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List of Antioch College people

Last updated February 04, 2026

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

Alumni

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^[1]
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 ^[2]
Carole Harmel (B.A. 1969), photographer, artist, educator, co-founder of Artemisia Gallery women's cooperative in Chicago (1973)^[3]
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^[4]
Leilah Weinraub (2003), filmmaker, conceptual artist

Activists

John Bachtell (1978), chairman of the Communist Party USA 2014–2019
Olympia Brown (1860), suffragist, women's rights activist, minister
Mariana Wright Chapman (ca. 1857), social reformer, suffragist
Lucy Salisbury Doolittle (circa 1852), philanthropist
Leo Drey (1939), conservationist
Philip Isely (1937), peace activist, writer and founder of WCPA and GREN/EFM
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. ^[5]
Frances Cress Welsing (1957), psychiatrist and author of The Isis Papers

Business

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 30 books on leadership
Margaret Isely, businesswomen, founder of the health food chain Natural Grocers
Theodore Levitt (1949), economist, Harvard Professor
Jay W. Lorsch (1955), Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School^[6]

Education

Edythe Scott Bagley (1947), professor of Theater and Performing Arts, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
Harry M. Cleaver (B.A. 1967 economics), Marxist theoretician, and professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin
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 (B.A. 1975), labor leader and teacher
Brian Shure (B.A. 1974), has taught in the printmaking department at Rhode Island School of Design since 1996^[4]
James A.F. Stoner (B.S. 1959 engineering), holder of James A.F. Stoner Chair in Global Quality Leadership at Fordham University, author
Joan Straumanis (B.A. 1957 mathematics, political science), first female president of Antioch College, her alma mater; philosopher and women's studies pioneer at Denison University; dean at Kenyon College, Rollins College, Lehigh University, president also at Metropolitan College of New York

Entertainment

Idris Ackamoor (1973), musician, founder of jazz collective The Pyramids
Peter Adair (1967), filmmaker
Peggy Ahwesh (1978), filmmaker and video artist
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
James Klein (BA 1968), documentary filmmaker, director, producer, two-time Academy Award nominee
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
Bill Bradbury (1960), Oregon secretary of state
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
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 ^[7]
Eleanor Holmes Norton (1960), Congressional delegate, representing the District of Columbia; chair, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1977–1981 (first female chair of USEEOC); professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center (1982–2019)
Americus V. Rice, Civil War general, U.S. representative
E. Denise Simmons, mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts; first openly lesbian African-American mayor of an American city
Richard Socarides (BA 1976), political strategist, commentator
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 and author
Tito Perdue, novelist, attended Antioch (1956–57) but was sent down before graduation for cohabiting with a fellow student who was not yet his wife^[8]
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

Timothy Barrett (B.A. 1973), papermaker, researcher, and paper historian^[9]
Lisa Delpit (B.A. 1974), education reform leader^[10]
Wendy Ewald (B.A. 1974), photographer^[11]
Stephen Jay Gould (B.S. 1963), paleontologist;^[12] professor at Harvard University
Virginia Hamilton (attended 1952–55), writer^[13]
Sylvia A. Law (B.A. 1964), human rights lawyer^[14]
Deborah Meier (attended 1949–1951), education reform leader^[15]
Mark Strand (B.A. 1957), poet and writer^[16]

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 and Princeton Univ.
Stephen Jay Gould (1963), Harvard professor, geologist, evolutionary biologist, author
Robin Kanarek (B.A. 1968), physiological psychologist and academic administrator^[17]
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

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

References

↑ "Kathan Brown". Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF). Retrieved April 26, 2016.
↑ "Two artists with Antioch College ties win prestigious Guggenheim award". Antioch College. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
↑ Carol Harmel photography website. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
1 2 "Brian Shure". RISD. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
↑ "Antioch College to Celebrate the Life and Work of Alumna Coretta Scott King". Antioch College. Archived from the original on May 9, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
↑ Lorsch, Jay W. "Jay W. Lorsch – Faculty – Harvard Business School". www.hbs.edu. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
↑ "Biography – Gail D. Mathieu". US Department of State. January 9, 2008. Retrieved June 9, 2010.
↑ R. Stacy McCain, "Tito Perdue, Literary Genius," The Other McCain (17 April 2009).
↑ "Timothy Barrett — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
↑ "Lisa Delpit — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
↑ "Wendy Ewald — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
↑ "Stephen Jay Gould — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
↑ "Virginia Hamilton — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
↑ "Sylvia A. Law — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved March 19, 2019.
↑ "Deborah W. Meier — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
↑ "Mark Strand — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
↑ "Tufts University, Department of Psychology: People". ase.tufts.edu. Archived from the original on May 6, 2018. Retrieved October 21, 2025.

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[1] "Kathan Brown". Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF). Retrieved April 26, 2016.

[2] "Two artists with Antioch College ties win prestigious Guggenheim award". Antioch College. Retrieved April 26, 2016.

[Harmel-3] Carol Harmel photography website. Retrieved April 15, 2018.

[:0-4] 1 2 "Brian Shure". RISD. Retrieved April 26, 2016.

[5] "Antioch College to Celebrate the Life and Work of Alumna Coretta Scott King". Antioch College. Archived from the original on May 9, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2016.

[6] Lorsch, Jay W. "Jay W. Lorsch – Faculty – Harvard Business School". www.hbs.edu. Retrieved December 21, 2017.

[statedeptbio-7] "Biography – Gail D. Mathieu". US Department of State. January 9, 2008. Retrieved June 9, 2010.

[8] R. Stacy McCain, "Tito Perdue, Literary Genius," The Other McCain (17 April 2009).

[9] "Timothy Barrett — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved April 26, 2016.

[10] "Lisa Delpit — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved April 26, 2016.

[11] "Wendy Ewald — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved April 26, 2016.

[12] "Stephen Jay Gould — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved April 26, 2016.

[13] "Virginia Hamilton — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved April 26, 2016.

[14] "Sylvia A. Law — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved March 19, 2019.

[15] "Deborah W. Meier — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved April 26, 2016.

[16] "Mark Strand — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved April 26, 2016.

[:2-17] "Tufts University, Department of Psychology: People". ase.tufts.edu. Archived from the original on May 6, 2018. Retrieved October 21, 2025.

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Campus	Antioch Hall, North and South Halls Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom Olive Kettering Library
Presidents	Horace Mann (1852–1859) Thomas Hill (1860–1862) Edward Orton Sr. (1872–1873) Simeon D. Fess (1907–1917) Arthur Ernest Morgan (1920–1936) Algo Henderson (1936–1947) Douglas McGregor (1948–1954) Samuel B. Gould (1954–1959) William Birenbaum (1976–1985) Mark Roosevelt (2011–2015) Tom Manley (2015–2020) Jane Fernandes (2021–present)
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