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.

Noted alumni

Name	Year	Notable
Layla AbdelRahim	1993	Author and anthropologist
Nadia Abu El Haj	1984	Anthropologist at Barnard College
Renata Adler	1959	Writer[1]
Katharine Sergeant Angell White	1914	Editor of The New Yorker
Maya Ajmera	1989	Founder of The Global Fund for Children
Donna Amenta	M.A. 1971, Ph.D 1974	Professor of Chemistry and Department Head at James Madison University
Anastasia Ashman	1986	Writer
Ellis Avery	1993	Novelist[2]
Emily Greene Balch	1889	Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1946
Margaret Ayer Barnes	1907	Writer, Pulitzer Prize for the Novel winner, 1931
Genevieve Bell	1990	Cultural anthropologist at Intel Labs
Florence Bird	1928	Canadian journalist and politician
Eleanor Albert Bliss	1921	Bacteriologist
Katharine Burr Blodgett	1917	Chemist and engineer
Grace Lee Boggs	Ph.D. 1940	Activist and author
Sarmila Bose	1981	Journalist
Ana Patricia Botin	1981	CEO of Santander UK, CEO of Banesto
Kathy Boudin	1965	Weathermen member convicted of murder and bank robbery
Frances Schreuder ~ Bradshaw	non-degreed	convicted in 1983 of the 1978 Franklin Bradshaw murder that she forced her son, Marc, to perform.
Annie Leigh Hobson Broughton	A.B. 1930, M.A. 1936	Advocate for women's education
Carol Burns	1977	Architect, co-founder of Taylor & Burns Architects
A. S. Byatt	graduate work 1957-1958, did not graduate	Postmodern novelist[3]
Jane Calvin	1959	Artist
John D. Caputo	Ph.D. 1968	Philosophy professor at Syracuse University
Marjorie Constance Caserio	MA in chemistry in 1951, PhD in 1956	Chemist
Birutė Ciplijauskaitė	Ph.D. 1964	Vilas Professor of Spanish University of Wisconsin–Madison
Susy Clemens	did not graduate	daughter of American author Mark Twain
Bruce Cole	Ph.D. 1969	Chairman of National Endowment for the Humanities
Soraya Coley	M.S.S. 1974	current president of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Joyce Mitchell Cook	1955	First African American woman to receive a PhD in philosophy and the first woman to be appointed to an assistant teacher position at Yale
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[4]
Eleanor Lansing Dulles	1917	Economist
Helen Flanders Dunbar	1923	Important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine
Mary Maples Dunn	M.A. 1956, Ph.D. 1959	former president of Smith College
Lee McGeorge Durrell	1971	Author, television presenter, zookeeper
Drew Gilpin Faust	1968	Twenty-Eighth President of Harvard University, former Dean of Radcliffe Institute
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese	1963	Historian and conservative feminist
Mary Peters Fieser	1930	Chemist and writer
Catherine Clarke Fenselau	1961	Chemist, pioneer in mass spectrometry
Shaun Gallagher	Ph.D.	University of Central Florida philosophy professor
Julia Anna Gardner	1905 A.B., 1907 M.A.	Geologist, paleontologist
Martha A. Geer	1980	Associate Justice of the North Carolina Court of Appeals[5]
Carolyn Goodman	1961	Mayor of Las Vegas, founder of the Meadows School
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. There is no evidence in the College Archives that Hammerstein attended the school.
Carmelita Hinton	1912	Progressive educator
Margaret Healey	Ph.D. 1969	former president of Rosemont College
Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn	1899	Suffragist and family planning advocate
Katharine Hepburn	1928	Academy Award-winning actress
Betsy Hodges	1991	current Mayor of Minneapolis
Edith Houghton Hooker	1901	Suffragist
Margaret Hoover	2001	Political contributor for CNN, media personality, and author. She is a great-granddaughter of former U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
Matina Horner	1961	former president of Radcliffe College and psychologist who pioneered the concept of "fear of success"[6]
Sari Horwitz	1979	Journalist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winnere Pulitzer Prize winner
Beryl Howell	1978	Federal Court Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Agnes Hsu-Tang		Archaeologist and host of History Channel Asia’s “Mysteries of China” series
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
Rosabeth Moss Kanter	1964	Professor in business at Harvard Business School, former editor of the Harvard Business Review
Victoria S. Kaufman	1986	Bankruptcy judge in the Central Discrict of California[7]
Michi Kawai	1904	Founder of Keisen University
Emily Kimbrough	1921	Writer[8]
Helen Dean King	Ph.D. 1899	Biologist
Karl Kirchwey	Associate professor 2000–present	Poet[9][10]
Anna Kisselgoff	1958	cultural news reporter and former Chief Dance Critic for the New York Times
Karen Kornbluh	1985	Ambassador and U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt	1923	Children's author, best known for Pat the Bunny.[11] Both her daughters are also Bryn Mawr alumnae.
