This page lists notable alumni of American liberal arts institution, Reed College, located in Oregon's most populous city, Portland, along with their past and present positions.
Alumni
editAcademia
edit- Julia Adams – sociologist; professor, Yale University
- Jon Appleton, 1961 – composer; Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, Visiting Professor of Music at Stanford University
- Louis T. Benezet, 1939 – President, Colorado College
- Sacvan Bercovitch (did not graduate) – Professor of American Literature, Harvard University
- Charles Bigelow, 1967 – Professor of Type Design and Writing, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Jonathan Boyarin, 1977 – Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies; Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University
- Robert Brenner, 1964 – Professor of History, UCLA
- Joan Bresnan, 1966 – Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University
- Robert A. Brightman, 1973 – Greenberg Professor of Native American Studies, Reed College
- Peter Child, 1975 – composer, professor of music at MIT
- Jessica Coon, 2004 – Linguistics Professor at McGill University
- Galen Cranz, 1966 – Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley[1]
- Ann Cvetkovich, 1980 – Associate Professor of English at University of Texas, Austin; author of several books, including An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
- Shannon Lee Dawdy, 1988 – Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago
- Kai T. Erikson, 1953 – President, American Sociological Association and Professor at Yale University
- Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, 1950 – anthropologist
- Janet Fitch, 1978 – Professor of Professional Writing, University of Southern California
- Neil Fligstein, 1973 – Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
- David H. French, 1939 – anthropologist and linguist
- Victor Friedman, 1970 – Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Balkan and Slavic Linguistics, University of Chicago
- Peter Gordon, 1988 – Professor of History, Harvard University
- Ted Robert Gurr, 1957 – Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
- Loyd Haberly, 1919 – Dean, Fairleigh Dickinson University
- Peter Dobkin Hall, 1968 – Hauser Lecturer on nonprofit organizations, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
- Carol Heimer, 1973 – Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
- David Hoggan, 1945 – controversial historian
- Dell Hymes, 1950 – anthropologist and linguist
- Maurice Isserman, 1973 – Professor of History, Hamilton College
- Lewis Webster Jones, 1921 – President of Rutgers University
- Don Kates, 1962 – criminologist
- Gail M. Kelly, 1955 – anthropologist
- Wallace T. MacCaffrey, 1942 – scholar of Elizabethan England; chaired the Harvard University history department twice
- Brendan McConville, 1987 – Professor of History at Boston University
- William D. McElroy, 1939 – Chancellor, University of California, San Diego and former Director, National Science Foundation
- Dennis B. McGilvray, 1965 – Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado
- Lisa Nakamura, 1987 – Professor at the Institute of Communication Research and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Kaori O'Connor, 1968 – Senior Research Fellow, University of London
- Christopher Phelps, 1988 – Professor of History, University of Nottingham
- Ray Raphael, 1965 – historian
- Diane Silvers Ravitch (did not graduate) – Professor of History, New York University; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
- Barbara Reskin (did not graduate) – Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
- Lawrence Rinder, 1983 – Dean of Graduate Studies at the California College of the Arts; former Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum
- Stephen Shapin, 1966 – historian and sociologist of science at Harvard University; taught at the University of Edinburgh and the University of California, San Diego
- Robert E. Slavin, 1972 – Director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education, Johns Hopkins; cooperative learning, project Success for All
- George Steinmetz (academic), 1980 - Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
- Robert K. Thomas (did not graduate) – Academic Vice President, Brigham Young University
- Katherine Verdery, 1970 – Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor, Anthropology Program, City University of New York Graduate Center[2]
- Jon Westling, 1964 – President Emeritus and Professor of History at Boston University
- Richard Wolin, 1974 – Professor at City University of New York Graduate Center
Arts and entertainment
edit- Jacob Avshalomov, 1941 – composer
- Kip Berman, 2002 – songwriter and vocalist for The Pains of Being Pure at Heart[3]
- Jody Bleyle, 1992 – singer, songwriter, musician[4]
- Jennifer Camper, 1979, cartoonist
- Peter Child, 1975 – composer, professor of music at MIT
- Ry Cooder, 1971 – singer, songwriter; attended Reed for one semester
- Robert Cornthwaite, 1939 – actor
- Lamar Crowson, 1948 – pianist
- Dr. Demento, born Barret Hansen, 1963 – radio personality
- Pozzi Escot, 1956 – composer
- Johanna Fateman (did not graduate) – musician
- Simone Forti (did not graduate) – choreographer
