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This page lists prominent, famous, and notable alumni of Reed College, an American institution of liberal arts and sciences, located in Portland, Oregon, along with their past and present positions. In addition to famous Reed College graduates, it also includes some famous Reedies who did not graduate.

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Alumni

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Academia

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Name Year/degree Notability
Julia Adams 1980 Margaret H. Marshall Professor of Sociology at Yale University
Jon Appleton 1961 Composer; Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, Visiting Professor of Music at Stanford University
Karl W. Aschenbrenner 1934 Philosopher; professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley
Louis T. Benezet M.A. 1939 President of Allegheny College, Colorado College, the Claremont Graduate University, and the State University of New York at Albany
Sacvan Bercovitch N/A (Did not graduate) Writer and cultural critic; Professor of American Literature, Harvard University
Walter Berns N/A (Did not graduate) Professor of political philosophy and constitutional law at Yale University, and Cornell University; Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; recipient of the National Humanities Medal in 2005
Charles Bigelow 1967 American type designer and historian; Professor of Type Design and Writing, Rochester Institute of Technology
Jonathan Boyarin 1977 Anthropologist; Thomas and Diann Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Departments of Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University
Robert Brenner 1964 Marxist economic historian; Professor of History, UCLA; director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History
Joan Bresnan 1966 Linguist; architect of lexical functional grammar; Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities Emerita at Stanford University
Robert A. Brightman 1973 Anthropologist; Greenberg Professor of Native American Studies, Reed College
Richard Cellarius 1958 Emeritus Member of the Faculty, The Evergreen State College; former Assistant Professor, The University of Michigan
Peter Child 1975 American composer, teacher, and musical analyst; Professor of Music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and composer in residence with the New England Philharmonic
Jessica Coon 2004 Linguistics Professor at McGill University, Canada Research Chair in syntax and indigenous languages
Galen Cranz 1966 Professor Emerita of Architecture at the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley
Ann Cvetkovich 1980 Professor in the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton University; Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
Shannon Lee Dawdy 1988 Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Kai T. Erikson 1953 President, American Sociological Association and Professor at Yale University
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea 1950 Anthropologist and filmmaker; chairwoman of the Woman's Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin[1]
Janet Fitch 1978 Writer and professor of writing at the University of Southern California and Pomona College
Neil Fligstein 1973 Sociologist; Class of 1939 Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Berkeley
David H. French 1939 Anthropologist and linguist
Victor Friedman 1970 Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Balkan and Slavic Linguistics, University of Chicago
David Grusky 1980 Sociologist; Barbara Kimball Browning Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University
Peter Gordon 1988 Intellectual historian; Amabel B. James Professor of History at Harvard University
Ted Robert Gurr 1957 Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University and Distinguished University Professor emeritus at the University of Maryland
Loyd Haberly 1919 Poet; Dean, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Peter Dobkin Hall 1968 Professor of History and Theory in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, City University of New York, and Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Carol Heimer 1973 Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
David Hoggan 1945 Historian; professor at the University of Munich, San Francisco State College, the University of California at Berkeley, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Carthage College; known for promotion of Holocaust denial
Dell Hymes 1950 Anthropologist and linguist; Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education; president of the American Folklore Society, the Linguistic Society of America, the American Anthropological Association
Maurice Isserman 1973 Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, Hamilton College
Don Kates 1962 Criminologist and lawyer
Gail M. Kelly 1955 Anthropologist, professor emerita at Reed College
Wallace T. MacCaffrey 1942 Historian of Elizabethan England; chaired the Harvard University history department twice
Brendan McConville 1987 Historian of early America; Professor of History at Boston University
William D. McElroy 1939 Biochemist; Chancellor, University of California, San Diego; former Director, National Science Foundation; president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Dennis B. McGilvray 1965 Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder
Lisa Nakamura 1987 Coordinator of Digital Studies and the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Christopher Newfield 1980 Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Kaori O'Connor 1968 Anthropologist
Christopher Phelps 1988 Political and intellectual historian; professor of History, University of Nottingham
Ray Raphael 1965 Historian
Diane Silvers Ravitch N/A (Did not graduate) Historian and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education; Professor of History, New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Barbara Reskin N/A (Did not graduate) S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington
Lawrence Rinder 1983 Dean of Graduate Studies at the California College of the Arts; former Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum
Stephen Shapin 1966 Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University; winner of the 2014 George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society
Robert E. Slavin 1972 Psychologist; Director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education, Johns Hopkins University; cooperative learning, project Success for All
George Steinmetz 1980 Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan
Robert K. Thomas N/A (Did not graduate) Literary critic; professor of English and academic Vice President, Brigham Young University
Katherine Verdery 1970 Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor, Anthropology Program, City University of New York Graduate Center[2]
Jon Westling 1964 President Emeritus and Professor of History at Boston University
Richard Wolin 1974 Intellectual historian; Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center

