# List of New School people

The list of New School people includes notable students, alumni, faculty, administrators and trustees of the New School. The New School is a private university in New York City. In 2008, approximately 53,000 living New School alumni resided in more than 112 countries.

## Alumni
### World leaders

* Hage Geingob, 3rd President of The Republic of Namibia
* Shimon Peres, President of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
* Eleanor Roosevelt, political activist; First Lady; United Nations Human Rights Prize recipient

### Academics

* Stanley Aronowitz, B.A., 1968, sociologist
* Nelson Barbosa, Ph.D., economist, ex Brazil's Minister of Finance
* Ruth Benedict, psychological anthropologist, author of Patterns of Culture
* Peter L. Berger, sociologist; co-author of The Social Construction of Reality
* Heather Boushey, Ph.D., economist
* Jean L. Cohen, Ph.D., political theorist
* Barbara A. Cornblatt, Ph.D., M.B.A., psychologist
* Uri Davis, M.A. anthropology, 1973
* Eugene Goossen, art critic and historian
* Richard Grathoff, Ph.D. 1969, sociologist
* Eduard Heimann (1889–1967), economist and social scientist
* Mady Hornig, psychiatrist
* Stephen Kinsella Ph.D., economist
* Abraham Maslow, psychologist, a founder of Humanistic Psychology
* Kevin Mattson, historian and political analyst
* George E. McCarthy, M.A., Ph.D., sociologist
* Sidney Mintz, anthropologist
* Franco Modigliani, Soc. Sci. D., economist; 1985 Nobel Prize in Economics winner
* Richard Noll, clinical psychologist and writer
* Ira Progoff, Ph.D. psychology, psychotherapist
* Uri Ram, Ph.D., sociology, the President of the Israeli Sociological Society
* Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III, Ph.D., economist
* Steven Seidman, sociologist
* Michael Wenger, M.A., Zen priest, Dean of Buddhist Studies, San Francisco Zen Center
* Ruth Westheimer, M.A. sociology, 1959, the first famous sex therapist, born Karola Siegel, 1928; known as "Dr. Ruth", German-American, also talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper.
* Nelson Ikon Wu, M.A. art historian, author of Song Never to End

### Athletes

* Nate Fish (born 1980), baseball player and coach
* Nicole Ross (born 1989), Olympic foil fencer

### Businesspeople

* Douglas Cliggott, chief investment strategist, JPMorgan Chase
* Stewart Krentzman, President & CEO Oki Americas, Inc.
* Dolly Lenz, New York real estate agent
* V Pappas, former chief operating officer of TikTok
* Bradford Shellhammer, entrepreneur and designer, founding editor of Queerty
* Brian Willison

### Writers

* James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
* Anatole Broyard, writer, literary critic
* Mike Doughty
* Lorraine Hansberry, playwright, A Raisin in the Sun, youngest Drama Desk Award winner in history
* Andrew Hubner, novelist
* Travis Jeppesen
* Jack Kerouac, On the Road, forerunner of the Beat Generation
* Jamaica Kincaid
* Amy Kurzweil, cartoonist and graphic novelist
* Sam Lansky, author of The Gilded Razor and Broken People
* Paul Levinson, author of The Silk Code, Locus Award winner, Best First Novel, 2000, and The Plot to Save Socrates
* Leandra Medine, author of the blog Man Repeller
* Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather, two-time Academy Award Winner, including Best Screenplay
* Brother Sean Sammon, Superior General of the Marist Brothers
* William Styron, Sophie's Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner
* Tennessee Williams, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
* Sean Wilsey, author of Oh the Glory of It All

### Designers

* Hector Luis Bustamante, actor and graphic designer
* Philippe Cramer, furniture designer
* Herbert Muschamp, architectural critic
* Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum), art director and graphic designer
* Will Wright, creator of The Sims