Gertrude Prokosch Kurath	1928	Dancer and dance researcher
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
Ruth Langer	1981	Professor of Religion
Anna B. Lawther	1897	leader in the women's suffrage movement
Mimi Lee	1943	Chemist and First Lady of Maryland from 1977 to 1979[12]
Helen Taft Manning	1915	Historian, professor and dean of Bryn Mawr College, suffragist, daughter of President William Howard Taft[13]
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
Katharine McBride	A.B. 1925 M.A. 1927 Ph.D. 1932	former president of Bryn Mawr College
Millicent Carey McIntosh	1920	head of the Brearley School and the first president of Barnard College. She was the first married woman to head one of the Seven Sisters, she was "considered a national role model for generations of young women who wanted to combine career and family," advocating for working mothers and for child care as a dignified profession.[14]
Mary A. McLaughlin	M.A. 1969	Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
A. Thomas McLellan	M.S., Ph.D.	Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, nominee for Deputy Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
Mary Patterson McPherson	Ph.D.	Former President of Bryn Mawr College
Cornelia Meigs	1908	Newbery Medal winner in 1934[15]
Mary Meigs	1939	Writer[16]
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
Elizabeth Mosier	1984	Writer, Author of My Life as a Girl
Marianne Moore	1909	Poet
Tony D. Morinelli	Ph.D. 1990	Educator, playwright, painter
Margaret M. Morrow	1971	Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Catherine Gilbert Murdock		Writer
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
Diana Oughton	1963	Militant Weathermen member
Marion Edwards Park	A.B. 1898 M.A. 1899 Ph.D. 1918	former president of Bryn Mawr College
Jo Ellen Parker	1975	current president of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh; former president of Sweet Briar College
Judith Peabody		Socialite and philanthropist[17]
Candace Pert	1970	Neuroscientist
Jeannette Piccard	1918	Teacher, scientist, balloon pilot, priest
Bertha Putnam	1893	Historian
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. Rovner was the first woman appointed to the Seventh Circuit
Edith Finch Russell		Author, biographer of Bryn Mawr College President M. Carey Thomas
Maggie Siff	1996	Actress, Mad Men, Sons of Anarchy, Billions
Gabrielle M. Spiegel	1964	Chair of the History Department at Johns Hopkins University, President of the American Historical Association, 2008–2009
Rosemarie Said Zahlan	1958	Palestinian-American historian and writer
Lavanya Sankaran	1990	Writer
Bernadette Sargeant	1983	Attorney and former adviser to the U.S. House Ethics Committee
Jenny Sawyer	2002	Literary critic, internet entrepreneur[18]
Teresita Currie Schaffer	1966	Diplomat and former director of the Foreign Service Institute
Dorothy Schiff	1921	Newspaper publisher
Lisa Schiffren	1981	Journalist, Political speechwriter: Dan Quayle's "Murphy Brown" speech, Conservative activist
Allyson Schwartz	M.A. 1972	U.S. Representative
Elaine Showalter	1962	Feminist literary critic and former president of the Modern Language Association
Fatima Siad	2007	contestant on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 10 and fashion model
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
Nina Straight	1959	American author, journalist, and socialite.[19] She is the mother of writer/director Burr Steers and artist Hugh Auchincloss Steers, half-sister of Gore Vidal, step-sister of First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier and actress Lee Radziwill.[20]
Anne Strainchamps	1982	Host of "To the Best of our Knowledge"
Margaret Suckley	1912-14 (did not graduate)	First archivist of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
Mary Hamilton Swindler	Ph.D. 1912	Former professor of archaeology of Bryn Mawr College
Olga Taussky-Todd	Fellow	Mathematician
Lily Ross Taylor	Ph.D. 1912	Former professor and dean of Bryn Mawr College
Dorothy Burr Thompson	1923	Archaeologist and art historian
Tony Thurmond	MSS 1995, MSLP 1996	American politician and member of the California State Assembly
Adrian Tinsley	1958	former president of Bridgewater State University
Kaity Tong	1969	Broadcast journalist
Anne Truitt	1943	Minimalist sculptor
Umeko Tsuda	1889–1892	First Japanese student. Founder of Tsuda College & first president of YWCA in Japan
Neda Ulaby	1993	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
Genevieve Vaughan	1961	Philanthropist and feminist activist
P. Gregory Warden	M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1978	president of Franklin University Switzerland

