List of Reed College people

This page lists notable alumni of American liberal arts institution, Reed College, located in Oregon's most populous city, Portland.

Alumni

Academia

Walter Berns (with First Lady Laura Bush and President George W. Bush) receiving the National Humanities Medal

• Julia Adams - sociologist; professor, Yale University
• Clarence Allen, 1949 - Professor Emeritus of Geology, California Institute of Technology
• Jon Appleton, 1961 - Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, Visiting Professor of Music at Stanford University
• John Backus, 1932 - Professor of Physics, University of Southern California
• Michael Balls, 1966 - Professor Emeritus of Biology, University of Nottingham
• Daryl Bem, 1960 - Professor of Psychology, Cornell University
• Louis T. Benezet, 1939 - President, Colorado College
• Sacvan Bercovitch (did not graduate) - Professor of American Literature, Harvard University
• Walter Berns (did not graduate) - Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
• Charles Bigelow, 1967 - Professor of Type Design and Writing, Rochester Institute of Technology
• Alan H. Borning, 1971 - Professor of Computer Science, University of Washington
• Jonathan Boyarin, 1977 - Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies; Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University
• Dorothy Brady, 1925 - former Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
• Robert A. Brady, 1923 - Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
• Robert Brenner, 1964 - Professor of History, UCLA
• Joan Bresnan, 1966 - Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University
• Robert A. Brightman, 1973 - Greenberg Professor of Native American Studies, Reed College
• Peter Child, 1975 - composer, professor of music at MIT
• Kalman J. Cohen, 1951 - Professor of Economics, Duke University
• Richard Crandall, 1969 - Professor of Physics, Reed College
• Galen Cranz, 1966 - Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley^[1]
• Ann Cvetkovich, 1980 - Associate Professor of English at University of Texas, Austin; author of several books, including An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures^[2]
• Shannon Lee Dawdy, 1988 - Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago
• Donald Engelman, 1962 - Professor of Biochemistry, Yale University
• Kai T. Erikson, 1953 - President, American Sociological Association and Professor at Yale University
• Allah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian, 1951 - Professor Emeritus of Biology, Rutgers University
• Janet Fitch, 1978 - Professor of Professional Writing, University of Southern California
• Neil Fligstein, 1973 - Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
• David Flory, 1964 - physicist; Professor of Physics, Chairman of the Physics Department, and Director of the School of Natural Sciences at Fairleigh Dickinson University
• Robert Frager, 1961 - psychologist
• David H. French, 1939 - anthropologist and linguist
• Rose Friedman, 1930 - author; wife of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman; economist in her own right; left in 1930 after her sophomore year^[3]
• Victor Friedman, 1970 - Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Balkan and Slavic Linguistics, University of Chicago
• Mason Gaffney, 1948 - economist
• Peter Gordon, 1988 - Professor of History, Harvard University
• Ted Robert Gurr, 1957 - Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
• Loyd Haberly, 1919 - Dean, Fairleigh Dickinson University
• Peter Dobkin Hall, 1968 - Hauser Lecturer on nonprofit organizations, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
• Harry Harlow (did not graduate) - Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Sally Haslanger, 1977 - Professor of Philosophy, MIT
• Carol Heimer, 1973 - Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
• David Hoggan, 1945 - controversial historian
• Dell Hymes, 1950 - anthropologist and linguist
• Maurice Isserman, 1973 - Professor of History, Hamilton College
• Herbert Jasper, 1928 - Professor of Psychology, McGill University
• Lewis Webster Jones, 1921 - President of Rutgers University
• Dale W. Jorgenson, 1955 - economist, Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University, past president of the AEA and the Econometric Society
• Don Kates, 1962 - criminologist
• Gail M. Kelly, 1955 - anthropologist
• Daniel S. Kemp, 1958 - Professor of Chemistry, MIT
• Rachel E. Klevit, 1978 - Professor of Biochemistry, University of Washington
• Paul Knoepfler, 1989, Professor UC Davis School of Medicine
• Wallace T. MacCaffrey, 1942 - scholar of Elizabethan England; chaired the Harvard University history department twice
• Eleanor Maccoby, 1939 - Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Brendan McConville, 1987 - Professor of History at Boston University
• William D. McElroy, 1939 - Chancellor, University of California, San Diego and former Director, National Science Foundation
• Dennis B. McGilvray, 1965 - Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado
• Lisa Nakamura, 1987 - Professor at the Institute of Communication Research and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Victor Nizet, 1984 - Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacy at the University of California, San Diego
• Kaori O'Connor, 1968 - Senior Research Fellow, University of London
• Arthur Ogus, 1968 - Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
• Eric T. Olson, 1986 - Professor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield; taught at Cambridge University
• Christopher Phelps, 1988 - Professor of History, University of Nottingham
• Mark Ptashne, 1961 - Professor of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Ray Raphael, 1965 - historian
• Diane Silvers Ravitch (did not graduate) - Professor of History, New York University; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
• Kenneth Raymond, 1964 - Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
• Barbara Reskin (did not graduate) - Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
• Howard Rheingold, 1968 - information lecturer, University of California, Berkeley
• Lawrence Rinder, 1983 - Dean of Graduate Studies at the California College of the Arts; former Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum
• Eleanor Rosch, 1960 - Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
• Jay Rosenberg, 1963 - Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Michael Rothschild, 1963 - economist, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University
• Stephen Shapin, 1966 - historian and sociologist of science at Harvard University; taught at the University of Edinburgh and the University of California, San Diego
• Kevan Shokat, 1986 - Professor and Chair of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at University of California, San Francisco; Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
• Robert E. Slavin, 1972 – Director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education, Johns Hopkins; cooperative learning, project Success for All
• Sydney Shoemaker, 1953 - Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University
• John Alexander Simpson, 1940 - Professor of Physics, University of Chicago and atomic scientist on the Manhattan Project
• Guy Sircello, 1958 - Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine and scholar of aesthetics
• M. Brewster Smith (did not graduate) - Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago
• John Sperling, 1948 - founder of the University of Phoenix
• Ross Starr (did not graduate) - Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
• Robert K. Thomas (did not graduate) - Academic Vice President, Brigham Young University
• Richard F. Thompson, 1953 - former Professor of Psychology, University of Southern California
• Nicolaus Tideman, 1965 - economist
• Gina G. Turrigiano, 1984 - Professor of Biology, Brandeis University
• Katherine Verdery, 1970 - Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor, Anthropology Program, City University of New York Graduate Center^[4]
• Tom Wasow, 1967 - Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at Stanford University
• Jon Westling, 1964 - President Emeritus and Professor of History at Boston University
• Richard Wolin, 1974 - Professor at City University of New York Graduate Center
• Allen W. Wood, 1964 - Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University

