List of Carleton College people
Many notable people have been associated with Carleton College, located in Northfield, Minnesota.
Notable alumni
Academia
- Lila Abu-Lughod, 1974, author, scholar and expert on the Arab world
- Anthony Downs, 1952, author of An Economic Theory of Democracy, senior fellow at the Brookings Institute
- Buell G. Gallagher, 1925, President of Talladega College; President of City College of New York
- Susan Hekman, 1971, professor of political science and director of the graduate humanities program at the University of Texas at Arlington
- John Lavine, 1963, Dean of Medill School of Journalism
- Alfred R. Lindesmith, 1927, professor of sociology at Indiana University known for contributions to the study of drug addiction
- Dennis Meadows, 1964, co-author of The Limits to Growth
- Donella Meadows, 1963, lead author of The Limits to Growth
- Thomas Mengler, 1975, President of St. Mary's University (Texas), former Dean of Law at University of St. Thomas and former dean of the University of Illinois College of Law
- William G. Moseley, 1987, writer and professor of geography
- Robert Paarlberg, 1967, professor of political science at Wellesley College, researcher of international agricultural and environmental policy
- Katherine Rowe, 1984, first female President of The College of William & Mary
- Laura Ruetsche, 1987, chair of the philosophy department at the University of Michigan
- Jay Rubenstein, 1989, historian, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship
- Stephen Thorsett, 1987, President of Willamette University, physicist, astronomer, former dean of UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical and Biological Sciences
- Thorstein Veblen, 1880, economist and author of The Theory of the Leisure Class
Arts
- Jack Carson, 1932, actor, star of many films including Mildred Pierce, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Star Is Born
- Lincoln Child, 1979, New York Times Bestselling author of techno-thrillers
- Jimmy Chin, 1996, National Geographic photographer, documentary filmmaker, and mountain climber
- Masanori Mark Christianson, 1998, musician/creative director, former member of indie band Rogue Wave
- Bob Daily, 1986, television producer and screenwriter for Desperate Housewives, Frasier, and Superior Donuts
- Pamela Dean, 1975, fantasy writer
- Brian Freeman, 1984, suspense fiction author
- Piotr Gajewski, 1981 founder, director and artistic director of the National Philharmonic Orchestra[1]
- Robert Gottschalk, 1939, Academy Award winner and founder of Panavision
- Peter Gwinn, 1993, writer for The Colbert Report
- Jane Hamilton, 1979, novelist and winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, author of The Book of Ruth
- Hal Higdon, 1953, runner and writer
- Christopher Kratt, 1992, TV and film producer, host of Zoboomafoo and Wild Kratts
- Grace Llewellyn, 1986, author of The Teenage Liberation Handbook
- James Loewen, 1964, historian and author of Lies My Teacher Told Me
- Erica Lord, 2001, artist
- Chris Martin, 2000, poet
- Ted Mathys, 2001, poet
- Zach McGowan, 2002, actor, roles in television shows including Black Sails and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Beverly Naidus, 1975, artist
- Barrie M. Osborne, 1966, producer of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy
- Parker Palmer, 1961, author, founder of the Center for Courage & Renewal
- T.J. Stiles, 1986, non-fiction writer, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for Biography in 2010 and for History in 2016
- Peter Tork, of The Monkees, was a student at Carleton from 1960 to 1963 (then known as Peter Thorkelson)
- Laura Veirs, 1997, singer-songwriter, member of supergroup case/lang/veirs
- Wendy West, 1994, American television producer and Emmy award nominated writer of the Showtime drama, Dexter
- Patricia Collins Wrede, 1974, fantasy writer, author of The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
- Karen Tei Yamashita, 1973, novelist, author of I Hotel and Tropic of Orange
- Kao Kalia Yang, 2003, Hmong American writer and author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir and The Song Poet
Journalism
- Kai Bird, 1973, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and journalist
- Jonathan Capehart, 1989, journalist, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
- Maya Dusenbery, 2008, executive director of the feminist blog, Feministing
- Jack El-Hai, 1979, writer and journalist[2]
- Michael Gartner, 1960, journalist, former president of NBC news, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
- Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, 1992, James Beard Award-winning food writer[3]
- John F. Harris, 1985, editor-in-chief of Politico
- Clara Jeffery, 1989, editor of Mother Jones magazine
- Margaret Manton Merrill, 1873, journalist
- Peter Schjeldahl, 1965, art critic for The New Yorker
- Garrick Utley, 1961, journalist, former host of Meet the Press
Business
- Arnold W. Donald, 1976, CEO of Carnival Corporation & plc cruise company
- Robert K. Greenleaf, 1926, corporate management expert, founder of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership
Politics and Government
- Chude Pam Allen, 1965, activist, Freedom Summer participant and involved in the women's liberation movement
- Michael Armacost, 1958, former Under Secretary of State (Policy); former ambassador to Japan and the Philippines; President of the Brookings Institution from 1995 to 2002; and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Carleton from 2004 to 2008
- Jack Barnes, 1961, the leader of the Socialist Workers Party
- Duane C. Butcher, 1987, U.S. chargé d'affaires in Romania from 2012 to 2014, and in Uzbekistan from 2010 to 2011
- John A. Gale, 1962, Secretary of State of Nebraska since 2000
- Susan Golding, 1966, two-term mayor of San Diego
- Rush Holt, Jr., 1970, U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 12th congressional district from 1999 to 2015; CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and executive publisher of the Science family of journals since 2015
- Eleanor Kinnaird, 1953, North Carolina State Senator
- Warren P. Knowles, 1930, governor of Wisconsin from 1965 to 1971
- Jimmy Kolker, 1970, former ambassador to Burkina Faso and Uganda, former chief of HIV/AIDs section at UNICEF, currently Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Melvin R. Laird, 1942, President Nixon's Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973
- Todd Larson, 1983, LGBT activist, served on the board of directors of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission from 2007 to 2013
- Jack Lew, United States Secretary of the Treasury and 25th White House Chief of Staff; transferred to Harvard College after his freshman year
- Fue Lee, 2013, Hmong-American politician, Minnesota House of Representatives from 2016
- Ernest Lundeen, 1901, Minnesota politician; U.S. Representative 1917-1919 and 1933-1937; U.S. Senator from 1937 until his death in 1940
- Karl E. Mundt, 1923, U.S. Representative 1938-1948; U.S. Senator 1948-1973 for South Dakota
- Tom Nelson, 1998, former Wisconsin State Representative and Assembly Majority Leader
- John C. Raines, 1955, professor at Temple University, activist who broke into an F.B.I. office and exposed abuses of power
- Paul Tewes, 1993, Democratic political consultant
- Sheldon B. Vance, 1939, U.S. Ambassador to Zaire from 1969 to 1974
- Robert Settje, 1976, U.S. Consul General to Bermuda from 2012-15
Law
- Pierce Butler, 1887, Supreme Court Justice from 1923 to 1939
- Ben C. Duniway, 1928, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Audrey Fleissig, 1976, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
- Elizabeth L. Gleicher, 1976, judge on the Michigan Court of Appeals[4]
- Herbert Goodrich, 1911, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Director of the American Law Institute, Chair of the drafting committee of the Uniform Commercial Code
- Brenda Sannes, 1980, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York
- Cordenio Severance, 1880, former President of the American Bar Association
- Stephen Six, 1988, Kansas Attorney General from 2008 to 2011
Science
- Walter Alvarez, 1962, geologist credited with the theory that an asteroid impact was the likely cause of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event
- Ann T. Bowling, 1965, a leading geneticist on the study of horses, one of the leaders of the horse genome project
- Kinsey Anderson, 1949, pioneer space physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Barbara Fredrickson, 1986, social psychologist studying emotions and positive psychology at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- Alan Gelperin, 1962, professor at Princeton University, specializes in olfaction, known for electronic scent detection and identification
- Todd Golub, 1985, professor of pediatrics at Harvard, known for applying the tools of genomics to study cancer
- Robert Edward Gross, 1927, highly distinguished surgeon and one of the pioneers of cardiac surgery
- James V. Haxby, 1973, neuroscientist known for face perception, Director of the Dartmouth Brain Imaging Center at Dartmouth College
- Mary-Claire King, 1967, human geneticist, discoverer of BRCA1
- Yvonne Connolly Martin, 1958, expert in the field of cheminfomatics
- Eric Pianka, 1960, biologist, herpetologist and well-known evolutionary ecologist known as "the Lizard Man;" pioneered work on r/K selection theory
- Peter H. Schultz, 1966, Brown University geology professor; co-investigator to the NASA Science Mission Directorate spacecraft Deep Impact; awarded the Barringer Medal of the Meteoritical Society in 2004
- Christine Siddoway, 1984, geologist and Antarctic researcher
