stebich (1988), director of
Smithsonian American Art Museum •
Stephanos Bibas (1989), professor of law and criminology at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School, judge for the
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit •
Karen Chapple (1989), scholar of
Urban planning at
University of California, Berkeley •
Jesús Escobar (1989), professor of
Art History at
Northwestern University, expert in early modern art of Spain and Italy •
Daniel Halberstam (1989), professor of law at the
University of Michigan Law School •
Stephanie Aaronson (1990), American economist and vice president of
Brookings Institution •
Rhea Anastas (1990), art historian, critic, curator and professor at
University of California, Irvine •
Matthew Connelly (1990), professor of international and global history at
Columbia University •
Juliet Koss (1990), art historian, professor at
Scripps College •
Jennifer Lee (1990), sociologist, professor of
Columbia University •
Catherine Prendergast (1990), professor of English at
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign •
Benjamin Frommer (1991), American historian, professor at
Northwestern University •
Mary Pattillo (1991), professor of
African-American studies at
Northwestern University •
Cynthia A. Young (1991), professor of
African-American studies at
Pennsylvania State University •
Robert T. Miller (1992), professor of
law at the
University of Iowa •
Matthew Shum (1992), professor of economics at
California Institute of Technology •
Victor Fleischer (1993), professor of law at
University of California, Irvine •
Valerie Purdie Greenaway (1993), professor of psychology and first African American to receive tenure in the sciences at
Columbia University •
Michelle Hartman (1993), professor of Arabic and francophone literature at
McGill University •
Soyoung Lee (1993), chief curator of the
Harvard Art Museums •
Seth Rockman (1993), professor at
Brown University, co-recipient of the 2010
Merle Curti Award •
David Rosen (1993), professor at
Trinity College, Connecticut, recipient of the 2013
James Russell Lowell Prize •
David Eisenbach (1994), historian on media and politics; narrator, ''
10 Things You Don't Know About'' •
François Furstenberg (1994), historian at
Johns Hopkins University •
Katerina Harvati (1994), professor of paleoanthropology at the
University of Tübingen, identified the earliest known sample of the remains of
modern humans outside Africa •
Ayanna Thompson (1994), professor of English at
Arizona State University, President of the
Shakespeare Association of America •
David H. Webber (1995), professor of law at
Boston University School of Law •
Barry Scott Wimpfheimer (1995), professor of religious studies at
Northwestern University, expert on the
Talmud •
Lara Bazelon (1996), professor of law at
University of San Francisco School of Law •
Gabriella Coleman (1996), American
anthropologist known for her work in
hacker culture and online activism; professor at
McGill University •
Elena Conis (1996), American historian of medicine at
University of California, Berkeley •
Leah DeVun (1997), professor of gender studies at
Rutgers University •
Jessica Greenberg (1997), social anthropologist and professor at
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign •
Lauren Winner (1997), historian, professor at
Duke Divinity School •
Brooke Holmes (1998), American classicist, professor at
Princeton University •
Alison Gass (1998), former chief curator of the
Cantor Arts Center, director of the
Smart Museum of Art and the
Institute of Contemporary Art San José •
Louis Hyman (1999), economic historian, professor at
Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, author of
Debtor Nation •
Adrianne Wadewitz (1999), American feminist scholar and noted
Wikipedian •
Yehuda Kurtzer (2000), president of the
Shalom Hartman Institute, son of ambassador
Daniel C. Kurtzer •
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela (2000), professor of history at
The New School •
Fotini Christia (2001), Greek political scientist, professor at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology •
Joya Powell (2001),
Bessie Awards-winning choreographer and educator •
Agnia Grigas (2002), political scientist and author •
Cassie Mogilner Holmes (2002), professor at the
UCLA Anderson School of Management •
Daniel Immerwahr (2002), professor of history of
Northwestern University and recipient of the
Merle Curti Award •
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman (2003), professor at
Northern Kentucky University,
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist •
Rujeko Hockley (2005), curator of the
Whitney Museum of American Art and the 2019
Whitney Biennial •
Susanna Berger (2007), art historian, professor at
University of Southern California •
Ashley James (2009), first black curator of the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ==University presidents and administrators==