List of Reed College people
This page lists notable alumni and faculty of Reed College.
Alumni
Academia
- Clarence Allen (geologist) , 1949 - Professor Emeritus of Geology, California Institute of Technology
- Jon Appleton , 1961 - Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, Visiting Professor of Music at Stanford University
- Sacvan Bercovitch , (did not graduate) - Professor of American Literature, Harvard University
- Robert Brenner , 1964 - Professor of History, UCLA
- Joan Bresnan , 1966 - Professor Linguistics, Stanford University
- Daniel Bump, 1974 - Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University
- Daryl Bem , 1960 - Professor of Psychology at Cornell University
- Peter Child , 1975 - composer, professor of music at MIT
- Galen Cranz[1] , 1966 - Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley
- Ann Cvetkovich, 1980- Associate Professor of English at University of Texas, Austin; author of several books including "An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures."[2]
- Don Engelman , 1962 - Professor of Biochemistry at Yale University
- Kai T. Erikson , 1953 - Former President, American Sociological Association and Professor at Yale University
- James D. Faubion [1] , 1980 - anthropologist, Chair of anthropology at Rice University
- Robert Frager , 1961 - noted psychologist
- Victor Friedman, 1970 - Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Balkan and Slavic Linguistics, University of Chicago
- Peter Dobkin Hall , 1968 - Hauser Lecturer on nonprofit organizations, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
- Mike Davis , - social theorist; attended Reed for one semester
- David H. French , 1939 - anthropologist and linguist
- Rose Friedman , 1930 - author, wife of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, and economist in her own right; left in 1930 after her sophomore year[3]
- Volney Gay, 1970 - Professor of Religion, Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University and Director, Center for the Study of Religion and Culture.
- Harry Harlow, (did not graduate) - Former Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Sally Haslanger, 1977-Professor of Philosophy, MIT
- Dell Hymes , 1950 - anthropologist and linguist
- Lewis Webster Jones , 1921 - Former President of Rutgers University
- Dale W. Jorgenson , 1955 - economist, Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University, past president of the AEA and the Econometric Society
- Daniel S. Kemp , 1958 - Professor of Chemistry, MIT
- Lave, Lester, 1960 - Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Michael E. Levine , 1962 - Senior Lecturer at the New York University School of Law and Dean Emeritus of the Yale School of Management
- Jessica Litman , 1974 - Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, legal advisor
- William D. McElroy, 1939 - Former Chancellor, University of California, San Diego
- Lisa Nakamura, 1987 - Professor at the Institute of Communication Research and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Victor Nizet, 1984 - Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacy at the University of California, San Diego
- Arthur Ogus , 1968 - Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley
- Mark Ptashne , 1961 - Professor of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Kenneth Raymond, 1964 - Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
- Lawrence Rinder , 1983 - Dean of Graduate Studies at the California College of the Arts, former Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum
- Michael Rothschild, 1963 - economist, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University
- David Schoenfeld, 1967 - Professor Biostatistics and Medicine at Harvard University
- Stephen Shapin , 1966 - historian and sociologist of science at Harvard University
- Sydney Shoemaker , 1953 - Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University
- John Alexander Simpson, 1940 - former Professor of Physics, University of Chicago and atomic scientist on the Manhattan Project
- John Sperling , 1948 - founder of the University of Phoenix
- Jenny Strauss Clay , 1962 - Professor of Classics University of Virginia, daughter of Leo Strauss
- Katherine Verdery [2], 1970 - Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor, Anthropology Program, City University of New York Graduate Center
- Jon Westling , 1964 - President Emeritus and Professor of History at Boston University
- Allen Wood, 1964 - Professor of Philosophy Stanford University, and noted Kant scholar
