These are lists of persons (students, alumni, faculty or academic affiliates) associated with the

Claremont Graduate University The Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is a private, all-graduate research university in Claremont, California. Founded in 1925, CGU is a member of the Claremont Colleges which includes five undergraduate (Pomona College, Claremont McKenna Co ...

California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

, United States. With over 23,000 alumni, 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 Richard Willard Armour (July 15, 1906 – February 28, 1989) was an American poet and prose writer who wrote more than 65 books. Life and works Armour was born in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California the only child of Harry W. and Sue Wheelock Ar ...

- Poet and author who wrote over sixty-five books * John Lemmon - Logician and philosopher *

Leonard Levy Leonard Williams Levy (April 9, 1923 – August 24, 2006) was an American historian, the Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor of Humanities and chairman of the Graduate Faculty of History at Claremont Graduate School, California, who speciali ...

- Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor of Humanities and Chairman of the Graduate Faculty of History *

Michael S. Roth Michael Scott Roth (born April 8, 1957) is an American academic and university administrator. He became the 16th president of Wesleyan University in 2007. Formerly, he was the 8th president of the California College of the Arts (2000–2007), ass ...

- Arts & Humanities; historian, author, curator; 16th president of

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a Private university, private liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a Men's colleges in the United States, men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Epis ...

; 8th president of California College of the Arts

Social sciences

* Alfred Balitzer - Professor of government *

Eric Helland Eric Helland (born c. 1968) is the William F. Podlich Professor of Economics in Robert Day School of Economics and Finance at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University, George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College, and ...

- Professor at Claremont McKenna College and CGU; Senior Economist, Institute for Civil Justice,

RAND Corporation The RAND Corporation (from the phrase "research and development") is an American nonprofit global policy think tank created in 1948 by Douglas Aircraft Company to offer research and analysis to the United States Armed Forces. It is financed ...

Alan Heslop David Alan Heslop (born 1938) is an American academic and government consultant and advisor. He was born in 1938 in England and gained BA and MA degrees from Magdalen College, Oxford. He later became a naturalized American citizen, and gained ...

- Academic and government consultant *

Charles R. Kesler Charles R. Kesler (born 1956) is professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University. He is editor of the ''Claremont Review of Books'', and the author of several books. He also serves on the Board of Trustees at ...

- Professor of Government/

Political Science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

Claremont McKenna College Claremont McKenna College (CMC) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It has a curricular emphasis on government, economics, public affairs, finance, and internat ...

and CGU; editor of the ''

Claremont Review of Books The ''Claremont Review of Books'' (''CRB'') is a quarterly review of politics and statesmanship published by the conservative Claremont Institute. A typical issue consists of several book reviews and a selection of essays on topics of conservatis ...

'' * 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 Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( ; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He was the only president never to have been elected ...

administration as well as special assistant to the President during

Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan ( ; February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician, actor, and union leader who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He also served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 ...

’s first term in office *

Paul J. Zak Paul J. Zak (born 9 February 1962) is an American neuroeconomist. Background Zak graduated with degrees in mathematics and economics from San Diego State University before acquiring a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is p ...

- Center for

Neuroeconomics Neuroeconomics is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to explain human decision-making, the ability to process multiple alternatives and to follow through on a plan of action. It studies how economic behavior can shape our understanding of the ...

Studies

Behavioral and organizational sciences

* Dale Berger - Cognitive psychologist and research methodologist *

William Crano William Dean Crano (born 1942) is an American psychologist. He is the Oskamp Distinguished Professor of Psychology in the Division of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences (DBOS), Claremont Graduate University. He has also written almost 200 pee ...

- Fellow of the

American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States, with over 133,000 members, including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students. It ha ...

and

Association for Psychological Science The Association for Psychological Science (APS), previously the American Psychological Society, is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in ...

* Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Psychology professor who is noted for work in the study of happiness, creativity, and as the architect of the notion of ''

flow Flow may refer to: Science and technology * Fluid flow, the motion of a gas or liquid * Flow (geomorphology), a type of mass wasting or slope movement in geomorphology * Flow (mathematics), a group action of the real numbers on a set * Flow (psych ...

'' * Stewart Donaldson - Distinguished university professor known for his work on evaluation science and positive organizational psychology *

Michael Hogg Michael A. Hogg (born 1954) is a British psychologist, and Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles. He is also an honorary Professor of Social Psychology at the University ...

- Social psychologist *

Kathy Pezdek Kathy Pezdek is Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences (SBOS), Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Dr. Pezdek is a cognitive psychologist specializing in the study of eyewitness me ...

- Cognitive psychologist specializing in the study of eyewitness memory *

Michael Scriven Michael John Scriven (; born 1928) is a British-born Australian polymath and academic philosopher, best known for his contributions to the theory and practice of evaluation. Biography Scriven was born in the UK and grew up in Melbourne, Austra ...

- Past president of the American Educational Research Association and the

American Evaluation Association The American Evaluation Association (AEA) is a professional association for evaluators and those with a professional interest in the field of evaluation, including practitioners, faculty, students, funders, managers, and government decision-maker ...

* 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 Jean Lipman-Blumen is the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. She is an expert on leadership, achieving styles, crisis management, "ho ...

- Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior *

Ikujiro Nonaka is a Japanese organizational theorist and Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy of the Hitotsubashi University, best known for his study of knowledge management. Biography Nonaka was born in Tokyo in 1935 an ...

- Influential person on business thinking, known for his study of

knowledge management Knowledge management (KM) is the collection of methods relating to creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information of an organization. It refers to a multidisciplinary approach to achieve organisational objectives by making ...

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 The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

Health and sciences

Sherwin Carlquist Sherwin John Carlquist FMLS (July 7, 1930 - December 1, 2021) was an American botanist and photographer. Education He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952 and a Ph.D. in botany in 1956, also at ...

- Botanist and photographer *

Robert Folger Thorne Robert F. Thorne (July 13, 1920 – March 24, 2015) was an American botanist. He was taxonomist and curator emeritus at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and professor emeritus at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. His resea ...

- Botanist

Arts

Peter Boyer Peter Boyer (born February 10, 1970 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator, and professor of music. He is known primarily for his orchestral works, which have received over 500 performances, by nearly 200 ...

- Composer, conductor, and professor of music *

Roger Edward Kuntz Roger Edward Kuntz (January 4, 1926 – August 22, 1975) was a highly accomplished Southern California landscape painter and a member of the Claremont Group of painters - professors and graduates of Pomona College, Scripps College, and the ...

- Landscape painter; member of the Claremont Group of painters *

Suzanne Muchnic Suzanne Muchnic (born 1940) is an art writer who was a staff art reporter and art critic at the ''Los Angeles Times'' for 31 years. She has also written books on artists, collectors, and museums. Academic career Muchnic is a graduate of Scripp ...

- Art critic, journalist, writer * David Pagel - Art critic

Religion

* Richard Bushman - Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies * Ingolf Ulrich Dalferth - Philosopher of religion and theologian *

Jane Dempsey Douglass Jane may refer to: * Jane (given name), a feminine given name * Jane (surname), related to the given name Film and television * ''Jane'' (1915 film), a silent comedy film directed by Frank Lloyd * ''Jane'' (2016 film), a South Korean drama fil ...

– feminist theologian and ecclesiastical historian; president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches *

John Hick John Harwood Hick (20 January 1922 – 9 February 2012) was a philosopher of religion and theologian born in England who taught in the United States for the larger part of his career. In philosophical theology, he made contributions in the are ...

- Philosopher of religion and theologian *

Jack Miles John R. "Jack" Miles (born July 30, 1942) is an American author. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the MacArthur Fellowship. His writings on religion, politics, and culture have appeared in numerous national pub ...

- Author; winner of the

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...

and the MacArthur Fellowship *

Dewi Zephaniah Phillips Dewi Zephaniah Phillips (24 November 1934 – 25 July 2006), known as D. Z. Phillips or simply DZ, was a Welsh philosopher. He was a leading proponent of the Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion. He had an academic career spanning five decad ...

