# List of Hampshire College people

The following is a list of individuals associated with Hampshire College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.

## Notable alumni
### Academia

* Alba Arikha, writer, lecturer on creative writing at the University of Hertfordshire and Columbia University
* Sylvia Bashevkin, Canadian academic and feminist at the University of Toronto, former Principal of University College, Toronto
* George Bonanno, psychologist, Columbia University
* Derek Blake Booth, geologist and heir presumptive to the Booth baronetcy, University of Washington
* Heather Boushey, economist, president of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth think tank
* Cynthia Cattell, space physicist and professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at University of Minnesota
* Hasok Chang, historian and philosopher of science, University of Cambridge
* Barry Marc Cohen, art therapist, Diagnostic Drawing Series
* Phyllis Coley, biologist, University of Utah
* Concetta DiRusso, biochemist, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
* Paige Fischer, environmental scientist, University of Michigan
* Vanessa Northington Gamble, physician, professor of medical humanities at George Washington University, chair of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee
* Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., psychologist and psycholinguist, University of California, Santa Cruz
* Nancy Grimm, ecologist, Arizona State University
* Marcia Groszek, mathematician, Dartmouth College
* Gail Hershatter, historian of Modern China at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Williams College, Guggenheim Fellow
* Benjamin Mako Hill, technologist, software developer and founding member of Ubuntu and Debian projects, assistant professor in Communication at the University of Washington
* Sean Hill, neuroscientist, University of Toronto
* Tom Hull, mathematician and professor, Western New England University
* Mary James, physicist, Reed College, University of Maryland, College Park
* Caren Kaplan, feminist theorist, professor of American studies at University of California at Davis, University of California at Berkeley, Georgetown University
* Patricia Klindienst, writer and scholar, American Book Award recipient, Yale University
* Lucy-Ann McFadden, astronomer and planetary scientist for NASA, founder of the Science, Discovery & the Universe Program at the University of Maryland
* Jacob Reider, expert in health information technology policy and National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
* G. Philip Robertson, biologist, Michigan State University
* David Schimel, research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology; Nobel Peace Prize laureate
* Timothy Shary, film scholar, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Clark University
* Lee Smolin, theoretical physicist at the Perimeter Institute, University of Waterloo and University of Toronto, author of The Trouble with Physics
* Eric Steig, glaciologist and geochemist, professor of Earth and Space sciences at the University of Washington
* Paul W. Sternberg, biologist, California Institute of Technology
* Alex S. Vitale, sociologist at Brooklyn College, author of The End of Policing (2017)
* Timothy Wilson, Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
* William H. Warren, psychologist, Chancellor's Professor at Brown University
* Christopher Young, composer, professor of music at the University of Southern California

### Activism

* Joseph Amon, epidemiologist, human rights activist at Human Rights Watch
* Chuck Collins, political activist, co-founder of United For a Fair Economy
* Melissa Hoffer, environmental lawyer and Director of the New Hampshire Advocacy Center for the Conservation Law Foundation
* Shalini Kantayya, documentary filmmaker and environmental activist, Catching the Sun
* Alia Amirali, Pakistani politician and activist
* Lisa Shannon, author, human rights activist, and speaker

### Arts & Design

* Mequitta Ahuja, feminist painter, Guggenheim Fellow
* Math Bass, artist
* Gideon Bok, painter, Guggenheim Fellow
* Leidy Churchman, painter
* Barry Marc Cohen, art therapist, Diagnostic Drawing Series
* E.V. DAY, artist
* Angela Ellsworth, artist
* Peter Harkawik, artist
* Every Ocean Hughes (formerly known as Emily Roysdon), visual artist
* Jeph Jacques, artist, Questionable Content
* Emma Kohlmann, curator and artist
* Jane Marsching, artist
* Susan Mikula, artist and photographer
* Christina Quarles, artist
* Kanishka Raja, visual artist
* Raghavendra Rathore, Indian fashion designer
* Steven Siegel, sculptor and installation artist

### Photography

* Doug DuBois, photographer, Guggenheim Fellow
* James Estrin, New York Times senior staff photographer, Pulitzer Prize recipient
* Jane Marsching, interdisciplinary digital artist
* Susan Mikula, artist and photographer

