List of Haverford College people

This List of Haverford College people includes alumni and faculty of Haverford College. Haverford is a smaller college and has a smaller alumni population than its peers. Because expansion occurred in the 1980s, most of Haverford's alumni are still quite young. Despite this, as of 2010, Haverford alumni include four Nobel Prizes, four MacArthur Fellows, 20 Rhodes Scholarships, 10 Marshall Scholarships, nine Henry Luce Fellowships,^[1] 56 Watson Fellowships,^[1] two George Mitchell Scholarship, two Carnegie Endowment Junior Fellowships,^[1] two Churchill Scholars, one Gates Cambridge Scholar,^[1] 13 All Americans, and 23 NCAA post-graduate winners.

Alumni

Business and industry

• Charlie Apt '84, co-owner of Ciao Bella Gelato Company
• Iwao Ayusawa, Japanese labour relations author
• Harlan Jacobson '71, American Film Critic
• Beverly Ortega Babers '84, Chief Administrative Officer of United States Mint
• Emily Best '02, founder of crowdfunding platform Seed&Spark
• Josh Byrnes '92, senior vice president of baseball operations, Los Angeles Dodgers
• Michael E. Dunn '85, Chairman and CEO of Prophet
• William S. Halstead '26, inventor in national and international communication; held more than 80 patents in radio and television development
• Alex Karp '89, co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies
• Eric Kuhn '93, CEO of Varsity Books and FoundersCard
• James Kuo '86, bio-medical entrepreneur; CEO of BioMicro Systems
• Andrew L. Lewis, Jr. '53, former Chairman and CEO of Union Pacific Corporation
• Gerald M. Levin '60, former Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Officer
• Eugene Ludwig '68, Chairman and CEO of Promontory Financial Group; former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency
• Howard Lutnick '83, Chairman and CEO of the Cantor Fitzgerald Company
• Robert MacCrate '43, Sullivan & Cromwell Vice Chairman; legal education reformer
• J. Howard Marshall '26, Texan billionaire oil tycoon who married Anna Nicole Smith in his late 80s
• John Morse '73, president and publisher of Merriam-Webster
• Scott Haycock '98, Kappa Sig 2001 Fantasy Runner Up
• Tony Petitti '83, CEO of MLB Network
• Henry Ritchotte '85, COO of Deutsche Bank
• Jane Silber '85, CEO of Canonical, maintainers of the Ubuntu operating system
• Ken Stern '85, CEO of NPR
• Arn Tellem '76, Principal, Management Wasserman Media Group
• John C. Whitehead '43, former Co-Chairman of Goldman Sachs, deputy U.S. Secretary of State under Reagan and later chairman of Lower Manhattan Development Corporation; namesake of Whitehead Campus Center
• Barry Zubrow '75, former Chief Risk Officer at JP Morgan Chase; former Chief Administrative Officer at Goldman Sachs

