List of Hampshire College people

The following is a list of individuals associated with Hampshire College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.

Academia

 * Alba Arikha, writer, lecturer on creative writing at the University of Hertfordshire and Columbia University
 * Sylvia Bashevkin, Canadian academic and feminist at the University of Toronto, former Principal of University College, Toronto
 * George Bonanno, psychologist, Columbia University
 * Derek Blake Booth, geologist and heir presumptive to the Booth baronetcy, University of Washington
 * Heather Boushey, economist, president of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth think tank
 * Cynthia Cattell, space physicist and professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at University of Minnesota
 * Hasok Chang, historian and philosopher of science, University of Cambridge
 * Barry Marc Cohen, art therapist, Diagnostic Drawing Series
 * Phyllis Coley, biologist, University of Utah
 * Concetta DiRusso, biochemist, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
 * Paige Fischer, environmental scientist, University of Michigan
 * Vanessa Northington Gamble, physician, professor of medical humanities at George Washington University, chair of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee
 * Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., psychologist and psycholinguist, University of California, Santa Cruz
 * Nancy Grimm, ecologist, Arizona State University
 * Marcia Groszek, mathematician, Dartmouth College
 * Gail Hershatter, historian of Modern China at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Williams College, Guggenheim Fellow
 * Benjamin Mako Hill, technologist, software developer and founding member of Ubuntu and Debian projects, assistant professor in Communication at the University of Washington
 * Sean Hill, neuroscientist, University of Toronto
 * Tom Hull, mathematician and professor, Western New England University
 * Mary James, physicist, Reed College, University of Maryland, College Park
 * Caren Kaplan, feminist theorist, professor of American studies at University of California at Davis, University of California at Berkeley, Georgetown University
 * Patricia Klindienst, writer and scholar, American Book Award recipient, Yale University
 * Lucy-Ann McFadden, astronomer and planetary scientist for NASA, founder of the Science, Discovery & the Universe Program at the University of Maryland
 * Jacob Reider, expert in health information technology policy and National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
 * G. Philip Robertson, biologist, Michigan State University
 * David Schimel, research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology; Nobel Peace Prize laureate
 * Timothy Shary, film scholar, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Clark University
 * Lee Smolin, theoretical physicist at the Perimeter Institute, University of Waterloo and University of Toronto, author of The Trouble with Physics
 * Eric Steig, glaciologist and geochemist, professor of Earth and Space sciences at the University of Washington
 * Paul W. Sternberg, biologist, California Institute of Technology
 * Alex S. Vitale, sociologist at Brooklyn College, author of The End of Policing (2017)
 * Timothy Wilson, Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
 * William H. Warren, psychologist, Chancellor's Professor at Brown University
 * Christopher Young, composer, professor of music at the University of Southern California

Activism

 * Joseph Amon, epidemiologist, human rights activist at Human Rights Watch
 * Chuck Collins, political activist, co-founder of United For a Fair Economy
 * Melissa Hoffer, environmental lawyer and Director of the New Hampshire Advocacy Center for the Conservation Law Foundation
 * Shalini Kantayya, documentary filmmaker and environmental activist, Catching the Sun
 * Alia Amirali, Pakistani politician and activist
 * Lisa Shannon, author, human rights activist, and speaker

Arts & Design

 * Mequitta Ahuja, feminist painter, Guggenheim Fellow
 * Math Bass, artist
 * Gideon Bok, painter, Guggenheim Fellow
 * Leidy Churchman, painter
 * Barry Marc Cohen, art therapist, Diagnostic Drawing Series
 * E.V. DAY, artist
 * Angela Ellsworth, artist
 * Peter Harkawik, artist
 * Every Ocean Hughes (formerly known as Emily Roysdon), visual artist
 * Jeph Jacques, artist, Questionable Content
 * Emma Kohlmann, curator and artist
 * Jane Marsching, artist
 * Susan Mikula, artist and photographer
 * Christina Quarles, artist
 * Kanishka Raja, visual artist
 * Raghavendra Rathore, Indian fashion designer
 * Steven Siegel, sculptor and installation artist

Photography

 * Doug DuBois, photographer, Guggenheim Fellow
 * James Estrin, New York Times senior staff photographer, Pulitzer Prize recipient
 * Jane Marsching, interdisciplinary digital artist
 * Susan Mikula, artist and photographer