- Rob Heinsoo, 1987 – game designer
- Hope Lange (did not graduate) – actress
- Jayne Loader, 1973 – writer and director; produced and co-directed The Atomic Cafe
- Peter Mars, 1982 – artist[5]
- Robert Morris, 1953 (attended two years) – sculptor
- Bill Morrison, 1985, filmmaker, Guggenheim fellow
- Charles Munch, 1968 – painter
- Daria O'Neill, 1993 – Portland radio and TV personality
- Eric Overmyer, 1973 – screenwriter, producer, playwright
- David Reed, 1968 – artist
- Lawrence Rinder, 1983 – Director of the Berkeley Art Museum
- Brian Rolland (did not graduate) – musician
- Leo Rubinfien, 1974 – photographer
- Susan Silas, 1975[6] – artist
- Pat Silver-Lasky 1949– screenwriter and actress
- Kim Spencer, 1970 – television producer
- David Henry Sterry, 1978 – author, actor/comic
- Igor Vamos, 1990 – contemporary artist, member of The Yes Men
- Anne Washburn, 1991 – playwright (Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play)
Business
edit- Emilio Pucci, 1937 – fashion designer; member of the Italian Parliament
- Bill Naito, 1949 – Portland businessman, developer, and civic leader
- Dan Greenberg, 1962 – CEO of Electro Rent
- Dan Drake, 1964 – co-founder of Autodesk
- Miriam Sontz, 1973 – CEO of Powell's Books, the world's largest independent bookstore.
- Robert Friedland, 1974 – businessman and CEO of Ivanhoe Mines
- Suzan DelBene, 1983 – CEO of Nimble Technology and Vice President at Microsoft
- Elly Blue, 2005 – co-owner of Microcosm Publishing
- Michael Richardson, 2007 – co-founder of Urban Airship.
Economics
edit- Dorothy Brady, 1925 – Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
- Robert A. Brady, 1923 – Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
- Rose Friedman, 1930 – author; wife of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman; economist in her own right; left in 1930 after her sophomore year[7]
- Mason Gaffney, 1948 – economist and critic of neoclassical economics
- John Krutilla, 1949, economist who developed concept of existence value
- Kalman J. Cohen, 1951 – Professor of Economics, Duke University
- Dale W. Jorgenson, 1955 – economist, professor at Harvard University, past president of the AEA and the Econometric Society
- Michael Rothschild, 1963 – economist, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University
- Nicolaus Tideman, 1965 – economist
- Yoram Bauman, 1995 – economist and stand-up comedian
- Ross Starr (did not graduate) – Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
- Walter Berns (did not graduate) – Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Food and Drink
edit- James Beard, expelled 1922/23; honorary degree 1976 – chef and cookbook author
- Mark Bitterman, 1995 – food writer and author
- Steven Raichlen, 1975 – television chef, author
- Kate Christensen, 1986 – food writer and author
- Susan Sokol Blosser, 1967 – founder of Sokol Blosser Winery[8]
- Sean Thackrey (did not graduate) – winemaker
Government
edit- Josiah H. Beeman V, 1958 – United States Ambassador to New Zealand
- Bud Clark (did not graduate) – Mayor of Portland
- Richard Danzig, 1965 – 71st Secretary of the Navy
- Suzan DelBene, 1983 – United States Representative from Washington State (D)
- Chris Garrett, 1996 – member of the Oregon Legislature
- Richard L. Hanna, 1973 – United States Representative from New York (R)
- Cordelia Hood, 1936 – Office of Strategic Services and CIA agent
- Sheldon T. Mills, 1927 – Former United States Ambassador to Afghanistan
- J. Elizabeth Mitchell, 1991 – member of the Maine Legislature
- Norman Solomon (did not graduate) – candidate for the United States House of Representatives
- Howard Wolpe, 1960 – Congressman (D-Michigan)
Law
edit- Hans A. Linde, 1947 – Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
- Berkeley Lent, 1948 – Chief Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
- George M. Joseph, 1951 – Chief Judge, Oregon Court of Appeals
- Michael E. Levine, 1962 – Senior Lecturer at the New York University School of Law; Dean Emeritus of the Yale School of Management
- Alex Martinez, 1973 – Chief Justice, Colorado Supreme Court
- Jessica Litman, 1974 – Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, legal advisor
- Katya Komisaruk, 1978 – civil rights lawyer
- Alafair Burke, 1991 – Assistant District Attorney, Multnomah County, Oregon; Professor of Law, Hofstra University; crime and mystery writer
- Chris Garrett, 1996 – Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
- Gus J. Solomon (did not graduate) – US District Judge, District of Oregon
- Jacob Tanzer (did not graduate) – Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
- Fay Stender (did not graduate) – lawyer and prisoners' rights advocate
Literature
edit- Tamim Ansary, 1970 – author of West of Kabul, East of New York
- Doon Arbus, 1967 – writer and journalist, daughter of Diane Arbus
- Alison Baker, 1975 – writer
- Mary Barnard, 1932 – modernist poet and translator of Greek poet Sappho
- Margaret Bechard, 1976 – science fiction writer
- Don Berry, 1931 – writer
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, 1969 – poet
- Lee Blessing, 1971 – playwright
- Hob Broun, 1972, author who became paralyzed and wrote two books by puffing air through a tube.
