;A–F •
Brooke Ackerly 1988,
political scientist and Professor of Political Science at
Vanderbilt University •
Peter Adamson 1994, professor of late ancient and Arabic philosophy at
LMU Munich •
Lawrence A. Alexander 1965, Warren Distinguished Professor of constitutional law at
University of San Diego •
Robert Z. Aliber 1952, professor emeritus of international economics and finance at the
University of Chicago •
Robert S. Anderson 1974, geomorphologist at the
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Fellow of the
American Geophysical Union, and distinguished professor at
University of Colorado Boulder •
W. H. Locke Anderson 1955, economist and professor at the
University of Michigan; staff economist for the
Council of Economic Advisers •
Albert LeRoy Andrews 1899, Professor of Germanic philology and an avocational bryologist at Cornell University •
Richard T. Antoun 1953,
anthropologist specializing in
Islamic and
Middle Eastern studies who was murdered in 2009 by a graduate student at
Binghamton University •
Jonathan Arons 1965, astrophysicist and fellow of the
American Physical Society; Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Physics at
University of California, Berkeley •
Bernard Bailyn 1945, two-time Pulitzer-prize-winning early American historian and professor at
Harvard University •
Michel Balinski 1954, known for
Balinski's theorem; mathematician and economist, winner of the
John von Neumann Theory Prize and
Lanchester Prize •
Sally Ball 1990, poet, editor, and professor; instructor at
Arizona State University •
Emily Balskus 2002, chemist and microbiologist; Morris Kahn Associate Professor at
Harvard University •
Edward Bartow 1892, professor of chemistry at the
University of Iowa; expert on sanitary chemistry •
John Bascom 1849, Williams professor and president of the
University of Wisconsin–Madison; namesake of Williams' Bascom House and Bascom Lodge atop
Mount Greylock •
Amanda Bayer 1981, economics professor at
Swarthmore College •
James Phinney Baxter III 1914, president of
Williams College 1937–1961 and winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for History in 1947; namesake of Williams' Baxter Fellow residential program •
Bruce Beehler 1974, ornithologist and conservationist at the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of Natural History •
Jere Behrman 1962, William R. Kenan Jr. professor of economics at the
University of Pennsylvania •
David Bellinger 1971, professor of neurology at
Harvard Medical School and professor in the Department of Environmental Health at
Harvard School of Public Health •
Nathan S. S. Beman 1824, fourth president of
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute •
Jonathan Berkey 1981, historian and professor of history at
Davidson College •
Michael Beschloss 1977, called "the nation's leading presidential historian" by
Newsweek •
Norman Birnbaum 1947, sociologist and emeritus professor at the
Georgetown University Law Center •
Daniel I. Bolnick 1996, professor at the
University of Connecticut •
Kimberly D. Bowes 1992, professor of
Classical Studies at the
University of Pennsylvania •
Julian Charles Boyd 1952, linguist •
Richard M. Brett 1925, conservationist and author •
Sterling Allen Brown 1922, teacher, literary critic, and poet •
Harry Gunnison Brown 1904, professor of economics at
Yale University; pioneer in the development of mathematical economics and econometrics •
James MacGregor Burns 1939, Pulitzer Prize–winning author •
John C. Campbell 1892, president of
Piedmont College, inspiration for
John C. Campbell Folk School •
James Hulme Canfield 1869,
chancellor of the
University of Nebraska, founder of the
American Library Institute •
Colin Cannonier 2005, professor of economics at
Belmont University; notable sportsman in club soccer and cricket •
Jerry Carlson 1972, documentary film-maker and director of the Cinema Studies program at
City University of New York; film-studies professor •
Franklin Carter 1862, professor of Germanic and Romance Languages; president of
Williams College 1881–1901 •
Paul Chadbourne 1848, president of University of Wisconsin, Williams College, and University of Massachusetts •
Ross E. Cheit 1977, professor of political science and professor of International and Public Affairs at
Brown University's
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs •
Kendrick Clements 1951, professor of history and presidential historian •