Writers and authors

 * Lisa Arie, author and motivational speaker, CEO of Vista Caballo
 * Alba Arikha, French writer, author of Major/Minor, goddaughter of Samuel Beckett
 * Daniel Asia, composer, Guggenheim Fellow, music and culture contributor at the Huffington Post
 * Eula Biss, author, Guggenheim Fellow
 * Cylin Busby, best-selling author and screenwriter
 * David Callahan, founder and editor of Inside Philanthropy
 * Rebecca Carroll, writer, editor, and radio producer; former managing editor at xoJane and founding editor of Africana.com
 * Leah Hager Cohen, writer
 * Kanya D'Almeida, writer and journalist
 * Ethan Gilsdorf, writer and journalist, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Wired, Salon
 * Eli Gottlieb, novelist, author of The Boy Who Went Away
 * Suzanne Greenberg, writer
 * David M. Hall, writer and corporate trainer, author of Allies at Work
 * Gabrielle Hamilton, chef and author
 * Ellis Henican, Newsday columnist, Fox News Channel political analyst, New York Times Bestselling author
 * Patricia Klindienst, writer and scholar, American Book Award recipient
 * Jon Krakauer, mountain climber and writer, New York Times bestselling author of Into The Wild
 * Lê Thi Diem Thúy, writer and solo performance artist, Guggenheim Fellow
 * Daniel Marcus, science fiction author
 * Gary Marcus, cognitive scientist, founder and CEO of Geometric Intelligence, New York Times bestselling author
 * Daniel José Older, fantasy and young adult fiction writer
 * Liz Perle, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Common Sense Media
 * Jennifer Pozner, author, media critic, feminist
 * John Reed, novelist
 * Lisa Shannon, author, human rights activist, and speaker
 * Timothy Shary, film scholar
 * Sonya Sones, poet and writer for young adults, author of What My Mother Doesn't Know
 * Doug Stanton, journalist and New York Times best-selling author
 * Thomas H. Stoner, Jr., author and energy entrepreneur, CEO of Entelligent
 * Gwen Strauss, writer and author
 * Sander Thoenes, journalist
 * Maggie Thrash, writer of young adult fiction, Honor Girl
 * Alex S. Vitale, sociologist, author of The End of Policing
 * Jessamyn West, librarian and blogger, creator of Librarian.net
 * Dede Wilson, baker, contributing editor of Bon Appetit, cookbook author
 * Torrey Peters, writer, author of Detransition, Baby

Poets

 * Janet Aalfs, poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts and martial artist
 * Joshua Beckman, poet
 * S. Bear Bergman, poet
 * Chen Chen, poet
 * Peter Cole, poet and MacArthur Fellowship recipient
 * Ethan Gilsdorf, writer, poet, and journalist, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Wired, Salon
 * Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, poet, co-founder of Deaf Poets Society magazine, Lambda Literary Award-winner for Slingshot
 * Robin Coste Lewis, poet laureate of Los Angeles, National Book Award winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus
 * Sonya Sones, poet and writer for young adults, author of What My Mother Doesn't Know

Journalists

 * Tina Antolini, journalist and radio producer for NPR
 * Madeleine Baran, Peabody Award-winning investigative reporter and host of the podcast In the Dark
 * Suzanne Daley, journalist for The New York Times
 * Ethan Gilsdorf, writer, poet, and journalist, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Wired, Salon
 * Ellis Henican, Newsday columnist, Fox News Channel political analyst, New York Times Bestselling author
 * Edward Humes, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
 * Fariba Nawa, journalist and author
 * Amy K. Nelson, journalist, Slate, Deadspin, ESPN
 * Jeff Sharlet, journalist, Harper's, Rolling Stone
 * Doug Stanton, journalist and New York Times best-selling author
 * Sander Thoenes, journalist

Tabletop and video games

 * Meguey Baker, role-playing game designer, independent publisher and quilt historian
 * Vincent Baker, role-playing game designer and publisher
 * Noah Falstein, video game designer and producer for LucasArts, DreamWorks Interactive, and The 3DO Company; president of The Inspiracy
 * Daniel Licht, composer of films and video games, Dexter, Silent Hill

Theater

 * Dennis Boutsikaris, Obie Award-winning actor
 * Fred Melamed, Independent Spirit Award-winning actor
 * Lupita Nyong'o, Academy Award-winning actress, Tony Award-nominee for Eclipsed
 * Liev Schreiber, stage and screen actor, star of Emmy-winning series Ray Donovan, Tony Award-winner
 * Andrea Stolowitz, playwright
 * Naomi Wallace, playwright and MacArthur Fellowship recipient

