List of Antioch College people
This page lists notable alumni and former students, faculty, and administrators of Antioch College.
Alumni
Art, architecture, and engineering
- Emma Amos, postmodernist African-American painter and printmaker
- Kathan Brown, printmaker, writer, lecturer, entrepreneur and founder of Crown Point Press
- , printmaker, activist, co-founder of Women's Press Collective, Oakland
- Peter Calthorpe, architect, urban designer, urban planner, and author; founding member of the Congress for the New Urbanism
- Jewell James Ebers, electrical engineer
- Wendy Ewald, photographer, professor at Duke University
- Carole Harmel, photographer, artist, educator, co-founder of Artemisia Gallery women's cooperative in Chicago
- Peter Jacobs, landscape architect, Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture, Université de Montréal, awarded Order of Canada
- Brian Shure, has taught in the printmaking department at Rhode Island School of Design since 1996
- Leilah Weinraub, filmmaker, conceptual artist
Activists
- John Bachtell, chairman of the Communist Party USA 2014-2019
- Olympia Brown, suffragist, women's rights activist, minister
- Mariana Wright Chapman, social reformer, suffragist
- Lucy Salisbury Doolittle, philanthropist
- Leo Drey, conservationist
- Philip Isely, peace activist, writer and founder of WCPA and GREN/EFM
- Jeff Mackler, national secretary of Socialist Action
- José Ramos-Horta, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, East Timor independence activist, Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau, former Prime Minister and President of East Timor
- Marty Rosenbluth, immigration attorney and civil rights activist
- Coretta Scott King, human rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Frances Cress Welsing, psychiatrist and author of ''The Isis Papers''
Business
- Warren Bennis, distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California; Chair of the Advisory Board of the Harvard University Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership; author of more than 30 books on leadership
- Margaret Isely, businesswomen, founder of the health food chain Natural Grocers
- Theodore Levitt, economist, Harvard Professor
- Jay W. Lorsch, Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School
Education
- Edythe Scott Bagley, Professor of Theater and Performing Arts, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
- Drucilla Cornell, philosopher, feminist theorist, and legal theorist
- Shelton H. Davis, public-interest anthropologist
- Lisa Delpit, author of Other People's Children; director of the Center for Urban Educational Excellence
- Frances Degen Horowitz, educator and psychologist, President Emerita of City University of New York Graduate School and University Center
- Deborah Meier, educator, considered the founder of the modern small schools movement
- Tom Mooney, labor leader and teacher
- Brian Shure, teaching in the printmaking department at Rhode Island School of Design since 1996
- James A.F. Stoner, holder of James A.F. Stoner Chair in Global Quality Leadership at Fordham University, author
- Joan Straumanis, first female president of Antioch College, her alma mater; philosopher and women's studies pioneer at Denison University; dean at Kenyon College, Rollins College, Lehigh University, president also at Metropolitan College of New York.
- Harry M. Cleaver, Marxist theoretician, and professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin.
Entertainment
- Idris Ackamoor, musician, founder of jazz collective The Pyramids
- Peter Adair, filmmaker
- Peggy Ahwesh, filmmaker and video artist
- Ray Benson, front man of Asleep at the Wheel, actor and voice actor
- Nick DeMartino, former Senior Vice President, Media and Technology for the American Film Institute
- Nathaniel Dorsky, video artist and author
- Suzanne Fiol, founder of ISSUE Project Room
- John Flansburgh, singer/songwriter, They Might Be Giants
- Herb Gardner, playwright
- Miles Goodman, film composer and record producer
- Theo Hakola, singer/songwriter/musician and novelist
- John Hammond Jr., blues guitarist/vocalist
- Victoria Hochberg, film/television writer/director
- Ken Jenkins, actor on Scrubs
- Nick Katzman, blues musician
- Jorma Kaukonen, guitarist/vocalist, Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna
- John Korty, TV and screenwriter, Emmy for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Oscar for documentary of Japanese internment camps
- Peter Kurland, Academy Award-nominated sound mixer
- Arthur Lithgow, actor, director, pioneer of regional theater
- Alan Lloyd, composer closely associated with the works of Robert Wilson
- Leonard Nimoy, actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer; played the role of Mr. Spock in the original Star Trek TV series
- Julia Reichert, documentary filmmaker, director, producer, Academy Award Winner- Documentary film
- Linda Reisman, film producer
- Cliff Robertson, Academy Award-winning actor
- Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone TV series
- Louise Smith, playwright and actress; Obie Award recipient
- Jay Tuck, television producer for ARD German television, author
- David Wilcox, folk musician and singer-songwriter
- Mia Zapata, lead singer of The Gits
- James Klein, documentary filmmaker, director, producer, two-time Academy Award nominee
- Anthony Heriza, documentary filmmaker, director, producer
- Andrew Garrison, documentary filmmaker, director, producer, 1999 Guggenheim Fellow for Film, Professor Emeritus at The University of Texas
- Carol Greenwald, filmmaker, director, Senior Executive Producer at WGBH Educational Foundation