### Fashion designers

* Gilbert Adrian, costumer designer
* Bill Blass, President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities member; co-founder of Council of Fashion Designers of America
* Donald Brooks
* Angela Gisela Brown, former New York fashion designer, now known as Princess Angela of Liechtenstein
* Doo-Ri Chung, Swarovski's Perry Ellis Award winner
* Tom Ford, filmmaker and founder of the Tom Ford brand
* Prabal Gurung
* Lazaro Hernandez
* Gigi HadidMarc Jacobs, fashion designer
* Elois Jenssen, costume designer for I Love Lucy
* Kevin Johnn, appeared on Project Runway
* Donna Karan, creator of the DKNY label
* Reed Krakoff, creative director of Tiffany & Co.
* Derek Lam
* Jillian Lewis, appeared on Project Runway
* Jenna Lyons
* Claire McCardell
* Raul Melgoza, fashion designer, former CE at LUCA LUCA
* Isaac Mizrahi, four-time CDFA award winner
* Zac Posen, fashion designer
* Sarah Phillips
* Patrick Robinson
* Narciso Rodriguez
* Lela Rose
* Behnaz Sarafpour
* Ebony Short, sewing manager for Baltimore Ravens
* Willi Smith, fashion designer
* Peter Som
* Anna Sui
* Kay Unger
* Carmen Marc Valvo
* Alexander Wang, fashion designer for Michelle Obama and Ivana Trump
* Jason Wu, artist and fashion designer

### Models

* Gigi Hadid

### Fine artists

* Kevin Appel, painter
* Rosemary Cove, sculptor
* Julio Rosado del Valle, painter
* Stephen Edlich, artist, known for his collages, sculptures, and prints
* Dorathy Farr, painter
* Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal), painter, mixed media artist, sculptor, advertising designer, illustrator
* Adolph Gottlieb, painter
* Julie Harvey, painter
* Edward Hopper, painter
* D Hwang, sculptor and painter
* Jasper Johns, forerunner of pop art and minimalism
* Shirley Kaneda, painter, Guggenheim Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts Fellow
* Sol Kjøk, visual artist
* Dan Flavin, lighting artist
* Shigeko Kubota, vice chairman of Fluxus
* George Maciunas, founding member of Fluxus
* Yucef Merhi, visual artist and new media art pioneer
* Rob Pruitt, sculptor
* Norman Rockwell, painter; Presidential Medal of Freedom winner
* Gavin Spielman, painter and musician
* Roman Turovsky, painter and musician
* Julie Umerle, painter
* Storme Webber, interdisciplinary artist
* Ai Weiwei, filmmaker, installation artist and architectural designer
* Janise Yntema, painter

### Illustrators and animators

* Peter DeSeve, illustrator and character designer
* Julia Gran, graphic designer and illustrator, children's book writer and illustrator
* Bessie Pease Gutmann, magazine and children's book illustrator in the early 1900s
* Hidekaz Himaruya, manga artist (Hetalia: Axis Powers, Chibi-san Date)
* Joel Resnicoff, commercial artist and fashion illustrator
* Brian Wood, graphic novelist, illustrator, designer
* Dan Yaccarino, children's book writer and illustrator

### Musicians

* Harry Belafonte, singer
* Burt Bacharach, composer
* Michel Camilo, Dominican pianist and composer
* Kelly Chen, Hong Kong singer and actress
* Myung-whun Chung, Korean conductor
* Bethany Cosentino, singer
* Danielle de Niese, Australian-American opera singer (lyric soprano)
* Ani DiFranco, American-Canadian singer-songwriter
* Mike Doughty, B.A. from Lang in poetry
* Bill Evans, pianst and composer
* Robert Glasper, jazz pianist and Grammy-winning R&B artist
* Larry Goldings, jazz pianist and organist
* Richard Goode, pianist
* Larry Harlow, M.A. in Philosophy, salsa pioneer
* Yonghoon Lee, opera singer (tenor)
* Matisyahu (born Matthew Miller), 2002, reggae artist, rapper, and beatboxer
* Brad Mehldau, jazz pianist and composer
* Murray Perahia, pianist
* John Popper, singer/harmonica player for Blues Traveler
* Jake Shears, vocalist
* Alex Skolnick, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Testament and the Alex Skolnick Trio
* Sufjan Stevens, MFA, creative writing, 2000
* Marcus Strickland, jazz saxophonist
* Roman Turovsky-Savchuk, composer, lutenist and painter
* Sean Yseult, bassist for White Zombie
* Daniel Zamir, Israeli saxophonist and singer
* Michael Zager, music producer
* Wallice, indie pop musician

### Photographers

* David Attie, photographer
* Jill Enfield, photographer
* Ed Feingersh, photojournalist
* Ryan McGinley, photographer
* Steven Meisel, fashion photographer
* Stewart Shining, fashion photographer
* Marion Post Wolcott, photographer

