Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of Brandeis University .
Notable alumni
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 [ 1]
Ilan Berman : Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council
David Bernstein : Law professor and blogger[ 2]
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
Donna Robinson Divine : Professor, Smith College
Jean Bethke Elshtain : Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School , feminist, political philosopher
Daniel A. Foss : Sociologist
Perry A. Frey : Professor of biochemistry at University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert Gallucci : President of the MacArthur Foundation
John Hopps : Physicist, politician
Evelyn Fox Keller : Historian and philosopher of science, MacArthur Fellow 1992
Deborah Lipstadt : History professor, Emory University [ 3]
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.[ 4]
Elisa New : Professor, Harvard University , wife of Lawrence Summers , former President of Harvard University [ 5]
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
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
Judith Shapiro : Former President, Barnard College
Elaine Showalter : American literary critic
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[ 6]
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 [ 7]
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 [ 8]
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 .
Dan Blum : Novelist
David Brudnoy : Talk radio host in Boston
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 [ 9]
Steven Culp : Actor
Tyne Daly : Actress,[ 10] 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 [ 11]
Josh Dibb (aka Deakin): Musician, member of Animal Collective
Alan Ehrenhalt : Senior editor of Governing , contributing writer to The New York Times , etc.
Thomas Friedman : Foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times ; winner of the National Book Award and three Pulitzer Prizes .[ 12]
Lindsay Gardner : Media executive
Gary David Goldberg : Television writer and producer
Tony Goldwyn : Actor and director
Karen Lynn Gorney : Actress
Debra Granik : Film director and screenwriter
Mark Halliday : Poet
Marshall Herskovitz : TV and film producer, director and screenwriter[ 13]
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,[ 14] 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[ 15]
Jon Landau : Music critic, manager and record producer
Susan B. Landau (1974): Film and television producer (Cool Runnings , Mary and Rhoda )[ 16]
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 [ 17]
Kathleen McInerney : Voice actress, Ash Ketchum seasons 1-8 on Pokemon
Debra Messing : Actress in television series Will & Grace and The Starter Wife [ 18]
Walter Mossberg : Wall Street Journal Technology Columnist[ 19]
Josh Mostel : Actor, son of actor Zero Mostel
Susana Naidich : Argentine singer
Barry Newman : Actor[ 20]
Anand Patwardhan : Documentary filmmaker
Martin Peretz : Editor-in-chief of The New Republic [ 21]
Letty Cottin Pogrebin : Author, journalist, social activist, a founding editor of Ms. Magazine
Patrik-Ian Polk : Writer-producer of Noah's Arc .[ 22]
Deborah Porter : Critic, non-profit director, founder of the Boston Book Festival
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.
Jeff Rubens : Bridge player, writer and editor.
Richard Rubin : Actor, television personality, and reality star of Beauty and the Geek .[ 23]
David Ian Salter : Film editor of Toy Story 2 and Finding Nemo [ 24]
Bill Schneider : CNN 's senior political analyst[ 25]
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 [ 26]
Karen Sosnoski : Author and filmmaker
Michael Sugar : Film and TV producer/Oscar winner for Spotlight
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
Business Leonard Asper : Chief Operating Officer, CanWest [ 25]
Mitch Caplan : Former president and CEO, E*Trade Financial Corporation[ 27]
Christie Hefner : Former Chairman & CEO, Playboy Enterprises, Inc., daughter of Hugh Hefner [ 25] [ 27]
Brian Hirsch , venture capitalist
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 [ 25]
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 )[ 27]
Louise Sunshine : Real estate professional and founder of the Sunshine Group
Ellis Verdi :Advertising executive and co-founder of the DeVito/Verdi advertising agency[ 28]
Government, law, politics and non-profitsJack 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[ 29]
Naomi Reice Buchwald : United States District Court Judge, Southern District of New York [ 30]
Jennifer Casolo : Peace activist
Bernard Coard : Grenadian politician who led the coup that ousted Maurice Bishop [ 31]
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
Geir Haarde : Prime Minister of Iceland [ 32] [ 33]
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")[ 34]
Otis Johnson : Mayor of Savannah, Georgia
Joette Katz : Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
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[ 35]
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 [ 25]
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[ 36]
Daniel Sokatch : CEO of the New Israel Fund
Stephen J. Solarz : Former U.S. Representative from Brooklyn , New York[ 37]
Beth Teper : Director of COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere)
Shen Tong : Student leader in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 [ 38]
Micah Zenko , Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
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
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 [ 39]
Judith Rich Harris : Psychologist
Leslie Lamport : Computer scientist and inventor of LaTeX document preparation system
Beatrice B. "BeBe" Magee : Chemist
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
Crime, political crimes, and terrorism
Notable faculty and staff, past and presentJohn 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
David Buchsbaum : (emeritus), Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Mary Baine Campbell : Poet and critic
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
Stanley Deser : (emeritus), Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Mark Feeney : Pulitzer Prize -winning arts critic for The Boston Globe
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
Jeff Hall : (emeritus), member American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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
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
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
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)
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, 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Dennis Ross : Special envoy/ambassador to Middle East under President Bill Clinton
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
Arnold S. Shapiro : Mathematician
Thomas M. Shapiro : Sociologist, author[ 42]
Mitchell Siporin : Artist
Thomas Sowell : Economist, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
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
Kurt Heinrich Wolff : Sociologist
Franz Wright : Poet, awarded Pulitzer Prize
Yehudi Wyner : Composer, awarded Pulitzer Prize
Leslie Zebrowitz : Social psychologist
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