Noted faculty and administrators

• Asoka Bandarage
• Florence Bascom, petrologist, founder of Bryn Mawr's Geology Department
• Marland Pratt Billings, Structural Geologist
• Rhys Carpenter, Art history (1914?-1955)
• Kimberly Wright Cassidy (born ca. 1963), Psychology, ninth president of Bryn Mawr College
• Maria Luisa Crawford, Geology, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient
• Arthur C. Cope, chemist, developer of the Cope rearrangement and the Cope elimination, namesake of the Arthur C. Cope Award of the American Chemical Society (1934-1941)
• Louis Fieser, chemist, developer of synthetic napalm, researcher of vitamin K (1925-1930)
• Arthur Lindo Patterson, founder of the Patterson function used in X-ray crystallography (1936-1949)
• Michelle Francl, computational chemistry
• Alice M. Hoffman, labor and oral historian
• Howard S. Hoffman, Psychology (1925-2006), Behavioral Neuroscientist, leading scholar of the startle reflex and social attachment
• Frederica de Laguna, anthropologist and founder of Bryn Mawr's anthropology department (1906–2004)
• Mabel Lang, Greek (1943–1988); received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1943
• Richmond Lattimore, Greek (1935–1971)
• Helen Taft Manning, History (1917–1957), also served as dean^[13]
• Berthe Marti, Latin and French (1930–1963)
• Cornelia Meigs, English (1932–1950)^[15]
• Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels, Latin (1934–1975)
• José Ferrater Mora, Philosophy (1949–1980).
• Thomas Hunt Morgan, geneticist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (1866–1946)
• Emmy Noether, Mathematics (1933–1935)
• Jane M. Oppenheimer, Embryology and History of Science (1938-1980)
• John Oxtoby, Mathematics (1939-1979)
• Charlotte Scott, Mathematics (1885–1917)
• Hilda Worthington Smith, labor educator, social worker, and poet (1888-1984)
• 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)
• Edward Warburg (1908-1992), taught Modern Art.^[21]
• Woodrow Wilson, (1885–1888)

Noted fictional alumni

• Pamela Abbott (A.B.), Inventing the Abbotts (1997), played by Liv Tyler
• C.C. Babcock, The Nanny (1993), played by Lauren Lane
• Erica Barry (A.B.), Something's Gotta Give lead character, played by Diane Keaton
• Amanda Bonner (A.B.), Adam's Rib (1949), played by Katharine Hepburn
• Dale Cooper (B.A.) Twin Peaks (1990-10), played by Kyle MacLachlan
• Betty Draper (A.B. in Anthropology), Mad Men (2007), played by January Jones
• Nancy Drew & Carolyn Keene, Confessions of a Teen Sleuth (book published in 2005)
• Allison R. Hart-Burnett (A.B.) (1980s), Lady Jaye (a fictional character in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy line)
• Edna Krabappel (M.A.), The Simpsons teacher
• Vivian Schuyler (B.A.),"The Secret Life of Violet Grant" by Beatriz Williams
• Bunny Watson (A.B.), Desk Set (1957), played by Katharine Hepburn

Notes

1. "Reporters and Writers: Renata Adler". Reporting Civil Rights. Retrieved 2013-06-19.
2. "Bryn Mawr Now: Ellis Avery '93 to read from ''The Teahouse Fire''". Brynmawr.edu. Retrieved 2013-06-19.
3. "A. S. Byatt," MSN Encarta. Archived 2009-10-31.
4. "Biography". Publish.uwo.ca. Retrieved 2013-06-19.
5. Biography Archived April 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
6. Sex and Success, Time, March 20, 1972.
7. http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/web/ocelibra.nsf/504ca249c786e20f85 Archived September 24, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
8. http://www.bsu.edu/libraries/collections/archives/findingaids/MSS061.pdf
9. "Faculty 2010-2011". Bryn Mawr. 2010-10-15. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
10. Karen Heller (May 1, 2003). "Bryn Mawr shows creative side as it makes way for arts". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
11. Zipes, Jack David, ed. (2006). "Kunhardt, Dorothy". Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. 3. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195146561.
12. Rasmussen, Frederick N. (2011-08-13). "Mathilde B. "Mimi" Lee, former acting first lady of Maryland, dies at 91". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
13. "Helen Taft Manning, Ex-Dean of Bryn Mawr". The New York Times. 1987-02-23.
14. Arenson, Karen W. (January 5, 2001). "Millicent McIntosh". The New York Times.
15. "Meigs, Cornelia". Pabook.libraries.psu.edu. Retrieved 2013-06-19.
16. "Mary Meigs Papers | Special Collections | Bryn Mawr College Library". Brynmawr.edu. Retrieved 2013-06-19.
17. Weber, Bruce. "Judith Peabody, Socialite and Volunteer, Dies at 80", The New York Times, July 27, 2010. Accessed July 27, 2010.
18. 60secondrecap.com
19. Vespa, Mary (May 11, 1981). "Jackie & Gore Launch a Gossipy Novel—and Make a Name for Nina Straight". People Magazine. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
20. "Mrs. Steers Wed to Michael Straight". The New York Times. May 2, 1974. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
21. Pace, Eric (September 22, 1992). "Edward Warburg, Philanthropist And Patron of the Arts, Dies at 84". The New York Times. Retrieved October 11, 2015.