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The following is a list of notable individuals associated with
Barnard College through attendance as a student, service as a member of the faculty or staff, or award of the Barnard Medal of Distinction.
Notable alumnae
Academics and scientists
Anne Anastasi (1928), American psychologist known for her pioneering development of
psychometrics , former president of the American Psychological Association, recipient of the National Medal of Science
Naomi André (1989), professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Natalie Angier (1978), author, science journalist for The New York Times , winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting
Nina Ansary (1989), historian, author, one of the six UN Women Champions for Innovation, daughter of Iranian diplomat and philanthropist
Hushang Ansary
Cicely Applebaum Ryshpan (1904-2004), economist who worked with labor unions, the US federal government, various United Nations agencies, and the World Bank
Jacqueline Barton (1974), Caltech chemist and
MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant" winner
Jean Baum (1980), Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University
Sally Benson (1977), professor of energy engineering at Stanford University
Helen M. Berman (1964), Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University
Martha Biondi (1985), professor of African American studies at Northwestern University
Joan Birman (1948), mathematician and winner of the
Chauvenet Prize
Hazel Bishop (1929),
chemist and inventor of innovative cosmetics
Edyta Bojanowska (1993), professor of Slavic languages and literature at Yale University
Hendrika B. Cantwell (1944), clinical professor of pediatrics,
advocate for abused and neglected children
Margaret I. Carman (1890-1976), teacher at Flushing High School
Marian Chertow (1977), academic specializing in
environmental resource management
Susan Cole (1962), first female president of Montclair State University
Frances Gardiner Davenport (1890–1), historian
[1]
Stacey D'Erasmo (1983), American author and critic, professor at Fordham University
Jerrilynn Dodds (1973), art historian, former dean of Sarah Lawrence College
Ingrith Johnson Deyrup-Olsen (1940), American zoologist, daughter of The New School founder and first president
Alvin Saunders Johnson
Mabel Smith Douglass (1899), educator and namesake of Douglass Residential College of Rutgers University
Carol Dweck (1967), professor of psychology at Stanford University
Pam Eddinger (1982), president of Bunker Hill Community College
Jessica Einhorn (1967), former dean of the
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Hope Tisdale Eldridge (1925), physical educator, demographer and statistician at the
United Nations
Firth Haring Fabend (1959), novelist and historian
Nancy Farriss (1959), historian, professor at University of Pennsylvania
Jessica Garretson Finch (1893), author, suffragette, founding President of Finch College
Katherine Elizabeth Fleming (1987), provost of New York University
Katherine Franke (1981), professor at Columbia Law School
Ellen V. Futter (1971), President of Barnard College and the
American Museum of Natural History
Susan Gal (1970), anthropologist, professor at University of Chicago
Lynn Garafola (1968), dance historian
Virginia Gildersleeve (1899), Dean of Barnard College and delegate to the charter conference of the United Nations in 1945
Karen Goldberg (1983), Vagelos Professor of Energy Research at University of Pennsylvania
[2]
Nieca Goldberg (1979), doctor at the
NYU Langone Medical Center
Rebecca Goldstein (1972), philosopher, biographer, and novelist
Ruth Gottesman (1952), professor of pediatrics at
Albert Einstein College of Medicine , philanthropist, wife of
David Gottesman
Monica Green (1978), medieval historian and Professor of History at Arizona State University
[3]
Maxine Greene (1938), educator, philosopher, activist; past president of the
American Educational Research Association
Patricia Greenspan (1966), professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park
Miriam Griffin (1956), classical scholar at Somerville College, Oxford
Ellen R. Gritz (1964), cancer researcher at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Ruth T. Gross (1941), pediatrician, first woman to hold an endowed chair at Stanford University
Evelyn Byrd Harrison (1941), classical scholar, archaeologist, Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Martha Himmelfarb (1974), scholar of religion, professor at Harvard University
Louise Holland (1893–1990), academic, philologist and archaeologist
Lise Morjé Howard (1991), political scientist, professor at Georgetown University
Judith Herzfeld (1967), Professor of Biophysical Chemistry at Brandeis University
Evelyn Hu (1969), Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University
Jean Blackwell Hutson (1969), librarian, archivist, chief of the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Karla Jay (1968), pioneer of lesbian and gay studies
Madlyn M. Kahr (1913–2004; B.A. 1933), American art historian and educator; professor at University of California, San Diego
[4]
[5]
Frances Kamm (1960), philosopher, professor at Rutgers University
Darcy Kelley (1970), American neurobiologist, professor at Columbia University
Linda K. Kerber (1960), feminist intellectual historian, professor at University of Iowa
Mirra Komarovsky (1926), sociologist; pioneer in the
sociology of gender
Mabel Lang (1939), archeologist and professor at Bryn Mawr College
Linda Laubenstein , MD (1969), HIV/AIDS researcher
Sylvia Lavin (1982), professor at the
Princeton University School of Architecture
Janna Levin (1988), cosmologist and Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College
Helen Longino (1960), philosopher of science, professor at Stanford University
Susan Lowey (1950), biophysicist and professor of the University of Vermont
Susan Mailer (1971), American psychoanalyst, writer, and academic, daughter of novelist
Norman Mailer
Joyce Lee Malcolm (1963), professor at
Antonin Scalia Law School
Rita Gunther McGrath (1981), business book author; Professor at Columbia Business School
Elizabeth M. McNally (1983), geneticist, professor at Northwestern University
Eileen McNamara (1974), professor of journalism at Brandeis University; formerly Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of The Boston Globe
Margaret Mead (1923), anthropologist famous for Coming of Age in Samoa
Barbara Stoler Miller (1962), scholar of Sanskrit literature known for a translation of the
Bhagavad Gita
Nancy K. Miller (1961), American literary scholar, feminist theorist and memoirist, professor at
Graduate Center, CUNY
Dorothy Miner (1926), American art historian, curator at
Walters Art Museum
Gertrude Moakley (1926) American
librarian and noted Tarot scholar.