- Philosopher of religion *

Rosemary Radford Ruether Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936–2022) was an American feminist scholar and Roman Catholic theologian known for her significant contributions to the fields of feminist theology and ecofeminist theology. Her teaching and her writings helped est ...

- Feminist scholar and theologian * Deepak Shimkhada - Adjunct Professor, Board of Visitors of School of Religion

Notable alumni

Government, politics, and international organizations

Michael Anton Michael Anton (born 1969) is an American conservative essayist, speechwriter and former private-equity executive who was a senior national security official in the Trump administration. Under a pseudonym he wrote "The Flight 93 Election", an ...

(MA) - Lecturer and research fellow at

Hillsdale College Hillsdale College is a Private university, private Conservatism in the United States, conservative Christian liberal arts college in Hillsdale, Michigan. It was founded in 1844 by Abolitionism, abolitionists known as Free Will Baptists. Its missio ...

, senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, and former Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications on the

United States National Security Council The United States National Security Council (NSC) is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for consideration of national security, military, and foreign policy matters. Based in the White House, it is part of the Execu ...

Stephen Cambone Stephen Anthony Cambone (born June 22, 1952) was the first United States Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, a post created in March 2003. Cambone first came to the attention of the public at large during the testimony of Major General An ...

(Ph.D. 1982) - First U.S.

Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence The under secretary of defense for intelligence and security or USD(I&S) is a high-ranking civilian position in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) that acts as the principal civilian advisor a ...

Tom Cotton Thomas Bryant Cotton (born May 13, 1977) is an American politician, attorney, and former military officer serving as the junior United States senator for Arkansas since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the U.S. House of R ...

(master's degree program) -

United States Senator The United States Senate is the Upper house, upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives being the Lower house, lower chamber. Together they compose the national Bica ...

and

Congressman A Member of Congress (MOC) is a person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a congress, typically to represent a particular constituency in a legislature. The term member of parliament (MP) is an equivalen ...

from

Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage ...

*Enid H. Douglass (MA 1959) - City Council member; Mayor of

Claremont, California Claremont () is a suburban city on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County, California, United States, east of downtown Los Angeles. It is in the Pomona Valley, at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. As of the 2010 census it had a popul ...

1982–1986; oral historian * David Dreier (MA 1976) - Republican member of the

U.S. House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...

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 The United States Interests Section of the Embassy of Switzerland in Havana, Cuba or USINT Havana (the State Department telegraphic address) represented United States interests in Cuba from September 1, 1977, to July 20, 2015. It was staffed by ...

, Cuba * Kenneth J. Hagan (Ph.D. 1970) - Naval historian *

Steven F. Hayward Steven F. Hayward (born October 16, 1958) is an Conservatism in the United States, American conservative author, political commentator, and policy scholar. He is a senior resident scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley, a ...

(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) * Sherry Bebitch Jeffe (Ph.D. 1980) - Senior Fellow at the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...

and political analyst * Susan M. Leeson (Ph.D. 1971) - Associate Justice of the

Oregon Supreme Court The Oregon Supreme Court (OSC) is the highest state court in the U.S. state of Oregon. The only court that may reverse or modify a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court is the Supreme Court of the United States.Ronald F. Lehman Ambassador Ronald Frank Lehman II (born March 25, 1946, in Napa, California) is currently Director of the Center for Global Security Research at the United States Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is also Chair of th ...

(Ph.D. 1975) - Director of the Center for Global Security Research,

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States. The lab was originally established as the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch in 1952 in response ...

; director of the

U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency The U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) was an independent agency of the United States government that existed from 1961 to 1999. Its mission was to strengthen United States national security by "formulating, advocating, negotiating, ...

; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy;

Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other nati ...

's U.S. Chief Negotiator on (

START I START I (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the reduction and the limitation of strategic offensive arms. The treaty was signed on 31 July 1991 and entered into force on 5 De ...

); and Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs * Mary Parker Lewis (MA) - Political consultant *

Philippe Maystadt Philippe M.P.J. Maystadt (14 March 1948 – 7 December 2017) was a Belgian politician who served as Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister of Finance, and Deputy Prime Minister. He was President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) from 2000 to ...

