List of Louisiana State University Alumni - Academia

Academia

• Morris N. Abrams, LSU vocational agricultural professor, dean at Louisiana State University at Alexandria
• James R. Andrews, M.D., founder of the American Sports Medicine Institute
• Rene J. Bienvenu, former president of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches
• Elise Blackwell, professor of English at University of South Carolina, novelist
• Marc W. Buie, astronomer at Lowell Observatory
• Stephen A. Caldwell, B.A in education (1925), LSU faculty member and administrator, 1934 until his death in 1956
• John Ardis Cawthon, M.A. in education (1930s), Louisiana Tech University professor of education and regional historian of North Louisiana
• John B. Conway, professor of mathematics at George Washington University.
• Mike Dunne, B.S. (1974) Baton Rouge Morning Advocate environmental reporter and adjunct professor of journalism at LSU
• Ronald G. Douglas, Ph.D. (1962), Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Texas A&M University.
• Sue Eakin, M.A., historian, newspaper columnist, professor
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick, professor of English at Pomona College.
• A.A. Fredericks, B.A. (1917) and M.A. (1925), president of Northwestern State University (1934–1941); Louisiana state senator (1932–1948), member of the Louisiana Board of Education (1948-1966), and secretary to Governor Earl Kemp Long (1948–1950 and 1959–1960)
• Robert L. Frye, Ph.D. (1966), educator and candidate for state education superintendent (1972)
• Perry H. Howard, Ph.D. (1954), sociologist who researched in the field of Louisiana politics; LSU faculty, 1964-ca. 1994
• Edgar Hull, pre-medical (1923), co-founding physician of the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (1931) and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport (1969)
• Hubert D. Humphreys, B.A. (1950) and M.A. (1964), oral history specialist at Louisiana State University in Shreveport
• Arnold R. Kilpatrick, president of Northwestern State University from 1966–1978
• David Kirby, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor at Florida State University, award-winning poet
• John S. Kyser, Ph.D. (1937), president of Northwestern State University, 1954-1966
• Jeffrey A. Lockwood award-winning author and University of Wyoming professor of Natural Sciences and Humanities
• Walter M. Lowrey, B.A., M.A., historian
• Ray Marshall, Professor Emeritus of the Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin
• Camille Martin, professor at Ryerson University, poet
• Alex McCool, is manager of the Space Shuttle Projects Office at the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama
• E. R. Minchew M.A. (1938) and Ph.D. (1955), speech professor at Louisiana Tech University (1964-1975) and principal of Castor High School (1932-1964)
• Dinty W. Moore, Professor of English at Ohio University, novelist and essayist
• J. Tinsley Oden, pioneer in the field of computational mechanics, noted as one of the most highly cited researchers in the world
• Marietta LeBreton, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern State University historian
• Virgil Orr, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., in chemical engineering; Louisiana Tech University vice president; former state representative from Lincoln and Union parishes
• W. Darrell Overdyke, M.A. (ca. 1929), Centenary College of Louisiana historian; authority on 19th century plantation homes and the Know Nothing political party
• Morgan D. Peoples, Louisiana Tech University historian; authority on Earl Kemp Long
• Darrell A. Posey, noted American anthropologist and biologist.
• Bin Ramke, professor at University of Denver, award-winning poet, winner of the 1978 Yale Younger Poets Prize
• Charles P. Roland, Ph.D., historian at Tulane University and the University of Kentucky and specialist in the American Civil War and the American South
• R. L. Ropp, Master of Arts (1925), president of Louisiana Tech University from 1949 to 1962
• Martha Serpas, professor of creative writing in University of Houston Creative Writing Program, poet
• Harry V. Sims, surgeon, hospital administrator, gynecological researcher from New Orleans
• Linus A. Sims, educator and founder of what became Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond
• James Monroe Smith (BA, 1921), president of LSU from 1930-1939; forced to resign in "Louisiana Hayride" scandals
• Robert B. Stobaugh, Ph. D., retired professor of Harvard Business School and currently at Rice University.
• Virgil Suarez, professor of English at Florida State University, award winning writer
• Joe Gray Taylor, historian of the American South and Louisiana history
• Robert O. Trout (Ph.D., 1954), sociologist at Louisiana Tech University
• Olympia Vernon, Hallie Ford Chair in Writing at Willamette University
• George T. Walker, M.S. and Ph.D.; later president of the University of Louisiana at Monroe
• Eugene P. Watson, 1934 graduate; head librarian at NSU in Natchitoches from 1940–1964; Watson Library named for him
• Richard M. Weaver, longtime professor of English at the University of Chicago, best known for book, Ideas Have Consequences
• John D. Winters, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Louisiana Tech University historian
• Allen Wier, professor at University of Tennessee
• Dara Wier, director of MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, award-winning poet.
• Robert Yarber, Professor of Art at Pennsylvania State University, painter
• Ning Zhang (PhD, Biological Sciences, 2002), mycologist and assistant professor, Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