Dance & Performance

 * Stephen Petronio, choreographer, Guggenheim Fellow

Film, television, and entertainment

 * Chris Applebaum, music video director
 * Lesley Arfin, author and staff writer for Girls and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, former Vice contributor
 * Ken Burns, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker, The Civil War
 * Cylin Busby, best-selling author and screenwriter
 * Greg Butler, Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor, Forrest Gump, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, 1917
 * Charlie Clouser, musician and composer for film and television, former member of Nine Inch Nails
 * Rhys Ernst, film producer and director, Adam, Transparent
 * John Falsey, Emmy Award-winning television creator of St. Elsewhere, I'll Fly Away and Northern Exposure
 * Victor Fresco, television writer and producer, creator of Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Better Off Ted and Santa Clarita Diet
 * Sarah Goldfinger, television writer/producer
 * Lee Hirsch, filmmaker, Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony, Bully
 * Rolfe Kanefsky, filmmaker
 * Daniel Licht, composer of films and video games, Dexter, Silent Hill
 * Billy Luther, documentary filmmaker, Miss Navajo
 * Jeff Maguire, screenwriter, In The Line of Fire, Escape to Victory
 * Brett Morgen, Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, Jane, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
 * Julia Willoughby Nason, documentary filmmaker
 * Andrea Pallaoro, film director and screenwriter
 * Will Reiser, screenwriter and producer, 50/50
 * Alex Rivera, filmmaker, Sleep Dealer
 * Rod Roddenberry, television producer and CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment, son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry
 * Kelly Sears, animator and filmmaker
 * Roger Sherman, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker
 * Max Simonet, co-creator and host of talk show FishCenter Live
 * Barry Sonnenfeld, director of The Addams Family, Men in Black trilogy, Wild Wild West and Get Shorty
 * Wes Takahashi, visual effects supervisor and animator for the Back To The Future trilogy, Top Gun, The Goonies; creator of the DreamWorks "boy on the moon" logo
 * Christopher Young, film composer, Hellraiser, The Grudge, Spider-Man 3
 * Teo Žagar, filmmaker and member of the Vermont House of Representatives
 * Tiya Tejpal, Production Designer for The Rapist, Raman Raghav 2.0

Actors

 * Xander Berkeley, actor, Terminator 2, Candyman, The Walking Dead, 24
 * Dennis Boutsikaris, actor, The Bourne Legacy, Better Call Saul
 * Julie Dretzin, actress, Breaking Bad, The Handmaid's Tale
 * Adelind Horan, actress, The Deuce
 * Fred Melamed, actor, A Serious Man, Lady Dynamite, WandaVision, Barry, Independent Spirit Award-winner
 * Eugene Mirman, stand-up comedian and actor, Bob's Burgers, Declocated
 * David Moscow, actor, Big
 * Lupita Nyong'o, Academy Award-winning actress, 12 Years a Slave, Us
 * Jason Salkey, actor
 * Liev Schreiber, stage and screen actor, star of Emmy-winning series Ray Donovan, Tony Award-winner
 * Joshua Seth, voice actor, Digimon, Akira
 * Aamina Sheikh, Pakistani actress and supermodel
 * Max Simonet, co-creator and host of talk show FishCenter Live
 * Danny Tamberelli, actor known for The Adventures of Pete & Pete, cast member of All That

Politicians, diplomats, and other government officials

 * Alia Amirali, Pakistani politician and activist
 * Heather Boushey, economist, president of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth think tank, economic advisor to Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden
 * Eileen Brady, candidate for mayor of Portland, Oregon
 * Maud Daudon, CEO of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
 * Stephen Gardner, CEO of Amtrak, founder of experimental music group Chessie
 * Tooker Gomberg, Canadian politician and environmental activist
 * Kenneth Green, politician and social worker, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
 * Petros S. Kokkalis, businessman and member of the European Parliament
 * Dawn M. Liberi, diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Burundi under Barack Obama
 * Jacob Reider, expert in health information technology policy and National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under Barack Obama
 * David Shulkin, physician and 9th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
 * Teo Žagar, filmmaker and member of the Vermont House of Representatives

Musicians

 * Bob Bralove, musician best known for his work with the Grateful Dead
 * Pam Bricker, jazz singer, professor of music, and musical collaborator with Thievery Corporation
 * Charlie Clouser, musician and composer for film and television, former member of Nine Inch Nails
 * Amy Denio, composer
 * Toby Driver, musician and artist, Kayo Dot and Maudlin of the Well
 * Ed Droste, singer/songwriter from the Brooklyn-based indie group Grizzly Bear (band)
 * Neil Gust, musician and artist, Heatmiser
 * Tom Hanway, bluegrass and Celtic banjoist
 * Jim Johnston, composer
 * Mike Ladd, Hip Hop MC and member of the Antipop Consortium
 * Ken Leavitt-Lawrence, rap artist a.k.a. "MC Hawking"
 * Daniel Lopatin, musician known as Oneohtrix Point Never
 * Matt Mondanile, musician, Ducktails & Real Estate
 * Ann Moss, soprano
 * Elliott Smith, Academy Award-nominated indie-folk musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
 * Zachary Cole Smith, musician, frontman of DIIV
 * Supreme Dicks, lo-fi and experimental band
 * Autre Ne Veut, musician
 * Michael "Mudcat" Ward, blues bassist, pianist and songwriter
 * Erica Wheeler, singer-songwriter
 * Orchid, hardcore punk band