Higher education and academia

• Anthony Amsterdam '57, MacArthur Fellow, University Professor of Law, NYU
• Robert Bates '64, Eaton Professor of Science of Government, Harvard University
• Terry Belanger '63, 2005 MacArthur Fellow, University Professor and Director of Rare Book School, University of Virginia
• Douglas C. Bennett '68, former provost of Reed College, and former president of Earlham College
• Tristram Potter Coffin '43, former professor of English and founder of the Folklore department at the University of Pennsylvania
• Stephen G. Emerson '74, Director of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and Clyde ’56 & Helen Wu Professor in Immunology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and former President, Haverford College (2007–2011)
• Peter Bacon Hales '72, Professor of Art History and director of the American Studies Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago
• Akira Iriye '57, Professor of History at Harvard University, President of American Historical Society
• Fredric Jameson '54, Marxist cultural and literary critic, William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University
• Garry W. Jenkins '92, Dean and William S. Pattee Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
• Christoph M. Kimmich '61, former president of Brooklyn College
• Bruce Lincoln '70, author of Holy Terrors; professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School
• Stephen J. Lippard '62, Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• George Marsden '59, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame (1992-2008), winner of the Bancroft Prize and Merle Curti Award for Jonathan Edwards: A Life (Yale University Press, 2004)
• Marc Melitz '89, Professor of Economics, Harvard College
• Robert Mong '71, President, University of North Texas at Dallas
• George Mosse '41, University of Wisconsin - Madison John C. Bascom Professor of European History and Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies, concurrently holding the Koebner Professorship of History at Hebrew University; first research historian in residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Ken Nakayama '62, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
• Adam Zachary Newton '80, Professor of English, Yeshiva University
• Frank J. Popper '65, Professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy of Rutgers University and the Princeton Environmental Institute at Princeton University; known for proposing the Buffalo Commons and coining the term "locally unwanted land use" (LULU)
• Hunter R. Rawlings III '66 Classics, 10th President of Cornell University from 1995-2003 (made interim president again in 2005), former President of University of Iowa
• Fred Rodell '26, LL.D. '73; professor, 1933-1973, at Yale Law School; proponent of legal realism
• Andrew M. Shanken '90, professor of architectural history at University of California, Berkeley' author of 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front
• Edward A. Shanken '86, University of Amsterdam, author of Art and Electronic Media
• Ed Sikov '78, film scholar and author of Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers and On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
• Eric Tagliacozzo '89, Professor of Southeast Asian History, Cornell University
• David Thornburgh '81, Executive Director, Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania (2008–present)
• Eric Wertheimer '86, Arizona State University, Professor of English and American Studies, Associate Vice Provost
• Louis Round Wilson attended 1895-98, academic librarian at the University of North Carolina; founder of the University of North Carolina Press; founder of the library science school at the University of Chicago; President of the American Library Association
• Carl B. Allendoerfer '34, mathematician and former chair of University of Washington mathematics department

Entertainment, fine and performing arts

• David Scull Bispham 1876, baritone; Metropolitan Opera and Covent Garden soloist; author of A Quaker Singer's Recollection, 1920
• John G. Bullock 1874, photographer; founding member of the Photo-Secession with Alfred Steiglitz^[2]
• William Carragan 1958, musicologist noted for his work on Anton Bruckner, and for contributions to physics
• Chevy Chase ex-'66, attended for one semester, comedian and actor
• Roger Director 1971, scriptwriter for TV shows, including Moonlighting and Hill Street Blues; nominated for two Emmys; consulting producer for NCIS, Wolf Lake; wrote Dream in Blue about the New York Giants football team, and A Place to Fall: A Novel
• Deborah Colette Freedman 1990, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist; voted "One of the 50 to Watch" by the Dramatist's Guild; co-wrote thriller The Thirteen Hallows; wrote several novels, The Affair, The Consequences, Anomalies, Sister Cities
• Robert E. Hecht 1941, collector, dealer and expert in antiquities
• Mark Hudis 1990, former co-executive producer of True Blood, former writer and co-executive producer of Nurse Jackie, former executive producer of That '70s Show
• Harlan Jacobson 1971, film critic, lecturer and author
• Julius Katchen 1947, concert pianist, recognized by Eugene Ormandy at his debut concert playing Mozart's Piano Concerto in D-Minor (age 10)
• Daniel Dae Kim 1990, film and stage actor; Hawaii Five-0, Lost, The Andromeda Strain; holds an MFA from the Graduate Acting Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts; winner of Screen Actors Guild Awards for Lost and Crash; named one of the "Sexiest Men Alive" in 2005 by People magaine
• Ken Ludwig 1972, Tony Award-winning playwright of Lend Me a Tenor and Crazy for You and a lawyer (of counsel) for Steptoe & Johnson LLP
• Andrew Millstein 1984, General Manager of Walt Disney Animation Studios
• Judd Nelson ex-'82, actor, did not graduate
• Craig Owens '71, art critic and theorist
• Maxfield Parrish (attended 1888-1891), painter
• Rand Ravich 1984, writer, director, and producer
• Peter Rockwell 1958, sculptor and art historian; sculpture restorer; one of his works appears on Haverford campus; son of artist-illustrator Norman Rockwell
• George Segal ex-'55, actor, attended
• Gregory Whitehead '78, audio artist, media philosopher, award-winning radio playwright and documentary producer.

