The following is a list of notable individuals associated with Barnard College through attendance as a student, service as a member of the faculty or staff, or award of the Barnard Medal of Distinction.
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Notable alumnæ
Academics and scientists
- Jacqueline Barton (1974), Caltech chemist and MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant" winner
- Joanna Cobb Biermann (1971) musicologist, currently professor of Music History
- Ellen V. Futter (1971), President of Barnard College and the American Museum of Natural History
- Virginia Gildersleeve (1899), Dean of Barnard College and delegate to the charter conference of the United Nations in 1945
- Rebecca Goldstein (1972), philosopher, biographer, and novelist
- Karla Jay (1968), pioneer of lesbian and gay studies
- Janna Levin (1988), cosmologist
- Margaret Mead (1923), anthropologist
- Elsie Clews Parsons (1896), first woman elected President of the American Anthropological Association
- Helen Perlstein Pollard (1967), archaeologist, ethnologist, Mesoamericanist scholar, professor of anthropology at MSU[1]
- Helen M. Ranney (1941), first woman to lead a university department of medicine in the U.S., be president of the Association of American Physicians, or serve as a Distinguished Physician of the Veterans Administration[2]
- Louise Rosenblatt (1920s), influential literary theorist and educator
- Anna Schwartz (1933), economist
- Vivian Sobchack (1961), cultural critic
- Beatrice Becker Warde (1920s), calligrapher, librarian, researcher on type matters and influence upon 20th century typography[3]
- Rita Gunther McGrath (1981) Business Book author and Professor at Columbia Business School
- Evelyn Hu
Actresses and performers
- Jane Wyatt (1932), actress
- Peggy McCay (1951), actress
- Joan Rivers (1954), star comedian, TV host
- Lee Remick, actress
- Twyla Tharp (1963), choreographer, dancer
- Jill Eikenberry (1968), actress
- Lauren Graham (1988), actress, played Lorelai Gilmore on TV show Gilmore Girls
- Cynthia Nixon (1988), actress, played Miranda Hobbes on TV show Sex and the City
- Sprague Grayden, actress, played Judith Montgomery on Joan of Arcadia
- Sarah Thompson, television actress
- Christy Carlson Romano (2006), actress
- Jaime Gleicher, actress (currently attending)
- Clara Bryant, actress (currently attending)
Architects
- Christine Wang (1989), architect, curator, artist, founder of Wang Museum of Technology
Artists
- Sarah Charlesworth (1969), photographer and conceptual artist
Athletes
- Gloria Callen (1946), swimmer[4]
- Robin Wagner (1980), figure-skating coach
- Stacey Borgman (1993), member of crew team for the United States at the 2004 Olympics[5]
- Erinn Smart (2001), fencer for the United States at the 2004 Olympics[6], silver medalist in team foil fencing at the Beijing 2008 Olympics
Businesswomen
- Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger (1913), wife of New York Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger
- Martha Stewart (1963), business magnate, entrepreneur, homemaking advocate
- Alexis Stewart (1987), daughter of Martha Stewart
- Liz Neumark (1977), president of Great Performances
Journalists
- Freda Kirchwey (1915), journalist, editor and publisher of The Nation
- Nonnie Moore (c. 1946), fashion editor at Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar and GQ.[7]
- Ellen Willis (1960s), essayist and pop music critic
- Judith Miller (1969), ex-correspondent for New York Times who reported on the story of Iraq's alleged WMD program; Aspen Strategy Group member
- Anna Quindlen (1974), author and columnist for Newsweek who won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1992
- Suzanne Bilello (1977), author who with Rose Marie Arce (Barnard class of 1986) was a member of a Newsday team in 1992 that shared the Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting[8]
- Natalie Angier (1978), author and science writer for the New York Times who won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting in 1991
- Jami Bernard (1978), film critic for The New York Post and The New York Daily News, founder of Barncat Publishing Inc., and author whose books include a memoir of surviving breast cancer
- Lis Wiehl (1983), legal analyst for Fox News
- Maria Hinojosa (1984), correspondent for CNN, NOW (TV series) on PBS, and host of NPR's Latino USA
- Katherine Boo (1988), recipient of Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2000 and the MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant"
- Alex Kuczynski (1990), Style reporter for The New York Times
- Atoosa Rubenstein (1993), founder of CosmoGirl and editor-in-chief of Seventeen (magazine); youngest ever editor of a teen magazine
- Jeannette Walls, gossip columnist for MSNBC and author of The Glass Castle
- Mona Charen, nationally syndicated columnist, political analyst, and author
- Alison Gregor (1989), writer, New York Times
- Fatima Bhutto, social activist, writer, and niece of Benazir Bhutto
- Cathy Horyn, fashion journalist, New York Times fashion critic
- Lily Koppel (2003), writer, New York Times and author of "The Red Leather Diary"
- Susan Stamberg (1959), special correspondent, NPR's Morning Edition
- Kathy Shenkin Seal (1969), journalist and nonfiction author
Musicians, singers, and composers
- Laurie Anderson (1969), musician, NASA's first artist-in-residence
- Suzanne Vega (1981), singer-songwriter famous for Luka, Tom's Diner, etc.