### Writers and authors

* Lisa Arie, author and motivational speaker, CEO of Vista Caballo
* Alba Arikha, French writer, author of Major/Minor, goddaughter of Samuel Beckett
* Daniel Asia, composer, Guggenheim Fellow, music and culture contributor at the Huffington Post
* Eula Biss, author, Guggenheim Fellow
* Cylin Busby, best-selling author and screenwriter
* David Callahan, founder and editor of Inside Philanthropy
* Rebecca Carroll, writer, editor, and radio producer; former managing editor at xoJane and founding editor of Africana.com
* Leah Hager Cohen, writer
* Kanya D'Almeida, writer and journalist
* Ethan Gilsdorf, writer and journalist, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Wired, Salon
* Eli Gottlieb, novelist, author of The Boy Who Went Away
* Suzanne Greenberg, writer
* David M. Hall, writer and corporate trainer, author of Allies at Work
* Gabrielle Hamilton, chef and author
* Ellis Henican, Newsday columnist, Fox News Channel political analyst, New York Times Bestselling author
* Patricia Klindienst, writer and scholar, American Book Award recipient
* Jon Krakauer, mountain climber and writer, New York Times bestselling author of Into The Wild
* Lê Thi Diem Thúy, writer and solo performance artist, Guggenheim Fellow
* Daniel Marcus, science fiction author
* Gary Marcus, cognitive scientist, founder and CEO of Geometric Intelligence, New York Times bestselling author
* Daniel José Older, fantasy and young adult fiction writer
* Liz Perle, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Common Sense Media
* Jennifer Pozner, author, media critic, feminist
* John Reed, novelist
* Lisa Shannon, author, human rights activist, and speaker
* Timothy Shary, film scholar
* Sonya Sones, poet and writer for young adults, author of What My Mother Doesn't Know
* Doug Stanton, journalist and New York Times best-selling author
* Thomas H. Stoner, Jr., author and energy entrepreneur, CEO of Entelligent
* Gwen Strauss, writer and author
* Sander Thoenes, journalist
* Maggie Thrash, writer of young adult fiction, Honor Girl
* Alex S. Vitale, sociologist, author of The End of Policing
* Jessamyn West, librarian and blogger, creator of Librarian.net
* Dede Wilson, baker, contributing editor of Bon Appetit, cookbook author
* Torrey Peters, writer, author of Detransition, Baby

### Poets

* Janet Aalfs, poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts and martial artist
* Joshua Beckman, poet
* S. Bear Bergman, poet
* Chen Chen, poet
* Peter Cole, poet and MacArthur Fellowship recipient
* Ethan Gilsdorf, writer, poet, and journalist, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Wired, Salon
* Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, poet, co-founder of Deaf Poets Society magazine, Lambda Literary Award-winner for Slingshot
* Robin Coste Lewis, poet laureate of Los Angeles, National Book Award winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus
* Sonya Sones, poet and writer for young adults, author of What My Mother Doesn't Know

### Journalists

* Tina Antolini, journalist and radio producer for NPR
* Madeleine Baran, Peabody Award-winning investigative reporter and host of the podcast In the Dark
* Suzanne Daley, journalist for The New York Times
* Ethan Gilsdorf, writer, poet, and journalist, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Wired, Salon
* Ellis Henican, Newsday columnist, Fox News Channel political analyst, New York Times Bestselling author
* Edward Humes, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
* Fariba Nawa, journalist and author
* Amy K. Nelson, journalist, Slate, Deadspin, ESPN
* Jeff Sharlet, journalist, Harper's, Rolling Stone
* Doug Stanton, journalist and New York Times best-selling author
* Sander Thoenes, journalist

### Tabletop and video games

* Meguey Baker, role-playing game designer, independent publisher and quilt historian
* Vincent Baker, role-playing game designer and publisher
* Noah Falstein, video game designer and producer for LucasArts, DreamWorks Interactive, and The 3DO Company; president of The Inspiracy
* Daniel Licht, composer of films and video games, Dexter, Silent Hill

### Theater

* Dennis Boutsikaris, Obie Award-winning actor
* Fred Melamed, Independent Spirit Award-winning actor
* Lupita Nyong'o, Academy Award-winning actress, Tony Award-nominee for Eclipsed
* Liev Schreiber, stage and screen actor, star of Emmy-winning series Ray Donovan, Tony Award-winner
* Andrea Stolowitz, playwright
* Naomi Wallace, playwright and MacArthur Fellowship recipient

### Dance & Performance

* Stephen Petronio, choreographer, Guggenheim Fellow
* Christopher-Rasheem McMllan, choreographer, Ism Fellow, CBA Resident Fellow professor of Dance and Women's Studies, The University of Iowa
* Mariana Valencia, American multidisciplinary artist, Bessie award, Whitney Biennial artist
* Jen Roseblit, choreographer, Bessie award, Guggenheim Fellow
* Meghan Frederick, choreographer
* Norah Zuniga Shaw, choreographer, professor at The Ohio state University