### Actors, directors, and producers

* Beatrice Arthur, theater and television actress, Tony Award winner, star of Maude and The Golden Girls
* Sean Baker, director of The Florida Project
* Harry Belafonte
* Richard ("Dick") Bernstein
* Derrick Borte
* Marlon Brando
* Vinnette Justine Carroll, playwright, actress, and theatre director
* T.V. Carpio, actress and singer
* Bradley Cooper, Academy Award-nominated actor
* Adrian Cronauer
* Tony Curtis
* Paul Dano, Little Miss Sunshine
* Matt Deitsch, film director and freelance photographer
* Deepti Divakar, Indian model, actress, writer, Femina Miss India World 1981
* Elisa Donovan, Clueless and Sabrina the Teenage Witch
* Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
* Peter Falk, B.A. political science, Columbo
* Stacy Farber, actress, former Degrassi: The Next Generation cast member
* Ben Gazzara
* Jillian Hervey
* Jonah Hill, Superbad, Academy Award Nominee Wolf of Wall Street, Moneyball
* Harry Hurwitz, film director and artist
* Adam Jasinski, winner of Big Brother 9
* Sun Lee, Miss Korea 2007
* Karen Maine, director and screenwriter, Yes, God, Yes, Starstruck (2021 TV series)
* Walter Matthau
* Charis Michelsen, actress
* Adam Pally, actor
* Lauren Patten, actress
* Joel Schumacher, film director and producer
* Kevin Smith, Clerks (did not graduate)
* Rod Steiger, On The Waterfront
* Elaine Stritch
* Shih-Ching Tsou
* Rob Weiss, kicked out of film program
* Shelley Winters
* Rob Zombie (born Robert Cummings), musician, writer and director

### Politicians

* Medea Benjamin, political activist
* Johanna Contreras, acting executive of Ulster County, New YorkBradley Cooper
* Kevin Parker, New York State Senator
* William Donohue, sociology, Catholic League president
* Millicent Fenwick, editor, politician, diplomat
* Abraham Foxman, director of Anti-Defamation League
* Alice-Mary Higgins, independent senator and member of the Irish Senate
* Janine Jackson, MA sociology, program director of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
* Ellen Johnson, MA political science, president of American Atheists
* Illir Deda, member of parliament of Kosovo and founder of The Alternative party.
* Tinga Seisay, diplomat, pro-democracy activist
* Yossi Sarid, M.A. political science, an Israeli Statesman and left-wing politician
* Vanessa Wruble, co-founder of The Women's March on Washington

