List of University of California, Santa Cruz people

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This page lists notable alumni and faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz; alumni may have attended without graduating.

Notable alumni[]

Academia[]

  • William Drea Adams – President of Colby College, Waterville, Maine
  • Michelle Anderson, B.A. 1989 – (born 1967) – President of Brooklyn College, and a scholar on rape law
  • Stefano Bloch, B.A. 2001 - Author, graffiti artist, and Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Arizona[1]
  • Hume A Feldman, BA 1984 – Professor and Chair, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Kansas, APS Fellow
  • Yoav Freund, Ph.D. 1994 – professor of computer science at the University of California San Diego, winner of the Gödel prize
  • Kristen R. Ghodsee, B.A. 1993 – Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College; winner of 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship
  • Alexander Gonzalez, Ph.D. 1979 – President of California State University, Sacramento
  • Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, artist and writer, School of Visual Arts
  • Victor Davis Hanson, B.A. 1975 – historian, Professor Emeritus of Classics at California State University, Fresno; Hoover Institution Fellow; 2007 National Humanities Medal recipient
  • Eva Simone Hayward, Women's Studies researcher on faculty at University of Arizona[2]
  • Caren Kaplan, Ph.D. – Professor of American Studies at UC Davis
  • Steven G. Krantz, B.A – Professor of Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis; winner of the Chauvenet Prize
  • Andrew Jolivette; Ph.D. – Professor of Ethnic Studies, senior specialist Native American and Indigenous Studies at University of California, San Diego
  • Annette Lareau, B.A. 1974 – Professor of Sociology at University of Pennsylvania
  • Lisa Lowe, Ph.D. – Professor of American Studies at Yale
  • Patricia Nelson Limerick – Professor of History at University of Colorado and a leading historian of the American West
  • Tod Machover – MIT Media Lab
  • Austin E. Quigley, Ph.D. – Dean of Columbia College of Columbia University
  • John R. Rickford, B.A. 1971 – Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University and African American Vernacular English or Ebonics expert
  • Sally Sedgwick, B.A. 1978 – Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Jeffrey C. Stewart, B.A. 1971 – Professor of Black Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Bret Weinstein, B.A. – American biologist and evolutionary theorist

Arts and letters[]

  • Will Bagley, BA 1971 – historian of 1800s American West
  • Michael A. Bellesiles, BA 1975 – author of a book "Arming America: The origins of a National Gun Culture" which won the Bancroft Prize in 2001; the prize was rescinded by Columbia University in 2002 as for having "violated basic norms of scholarship and the high standards expected of Bancroft Prize winners."
  • Susie Bright – writer, sex activist and sex therapy focus leader
  • Gail Carriger, MA 2008 – steampunk author
  • Maya Chinchilla, BA 2000 – Guatemalan-American poet
  • Fred Cohen, BA 1980 — Director of the School of Music & Dance, San Jose State University
  • David Farley- BA 1995 – Author of "An Irreverent Curiosity", food and travel writer
  • William Finnegan- BA 1974 – 2016 Pulitzer prize author of "Barbarian Days", journalist
  • Laurie Garrett, BA 1975 – Newsday science reporter and author, Pulitzer Prize winner
  • Philip Kan Gotanda – playwright
  • Reyna Grande, BA 1999 – author, American Book Award winner
  • Kira Lynn Harris, MFA 1998 – artist
  • bell hooks, PhD 1983 – feminist social critic
  • Miranda July[3] – filmmaker and writer
  • Lori Kay, BA 1986 – artist, sculptor[4]
  • Jayne Ann Krentz, BA 1970 – New York Times bestselling author
  • Katerina Lanfranco, BA 2001 – artist
  • Deborah Madison, BA 1968 – cookbook author, founding chef of the Greens Restaurant
  • Steve Martini, BA 1968 – bestselling mysteries author
  • Lou Mathews, BA 1973 – writer, "Best Book" of 1999 for L.A. Breakdown (L.A. Times)
  • Omar Musa – award-winning Australian author, poet and rapper
  • Kent Nagano, BA 1974 – conductor of the Los Angeles Opera and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra
  • Jenny Parks – comics artist, fan artist, and scientific illustrator[5][6]
  • Larry Polansky, BA – composer
  • Johanna Poethig, BA 1980 – visual, public and performance artist
  • Dana Priest, BA 1981 – Washington Post reporter and author; winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting and 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
  • Tanya Ragir, BA 1976 – artist
  • Tlaloc Rivas, BA 1995 – theatre director, writer, and professor
  • Joe Safdie, BA 1975 - poet
  • Michael Schennum, BA 2000 – photojournalist
  • Andrea Smith, PhD 2002 – Cherokee activist and author
  • David Talbot, BA – founder of Salon.com, author, journalist
  • Mark Teague, BA 1985 – author and illustrator of children's books
  • Hector Tobar, BA – Los Angeles Times columnist, author, winner of Pulitzer Prize in 1992
  • Bernt Wahl, BA 1984, BS 1986 – author and entrepreneur, Fulbright Fellow. November 1985 coined UC Santa Cruz motto ""
  • Annie Wells, BA 1981 – photographer, filmmaker, winner of Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1997
  • Lawrence Weschler, 1974 – author
  • Richard White – historian of American West, Native American history, and environmental history; MacArthur Foundation fellowship, 1995
  • Daniel James Wolf, BA 1983 – composer
  • Laurence Yep – author

