LIST OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE PEOPLE

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

Contents

Noted alumnae

Noted faculty and administrators

Noted fictional alumnae

Notes

Noted alumnae

Name	Year	Notable
Renata Adler	1959	Writer [1]
Katharine Sergeant Angell White	1914	Editor of The New Yorker
Donna Amenta	M.A. 1971, Ph.D 1974	Professor of Chemistry and Department Head at James Madison University
Anastasia Ashman	1986	Writer
Ellis Avery	1971	Novelist
Emily Greene Balch	1889	Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1946
Margaret Ayer Barnes	1907	Writer, Pulitzer Prize for the Novel winner, 1931
Florence Bird		Canadian journalist and politician
Sarmila Bose		Journalist
Ana Patricia Botin	1981	CEO of Banesto
Kathy Boudin	1965	Weathermen member
Annie Leigh Hobson Broughton	A.B. 1930, M.A. 1936	Advocate for women's education
A.S. Byatt	graduate work 1957-1958, did not graduate	Postmodern novelist [2]
Jane Calvin	1959	Artist
John D. Caputo	Ph.D. 1968	Philosophy professor at Syracuse University
Bruce Cole	Ph.D.	Chairman of National Endowment for the Humanities
Mary Little Cooper	1968	Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
H.D.	did not graduate	Modernist poet
Regna Darnell	1965	Anthropologist [3]
Eleanor Lansing Dulles	1917	Economist
Helen Flanders Dunbar	1923	Important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine
Lee McGeorge Durrell	1971	Author, television presenter, zookeeper
Drew Gilpin Faust	1968	Dean of Radcliffe Institute, Twenty-Eighth President of Harvard University
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese	1963	Historian and conservative feminist
Shaun Gallagher	Ph.D.	Philosophy professor at University of Central Florida
Martha A. Geer	1980	Associate Justice of the North Carolina Court of Appeals [4]
Dorothy Goodman		Teacher, charter school advocate, founder of International Baccalaureate Organization
Hanna Holborn Gray	1950	Former president of University of Chicago
David Gress	Ph.D 1981	Historian
Edith Hamilton	M.A. 1894	Classical scholar
Naomi Halas	M.A. 1984, Ph.D. 1986	Professor of Chemistry and Computer Engineering at Rice University
Elaine Hammerstein	1917	Actress
Carmelita Hinton	1912	Progressive educator
Katharine Houghton Hepburn	1899	Suffragist and family planning advocate
Katharine Hepburn	1928	Academy Award-winning actress
Sari Horwitz	1979	Journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
Barbara Marx Hubbard	1951	Writer and public speaker
Salima Ikram	1986	Egyptologist and professor at American University in Cairo
Sarah Jones	did not graduate	Actress, poet, playwright
Victoria S. Kaufman	1986	Bankruptcy judge in the Central Discrict of California [5]
Emily Kimbrough	1921	Writer
Helen Dean King	Ph.D. 1899	Biologist
Karen Kornbluh	1985	Economist
Leslie Kurke	1981	Professor of classics at University of California-Berkeley and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient in 1999
Ellen Kushner	did not graduate	Fantasy writer
Frederica de Laguna	1927	Anthropologist
Helen Taft Manning	1915	Historian, professor and dean of Bryn Mawr College, suffragist, daughter of President William Howard Taft [6]
Gerald Mara	Ph.D.	Dean and Professor of Government at Georgetown University
Jacqueline Mars	1961	Heiress to Mars candy fortune
Berthe Marti	M.A. 1926, Ph.D. 1934	Professor of Latin at Bryn Mawr College
Mary A. McLaughlin	M.A. 1969	Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Mary Patterson McPherson	Ph.D.	Former President of Bryn Mawr College
Cornelia Meigs	1908	Newbery Medal winner in 1934 [7]
Mary Meigs	1939	Writer [8]
Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt	A.B. 1927, M.A. 1928, Ph.D. 1935	Classical archaeologist
Lynne Meadow	1968	Theatrical producer and director
Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels	A.B., M.A., Ph.D.	Classical scholar and former professor at Bryn Mawr College
Victoria S. Middleton	1971	Diplomat
Marianne Moore	1909	Poet
Margaret M. Morrow	1971	Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Catherine Gilbert Murdock		Writer
Diana Oughton	1963	Weathermen member
Mildred Natwick	1927	Academy Award-nominated actress
Emily Cheney Neville	1940	Newbery Medal winner in 1964
Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover		Member of the U.K. House of Lords
Sherry Ortner	1962	Anthropologist, professor at UCLA, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient
Candace Pert	1970	Neuroscientist
Jeannette Piccard	1918	Teacher, scientist, balloon pilot, priest
Virginia Ragsdale	A.B., Ph.D.	Mathematician
Paul Rehak	M.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1985	Archaeologist
Alice Rivlin	1952	Economist, first director of Congressional Budget Office
Phyllis Ross		Economist, former chancellor of University of British Columbia
Ilana Kara Diamond Rovner	1960	Judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Edith Finch Russell		Author, biographer of Bryn Mawr College President M. Carey Thomas
Rosemarie Said Zahlan	1958	Palestinian-American historian and writer
Teresita Currie Schaffer	1966	Diplomat and former director of the Foreign Service Institute
Dorothy Schiff	1921	Newspaper publisher
Allyson Schwartz	M.A. 1972	U.S. Representative
Elaine Showalter	1962	Feminist literary critic and former president of the Modern Language Association
Rachel Simon	1981	Writer
Cornelia Otis Skinner	did not graduate	Actress and author
Joan Slonczewski	1977	Biology professor at Kenyon College, science fiction writer
Deborah Spungen	M.S.W. 1989	Author
Nettie Stevens	Ph.D. 1903	Geneticist
Caroline Stevermer	1977	Fantasy writer
Lily Ross Taylor	Ph.D. 1912	Former professor and dean of Bryn Mawr College
Dorothy Burr Thompson	1923	Archaeologist and art historian
Kaity Tong		Broadcast journalist
Anne Truitt	1943	Minimalist sculptor
Neda Ulaby	1970	NPR reporter
Emily Vermeule	A.B. 1950, Ph.D. 1956	Classical scholar, archaeologist, poet
Elizabeth Gray Vining	1923	Newbery Medal winner
Betty Peh T'i Wei	1953	Historian
Mai Yamani	1979	Anthropologist and Saudi Arabian activist