## Faculty
### Past

* Janet Abu-Lughod
* Woody Allen
* Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German-born American political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor
* W. H. Auden, British-American poet
* Jason Bateman (born 1969), actor and director
* Seth Benardete
* Eugene Biel-Bienne (1902–1969), Austrian-born American painter
* Franz Boas (1858–1942), German-American anthropologist and ethnomusicologist
* André Breton
* Nathan Brody
* Laurie Halsey Brown
* William F. Buckley, Jr.
* Judith Butler
* John Cage
* Edmund Snow Carpenter
* Harry Cleaver
* Stanley Coren
* Henry Cowell
* Shai Davidai
* Agnes de Lima, Director of Public Relations
* Jacques Derrida
* John Dewey
* Stanley Diamond
* W. E. B. Du Bois
* John Eatwell
* Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990), German-American illustrator and arts educator
* Millicent Fenwick
* Sándor Ferenczi
* Joel Fink, Associate Dean of Roosevelt University
* Marvin Frankel
* Betty Friedan
* Erich Fromm (1900–1980), German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist
* Robert Frost, poet
* Donna Gaines
* Alexander Goldenweiser
* David Gordon
* Hermann Grab
* Martha Graham
* Joseph Greenberg
* Aron Gurwitsch
* Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), German philosopher and social theorist
* Michael Harner
* Marcia Haufrecht, actress, playwright and director, as well as a noted acting teacher and coach
* Robert Heilbroner (1919–2005), economist and historian of economic thought
* Werner Hegemann (1881–1936), German-born city planner, architecture critic, and author
* Ágnes Heller (1929–2019), Hungarian philosopher and lecturer
* Christopher Hitchens
* Eric Hobsbawm
* Karen Horney (née Danielsen; 1885–952) , German psychoanalyst
* Michael Hudson (born 1939), economics professor
* Roman Jakobson
* Hans Jonas, (1903–1993), German-born American philosopher, the Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School
* Horace Kallen (1882–1974), German-born American philosopher
* Ira Katznelson
* John Maynard Keynes
* Kenneth Koch
* Julia Kristeva
* Ernesto Laclau
* Emil Lederer (1882–1939), German economist and sociologist
* Emanuel Levenson
* Paul Levinson
* Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), French anthropologist and ethnologist
* Adolph Lowe (1893–1995), German sociologist and economist
* Ernest Mandel
* Everett Dean Martin
* Bohuslav Martinů
* Margaret Mead
* Jonas Mekas
* N. B. Minkoff (1893–1958), Polish-born American Yiddish poet, newspaper editor, and educator
* Piet Mondrian
* Sidney Morgenbesser
* Lewis Mumford
* David Neiman (1921–2004), Russian-born American scholar in the fields of Biblical Studies and Jewish history
* Reinhold Niebuhr
* Claus Offe (born 1940), German political sociologist
* Frank O'Hara
* Elsie Clews Parsons
* Cipe Pineles
* Erwin Piscator (1893–1966), German theatre director and producer
* Richard Plant (1910–1998), gay Jewish emigre from Nazi Germany, taught German language and literature
* Eliezer Rafaeli (1926–2018), Israeli founding President of the University of Haifa
* Adolph L. Reed, Jr. (born 1947), professor emeritus of political science
* Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), Austrian doctor of medicine and a psychoanalyst
* Herman Rose, the professional pseudonym of Herman Rappaport (1909–2007), painter and artist
* Justus Rosenberg (1921–2021), Free City of Danzig-born literature professor
* Bertrand Russell
* Paul Ryan
* Jeremy D. Safran (1952–2018), Canadian-born American clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, lecturer, and psychotherapy researcher
* Albert Salomon (1891–1966), German-born American sociologist
* Meyer Schapiro (1904–1996), Lithuanian-born American art historian
* Alfred Schutz (1899–1959), Austrian philosopher and social phenomenologist
* Benjamin Shwadran (1907–2001), Mandatory Palestine-born Israeli author and professor of Middle Eastern studies
* Ali Shayegan (1903–1981), Iranian politician
* Leo Strauss (1899–1973), German-American political philosopher and classicist
* Sekou Sundiata
* Paul Sweezy
* G.M. Tamás
* Charles Tilly
* Thorstein Veblen
* Thomas Vietorisz
* Max Wertheimer (1880–1943), Austro-Hungarian psychologist
* Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), architect, designer, writer, and educator
* Abraham Yahuda (1877-1951), Palestinian Jew, polymath, teacher, writer, researcher, linguist, and collector of rare documents
* Michael Zager
* Slavoj Žižek

### Present

* Robert Antoni
* Andrew Arato
* Jonathan Bach
* Richard Barone
* Jay Bernstein
* Jane Ira Bloom
* Susan Cheever
* Michael Cohen
* Alice Crary
* Simon Critchley
* Siddhartha Deb
* Faisal Devji
* Robert Dunn
* Federico Finchelstein (born 1975), Argentine historian and chair of the history department at the New School
* Nancy Fraser
* Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
* Mary Gaitskill
* Paul Goldberger
* Elana Greenfield, playwright and short story writer
* Nina L. Khrushcheva
* Marcel Kinsbourne
* Ron Leibman
* David Levithan
* Arun Luthra
* Vladan Nikolic
* Pippin Parker
* Austin Pendleton
* Frank Pugliese
* John Reed
* Miguel Robles-Durán
* Anwar Shaikh
* Christopher Shinn
* Arthur Storch
* Rory Stuart
* Eugene Thacker
* Scott Thornbury
* McKenzie Wark
* Renée T. White, sociologist
* Maya Wiley
* Reggie Workman
* Lana Lin

### Dorothy H. Hirshon Directors-in-Residence

* 2021: Sam Pollard
* 2020: Mary Harron
* 2019: Raoul Peck
* 2018: Sean Baker
* 2017: Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno
* 2014: Toni Dove
* 2013: Lynn Hershman Leeson and Benh Zeitlin
* 2012: Ramin Bahrani
* 2011: Guy Maddin
* 2010: Haile Gerima
* 2009: Jim Stark
* 2008: Cynthia Wade
* 2007: John Cameron Mitchell
* 2005: Laurie Anderson
* 2004: John Waters
* 2003: D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus