List of Bryn Mawr College people
Noted alumni

List of Bryn Mawr College people

Section Title: Noted alumni
Table Section Text: None

Name	Year	Notable

Layla AbdelRahim	1993	Author and anthropologist

Nadia Abu El Haj	1984	Anthropologist at Barnard College

Renata Adler	1959	Writer

Maya Ajmera	1989	Founder of The Global Fund for Children

Srabonti Narmeen Ali	2001	Writer and singer

Donna Amenta	M.A. 1971, Ph.D 1974	Professor of Chemistry and Department Head at James Madison University

Katharine Sergeant Angell White	1914	Editor of The New Yorker

Anastasia Ashman	1986	Writer

Ellis Avery	1993	Novelist

Emily Greene Balch	1889	Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1946

Margaret Ayer Barnes	1907	Writer, Pulitzer Prize for the Novel winner, 1931

Genevieve Bell	1990	Cultural anthropologist at Intel Labs

Florence Bird	1928	Canadian journalist and politician

Eleanor Albert Bliss	1921	Bacteriologist

Katharine Burr Blodgett	1917	Chemist and engineer

Grace Lee Boggs	Ph.D. 1940	Activist and author

Sarmila Bose	1981	Journalist

Ana Patricia Botin	1981	CEO of Banco Santander, CEO of Santander UK, CEO of Banesto

Kathy Boudin	1965	Weathermen member convicted of murder and bank robbery

Frances Schreuder ~ Bradshaw	non-degreed	convicted in 1983 of the 1978 Franklin Bradshaw murder that she forced her son, Marc, to perform.

Annie Leigh Hobson Broughton	A.B. 1930, M.A. 1936	Advocate for women's education

Carol Burns	1977	Architect, co-founder of Taylor & Burns Architects

A. S. Byatt	graduate work 1957-1958, did not graduate	Postmodern novelist

Jane Calvin	1959	Artist

John D. Caputo	Ph.D. 1968	Philosophy professor at Syracuse University

Marjorie Constance Caserio	MA in chemistry in 1951, PhD in 1956	Chemist

Birutė Ciplijauskaitė	Ph.D. 1964	Vilas Professor of Spanish University of Wisconsin–Madison

Susy Clemens	did not graduate	daughter of American author Mark Twain

Bruce Cole	Ph.D. 1969	Chairman of National Endowment for the Humanities

Soraya Coley	M.S.S. 1974	current president of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Joyce Mitchell Cook	1955	First African American woman to receive a PhD in philosophy and the first woman to be appointed to an assistant teacher position at Yale

Mary Little Cooper	1968	Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

H.D.	did not graduate	Modernist poet

Regna Darnell	1965	Anthropologist

Eleanor Lansing Dulles	1917	Economist

Helen Flanders Dunbar	1923	Important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine

Mary Maples Dunn	M.A. 1956, Ph.D. 1959	former president of Smith College

Lee McGeorge Durrell	1971	Author, television presenter, zookeeper

Drew Gilpin Faust	1968	Twenty-Eighth President of Harvard University, former Dean of Radcliffe Institute

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese	1963	Historian and conservative feminist

Mary Peters Fieser	1930	Chemist and writer

Mary Stuart Fisher	Radiologist

Catherine Clarke Fenselau	1961	Chemist, pioneer in mass spectrometry

Frances H. Flaherty	1905	Film writer and director

Shaun Gallagher	Ph.D.	University of Central Florida philosophy professor

Julia Anna Gardner	1905 A.B., 1907 M.A.	Geologist, paleontologist

Martha A. Geer	1980	Associate Justice of the North Carolina Court of Appeals

Carolyn Goodman	1961	Mayor of Las Vegas, founder of the Meadows School

Dorothy Goodman	Teacher, charter school advocate, founder of International Baccalaureate Organization

Hanna Holborn Gray	1950	Former president of University of Chicago

David Gress	Ph.D 1981	Historian

Edith Hamilton	M.A. 1894	Classical scholar

Naomi Halas	M.A. 1984, Ph.D. 1986	Professor of Chemistry and Computer Engineering at Rice University

Elaine Hammerstein	1917	Actress. There is no evidence in the College Archives that Hammerstein attended the school.

