List of Mount Holyoke College people explained

The following is a list of individuals associated with Mount Holyoke College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.

Notable alumnae

Academics and scientists

Clara Harrison Stranahan, 1849 - author; founder and trustee of Barnard College
Harriet Newell Haskell, 1855 - educator and administrator
Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell, 1864 - one of the first female classical archaeologists
Cornelia Clapp, 1871 - zoologist and marine biologist
Mary Cutler Fairchild, 1875 - pioneering librarian
Alice Carter Cook, circa 1888 - botanist and later faculty, first female recipient of an American botany PhD
Marian E. Hubbard, 1889 - zoology professor
Alice Huntington Bushee, 1891 - Spanish literature professor at Wellesley College
Martha Warren Beckwith, 1893 - anthropologist
Abby Howe Turner, 1896 - founded Mount Holyoke's department of physiology
Caroline Ransom Williams, 1896 - first female Egyptologist in North America
Margaret Morse Nice, 1905 - ornithologist
Alzada Comstock, 1910 - economics professor
Mildred Sanderson, 1910 - mathematician
Louise Freeland Jenkins, 1911 - astronomer
Marion Elizabeth Blake, 1913 - classics professor
Helen G. Fisk, 1917 - vocational services educator
Rachel Fuller Brown, 1920 - chemist who discovered Nystatin
Mildred Trotter, 1920 - forensic anthropologist
Elizabeth K. Worley, 1924 - zoologist, microbiologist
Lucy Weston Pickett, 1925 - chemist
Helen Sawyer Hogg, 1926 - astronomer
Alice Standish Allen, 1929 - first female engineering geologist in North America
Janet Wilder Dakin, 1933 - zoologist who was the youngest sister of Thornton Wilder and Charlotte Wilder
Sara Anderson Immerwahr, 1935 - classical archaeologist
Phoebe Stanton, 1937 - architectural historian, professor at Johns Hopkins University, and active in urban planning for the city of Baltimore.^[1]
Virginia Griffing, 1940, physicist and chemist, first woman on the faculty of Catholic University of America's physics department^[2]
Carolyn Shaw Bell, 1941 - economics professor
Marie Mercury Roth, 1945 - synthetic organic chemist
Eva Moseley, 1953 - curator and archivist
Mary McHenry, 1954 - professor of English credited with introducing African American literature to Mount Holyoke
Jane English, 1964 - physicist, translator, photographer
Dolores Hayden, 1966 - professor of architecture, urbanism, and American studies
Carolyn Collette, 1967 - professor of English
Karen E. Rowe, 1967 - English professor at UCLA
Susan Shirk, 1967 - professor of political science and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for North Asia during the Clinton administration
Susan B. Vroman, 1968 - Professor of Economics at Georgetown University
Lila M. Gierasch, 1970 - professor of chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology
Melissa McGrath, 1977 - astronomer; Chief Scientist at NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center

Activists

Lucy Stone (attended 1839) - women's rights activist
Olympia Brown (attended 1854-55) - women's rights activist
Helen Pitts, 1859 - women's rights activist, second wife of Frederick Douglass, and founder of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association
Eliza Read Sunderland (graduated 1865) - writer, educator, lecturer, women's rights advocate
Hortense Parker, 1883 - daughter of African American abolitionist, John Parker and the first African American student to graduate from Mount Holyoke College
Alice Bradford Wiles, 1873 - Chicago clubwoman
Elizabeth Holloway Marston, 1915 - the inspiration for Wonder Woman^[3]
Ruth Muskrat Bronson, 1925 - poet, educator, Indian rights activist
Sybil Bailey Stockdale, 1946 - founded the National League of Families of American Prisoners and MIAs in S.E. Asia; Lecturer; widow of '92 U.S. vice-presidential nominee, Adm. James Stockdale
Nancy Skinner Nordhoff, 1954 - environmentalist and philanthropist; designated a Women’s History Month Honoree by the National Women’s History Project in 2006
Gloria Johnson-Powell (Gloria Johnson), 1958 - child psychiatrist; an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement and the first African-American woman to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School
Rose Dugdale - political activist and prominent member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Jody Cohen, 1976 - first woman rabbi in Connecticut history; leader in the Women's Rabbinic Network and Union for Reform Judaism
Lynn Pasquerella, 1980 - medical ethicist; president, Mount Holyoke College; president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities^[4]
Louise C. Purington, 1864 - physician and temperance activist
Mallika Dutt, 1983 - executive director of Breakthrough, an international human rights organization
Kavita Ramdas, 1985 - president and CEO, Global Fund for Women
Marcia Hofmann, 2000 - digital rights attorney and activist
Mei Lum, 2012 - Chinese-American artist, activist, and entrepreneur

Actors, musicians, dancers and performers

Elizabeth Eaton Converse - later known as Connie Converse, 1946 - singer and songwriter
Caitlin Clarke (Katherine Clarke), 1974 - actress
Michelle Hurst, 1974 - actress, known for her role as Miss Claudette on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black
Nancy Gustafson, 1978 - opera singer
Melinda Mullins, 1979 - actress
Donna Kane, 1984 - actress
Geneva Carr, 1988 - actress, Tony Award nominee, main cast member in CBS television series Bull
Kimberly Hebert Gregory, 1994 - actress
Zeb Bangash, 2004 - part of Pakistani music duo Zeb and Haniya
Zoe Weizenbaum, 2014 - actress, known for her roles in Memoirs of a Geisha and 12 and Holding^[5]
Sho Madjozi, 2015 - South African rapper

Artists

Esther Howland, 1847 - artist noted for her role in popularizing St. Valentine's Day cards
Minerva J. Chapman, 1880 - painter
Sarah A. Worden 1883–1891 - painter, art instructor
Jane Hammond, 1972 - artist
Susan Mohl Powers, 1966 - sculptor, painter
Krista Johnson, 1985 - painter
Maia Cruz Palileo, 2001 - artist
Zehra Laila Javeri (year unknown) - artist

Athletes

Stacy Apfelbaum - rowing cox; gold medal winner at the 1984 World Rowing Championships^[6]
Margaret Hoffman, 1934 - swimmer who participated in both the 1928 Summer Olympics and 1932 Summer Olympics (200 m breaststroke)^[7]
Imogene Opton Fish, 1955 - alpine skier who was captain of the U.S. women's 1952 Winter Olympics ski team
Michele Drolet, 1976 - blind cross-country skier who was the first American woman to ever earn a Paralympic cross-country skiing medal - bronze at the 1994 Winter Paralympics^[8]
Harriet (Holly) Metcalf, 1981 - executive director and founder of Row As One Institute who won a gold medal in rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Mary Mazzio, 1983 - filmmaker and Olympic athlete who participated in rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olga Maria Sacasa, 1984 - cyclist was the first woman ever to represent Nicaragua in cycling, at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Katheryn Curi, 1996 - cyclist who placed first at the National Road Race Championships in Park City, Utah in June 2005

Businesswomen

Jean Picker Firstenberg, 1958 - director and CEO of the American Film Institute
Mary Duffy, 1966 - feminist fashion expert, spokeswoman, entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker, expanding concepts of beauty for the majority of women who do not fit ideal stereotypes popularized by fashion and media Big Beauties/Little Women, Ford Models
Barbara J. Desoer, 1974 - CEO for Citibank N.A. and a member of its board of directors
Eileen Kraus, 1960 - trailblazing woman banker and president of Connecticut National Bank
Audrey A. McNiff, 1980 - managing director and co-head of Currency Sales, Goldman Sachs
Vicki Roberts, 1980 - attorney, on-air legal commentator, television and film personality
Barbara Cassani, 1982 - first leader of London's successful bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics
Maria Cirino, 1985 - founder and CEO of .406 Ventures
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, 1993 - founder and CEO of Care.com