(MA 1973) - Former Belgian Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister of Finance, and Deputy Prime Minister as well as current President of

European Investment Bank The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the European Union's investment bank and is owned by the EU Member States. It is one of the largest supranational lenders in the world. The EIB finances and invests both through equity and debt solutions ...

, Luxembourg, Belgium * Paul O'Neill (MA 1961) -

United States Secretary of the Treasury The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretary of the treasury serves as the principal a ...

; chairman of the

* 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 Robert R. Reilly (born October 31, 1946) is a writer, think tank executive and former diplomat. He has published on topics of US foreign policy and the "war of ideas." Reilly is also known as a classical music critic who has written for periodical ...

(MA 1978) - Former Director,

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* Peter W. Schramm (Ph.D. 1981) - Professor of Political Science; the Executive Director of the

Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs Ashbrook is a surname, and may refer to: * Dana Ashbrook (born 1967), American actor * Daphne Ashbrook (born 1963), American actress * Frank G. Ashbrook (1892–1966), American mammalogist * Jean Spencer Ashbrook (born 1934), American politician, ...

* 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

administration; special assistant to President

Jerry Voorhis Horace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis (April 6, 1901 – September 11, 1984) was a Democratic politician and educator from California who served five terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1947, representing the 12th ...

(MA) - Democratic US House of Representatives from California * Diane Watson (Ph.D. 1988) - Democratic member of the

from 2001 to 2011 * Abdulla Yameen - President of The

Maldives Maldives (, ; dv, ދިވެހިރާއްޖެ, translit=Dhivehi Raajje, ), officially the Republic of Maldives ( dv, ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ ޖުމްހޫރިއްޔާ, translit=Dhivehi Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa, label=none, ), is an archipelag ...

, elected in 2013

Academia and science

* William Barclay Allen (MA 1968/Ph.D. 1972) - Political scientist at

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

Joyce Appleby Joyce Oldham Appleby (April 9, 1929 – December 23, 2016) was an American historian. She was a professor of history at UCLA. She was president of the Organization of American Historians (1991) and the American Historical Association (1997). Lif ...

(Ph.D. 1966) - Historian at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

; President of the

Organization of American Historians The Organization of American Historians (OAH), formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH's members in the U.S. and abroad inc ...

and the

American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional s ...

Larry P. Arnn Larry Paul Arnn (born October 8, 1952) is an American educator and writer. He has served as the twelfth president of private college Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, since May 2000.

(MA 1976/Ph.D. 1985) - Educator and writer; 12th. and current president of

José Aybar José M. Aybar, full name José Manuel Aybar de Soto, is the former president of Richard J. Daley College in Chicago, one of the City Colleges of Chicago. He has attracted nationwide attention for his innovative approach to remedial instruction ...

(Ph.D. 1978) - President of

Richard J. Daley College Richard J. Daley College is a public, two-year community college in Chicago, one of the seven City Colleges of Chicago. The college was founded as William J. Bogan Junior College in 1960 and utilized classrooms in the evenings provided by Willi ...

* Sacvan Bercovitch (Ph.D. 1965) - Americanist, literary and cultural critic; Powell M. Cabot Research Professor at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

; visiting faculty member at the

School of Criticism and Theory The School of Criticism and Theory, now at Cornell University, is a summer program (offered in six-week seminars) in social science and literature. It is one of the most influential such programs in the United States to propagate the new dominant s ...

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

* Elizabeth Castelli (MA 1986/Ph.D. 1987) - Professor of Religion,

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

* Angelo Codevilla (Ph.D. 1973) - Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies,

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

Nicholas Cummings Nicholas Andrew Cummings (July 25, 1924 – June 8, 2020) was an American psychologist and author. Education Cummings first attended the University of California at Berkeley, receiving a bachelor's degree in psychology, before moving to Clarem ...

(MA) - Psychologist and former president of the

Jack Cuzick Jack Martin Cuzick (born 11 August 1948) is an American-born British academic, director of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London and head of the Centre for Cancer Prevention. He is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at the W ...