Business[]

  • Jonah Peretti, BS 1996 – founder of BuzzFeed and Huffington Post
  • Sage Weil, PhD 2007, founder of Ceph
  • Susan Wojcicki, MS – CEO of YouTube

Entertainment and broadcasting[]

  • Lorin Ashton, aka Bassnectar – free-form electronic music artist and DJ
  • Jello Biafra[3] – singer and songwriter of the Dead Kennedys
  • Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, BA, filmmaker (V/H/S, Southbound) and guitarist for Link 80
  • Brannon Braga[3] – award-winning film writer for Star Trek Generations and an executive producer of 24
  • Bill Carter, BA Politics, Economics – documentary film director and author
  • Rick Carter, BA, Oscar-winning art director and production designer
  • John Craigie, BA Mathematics 2002 – folk singer
  • Dennis Delaney, BA Anthropology 1976 – writer and actor
  • Brett Dennen – singer, songwriter
  • Jacob Aaron Estes, BA 1994 – film screenwriter and director
  • Sven Gamsky, aka Still Woozy BA 2014 – musician, songwriter
  • Anne Flett-Giordano, BA 1976 – television writer and producer (Kate & Allie, Frasier, Desperate Housewives)
  • Cary Joji Fukunaga, BA 1999 – Award-winning filmmaker and showrunner (Sin Nombre, True Detective, Beasts of No Nation)
  • Matthew Gray Gubler,[3] BA – actor (Criminal Minds') and director
  • Richard Gunn, BA 1997 – actor (Dark Angel, Granite Flats, and For the Love of Money)
  • Richard Harris – National Public Radio science reporter
  • Antony Hegarty – attended in late 1980s – Composer and singer for Antony and the Johnsons, and visual artist
  • Alice Inoue – former television presenter and author
  • Ethan Klein, BA English Literature 2009 – YouTube video blogger and satirist known for h3h3Productions
  • Elissa Knight, BA Theater & English Literature 1997 - voice actress
  • Victor Krummenacher[3] – bassist for Camper Van Beethoven, Monks of Doom
  • Gretchen Lieberum – singer, songwriter
  • David Lowery, BA 1984 – singer and songwriter for Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker
  • Camryn Manheim, BA 1984 – actress
  • Barry Mendel – film producer (Rushmore, Sixth Sense, Munich, Funny People)
  • Stephen Mirrione, BA – Academy Award-winning film editor
  • Dacoury Natche, aka DJ Dahi – Grammy nominated Hip-hop producer
  • Bradley Nowell,[3] singer and songwriter with Sublime
  • Marti Noxon, BA – TV producer
  • Joe Palca, PhD 1982 – National Public Radio science reporter
  • Jack Passion, BA 2006 – competitive beard grower and star of IFC's Whisker Wars
  • Stephanie Foo, BA 2008 – Radio producer for This American Life.
  • Rebecca Romijn[3] – supermodel, actress
  • Maya Rudolph, BA 1995 – SNL cast member
  • Andy Samberg,[3] BA – Saturday Night Live cast member
  • Tim Schafer[3] – game designer for LucasArts and founder of Doublefine Productions
  • Akiva Schaffer, BA – Saturday Night Live writer, filmmaker
  • Stuart Schuffman, aka Broke-Ass Stuart, BA 2003 – travel writer, poet, host of IFC's Young Broke & Beautiful
  • Jonathan Segel, BA 1985 – composer, multi-instrumentalist for Camper Van Beethoven
  • Nikki Silva, BA 1973 – one half of The Kitchen Sisters, who are regularly featured on NPR
  • Julie Snyder, BA 1995 – producer of NPR's Serial (podcast) and S-Town
  • Chris Tashima[3] – actor, Academy Award-winning filmmaker
  • Jesse Thorn, BS – host of NPR's Bullseye with Jesse Thorn and co-host of Jordan, Jesse, Go!
  • Rubén Valtierra, BA – keyboardist for "Weird Al" Yankovic
  • Ally Walker, BS – actress known for roles in Profiler, Sons of Anarchy, and The Protector
  • Gillian Welch, BA 1990 – singer and songwriter
  • Rich Wilkes, BA 1988 – writer, filmmaker (Billy Madison, Stoned Age, Beer Money, XXX, Airheads)