Government, diplomacy, and law

• Richard G. Andrews '77, Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
• Thomas Barlow '62, former Democratic member of Congress from Kentucky
• Gary Born '78, International Arbitrator and Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
• Robert Braucher '36, former Associate Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• Charles Canady '76, former Republican member of Congress; Florida Supreme Court Justice; coined the term "partial-birth abortion"
• Ron Christie '91, former special assistant to President George W. Bush and deputy assistant to Vice President Dick Cheney
• Richard M. Cooper '64, Rhodes Scholar, former chief counsel for Food and Drug Administration, Partner at Williams & Connolly LLP
• Henry S. Drinker, Jr. 1900, managing partner and namesake of Drinker Biddle & Reath law firm; counsel to University of Pennsylvania; musicologist and chamber music enthusiast; ethics scholar^[3]
• Harold Evans 1907, Philadelphia lawyer, active in AFSC, U.N.-appointed first mayor of Jerusalem (1948), argued before Supreme Court in Hirabayashi v. United States (1943)
• Mark Geragos '79, defense attorney for Winona Ryder and Michael Jackson
• Peter J. Goldmark '67, Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands
• Oscar Goodman '61, former Mayor of Las Vegas, former criminal defense attorney
• David F. Hamilton ’79, Judge, U.S. Court Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Mark D. Levine '91, New York City Councilmember
• Andrew Lewis '53, former CEO Union Pacific, Secretary of Transportation under Ronald Reagan
• Kermit Lipez ‘63, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• Eugene Ludwig '68, former US Comptroller of the Currency, partner of Covington & Burling LLP
• Charles Mathias '44, former Republican Congressman and Senator from Maryland
• Robert MacCrate '43, Sullivan & Cromwell Vice Chairman and legal education reformer
• Koichiro Matsuura '61 Economics, former Japanese Ambassador to France, 1999-now, Director-General of UNESCO
• Jim Moody '67, former Democratic member of Congress from Wisconsin
• Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker 1908, Nobel Laureate (1959); member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; chairman of the British Labour Party; architect of the League of Nations; Olympian and captain of Great Britain's Chariots of Fire Olympic track team
• Jeffrey B. Pine '76, Attorney General of Rhode Island 1993-1999
• Amy Pope '96, White House Counterterrorism Advisor
• Stephen H. Sachs '54, lawyer; former Attorney General of Maryland; US Attorney for the District of Maryland, where he prosecuted the Catonsville Nine
• Rob Simmons '65, former Republican Congressman of Connecticut
• Russell Stetler '66, National Mitigation Coordinator for capital cases, Federal Public Defender network, based in San Francisco^[4]
• Christopher Van Hollen '47, former United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives from 1972 to 1976^[5]
• Zachary Werrell '13, campaign manager for Dave Brat's primary victory over Eric Cantor, one of the biggest upsets in American political history

Journalism

• John Carroll 1963, former executive vice president and editor of The Los Angeles Times; first Knight Visiting Lecturer at Harvard's Shorenstein Center
• David Espo 1971, AP Special Correspondent; former chief AP Congressional correspondent
• Dirck Halstead 1958, photojournalist
• Adi Ignatius 1981, Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Business Review
• Joshua Kurlantzick 1998, journalist and author, special correspondent for The New Republic
• Daniel Lathrop 1999, investigative reporter, projects data editor at The Dallas Morning News
• Allen Lewis 1940, Philadelphia Inquirer baseball writer, inductee into the writers' wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame
• Josh Mankiewicz 1977, correspondent for Dateline NBC
• Tom Masland 1972, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek international correspondent
• Felix Morley 1915, journalist and author; editor 1933-1940 of the Washington Post; winner of 1936 Pulitzer Prize for "distinguished editorial writing during the year"
• Robert Neuwirth 1981, philosophy, author of Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World
• Michael Paulson 1986, New York Times theater reporter, formerly religion reporter; was city editor (and formerly religion reporter), Boston Globe, co-winner, 2003, of Pulitzer Prize for public service, for coverage of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston; four time winner, Wilbur Award for religion writing
• Norman Pearlstine 1964, former Editor-in-Chief of Time; senior advisor at the Carlyle Group
• Dan Primack, '99, Senior editor of Fortune Magazine
• Bethlehem Shoals, founder of FreeDarko; author of The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac and The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History; editor-in-chief of The Classical
• Dennis Stern 1969, Senior Vice President, New York Times
• David Wessel 1975, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio economics correspondent
• Juan Williams 1976 Philosophy, Fox News Channel senior correspondent
• Stanley Kurtz 1975, Conservative commentator and senior fellow at Ethics and Public Policy Center