Noted faculty and administrators

★ Rhys Carpenter, Art history (1914?-1955)

★ Maria Luisa Crawford, Geology, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient

★ Frederica de Laguna, anthropologist and founder of Bryn Mawr's anthropology department (1906-2004)

★ Mabel Lang, Greek (c1940-1991)

★ Richmond Lattimore, Greek (1935-1971)

★ Helen Taft Manning, History (1917-1957), also served as dean ^[6]

★ Berthe Marti, Latin and French (1930-1963)

★ Cornelia Meigs, English (1932-1950) ^[7]

★ Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels, Latin (1934-1975)

★ Thomas Hunt Morgan, geneticist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (1866 - 1946)

★ Emmy Noether, Mathematics (1933-1935)

★ Charlotte Scott, Mathematics (1885 - 1917)

★ Lily Ross Taylor, Latin (1927-1942), Dean of the Graduate School (1942-52)

★ M. Carey Thomas, English, Dean of the College (1884-1908), President (1894-1922)

★ Woodrow Wilson, (1885-1888)

Noted fictional alumnae

★ Allison R. Hart-Burnett (B.A.) (1980s), Lady Jaye

★ Edna Krabappel (M.A.), Simpsons teacher

★ Erica Barry (B.A.), Something's Gotta Give (film) lead character played by Diane Keaton

★ Pamela Abbott (B.A.), Inventing the Abbotts (1997), played by Liv Tyler

★ Amanda Bonner (B.A.), Adam's Rib (1949), played by Katharine Hepburn

★ Bunny Watson (B.A.), Desk Set (1957), played by Katharine Hepburn

★ Nancy Drew & Carolyn Keene, Confessions of a Teen Sleuth (book published in 2005)

Notes

1. http://www.reportingcivilrights.org/authors/bio.jsp?authorId=86
2. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761581067/Byatt_A(ntonia)_S(usan).html
3. http://publish.uwo.ca/~rdarnell/
4. http://www.nccourts.org/Courts/Appellate/Appeal/Biographies/Biography.asp?Name=Geer
5. http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov/cacb/Notices.nsf/New%20Appointments%20Reappointments/E598F50D9C669BBD8825714F005CE5BE/$FILE/Neiter_Kaufman.pdf
6. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE0DD1E30F930A15751C0A961948260
7. http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/LitMap/bios/Meigs__Cornelia.html
8. http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/meigs.shtml
9. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE0DD1E30F930A15751C0A961948260
10. http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/LitMap/bios/Meigs__Cornelia.html