Dan Cohn-Sherbok, rabbi and professor of Jewish theology, University of Wales, Lampeter •
Eliot Coleman 1961, conservationist and farmer; pioneer of organic and cold-weather farming •
Hardin Coleman, dean of
Boston University School of Education •
David Orgon Coolidge, founder of the
Marriage Law Project and former professor of law at
Catholic University of America •
Robert Coombe 1970, chancellor,
University of Denver •
Albert Hewett Coons 1933, professor of pathology and immunology at Harvard Medical School; recipient of 1959 Albert Lasker Award •
Catherine Hirshfeld Crouch 1990, Professor of Physics at
Swarthmore College and fellow of the
American Physical Society •
Allison Davis 1924, educator, anthropologist, and professor; first African-American to hold a full faculty position at a major white university (
University of Chicago) •
Horace Davis 1848, president of the
University of California •
John Aubrey Davis Sr. 1933, political science professor and civil rights activist instrumental to the
Brown vs. Board of Education legal team •
Tyler Dennett 1904, American historian and professor at
Johns Hopkins University,
Columbia University, and
Princeton University; former president of Williams College; winner of the 1934
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography •
Anna Christina De Ozorio Nobre 1985, professor of cognitive
neuroscience, University of Oxford •
Charles B. Dew 1958, American South historian, professor at
Williams College •
Jennifer Doleac 2003, economist of crime and associate professor at
Texas A&M University •
Daniel Drezner 1990, professor at
Tufts University, political commentator •
William S. Dudley 1958,
naval historian of the
United States Navy; director of naval history and director of the
Naval Historical Center in Washington, D.C. 1995–2004 •
Amos Eaton 1799, co-founder of
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute •
Peter Elbow 1957, professor of English emeritus at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst; co-founder of
Franconia College; developed the modern "
writing process" •
Robert F. Engle 1964, won the 2003
Nobel Prize in Economics "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility" (
ARCH models); holds the Armellino Chair at
New York University; graduated with highest honors in
Physics •
Willard F. Enteman 1959, former president of
Bowdoin College •
S. Lane Faison 1929, art historian •
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson 1994, professor of Law at
Washington College of Law •
Louis Fieser 1920,
organic chemist and former professor emeritus at
Harvard University •
Christopher Flavin, president emeritus and former president of the
Worldwatch Institute •
Kristin Forbes 1992, associate professor of international management at the
MIT Sloan School of Management; member of
Council of Economic Advisers (confirmed by the
United States Senate in 2003, she is the youngest person to ever hold this position) •
Nathan Fox 1970, developmental psychologist; Distinguished University Professor of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the
University of Maryland •
Theodore Friend 1952, former president of
Swarthmore College ;G–M •
Harry Augustus Garfield 1885, former president of
Williams College, lawyer, academic, and supervisor of the
Federal Fuel Administration during
World War I •
Merrill Edwards Gates 1893, ninth president of
Rutgers University and sixth president of
Amherst College •
Hans W. Gatzke 1938, historian of German Foreign Policy; awarded
Guggenheim Fellowship •
Mary Gehring 1994, biomedical researcher at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
Whitehead Institute •
John J. Gilbert 1959, recipient of the 2003
A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award; major contributor to the fields of ecology and biology •
Michael Goldfield 1965,
political scientist,
author,
labor activist, and former
student activist; Professor of Political Science at
Wayne State University •
Steven Goode, law professor at the
University of Texas at
Austin •
Luther Carrington Goodrich 1917, prominent
sinologist •
Eban Goodstein 1982, economist, professor, author, and public educator; directs the Center for Environmental Policy and the MBA in Sustainability at
Bard College •
Edward Gramlich 1961, economics professor at
University of Michigan and member of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve •
James C. Greenough 1851, principal of the