Literature and writing

• Tamar Adler '99, author of An Everlasting Meal
• Lloyd Alexander (attended ca. 1940, did not graduate), Newbery Medal-winning author
• Nicholson Baker 1979, novelist, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
• Dave Barry '69 English, Pulitzer Prize–winning humor columnist
• John Dickson Carr '29, author of detective stories; also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn
• Frank Conroy '58, author, late director of the Iowa Writers Workshop
• Robert Flynn, 1990, Editor in Chief of Getty Publications^[6]
• Roy Gutman '66, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author
• Evan Jones '49, poet, playwright, and screenwriter
• Richard Lederer '59, author known for books on wordplay and the English language
• Richard Lingeman '53, Senior Editor of The Nation; author of many books on literary, historical and linguistic topics
• Stephen W. Meader 1913, author of over forty novels for young readers
• Christopher Morley 1910, novelist, poet, essayist, Rhodes scholar
• Norman Pearlstine '64, former editor-in-chief of Time magazine; Chief Content Officer at Bloomberg L.P.
• Logan Pearsall Smith attended 1881-1884, man of letters, author of Trivia^[7]
• Lara Wozniak '90, Editor of Finance Asia; former Money Editor for Far Eastern Economic Review (Hong Kong)

Medicine

• Robert C. Bollinger '79, professor of infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and director of the Center for Clinical Global Health Education
• James Dahlberg '62, professor of biomolecular chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Thomas Dawber 1933, first director of Harvard Medical School's Framingham Heart Study, one of the most important population studies that led to the knowledge that diabetes, cholesterol and tobacco are risk factors for heart disease
• Stephen Desiderio '74, professor of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, director of Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences
• Alan Gerry, Chair of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
• William H. Harris '49, orthopedic surgery pioneer; namesake of the Harris Hip Score
• John R. Hogness '43, former dean of school of medicine and president of University of Washington; first President of the Institute of Medicine
• Thomas S. Inui '65, founder and Paul C. Carbot Professor of Harvard Medical School Ambulatory Care and Prevention Division
• Jon Kabat-Zinn '64, mindfulness meditation
• James H. McKerrow '68, Robert E. Smith Endowed Chair in Experimental Pathology, UCSF; former head of Biomedical Research Graduate Program, UCSF; practitioner and researcher
• Raymond Rocco Monto '82, orthopedic surgeon, researcher, writer; winner of the 2012 Jacques Duparc EFORT research award, President of Nantucket Cottage Hospital
• Kari Nadeau '88, allergy expert; director of the Nadeau Laboratory at Stanford University School of Medicine
• Jordan Pober '71, Professor of Immunology and Dermatology, Yale School of Medicine
• Jonathan Rhoads '28, former Chairman of Surgery at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, President of American College of Surgeons
• Robert T. Sataloff '71, MD and DMA, otolaryngologist at Drexel University College of Medicine; former Choral Director at Thomas Jefferson University; teaches at Academy of Vocal Arts and Curtis Institute of Music
• Joel Selanikio ’86 Sociology, pediatrician, epidemiologist, social entrepreneur, technologist; winner of the 2005 Haverford College award, and 2009 Lemelson-MIT award for sustainability in 2009, for his work in creating technology for global health; named by Forbes magazine in 2009 as one of nine most powerful innovators; former adviser to Tommy Thompson' former Secretary of Health and Human Services
• James Tyson 1860, Dean of University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Science

• Roger Bacon (physicist) '51 Physics, inventor of carbon fiber in 1958
• Stephen J. Lippard '62, Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry, MIT
• John F. Paulson '51 Chemistry and Physics, Harold Brown Award 1986
• Theodore William Richards class of 1885, Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 1914), first American to win a Nobel in Chemistry
• Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. '63 Physics, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1993), Dean of Faculty at Princeton University
• Philip M. Whitman class of 1937, mathematician, solved the word problem for free lattices

