List of Williams College People - Academia

Academia

• Richard T. Antoun, 1953 – anthropologist specializing in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies who was murdered in 2009 by a graduate student at Binghamton University
• John Bascom, 1849 – Williams professor and president of the University of Wisconsin–Madison; namesake of Williams' Bascom House and Bascom Lodge atop Mount Greylock
• Bernard Bailyn, 1945 – early American historian and professor at Harvard University
• James Phinney Baxter III, 1914 – president of Williams College from 1937–1961 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1947; namesake of Williams' Baxter Fellow residential program
• Michael Beschloss 1977, called "the nation's leading presidential historian" by Newsweek.
• Julian Charles Boyd 1952, American linguist, reputed for his expertise on modality in English, as well as for his pedagogical excellence at the University of California, Berkeley, where he spent most of his academic career as Professor of English and Director of the English Language Program.
• Sterling Allen Brown 1922, African-American teacher, literary critic, and poet.
• James MacGregor Burns 1939, Pulitzer Prize winning author.
• Paul Chadbourne 1848, President of University of Wisconsin, Williams College, and University of Massachusetts.
• Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Rabbi and Professor of Jewish Theology, University of Wales, Lampeter
• Robert Coombe 1970, Chancellor, University of Denver.
• Allison Davis 1924, sociologist.
• John Aubrey Davis, Sr. 1933, political science professor and civil rights activist instrumental to the Brown vs. Board of Education legal team.
• Anna Christina De Ozorio Nobre 1985, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford.
• Daniel Drezner 1990, Professor at Tufts University, political commentator
• Amos Eaton 1799, co-founder, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Robert F. Engle 1964, won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility" (ARCH models) and holds the Armellino Chair at New York University (NYU). He graduated with Highest Honors in Physics.
• Willard F. Enteman 1959, former president of Bowdoin College
• S. Lane Faison 1929, art historian.
• Kristin Forbes 1992, Associate Professor of International Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Member, Council of Economic Advisers (confirmed by the United States Senate in 2003, she is the youngest person to ever hold this position).
• Theodore Friend 1952, former president of Swarthmore College.
• Keith Griffin 1960, former president of Magdalen College, Oxford.
• Edward Gramlich 1961, economics professor at University of Michigan and member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.
• Henry Hopkins 1858, President of Williams College.
• Mark Hopkins 1824. According to former U.S. president James A. Garfield (see below), "Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings...", often misquoted as '...a log, with Mark Hopkins on one end and me on the other..."
• Catharine Hill 1976, president of Vassar College
• James Willard Hurst 1932, founder of the modern field of American legal history.
• Thomas H. Jackson 1972, President of University of Rochester, 1994–2005
• Harry Pratt Judson 1870, President of the University of Chicago, 1906-1923
• Walter Kaufmann 1941, philosopher, poet, and translator.
• Alvin Kernan 1949, educator (Williams, Yale, Princeton), author and historian.
• Leonard Woods Labaree 1920, chair of the history department at Yale and Connecticut State Historian.
• Frederick M. Lawrence 1977, President, Brandeis University, former Dean, George Washington University Law School.
• Roger Sherman Loomis 1909, medieval and Arthurian literature scholar.
• James Maas 1961, Professor of Psychology at Cornell and leading sleep researcher.
• Curtis T. McMullen 1980, Professor of Mathematics at Harvard and winner of the 1998 Fields Medal for his work in complex dynamics.
• Barrington Moore Jr. 1936, leading figure in Comparative Politics and professor at Harvard.
• Daniel Muzyka 1975, Dean of the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.
• Stewart Myers 1967, Professor of Financial Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
• William Ouchi 1965, American professor and author in the field of business management.
• Arthur Latham Perry 1852, economist.
• Earl Potter III 1968, President of St. Cloud State University.
• Eric Reeves 1972, Sudan scholar.
• Thomas Hedley Reynolds 1942, 5th President of Bates College.
• David Ruder 1951, Professor and former Dean, Northwestern University School of Law, and former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
• Bruce Russett 1956, Professor of Political Science Yale University, leading figure in International Relations.
• James C. Scott 1958, Sterling Professor of Political Science and director of Agrarian Studies at Yale.
• Francis H. Snow 1868, Chancellor of University of Kansas.
• Clayton Spencer 1977, President of Bates College, 2011-present.
• Herbert Stein 1935, former Chair, Council of Economic Advisers (and father of Ben Stein).
• Lester Thurow 1960, the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Economics, and former Dean (1987–1993), MIT Sloan School of Management.
• Richard Warch 1961, president of Lawrence University.