Louise Holland	1920	Academic, philologist and archaeologist

Hope Hibbard	Ph.D. circa 1921	biologist, cytologist, zoologist, and zoology professor

Carmelita Hinton	1912	Progressive educator

Margaret Healey	Ph.D. 1969	former president of Rosemont College

Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn	1899	Suffragist and family planning advocate

Katharine Hepburn	1928	Academy Award-winning actress

Betsy Hodges	1991	former Mayor of Minneapolis

Edith Houghton Hooker	1901	Suffragist

Margaret Hoover	2001	Political contributor for CNN, media personality, and author. She is a great-granddaughter of former U.S. President Herbert Hoover.

Matina Horner	1961	former president of Radcliffe College and psychologist who pioneered the concept of "fear of success"

Sari Horwitz	1979	Journalist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner.

Beryl Howell	1978	Federal Court Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia

Agnes Hsu-Tang	Archaeologist and host of History Channel Asia's "Mysteries of China" series

Barbara Marx Hubbard	1951	Writer and public speaker

Salima Ikram	1986	Egyptologist and professor at American University in Cairo

Sarah Jones	did not graduate	Actress, poet, playwright

Rosabeth Moss Kanter	1964	Professor in business at Harvard Business School, former editor of the Harvard Business Review

Victoria S. Kaufman	1986	Bankruptcy judge in the Central District of California

Michi Kawai	1904	Founder of Keisen University

Emily Kimbrough	1921	Writer

Helen Dean King	Ph.D. 1899	Biologist

Karl Kirchwey	Associate professor 2000–present	Poet

Anna Kisselgoff	1958	cultural news reporter and former Chief Dance Critic for the New York Times

Karen Kornbluh	1985	Ambassador and U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt	1923	Children's author, best known for Pat the Bunny. Both her daughters are also Bryn Mawr alumnae.

Gertrude Prokosch Kurath	1928	Dancer and dance researcher

Leslie Kurke	1981	Professor of classics at University of California-Berkeley and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient in 1999

Ellen Kushner	did not graduate	Fantasy writer

Frederica de Laguna	1927	Anthropologist

Ruth Langer	1981	Professor of Religion

Anna B. Lawther	1897	leader in the women's suffrage movement

Mimi Lee	1943	Chemist and First Lady of Maryland from 1977 to 1979

Helen Taft Manning	1915	Historian, professor and dean of Bryn Mawr College, suffragist, daughter of President William Howard Taft

Gerald Mara	Ph.D.	Dean and Professor of Government at Georgetown University

Jacqueline Mars	1961	Heiress to Mars candy fortune

Leslie Marshall	journalist and novelist

Berthe Marti	M.A. 1926, Ph.D. 1934	Professor of Latin at Bryn Mawr College

Katharine McBride	A.B. 1925 M.A. 1927 Ph.D. 1932	former president of Bryn Mawr College

Millicent Carey McIntosh	1920	head of the Brearley School and the first president of Barnard College. She was the first married woman to head one of the Seven Sisters, she was "considered a national role model for generations of young women who wanted to combine career and family," advocating for working mothers and for child care as a dignified profession.

Mary A. McLaughlin	M.A. 1969	Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

A. Thomas McLellan	M.S., Ph.D.	Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, nominee for Deputy Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy

Mary Patterson McPherson	Ph.D.	Former President of Bryn Mawr College

Cornelia Meigs	1908	Newbery Medal winner in 1934

Mary Meigs	1939	Writer

Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt	A.B. 1927, M.A. 1928, Ph.D. 1935	Classical archaeologist

Lynne Meadow	1968	Theatrical producer and director

Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels	A.B., M.A., Ph.D.	Classical scholar and former professor at Bryn Mawr College

Victoria S. Middleton	1971	Diplomat

Elizabeth Mosier	1984	Writer, Author of My Life as a Girl

Marianne Moore	1909	Poet

Tony D. Morinelli	Ph.D. 1990	Educator, playwright, painter

Margaret M. Morrow	1971	Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Catherine Gilbert Murdock	Writer

Emily Cheney Neville	1940	Newbery Medal winner in 1964

Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover	Member of the U.K. House of Lords

Sherry Ortner	1962	Anthropologist, professor at UCLA, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient

Diana Oughton	1963	Militant Weathermen member

Marion Edwards Park	A.B. 1898 M.A. 1899 Ph.D. 1918	former president of Bryn Mawr College

