List of Northwestern University Alumni - Academia

Academia

Warren Beatty, Actor Edgar Bergen, Ventriloquist Andrew Bird, Musician Rod Blagojevich, former Governor of Illinois David Boies, counsel, Bush v. Gore; founding partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner Mike Greenberg, ESPN employee and host of radio show Mike & Mike in the Morning. William Jennings Bryan, former U.S. Secretary of State & three-time Democratic presidential nominee Stephen Colbert, Comedian Arthur Goldberg, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago, former White House Chief of Staff, former U.S. Congressman Dick Gephardt, former U.S. House Majority Leader Charlton Heston, Actor Douglas Kmiec, U.S. Ambassador Todd Martin, former professional tennis player George McGovern, former U.S. Senator & Democratic presidential nominee Charles Horace Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic Seth Meyers, Comedian Peter George Peterson, Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations; Co-Founder & Senior Chairman of the Blackstone Group John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Rachael Yamagata, Musician
  • Madeleine Wing Adler (B.A. 1962), President, West Chester University
  • Amy Allen (Ph.D. 1996), Parents Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities and professor of philosophy, Dartmouth College
  • Elijah Anderson (Ph.D. 1976), William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Yale University
  • Clinton Bristow, Jr. (B.A. 1971), former President, Alcorn State University
  • Joyce Chaplin (B.A. 1982), James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Harvard University
  • Johnnetta B. Cole (M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1967), President Emerita, Spelman College; President, Bennett College
  • Juan Cole (B.A. 1975), Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan
  • James Hal Cone (M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1965), Charles A. Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
  • William C. Dudley (M.A. 1995, Ph.D. 1998), Provost and Professor of Philosophy, Williams College
  • Mitchell Duneier (B.A.), Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
  • Troy Duster (B.A. 1957, Ph.D. 1962), Professor of Sociology, New York University and University of California, Berkeley
  • Lee Edelman (B.A. 1975), Fletcher Professor of English Literature, Tufts University
  • Kathryn Edin (Ph.D. 1991), Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard University
  • Fred D. Fagg, Jr., former President, University of Southern California
  • William R. Ferris (M.A. 1965), Joel Williamson Eminent Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Susan Fuhrman (B.A. 1965, M.A. 1966), President, Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Simon Gikandi (Ph.D., 1986), Robert Schirmer Professor of English, Princeton University
  • Barry Glassner (B.S. 1974), Executive Vice Provost & Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California
  • Avner Greif (M.A. 1988, Ph.D. 1989), Bowman Family Endowed Professor in Humanities & Sciences, Stanford University
  • Herbert S. Hadley (LL.B ) Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis (1923–1927) Governor of Missouri
  • Geoffrey Galt Harpham (B.A. 1968), Director, National Humanities Center
  • Cynthia Herrup (B.S.J. 1972, Ph.D. 1982), Professor of History and Law, University of Southern California
  • Rosanna Hertz (M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1983), Luella LaMer Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, Wellesley College
  • Michael J. Hopkins (B.A. 1979, Ph.D. 1984), Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University
  • Frank E. Horton (Ph.D. 1968), Chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee(1980–1985), University of Oklahoma (1985–1988) and the University of Toledo (1989–1998).
  • Jonathan D. Katz (Ph.D. 1996), former head of Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Yale University
  • Joann (Wheeler) Kealiinohomoku (M.A. 1965), anthropologist and dance researcher
  • Marc W. Kirschner (B.A. 1966), John Franklin Enders University Professor and Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard University
  • Nirmalya Kumar (Ph.D. 1991), Co-Director, Aditya Birla India Centre; Director, Centre for Marketing; Faculty Director, Executive Education, London Business School
  • Zachary Leader (B.A.), Professor of English, Roehampton University
  • Michael Lounsbury (PhD 1999), Professor of strategic management, organizations and sociology at the University of Alberta
  • Glenn Loury (B.A. 1972), Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Brown University
  • Mark Crispin Miller (B.A. 1971), Professor of Media Ecology, New York University
  • Ed Morgan (B.A. 1976), Professor of International Law at the University of Toronto
  • George Nemhauser (Ph.D. 1961), A. Russell Chandler lll Chair and Institute Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • J. Dennis O'Connor (Ph.D. 1968), former Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh
  • Scott E. Page (M.S. 1990, Ph.D. 1993), Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of complex systems, political science, and economics, University of Michigan
  • Charles M. Payne (Ph.D. 1976), Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
  • Ralph Pearson (Ph.D. 1943), Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Benjamin Polak (M.A. 1986), William C. Brainard Professor of Economics, Yale University
  • Adam Przeworski (Ph.D. 1966), Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of European Studies, New York University
  • Mark Ratner (Ph.D. 1969), Professor and Chair of Chemistry, Northwestern University
  • David R. Roediger (Ph.D. 1980), professor of history, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Norbert M. Samuelson, scholar of Jewish philosophy at Arizona State University and prolific writer and lecturer
  • John B. Simpson (Ph.D. 1973), President, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
  • David J. Skorton (B.A. 1970, M.D. 1974), President, Cornell University
  • Graham Spanier (Ph.D. 1973), President, Pennsylvania State University
  • Barbara Maria Stafford (B.A. 1964, M.A. 1966), William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
  • Grover C. Stephens (B.A. 1948, M.A. 1949, Ph.D. 1952), Dean, School of Biological Sciences University of California at Irvine
  • Roger Taylor (J.D. 1971), President, Knox College
  • Stephan Thernstrom (B.A. 1956), Winthrop Professor of History, Harvard University
  • Deborah Paredez (Ph.D. 2002), Professor of Theatre and Dance at University of Texas at Austin, poet and co-founder of Cantomundo
  • Augusta Read Thomas (B.M. 1987), University Professor of Composition, University of Chicago
  • France Winddance Twine (B.S., 1980), Professor of Sociology University of California Santa Barbara
  • Glen L. Urban (Ph.D. 1966), Dean Emeritus of MIT Sloan School of Management
  • John E. Worthen (B.S. 1954), President of Ball State University from 1984 to 2000.

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