Social action, philanthropy, and community service

• Henry J. Cadbury 1903, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
• Steve Cary 1937, Quaker and former president of the American Friends Service Committee, Nobel laureate as representative of the AFSC for their work during World War II
• Deirdre V. Cryor 1988, President, St. Mary’s Academy (Englewood, CO) (2005–present)
• David Ellis 1958, former president of Boston Museum of Science
• David M. Felsen 1966, Headmaster, Friends' Central School (Philadelphia, PA)
• Norman Hill 1956, civil rights activist, Black labor leader
• Ta Chun Hsu 1942, former president of The Starr Foundation (1969-1999)
• Jonathan Huxtable 1993, Founding Head of School, Harford Friends School (Street, MD)
• Rufus Jones 1885, author, philosopher and founder of the American Friends Service Committee
• Tom Kessinger 1963, 1965, General Manager of the Aga Khan Foundation (1996–2014)
• Ghebre Selassie Mehreteab 1972, co-founder and CEO of NHP Foundation (1987-2009), a leading creator of affordable housing and prevention of foreclosure for low-income families
• Terence Pell 1976, President of Center for Individual Rights, a leading conservative legal advocacy organization
• Robert Schwartz 1971 (LL.D. (hon.) 2011), co-founder and executive director of Juvenile Law Center (winner of 2008 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions)
• Howard Thurman c.1930 (special student), African-American theologian and preacher, pacifist and social activist, co-founder of Fellowship of Reconciliation and of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
• Vincent Warren 1986, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights, a leading progressive legal advocacy organization

Sports and athletics

• Edward "Eddie" Andujar '79, world welterweight champion (PKA) in full-contact karate, retired 1977
• Josh Byrnes '92, senior vice president of baseball operations, San Diego Padres; former general manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks
• Thomas Glasser 1982, gold medalist in the 4x400 meter relay at the 1981 Maccabiah Games;^[8] died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
• Thad Levine '94, Assistant General Manager of the Texas Rangers
• Stuart Levitt 1963, NCAA College Division Champion in Men's Javelin, 1963; All-American; gold medalist in javelin at the Maccabiah Games, winner Penn Relays 1963
• Seamus McElligott '91, five-time national track champion; 1990 national Division III cross country champion; last Division III athlete to earn Division I All-American status
• Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker 1908, ran for Great Britain in the Olympic games in 1912, 1920 (silver medalist at 1500 meters), and 1924; team captain at the Paris games, and the team's exploits were made famous as the Chariots of Fire Olympic track team
• Karl Paranya '97, first NCAA Division III runner to run a sub-four minute mile and world record holder in the indoor 4x800 relay race
• Tony Petitti '83, President and Chief Executive Officer, MLB Network
• Ronald M. Shapiro '64, attorney and sports agent, Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler;past clients include Hall of Famers Cal Ripken, Jr., Jim Palmer, Brooks Robinson, Kirby Puckett, and Eddie Murray
• Arn Tellem '76, attorney and sports agent; clients have included Tracy McGrady, Jason Giambi, and Pau Gasol
• Dick Voith '77, All-American basketball player; economist at Econsult; adjunct professor at the Wharton Business School

Fictional alumni

• Brian Callahan, former lacrosse player in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections
• Stephen Collins, U.S. Congressman in State of Play
• Dale Cooper, FBI detective in David Lynch's Twin Peaks
• Astrid Farnsworth, FBI agent in Fringe^[9]
• Cal McCaffrey, D.C. reporter in State of Play
• Professor Gary Shepherd of the TV series thirtysomething was an untenured professor at the college.

