List of Antioch College people

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

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
 * (B.A. 1968) printmaker, activist, co-founder of Women's Press Collective, Oakland.
 * 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)
 * 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
 * Olympia Brown (1860), suffragist, women's rights activist, minister
 * Mariana Wright Chapman (ca. 1857), social reformer, suffragist
 * Lucy Salisbury Doolittle (1832–1908), philanthropist
 * Leo Drey (1939), conservationist
 * 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
 * Philip Isely (1937), peace activist, writer and founder of WCPA & GREN/EFM

Business

 * Margaret Isely, American businesswomen, founder of the health food chain Natural Grocers
 * 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 thirty books on leadership
 * 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
 * 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 (educator) (B.A. 1975), American labor leader and teacher
 * Brian Shure (B.A. 1974), teaching in the printmaking department at Rhode Island School of Design since 1996
 * James A.F. Stoner (B.S. in engineering science in 1959) Holder of James A.F. Stoner Chair in Global Quality Leadership at Fordham University, author.

Entertainment

 * Peter Adair (1967), filmmaker
 * Peggy Ahwesh (1978), filmmaker and video artist
 * Idris Ackamoor (1973), musician, founder of jazz collective The Pyramids
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * Bill Bradbury (1960), Oregon Secretary of State
 * 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 is USEEOC); Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center (1982–2019).
 * Americus V. Rice, Civil War general, U.S. Representative
 * Richard Socarides (BA 1976), political strategist, commentator
 * E. Denise Simmons, mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the first openly lesbian African-American mayor of an American city
 * 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) poet and author
 * 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

 * Tim Barrett (B.A. 1973), papermaker
 * Lisa Delpit (B.A. 1974), education reform leader
 * Wendy Ewald (B.A. 1974), photographer
 * Stephen Jay Gould (B.S. 1963), Paleontologist Professor- 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 & Princeton Univ.
 * Stephen Jay Gould (1963), Harvard professor, geologist, evolutionary biologist, author
 * Sheena Hill (2005), psychotherapist and parenting coach. Founder of Parenting Works.
 * Carole Hooven (1988) PhD., retired Harvard Professor of Anthropology
 * Cornelius S. Hurlburt (1929) Professor of Mineralology, Harvard University editor of Dana's Manual of Mineralogy (textbook)
 * 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

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