- Alafair Burke, 1991 – author
- Robert Chesley, 1965 – playwright, novelist, and composer
- Kate Christensen, 1986 – novelist, winner of 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- Gordon Dahlquist, 1984 – playwright, novelist
- William Dickey, 1951 – poet
- Katherine Dunn, 1969 – journalist and author of Geek Love
- Elana Dykewomon, ca. 1971 – author
- Elyssa East, 1994 – novelist
- David Eddings, 1954 – writer
- Nancy Farmer, 1963 – novelist, winner of National Book Award for Young People's Literature
- Elyse Fenton, 2003 – poet
- Janet Fitch, 1978 – novelist, White Oleander, Paint It Black, and The Revolution of Marina M
- Debra M. Ginsberg, 1984 – author
- Shadab Zeest Hashmi, 1995 – poet
- Ernest Haycox (did not graduate) – author
- Myrlin Hermes, 1997 – author
- Roger Hobbs, 2011 – author of Ghostman and Vanishing Games
- Jemiah Jefferson, 1994 – author
- Laleh Khadivi, 1998 – author and writer
- Caroline B. Miller, 1959 – author
- Lisa Dale Norton, 1976 – author
- Steven Raichlen, 1975 – author and writer
- Howard Rheingold, 1968 – writer
- M. C. Richards, 1938 – poet
- David Romtvedt, 1972 – poet
- Mary Rosenblum, 1975 – author
- Vern Rutsala, 1956 – poet and writer
- Tina Satter, 2004 – playwright
- Leslie Scalapino, 1966 – poet, publisher, and playwright[9]
- Gary Snyder, 1951 – Pulitzer Prize winner and poet
- Sally Watson, 1950 – writer
- Philip Whalen, 1951 – poet
- Lew Welch, 1950 – poet
Journalism and Media
edit- Ed Cony, 1948 – Editor of the Wall Street Journal, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1961
- Barbara Ehrenreich, 1963 – journalist, political activist, author of Nickel and Dimed
- Jim Compton, 1964 – journalist at PBS
- Howard Rheingold, 1968 – writer, critic, and virtual media theorist
- Oz Hopkins Koglin, 1974 – first African-American woman to be hired as reporter at the Oregonian.
- Sheila Rogers, 1980 – columnist and TV producer for The Late Show With David Letterman
- Gary Wolf, 1983 – author and writer for Wired.
- Anya Schiffrin, 1984 – business journalist and author of Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the World
- Adam L. Penenberg, 1986 – writer, professor of journalism at New York University
- Peter S. Goodman, 1989 – reporter for the New York Times and author of Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy
- Robert Smith, 1989 — journalist, host of Planet Money.
- Arun Rath, 1994 – correspondent for NPR and WGBH, former weekend host of NPR's All Things Considered
- Michelle Nijhuis, 1996 – journalist
- Peter Zuckerman, 2003 – journalist and author
- Adrian Chen, 2009 – journalist and former staff writer at the The New Yorker.
- Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, 2014 – journalist and producer at NPR's Planet Money.
Inventors and Innovators
edit- C. Howard Vollum, 1936 – founder of Tektronix; inventor of the edge-triggered oscilloscope
- Ken Koe, 1945 – co-inventor of Zoloft.