- Kim Aubry, filmmaker, producer, produced "Apocalypse Now: Redux"
- Ellen Schneider, Executive Producer for P.O.V. and director of Active Voice Lab
Government
- Chester G. Atkins, former United States Representative
- Joseph H. Ball, journalist, politician and businessman, United States Senator
- Bill Bradbury, Oregon Secretary of State
- Lynn J. Bush, Senior Judge for the United States Court of Federal Claims
- LaDoris Cordell, retired judge of the Superior Court of California
- John de Jongh, United States Virgin Islands Governor
- LaShann Moutique DeArcy Hall, District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- Hattie N. Harrison, member of the Maryland House of Delegates
- Joanne Head, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
- A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., civil rights advocate; author; Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ; Chief Judge of the Third Circuit from 1990 to 1991; received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995
- J. Warren Keifer, prominent U.S. politician during the 1880s, 30th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Gail D. Mathieu, B.A., current United States Ambassador to Namibia and former United States Ambassador to Niger
- Eleanor Holmes Norton, Congressional Delegate, representing the District of Columbia; Chair, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1977–1981 ; Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
- Americus V. Rice, Civil War general, U.S. Representative
- E. Denise Simmons, mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the first openly lesbian African-American mayor of an American city
- Richard Socarides, political strategist, commentator
- Webster Street, Arizona Territorial Judge
Literature and journalism
- Lawrence Block, author
- Peg Bracken, humorist
- Eliza Archard Conner, journalist, lecturer, and feminist
- James Galvin, poet and author
- Michael Goldfarb, author and journalist
- Jaimy Gordon, author of Lord of Misrule, winner of the National Book Award
- Karl Grossman, journalist and author
- Virginia Hamilton, children's books author and MacArthur Fellow
- Peter Irons, legal historian and author
- Laurence Leamer, author and journalist
- Franz Lidz, journalist and author whose memoir, Unstrung Heroes, became a 1995 feature film directed by Diane Keaton
- Sylvia Nasar, author, A Beautiful Mind
- Cary Nelson, higher education activist, author
- Gregory Orr, poet and author
- Tito Perdue, novelist, attended Antioch but was sent down before graduation for cohabiting with a fellow student who was not yet his wife
- Marc Anthony Richardson, novelist and artist, American Book Award winner for Year of the Rat
- John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America; pioneer environmentalist; veganism advocate
- Bianca Stone, poet and visual artist
- Mark Strand, poet
- Nova Ren Suma, author of young adult novels
- Ed Ward, journalist, writer, historian of rock
- Terri Windling, influential mythic fiction and speculative fiction editor, author and artist
MacArthur Fellows
- Timothy Barrett, papermaker, researcher, and paper historian
- Lisa Delpit, education reform leader
- Wendy Ewald, photographer
- Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist; professor at Harvard University
- Virginia Hamilton, writer
- Sylvia A. Law, human rights lawyer
- Deborah Meier, education reform leader
- Mark Strand, poet and writer
Science and medicine
- Barbara Almond, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- Joseph Young Bergen, botanist
- Mario Capecchi, PhD Harvard University, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007
- Don Clark, clinical psychologist, author
- Leland C. Clark Jr., PhD, biochemist and inventor
- George W. Comstock, physician, public health expert, lead researcher in seminal studies demonstrating the effectiveness of isoniazid for treating latent tuberculosis infection
- William A. Gamson, sociologist, president of American Sociological Association
- Clifford Geertz, PhD. Harvard, Professor of Social Science, Univ. of Chicago and Princeton Univ.
- Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard professor, geologist, evolutionary biologist, author
- Robin Kanarek, physiological psychologist and academic administrator
- Robert Manry, nautical explorer
- Richard Pillard, professor of psychiatry at Boston University; first openly gay psychiatrist in the U.S.
- Allan Pred, geographer
- Sonya Rose, sociologist and historian
- Joan Steitz, molecular biologist and Sterling Professor at Yale University; 2018 Lasker Award recipient, Harvard PhD
- Judith G. Voet, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Swarthmore College; author of several widely used biochemistry textbooks, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Technology
- Brian Aker, open-source hacker
Faculty
- Irwin Abrams, professor of history, pioneer in the field of peace research
- Tony Conrad, video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher, and writer
- Louis C. Fraina, professor of economics, founding member of the Communisty Party in the United States
- G. Stanley Hall, professor of English and philosophy; first president of the American Psychological Association and Clark University
- Horace Mann, founding president of Antioch College and "father of American education"
- Arthur Ernest Morgan, president of Antioch and chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority
- Edward Orton, Sr., first president of the Ohio State University
- Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, author and educator
- Cecil Taylor, pianist and poet, pioneer of free jazz
- Hendrik Willem van Loon, historian, geographer, journalist, author