College presidents

Susan Tolman Mills, 1845 - co-founder and first president of Mills College
Ada Howard, 1853 - first president of Wellesley College
Abbie Park Ferguson, 1856 - founder and president of Huguenot College
Sarah Ann Dickey, 1869 - founder of Mount Hermon Female Seminary
Florence M. Read, 1909 - former president, Spelman College
Yau Tsit Law, 1916 - dean of women, Lingnan University
Pauline Tompkins, 1941 - former president, Cedar Crest College
Barbara M. White, 1941 - former president, Mills College
Alice Stone Ilchman 1957 - former president, Sarah Lawrence College
Elizabeth Topham Kennan, 1960 - former president, Mount Holyoke College
Carol Geary Schneider, 1967 - president, Association of American Colleges and Universities
Nancy J. Vickers, 1967 - president, Bryn Mawr College
Elaine Tuttle Hansen, 1969 - president, Bates College
Lynn Pasquerella, 1980 - president, Mount Holyoke College
Leocadia I. Zak, 2018 - president, Agnes Scott College

Computer scientists and graphic designers

Jean E. Sammet, 1948 - computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language
Susan Kare, 1975 - original designer of many of the interface elements for the original Apple Macintosh.

Doctors, nurses and psychologists

Nancy M. Hill, 1859 - Civil War nurse and one of the first female doctors in the U.S.^[9]
Seraph Frissell, 1869 - physician, medical writer
Mary Phylinda Dole, 1886, 1889 - became a doctor at a time when it was difficult for women to do so
Dorothy Hansine Andersen, 1922 - doctor involved in cystic fibrosis research (first to identify the disease)
Virginia Apgar, 1929 - doctor who developed the Apgar score for evaluating newborns; anesthesiologist
Florence Wald 1938 - nurse, leader of the U.S. hospice movement
Ellen P. Reese, 1948 - psychologist
Abby Howe Turner - professor of physiology and zoology who founded the department of physiology at Mount Holyoke
Gloria Johnson-Powell (Gloria Johnson), 1958 - child psychiatrist; an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement and the first African American woman to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School

Filmmakers, broadcast presidents, and producers

Martha Atwell (attended, 1918-1919) - radio director^[10] ^[11]
Dulcy Singer, 1955 - former Emmy Award-winning producer of Sesame Street
Julia Phillips (Julia Miller), 1965 - Hollywood producer and author
Debra Martin Chase, 1977 - Hollywood producer
Mary Mazzio, 1983 - filmmaker and Olympic athlete who participated in rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Sonali Gulati, 1996 - filmmaker and director of the film Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night
Chloé Zhao, 2005 - Academy Award winner, director/filmmaker

Journalists

Janet Huntington Brewster, 1933 - philanthropist, writer, and radio broadcaster; wife of Edward R. Murrow
Beth Karas, 1979 - senior reporter, CourtTV
Dari Alexander, 1991 - co-anchor of WNYW's weeknight 6 p.m. newscast, and previously a reporter and part-time anchor for the Fox News Channel

Judges

Maryanne Trump Barry, 1958 - judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; older sister of 45th president of the United States Donald Trump
Janet Bond Arterton, 1966 - judge on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
Janet C. Hall, 1970 - judge on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, chief judge of the District of Connecticut (2013–present)
Glenda Hatchett, 1973 - judge on nationally syndicated television series, Judge Hatchett