Arts/Entertainment
- Alafair Burke , 1991 - author, Court TV commentator
- Kip Berman , 2002 - lead singer of The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
- Ry Cooder , x1971 - singer, songwriter; attended Reed for one semester
- Barret Hansen , 1963 - the radio personality also known as Dr. Demento
- Bill Morrison, 1985, avant-garde filmmaker, Guggenheim fellow
- Daria O'Neill, 1993 - Portland Radio and TV Personality
- Eric Overmyer , 1973 - screenwriter, producer, playwright
- David Henry Sterry , 1978 - author, actor/comic
- Igor Vamos , 1990 - contemporary artist, member of The Yes Men
Food industry
- James Beard , 1923 - chef; expelled
- Juliet Glass , 1992 - writer and food critic
- Steven Raichlen , 1975 - television chef, author
Government
- Bud Clark , 1957 - former Mayor of Portland, Oregon
- Richard Danzig , 1965 - 71st Secretary of the Navy
- George Joseph , 1951 - former Chief Judge, Oregon Court of Appeals
- Berkeley Lent, 1948 - former Chief Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
- Hans A. Linde , 1947 - former Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
- Howard Wolpe , 1960 - former Congressman (D-Michigan)
Literature
- Tamim Ansary , 1970 - author of West of Kabul, East of New York
- Doon Arbus , 1967 - writer and journalist, daughter of Diane Arbus
- Mary Barnard , 1932 - poet and Greek translator
- Don Berry , 1931 - writer
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge , 1969 - poet
- Lee Blessing , 1971 - playwright
- Kate Christensen , 1986 - novelist, winner of 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- William Dickey , 1951 - poet
- Katherine Dunn , 1969 - author
- Elana Dykewomon, ca. 1971 - author
- David Eddings , 1954 - writer
- Barbara Ehrenreich , 1963 - scientist, writer and social critic
- Janet Fitch , 1978 - fiction writer, White Oleander
- Andrea Lambert - 1998 - writer
- Donald Miller , 1997 - Author of Blue Like Jazz
- Clayton Northouse , 2003 - Author
- Lise Funderburg , 1982 - journalist, essayist and critic
- Gary Snyder , 1951 - Pulitzer Prize winning poet
- Philip Whalen , 1951 - poet
- Lew Welch , 1950 - poet
- Adam L. Penenberg , 1986 - writer, professor of journalism at New York University
- Howard Rheingold , 1968 - writer
- Vern Rutsala, 1956 - poet and writer
- Sally Watson , 1950 - writer
Science and engineering
- Arlene Blum , 1966 - mountaineer and scientist
- Jayne Loader , 1973 - writer and director; produced and co-directed The Atomic Cafe
- Steven McGeady , 1980 - technologist
- Robert Morris , x1958 - contemporary artist; attended Reed for two years
- Peter Norton , 1965 - creator of the Norton Utilities
- Oliver Gugenheim, 1993 - software alchemist, author of The Credit Analyst Primer
- Catherine Otto, 1975 - noted physician
- Keith Packard , 1986 - software developer; known for his work on the X Window System
- Norman Packard , 1977 - chaos theory physicist
- James Russell , 1953 - inventor of the compact disc
- Larry Sanger , 1991 - co-founder of Wikipedia
- Stephen C. Sillett , 1989 - botanist
- C. Howard Vollum , 1936 - founder of Tektronix, inventor of the edge-triggered oscilloscope
Other
- James Coddington , 1974 - Chief Conservator at the Museum of Modern Art
- David Crowther , - Public Administrations
- Max Gordon, 1924 - Owner of the Village Vanguard
- Steve Jobs , x1976 - Apple, Co-founder and CEO; attended one semester, regarded by Reed as alumnus.[4]
- Christopher Langan - (did not graduate)
- Murray Leaf, 1961 - noted anthropologist
- Emilio Pucci, 1937 - fashion designer and member of the Italian Parliament
- Harry Wayland Randall, 1936 - member of international brigades in Spanish Civil War
- Aaron Rhodes, 1971 - Human rights advocate
- Adam Riggs , 1995 - president, CFO, Shutterstock
- Leo Rubinfien, 1974, photographer
- Michael Teitelbaum , 1966 - program director and demographer at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Peter Zuckerman, 2003 - journalist, author and First Gentleman of Portland, Oregon.
Fictional alumni
- Hunter Scangarelo - friend of Meadow Soprano in the television series The Sopranos
- Lambert "Sharkey" Somers, from Judy Blume's Summer Sisters
- Harald Petersen, Reed '27 from Mary McCarthy's The Group
- Sierra from Megan McCafferty's Charmed Thirds
References
- ^ Berkeley
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Ann%20Cvetkovich
- ^ Friedman, Milton (1999). Two Lucky People: Memoirs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. pp. 15. ISBN 0226264149.
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