- Bernard Smith, 1948 – sailboat designer
- John Sperling, 1948 – founder of the University of Phoenix
- Robert Gordon, 1949 – inventor of the Gordon Wrench
- James Russell, 1953 – inventor of the compact disc
- Peter Norton, 1965 – creator of Norton Utilities
- Richard Crandall, 1969 – computer scientist who developed the irrational base discrete weighted transform used in finding large prime numbers
- Steve Jobs, 1976 (attended as a freshman, did not graduate) – Apple co-founder and CEO; Pixar co-founder and CEO[10]
- Pamela Ronald, 1982 – geneticist and developer of flood-tolerant rice
- Larry Sanger, 1991 – co-founder of Wikipedia
- Luke Kanies, 1996 – created Puppet software system[11]
- Daniel K. Kim, 2001 – transportation entrepreneur
Philosophy
edit- Karl Aschenbrenner, 1934 – philosopher of aesthetics
- Sydney Shoemaker, 1953 – Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University
- Guy Sircello, 1958 – Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine and scholar of aesthetics
- Jay Rosenberg, 1963 – philosopher of metaphysics, epistemology, and language.
- Allen W. Wood, 1964 – Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University
- Tom Wasow, 1967 – Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at Stanford University
- Sally Haslanger, 1977 – Professor of Philosophy, MIT
- Eric T. Olson, 1986 – Professor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield; taught at Cambridge University
- Lisa Kemmerer, 1988 – author and professor of philosophy and religion at Montana State University Billings
Psychology and Neuroscience
edit- Harry Harlow, 1926 (did not graduate) – professor of psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Herbert Jasper, 1928 – professor of psychology, McGill University
- Eleanor Maccoby, 1939 – psychologist at Stanford University, member of the National Academy of Sciences
- M. Brewster Smith, 1939 (did not graduate) – professor of psychology, University of Chicago
- Jeanne Block, 1947 – developmental psychologist, professor, Stanford University
- Richard F. Thompson, 1953 – professor of psychology, University of Southern California
- Daryl Bem, 1960 – professor of psychology, Cornell University
- Eleanor Rosch, 1960 – professor of psychology, University of California, Berkeley
- Robert Frager, 1961 – social psychologist, founder of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
- Mary Rothbart, 1962 – educational and developmental psychologist, professor at University of Oregon
- Eleanor Rosch, 1962 – cognitive psychologist, professor at UC Berkeley
- Paul H. Taghert, 1975 – neuroscientist, Washington University in St. Louis
- Roberto Malinow, 1979 – neuroscientist, UC San Diego
- Cyma Van Petten, 1981 – cognitive neuroscientist, professor at SUNY-Binghampton
- Gina G. Turrigiano, 1984 – professor of vision science, Brandeis University; MacArthur Fellow
- Athena Aktipis, 2002 – director of the Human Generosity Project at Arizona State University
- Allen Bergin (did not graduate) – psychologist
Biology and Chemistry
edit- Arthur H. Livermore, 1940 – biochemist
- Allah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian, 1951 – biologist, Rutgers University
- Bruce Voeller, 1956 – biologist, AIDS researcher, gay-rights activist; coined the term AIDS
- Daniel S. Kemp, 1958 – Professor of Chemistry, MIT
- Mark Ptashne, 1961 – Professor of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Donald Engelman, 1962 – biochemist at Yale University; Guggenheim fellow
- Anne Hiltner, 1963 – polymer scientist and professor at Case Western Reserve
- Kenneth Raymond, 1964 – Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
- Arlene Blum, 1966 – mountaineer and chemist
- Michael Balls, 1966 – zoologist and professor, University of Nottingham
- Mary Jo Ondrechen, 1974 – Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Northeastern University
- Alison Butler, 1977 – metallobiochemist at UC Santa Barbara, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Rachel E. Klevit, 1978 – Professor of Biochemistry, University of Washington
- Roger Perlmutter, 1973 – biotechnologist; head of Research and Development at Amgen, Inc.