### ,Film, television, and entertainment

* Chris Applebaum, music video director
* Lesley Arfin, author and staff writer for Girls and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, former Vice contributor
* Ken Burns, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker, The Civil War
* Cylin Busby, best-selling author and screenwriter
* Greg Butler, Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor, Forrest Gump, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, 1917
* Charlie Clouser, musician and composer for film and television, former member of Nine Inch Nails
* Rhys Ernst, film producer and director, Adam, Transparent
* John Falsey, Emmy Award-winning television creator of St. Elsewhere, I'll Fly Away and Northern Exposure
* Victor Fresco, television writer and producer, creator of Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Better Off Ted and Santa Clarita Diet
* Sarah Goldfinger, television writer/producer
* Lee Hirsch, filmmaker, Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony, Bully
* Rolfe Kanefsky, filmmaker
* Daniel Licht, composer of films and video games, Dexter, Silent Hill
* Billy Luther, documentary filmmaker, Miss Navajo
* Jeff Maguire, screenwriter, In The Line of Fire, Escape to Victory
* Brett Morgen, Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, Jane, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
* Julia Willoughby Nason, documentary filmmaker
* Andrea Pallaoro, film director and screenwriter
* Will Reiser, screenwriter and producer, 50/50
* Alex Rivera, filmmaker, Sleep Dealer
* Rod Roddenberry, television producer and CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment, son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry
* Kelly Sears, animator and filmmaker
* Roger Sherman, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker
* Max Simonet, co-creator and host of talk show FishCenter Live
* Barry Sonnenfeld, director of The Addams Family, Men in Black trilogy, Wild Wild West and Get Shorty
* Wes Takahashi, visual effects supervisor and animator for the Back To The Future trilogy, Top Gun, The Goonies; creator of the DreamWorks "boy on the moon" logo
* Christopher Young, film composer, Hellraiser, The Grudge, Spider-Man 3
* Teo Žagar, filmmaker and member of the Vermont House of Representatives
* Tiya Tejpal, Production Designer for The Rapist, Raman Raghav 2.0

### Actors

* Xander Berkeley, actor, Terminator 2, Candyman, The Walking Dead, 24
* Dennis Boutsikaris, actor, The Bourne Legacy, Better Call Saul
* Julie Dretzin, actress, Breaking Bad, The Handmaid's Tale
* Adelind Horan, actress, The Deuce
* Fred Melamed, actor, A Serious Man, Lady Dynamite, WandaVision, Barry, Independent Spirit Award-winner
* Eugene Mirman, stand-up comedian and actor, Bob's Burgers, Declocated
* David Moscow, actor, Big
* Lupita Nyong'o, Academy Award-winning actress, 12 Years a Slave, Us
* Jason Salkey, actor
* Liev Schreiber, stage and screen actor, star of Emmy-winning series Ray Donovan, Tony Award-winner
* Joshua Seth, voice actor, Digimon, Akira
* Aamina Sheikh, Pakistani actress and supermodel
* Max Simonet, co-creator and host of talk show FishCenter Live
* Danny Tamberelli, actor known for The Adventures of Pete & Pete, cast member of All That

### Politicians, diplomats, and other government officials

* Alia Amirali, Pakistani politician and activist
* Heather Boushey, economist, president of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth think tank, economic advisor to Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden
* Eileen Brady, candidate for mayor of Portland, Oregon
* Maud Daudon, CEO of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
* Stephen Gardner, CEO of Amtrak, founder of experimental music group Chessie
* Tooker Gomberg, Canadian politician and environmental activist
* Kenneth Green, politician and social worker, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
* Petros S. Kokkalis, businessman and member of the European Parliament
* Dawn M. Liberi, diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Burundi under Barack Obama
* Jacob Reider, expert in health information technology policy and National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under Barack Obama
* David Shulkin, physician and 9th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
* Teo Žagar, filmmaker and member of the Vermont House of Representatives

### Musicians

* Bob Bralove, musician best known for his work with the Grateful Dead
* Pam Bricker, jazz singer, professor of music, and musical collaborator with Thievery Corporation
* Charlie Clouser, musician and composer for film and television, former member of Nine Inch Nails
* Amy Denio, composer
* Toby Driver, musician and artist, Kayo Dot and Maudlin of the Well
* Ed Droste, singer/songwriter from the Brooklyn-based indie group Grizzly Bear (band)
* Neil Gust, musician and artist, Heatmiser
* Tom Hanway, bluegrass and Celtic banjoist
* Jim Johnston, composer
* Mike Ladd, Hip Hop MC and member of the Antipop Consortium
* Ken Leavitt-Lawrence, rap artist a.k.a. "MC Hawking"
* Daniel Lopatin, musician known as Oneohtrix Point Never
* Matt Mondanile, musician, Ducktails & Real Estate
* Ann Moss, soprano
* Elliott Smith, Academy Award-nominated indie-folk musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
* Zachary Cole Smith, musician, frontman of DIIV
* Supreme Dicks, lo-fi and experimental band
* Autre Ne Veut, musician
* Michael "Mudcat" Ward, blues bassist, pianist and songwriter
* Erica Wheeler, singer-songwriter
* Orchid, hardcore punk band