Law[]

  • Nate Cardozo, BA 2003 – privacy and civil rights attorney, currently managing privacy at WhatsApp
  • Vince Girdhari Chhabria, BA 1991 – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Joan E. Donoghue, BA 1978 – judge, International Court of Justice
  • Ricardo García, BA 1991 – public defender for Los Angeles County
  • Rachel Goslins, BA 1991 – copyright attorney, Director of the Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Museum, former Executive Director of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
  • Charles Harder, BA 1991 – entertainment and civil lawyer known for representing President Donald Trump, Melania Trump, and many celebrities.
  • Ellen Leonida, BA 1993 – defense attorney for Scott Dyleski

Politics and public life[]

  • Bettina Aptheker, PhD – leader in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement
  • Charles Harder, BA, 1991 — personal lawyer to President Donald Trump [7]
  • Katherine Canavan, BA – former United States Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana and United States Ambassador to Lesotho
  • Don Lane, former mayor of Santa Cruz, California
  • John Doolittle, BA 1972 – Member, U.S. House of Representatives, California 4th Congressional District
  • Ron Gonzales, BA – Mayor of San Jose, California, 1999–2006
  • Victor Davis Hanson, BA 1975 – Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
  • James Charles Kopp, BA Biology 1976 – murderer of Buffalo abortion doctor Barnett Slepian in 1998; convicted in 2003 and serving sentence of 25 years to life
  • John Laird, BA 1972 – California Natural Resources Agency Secretary, former California Assemblyman, and Mayor of Santa Cruz
  • Azadeh Moaveni, BA – journalist and writer
  • Huey P. Newton, BA 1974, PhD 1980 – Co-founding member of the Black Panther Party
  • Aaron Peskin, San Francisco Board of Supervisors member
  • Drummond Pike, BA 1970 – Tides Foundation founder, philanthropist, and social entrepreneur
  • Art Torres, BA 1968 – California Democratic Party Chairman, former California State Senator

Science[]