- Simine Vazire, 2000, psychologist at the University of California, Davis with research in self-perception and self-knowledge
- Ray Wendland, 1933, experimental petrochemist and academic
- Sidney Wolff, 1962, astrophysicist, first woman to be named director of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and the first director of the Gemini Project
- Anne Sewell Young, 1892, astronomy professor at Mt. Holyoke College and founding member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers
Other
- Kirbyjon Caldwell, 1975, pastor of the Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas; spiritual advisor to Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama
- Osborne Cowles, 1922, athlete and coach for Carleton; basketball head coach at University of Minnesota, Michigan and Dartmouth
- Jane Elizabeth Hodgson, 1934, physician; Founding Fellow of American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; pioneer in women's reproductive health; abortion rights advocate
- Anthony Myint, 1999, restaurateur, founder of Mission Street Food, Mission Chinese Food and Commonwealth in San Francisco; author of Mission Street Food
- Margaret Towner, 1948, religious leader, first woman minister to be ordained by the northern branch of the American Presbyterian Church
Fictional
- Ben Wyatt, a likable yet neurotic government worker played by Adam Scott on the television series Parks and Recreation, is revealed to be a Carleton alumnus in a season six episode. He had previously been shown wearing a fictionalized Carleton College Intramural Champions tee-shirt.
Notable faculty
- Ian Barbour, professor of religion; 1989–91 Gifford Lecturer on religion and science; winner of the 1999 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion
- H. Scott Bierman, professor of economics, department chair, academic dean; game theory expert; President of Beloit College 2009–present
- David Bryn-Jones, biographer of U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg; taught history, economics, and international relations at Carleton from 1920 to 1951
- John Bates Clark, economist; taught Thorstein Veblen
- Frank Daniel, Czech born writer, producer, director, and teacher; developer of the sequence paradigm of screenwriting
- Laurence McKinley Gould, second-in-command to Richard E. Byrd on his first landmark expedition to Antarctica; professor of geology; Carleton College President from 1945-1962
- Roy Grow, former Kellogg Professor of International Relations and director of International Relations; former military interpreter; expert on Asia
- Deanna Haunsperger, President of the Mathematical Association of America
- Ian Holbourn, writer; Laird of Foula; instrumental in creating the art department[5]
- Gao Hong, composer and performer of Chinese music, among the world's top pipa players[6][7]
- Burton Levin, former United States Consul General to Hong Kong and US Ambassador to Burma 1987-1990; currently the SIT Investment Visiting Professor of Asian Policy
- Louis E. Newman, John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus
- Gregory Blake Smith, novelist and short story writer; Lloyd P. Johnson Norwest Professor of English and the Liberal Arts
- Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1991 until his death in 2002; professor of political science from 1969 to 1990
- Reed Whittemore, professor of English; poet; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1964 and 1984
Presidents of the College
- James Woodward Strong, 1870–1903
- William Henry Sallmon, 1903–1908
- Donald Cowling, 1909–1945
- Laurence McKinley Gould, 1945–1962
- John Nason, 1962–1970
- Howard R. Swearer, 1970–1977
- Robert Edwards, 1977–1986
- David H. Porter, 1986–1987
- Stephen R. Lewis Jr., 1987–2002
- Robert A. Oden Jr., 2002–2010[8]
- Steven G. Poskanzer, 2010–present[9]
References
- ↑ "2010-2011 Concert Season". National Philharmonic. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
- ↑ Douglas Beck's interview with Jack El-Hai at SpeechPathology.com
- ↑ Minnesota Monthly's profile of Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, 19 December 2007
- ↑ Michigan Appeals Reports: Cases Decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals, Vol. 276, pp. ix–x. Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company
- ↑ The Lusitania Resource
- ↑ McNamee, David (2009-04-20). "Hey, what's that sound: Pipa". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
- ↑ "Pipa prodigy - Minnesota Women's Press". www.womenspress.com. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
- ↑ "Carleton College Board of Trustees Names Steven G. Poskanzer Next President". Carleton College. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
- ↑ "History of the President's Office". Carleton College. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
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