### Composers

* Daniel Asia, composer, Guggenheim Fellow, music and culture contributor at the Huffington Post
* Charlie Clouser, musician and composer for film and television, former member of Nine Inch Nails
* Daniel Licht, composer of films and video games, Dexter, Silent Hill franchise
* Christopher Young, film composer, Hellraiser, The Grudge, Spiderman 3

### Business

* Lisa Arie, author and motivational speaker, CEO of Vista Caballo
* Nicholas Callaway, founder of Callaway Arts & Entertainment
* James Crown, president of Henry Crown and Company, director of JPMorgan Chase & Co., General Dynamics and Sara Lee
* Jose Fuentes, co-founder/developer of Duolingo
* David M. Hall, writer and corporate trainer, author of Allies at Work
* Judith Herrell, President Herrell's Ice Cream.
* Benjamin Mako Hill, technologist, software developer and founding member of Ubuntu and Debian projects, assistant professor in Communication at the University of Washington
* Gary Hirshberg, Chairman, President, and "CE-Yo" of Stonyfield Farm
* Jeffrey Hollender, President and CEO of Seventh Generation Inc.
* Mark Kriegsman, computer programmer and Director of Engineering at Veracode
* Aaron Lansky, founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, MacArthur Fellow
* Chris Lavergne, founder of the website Thought Catalog
* Gary Marcus, cognitive scientist, founder and CEO of Geometric Intelligence, New York Times bestselling author
* Nicholas Merrill, computer programmer and entrepreneur, founder of The Calyx Institute and plaintiff in the legal case Doe v. Ashcroft
* Liz Perle, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Common Sense Media
* Thomas H. Stoner, Jr., author and energy entrepreneur, CEO of Entelligent

### Law

* Melissa Hoffer, environmental lawyer and Director of the New Hampshire Advocacy Center for the Conservation Law Foundation
* Daniel Horowitz, high-profile criminal-defense attorney
* Kathryn Tucker, high-profile attorney and executive director of the End of Life Liberty Project

### Other notable alumni

* Elizabeth Armstrong, art curator
* Johnny Dwork, two-time world champion flying disc freestyle athlete

### Chefs

* Gabrielle Hamilton, chef and author
* Dede Wilson, baker, contributing editor of Bon Appetit, cookbook author

### Fictional alumni

* Alice Kinnon (Chloë Sevigny), lead character from the film The Last Days of Disco
* Charlotte Pingress (Kate Beckinsale), lead character from the film The Last Days of Disco
* Gobi (Horatio Sanz), character on the reoccurring Saturday Night Live sketch Jarret's Room
* Jarret (Jimmy Fallon), character on the reoccurring Saturday Night Live sketch Jarret's Room

## Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics alumni

* Bram Cohen, original author and developer of BitTorrent
* Matthew Cook, group leader at the Institute for Neuroinformatics at ETH Zurich and computer scientist who proved the Turing universality of Wolfram's Rule 110 cellular automaton
* Lenore Cowen, computer scientist and mathematician at Tufts University
* Alan Edelman, professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* Alan Grayson, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Florida)
* Neil Immerman, professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
* Susan Landau, professor of cybersecurity and policy at Tufts University, visiting scholar of computer science at Harvard University, Guggenheim Fellow
* Eric Lander, mathematician and geneticist, professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and science advisor to President Barack Obama, MacArthur Fellow
* Adam Marcus, professor of mathematics at Princeton University
* Cathy O'Neil, data scientist and blogger at Mathbabe, Director of the Lede Program in Data Practices at Columbia University
* Jim Propp, professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell
* Dana Randall, professor of computer science at Georgia Tech
* Lisa Randall, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, known for developing the Randall–Sundrum model
* Seth Schoen, technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
* Steven Strogatz, Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University
* Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at UCLA Law School, scholar of American constitutional law and libertarianism
* Erik Winfree, professor of computer science and bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology, MacArthur Fellow

