List of City College of New York People - Politics, Government, Sociology, Philosophy, and Religion

Politics, Government, Sociology, Philosophy, and Religion

• Herman Badillo 1951 Congressman and Chairman of CUNY's Board of Trustees
• Bernard M. Baruch 1889 – Wall Street financier and adviser to American Presidents; author of the Baruch Plan
• Daniel Bell 1939 – sociologist, professor at Harvard University
• Abraham D. Beame 1928 – mayor of New York City, 1974 to 1977
• Stephen Bronner – political theorist, Marxist, professor at Rutgers University
• Frank Caplan – educator, founder of children's educational toy company Creative Playthings
• Upendra J. Chivukula – first Asian American elected to the New Jersey General Assembly
• Henry Cohen 1943 – Director, Föhrenwald DP Camp; Founding Dean the Milano School for Management and Urban Policy at The New School
• Morris Raphael Cohen – graduate of CCNY and professor at CCNY; philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar; the Cohen Library at CCNY is named for him
• Marty Dolin – former Manitoba NDP MLA for Kildonan
• Philip Elman – Justice Department attorney and Federal Trade Commission member, wrote government's brief in Brown v. Board of Education
• Benjamin B. Ferencz – international jurist and criminal justice pioneer; co-winner of the 2009 Erasmus Prize
• Abraham Foxman – National Director of the Anti-Defamation League
• Felix Frankfurter 1902 – justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
• George Friedman – founder of Stratfor, author, professor of Political Science, security and defense analyst
• Nathan Glazer – sociologist, professor at Harvard University; author of Beyond the Melting Pot with Daniel Patrick Moynihan
• Paul Goodman – writer, social critic, public intellectual; author of "The Empire City," "Growing Up Absurd," and "Communitas".
• Edmund W. Gordon – founding Director of the Institute for Research on African Diaspora in the Americas and Caribbean (IRADAC) at CCNY
• Stanley Graze – economist and former lecturer at CCNY. Worked in the United Nations, State Department, US Army and the Brookings Institution. MA from Columbia University.
• Sidney Hook 1923 – writer and philosopher
• Benjamin Kaplan 1929 – Helped to write the indictments of Nazi war criminals who were tried at Nuremberg; served as Nuremberg prosecutor; distinguished Harvard law professor
• Henry Kissinger – Secretary of State under Richard Nixon
• Ed Koch 1945 – mayor of New York City, 1978 to 1989
• Irving Kristol 1940 – neoconservative intellectual, professor at New York University
• David Landes 1942 – historian, professor at Harvard University
• Melvin J. Lasky 1938 – anti-communist, editor of Encounter 1958 to 1991
• Albert L. Lewis, conservative rabbi, president of international Rabbinical Assembly
• Samuel A. Lewis, politician and philanthropist in the late 19th century, a trustee of the college
• Guillermo Linares 1975 – the first Dominican-American New York City Council Member
• Seymour Martin Lipset – political sociology, trade unions
• Rachel Lloyd – applied urban anthropology graduate; founder of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services in New York
• Jay Lovestone, 1918, radical political leader and trade union functionary
• Sidney Morgenbesser – philosopher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, known to have witheringly applied Jewish humor to issues in metaphysics and epistemology
• Henry Morgenthau, Sr. – financier and diplomat; as ambassador to Ottoman Empire attempted to warn the world about the Armenian genocide
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan – spent a year at CCNY before he was drafted; author of Beyond the Melting Pot with Nathan Glazer; ambassador to the U.N., senator representing New York
• Colin L. Powell 1961– United States Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Army General, National Security Advisor
• Donald A. Ritchie 1967 – historian, currently historian of the United States Senate
• Alexander Rosenberg – Lakatos Award-winning philosopher at Duke University
• Julius Rosenberg – executed for espionage during the Cold War
• Bertrand Russell – in 1940, invited by the Philosophy Department to become a professor but his appointment was blocked by a suit and timidity on the part of the Board of Higher Education; see more details in City College of New York
• Oscar Schachter 1936 – law professor and United Nations aide
• George D. Schwab 1954 - American political scientist, editor and academic, president of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy
• Henry Schwarzschild - founder of NCADP, LCDC, and head of ACLU's Capital Punishment project in America
• Morrie Schwartz – sociologist, author, and subject of Tuesdays with Morrie.
• Assata Shakur - Black rights activist; involved in May 1973 shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in which a state trooper was killed
• Stanley S. Surrey 1929 - tax law scholar, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy from 1961 to 1969
• Samuel Turk – rabbi, religious leader, columnist
• Friedrich Ulfers 1959 – Deconstructionist writer, Dean of Media and Communications at European Graduate School, and NYU professor
• Robert F. Wagner, Sr. – United States Senator from New York, 1927 to 1949; introduced the National Labor Relations Act
• Michele Wallace 1975 – a major figure in African-American studies, feminist studies and cultural studies
• General Alexander S. Webb – second president of the college; winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism at the Battle of Gettysburg
• Stephen Samuel Wise 1891– Reform rabbi, early Zionist and social justice activist.
• Bertram D. Wolfe 1916- Political activist and historian