Notable current and former faculty

• Richard J. Bernstein, Professor of Philosophy (1966–1989); author of John Dewey (1966); Dean of Graduate Studies, New School of Social Research
• Curt Cacioppo, Professor of Music; contemporary composer
• Roberto Castillo-Sandoval, Associate Professor of Spanish; Chilean author
• John Royston Coleman, President 1967-77; labor economist; author of Blue-Collar Journal; host of CBS program "Money Talks", later president of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
• William C. Davidon, professor of physics and mathematics (1961-1991); peace and justice activist
• Julio de Paula, Professor of Chemistry (1989–2005); co-author of popular textbook Physical Chemistry with Peter Atkins of Oxford; Dean of Lewis and Clark College (2005- )
• Jerry P. Gollub, Professor of Physics; member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1992, and the only member teaching at a liberal arts institution
• Elihu Grant, writer, Professor of Biblical Literature (1917-1938)
• Ruth Levy Guyer, Visiting Professor for General Studies; teaches bioethics; frequent contributor on NPR
• Elaine Tuttle Hansen, Provost of Haverford College 1995-2002; President of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine
• Dale Harper Husemoller, topologist; author of Fibre Bundles and Elliptic Curves of Springer Verlag math textbook series; studied under Lars Ahlfors
• Anita Isaacs, Benjamin Collins Professor of Social Sciences; Professor of Political Science
• Rufus Jones, professor of philosophy (1893-1934); Quaker mystic; co-founder of American Friends Service Committee
• Roger Lane, Benjamin R. Collins Research Professor in history; winner of the Bancroft Award from Columbia University and the Best Book Award from the Urban History Association
• Ariel G. Loewy, late founder of Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (1954–2000); discoverer of Factor XIII
• Lucius T. Outlaw, Professor of Philosophy (1980–2000), scholar of W. E. B. Du Bois; Director of African American Studies, Vanderbilt University (2001- )
• Harry C. Payne, Provost and Professor of European History (1985–1988); Acting President (1987–1988); President of Williams College (1994–2005)
• Ira De Augustine Reid, Professor and Chair of Sociology and Anthropology and first tenured black faculty member (1948-1966), scholar of black urban and immigrant life in the United States
• Michael Sells, Guest Professor of Comparative Religions at Haverford (1984-2005); author of Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations; Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago
• Ronald F. Thiemann, Chairman of Religion (1975–1985), Dean of Harvard Divinity School (1986–1998)
• Josiah ("Tink") Thompson, Professor of Philosophy (1965-1976); biographer and scholar of Søren Kierkegaard; expert on assassination of John F. Kennedy (author of Six Seconds in Dallas^[10]); left academia to become a private investigator in San Francisco; author of memoir Gumshoe
• Joseph A. Tolliver, Dean of Students 1998-2006; vice president of St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York
• Cornel West, Assistant Professor of Philosophy (1987–88), currently Professor of Religion at Princeton University
• Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, author and psychoanalyst, former student and biographer of Hannah Arendt

Honorary degree recipients

Haverford College invites distinguished members of society to speak at academic convocations and at commencement. There are three to four honorary degree recipients at commencement, and it is tradition that one of the recipients be a Quaker. The college awards Litt.D, Sci.D, LL.D, D.MA, D.FA, and D.H.A honoris causa.

A complete list of honorary degree recipients since 1858 is available online.^[11]

Prominent recipients include:

• 2011: Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese American former NBA basketball player and humanitarian

Bob Schwartz '71, founder of Juvenile Law Center

Judy Wicks, restaurateur and local food activist

• 2010: Bob Herbert, columnist for The New York Times
• 2008: Anna Deavere Smith, Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-nominated actress, playwright, and professor
• 2007: Ghebre Selassie Mehreteab, '72, CEO of The NHP Foundation, builder of affordable housing

Barbara Ehrenreich, columnist essayist; author, Nickel and Dimed

• 2006: Koichiro Matsuura '61, Director-General of UNESCO
• 2005: Dave Matthews, Grammy-winning lead vocalist and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band

Juan Williams '76, Emmy Award–winning writer; radio and television correspondent; senior correspondent of National Public Radio

• 2004: Jane Goodall, English primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist

Paul Krugman, economist and a columnist for The New York Times

• 2002: Bill Cosby, actor, comedian, television producer, and activist (degree rescinded in 2016)
• 2001: Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist and poet; author of Things Fall Apart
• 2000: Madeleine L'Engle, writer best known for her children's books, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time

Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist

• 1999:Daniel Schorr, broadcast journalist
• 1998: Wynton Marsalis, jazz musician
• 1993: Arthur Ashe, tennis player and humanitarian; winner of three Grand Slam titles
• 1992: Thomas L. Friedman, journalist, author, three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize
• 1991: Dave Barry '69, humorist

Catharine MacKinnon, feminist legal scholar

Freeman Dyson, physicist and mathematician

• 1989: Audre Lorde, writer, poet, and activist
• 1985: Elie Wiesel, Romania-born novelist, political activist, and Holocaust survivor; author of Night
• 1983: Paul Simon, United States Senator from Illinois
• 1982: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former South African politician who has held several government positions and headed the African National Congress' Women's League
• 1981: Rosa Parks, civil rights activist

Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, town in France that harbored thousands of Jews during the Holocaust

• 1980: John Royston Coleman, labor economist; author of Blue-Collar Journal; former president
• 1979: Tony Taylor, second baseman and coach

References

External links

• Haverford College Alumni Relations