Politics

Louisa "Louise" Maria Torrey Taft, 1845 - mother of President William Howard Taft
Frances Perkins, 1902 - first woman cabinet member (U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933-1945 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Marion West Higgins, 1936 - first female Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly
Ella T. Grasso, 1940 - governor of Connecticut; the first female governor elected in her own right in United States history
Jetta Jones, 1947 - lawyer in Chicago, served in Mayor Harold Washington's administration
Joanne H. Alter, 1949 - activist and politician
Nancy Kissinger (Nancy Maginnes), 1955 - philanthropist; wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
Nita Lowey, 1959 - United States House of Representatives member (D-NY)
Judith Kurland, 1967 - former regional director, United States Department of Health and Human Services
Susan Shirk, 1967 - professor of political science and the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for North Asia during the Clinton administration
Jane Garvey (Jane Famiano), 1969 (M.A.T.) - former head of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Elaine Chao, 1975 - U.S. Secretary of Transportation, 2017-2021, U.S. Secretary of Labor, 2001–2009; director of the Peace Corps, 1991–1992; former national director, United Way
Susan Longley, 1978 - state senator and judge of probate from Maine
Karen Middleton, 1988 - legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado
Mona Sutphen, 1989 - Deputy White House Chief of Staff in the Obama administration
Mahua Moitra, 1998 - member of Indian parliament, Lok Sabha
Rabiya Javeri Agha, 1983 - a member of Pakistan Administrative Service, Pakistan Administrative Service
Laura Loomer (transferred) - alt right conspiracy theorist

Writers

Edna Dean Proctor, 1847 - poet
Emily Dickinson (attended 1847–1848) - poet
Emily Gilmore Alden, 1855 - author and educator
Julia Harris May, 1856 - poet, teacher, school founder
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (attended 1870–1871) - novelist and short story writer
Louise Lamprey, 1891 - writer, children's literature
Anne W. Armstrong (attended 1890 - 1892) - novelist
Caroline Henderson, 1901 - Dust Bowl author
Alice Geer Kelsey, 1918 - writer, children's literature
Charlotte Wilder, 1919 - poet
Kathryn Irene Glascock, 1922 - poet
Constance McLaughlin Green, 1925 (master's degree) - historian who won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History for Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878
Roberta Teale Swartz, 1925 - poet
Virginia Hamilton Adair, 1933 - poet
Martha Whitmore Hickman, 1947 - non-fiction author
Nancy McKenzie, 1948 - Arthurian legend author
Jean Rikhoff, 1948 - author
Martha Henissart, 1950 - mystery author writing under the pen-name of Emma Lathen with Mary Jane Latsis
Nancy Bauer (Nancy Luke), 1956 - non-fiction author
Elizabeth Topham Kennan, 1960 - author writing under the pen-name of Clare Munnings with Jill Ker Conway
Nancy Bond, 1966 - writer, children's literature
Olivia Mellan, 1968 - author of six books on money psychology
Patricia Roth Schwartz, 1968 - poet
Kathleen Eagle (Kathleen Pierson), 1970 - romance novelist
Marisabina Russo, 1971 - writer, children's literature
Wendy Wasserstein, 1971 - playwright who won the 1989 Tony Award for Best Play and the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Heidi Chronicles
Lynne Barrett, 1972 - author
Susan Shwartz, 1972 - science fiction and fantasy author
Gjertrud Schnackenberg, 1975 - poet
Kathleen Hirsch, 1975 - non-fiction author
Judith Tarr, 1976 - science fiction and fantasy author
Carol Higgins Clark, 1978 - mystery author
Lan Cao, 1983 - novelist
Suzan-Lori Parks, 1985 - playwright who won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Topdog/Underdog
Liz Fenwick, 1985 - novelist
Sibella Giorello, 1985 - novelist
Bridget Hodder, 1985 - young readers novelist
Emilie Burack, 1985 - young readers novelist
Laurie Pennison, 1985 - mystery writer
Marg Stark, 1985 - writer
Deborah Harkness, 1986 - author of the New York Times best selling novel A Discovery of Witches
Sehba Sarwar, 1986 - novelist
C. Leigh Purtill, 1988 - young adult author
Sabina Murray, 1989 - screenwriter; wrote screenplay for The Beautiful Country
Sherri Browning Erwin, 1990 - author of Thornbrook Park and Jane Slayre, member of Romance Writers of America
Tahmima Anam, 1997 - author
Susan J. Elliott, 2000 - non-fiction author
Betsy James, writer
Hanna Pylväinen, 2007 - author of We Sinners^[12]
Katy Simpson Smith, ?2018 - novelist
Hayeon Lim, 2017 - South Korean socialite and author