Jo Ellen Parker	1975	current president of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh; former president of Sweet Briar College

Judith Peabody	Socialite and philanthropist

Candace Pert	1970	Neuroscientist

Jeannette Piccard	1918	Teacher, scientist, balloon pilot, priest

Bertha Putnam	1893	Historian

Virginia Ragsdale	A.B., Ph.D.	Mathematician

Paul Rehak	M.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1985	Archaeologist

Alice Rivlin	1952	Economist, first director of Congressional Budget Office

Phyllis Ross	Economist, former chancellor of University of British Columbia

Ilana Kara Diamond Rovner	1960	Judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Rovner was the first woman appointed to the Seventh Circuit

Edith Finch Russell	Author, biographer of Bryn Mawr College President M. Carey Thomas

Maggie Siff	1996	Actress, Mad Men, Sons of Anarchy, Billions

Gabrielle M. Spiegel	1964	Chair of the History Department at Johns Hopkins University, President of the American Historical Association, 2008–2009

Rosemarie Said Zahlan	1958	Palestinian-American historian and writer

Lavanya Sankaran	1990	Writer

Bernadette Sargeant	1983	Attorney and former adviser to the U.S. House Ethics Committee

Jenny Sawyer	2002	Literary critic, internet entrepreneur

Teresita Currie Schaffer	1966	Diplomat and former director of the Foreign Service Institute

Dorothy Schiff	1921	Newspaper publisher

Lisa Schiffren	1981	Journalist, Political speechwriter: Dan Quayle's "Murphy Brown" speech, Conservative activist

Allyson Schwartz	M.A. 1972	U.S. Representative

Elaine Showalter	1962	Feminist literary critic and former president of the Modern Language Association

Fatima Siad	2007	contestant on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 10 and fashion model

Rachel Simon	1981	Writer

Cornelia Otis Skinner	did not graduate	Actress and author

Joan Slonczewski	1977	Biology professor at Kenyon College, science fiction writer

Kennedy Smith	1979	economic development planner for older and historic commercial districts

Deborah Spungen	M.S.W. 1989	Author

Nettie Stevens	Ph.D. 1903	Geneticist

Caroline Stevermer	1977	Fantasy writer

Nina Straight	1959	American author, journalist, and socialite. She is the mother of writer/director Burr Steers and artist Hugh Auchincloss Steers, half-sister of Gore Vidal, step-sister of First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier and actress Lee Radziwill.

Anne Strainchamps	1982	Host of "To the Best of our Knowledge"

Margaret Suckley	1912-14 (did not graduate)	First archivist of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

Mary Hamilton Swindler	Ph.D. 1912	Former professor of archaeology of Bryn Mawr College

Olga Taussky-Todd	Fellow	Mathematician

Lily Ross Taylor	Ph.D. 1912	Former professor and dean of Bryn Mawr College

Mary Elizabeth Taylor	2011	current White House Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs of Nominations for President Donald Trump. Forbes 30 under 30 2018

Dorothy Burr Thompson	1923	Archaeologist and art historian

Tony Thurmond	MSS 1995, MSLP 1996	American politician and member of the California State Assembly

Adrian Tinsley	1958	former president of Bridgewater State University

Kaity Tong	1969	Broadcast journalist

Anne Truitt	1943	Minimalist sculptor

Umeko Tsuda	1889–1892	First Japanese student. Founder of Tsuda College & first president of YWCA in Japan

Neda Ulaby	1993	NPR Reporter

Emily Vermeule	A.B. 1950, Ph.D. 1956	Classical scholar, archaeologist, poet

Elizabeth Gray Vining	1923	Newbery Medal winner

Betty Peh T'i Wei	1953	Historian

Mai Yamani	1979	Anthropologist and Saudi Arabian activist

Genevieve Vaughan	1961	Philanthropist and feminist activist

P. Gregory Warden	M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1978	president of Franklin University Switzerland

Carola Woerishoffer	A. B. 1907	labor activist, endowed Bryn Mawr social work program

Michelle Zauner	A.B. 2011	Musician, known for her bands Japanese Breakfast, Little Big League, and Post Post

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Birutė Ciplijauskaitė received her PhD from Bryn Mawr College.

final_sentence: Birutė Ciplijauskaitė received her PhD from Bryn Mawr College.