[6]
Cathryn Nagler (1979), immunologist, professor at the University of Chicago
Eva Neer (1959), American chemist, professor at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Gertrude Neumark (1948), American physicist and former professor of Columbia University
Elissa L. Newport (1969), American psycholinguist, professor at Georgetown University
Barbara Novak (1950), art historian at Barnard College, 1982
National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist
Aihwa Ong (1974), American anthropologist and professor at University of California, Berkeley and 2001 MacArthur Fellow
Anne Paolucci (1947), Italian American writer, dramatist, professor at St. John's University in New York
Elsie Clews Parsons (1896), first woman elected President of the
American Anthropological Association
Esther Pasztory (1965), scholar of
Pre-Columbian Art at Columbia University
Marjorie Perloff (1953), professor of English at Stanford University
Helen Perlstein Pollard (1967), archaeologist, ethnologist,
Mesoamericanist scholar, professor of anthropology at
MSU
Helen Ranney (1941), first woman to lead a university department of medicine in the U.S., be president of the
Association of American Physicians , or serve as a Distinguished Physician of the
Veterans Administration
[7]
Amy Richards (1992), American historian and feminist activist
Ida Rolf (1916), biochemist, founder of
Rolfing Structural Integration
Barbara Rose (1957), art historian and founding director of the
Katzen Arts Center at American University; first wife of artist
Frank Stella
Ora Mendelsohn Rosen (1956),
cell biology researcher
Louise Rosenblatt (1920s), influential literary theorist and educator
Joan Ruderman (1969), professor at Harvard University
Mavis Sanders (1987), research scholar
[8]
Myriam Sarachik (1954), American physicist, professor at the
City College of New York and recipient of the
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize in 2005
Kim Lane Scheppele (1975), political scientist, professor at
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Anna Schwartz (1933), economist
Megumi Yamaguchi Shinoda (1908), first
Asian American woman to graduate from
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and one of the first women of Japanese ancestry in the United States to receive a
Doctor of Medicine degree
Shuly Rubin Schwartz (1988), first female chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Anne A. Scitovsky (1937), health economist, former member of the
President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research
Susan C. Scrimshaw (1967), medical anthropologist, former president of Simmons University and The Sage Colleges
Samah Selim (1986), professor of Arabic literature at Rutgers University
Louise Slade (1968), food scientist
Vivian Sobchack (1961), cultural critic
Maya Soetoro-Ng (1993), educator; half-sister of President
Barack Obama
Judith E. Stein (1965), art historian and curator
Barbara J. Stoll (1971), former dean of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Barbara Lerner Spectre (1964), academic and scholar on
Jewish studies
Amy Sueyoshi (1993), historian and academic
Susan Rubin Suleiman (1960), professor of French literature at Harvard University
Hessy Levinsons Taft (1955), chemistry professor at St. John's University in New York
Abigail Thernstrom (1958), American political scientist and conservative scholar on race relations, voting rights and education who served on the
United States Commission on Civil Rights
Erin L. Thompson (2002), professor of art at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Judith Jarvis Thomson (1950), philosopher and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Merryl Tisch (1977), educator, chancellor,
New York State Board of Regents ; wife of
James S. Tisch , heir to the Loews Corporation
Nim Tottenham (1996), professor of psychology at Columbia University
Jessie Ann Owens (1971), professor of music at University of California, Davis
Diane E. Pataki (1993), professor at the University of Utah and recipient of the
James B. Macelwane Medal in 2008
Lila Wallis (1947), physician, former president of the
American Medical Women's Association and pioneer in women's health
Beatrice Warde (1920s), calligrapher, librarian, researcher on typography
[9]
Katherine Brehme Warren (1930), geneticist and scientific editor
Susan Weber (1977), professor of Bard Graduate Center and wife of
George Soros
Helen L. Webster (1853-1928), philologist and educator
Judith Weisenfeld (1986), scholar of
Afro-American religion , professor at Princeton University
Karen Wilkin (1962), art critic and curator
Irene J. Winter (1960), American art historian, professor at Harvard University
Actresses and performers
Sissy Biggers (1979), host of
Ready.. Set... Cook! 1996–2000
Franziska Boas (1923), dancer, percussionist and dance therapist
Clara Bryant (2007), actress
Catherine de Castelbajac (1975), model and fashion journalist
Michelle Collins (2002), American comedian and talk show host, former presenter of
The View
Jill Eikenberry (1968), actress
Denise Faye (1996), director, choreographer, actress
Greta Gerwig (2006), actress, screenwriter, filmmaker who won the
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy in 2018 and was nominated for two
Academy Awards
Jaime Gleicher (2010), reality star, producer, psychotherapist.
Lauren Graham (1988), actress, played
Lorelai Gilmore on TV show
Gilmore Girls
Sprague Grayden (2000s), actress, played Judith Montgomery on
Joan of Arcadia
Alexandra Guarnaschelli (1991), celebrity chef at Butter Restaurant in New York City, television personality
Anshula Kapoor (2012), daughter of Indian film producer
Boney Kapoor and member of the
Kapoor family in Hindi cinema
Shari Lewis (dropped out – 1950s),
ventriloquist ,
puppeteer , television show host
Mozhan Marnò (2001), actress,
House of Cards
Peggy McCay (1949), actress
Kelly McCreary (2003), actress,
Grey's Anatomy
Julie Mond (2000s), actress
Cynthia Nixon (1988), actress, played
Miranda Hobbes on TV show
Sex and the City
Chelsea Peretti (2000), actress, writer for TV show
Parks and Recreation
Lee Remick (dropped out – 1953), actress
Ariane Rinehart (2015), actress, played Liesl on
The Sound of Music Live!
Joan Rivers (1954), star comedian, TV host
Christy Carlson Romano (2009), actress, voice of
Kim Possible
Frankie Shaw (2007), actress on
Mr. Robot
Vinessa Shaw (dropped out – 1990s), actress,
40 Days and 40 Nights
Ebonie Smith (2007), actress,
The Jeffersons
Leslie Stefanson (1993), actress,
The General's Daughter
Zuzanna Szadkowski (2001), actress, played
Dorota on TV show
Gossip Girl
Sophia Takal (2007), actress and director
Twyla Tharp (1963), choreographer, dancer
Sarah Thompson (1990s), television actress
Donna Vivino (2000), actress and singer
Jane Wyatt (1932),
Emmy Award -winning actress,
Father Knows Best
Architects
Artists
Afruz Amighi (1997), Iranian-born American sculptor, installation artist.
[10]
March Avery (1954), American painter, daughter of artist
Milton Avery
Sana Amanat (2005), comic book creator and director at
Marvel Comics , creator of Marvel's first Muslim female superhero,
Ms. Marvel
Polly Barton (1978), textile artist
Susan Bee (1973), American painter
Sarah Charlesworth (1969), photographer and
conceptual artist and professor at
Princeton University
Madeline Hollander (2008), American artist and choreographer
Amy Hwang (2000), Asian American cartoonist for
The New Yorker
Clermont Huger Lee (1936), landscape architect,
Savannah Women of Vision
Michelle Lopez (1992), American sculptor and installation artist and 2019
Guggenheim Fellowship recipient
Maud Morgan (1926), modern artist
Josephine Paddock (1949), painter
Jane Teller (1933), sculptor and recipient of the 1988
Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award
Mierle Laderman Ukeles (1961), performance artist, winner of the 2001
Anonymous Was A Woman Award
Donna Zakowska (1975),
Emmy Award -winning American costume designer for her work on
John Adams
Athletes
Businesswomen
Flora Miller Biddle (attended), former president of the
Whitney Museum of American Art , granddaughter of
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Eileen Ford (1943), co-founder of
Ford Models , one of the world's oldest and most influential
modeling agencies
Phyllis E. Grann (1958), first female CEO of
Penguin Putnam and editor of
Knopf Doubleday
Elinor Guggenheimer (1933), civic leader, philanthropist
Alexandra Creel Goelet (1974), heiress, niece of
Robert David Lion Gardiner , wife of
Robert Guestier Goelet and owner of
Gardiners Island
Nina Griscom (1977), model, television host, socialite, businesswoman, stepdaughter of
Felix Rohatyn
Mary Harriman Rumsey (1905), founder of nonprofit organization
Junior League , daughter of railroad magnate
E. H. Harriman and sister to New York Governor
W. Averell Harriman
Anjli Jain (2003), executive director of
CampusEAI Consortium
Madeline Kripke (1943–2020), book collector
Harriet Burton Laidlaw (1902), suffragist and first female corporate director of
Standard & Poor's
Adele Lewisohn Lehman (1903), philanthropist and member of the
Lehman family , daughter-in-law of
Mayer Lehman
Liz Neumark (1977), founder and CEO of New York catering company Great Performances
[12]
Sheila Nevins (1960), president of
HBO documentary films; winner of 27
Primetime Emmy Awards and 3
Peabody Awards
Joan Whitney Payson (1925), co-founder and majority of owner of the
New York Mets ,
[13] granddaughter of
United States Secretary of State
John Hay and member of the
Whitney family
Azita Raji (1983), investment banker,
United States Ambassador to Sweden
Helen Rogers Reid (1903), newspaper publisher, president of the
New York Herald Tribune
Phyllis Robinson (1942), executive at
Doyle Dane Bernbach
Cindy Rose (1985), president of
Microsoft Western Europe
Devorah Rose (2002), socialite, entrepreneur and editor of Social Life magazine
Alexis Stewart (1987), daughter of
Martha Stewart '64; TV host and radio personality
Martha Stewart (1964), business magnate, entrepreneur, homemaking advocate
Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger (1914), heiress, and owner of
The New York Times , daughter of
The New York Times publisher
Adolph Ochs
Elizabeth Wiatt (1967), businesswoman in the fashion industry
Virginia Wright (1951), art collector, philanthropist who supported