Composers

 * Daniel Asia, composer, Guggenheim Fellow, music and culture contributor at the Huffington Post
 * Charlie Clouser, musician and composer for film and television, former member of Nine Inch Nails
 * Daniel Licht, composer of films and video games, Dexter, Silent Hill franchise
 * Christopher Young, film composer, Hellraiser, The Grudge, Spiderman 3

Business

 * Lisa Arie, author and motivational speaker, CEO of Vista Caballo
 * Nicholas Callaway, founder of Callaway Arts & Entertainment
 * James Crown, president of Henry Crown and Company, director of JPMorgan Chase & Co., General Dynamics and Sara Lee
 * Jose Fuentes, co-founder/developer of Duolingo
 * David M. Hall, writer and corporate trainer, author of Allies at Work
 * Judith Herrell, President Herrell's Ice Cream.
 * Benjamin Mako Hill, technologist, software developer and founding member of Ubuntu and Debian projects, assistant professor in Communication at the University of Washington
 * Gary Hirshberg, Chairman, President, and "CE-Yo" of Stonyfield Farm
 * Jeffrey Hollender, President and CEO of Seventh Generation Inc.
 * Mark Kriegsman, computer programmer and Director of Engineering at Veracode
 * Aaron Lansky, founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, MacArthur Fellow
 * Chris Lavergne, founder of the website Thought Catalog
 * Gary Marcus, cognitive scientist, founder and CEO of Geometric Intelligence, New York Times bestselling author
 * Nicholas Merrill, computer programmer and entrepreneur, founder of The Calyx Institute and plaintiff in the legal case Doe v. Ashcroft
 * Liz Perle, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Common Sense Media
 * Thomas H. Stoner, Jr., author and energy entrepreneur, CEO of Entelligent

Law

 * Melissa Hoffer, environmental lawyer and Director of the New Hampshire Advocacy Center for the Conservation Law Foundation
 * Daniel Horowitz, high-profile criminal-defense attorney
 * Kathryn Tucker, high-profile attorney and executive director of the End of Life Liberty Project

Other notable alumni

 * Elizabeth Armstrong, art curator
 * Johnny Dwork, two-time world champion flying disc freestyle athlete

Chefs

 * Gabrielle Hamilton, chef and author
 * Dede Wilson, baker, contributing editor of Bon Appetit, cookbook author

Fictional alumni

 * Alice Kinnon (Chloë Sevigny), lead character from the film The Last Days of Disco
 * Charlotte Pingress (Kate Beckinsale), lead character from the film The Last Days of Disco
 * Gobi (Horatio Sanz), character on the reoccurring Saturday Night Live sketch Jarret's Room
 * Jarret (Jimmy Fallon), character on the reoccurring Saturday Night Live sketch Jarret's Room

Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics alumni

 * Bram Cohen, original author and developer of BitTorrent
 * Matthew Cook, group leader at the Institute for Neuroinformatics at ETH Zurich and computer scientist who proved the Turing universality of Wolfram's Rule 110 cellular automaton
 * Lenore Cowen, computer scientist and mathematician at Tufts University
 * Alan Edelman, professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * Alan Grayson, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Florida)
 * Neil Immerman, professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
 * Susan Landau, professor of cybersecurity and policy at Tufts University, visiting scholar of computer science at Harvard University, Guggenheim Fellow
 * Eric Lander, mathematician and geneticist, professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and science advisor to President Barack Obama, MacArthur Fellow
 * Adam Marcus, professor of mathematics at Princeton University
 * Cathy O'Neil, data scientist and blogger at Mathbabe, Director of the Lede Program in Data Practices at Columbia University
 * Jim Propp, professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell
 * Dana Randall, professor of computer science at Georgia Tech
 * Lisa Randall, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, known for developing the Randall–Sundrum model
 * Seth Schoen, technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
 * Steven Strogatz, Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University
 * Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at UCLA Law School, scholar of American constitutional law and libertarianism
 * Erik Winfree, professor of computer science and bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology, MacArthur Fellow

