page_title: List of Brown University people
section_title: Academia
hierarchical_section_title: List of Brown University people / Notable alumni and leaders of Brown / Academia
caption_attribution_description: Mary Emma Woolley (1863-1947), an American educator, peace activist and women's suffrage supporter
context_page_description: The following is a partial list of notable Brown people, known as Brunonians. It includes alumni, professors, and others associated with Brown University and Pembroke College, the former women's college of Brown.
context_section_description: Jasper Adams (A.B. 1815) – President of the College of Charleston, and Hobart College
  Anthony Aguirre (Sc.B. 1995) – theoretical physicist; winner of the inaugural Buchalter Cosmology Prize
  Linda Martín Alcoff (PhD 1987) – Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College
  Vernon Alden (A.B. 1945) – President, Ohio University
  Margaret L. Anderson (Ph.D. 1971) – Professor Emerita of History, UC Berkeley
  James Burrill Angell (A.B. 1849) – longest-serving President of the University of Michigan (1871–1909)
  Thomas Angell (1862) – Free Will Baptist preacher, professor at York University
  Clarence Edwin Ayres (A.B. 1912; M.A. 1914) – economist; leading proponent of Institutional economics
  Rufus Babcock (1821) – 2nd President of Colby College, 1833–1836
  Jacques Bailly (A.B. 1988) – classicist at the University of Vermont; National Spelling Bee Official Pronouncer
  Malcolm Baker (A.B. 1992) – Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
  Mark Bear (Ph.D., 1984) – Picower Professor of Neuroscience, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, MIT
  Peter Bearman (A.B. 1978) – Jonathan R. Cole Professor of the Social Sciences, Columbia University
  Aaron T. Beck (1942) – "father of cognitive behavioral therapy"; founder, Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania; winner of the Lasker Award
  Samuel Belkin (Ph.D. 1935) – President, Yeshiva University
  Ravi V. Bellamkonda (Ph.D. 1994) – Dean, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
  Olivier Berggruen (A.B. 1986) – art historian and curator
  Lee Eliot Berk (A.B 1964) – president and namesake, Berklee College of Music
  Sangeeta N. Bhatia – John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
  Sarah Bolton (Sc.B. 1988) – physicist, president of the College of Wooster, former dean of the college at Williams College
  Edgar S. Brightman – philosopher, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s advisor at Boston University
  Marianne Bronner (Sc.B. 1975) – Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology CalTECH
  Kathryn Brush (M.A., PhD) –  distinguished professor of art history at the University of Western Ontario
  Samuel W. Buell (A.B.) – Bernard M. Fishman Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
  Stephen L. Buchwald (Sc.B. 1977) – Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Hermon Carey Bumpus (Ph.B.) – 5th president of Tufts University, 1915–1919
  Walter Burse (1920) – President of Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts
  Dame Frances Cairncross (M.A., 1966) – Rector, Exeter College, University of Oxford
  Andrew Cayton (Ph.D, 1981) – Warner Woodring Chair in Early American History, The Ohio State University; University Distinguished Professor of History, Miami University
  Zechariah Chafee (A.B. 1907) – University Professor of Law, Harvard University
  Gordon Keith Chalmers (A.B., 1925) – Rhodes Scholar, President of Kenyon College, 1937–1956
  Jeremiah Chaplin (1799) – founder and first President of Colby College, 1817–1833
  Oren B. Cheney (1835–36) – Baptist preacher, abolitionist, founder and president of Bates College
  Herman Chernoff (PhD, 1948) – Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at MIT and of Statistics at Harvard University
  Barbara Chernow (A.B., Economics) – Senior Vice President for Administration at Stony Brook University
  Aram Chobanian – President, Boston University(2003–2005)
  Christopher G. Chute (A.B. English, 1977, M.D. 1982) – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics at Johns Hopkins University
  Richard Cohn – Battell Professor of Music Theory, Yale University
  William E. Cooper – President, University of Richmond
  Robert A. Corrigan (A.B.) – President, San Francisco State University
  Christina Crosby (Ph.D. 1982) – Professor of English, Wesleyan University
  Douglas W. Diamond (A.B.) – Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  Michael Dickinson (Sc. B. 1984) – Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Biology California Institute of Technology, recipient of th
caption: Mary Emma Woolley
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