List of Oberlin College Alumni - Academia

Academia

• Noah Bopp (1996), founder and director, School for Ethics and Global Leadership.
• Christopher Browning (1968), historian of the Holocaust.
• Kevin Clarke (1991), renowned political methodologist, currently Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester.
• Johnnetta B. Cole (1957), first female African-American president of Spelman College, president of Bennett College 2002–07.
• John R. Commons (1888), well-known institutional economist and labor historian.
• John Millott Ellis (1851), acting President of Oberlin College and abolitionist.
• George Fairchild (1862), third President of Kansas State University.
• Peter Tyrrell Flawn (1947), geologist and former President of the University of Texas at Austin.
• Joseph L. Graves, Jr. (1977), Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Biological Studies at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering.
• Erwin Griswold (1925), lawyer, Solicitor General of the United States and dean of Harvard Law School.
• Robert Hutchins, educational philosopher, president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago
• Walter Heller (1935), economist and educator
• Charlene Drew Jarvis (1962), president of Southeastern University.
• Robert Jervis (1962), International Relations scholar and Columbia University professor.
• Barbara Johnson (1969), literary critic, professor at Harvard University.
• J. Richard Judson (1949), Rembrandt, Honthorst, and Terbrugghen scholar and Professor Emeritus at UNC and Smith Colleges.
• Laurence Perrine, best-selling author and professor at Southern Methodist University.
• Paul Pierson (1981), well known political scientist, professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley.
• Roger Montgomery (1949), Dean of Architecture, City Planning, and Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley.
• Edward F. Mooney (1962), noted Kierkegaard scholar and Professor of Religion at Syracuse University.
• L. L. Nunn, Founder of Telluride Association and Deep Springs College.
• Willard V. O. Quine (1930), philosopher and logician.
• William Sanders Scarborough (1875), classical scholar.
• Robert E. Scott, (1965), law professor and notable contract law scholar at Columbia Law School, Board of Visitors at College of William and Mary
• C. Martin Wilbur (1931), historian, Sinologist.
• Gary Ebbs (1981) Graduate of both the conservatory and college, Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University
• Garnet C. Wilkinson (1902), educator and administrator
• Warren Wilson, namesake of Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.