Government

Suzan DelBene

Richard L. Hanna

• Josiah H. Beeman V, 1958 - United States Ambassador to New Zealand
• Bud Clark, 1957 - Mayor of Portland
• Richard Danzig, 1965 - 71st Secretary of the Navy
• Suzan DelBene, 1983 - United States Representative from Washington State (D)
• Chris Garrett, 1996 - member of the Oregon Legislature
• Richard L. Hanna, 1973 - United States Representative from New York (R)
• Cordelia Hood, 1936 - Office of Strategic Services and CIA agent
• Sheldon T. Mills, 1927 - Former United States Ambassador to Afghanistan
• J. Elizabeth Mitchell, 1991 - member of the Maine Legislature
• Norman Solomon (did not graduate) - candidate for the United States House of Representatives
• Howard Wolpe, 1960 - Congressman (D-Michigan)

Science and engineering

Steve Jobs

• John Alroy, 1989 - paleobiologist
• Allen Bergin (did not graduate) - psychologist
• Arlene Blum, 1966 - mountaineer and scientist
• Theodore James Courant, 1982 - mathematician
• David B. Dusenbery, 1964 - father of sensory ecology
• Kelly Falkner, 1983 - oceanographer, Antarctic researcher
• Thomas William Ferguson, 1965 - physician
• Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, 1950 - anthropologist
• Jonathan Grudin, 1972 - computer scientist
• Steve Jobs, 1976 (attended as a freshman, did not graduate) - Apple co-founder and CEO; Pixar co-founder and CEO^[10]
• Daniel K. Kim, 2001 - transportation entrepreneur
• Daniel Kottke, 1976 - computer scientist
• Arthur H. Livermore, 1940 - biochemist
• Jayne Loader, 1973 - writer and director; produced and co-directed The Atomic Cafe
• Steven McGeady, 1980 - technologist
• Peter Norton, 1965 - creator of the Norton Utilities
• Catherine Otto, 1975 - physician
• Keith Packard, 1986 - software developer; known for his work on the X Window System
• Norman Packard, 1977 - chaos theory physicist
• Roger Perlmutter, 1973 - biotechnologist; head of Research and Development at Amgen, Inc.
• Lawrence Philips, 1976 - software engineer; developer of the Metaphone family of phonetic encoding algorithms
• Edward Ramberg (did not graduate) - physicist
• Pamela Ronald, 1982 - plant and agricultural scientist
• James Russell, 1953 - inventor of the compact disc
• Larry Sanger, 1991 - co-founder of Wikipedia
• Peter Shirley, 1985, computer scientist
• Stephen C. Sillett, 1989 - botanist
• Sumner Stone, 1967 - typeface designer
• Bruce Voeller, 1956 - biologist
• C. Howard Vollum, 1936 - founder of Tektronix; inventor of the edge-triggered oscilloscope

Faculty

• William J. Connell - historian
• Paul Douglas - US Senator from Illinois
• David J. Griffiths - physicist
• Daniel Reisberg - psychology

References