Rhode Island Normal School, sixth president of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College, and seventh principal of the Westfield State Normal School •
Keith Griffin 1960, former president of
Magdalen College, Oxford •
Claudio Guillén 1943, professor of comparative literature at
Harvard University,
University of California, San Diego, and
Princeton University •
Elissa Hallem 1999, associate professor of microbiology at the University of California, Los Angeles; 2012
MacArthur Fellowship winner •
Ole Andreas Halvorsen 1986, founder and CEO of
Viking Global; billionaire •
Hunt Hawkins 1965, professor at
University of South Florida; poet and winner of the
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize •
Karl G. Heider 1957, anthropologist •
John Henry Haynes 1871, traveller, archaeologist, and photographer; completed extensive archaeological work in the Mediterranean and Mesopotamia at
Nippur and
Assos •
Joel Hellman, dean of the
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at
Georgetown University; formerly the
World Bank's first chief institutional economist •
John Haskell Hewitt 1888, professor of languages; acting president of Williams College •
Catharine Hill 1976, president of
Vassar College •
Mahlon Hoagland 1944, former scientific director at
Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research; discovered
transfer RNA •
Horace Holley 1799, former president of
Transylvania University •
Juliet Hooker 1994, Nicaraguan political scientist; political philosopher at
Brown University •
Henry Hopkins 1858, president of Williams College •
Mark Hopkins 1824; cited in former U.S. president James A. Garfield's description of an ideal college: "Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings..." •
Diane Hughes 1979, professor of applied psychology at
New York University •
James Willard Hurst 1932, founder of the modern field of
American legal history •
Ishrat Husain 1972, governor of the
State Bank of Pakistan •
Thomas H. Jackson 1972, president of University of Rochester, 1994–2005 •
David A. Jaeger 1986, professor in the Ph.D. program in Economics at the
CUNY Graduate Center •
Harry Pratt Judson 1870, president of the
University of Chicago, 1906–1923 •
Harold L. Kahn 1952, Professor of Chinese History at
Stanford University •
Walter Kaufmann 1941, philosopher, poet, and translator •
Charles Stuart Kennedy 1950, founder and current director of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program at the
Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training; oral historian of American diplomats •
Muhammad Kenyatta 1981, professor, civil rights leader and international human rights advocate •
John Sterling Kingsley 1876, professor of
biology and
zoology •
Daniel Kleppner 1953, physicist;
National Medal of Science Winner, 2006 •
Sally Kornbluth 1982, 18th president of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; former
James B. Duke Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at
Duke University School of Medicine; former provost of
Duke University •
Edwin Kuh 1947, economist and professor at the
MIT Sloan School of Management; John Kenneth Galbraith called him "one of the most innovative economists of his generation" •
Leonard Woods Labaree 1920, chair of the history department at Yale and Connecticut State Historian •
Richard Normand Langlois 1974, professor of economics at
University of Connecticut •
Frederick M. Lawrence 1977, president, Brandeis University; former dean, George Washington University Law School •
Petra Levin 1989, microbiologist; professor in the Department of Biology and co-director of the Plant and Microbial Biosciences Graduate Program at
Washington University in St. Louis •
David Levy, economist •
Ethan G. Lewis 1995, labor economist and associate professor of economics at
Dartmouth College •
George M. Lightfoot 1891, classics scholar, and professor at
Howard University •
Marty Linsky, professor at
Harvard Kennedy School; co-founder of Cambridge Leadership Associates •
Rayford Logan 1917, professor emeritus of history at
Howard University, former chief advisor to the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on international affairs •
Roger Sherman Loomis 1909, medieval and Arthurian literature scholar •
Margaret D. Lowman 1975, pioneered the science of canopy ecology; director of Global Initiatives and Senior Scientist for Plant Conservation at the
California Academy of Sciences •
Brian Lukacher, professor of art history at
Vassar College •
James Maas 1961, professor of psychology at Cornell and leading sleep researcher •
Kenneth L. Marcus 1988, founding president of the
Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights under Law, professor at
Baruch College •
Hamilton Wright Mabie 1867,
essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer •
James Ross MacDonald 1944, winner of the 1988
IEEE Edison Medal; instrumental in building up the Central Research laboratories of
Texas Instruments •
Mark Maroncelli 1979, professor of chemistry at
Pennsylvania State University •
Frank Jewett Mather 1889,
art critic; professor of art and archaeology at Princeton •
Curtis T. McMullen 1980, professor of mathematics at
Harvard and winner of the 1998
Fields Medal for his work in
complex dynamics •
Ernest Addison Moody 1924, professor of philosophy at
University of California, Los Angeles, noted medievalist and philosopher •
William Moomaw 1959, professor emeritus of international environmental policy at the
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,
Tufts University •
Barrington Moore Jr. 1936, leading figure in comparative politics; professor at Harvard •
James F. Moore 1969, pioneer of the "Business ecosystem" concept; Berkman Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society Harvard Law School (2000–2004) •
Terris Moore 1929, second president of the
University of Alaska •
Richard Murnane 1966, economist; Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education •
Daniel Muzyka 1975, former dean of the
Sauder School of Business at the
University of British Columbia •
Stewart Myers 1967, professor of financial economics at the
MIT Sloan School of Management ;N–Z •
Ahmed Naseer 2007,
Maldivian economist; State Minister of Finance in the
Maldives •
Michael Norton 1997,
Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at
Harvard Business School •
C. Stanley Ogilvy 1935, professor of mathematics at
Hamilton College; author of books on mathematics and sailing •
Gamaliel S. Olds 1801, professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at
Williams College,
Amherst College, and
University of Vermont •
William Ouchi 1965, professor and author in the field of business management •
Richard C. Overton 1929 (BA), 1934 (MA), railroad historian; first secretary of the Lexington Group in Transportation History; first president of the
Business History Conference •
Robert Oxnam 1964,
China scholar; president emeritus of the
Asia Society •
Arthur Newton Pack 1913, founder of the
American Nature Association •
James T. Patterson 1957, Ford Foundation Professor of History emeritus at
Brown University •
Noel Perrin 1949, essayist and professor at
Dartmouth College •
Arthur Latham Perry 1852, economist •
Bliss Perry 1882, literary critic, writer, editor, and teacher; awarded
Legion of Honour by the French •
Lewis Perry 1899, educator and seventh principal of
Phillips Exeter Academy; created the
Harkness table teaching method •
Anna L. Peterson, scholar of religious studies; professor of religion at the
University of Florida •
Earl Potter III 1968, president of St. Cloud State University •
James Bissett Pratt 1897, Mark Hopkins Chair of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at
Williams College •
Samuel I. Prime 1829, founder of the New York Association for the Advancement of Science and Art; president and trustee of
Wells College; former trustee of Williams College •
Amy Prieto 1996, Professor of Chemistry at
Colorado State University; founder and CEO of Prieto Battery •
Phillip Prodger 1989, Senior Research Scholar at the
Yale Center for British Art, formerly served as Head of Photographs at the
National Portrait Gallery, London •
Jennifer Quinn 1985, professor of mathematics at
University of Washington Tacoma and sits on the board of governors of the
Mathematical Association of America; former co-editor-in-chief of
Math Horizons •
Reginald Ray 1964, Buddhist academic and teacher; founder of the Dharma Ocean Foundation •
George Lansing Raymond 1862, prominent professor of Aesthetic Criticism at
Princeton University 1881–1905; held professorships at
George Washington University and
Williams College and was nominated for the
Nobel Prize in Literature seven times •
Eric Reeves 1972, Sudan scholar •
Tannishtha Reya, Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine at