Film and video

 * Joan Braderman, video artist and director, MacArthur Fellow
 * Bill Brand, experimental filmmaker
 * Baba Hillman
 * Peter Hutton (filmmaker), experimental filmmaker
 * Penny Lane (filmmaker), documentary filmmaker
 * Jerome Liebling, filmmaker and photographer, Guggenheim Fellow
 * Kara Lynch, video artist
 * Elaine Mayes, filmmaker and photographer, Guggenheim Fellow
 * Julia Meltzer, video artist, Guggenheim Fellow
 * Walid Raad/Atlas Group, video and multi-media artist
 * Abraham Ravett, filmmaker and photographer
 * Ellen Spiro, Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker
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Photography

 * Diane Arbus, photographer, Guggenheim Fellow
 * Jacqueline Hayden, feminist photographer and video artist
 * Jerome Liebling, filmmaker and photographer, Guggenheim Fellow
 * Sandra Matthews, photographer
 * Elaine Mayes, filmmaker and photographer, Guggenheim Fellow
 * Carrie Mae Weems, photographer, MacArthur Fellow

Visual arts

 * Leonard Baskin, graphic artist and sculptor, Guggenheim Fellow
 * David Diao, painter



Theater

 * Josephine Abady, theater director

Music

 * Ray Copeland, jazz musician
 * Mark Dresser, jazz musician
 * Marty Ehrlich, jazz musician
 * Yusef Lateef, jazz musician, Grammy Award-winner
 * Roland Wiggins, music theorist, music teacher to John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Yusef Lateef, Buster Williams, Jimmy Owens, and Billy Taylor

Politics

 * Eqbal Ahmad, political scientist, writer and academic
 * Michael Klare, scholar on U.S. defense policy and global resource issues

History

 * Anson Rabinbach, historian of modern Europe, co-founder of New German Critique, Guggenheim Fellow
 * E. Francis White, historian

Anthropology

 * Alan H. Goodman, anthropologist
 * Aihwa Ong, anthropologist, MacArthur Fellow
 * Leonard Glick, anthropologist, historian of ideas and Judaism

Psychology

 * John Roosevelt Boettiger, psychologist, grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Writing and Journalism

 * James Baldwin, novelist, essayist, poet, playwright and activist
 * Ronnie Dugger, journalist, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Yorker, founder of The Texas Observer, George Polk Award-winner
 * David Anthony Durham, historical and epic fantasy novelist
 * Lynne Hanley, literary critic and feminist
 * Norton Juster, architect and writer, author of The Phantom Tollbooth
 * Michael Lesy, writer and literary journalist, author of Wisconsin Death Trip
 * Elinor Lipman, novelist, short story writer, and essayist
 * David Roberts, mountaineer and author
 * Andrew Salkey, writer
 * Eric Schocket, American studies and literature scholar
 * Helaine Selin, librarian, author, and editor

Poetry

 * Polina Barskova, poet
 * Aracelis Girmay, poet
 * Paul Jenkins, professor of poetry
 * John Murillo, poet
 * Chase Twichell, poet, Guggenheim Fellow

Mathematics and Science

 * Raymond Coppinger, professor of biology and cognitive science
 * David Kelly, professor of mathematics
 * Eric Lander, mathematician and geneticist, MacArthur Fellow
 * Margaret M. Robinson, mathematician

Ecology

 * Arthur H. Westing, professor of ecology and dean of the School of Natural Science, Guggenheim Fellow

Other

 * Ngawang Samten, Tibetologist
 * Robert Sanborn, activist and President/CEO of Children At Risk
 * Jonathan Westphal, professor of philosophy

Presidents

 * Franklin Patterson (1966–1971), first president of Hampshire College and co-author of the New College Plan
 * Charles R. Longsworth (1971–1977), current director of Saul Centers, Inc., former President, CEO, and Chairman of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
 * Adele S. Simmons (1977–1989), former President of the MacArthur Foundation and first female dean of student affairs at Princeton University
 * Gregory S. Prince, Jr. (1989–2005), chairman of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts and vice-chair of the Council on Racial and Ethnic Justice of the American Bar Association
 * Ralph J. Hexter (2005–2010), former dean at UC Berkeley and Acting Chancellor of UC Davis, founding member of LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education
 * Marlene Gerber Fried (2010–2011) (interim)
 * Jonathan Lash (2011–2018), attorney, member of the board of directors and former president of the World Resources Institute
 * Miriam E. Nelson (2018–2019), acting president and CEO of Newman's Own Foundation, best-selling author, and nutritionist
 * Kenneth Rosenthal (2019) (interim)
 * Edward Wingenbach (2019–present), former acting president of Ripon College