page_title: List of Yale University people
section_title: Arts and humanities
hierarchical_section_title: List of Yale University people / Arts and humanities
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Alan Dershowitz in 2009. Taken by Sage Ross, from larger photo, available at Flickr. Photo has been cropped, retouched to remove excessive shadowing, coloring and lighting corrected, digital noise removal, removal of some background for purposes of use as a Wikipedia infobox image.
context_page_description: Yalies are persons affiliated with Yale University, commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies.
context_section_description: Frank Aarebrot, professor of comparative politics at University of Bergen
  James S. Ackerman (B.A.), Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard
  Diogenes Allen (B.D., Ph.D. 1964), philosopher, theologian, professor at Princeton Theological Seminary (1981–2002)
  Edward J. Balleisen (Ph.D. 1995), professor of history at Duke University
  David Boren (B.A. 1963), Governor of Oklahoma (1975–79), U.S. Senator (D-Oklahoma, 1979–94), president of University of Oklahoma
  Robert Brandom (B.A. 1972), philosopher at the University of Pittsburgh
  Susan Buck-Morss (M.A.), philosopher, intellectual historian, professor of political science at CUNY Graduate Center
  Michael Burns (Ph.D. 1980), actor on Wagon Train and It's a Man's World, and emeritus professor of history at Mount Holyoke College
  Judith Butler (Ph.D. 1984), author of Gender Trouble, philosopher, queer theorist, and feminist scholar
  Steve Charnovitz (B.A. 1975, J.D. 1998), law professor at George Washington University
  Janet Coleman (B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.), professor of Ancient & Medieval Political Thought, London School of Economics
  William Cornyn (A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1944), professor of Slavic and South East Asian Linguistics
  Catherine Cusset, (Ph.D. 1991), French novelist and author of Life of David Hockney: A Novel.
  Leo Damrosch (B.A. 1963), professor at Harvard University, 2005 National Book Award finalist for Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
  Alan Dershowitz (LL.B. 1962), law professor at Harvard University
  Jeff Dolven, professor of English at Princeton University
  David Bates Douglass, professor at the U.S. Military Academy, President of Kenyon College, designer of Green-Wood Cemetery, member of Lewis Cass expedition of 1820
  Jacques Ehrmann, literary theorist and French Department professor, 1961–1972
  John C. Ewers (M.A. 1934), ethnologist and first Director of the National Museum of American History
  Robert Fagles (M.A., 1956, Ph.D. 1959), professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, poet, translator of classics
  Tommy Fitzpatrick (M.F.A., 1993), professor, painter
  Edward Foley, theorist of the blue shift and former Ohio Solicitor General
  Henry Louis Gates Jr. (B.A., M.A. 1973), professor, chair of Harvard's African and African American Studies department
  Roxane Gay, writer and professor
  Roberto S. Goizueta (B.A., 1976), professor of theology, Boston College
  Daniel Harrison (Ph.D 1986), Chairman of Department of Music, Yale University
  Annette Insdorf (Ph.D. 1975), film historian and author
  Fredric Jameson (Ph.D. 1959), cultural theorist, author of, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, chair of Duke University's Literature Program
  David Kolb (M.Phil. 1970, Ph.D. 1972), philosopher at Bates College
  Hart Day Leavitt (B.A. 1934), English teacher, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1937–1975
  Lawrence Lessig (J.D. 1989), copyright activist, law professor at Harvard University
  Anya Liftig (B.A., 1999), performance artist
  Robert Oscar Lopez (B.A. 1993), associate professor of English and classics at California State University, Northridge
  F. O. Matthiessen (B.A. 1923), literary historian, professor at Harvard University
  Scotty McLennan (B.A. 1970), dean for Religious Life at Stanford University
  Thomas V. Morris (Ph.D.), former University of Notre Dame philosophy professor, currently founding chairman of the Morris Institute of Human Values
  Nicholas Muellner (B.A. 1991), photographer and writer; professor of media arts, sciences and studies at Ithaca College
  Don Nakanishi (B.S. 1971), former professor of Asian American studies at University of California, Los Angeles
  Reinhold Niebuhr (B.D. 1914), author, theologian, Serenity Prayer
  Bilal Orfali (Ph.D. 2009), professor of Arabic language and Islamic studies at the American University of Beirut
  Camille Paglia (Ph.D. 1972), author of Sexual Personae, cultural critic and feminist scholar
  Andrew Pessin, philosopher at Connecticut College
  Alvin Plantinga (Ph.D. 1958), Christian philosopher, professor at University of Notre Dame
  Eileen Pollack (B.S.), 
caption: Alan Dershowitz
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