Fictional alumnae

Catherine, Black Widow^[13]
Frances "Baby" Houseman, Dirty Dancing^[14]
Sarah Gadon, Indignation^[15]
Barbara Kornpett, The In-Laws^[13]
Helen Bishop, Mad Men^[16]
Bethany Van Nuys, Mad Men^[17]
Judy Maxwell, What's Up Doc?
Rebecca Morgan, Chapelwaite^[18]

Notable faculty, past and present

Artists

Leonard DeLonga - professor of art
William Churchill Hammond - organist, choirmaster, chairman of music department
(Charles) Denoe Leedy - concert pianist and music journalist
Harrison Potter - concert pianist and accompanist
David Sanford - professor of music
Emmett Williams - artist in residence 1975-1976

Athletics

Mary Ellen Clark - former head diving coach; diver who won two Olympic bronze medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics

Authors, actors, poets, and playwrights

Martha Ackmann - author and journalist^[19]
Awam Amkpa - actor and playwright
W.H. Auden - poet
James Baldwin - Five Colleges faculty and novelist
Sven Birkerts - author, The Gutenberg Elegies
Joseph Brodsky - winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature, and Poet Laureate of the United States for 1991–1992
Luis Cernuda - poet
Anita Desai - novelist
Anthony Giardina - novelist
John Irving - author of The Cider House Rules, and The World According to Garp
Denis Johnston - playwright
Brad Leithauser - author, poet
Margaret Chai Maloney - author
Jaime Manrique - author, poet
Mary Olivia Nutting - librarian and historian
Valerie Martin - novelist and short story writer
Mary Jo Salter - poet and a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry
Bapsi Sidhwa - novelist
Paul Smyth - poet
Ada L. F. Snell - poet
Genevieve Taggard - poet
Peter Viereck - 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Terror and Decorum and professor of Russian History
Richard Weber - Irish poet; visiting lecturer from 1967 to 1970
Douglas Whynott - author

Education

Eunice Caldwell Cowles - assistant to Mary Lyon in the founding of Mount Holyoke Female Sminary
Robert Hess (1938–1994) - president of Brooklyn College
Mary Lyon - founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837 (later Mount Holyoke College)
Beverly Daniel Tatum - president of Spelman College

Historians

Humanities

Christopher Benfey - professor of English
Peter Berek - professor of English
Marion Elizabeth Blake - classics professor
Flora Bridges - taught Greek and English
Gordon Keith Chalmers - professor of English
Carolyn Collette - professor of English
Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze - philosopher
Leah Blatt Glasser - dean of first-year studies and lecturer in English
Jeannette Augustus Marks - professor of English
Mary McHenry - professor of English
Indira Viswanathan Peterson - professor of Asian Studies
William H. Quillian - professor of English
Clara F. Stevens - professor of English, department head
Ellen Bliss Talbot - professor of Philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology for 32 years
Jean Wahl - philosopher
Donald Weber - professor of English
Jon Western - professor of international relations
Mary Gilmore Williams - professor of Greek

Journalists

Todd Brewster - journalist, author, film producer, and current senior visiting lecturer in journalism

Politics

Shirley Chisholm - U.S. representative, 1968–1983, founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and simultaneously the first woman and the first African-American to run for U.S. president
Ellen Deborah Ellis - founder and first chair of the political science department at the college
Jean Grossholtz - professor emeritus of politics; bodybuilder who won a silver medal at the 1994 Gay Games^[20]
W. Anthony Lake - U.S. National Security Advisor, 1993–1997
Christopher Pyle - professor of politics, journalist and whistleblower
Margaret Rotundo - Maine State legislator
Cyrus Vance - U.S. Secretary of State, 1977–1980