  • Richard Bandler, MA 1975[8] – co-creator of neuro-linguistic programming
  • Joseph DeRisi, BA 1992 – molecular biologist, professor at UC San Francisco, MacArthur Fellow, known for work on SARS and malaria
  • Alan Dressler, PhD 1976, staff astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science, member of the National Academy of Sciences, cosmologist, author
  • J. Doyne Farmer, PhD 1981 – pioneer in chaos theory, Prediction Company, Santa Fe Institute
  • Debra Fischer, PhD 1998, Professor of Astronomy at Yale University, planet finder
  • Yoav Freund, PhD 1993 – computer scientist, professor at University of California, San Diego, inventor of AdaBoost
  • John Grinder, PhD 1971 – linguist, co-creator of neuro-linguistic programming[9]
  • Howard Hang, BS 1998 – Professor of Chemistry at Rockefeller University
  • Steven Hawley, PhD 1977 – astronaut, Professor of Physics at the University of Kansas
  • Holly Jones, BS – restoration ecologist and conservation biologist, associate professor at Northern Illinois University
  • Stacy Jupiter, PhD 2003 — Director of the Melanesia Program for the Wildlife Conservation Society, MacArthur Fellows Program
  • Geoffrey Marcy, PhD 1982 – Professor of Astronomy at UC Berkeley, planet finder, and member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Lara Mahal, BA 1996 – Professor of Chemistry at New York University
  • Marc Okrand, BA 1972 – linguist, creator of the Klingon language
  • Julie Packard, BA 1974, MA 1978 — Founder and executive director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium
  • Mark M. Phillips, PhD 1978 – staff astronomer at Las Campanas Observatory, inventor of the Phillips relationship, pioneer in supernova cosmology
  • Rob Shaw, PhD 1980 – MacArthur Award for work on chaos theory, 1988
  • Pamela Silver, BA 1974 – Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, first Director of Harvard University Systems Biology Graduate Program, synthetic biologist
  • Deborah Steinberg, PhD 1973 – biological oceanographer, Antarctic researcher
  • Kathryn D. Sullivan, BS 1973 – astronaut, science museum CEO (COSI Columbus), Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, NOAA Administrator
  • Nicholas B. Suntzeff, PhD 1980 – Professor of Astronomy at Texas A&M University; cosmologist; co-founder of High-Z Supernova Search Team, which discovered dark energy
  • Sage Weil, PhD 2007, founder of Ceph

Sports[]

Notable faculty[]

  • Ralph Abraham – professor emeritus of mathematics, notable for founding the Visual Mathematics Institute and for his pioneering work on chaos theory
  • Bettina Aptheker – professor of feminist studies and history
  • Elliot Aronson – professor emeritus of psychology; author of The Social Animal and Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion after Columbine; creator of the Jigsaw Classroom model; one of the few psychologists to win the American Psychological Association's highest honor in all three fields
  • Reyner Banham – late professor of art history and a preeminent architectural historian, in particular of the modern era
  • Tom Banks – professor of physics. Known for work on string theory, elementary particle physics, and cosmology
  • Gregory Bateson – late lecturer and fellow of Kresge College; anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist
  • George R. Blumenthal – professor of astronomy and astrophysics, and chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Norman O. Brown – late professor emeritus of humanities
  • William L. Burke – late professor of physics (cosmologist); chaos theory "godfather"
  • James H. Clark – assistant professor of information science, founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape
  • James Clifford – professor of history of consciousness, known for publications of postmodernist and postcolonial interpretations of anthropology and ethnography
  • David Cope – professor of music; notable for his experiments in A.I. and computer-created musical compositions
  • Angela Davis – professor of history of consciousness, writer, activist
  • John Dizikes – professor emeritus of American studies, author, won the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award
  • Frank Drake – professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics; proposed the Drake Equation; member of the AAAS (elected 1974)[10]
  • William Everson – late lecturer and poet-in-residence
  • Sandra M. Faber – professor of astronomy and astrophysics; instrumental in inventing cold dark matter theory and fundamental work in the field of galaxy formation and evolution; member of the NAS (elected 1985), the AAAS (elected 1989),[10] and the American Philosophical Society (elected 2001)
  • Alison Galloway – forensic anthropologist who worked in identifying the physical remains of Laci Peterson in the Scott Peterson Trial [10]
  • Shelly Grabe – associate professor of social psychology and scholar-activist in women's human rights
  • Craig Haney – professor of psychology and instrumental researcher in the Stanford Prison Experiment
  • Donna Haraway – professor of history of consciousness; doctorate in biology; often-cited author of feminist history of science and culture studies of cyborg
  • David Haussler – professor of biomolecular engineering; he and his team assembled the public draft human genome and developed the Genome Browser as part of the Human Genome Project; member of the AAAS (elected 2006)[10] and the National Academy of Sciences
  • George Herbig – emeritus professor of astronomy and astrophysics, pioneer in the study of star formation, discoverer of the Herbig Ae/Be stars and Herbig-Haro Objects, member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • George Hitchcock – late lecturer, poetry and theater
  • David A. Huffman – deceased; founding faculty of the Information and Computer Science Board; developed Huffman coding
  • Frederic Jameson – professor of history of consciousness; cultural critic and theorist of the post-modern; published the essay "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism", a significant investigation into contemporary culture and the political economy
  • Jim Kent – associate research scientist in the Department of Biomolecular Engineering; directs the genome browser development and quality assurance staff of the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group; created the computer program that assembled the first working draft of the human genome sequence; participates in the public consortium efforts to produce, assemble, and annotate genomes
  • Robert P. Kraft – professor of astronomy and astrophysics, stellar astronomer, member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cynthia Ling Lee – professor of theatre arts, known for postmodern and classical Indian dance
  • Tom Lehrer – lecturer in American studies and mathematics; known for his satire and songwriting
  • Darrell Long – professor of computer science and engineering, fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Chip Lord – professor of film and digital media; member of Ant Farm, a groundbreaking, experimental art and architecture collective he founded in 1968 with fellow architect Doug Michels
  • Nathaniel Mackey – poet and editor
  • Dominic W. Massaro – professor of psychology and computer engineering; originator of the fuzzy logical model of perception, one of the leading theories of speech perception
  • Claire Ellen Max – professor of astronomy and astrophysics, member of the AAAS (elected 2002)[10] and the National Academy of Sciences
  • Gordon Mumma – professor emeritus of music, composer
  • Richard Abel Musgrave – member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1961)[10]
  • Jerry Nelson – professor of astronomy and astrophysics; pioneered the use of mirror segments, making the Keck telescopes possible; member of the NAS
  • Harry Noller – professor of biology. RNA research; member of the [American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1969)[10] and the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1992)
  • Donald E. Osterbrock – member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1968)[10] and the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1966)
  • Micah Perks – fiction writer and memoirist
  • Larry Polansky – professor of music, composer and performing artist
  • Joel Primack – professor of physics, noted cosmologist; renowned for Cold Dark Matter Theory proposed along with Sandra Faber (see above) and Sir Martin Rees
  • Geoffrey Pullum – professor of linguistics and distinguished professor of humanities; co-author of Cambridge Grammar of the English Language; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2003)[10]
  • Adrienne Rich – late professor, poet and essayist
  • Constance M. Rockosi – chair of the astronomy and astrophysics department
  • Page Smith – Historian
  • Michael Ellman Soule – member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2005)[10]
  • Ben Stein – former professor of economics, more notable for his work as a comedian, actor and political commentator
  • Stephen Thorsett – professor of astronomy and astrophysics; dean of physical and biological science; known for work on properties of compact stars
  • Anna Tsing – professor of anthropology; Guggenheim Fellow and Niels Bohr Professorship
  • Noah Wardrip-Fruin – associate professor of computer science, digital media and interactive fiction researcher
  • Hayden White – member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1991)[10]
  • Jim Whitehead – chair of Computer Science and creator of WebDAV
  • Harold Widom – member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2006)[10]
  • Stanford E. Woosley – professor of astronomy and astrophysics; noted for his work on supernova gamma ray bursts; member of the NAS (elected 2006) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2001)[10]
  • Karen Tei Yamashita – author and playwright, recipient of the National Book Award's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2021