Seattle Art Museum
Journalists
Natalie Angier (1978), author and science writer for
The New York Times ; won the
Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting in 1991
Jami Bernard (1978), film critic for
The New York Post and
The New York Daily News , founder of Barncat Publishing Inc.; author whose books include a memoir of surviving breast cancer
Katherine Boo (1988), recipient of
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2000 and the
MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant"
Mona Charen (1979), nationally syndicated columnist, political analyst, and author
Liz Clarke (1983), journalist for
The Washington Post , co-host of
The Tony Kornheiser Show
Herawati Diah (1941), Indonesian journalist
Deborah Feyerick (1987), journalist and CNN correspondent
Laura Flanders (1984), correspondent for
Air America and host of "GritTV"
Sylvana Foa (1967), first female news director of an American television network; first Spokeswoman for Secretary General of the United Nations
Rana Foroohar (1992), columnist for
Financial Times
Alexis Gelber (1974), former president of the
Overseas Press Club
Julianna Goldman (2003),
CBS News correspondent
Piri Halasz , correspondent for
Time magazine and art critic
Maria Hinojosa (1984), correspondent for
CNN ;
NOW on
PBS ; host of
NPR 's
Latino USA
Cathy Horyn , fashion journalist, New York Times fashion critic
Freda Kirchwey (1915), journalist, editor and publisher of
The Nation
Alex Kuczynski (1990), style reporter for
The New York Times , daughter of Peruvian president
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Minna Lewinson (1918), journalist for
The New York Times , first woman to win a
Pulitzer Prize
Juliet Macur (1992), sports journalist for
The New York Times
Courtney E. Martin (2002), feminist author and editor of the feminist blog
Feministing
Agnes E. Meyer (1907), American journalist, philanthropist,
civil rights activist , and
art patron , mother of
The Washington Post publisher
Katharine Graham
Judith Miller (1969), former correspondent for New York Times who reported on the story of
Iraq 's alleged
WMD program;
Aspen Strategy Group member
Nonnie Moore (c. 1946), fashion editor at
Mademoiselle ,
Harper's Bazaar and
GQ
[14]
Mary Ellis Peltz , music critic, poet, and first chief editor of
Opera News
Anna Quindlen (1974), author and columnist for
Newsweek who won the
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992
Paola Ramos (2009), American journalist, daughter of TV anchor
Jorge Ramos
Atoosa Rubenstein (1993), founder of
CosmoGirl and editor-in-chief of
Seventeen ; youngest ever editor of a teen magazine
Susan Stamberg (1959), special correspondent,
NPR 's
Morning Edition , former host of
All Things Considered and the first woman in the United States to anchor a national nightly news program
Mary V. R. Thayer (1926), socialite, journalist, and author
[15]
Jeannette Walls (1984), gossip columnist for
MSNBC ; author of The Glass Castle
Sharon Waxman (born c.1963), journalist
Beverly Weintraub (1982),
Pulitzer Prize -winning editorial writer for
New York Daily News
Lis Wiehl (1983), legal analyst for
Fox News
Ellen Willis (1960s), essayist and pop music critic
Julie Zeilinger (2015), feminist writer and editor
Musicians, singers, and composers
Laurie Anderson (1969), musician,
NASA 's first artist-in-residence and pioneer in
electronic music , famous for her single "
O Superman "
Sadie Dupuis (2011), vocalist for
Speedy Ortiz
Dorothy Papadakos (1982), concert organist, playwright, and author
Louise Post , lead singer and guitarist of alternative rock band
Veruca Salt
Roxanne Seeman (1975), songwriter
Faye-Ellen Silverman (1968), composer
Jeanine Tesori (1983),
Broadway composer
Suzanne Vega (1981), singer-songwriter, "
Luka ", "
Tom's Diner "
Playwrights, screenwriters, and directors
Jamie Babbit (1993), director of
But I'm a Cheerleader and
Itty Bitty Titty Committee , and television shows including
Gilmore Girls ,
Alias , and
Ugly Betty
June Bingham Birge (1940), author, playwright, great-granddaughter of
Mayer Lehman
Debra Black (1976),
Tony Award -winning producer, wife of
Apollo Global Management co-founder
Leon Black
Petra Costa (2006),
Academy Award -nominated director,
The Edge of Democracy , heiress to the
Andrade Gutierrez fortune
Helen Deutsch (1927), screenwriter,
Lili ,
National Velvet ,
King Solomon's Mines
Delia Ephron (1966), author, screenwriter, playwright,
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ,
You've Got Mail
Greta Gerwig (2006), actor, screenwriter, and
Academy Award -nominated director,
Lady Bird ,
Little Women
Stephanie Gillis (1990), writer, and
Peabody Award -winning writer, (2020), “
The Simpsons ”;
WGA Award -winning writer (2019); “
The Simpsons ”,
Emmy Award -nominated writer, “
The Simpsons ” (2010, 2015)
Maria Semple (1986), screenwriter,
Arrested Development ,
Mad About You
Bettina Gilois (1985), screenwriter,
Bessie ,
McFarland, USA
Gina Gionfriddo (1991),
Pulitzer Prize -nominated playwright
Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal (1966),
Golden Globe Award -winning screenwriter; mother of
Maggie and
Jake Gyllenhaal
Kait Kerrigan (2003), playwright
Bonnie Sherr Klein (1961), filmmaker and activist
Annie Leonard (1986), activist and director,
The Story of Stuff
Ntozake Shange (1970),
Obie Award -winning playwright,
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Veena Sud (1989), director of
Seven Seconds
Amy Talkington (1993),
Emmy Award -nominated screenwriter, producer, writer
Linda Yellen (1969),
Emmy Award -winning director,
Northern Lights ; producer,
Playing for Time
Juli Weiner (2010),
Emmy Award -winning writer,
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Political, social and judicial figures
Sheila Abdus-Salaam (1974), judge of the
New York Court of Appeals
Ann Aldrich (1948), judge of the
United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Elizabeth Moore Aubin (1987), nominee to serve as the
United States Ambassador to Algeria
Caroline Lexow Babcock (1904), co-founder of the
Women's Peace Union and former secretary of the
National Woman's Party
Grace Lee Boggs (1935), author and political activist
Margot Botsford (1969), associate justice of the
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Janet Lee Bouvier (1929), American socialite and mother of
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Claire C. Cecchi (1986), judge of the
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum (1952),
United States District Court judge
Hagar Chemali , Political Satirist, Writer, Producer, Television Personality, and Political Commentator
Nora Hsiung Chu (1926), Chinese educator who served on the
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
Ellie Cohanim (1995), broadcast journalist and Deputy
Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism
Sharon L. Cromer (1980), nominee to serve as
United States Ambassador to the Gambia
Mindy Domb (1981), representative of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 3rd Hampshire district
Ronnie Eldridge (1952), activist, businesswoman, politician, and television host
Debra Evenson (1964), legal expert, lawyer, and educator
Chai Feldblum (1979), commissioner of the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Lila Fenwick (1953), first black woman to graduate from
Harvard Law School and former United Nations official
Muriel Fox (1948), public relations executive who in 1966 co-founded the
National Organization for Women and led the communications effort that introduced the modern women's movement to the media of the world
Paula Franzese (1980), professor of
real property law at
Seton Hall Law School
Helen Gahagan (1924),
United States House of Representatives Congresswoman from California
E. Susan Garsh (1969), associate justice of the
Massachusetts Superior Court
Helene D. Gayle , M.D., M.P.H. (1970), president and CEO of
CARE USA and chair of the
Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
Nancy Gertner (1967), Judge on
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Ellen F. Golden (1968), director, Women's Business Center, Coastal Enterprises, Inc.,
Wiscasset, Maine
Diane Gujarati (1990), American lawyer, judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Betty Hall (1943), American politician,
New Hampshire state representative
Cheryl Halpern (1975), chair of the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Patricia McMahon Hawkins (attended),
United States Ambassador to Togo from 2008 to 2011
Allegra "Happy" Haynes (1975), Denver politician who served on the
Denver City Council
Susan Herman (1968), President of the
American Civil Liberties Union ; Professor at
Brooklyn Law School
Marian Blank Horn (1965), judge on the
United States Court of Federal Claims
Jessie Wallace Hughan (1898,
Phi Beta Kappa ),
United States Senate candidate, author, teacher, founder of
Alpha Omicron Pi fraternity
[16]
Mila Jasey (1972), member of the
New Jersey General Assembly representing the
27th Legislative District
Helene L. Kaplan (1953), American lawyer with
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom , former chairman of the
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Judith Kaye (1958), first woman in highest position in state
judiciary , Chief Judge of the
New York Court of Appeals
Katherine Kazarian (2012), American politician and member of the
Rhode Island House of Representatives
Claire R. Kelly (1987), judge on the
United States Court of International Trade
Christina Kishimoto (1992), current superintendent of the
Hawai'i Department of Education
Jeane Kirkpatrick (1948), first woman to serve as
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Phyllis Lamphere (1943), former president of the
Seattle City Council and the
National League of Cities
Linda Lee (2001), Member of the
New York City Council from the
23rd district
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1916), Chinese advocate for women's suffrage in the United States and the first woman to receive a PhD from