Sciences and social sciences

A. Elizabeth Adams - zoologist
Katherine Aidala - physicist
Mildred Allen - physicist
Elisabeth Bardwell - astronomer
Susan R. Barry - neurobiologist
Grace Bates - mathematician
John Bissell Carroll - psychologist
Jill Bubier - environmental scientist
Patty Brennan - evolutionary biologist
Cornelia Clapp - zoologist and marine biologist
Janet Wilder Dakin - zoologist, youngest sister of Thornton Wilder and Charlotte Wilder
Ethel B. Dietrich - economist, foreign service officer
Melinda Darby Dyar - planetary geologist, mineralogist, and spectroscopist
Joanne Elliott - mathematician
Alice Hall Farnsworth - astronomer, director of the John Payson Williston Observatory
Anna Lockhart Flanigen - chemistry professor from 1903 to 1910
Dorothy Hahn - organic chemist
Anna J. Harrison - organic chemist, first female President of the American Chemical Society
Olive Hazlett - mathematician
Amy Hewes - economist
Karen Hollis - psychologist
Janice Hudgings - physicist, former associate dean of faculty at Mount Holyoke College
Elizabeth Laird - head of the physics department from 1903 to 1940
Flora Belle Ludington - librarian
Emilie Martin - mathematician
Mark McMenamin - paleontologist and geologist
Ann Haven Morgan - zoologist
Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt, classical archaeologist and Greek scholar
Kerstin Nordstrom - physicist
Donal O'Shea - mathematician
Harriet Pollatsek - mathematician
Becky Wai-Ling Packard - educational psychologist
Lucy Weston Pickett - chemist
Louise Fitz-Randolph, 1872 - art historian; established Department of Art and plaster cast collection in Dwight Art Memorial Building (forerunner of Mount Holyoke College Art Museum)
Ellen P. Reese - psychologist
Margaret M. Robinson - mathematician
Lydia Shattuck - botanist, founding member of the American Chemical Society^[21]
Mignon Talbot - paleontologist who recovered and named the only fossils of the dinosaur Podokesaurus holyokensis
Abby Howe Turner - founder of Mount Holyoke College's department of physiology
Esther Boise Van Deman - archeologist
Anne Sewell Young - astronomer, director of the John Payson Williston Observatory
Antoni Zygmund - mathematician, co-founder of the Chicago school of mathematical analysis

Actors

Michael Burns - Moondoggie in Gidget Gets Married, 1972^[22]

Presidents

A number of individuals have acted as head of Mount Holyoke. Until 1888, the term principal was used. From 1888 to the present, the term president has been used.^[23]

1837–1849: Mary Lyon, 1st president (founder and principal)
1849–1850: Mary C. Whitman, 2nd president (principal)
1850–1865: Mary W. Chapin, 3rd president (principal)
1865–1867: Sophia D. Stoddard 4th president (acting principal)
1867–1872: Helen M. French, 5th president (principal)
1872–1883: Julia E. Ward, 6th president (principal)
1883–1889: Elizabeth Blanchard, 7th president (principal and president)
1889: Mary A. Brigham, 8th president (president elect - died in an accident)
1889–1890: Louisa F. Cowles, 9th president (acting president)
1890–1900: Elizabeth Storrs Mead, 10th president
1900–1937: Mary Emma Woolley, 11th president
1937–1957: Roswell G. Ham, 12th president (first male president of MHC)
1954: Meribeth E. Cameron, served as acting president for part of 1954 while President Ham was on leave
1957–1968: Richard Glenn Gettell, 13th president
1966: Meribeth E. Cameron, served as acting president part of 1966 while President Gettell was on leave
1968–1969: Meribeth E. Cameron, 14th president (acting president)
1969–1978: David Truman, 15th president
1978–1995: Elizabeth Topham Kennan '60, 16th president
1984: Joseph Ellis, served as acting president for part of 1984 while President Kennan was on leave
1995: Peter Berek, served as interim president in fall 1995
1996–2010: Joanne V. Creighton, 17th president
2002: Beverly Daniel Tatum, served as acting president for part of 2002 while President Creighton was on leave
2010–2016: Lynn Pasquerella '80, 18th president
2016–2022: Sonya Stephens, 19th president
2022-2023: Beverly Daniel Tatum, served as interim president
2023-present: Danielle Ren Holley, 20th president, first Black president of MHC