Notes and references[]

  1. ^ "Stefano Bloch". School of Geography, Development & Environment. June 11, 2019.
  2. ^ "Eva Hayward, The Department of Gender & Women's Studies". gws.arizona.edu. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Attended but did not graduate.
  4. ^ Hallmark, Kara Kelley (2007). Encyclopedia of Asian American Artists, Artists of the American mosaic. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 87–90. ISBN 978-0313334511.
  5. ^ Czeck, Jessica (May 15, 2013). "Feline Fantasies: Cat Superheroes by Jenny Parks". Visual News. Visual News. Archived from the original on July 29, 2015. Retrieved September 14, 2016.
  6. ^ Hatheway, Cameron (June 12, 2015). "Catvengers, Assemble! The CatConLA Interview With Jenny Parks". Bleeding Cool. Rich Johnston. Retrieved September 14, 2016.
  7. ^ Pierce, Jacob (November 7, 2018). "How Charles Harder Went From UCSC Democrat to Trump's Top Lawyer".
  8. ^ BA from UCSC in 1972, MA – Lone Mountain College, 1975
  9. ^ John Grinder (1971). On deletion phenomena in English. Thesis (PhD. in Linguistics). University of California, San Diego. OCLC 17641707
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m Bulletin of the American Academy, Fall 2006, pp 66 – 104, "List of Active Members by Classes" Archived 2005-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, accessed July 17, 2007
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