List of Claremont Graduate University people
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 sixty-five 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
- John Hick - Philosopher of religion and theologian
- Jack Miles - Author; winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship
- 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]
- Enid H. Douglass (MA 1959) - City Council member; Mayor of Claremont, California 1982–1986; oral historian[3][4]
- David Dreier (MA 1976) - Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 2013; Chairman of the House Rules Committee from 1999 to 2007 and 2011 to 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)[5]
- (Ph.D. 1980) - Senior Fellow at the University of Southern California and political analyst[6]
- 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
- Panpree Pahitranukorn (th:ปานปรีย์ พหิทธานุกร) (Ph.D. in Public Administration) - Former Thai trade representative, Thailand's ex-deputy Commerce Minister, board member of PTT Public Company Limited
- Robert R. Reilly (MA 1978) - Former Director, Voice of America[7]
- Peter W. Schramm (Ph.D. 1981) - Professor of Political Science; the Executive Director of the
- 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
- 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 from 2001 to 2011
- Abdulla Yameen - President of The Maldives, elected in 2013
Academia and science[]
- Joyce Appleby (Ph.D. 1966) - Historian at UCLA; President of the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association
- Larry P. Arnn (MA/Ph.D.) - 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.) - Donald P. Kennedy Chair in Law and former Dean at Chapman University School of Law; politician
- 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[8]
- 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
- Marjorie Dean Lewis (Ph.D. 1992) - President of Cypress College[8]
- Munir Mandviwalla (Ph.D. 1995) - Founding Chair, Department of MIS, Temple University[9]
- Christopher Manfredi (Ph.D. 1987) - Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal[10]
- Eugene S. Mills (Ph.D. 1952) - President, University of New Hampshire, 1974-79[11]
- Warren Montag (MA 1981/Ph.D. 1989) - Brown Family Professor in Literature and English, Occidental College
- Vincent Phillip Muñoz (Ph.D. 2001) - Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Notre Dame[12]
- 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
- Margaret R. Preska (Ph.D. 1969) - President, Minnesota State University, Mankato (1979–92); CEO and Provost, Immanuel Kant State University of Russia (1998–99)[13]
- Kathleen Ross (Ph.D.) - Founding president of Heritage University
- Mark Rupert (Ph.D. 1987) - Professor and Chair, Political Science, Syracuse University[14]
- Daniel Scoggin (Ph.D.) - Founding CEO, Great Hearts Academies[15]
- (MA 1950) - President of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, 1962–1987[8]
- 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
- Donald V. Weatherman (Ph.D.) - President, Lyon College[16]
- 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)
- Michael Crooke (Ph.D. 2008) - Professor of Strategy Pepperdine University and University of Oregon, former Navy SEAL, CEO of Patagonia, Inc. (1999–2006)
- 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[]
- 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
- 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
- Lisa Adams (MFA 1980) - Painter
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[17]
- 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
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) - American 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
References[]
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- ^ "Faculty Archives - Fox School of Business - Temple University - Philadelphia, PA". Fox School of Business - Temple University - Philadelphia, PA. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ "The Flame : The Magazine of Claremont Graduate University" (PDF). Cgu.edu. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
- ^ "Earlham College - A national liberal arts college in the Midwest". Earlham.edu. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ "Vincent Phillip Muñoz // Department of Political Science // University of Notre Dame". Politicalscience.nd.edu. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
- ^ "Benefits - Winona State University Alumni and Friends". Alumni.winona.edu. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
- ^ "Maxwell School: Mark Rupert, Professor, Political Science". Maxwell.syr.edu. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
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