List of Colgate University people

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This is a list of notable students, alumni, faculty or academic affiliates associated with Colgate University in the United States. As Colgate is an undergraduate school only, all the graduates listed below earned bachelor's degrees there.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by with reliable sources.

Colgate alumni[]

The Arts[]

  • Charles Addams (1933), New Yorker cartoonist known for macabre drawings and creator of The Addams Family
  • Ralph Arlyck (1962), documentary filmmaker who has won many awards at film festivals including Sundance and Cannes
  • Ivy Austin (1979), television and radio actress (A Prairie Home Companion, Sesame Street)
  • Ken Baker (1992), E! Chief News Correspondent, Author
  • Bob Balaban, television and movie actor
  • Joe Berlinger (1983), producer (Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2; documentary Brother’s Keeper)
  • Steven Cantor (1990) Director and Producer (DANCER, Chasing Tyson, What Remains, Between Me and My Mind, more)
  • Jackie Oshry (2014), Host of The Morning Toast
  • Jay Chandrasekhar (1991), director (Super Troopers, Arrested Development, Club Dread, The Babymakers)
  • Rex Cherryman (1916), actor of the stage and screen whose career was most prolific during the 1920s
  • George Davis (1961), writer/teacher
  • Jonathan Glatzer (1991), television writer (Bloodline, Better Call Saul, Succession)
  • Ted Griffin (1993), film writer (Ocean's Eleven, Matchstick Men)
  • Kevin Heffernan (1990), actor/comedian (Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest)
  • Lisa Heller (2018), alternative pop artist and songwriter
  • James D. Hornfischer (1987), literary agent
  • John J.A. Jannone (1991), composer, animator, film producer (Small Time), founder of M.F.A. program
  • Barnet Kellman (1969), producer and director of film and television (Murphy Brown, Mad About You) and multiple Emmy and DGA Award winner
  • R. J. Kern (2000), artist and photographer
  • Steve Lemme (1991), actor, comedian (Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest)
  • Brent Maddock (1972), screenwriter (Short Circuit, Tremors)
  • Paul Mariani, American poet and a professor at Boston College
  • Johnny Marks (1931), composer of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," etc.
  • Chris Paine (1983), documentary filmmaker (Who Killed the Electric Car?)
  • John Romano (1970), John Romano is an American screenwriter and television writer and producer.
  • Martin Ransohoff (1949), film producer (Martin Ransohoff Productions)
  • Peter Rowan, bluegrass musician, songwriter ("Panama Red")
  • David Rosengarten, chef, author and host of the Food Network show
  • Todd Rosenthal (1989), Tony Award-winning scenic designer
  • Jeffrey Sharp (1989), producer (Boys Don't Cry, You Can Count On Me, Proof)
  • Paul Soter (1991), actor/comedian (Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest)
  • Erik Stolhanske (1991), actor/comedian (Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest)
  • Gillian Vigman (1994), actor/comedian (Sons and Daughters, MADtv)
  • Mel Watkins (1962), writer, editor, social commentator
  • Francesca Zambello (1978), Director of the Glimmerglass Opera and the Washington National Opera
  • Broken Lizard, comedy troupe (Super Troopers, Club Dread, Beerfest)

Business[]

Culture[]

Education[]

  • Alida Anderson (1991), widely published academic researcher, author and professor of education at American University
  • Jack L. Anson (1948), former executive director, North American Interfraternity Conference
  • Dr. Samuel H. Archer (1902), fifth president of the Morehouse College, selecting that school's colors (maroon and white) to reflect his own alma mater
  • Andrew Dolkart (1973), James Marston Fitch Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University
  • Emil Frei (1944), physician, oncologist and the Richard and Susan Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
  • Hall Gardner (1976), currently a professor of International Politics at the American University of Paris
  • Charles A S Hall (1965), currently a professor at State University of New York in the College of Environmental Science & Forestry
  • A. Thomas McLellan, psychiatry professor at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Anthony C. Masi (1970), professor of sociology and management, Provost, McGill University (2005–2015)
  • Charles Franklin Phillips, (1931), economics professor at Colgate, President of Bates College
  • Mark Robbins, dean of Syracuse University's School of Architecture[8]
  • Kevin M. Ross (1994), president of Lynn University
  • William J. Simmons (1868), the second president of the eponymous Simmons College of Kentucky
  • Herbert Storing (1950), Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia

Government & politics[]

Journalism[]