- Victor Nizet, 1984 – Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacy at the University of California, San Diego
- Kevan Shokat, 1986 – Professor and Chair of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at University of California, San Francisco; Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
- John Alroy, 1989 – paleobiologist
- Stephen C. Sillett, 1989 – botanist, professor at Humboldt State University
- Paul Knoepfler, 1989, stem-cell researcher, author, professor at UC Davis School of Medicine
- Kent Kirshenbaum, 1994 – Professor of Chemistry, New York University
Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering
edit- John Backus, 1932 – Professor of Physics, University of Southern California
- John Alexander Simpson, 1940 – Professor of Physics, University of Chicago, and atomic scientist on the Manhattan Project
- Clarence Allen, 1949 – Professor of Geology, California Institute of Technology
- Larry Shaw, 1961 – physicist and founder of Pi Day
- David B. Dusenbery, 1964 – father of sensory ecology
- David Flory, 1964 – physicist; Professor of Physics, Chairman of the Physics Department, and Director of the School of Natural Sciences at Fairleigh Dickinson University
- Arthur Ogus, 1968 – Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
- Thomas William Ferguson, 1965 – physician
- Alan H. Borning, 1971 – Professor of Computer Science, University of Washington
- Jonathan Grudin, 1972 – computer scientist
- Catherine Otto, 1975 – physician
- Daniel Kottke, 1976 – computer scientist
- Lawrence Philips, 1976 – software engineer; developer of the Metaphone family of phonetic encoding algorithms
- Norman Packard, 1977 – chaos theory physicist
- Steven McGeady, 1980 – technologist
- Theodore James Courant, 1982 – mathematician
- Kelly Falkner, 1983 – oceanographer, Antarctic researcher
- Peter Shirley, 1985, computer scientist
- Keith Packard, 1986 – software developer; known for his work on the X Window System
- Shep Doeleman, 1986 – astrophysicist, director of the Event Horizon Telescope project
- Irena Swanson, 1987, mathematician and professor at Reed College
- Craig DeForest, 1989 – astrophysicist, director of the PUNCH mission
- Sasha Kramer, 1999 – ecologist and founder of Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods
- Edward Ramberg (did not graduate) – physicist
Other
edit- Greta Christina, 1983 – blogger
- Mike Davis (did not graduate) – activist and scholar
- Randall Giles (did not graduate) – composer
- Max Gordon, 1924 – owner of the Village Vanguard
- Mukunda Goswami, 1961 – Hare Krishna guru
- Christopher Langan – "America's smartest man;" won a scholarship to Reed after earning a perfect SAT score, but dropped out
- Murray Leaf, 1961 – anthropologist
- Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 2016 – human rights activist[12]
- Joann Osterud, 1968 – aviator and stunt pilot
- Harry Wayland Randall, 1936 – member of international brigades in Spanish Civil War
- Aaron Rhodes, 1971 – human rights advocate
- Helen Sandoz – lesbian activist
- Genny Smith – publisher
- Peter Stafford (did not graduate) – author and writer
- Sumner Stone, 1967 – typeface designer
- Michael Teitelbaum, 1966 – program director and demographer at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Donald Niven Wheeler, 1936 – political activist
Fictional alumni
edit- Erlich Bachmann, from HBO's Silicon Valley
- John William Barry from David Guterson's 2008 novel The Other
- Bill McKay, portrayed by Robert Redford in the 1972 film The Candidate
- Donald "Don" Miller in his semi-autobiographical 2003 book Blue Like Jazz and (portrayed by Marshall Allman) in the 2012 Blue Like Jazz film
- Harald Petersen, Reed '27 from Mary McCarthy's 1963 novel The Group
- Japhy Ryder from Jack Kerouac's 1958 novel The Dharma Bums (based on Reed alum Gary Snyder)
- Hunter Scangarelo (did not graduate), friend of Meadow Soprano in the 1999–2007 television series The Sopranos
- Sierra from Charmed Thirds, Megan McCafferty's 2006 novel in the Jessica Darling series
- Lambert "Sharkey" Somers, from Judy Blume's 1998 novel Summer Sisters
Faculty
edit- William J. Connell – historian
- Paul Douglas – US Senator from Illinois
- David J. Griffiths – physicist
- Daniel Reisberg – psychology
References
edit- ^ Berkeley Archived 2008-01-20 at the Wayback Machine
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: Cite uses generic title (help) - ^ Lyndon, Isabel (14 November 2017). "Pure At Heart". Reed Magazine. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Tovey '97, Robin. "Riot grrrl reunion".
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Reed College, Reed Chicago Alumni Chapter News Accessed October 6, 2011
- ^ "Reediana Briefs". Reed Magazine.
- ^ Friedman, Milton; Rose D. Friedman (1999). Two Lucky People: Memoirs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-226-26414-1.
- ^ "Reed Magazine: Blosser". www.reed.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
- ^ "Electronic Poetry Center". writing.upenn.edu.
- ^ "Notable Alumni – The Independents". Admission. Reed College. Archived from the original on 2007-08-13. Retrieved 2007-12-18.
- ^ "Life Beyond Reed". Reed Magazine. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
- ^ Campuzano, Eder (28 May 2017). "Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche's friends: 'He's just the best person'". oregonlive.com.
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