Economics

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Dale W. Jorgenson, Reed College class of 1955
Walter Berns (with First Lady Laura Bush and President George W. Bush) receiving the National Humanities Medal
Name Year/degree Notability
Yoram Bauman 1995 Economist and stand-up comedian
Dorothy Brady 1925 Economist and mathematician; Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Robert A. Brady 1923 Chief of the Standards Division, Consumers Advisory Board, National Recovery Administration, and member of the National Resources Planning Board during the New Deal; a founder of the Consumers Union; Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Kalman J. Cohen 1951 Professor of Economics, Duke University
Rose Friedman N/A (Did not graduate, left in 1930 after her sophomore year[3]) Economist and author; wife of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman
Mason Gaffney 1948 Economist; critic of neoclassical economics; director of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation; professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles and Riverside
John V. Krutilla 1949 Economist; known for developing the concept of existence value; winner of the 1990 Volvo Environment Prize in 1990.
Dale W. Jorgenson 1955 Economist; professor at Harvard University; past president of the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society; chairman of Section 54, Economic Sciences, of the National Academy of Sciences; winner of the AEA's John Bates Clark Medal in 1971
Michael Rothschild 1963 William Stuart Tod Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University; known for introducing the concept of the mean-preserving spread with co-author Joseph Stiglitz
Ross Starr N/A (Did not graduate) Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Nicolaus Tideman 1965 Senior Staff Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors; professor of economics at Virginia Tech, Harvard Kennedy School, University of Buckingham, and the American Institute for Economic Research; developed the ranked-pairs voting system
Lewis Webster Jones 1921 Economist for the League of Nations; President of Bennington College, the University of Arkansas, and of Rutgers University

Philosophy

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Name Year/degree Notability
Sally Haslanger 1977 Ford Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2015 Spinoza Chair of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam; recipient of the American Philosophical Association's 2014 Joseph B. Gittler Award
Lisa Kemmerer 1988 Author and professor of philosophy and religion at Montana State University Billings
Eric T. Olson 1986 Professor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield; taught at Cambridge University
Jay Rosenberg 1963 Taylor Grandy Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sydney Shoemaker 1953 Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University
Guy Sircello 1953 Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine and scholar of aesthetics
Allen W. Wood 1964 Professor of philosophy at Cornell University, Yale University, and Stanford University; Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor emeritus, Indiana University
Tom Wasow 1967 Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, at Stanford University; co-founder of the Center for the Study of Language and Information

Psychology and Neuroscience

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Name Year/degree Notability
Athena Aktipis 2002 American psychologist, director of the Human Generosity Project at Arizona State University
Daryl Bem 1960 Social psychologist and professor emeritus at Cornell University.
Allen Bergin N/A (Did not graduate) clinical psychologist known for his research on psychotherapy outcomes and the integration of psychotherapy and religion.
Jeanne Block 1947 Developmental psychologist, professor at Stanford University.
Robert Frager 1961 Social psychologist, founder of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
M. Brewster Smith 1939 (Did not graduate) Professor of psychology, University of Chicago, past president of the American Psychological Association who testified against segregation in schools as an expert witness in the Brown v. Board of Education case.
Harry Harlow N/A (Did not graduate) Professor of psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, president of the American Psychological Association.
Herbert Jasper 1928 Professor of psychology, McGill University.
Eleanor Maccoby N/A (Did not graduate) Professor of psychology, Stanford University, member of the National Academy of Sciences, most recognized for scholarly contributions to the fields of gender studies and developmental psychology.
Roberto Malinow 1979 Shiley Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research at the University of California, San Diego
Eleanor Rosch 1960 Professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley; primarily known for her work on categorization, and influence on the field of cognitive psychology.
Mary K. Rothbart 1962 Educational and developmental psychologist, professor at University of Oregon
Paul H. Taghert 1975 American chronobiologist, and professor of neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis.
Richard F. Thompson 1953 American behavioral neuroscientist, William M. Keck Professor of Psychology and Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California.
Gina G. Turrigiano 1984 American neuroscientist, and is the Levitan Chair of Vision Science at Brandeis University.
Cyma Van Petten 1981 American cognitive neuroscientist, known for electrophysiological studies on language, memory, and cognition. Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Biology and Chemistry