Commencement speakers

The following is a list of Mount Holyoke College commencement speakers by year.^[24]

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2023: Lan Cao '83, Nancy K. Welker '63, Imani Perry, Wilma Ambang Abam-DePass ’23 ^[25]
2022: Natalie Diaz, Katherine Butler Jones '57, Susannah Sirkin '76, Ocean Vuong^[26]
2021: Rabiya Javeri Agha '83, Yo-Yo Ma, Chloé Zhao '05, Casey Roepke '21^[27]
2020: Helen Drinan '69, Anita Hill, Lynn Pasquerella '80^[28]
2019: Adrienne Arsht '63, Barbara Smith '69, Gary Younge, Nada Taha Al-Thawr '19^[29]
2018: Nancy Pelosi, Aiza Amjad Malik '18^[30]
2017: Dolores Huerta,^[31] Anqa Khan '17^[32]
2016: Joia Mukherjee,^[33] Areeba Kamal ‘16^[34]
2015: Carol Geary Schneider ‘67,^[35] Olivia Papp ‘15^[36]
2014: Deborah Bial,^[37] Iman A. Abubaker '14^[38]
2013: Kavita N. Ramdas '85,^[39] Jenna M. Ruddock '13^[40]
2012: Azar Nafisi,^[41] Tamar S. Westphal '12^[42]
2011: Martha Nussbaum,^[43] Zehra Nabi '11^[44]
2010: Gail Collins,^[45] Sarah Elahi '10^[46]
2009: Mary McAleese,^[47] Caitlin M. Healey '09^[48]
2008: Carol Gilligan,^[49] Sally J. Brzozowski '08^[50]
2007: Wendy Kopp,^[51] Sara E. Richards '07^[52]
2006: Joyce Carol Oates,^[53] ^[54] Margaret McDermott '06^[55]
2005: Nina Totenberg,^[56] Claudia Y. Calhoun '05^[57]
2004: Kim Campbell,^[58] Stacey R. Pulmano '04^[59]
2003: Judy Blume,^[60] ^[61] Chiara D. Fuller '03^[62]
2002: Queen Noor of Jordan,^[63] Sara R. Curtin '02
2001: Suzan-Lori Parks '85,^[64] Lena K. Zuckerwise '01
2000: Mary Patterson McPherson,^[65] Elisabeth F. Snell '00
1999: Anna Quindlen,^[66] Caroline E. Green '99
1998: Johnnetta B. Cole,^[67] Meghan E. Freed '98^[68]
1997: Madeleine Albright,^[69] Chandra R.B.G. Dunn '97^[70]
1996: Donna Shalala,^[71] Devavani Chatterjea '96^[72]
1995: Ann Richards,^[73] Jennifer Lynch '95
1994: Nita Lowey '59, S. Rhae Parkes '94
1993: Judith Kurland '67
1992: Pat Schroeder
1991: Evelyn Fox Keller^[74]
1990: Wendy Wasserstein '71^[75]
1989: Glenn Close^[76]
1988: Joseph Brodsky^[77]
1987: Maya Angelou^[78] ^[79]
1986: Xie Xide^[80]
1985: Nadine Gordimer, Gjertrud Schnackenberg ‘75
1984: Barbara B. Kennelly^[81]
1983: George Steiner^[82]
1982: Elizabeth Topham Kennan
1981: Shirley Chisholm^[83]
1980: John Irving^[84]
1979: Ellen Goodman '64
1978: David Bicknell Truman^[85]
1977: Ruth Ida Abrams
1976: Lillian Hellman^[86]
1975: Ella T. Grasso '40^[87] ^[88]
1974: Beryl Robichaud Collins ‘40
1973: Matina Souretis Horner^[89]
1972: Barbara M. White^[90]
1971: David Bicknell Truman
1970: Ted Kennedy^[91]
1969: Kenneth Keniston
1968: David Riesman^[92]
1967: August Heckscher
1966: Philip Johnson^[93]
1965: James R. Killian, Jr.^[94]
1964: Lauris Norstad^[95]