University of California, San Diego •
Thomas Hedley Reynolds 1942, 5th president of
Bates College •
Zalmon Richards 1836, educator, co-founder and first president of the
National Education Association •
Steven S. Rogers 1981, senior lecturer at
Harvard Business School •
Todd Rogers 1999, Professor of Public Policy at the
Harvard Kennedy School •
Steven T. Ross 1959, military historian, held academic positions at the
University of Nebraska–Lincoln,
Williams College, and
Yale University; scholar-in-residence at the
Central Intelligence Agency •
Mary-Jane Rubenstein 1999, Professor of Religion, Science in Society, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at
Wesleyan University and former co-chair of the Philosophy of Religion Unit of the American Academy of Religion •
David Ruder 1951, professor and former dean,
Northwestern University School of Law, and former chairman of the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission •
William Ruddiman 1964,
palaeoclimatologist and professor emeritus at the
University of Virginia; known for the "
early anthropocene" hypothesis •
Bruce Russett 1956, professor of political science at
Yale University, leading figure in
international relations •
Alexa Sand 1991, professor of art history at
Utah State University •
John Edward Sawyer 1939, 11th president of
Williams College •
AnnaLee Saxenian 1976, dean of the School of Information at the
University of California, Berkeley •
James C. Scott 1958,
Sterling Professor of Political Science and director of Agrarian Studies at
Yale University •
Ben Ross Schneider, political scientist and Ford International Professor of Political Science at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology •
Samuel Hubbard Scudder 1847, entomologist and paleontologist; founder of American insect paleontology •
John Setear 1981, Professor of
International Law at the
University of Virginia School of Law •
David Newton Sheldon 1830, fifth president of
Colby College •
Stuart Sherman 1904, literary critic •
John Douglas Simon 1979, president of
Lehigh University •
Francis H. Snow 1868, chancellor of the University of Kansas •
David Sobel, co-founder of The Harrisville School; director of Certificate Programs at
Antioch University •
Samuel Sommers 1997, social psychologist and associate professor of psychology at
Tufts University •
David Spadafora 1972, former president, Lake Forest College, current president, Newberry Library •
Norman Spaulding 1993, professor of federal civil procedure and professional ethics at
Stanford Law School •
Clayton Spencer 1977, president of
Bates College, 2011–present •
Douglas Staiger 1984, John French Professor of Economics at
Dartmouth College •
Herbert Stein 1935, former chair,
Council of Economic Advisers (and father of
Ben Stein) •
Lester Thurow 1960, the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Economics, and former dean (1987–1993),
MIT Sloan School of Management •
Paul Hayes Tucker 1972, Art Historian at
University of California Santa Barbara,
Williams College, the
New York University Institute of Fine Arts,
Yale University, and the
Toledo Museum of Art •
Richard P. Usatine 1978, professor of family and community medicine; national recipient of the Humanism in Medicine Award by the
Association of American Medical Colleges •
Carl W. Vogt 1958, former president of
Williams College, former chair of the
National Transportation Safety Board •
R. Jay Wallace 1979, professor of philosophy at University of California, Berkeley •
Richard Warch 1961, president of
Lawrence University •
Henry Augustus Ward 1856, geologist and naturalist •
Henry Baldwin Ward 1885, zoologist •
Andrew Weiss 1968, economist, chief executive officer of Weiss Asset Management, and professor emeritus at
Boston University •
David Ames Wells 1850, engineer, economist, and textbook author •
William Dwight Whitney 1849, linguist, philologist, and lexicographer known for his work on Sanskrit grammar and Vedic philology; first president of the
American Philological Association and editor-in-chief of
The Century Dictionary •
Eric Widmer 1962, scholar and educator; founding headmaster of
King's Academy in Jordan •
Richard G. Woodbury 1983, economist •
John William Yeomans 1828, president of
Lafayette College •
Ethan Zuckerman 1993, director of the MIT
Center for Civic Media; founder of
Geekcorps and
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