- Jeanine Tesori (1983), Broadway composer
- Louise Post, lead singer and guitarist of alternative rock band Veruca Salt
Political and judicial figures
- Jessie Wallace Hughan (1898, Phi Beta Kappa), United States Senate candidate, author, teacher, founder of Alpha Omicron Pi fraternity[9]
- Helen Gahagan (1924), United States House of Representatives Congresswoman from California
- Jeane Kirkpatrick (1948), first woman to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum (1952), United States District Court judge
- Susan Herman, President of the American Civil Liberties Union; Professor at Brooklyn Law School
- Anna Diggs Taylor (1954), United States District Court judge
- Judith Kaye (1958), first woman in highest position in state judiciary, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
- Bettye B. Binder (1960), on the governing council of the New York Committee for Democratic Voters that successfully removed Tammany Hall and its leader, Carmine DeSapio, from power in 1961
- Nancy Gertner, (1967) Judge on United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- Paula Franzese, professor of real property law at Seton Hall Law School
Spies
- Judith Coplon (1943), Soviet spy in U.S. Justice Department whose convictions were overturned on technicalities
- Marion Davis Berdecio, accused Soviet spy in U.S. State Department, comrade of Coplon and Wovschin
- Flora Wovschin, Soviet spy in U.S. State Department, stepdaughter of Columbia professor/Soviet spy Enos Wicher
Writers
- Léonie Adams (1923), poet
- Yelena Albala (1945), poet[10][11]
- Mary Antin (1902), author of the immigrant experience
- Charlotte Armstrong (1925), writer
- Diana Chang , pioneering Asian-American novelist
- Stella George Stern Perry (1898), author, founder of Alpha Omicron Pi fraternity
- Alice Duer Miller (1899), writer and advisory editor of The New Yorker
- Helen Hoyt (1900s), poet
- Faith McNulty (1920s, attended one year), writer
- Zora Neale Hurston (1928), Harlem Renaissance writer
- Hortense Calisher, writer
- Elizabeth Janeway (1935), author and critic
- Patricia Highsmith (1940), author of The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Francine du Plessix Gray (1952), writer
- Elise Cowen, poet of the Beat Generation
- Joyce Johnson (1955), writer
- June Jordan (1955) writer and activist
- Sidra Stone, (1957), author and co-creator of Voice Dialogue
- Erica Jong (1963), writer
- Joan Abelove, writer
- Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen, writer
- Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal, screenwriter
- Diana Muir writer and historian
- Tova Mirvis, novelist
- Alana Newhouse (1997) writer and editor of Tablet Magazine
- Alice Notley, poet
- Sigrid Nunez, novelist
- Monique Raphel High (1969), novelist
- Ntozake Shange (1970), playwright
- Mary Gordon (1971), writer
- Jami Bernard (1978), writer and film critic
- Lionel Shriver(1978), novelist and 2005 Orange Prize winner
- Tory Dent (1981), poet and HIV/AIDS activist
- Alexa Junge (1984), writer for The West Wing and Friends
- Jhumpa Lahiri (1989), Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Namesake and Interpreter of Maladies
- Ann Brashares (1989), author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- Edwidge Danticat (1990), writer
- Asali Solomon (1995), author of Get Down: Stories
- Sasha Cagen (1996), writer
- Gina Gionfriddo, playwright
- Marisha Pessl (2000), author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- Nadine Haobsh (2002), blogger and author of Beauty Confidential and Confessions of a Beauty Addict
- Kait Kerrigan (2003), playwright
- Fatima Bhutto, Pakistani poet and writer
- Galaxy Craze, novelist
Miscellaneous
- Kang Tongbi (1907), daughter of Kang Youwei and political activist
- Grace Lee Boggs (1935), author and political activist
- Joan Vollmer (1940s), member of the Beat Generation; killed by her husband, William S. Burroughs
- Sissy Biggers (1979), former host of Ready . . . Set . . . Cook!
- Sharon Blynn (1993), creator of "Bald Is Beautiful" campaign, cancer awareness advocate[12]
- Paula Reimers, Rabbi
Fictional alumnae
- In the 2005 Sigrid Nunez novel The Last of Her Kind, heroines Georgette George and Ann Drayton meet in 1968 as freshmen roommates at Barnard.
- In the television series Mad Men, the character Rachel Menken is a Barnard graduate.