(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

* Jacqueline Powers Doud (Ph.D. 1976) - President of

Mount St. Mary's College Mount Saint Mary's University, Los Angeles (known as Mount St. Mary's College until January 2015) is a private, Catholic university primarily for women, in Los Angeles, California. Women make up ninety percent of the student body. It was found ...

John C. Eastman John Charles Eastman (born 1960) is an American lawyer who is the founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, a public interest law firm affiliated with the conservative think tank, conservative think tank Claremont Instit ...

(Ph.D.) - Politician; former professor and dean at Chapman University School of Law; staff member at

the Claremont Institute The Claremont Institute is a Conservatism in the United States, conservative think tank based in Upland, California. The institute was founded in 1979 by four students of Harry V. Jaffa. It produces the ''Claremont Review of Books,'' ''The America ...

; former law clerk to

Clarence Thomas Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 199 ...

; attorney for

Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...

during his attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election * Irene Eber (Ph.D.1966) - Sinologist and historian, Louis Frieberg Professor of East Asian Studies at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

. * David H. French (MA 1940) - Anthropologist and linguist *Edmond Haddad (Ph.D. 1982) - President, Middle East University in

Beirut, Lebanon Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint of ...

* Arthur Janov (Ph.D.) - Psychologist, psychotherapist, and the creator of

primal therapy Primal therapy is a trauma-based psychotherapy created by Arthur Janov, who argues that neurosis is caused by the repressed pain of childhood trauma. Janov argues that repressed pain can be sequentially brought to conscious awareness for resolutio ...

* 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 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (California Polytechnic State University, Cal Poly"Cal Poly" may also refer to California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt in Arcata, California or California State Polytechnic Univ ...

*Marjorie Dean Lewis (Ph.D. 1992) - President of

Cypress College Cypress College is a public community college in Cypress, California. It is part of the California Community Colleges System and belongs to the North Orange County Community College District. It offers a variety of general education (55 associat ...

*Munir Mandviwalla (Ph.D. 1995) - Founding Chair, Department of MIS,

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Ba ...

Christopher Manfredi Christopher P. Manfredi (born 24 March 1959) is a professor of political science, acting Principal and Provost and Vice-Principal Academic at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. From 2006 to 2015 he served as McGill's Dean of Arts. He ...

(Ph.D. 1987) - Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Political Science at

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...

*Eugene S. Mills (Ph.D. 1952) - President,

University of New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant college in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College, mo ...

, 1974-79 *

Warren Montag Warren Montag (born March 21, 1952) is a professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. He is known primarily for his work on twentieth-century French theory, especially Althusser and his circle, as well as his studies of t ...

(MA 1981/Ph.D. 1989) - Brown Family Professor in Literature and English,

Occidental College Occidental College (informally Oxy) is a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887 as a coeducational college by clergy and members of the Presbyterian Church, it became non-sectarian in 1910. It is one of the oldes ...

Milton C. Moreland Milton C. Moreland is an American academic administrator and archaeologist serving as the 21st president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. A graduate from the University of Memphis, Moreland taught for eight years at Huntingdon College an ...

(MA/Ph.D.) - Archaeologist and president of Centre College * Vincent Phillip Muñoz (Ph.D. 2001) - Associate Professor,

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin founded the school in 1842. The main campu ...

Franklin Patterson Franklin Kessel Patterson (September 14, 1916 – July 13, 1994) was a professor and author, and the first president (education), president of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts. He was also, along with the oth ...

(Ph.D. 1955) - First president of Hampshire College in

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* Tomas J. Philipson (MA 1985) - Daniel Levin Chair in Public Policy at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

*Margaret R. Preska (Ph.D. 1969) - President,

Minnesota State University, Mankato Minnesota State University, Mankato (MNSU, MSU, or Minnesota State) is a public university in Mankato, Minnesota, United States. It is Minnesota's second-largest university and has over 123,000 living alumni worldwide. Founded in 1868, it is t ...