  • Jack Belden (1932), war correspondent, Life, Time, author, China Shakes the World
  • Gloria Borger (1974), CNN, U.S. News & World Report, Washington Week, CBS special correspondent
  • Monica Crowley (1990), Richard Nixon biographer; political and international affairs analyst, Fox
  • Thomas A. Dine (1962), president, Radio Free Europe
  • Jeff Fager (1977), Chairman CBS News; executive producer, 60 Minutes
  • Howard Fineman (1970), chief political correspondent, senior editor, Newsweek
  • Michael Gordon (1972), chief military correspondent, bestselling author, New York Times
  • Chris Hedges (1979), war correspondent, New York Times
  • Bud Hedinger (1969), talk radio host
  • Michael Hiltzik (1973), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Los Angeles Times
  • (1990), Chief Investigative Reporter, NBC News, Emmy Award Winning Journalist NBC News
  • Christina Kelly (1983), teen magazine editor
  • David Lloyd (1983), sportscaster for ESPN
  • Austin Murphy, (1983), Senior writer, Sports Illustrated
  • Kevin Phillips (1961), publisher, American Political Research Corp.
  • Andy Rooney (1942), CBS-TV: 60 Minutes commentator, columnist
  • David Talbot (1986), Chief Correspondent, Technology Review
  • Rob Stone (1991), Reporter and Commentator, Fox Soccer
  • Priit Vesilind (1964), National Geographic Society Expedition's Editor and Senior Writer
  • Bob Woodruff (1983), ABC News foreign correspondent
  • Lee Woodruff (1982), wife of Bob Woodruff and author of In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing

Literature[]

  • Bill Barich (1965), author of Laughing in the Hills (1980), Hard to Be Good; Big Dreams: Into the Heart of California
  • Philip Beard (1985), novelist
  • Frederick Busch (1967), author, Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate (1976 to 2003)
  • Pamela Druckerman (1991), novelist, Bringing Up Bébé (The Penguin Press: 2012)
  • Kim Edwards (1981), novelist
  • James D. Hornfischer (1987), author, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, Neptune's Inferno, The Fleet at Flood Tide
  • Stephanie LaCava, (2004), author of An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris
  • Michael Lassell (1969), professional writer and editor
  • John McGahern, novelist, Adjunct Professor of English at Colgate (1981 to 2006)
  • Nathaniel Schmidt (1887), author, Baptist minister, educator and orientalist
  • Theodore Pratt, writer, journalist, author of numerous novels set in Florida

Religion[]

  • David Standish Ball (1950), bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Albany, N.Y.
  • George Ricker Berry (1897), Professor of Semitic Languages - also Professor Emeritus of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School.
  • James A. Corbett (1954), co-founder of the Sanctuary movement
  • Harry Emerson Fosdick (1900), pastor/author
  • Joseph Endom Jones (1876), Baptist minister, professor at Virginia Union University
  • Philip L. Wickeri, Adviser to the Archbishop of Hong Kong for theological and historical studies and Professor of Church History at Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Ming Hua Theological College

Science, technology and medicine[]

  • Oswald Avery (1900), helped lead groundbreaking DNA research
  • Erik Asmussen (2004), Independent app developer,[12] creator of Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball.
  • Albert Allen Bartlett (1944), physicist at University of Colorado Boulder, super conducting quantum interference device; arithmetic, population & energy
  • David DeWitt (1970), technical fellow at Microsoft, leading the Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab at Madison, Wisconsin
  • Gerald Fischbach, (1960), Scientific director overseeing the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative
  • Emil Frei, (1944), Helped to establish the concept of combinatorial chemotherapy as a way of treating cancer
  • Jay Jordan, president and CEO of OCLC
  • Alan A. Jones (1966), leading researcher in the field of NMR and polymer physics and professor of chemistry at Clark University
  • Cris Kobryn (1974), technologist, system architect, entrepreneur
  • Rudolph Leibel, (1963), scientist at Columbia University whose co-discovery at Rockefeller University of the hormone leptin, and cloning of the leptin and leptin receptor genes, has had a major role in the area of understanding human obesity.[13][14]
  • Cyrus Colton MacDuffee (1917), former president of the Mathematical Association of America (M.A.A)
  • A. Thomas McLellan (1970), Executive Director of the Treatment Research Institute in Philadelphia
  • Kevin Padian (1972), President of the National Center for Science Education
  • H. Guyford Stever (1938), former head of National Science Foundation/NASA

Sports[]

Current faculty[]

  • Anthony Aveni, professor of astronomy and anthropology, one of the founders of archaeoastronomy
  • Peter Balakian, professor of English, poet and writer, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2016
  • DeWitt Godfrey, associate professor art and art history
  • Thomas J. Balonek, professor of physics and astronomy
  • Joscelyn Godwin, professor of musicology
  • John Knecht, professor of art and art history
  • Amy Leventer, professor of geology, Antarctic researcher
  • , professor of English
  • Graham Russell Gao Hodges, professor of history and Africana & Latin American studies
  • Beth Parks, associate professor of physics & astronomy, editor-in-chief of American Journal of Physics.

List of presidents[]

  • (1836–1848)
  • (1851–1856)
  • (1856–1868)
  • (1868–1890)
  • George William Smith (1895–1897)
  • George Edmands Merrill (1899–1908)
  • Elmer Burritt Bryan (1909–1921)
  • George Barton Cutten (1922–1942)
  • (1942–1962)
  • (1963–1969)
  • Thomas A. Bartlett (1969–1977)
  • (1978–1988)
  • Neil R. Grabois (1988–1999)
  • (1999–2001)
  • Rebecca Chopp (2002–2009)
  • Jeffrey Herbst (2010–2015)
  • Brian Casey (2016–Present)

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