List of Claremont Graduate University people
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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates These are lists of persons (students, alumni, faculty or academic affiliates) associated with the Claremont Graduate University in California, United States. With over 23,000 alumni,[1] people listed here are CGU distinguished alumni award recipients, distinguished alumni service award recipients, and members of the alumni hall of fame, among others.
Notable faculty and staff
Humanities
- Douglass Adair - American historian and historiographer
- Richard Armour - poet and author who wrote over 65 books
- John Lemmon - logician and philosopher
- Leonard Levy - Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor of Humanities and Chairman of the Graduate Faculty of History
- Michael S. Roth - Arts & Humanities; historian, author, curator; 16th president of Wesleyan University; 8th president of California College of the Arts
Social sciences
- Alfred Balitzer - professor of government
- Eric Helland - professor at Claremont McKenna College and CGU; Senior Economist, Institute for Civil Justice, RAND Corporation
- Alan Heslop - academic and government consultant
- Charles R. Kesler - professor of government/political science at Claremont McKenna College and CGU; editor of the Claremont Review of Books
- Jacek Kugler - world politics scholar, past President of International Studies Association, and Peace Science Society
- Hilton Root - academic and policy specialist in international political economy and development
- Michael Uhlmann - assistant attorney general in the Gerald Ford administration as well as special assistant to the President during Ronald Reagan’s first term in office
- Paul J. Zak - center for Neuroeconomics Studies
Behavioral and organizational sciences
- Dale Berger - cognitive psychologist and research methodologist
- William Crano - fellow of the American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - psychology professor who is noted for work in the study of happiness, creativity, and as the architect of the notion of "flow"
- Stewart Donaldson - distinguished university professor known for his work on evaluation science and positive organizational psychology
- Michael Hogg - social psychologist
- Kathy Pezdek - cognitive psychologist specializing in the study of eyewitness memory
- Michael Scriven - past president of the American Educational Research Association and the American Evaluation Association
- Allan Wicker - recognized for contributions to ecological psychology and the attitude-behavior relationship
Business and management
- Peter Drucker - widely influential thinker and writer on management theory and practice; self-described "social ecologist"
- Ira Jackson - dean of Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management
- Roger Johnson - businessman and government official
- Jean Lipman-Blumen - professor of public policy and professor of organizational behavior
- Ikujiro Nonaka - influential person on business thinking, known for his study of knowledge management
Mathematics and information
- Paul Gray - School of Information Systems and Technology (Emeritus)
- William J. LeVeque - mathematician and administrator; executive director of the American Mathematical Society
Health and sciences
- Sherwin Carlquist - botanist and photographer
- Robert Folger Thorne - botanist
Arts
- Peter Boyer - composer, conductor, and professor of music
- Roger Edward Kuntz - landscape painter; member of the Claremont Group of painters
- Suzanne Muchnic - art critic, journalist, writer
- David Pagel - art critic
Religion
- Richard Bushman - visiting professor in Mormon studies
- Ingolf Ulrich Dalferth - philosopher of religion and theologian
- Jane Dempsey Douglass - feminist theologian and ecclesiastical historian; president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
- John Hick - philosopher of religion and theologian
- Jack Miles - author; winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship
- Dewi Zephaniah Phillips - philosopher of religion
- Rosemary Radford Ruether - feminist scholar and theologian
- Deepak Shimkhada - adjunct professor, Board of Visitors of School of Religion
Notable alumni
Government, politics, and international organizations
- Michael Anton (MA) - lecturer and research fellow at Hillsdale College, senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, and former Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications on the United States National Security Council
- Stephen Cambone (Ph.D. 1982) - first U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
- Tom Cotton (master's degree program) - United States Senator and Congressman from Arkansas[2]
- David Dreier (MA 1976) - Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives 1981–2013; Chairman of the House Rules Committee 1999–2007 and 2011–2013
