List of Reed College people

This page lists notable alumni and faculty of Reed College.

Alumni

Academia

*Jon Appleton , 1961 - Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, Visiting Professor of Music at Stanford University
*Daniel Bump, 1974 - Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University
*Daryl Bem , 1960 - Professor of Psychology at Cornell University
*Peter Child , 1975 - composer, professor of music at MIT
*Galen Cranz [ [http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/ced/people/query.php?id=40&dept=all&title=all&first=Galen&last=Cranz&ced&berkeley Berkeley] ] , 1966 - Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley
*James D. Faubion [http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~anth/people/faculty/index.htm] , 1980 - anthropologist, Chair of anthropology at Rice University
*Victor Friedman, 1970 - Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Balkan and Slavic Linguistics University of Chicago
*Peter Dobkin Hall , 1968 - Hauser Lecturer on nonprofit organizations, Kennedy School of Government
*Mike Davis , - social theorist; attended Reed for one semester
*David H. French , 1939 - anthropologist and linguist
*Rose Friedman , 1930 - author, wife of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, and economist in her own right; left in 1930 after her sophomore yearcite book |title=Two Lucky People: Memoirs |last=Friedman |first=Milton |coauthors=Rose D. Friedman |year=1999 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |isbn= 0226264149 |pages=pp. 15]
*Volney Gay, 1970 - Professor of Religion, Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University and Director, Center for the Study of Religion and Culture.
*Sally Haslanger, 1977-Professor of Philosophy MIT
*Dell Hymes , 1950 - anthropologist and linguist
*Dale W. Jorgenson , 1955 - economist, Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University, past president of the AEA and the Econometric Society
*Michael E. Levine , 1962 - Senior Lecturer at the New York University School of Law and Dean Emeritus of the Yale School of Management
*Jessica Litman , 1974 - professor of law at the University of Michigan, legal advisor
*Arthur Ogus , 1968 - Professor of Mathematics at the 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
*Michael Rothschild, 1963 - economist, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University
*David Schoenfeld, 1967 - Professor Biostatistics and Medicine at Harvard University
*Stephen Shapin , 1966 - historian and sociologist of science
*Sydney Shoemaker , 1953 - Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University
*John Sperling , 1948 - founder of the University of Phoenix
*Katherine Verdery [http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Anthropology/fac_verdery.html] , 1970 - Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor, Anthropology Program, City University of New York Graduate Center
*Jon Westling , 1964 - President Emeritus and Professor of History at Boston University
*Allen Wood, 1964 - Professor of Philosophy Stanford University, and noted Kant scholar

Entertainment

*Alafair Burke , 1991 - author, Court TV commentator
*Ry Cooder , x1971 - singer, songwriter; attended Reed for one semester
*Barret Hansen , 1963 - the radio personality also known as Dr. Demento
*Eric Overmyer , 1973 - screenwriter, producer, playwright
*Igor Vamos , 1990 - contemporary artist, member of The Yes Men

Food industry

*James Beard , 1923 - chef; dropped out
*Juliet Glass , 1992 - writer and food critic
*Steven Raichlen , 1975 - television chef, author

Government

*Richard Danzig , 1965 - 71st Secretary of the Navy
*Howard Wolpe , 1960 - former Congressman (D-Michigan)

Literature

*Tamim Ansary , 1970 - author of "West of Kabul, East of New York"
*Doon Arbus , 1967 - writer and journalist, daughter of Diane Arbus
*Mary Barnard , 1932 - poet and Greek translator
*Don Berry , 1931 - writer
*Mei-mei Berssenbrugge , 1969 - poet
*Lee Blessing , 1971 - playwright
*Kate Christensen , 1986 - novelist, winner of 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
*Katherine Dunn , 1969 - author
*David Eddings , 1954 - writer
*Barbara Ehrenreich , 1963 - scientist, writer and social critic
*Janet Fitch , 1978 - fiction writer, White Oleander
*Andrea Lambert - 1998 - writer
*Donald Miller , 1997 - Author
*Clayton Northouse , 2003 - Author
*Lise Funderburg , 1982 - journalist, essayist and critic
*Gary Snyder , 1951 - Pulitzer Prize winning poet
*Philip Whalen , 1951 - poet
*Lew Welch , 1950 - poet
*Adam L. Penenberg , 1986 - writer, professor of journalism at New York University
*Howard Rheingold , 1968 - writer

cience and engineering

*Arlene Blum , 1966 - mountaineer and scientist
*Steven McGeady , 1980 - technologist
*Robert Morris , x1958 - contemporary artist; attended Reed for two years
*Peter Norton , 1965 - creator of the Norton Utilities
*Jayne Loader , 1973 - writer and director; produced and co-directed The Atomic Cafe
*Keith Packard , 1986 - software developer; known for his work on the X Window System
*Norman Packard , 1977 - chaos theory physicist
*James Russell , 1953 - inventor of the compact disc
*Larry Sanger , 1991 - co-founder of Wikipedia
*Stephen C. Sillett , 1989 - botanist
*C. Howard Vollum , 1936 - founder of Tektronix, inventor of the edge-triggered oscilloscope

Other

*James Coddington , 1974 - Chief Conservator at the Museum of Modern Art
*Steve Jobs , x1976 - Apple, Co-founder and CEO; attended one semester, regarded by Reed as alumnus.cite web |url=http://web.reed.edu/apply/about_reed/notable_alumni/notable_alumni_indies.html |title=Notable Alumni - The Independents |accessdate=2007-12-18 |work=Admission |publisher=Reed College]
*Max Gordon , 1924 - founder, Village Vanguard
*Emilio Pucci , 1937 - fashion designer
*Michael Teitelbaum , 1966 - program director and demographer at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Fictional alumni

*Hunter Scangarelo - friend of Meadow Soprano in the television series "The Sopranos"
*Lambert "Sharkey" Somers, from Judy Blume's "Summer Sisters"
*Harald Petersen, Reed '27 from Mary McCarthy's "The Group"

References