List of Occidental College people

Here follows a list of notable people associated with Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. This list includes alumni, attendees, faculty, and presidents of the university.

Notable graduates and attendees

Business and industry

Entertainment and the arts

Terry Gilliam
Ben Affleck

Government, diplomacy, and law

Jack Kemp
Barack Obama

Higher education and academia

Journalism

Patt Morrison

Literature and writing

Medicine

Science

Social action, philanthropy, and community service

  • Howard Ahmanson, Jr (philanthropist for fundamentalist Christian causes)
  • Cameron Townsend (founder, Wycliffe Bible Translators and Summer Institute of Linguistics)
  • Rex Weyler (author, journalist, ecologist and co-founder of Greenpeace International; did not graduate)

Sports and athletics

Notable faculty

Many Occidental faculty have received awards and honors and some have held prominent positions in government and the private sector.

Some faculty are notable in recent years:

  • Larry Caldwell, Professor of Politics, has served in the Office of Soviet Analysis at the Central Intelligence Agency, as Director of European Studies at the National War College in Washington, D.C., and as Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
  • Martha Ronk, Price Professor of English Literature, is a 2005 PEN American Center Literary Award winner in poetry.
  • Derek Shearer, Stuart Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs, was U.S. Ambassador to Finland from 1994 to 1997 and was formerly an aide to Bill Clinton.
  • James Sadd, Professor of Environmental Science, is the host of Earth Revealed, a 1992 Annenberg CPB television series and college telecourse on geology.
  • Robby Moore, Elbridge Amos Stuart Professor of Economics, was the originating editor of the Teaching Tools section of Economic Inquiry.
  • Caroline Heldman is a Professor of Politics and is a political reviewer for the Associated Press. She frequently appears on national airwaves as a guest and contributor for CNN and Fox News talk shows. She co-founded the Lower Ninth Ward Living Museum in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
  • Peter Dreier, Dr. E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Department, was the Director of Housing at the Boston Redevelopment Authority and senior policy advisor to Boston Mayor Ray Flynn for nine years.[1]
Eric Garcetti
  • Eric Garcetti, former assistant professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs; currently mayor of Los Angeles
  • Juergen Pelzer, Professor of German Studies, is an expert on Brecht and Contemporary Critical Theory contributes to a variety of German newspapers, journals, and magazines, commenting on recent developments in German and European culture and politics.
  • Derek Shearer, director of the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs and Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs, is former United States Ambassador to Finland.[2]
  • Lisa Wade, Associate Professor of Sociology, is the founder of, and a key contributor to, the popular social science blog Sociological Images.

Presidents

Herrick Interfaith Center, built 1964, with Water Forms II in the foreground.
  • Samuel H. Weller (1887–1891)
  • J. Melville McPherron (1892–1894)
  • Elbert Nevius Condit (1894–1896)
  • James W. Parkhill (1896–1897)
  • Guy W. Wadsworth (1897–1905)
  • William Stewart Young (1905–1906, acting)
  • John Willis Baer (1906–1916)
  • Thomas Gregory Burt (1916–1917)
  • Silas Evans (1917–1920)
  • Thomas Gregory Burt (1920–1921, acting)
  • Remsen Bird (1921–1927)
  • Robert G. Cleland (1927–1928, acting)
  • Remsen Bird (1928–1945)
  • Arthur G. Coons (1945–1965)
  • Richard C. Gilman (1965–1988)
  • John Brooks Slaughter (1988–1999)
  • Theodore R. Mitchell (1999–2005)
  • Kenyon S. Chan (2005–2006, acting)
  • Susan Westerberg Prager (2006–2007)
  • Robert Skotheim (2008–2009)
  • Jonathan Veitch (2009–present)

References

  1. ↑ Occidental College. "Peter Dreier". Retrieved 8 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "Derek Shearer" (Archive). Occidental College. Retrieved on August 5, 2014.
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