- Jonathan D. Farrar (MA) - Chief of Mission of the United States Interests Section in Havana, Cuba
- Kenneth J. Hagan (Ph.D. 1970) - naval historian
- Steven F. Hayward (MA/Ph.D.) - author, political commentator, AEI policy scholar
- Teresa Patterson Hughes (Ph.D. 1973) - professor of education at California State University, Los Angeles; California State Assembly Member (1975–1992); California State Senator (1993–2000)[3]
- Susan M. Leeson (Ph.D. 1971) - Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
- Ronald F. Lehman (Ph.D. 1975) - director of the Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; Department of State's U.S. Chief Negotiator on (START I); and Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
- Mary Parker Lewis (MA) - political consultant
- Philippe Maystadt (MA 1973) - former Belgian Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister of Finance, and Deputy Prime Minister as well as current President of European Investment Bank, Luxembourg, Belgium
- Paul O'Neill (MA 1961) - United States Secretary of the Treasury; chairman of the RAND Corporation
- Susan Orr (Ph.D. 1992) - head of the Office of Population Affairs and United States Children's Bureau
- Verne Orr (Ph.D. 2005) - 14th Secretary of the Air Force
- Robert R. Reilly (MA 1978) - former director, Voice of America[4]
- Peter W. Schramm (Ph.D. 1981) - professor of political science; executive director of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs
- Jack Scott (Ph.D. 1970) - California State Senator; chancellor, California Community Colleges
- Kermit Staggers (Ph.D. 1986) - professor of history, University of Sioux Falls; South Dakota Senator and Sioux Falls City Councilman
- Srettha Thavisin (MBA) - 30th Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand
- Michael Uhlmann (Ph.D. 1978) - visiting professor of government in the department of politics and policy at Claremont Graduate University and Claremont McKenna College; assistant attorney general in the Gerald Ford administration; special assistant to President Ronald Reagan
- Jerry Voorhis (MA) - Democratic US House of Representatives from California
- Diane Watson (Ph.D. 1988) - Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives 2001–2011
- Abdulla Yameen - president of The Maldives, elected in 2013
Academia and science
- William Barclay Allen (MA 1968/Ph.D. 1972) - political scientist at Michigan State University
- Joyce Appleby (Ph.D. 1966) - historian at UCLA; President of the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association
- Larry P. Arnn (MA 1976/Ph.D. 1985) - educator and writer; 12th and current president of Hillsdale College
- José Aybar (Ph.D. 1978) - president of Richard J. Daley College
- Sacvan Bercovitch (Ph.D. 1965) - Americanist, literary and cultural critic; Powell M. Cabot Research Professor at Harvard University; visiting faculty member at the School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College
- Elizabeth Castelli (MA 1986/Ph.D. 1987) - professor of religion, Barnard College
- Angelo Codevilla (Ph.D. 1973) - Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
- Nicholas Cummings (MA) - psychologist and former president of the American Psychological Association
- Jack Cuzick (Ph.D. 1974) - John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at the Wolfson Institute, Queen Mary University of London
- Stewart Donaldson (Ph.D. 1991) - distinguished university professor known for his work on evaluation science and positive organizational psychology; executive director of the Claremont Evaluation Center and the Evaluators' Institute (TEI), and past president of the American Evaluation Association
- Jacqueline Powers Doud (Ph.D. 1976) - president of Mount St. Mary's College
- John C. Eastman (Ph.D.) - politician; former professor and dean at Chapman University School of Law; staff member at the Claremont Institute; former law clerk to Clarence Thomas; attorney for Donald Trump during his attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election
- Irene Eber (Ph.D.1966) - sinologist and historian, Louis Frieberg Professor of East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- David H. French (MA 1940) - anthropologist and linguist
- Edmond Haddad (Ph.D. 1982) - president, Middle East University in Beirut, Lebanon[5]
- Arthur Janov (Ph.D.) - psychologist, psychotherapist, and the creator of primal therapy
- Robert Erwin Johnson (Ph.D. 1956) - professor of history and considered "one of the finest scholars of the nineteenth century U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard"
- David Keirsey (Ph.D. 1967) - psychologist
- Robert E. Kennedy (Ph.D.) - president of California Polytechnic State University
- Christopher Manfredi (Ph.D. 1987) - dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal[6]
- Warren Montag (MA 1981/Ph.D. 1989) - Brown Family Professor in Literature and English, Occidental College