Notable faculty
- Nadia Abu El Haj, anthropologist
- Bashir Abu-Manneh, literature
- Robert Antoni, Commonwealth Writers Prize winning author
- Randall Balmer, author and noted historian of American religion
- Dave Bayer, mathematician; actor and math consultant for the film A Beautiful Mind; one of few holders of an Erdős-Bacon number
- Ruth Benedict, anthropologist
- Frank Brady, leading figure in international chess
- Harriet Brooks, physicist
- Demetrios James Caraley, Editor of the Political Science Quarterly and President of the Academy of Political Science
- John Cheever (1956-1957), Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and short story writer
- Mary Cochran, former principal dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company and chair of the dance department[13]
- Dennis Dalton, political scientist, renowned nonviolence and Gandhi scholar
- Mortimer Lamson Earle, classicist
- Lynn Garafola, renowned dance critic, historian, and curator[14]
- Theodor Gaster
- Virginia Gildersleeve
- Katie Glasner, former Twyla Tharp dancer[13]
- Ken Hechler, U.S. Congressman from West Virginia
- Brian Larkin, anthropologist
- Perry Mehrling, economic historian
- Gabriela Mistral, First Latin American Nobel Prize winner for Literature
- Samuel Alfred Mitchell, astronomer
- Raymond Moley (1923-1933), proponent and later critic of the New Deal
- Frederick Neuhouser, philosopher
- Sigrid Nunez, novelist
- Elaine Pagels (1970-1982), scholar of early and gnostic Christianity
- Caryl Phillips (2006), British novelist
- Richard Pious, political scientist and expert on the American presidency
- Sanya Popovic (1986), fiancée of Pan Am Flight 103 victim Bernt Carlsson
- Claudia Rankine, poet
- Frances Richard, poet and critic
- Alan F. Segal, ancient Judaism and origins of Christianity, author of Life after Death, and Paul the Convert
- Edmund Ware Sinnott, botanist
- Dolph Sweet, actor
- Elie Wiesel (1997-1999), Nobel Peace Prize winning writer and activist
- Mary Gordon, writer
Recipients of the Medal of Distinction
The Barnard Medal of Distinction is the College's highest honor.[15]
1977
1978
- Samuel R. Milbank
- Richard Rodgers
- Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger '14
1979
- Adelyn Dohme Breeskin
- Helen Gahagan Douglas '24
- Eleanor Thomas Elliott '48
- William Am Marstellar
- Toni Morrison
- Francis T.P. Plimpton
1980
- Dorothy Height, Honorary Alumna 2004, [1]
- Julius S. Held
- Mary Dublin Keyserling '30
- Margaret Mahler
- Alan Pifer
- Henriette H. Swope '25
1981
- Robert L. Hoguet
- Elizabeth Janeway '35
- Beverly Sills
1982
1983
1984
- Arthur Altschul
- Annette Kar Baxter '47 (posthumous)
- Joseph G. Brennan
- Anna Hill Johnstone '34
1985
1986
1987
- Judith Kaye '58
- Sally Falk Moore '43
- Rev. James Parks Morton
- Ellen Stewart
1988
1989
- Joan Kaplan Davidson
- Eugene Lang
- Bernice Segal (posthumous)
- Lottie L. Taylor-Jones
1990
1991
- Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum '50
- Tisa Chang '63
- Mamphele Ramphele, delivered the 2002 Commencement address
1992
1993
- Arthur Ashe (posthumous)
- Elizabeth B. Davis '41
- Helene Lois Kaplan '53
- Bette Bao Lord
- Cyrus Vance
1994
- Walter Cronkite
- Ellen V. Futter '71
- Barbara S. Miller '62 (posthumous)
- Arthur Mitchell
- Sheila E. Widnall
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
- Doris Kearns Goodwin delivered the 2000 Commencement address, [5]
- Hanna Holborn Gray
- Annie Leibovitz
- Kathie L. Olson
2001
- Morris Dees, [6]
- Susan Hendrickson
- Maxine Greene '38
- Bernice Johnson Reagon, [7]. Ms. Reagon delivered the 2001 Commencement address, [8]
- Susan Band Horwitz
- Judith Miller (journalist) '69, delivered the Commencement address [9]
- Martha Nussbaum
2005
2008
- Thelma Davidson Adair
- Michael Bloomberg
- Billie Jean King
- David Remnick
- Judith Shapiro
2009[16]
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Kay Murray
- Indra Nooyi
- Irene Winter
References
- ^ "Alumnae Bibliography: Alumnae Authors O-Q". Books Etc.. Barnard College. n.d.. http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/writers/alum_bibo.html. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
- ^ Helen M. Ranney
- ^ Beatrice Warde Collection, 1919-1970
- ^ 1946 alumni in 2006
- ^ Barnard College: Alumna in Action
- ^ Barnard News Center
- ^ Carmon, Irin. "Nonnie Moore, Legendary Men's Editor, Dead at 87", Women's Wear Daily, February 19, 2009. Accessed February 25, 2009.
- ^ The Fragile Peace
- ^ Jessie Wallace Hughan
- ^ Barnard College : Books Etc. : Alumnae Bibliography
- ^ Barnard College: Barnard Magazine Spring 2004 Books Etc
- ^ Barnard College: Alumna in Action
- ^ a b Barnard Dance
- ^ Barnard College Newscenter
- ^ http://www.barnard.edu/provost/medalists.html
- ^ http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/05/18/clinton-addresses-barnard-graduates-calling-digital-diplomacy
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