Columbia University
Wilma B. Liebman (1971),
Chair ,
National Labor Relations Board
Catherine McCabe (1973), acting
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in 2017 and commissioner of the
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Loretta J. Mester (1980), 11th president of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Herminia Palacio (1983), former
Deputy Mayor of New York City and CEO of
Guttmacher Institute
Hope Portocarrero (1950), first lady of
Nicaragua , the wife of
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
Stephanie Garcia Richard (1996), former member of the
New Mexico House of Representatives and current
New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands
Paula Reimers (1969), Rabbi, political activist for Palestinian rights, gender equity, and religious freedom
Rosalyn Richter (1976), associate justice of the
Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department
Ramona Romero (1985), former general counsel of the
United States Department of Agriculture , general counsel of
Princeton University
Rhea Suh (1992), Assistant Secretary of the
United States Department of the Interior and former president of the
Natural Resources Defense Council
Marguerite Engler Schwarzman (1914), educator, activist for affordable housing, senior citizens
Nina Shaw (1976), talent attorney whose clients include
Jamie Foxx and
Nick Cannon
Shirley Adelson Siegel (1937), housing activist and advocate
Madeline Singas (1988), district attorney for
Nassau County, New York
Jessica Stern (1985), policy consultant on terrorism who served on the
United States National Security Council under
Bill Clinton
Audrey Strauss (1968), acting
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York replacing
Geoffrey Berman
Anna Diggs Taylor (1954),
United States District Court judge
Kang Tongbi (1907), daughter of
Kang Youwei and political activist, member of the
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Gloria Tristani (1974), former commissioner of the
Federal Communications Commission , granddaughter of Senator
Dennis Chávez
Polly Trottenberg (1986),
United States Deputy Secretary of Transportation and former Commissioner of the
New York City Department of Transportation
Anne Warburton (1946), first female British Ambassador,
British Ambassador to Denmark from 1976 to 1983, and
British Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva from 1983 to 1985; president of
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University from 1985 to 1994
Barbara M. Watson (1943), first woman to serve as an
Assistant Secretary of State ,
United States Ambassador to Malaysia
Helene White (1975), judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Constance H. Williams (1966),
Pennsylvania state senator from 2001 to 2009; daughter of
Leon Hess , founder of the
Hess Corporation
Emma Wolfe (2001),
Deputy Mayor of New York City and chief of staff to
Bill de Blasio
Mae Yih (1951), member of the
Oregon House of Representatives and
Oregon State Senate , first Chinese American to serve in a state senate in the United States
Religious figures
Spies
Writers
Léonie Adams (1923), poet
Joan Abelove (1966), writer
Susan Mary Alsop (attended), Washingtonian socialite and writer
Mary Antin (1902), author of the immigrant experience
Charlotte Armstrong (1925), writer
Lura Beam (1908), writer and educator
Maria Semple (1986), writer,
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Elizabeth Benedict (1976), Novelist, Journalist, Editor
Jami Bernard (1978), writer and film critic
Fatima Bhutto (2004), Pakistani poet and writer, granddaughter of Pakistani president
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and member of the
Bhutto family
Ann Brashares (1989), author of
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Rachel M. Brownstein , literary critic, author, and academic
Sasha Cagen (1996), writer
Hortense Calisher (1932), writer
Diana Chang (1949), pioneering Asian-American novelist
Melissa Clark (1990), American cookbook author and 2018
James Beard Foundation Award recipient
Cassandra Clare (1995), author of
The Mortal Instruments
Rachel Cohn (1989), author of
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist and
Gingerbread
Nadine Jolie Courtney (2002),
Bravo TV personality
Newlyweds: The First Year and author of
Beauty Confidential and Confessions of a Beauty Addict
Elise Cowen (1956), poet of the
Beat Generation
Galaxy Craze (1993), novelist
Susan Daitch (1977), short story writer
Edwidge Danticat (1990), writer
Lydia Davis (1970), short story writer, essayist, winner of the
International Booker Prize
Thulani Davis (1970), novelist who won the
Grammy Award in 1992
Tory Dent (1981), poet and HIV/AIDS activist
Babette Deutsch (1917), author, poet, translator and critic
Marjorie Housepian Dobkin (1944), author; Barnard College professor and dean
Avni Doshi (2005), writer who was shortlisted for the
2020 Booker Prize
Francine du Plessix Gray (1952),