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1963: U Thant^[96]
1962: Abraham A. Ribicoff
1961: William O. Douglas^[97]
1960: Charles Malik
1959: Mildred McAfee Horton
1958: Norman Cousins
1957: Henry Steele Commager
1956: Edmund W. Sinnott
1955: Earl Warren
1954: Helen Rogers Reid
1953: Willard Thorp
1952: Frederick May Eliot
1951: Roswell G. Ham
1950: Frederick May Eliot^[98]
1949: Norman Makin^[99]
1948: Arnold Wolfers
1947: Katharine E. McBride
1946: Roswell G. Ham
1945: Robert F. Bradford
1944: Meta Glass
1943: Harold Beresford Butler
1942: Roswell G. Ham
1941: Christopher Morley
1940: Lillian M. Gilbreth
1939: Chauncey Brewster Tinker^[100]
1938: David Allan Robertson
1937: John Gilbert Winant
1936: William Allan Neilson
1935: William Ernest Hocking
1934: John Huston Finley
1933: Bruce Bliven
1932: George E. Vincent
1931: George W. Kirchwey
1930: James T. Shotwell
1929: Newton D. Baker
1928: Paul Shorey
1927: Frederick Carlos Ferry
1926: Frederick M. Davenport
1925: James Rowland Angell
1924: Henry Morgenthau, Kenneth C. M. Sills^[101]
1923: Alexander Meiklejohn
1922: Sergius A. Korff
1921: William Howard Taft
1920: Charles Zueblin
1919: Albert Parker Fitch
1918: George Edgar Vincent
1917: Henry Noble MacCracken
1916: Charles E. Jefferson
1915: William Ernest Hocking
1914: Charles S. Whitman
1913: Harry Emerson Fosdick
1912: Edward F. Sanderson, Charles R. Brown^[102]
1911: Henry Stiles Bradley

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1909: Hugh Black
1908: Rev. Henry A. Stimson
1907: Jane Addams^[103]
1906: Russell Briggs
1905: Judson Smith
1904: Talcott Williams
1903: Ira Remsen
1902: George Herbert Palmer
1901: James Hulme Canfield
1900: N. D. Hills
1899: William McKinley, Roger Wolcott, Judson Smith^[104]
1898: Charles M. Mead
1897: Charles Cuthbert Hall
1896: William Faunce
1895: A. J. Lyman^[105]
1894: Rev. Henry A. Stimson
1893: Chester David Hartranft
1892: Henry M. Storrs
1891: Elizabeth Storrs Mead, Merrill Gates
1890: Alexander McKenzie
1889: Luther Tracy Townsend
1888: N. G. Clark
1886: Henry L. Dawes
1884: J. H. Vincent
1883: Joseph L. Daryea
1882: William M. Taylor
1881: Albion W. Tourgee
1880: Samuel E. Herrick
1879: Theodore L. Cuyler
1878: William Seymour Tyler, Thomas P. Field
1877: Matthew Brown Riddle
1876: Alexander H. Bullock
1875: Julius H. Seelye
1874: Julius H. Seelye, Samuel Harris
1873: John M. Greene, William Seymour Tyler
1872: Harvey Denison Kitchel
1868: Edward N. Kirk
1867: George Nye Boardman
1864: Leonard Swain
1860: Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
1859: Austin Phelps
1856: Samuel W. Fisher
1853: Emerson Davis
1851: A. L. Stone^[106]
1850: William Chauncey Fowler^[107]
1849: Edward Hitchcock
1846: J. B. Condit^[108]
1845: Joel Hawes^[109]
1844: Edward N. Kirk
1842: Edward Hitchcock
1841: Bela Bates Edwards^[110]
1840: Mark Hopkins
1839: Rufus Anderson
1838: Joel Hawes

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