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Name Year/date Notability
John Alroy 1989 paleobiologist
Michael Balls 1966 British zoologist and professor, University of Nottingham
Alison Butler 1977 Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Arlene Blum 1966 Chemist and mountaineer
James Emory Eckenwalder 1971 Canadian botanist.
Donald Engelman 1962 Biochemist, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry at Yale University
R. Kip Guy 1990 American pharmaceutical chemist, dean of the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy.
Anne Hiltner 1963 American polymer scientist at Case Western Reserve University.
Daniel S. Kemp 1958 American organic chemist, emeritus professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Rachel E. Klevit 1978 Edmond H. Fischer-Washington Research Foundation Endowed Chair in Biochemistry at the University of Washington
Paul Knoepfler 1989 American biologist, writer, and blogger. He is a professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, the Genome Center, and the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine.
Arthur H. Livermore 1940 American science educator.
Patricia Quinn 1982 Atmospheric Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Fellow of the American Geophysical Union; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Victor Nizet 1984 Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacy at the University of California, San Diego
Mary Jo Ondrechen 1974 Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Northeastern University
Roger Perlmutter 1973 Biotechnologist; head of Research and Development at Amgen, Inc., former executive vice president of Merck & Co.
Mark Ptashne 1961 Molecular Biologist, Ludwig Chair of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center
Kenneth Raymond 1964 Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Kevan Shokat 1986 Professor and Chair of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at University of California, San Francisco; Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
Stephen C. Sillett 1989 Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology for the Department of Biological Sciences at Humboldt State University.
Allah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian 1951 Son of nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma, biologist at Rutgers University and Princeton University
Bruce Voeller 1956 Biologist, AIDS researcher, gay-rights activist; coined the term AIDS

Science, Mathematics, Computing, and Engineering

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Arts and Entertainment

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Business

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Food and Drink

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Government

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Suzan DelBene
Richard L. Hanna

Law

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Literature

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Journalism and Media

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Inventors and Innovators

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Steve Jobs

Other

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Fictional alumni

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Faculty

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Administration

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References

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  1. ^ "Elizabeth Janet Warnock Fernea '49". Reed Magazine | In Memoriam. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
  2. ^ "Katherine Verdery Appointed to the Graduate Center". www.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
  3. ^ Friedman, Milton; Rose D. Friedman (1999). Two Lucky People: Memoirs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-226-26414-1.
  4. ^ Lyndon, Isabel (14 November 2017). "Pure At Heart". Reed Magazine. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  5. ^ Tovey '97, Robin. "Riot grrrl reunion".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "Sculptor of the Surreal, Whacker of Flowerpots".
  7. ^ John Cage: Composed in America, ed. Marjorie Perloff and Charles Junkerman, University of Chicago Press, 1994, p. 86
  8. ^ Reed College, Reed Chicago Alumni Chapter News Accessed October 6, 2011
  9. ^ "Reediana Briefs". Reed Magazine.
  10. ^ "Reed Magazine: Blosser". www.reed.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  11. ^ "Electronic Poetry Center". writing.upenn.edu.
  12. ^ "Genevieve Hall Smith '43". Reed Magazine. June 2018.
  13. ^ "Notable Alumni – The Independents". Admission. Reed College. Archived from the original on 2007-08-13. Retrieved 2007-12-18.
  14. ^ "Life Beyond Reed". Reed Magazine. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  15. ^ Campuzano, Eder (28 May 2017). "Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche's friends: 'He's just the best person'". oregonlive.com.
  16. ^ "BRIGHTON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 2000-11-03. Archived from the original on 2018-11-11. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  17. ^ Campuzano, Eder (August 8, 2021). "Paul Bragdon, longest serving Reed College president and fixture of Oregon higher ed, dies at 94". The Oregonian. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
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