Pulitzer Prize -nominated writer
Hallie Ephron (1969), novelist
Cristina García (1983), author of
Dreaming in Cuban
Mary Gordon (1971), writer and professor of English at
Barnard College
Alexis Pauline Gumbs (2004), American writer, poet, activist
Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen (1970s), writer
Monique Raphel High (1969), novelist
Patricia Highsmith (1940), author of
The Talented Mr. Ripley and
The Price of Salt
Anne Hollander (1952), historian of fashion
Nansook Hong (1991), American writer, daughter-in-law of
Unification church founder
Sun Myung Moon
Helen Hoyt (1900s), poet
Zora Neale Hurston (1928),
Harlem Renaissance writer
Elizabeth Janeway (1935), author and critic
Joyce Johnson (1955), writer,
Minor Characters
June Jordan (1957), writer and activist
Erica Jong (1963), writer
Molly Jong-Fast (1997, according to her although it appears she only attended a summer program for high school students), writer
Alexa Junge (1984), writer for
The West Wing and
Friends
Loolwa Khazzoom (1991), Iraqi Jewish-American writer, journalist, and activist
Jolie Kerr (1998), American writer and podcast host on
Heritage Radio Network
Suki Kim (1992),
Guggenheim fellow ; author of the award-winning novel
The Interpreter and the New York Times bestselling literary nonfiction book, Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite
Joan Kahn (late 1930s),
mystery
editor and anthologist; also novelist and children's writer
Mary Beth Keane (1999), American writer and 2015
Guggenheim fellow
Lily Koppel (2003), author of
The Red Leather Diary and
The Astronaut Wives Club ; writer for the New York Times
Jhumpa Lahiri (1989),
Pulitzer Prize –winning author of
The Namesake and
Interpreter of Maladies
Jane Leavy (1974), sports biographer
Kyle Lukoff (2006), transgender children's book author; Storytelling of Ravens and When Aidan Became a Brother
Florence Ripley Mastin (born 1886), poet.
[17]
Faith McNulty (1920s, attended one year), writer
Daphne Merkin (1975), literary critic, essayist, and novelist, daughter of philanthropist
Hermann Merkin
Alice Duer Miller (1899), writer and advisory editor of
The New Yorker
Ottessa Moshfegh (2002), 2016
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner for Eileen
Diana Muir (1975), writer and historian
Alana Newhouse (1997), writer and editor of
Tablet Magazine
Alice Notley (1967), poet
Sigrid Nunez (1972), novelist,
Whiting Awards and the 2018
National Book Award for Fiction recipient
Iris Owens (1929–2008), novelist
Edie Parker (1940s), author; first wife of
Jack Kerouac
Helena Percas de Ponseti (1940), writer, essayist, scholar, and professor
Chelsea Peretti (2000), writer and comedian
Marisha Pessl (2000), author of
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Julia Phillips (2010), American author,
Disappearing Earth and finalist for the 2019
National Book Award for Fiction
Claudia Roth Pierpont (1979), staff writer of
The New Yorker
Belva Plain (1939), writer
[18]
Jenelle Porter (1994), art curator and author
Ariana Reines (2002), poet
Kristen Roupenian (2003), writer,
Cat Person ,
You Know You Want This
Cathleen Schine (1975), American novelist
Lynne Sharon Schwartz (1959), writer
Courtney Sheinmel (1999), author of children's books
Lionel Shriver (1978), novelist and 2005
Orange Prize winner
Rachel Slade (1991), journalist, author of Into the Raging Sea,
[19]
Mountbatten Maritime Prize winner 2019
Dean Spade (1997), writer, activist, lawyer, assistant professor of law at
Seattle University School of Law
Eileen Tabios (1982), poet
Lauren Tarshis (1985), writer, and director at
Scholastic Corporation
Camilla Trinchieri (1963), writer
Joan Vollmer (1943), Beat poet, partner of
William S. Burroughs
Charmaine Wilkerson (1982), journalist, writer, author
Anne Elizabeth Wilson (1923) writer, poet, editor; pet cemetery owner
Cecily Wong (2010), writer
Julie Zeilinger (2015), blogger and feminist writer
Miscellaneous
Grace Banker (1915), telephone operator who served in the
American Expeditionary Forces during
World War I and led the
Hello Girls , for which she received the
Distinguished Service Medal
Maria Foscarinis (1977), activist, founder of the
National Homelessness Law Center
Madeline Kripke (1965), book collector who held one of the world's largest collections of dictionaries, daughter of Jewish philanthropist and rabbi
Myer S. Kripke
Susan Rosenberg , member of
May 19th Communist Organization and charged with a role in the
1983 United States Senate bombing
Elana Maryles Sztokman (1991), American sociologist, writer, and
Jewish feminist activist
Fumiko Yamaguchi (1925), Japanese physician and birth control advocate
Isabel Lenore Davis, early ufologist, co-founder of Civilian Saucer Intelligence-NYC, with Broadway actor,
Ted Bloecher , and organic chemist, Alexander D. "Lex" Mebane, NICAP member, author & case investigator
Fictional alumnae
In the 1988
Woody Allen film
Another Woman ,
Gena Rowland 's character is a philosophy professor at Barnard.