## Past and present faculty
### Film and video

* Joan Braderman, video artist and director, MacArthur Fellow
* Bill Brand, experimental filmmaker
* Baba Hillman
* Peter Hutton (filmmaker), experimental filmmaker
* Penny Lane (filmmaker), documentary filmmaker
* Jerome Liebling, filmmaker and photographer, Guggenheim Fellow
* Kara Lynch, video artist
* Elaine Mayes, filmmaker and photographer, Guggenheim Fellow
* Julia Meltzer, video artist, Guggenheim Fellow
* Walid Raad/Atlas Group, video and multi-media artist
* Abraham Ravett, filmmaker and photographer
* Ellen Spiro, Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker
* Hope TuckerFilmmaker Penny Lane

### Photography

* Diane Arbus, photographer, Guggenheim Fellow
* Jacqueline Hayden, feminist photographer and video artist
* Jerome Liebling, filmmaker and photographer, Guggenheim Fellow
* Sandra Matthews, photographer
* Elaine Mayes, filmmaker and photographer, Guggenheim Fellow
* Carrie Mae Weems, photographer, MacArthur Fellow

### Visual arts

* Leonard Baskin, graphic artist and sculptor, Guggenheim Fellow
* David Diao, painter

### Theater

* Josephine Abady, theater director

### Music

* Ray Copeland, jazz musician
* Mark Dresser, jazz musician
* Marty Ehrlich, jazz musician
* Yusef Lateef, jazz musician, Grammy Award-winner
* Roland Wiggins, music theorist, music teacher to John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Yusef Lateef, Buster Williams, Jimmy Owens, and Billy Taylor

### Politics

* Eqbal Ahmad, political scientist, writer and academic
* Michael Klare, scholar on U.S. defense policy and global resource issues

### History

* Anson Rabinbach, historian of modern Europe, co-founder of New German Critique, Guggenheim Fellow
* E. Francis White, historian

### Anthropology

* Alan H. Goodman, anthropologist
* Aihwa Ong, anthropologist, MacArthur Fellow
* Leonard Glick, anthropologist, historian of ideas and Judaism

### Psychology

* John Roosevelt Boettiger, psychologist, grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt

### Writing and Journalism

* James Baldwin, novelist, essayist, poet, playwright and activist
* Ronnie Dugger, journalist, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Yorker, founder of The Texas Observer, George Polk Award-winner
* David Anthony Durham, historical and epic fantasy novelist
* Lynne Hanley, literary critic and feminist
* Norton Juster, architect and writer, author of The Phantom Tollbooth
* Michael Lesy, writer and literary journalist, author of Wisconsin Death Trip
* Elinor Lipman, novelist, short story writer, and essayist
* David Roberts, mountaineer and author
* Andrew Salkey, writer
* Eric Schocket, American studies and literature scholar
* Helaine Selin, librarian, author, and editor

### Poetry

* Polina Barskova, poet
* Aracelis Girmay, poet
* Paul Jenkins, professor of poetry
* John Murillo, poet
* Chase Twichell, poet, Guggenheim Fellow

### Mathematics and Science

* Raymond Coppinger, professor of biology and cognitive science
* David Kelly, professor of mathematics
* Eric Lander, mathematician and geneticist, MacArthur Fellow
* Margaret M. Robinson, mathematician

### Ecology

* Arthur H. Westing, professor of ecology and dean of the School of Natural Science, Guggenheim Fellow

### Other

* Ngawang Samten, Tibetologist
* Robert Sanborn, activist and President/CEO of Children At Risk
* Jonathan Westphal, professor of philosophy

## Presidents

* Franklin Patterson (1966–1971), first president of Hampshire College and co-author of the New College Plan
* Charles R. Longsworth (1971–1977), current director of Saul Centers, Inc., former President, CEO, and Chairman of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
* Adele S. Simmons (1977–1989), former President of the MacArthur Foundation and first female dean of student affairs at Princeton University
* Gregory S. Prince, Jr. (1989–2005), chairman of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts and vice-chair of the Council on Racial and Ethnic Justice of the American Bar Association
* Ralph J. Hexter (2005–2010), former dean at UC Berkeley and Acting Chancellor of UC Davis, founding member of LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education
* Marlene Gerber Fried (2010–2011) (interim)
* Jonathan Lash (2011–2018), attorney, member of the board of directors and former president of the World Resources Institute
* Miriam E. Nelson (2018–2019), acting president and CEO of Newman's Own Foundation, best-selling author, and nutritionist
* Kenneth Rosenthal (2019) (interim)
* Edward Wingenbach (2019–present), former acting president of Ripon College