- Milton C. Moreland (MA/Ph.D.) - archaeologist and president of Centre College
- Vincent Phillip Muñoz (Ph.D. 2001) - associate professor, Political Science, University of Notre Dame[7]
- Franklin Patterson (Ph.D. 1955) - first president of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts
- Tomas J. Philipson (MA 1985) - Daniel Levin Chair in Public Policy at the University of Chicago
- Kathleen Ross (Ph.D.) - founding president of Heritage University
- Jem Spectar (MA/Ph.D.) - president of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
- Laurence Thompson (MA 1947) - USC professor of East Asian/Taiwanese languages and cultures
- William Van Cleave (MA 1965/Ph.D. 1967) - advisor to President Ronald Reagan, Department of Defense, and Department of State; founder of the program of Defense and Strategic Studies at University of Southern California and Missouri State University
- Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran (Ph.D. 1977) - president of Kalamazoo College
- Donald Yacovone (Ph.D. 1984) - historian and research manager at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, and an associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University
Business and industry
- Min-Shun "Diana" Chen (MBA 1997) - chairperson/CEO, Taipei World Financial Center (Taipei 101)
- Rajiv Dutta (MBA 1982) - president of Skype and PayPal
- Nabeel Gareeb (MS) - former CEO of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.; sixth highest paid CEO in 2007 (with a salary of $79.6 million)
- Sandy Lerner (MA 1977) - co-founder, Cisco Systems; founder, Urban Decay Cosmetics
Fine arts
- Lisa Adams (MFA 1980) - painter
- Bas Jan Ader (MA 1967) - Dutch conceptual artist, filmmaker, performance artist, and photographer
- Lewis Baltz (MA 1971) - visual artist; Professor for Photography at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland
- Bennett Bean (MA 1966) - ceramic artist
- Karl Benjamin (MA 1960) - painter of vibrant geometric abstractions
- Greg Colson (MFA 1980) - artist best known for wall sculptures constructed of salvaged materials
- Kim Dingle (MFA 1990) - contemporary artist working in paint, sculpture and installation
- John Frame (MFA 1980) - sculptor, photographer, composer and filmmaker
- William Hemmerdinger (MFA 1975/Ph.D.) - artist, writer, gallery owner, educator
- Ferne Jacobs (MFA) - fiber artist and basket-maker
- Adele Y. Schonbrun (MFA 1965) - ceramic artist
- James Strombotne (MA 1959) - painter
- James Turrell (MA 1973) - installation artist primarily concerned with light and space
- Claire Van Vliet (MA) - fine artist, illustrator and typographer
Literature and performing arts
- Luis Aguilar-Monsalve (MA) - author and professor
- Ashleigh Brilliant (MA 1958) - author and syndicated cartoonist
- Ian Fowles (MA 2008) - musician and author
- Daniel Lewis (MA 1951) - orchestral conductor and pedagogue; professor emeritus at University of Southern California
- Suzanne Muchnic (MFA 1963) - art critic and art writer for the Los Angeles Times; lecturer on art history and criticism at CGU and University of Southern California[8]
- Edith Pattou (MA 1979) - author
- Rachel Pollack (MA) - science fiction author; comic book writer; expert on divinatory tarot
- Benjamin Saltman (Ph.D. 1967) - poet, professor of verse writing and contemporary American literature
- Michael Shermer (Ph.D. 1991) - founding publisher of Skeptic magazine; monthly columnist for Scientific American; author of Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, and Why People Believe Weird Things
- Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (MA/Ph.D.) - author, military historian and illustrator
- Steven D. Strauss (MPP) - author, columnist, and lawyer
Religion
- Bhikkhu Bodhi (Ph.D. 1972) (civilian name Jeffrey Block) - Buddhist monk, translator of important works in the Pāli Canon, president and editor of Buddhist Publication Society, chairman of the Yin Sun Foundation, chairperson of Buddhist Global Relief
- Craig A. Evans (MA/Ph.D.) - theologian, Acadia Divinity College
- David Ray Griffin (Ph.D. 1970) - professor of philosophy of religion and theology
- Nancy R. Howell (MA/Ph.D.) - professor of theology and philosophy of religion
- Marvin Meyer (Ph.D. 1979) - Griset Professor of Bible and Christian studies, Chapman University
- George F. Regas (Ph.D. 1972) - rector emeritus, All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena, California
- Deepak Shimkhada - adjunct professor, Board of Visitors of School of Religion
Others
- Bomani Jones (MA 2006) - sports writer and commentator for ESPN Radio's The Right Time
- Carol Baker Tharp (Ph.D. 2003) - general manager and former executive director
- John G. West (Ph.D. 1992) - senior fellow at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute; Associate Director and Vice President for Public Policy and Legal Affairs of its Center for Science and Culture
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