[20]
In the 1992 Woody Allen film
Husbands and Wives ,
Juliette Lewis ' character, Rain, is a Barnard student.
[21]
In the 2005
Sigrid Nunez novel The Last of Her Kind , heroines Georgette George and Ann Drayton meet in 1968 as freshman roommates at Barnard.
[22]
In the 2007
Noah Baumbach film
Margot at the Wedding ,
Nicole Kidman 's character, a novelist, is a Barnard graduate.
[23]
In the television series
Mad Men , the character
Rachel Menken is a Barnard graduate.
[24]
In the 2015 film
Mistress America , the lead character Tracy Fishko is a freshman at Barnard.
[25]
In season 4 of the television series
BoJack Horseman , it is mentioned that the title character's mother,
Beatrice Horseman , attended Barnard.
[26]
In the 2018 Mira T. Lee novel Everything Here is Beautiful , the narrator talks about going to Barnard and reuniting there with one of her childhood friends from Tennessee.
[27]
In the 2018
Paul Feig film
A Simple Favor ,
Anna Kendrick 's character, Stephanie Smothers, was an English major at Barnard and did her thesis on
The Canterbury Tales .
[28]
Notable faculty
Nadia Abu El Haj , anthropologist
Robert Antoni ,
Commonwealth Writers Prize –winning author
Randall Balmer , author and historian of American religion
Dave Bayer , mathematician; actor and math consultant for the film
A Beautiful Mind ; one of few holders of an
Erdős-Bacon number
Ruth Benedict , anthropologist
Jenny Boylan , writer
Frank Brady , leading figure in international chess
Harriet Brooks , physicist
Tina Campt , Africana and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Demetrios James Caraley , Editor of the
Political Science Quarterly ; President of the
Academy of Political Science
Elizabeth Castelli , Professor Of Religion
John Cheever (1956–1957),
Pulitzer Prize –winning novelist and short story writer
Yvette Christianse , poet, librettist
Alexander Cooley , political scientist, former director of the
Harriman Institute
Dennis Dalton (1969–2008), political scientist; renowned nonviolence proponent; scholar of
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
[29]
Pauline Hamilton Dederer (1878–1960), biologist; zoology instructor at Barnard before 1917
Celia Deutsch , professor, religious sister, academic, educator, writer, and Old Testament scholar
Rosalyn Deutsche , art historian, author, and art critic
Marjorie Housepian Dobkin , author
Patricia Louise Dudley (1929–2004),
zoologist
Mortimer Lamson Earle , classicist
Saskia Hamilton (1967-2023), poet and editor
Theodor Gaster , author; religion scholar; translator
Harry Gideonse (1901–1985), president of
Brooklyn College , and chancellor of the
New School for Social Research
Virginia Gildersleeve
Mary Gordon , writer
Elizabeth Hardwick , writer; co-founder of
The New York Review of Books ; wife of
Robert Lowell
[30]
Ken Hechler , U.S. Congressman from
West Virginia
Anne Higonnet , art historian,
Guggenheim Fellow
Janet Jakobsen , religion and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Rebecca Jordan-Young , Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, author of Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences
Charles Knapp, PhD ,
philologist and classical scholar
Dorothy Y. Ko , historian of early China,
Guggenheim Fellow
Elizabeth Kujawinski , American oceanographer, Woods Hole Senior Scientist
[31]
Janna Levin , physicist
David Macklovitch , musician
Perry Mehrling , economic historian
Gabriela Mistral , first Latin American
Nobel Prize winner for Literature
Samuel Alfred Mitchell , astronomer
Raymond Moley (1923–1933), proponent and later critic of the
New Deal
Frederick Neuhouser , philosopher
Sigrid Nunez , novelist
Barbara Novak , art historian
Elaine Pagels (1970–1982), scholar of early and gnostic Christianity
Ben Philippe , Haitian-Canadian author and screenwriter
Alan F. Segal , ancient Judaism and origins of Christianity; author of Life after Death , and Paul the Convert
William C. Sharpe , cultural historian,
Guggenheim Fellow
Edmund Ware Sinnott , botanist
Paige West , anthropologist,
Guggenheim Fellow
Dolph Sweet , actor
Ashley Tuttle , former principal dancer at ABT; Tony-nominated actress
Elie Wiesel (1997–1999),
Nobel Peace Prize –winning writer and activist
Recipients of the Medal of Distinction
The Barnard Medal of Distinction is the College's highest honor.
[32]
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Barack Obama , President of the United States, delivered the 2012 Commencement address
Sally Chapman, Barnard Professor of Chemistry
Helene D. Gayle '76, President and CEO of CARE, USA
Evan Wolfson , founder and President of Freedom to Marry
2013
2014
[44]
2015
[45]
2016
2017
2018
2019
(Celebration) 2020-2021
2021
2022
2023
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