(1979–92); CEO and Provost, Immanuel Kant State University of Russia (1998–99) *

Kathleen Ross Kathleen Ross, SNJM, is founding president of Heritage University, which opened in 1982. A member of the religious order of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, she graduated from Fort Wright College with a B.A., from Georgetown Unive ...

(Ph.D.) - Founding president of Heritage University *Mark Rupert (Ph.D. 1987) - Professor and Chair,

Syracuse University Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York. Established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church, the university has been nonsectarian since 1920. Locate ...

* Daniel Scoggin (Ph.D.) - Founding CEO, Great Hearts Academies * Jem Spectar (MA/Ph.D.) - President of the

University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ or Pitt-Johnstown) is a state-related college in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It is a baccalaureate degree-granting regional campus of the University of Pittsburgh. The university is located in Richland T ...

. *

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(MA 1950) - President of

Louisiana Tech University Louisiana Tech University (Louisiana Tech, La. Tech, or simply Tech) is a public research university in Ruston, Louisiana. It is part of the University of Louisiana System and classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activ ...

Ruston Ruston may refer to: Place names ;United States * Ruston, Louisiana * Ruston, Washington ;United Kingdom * East Ruston, Norfolk, England * Ruston, North Yorkshire, England * Ruston Parva, East Riding of Yorkshire, England Companies * Ruston (engi ...

, 1962–1987 *

Laurence Thompson Laurence G. Thompson (1920 - July 10, 2005) was a World War II veteran, sinologist, classical violinist and professor emeritus of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Southern California. Biography Thompson was born in 1920 ...

(MA 1947) -

USC USC most often refers to: * University of South Carolina, a public research university ** University of South Carolina System, the main university and its satellite campuses **South Carolina Gamecocks, the school athletic program * University of ...

professor of East Asian/

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ese languages and cultures *

William Van Cleave William Robert Van Cleave (August 27, 1935 – March 15, 2013) was a former advisor to President Ronald Reagan, the United States Department of Defense, and Department of State as well as Emeritus Professor, former head, and the founder of Missouri ...

(MA 1965/Ph.D. 1967) - Advisor to President

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, and

; founder of the program of Defense and Strategic Studies at

and

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*Donald V. Weatherman (Ph.D.) - President, Lyon College *

Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran Eileen B. Wilson-Oyelaran (born November 14, 1947) was the 17th President of Kalamazoo College, succeeding James F. Jones. She was the first female president, as well as the first African-American president of the school. She retired at the end ...

(Ph.D. 1977) - President of Kalamazoo College *

Donald Yacovone Donald Yacovone (born February 25, 1952) is an American researcher, writer and academic who primarily specializes in African American History.

(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

Business and industry

* Min-Shun "Diana" Chen (MBA 1997) - Chairperson/CEO, Taipei World Financial Center (

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) *

Michael Crooke Michael W. Crooke (born February 25, 1957) is an American businessman and academic. Crooke was CEO of Patagonia, Inc. from 1999 to 2005. From 2010 to 2015, Crooke served on the faculty of Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Ma ...

(Ph.D. 2008) - Professor of Strategy Pepperdine University and

University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institution is well known for its strong ties to the sports apparel and marketing firm Nike, Inc, and its co-founder, billion ...

, former Navy SEAL, CEO of

Patagonia, Inc. Patagonia, Inc. is an American retailer of outdoor clothing. It was founded by Yvon Chouinard in 1973 and is based in Ventura, California. Patagonia operates stores in 10+ countries globally, as well as factories in 16 countries. History Yvo ...

(1999–2006) *

Rajiv Dutta Rajiv Dutta (died January 31, 2011) was an Indian technology manager who has worked at major bioscience, semiconductor, software, and online companies. Life Dutta worked at Bio-Rad, Bio-Rad Laboratories from 1988 to 1998, and after a brief tenu ...

(MBA 1982) - President of

Skype Skype () is a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known for VoIP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls. It also has instant messaging, file transfer, deb ...

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) *

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(MA 1977) - Co-founder,

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; founder, Urban Decay Cosmetics

Fine arts

Bas Jan Ader Bastiaan Johan Christiaan "Bas Jan" Ader (19 April 1942 – disappeared 1975) was a Dutch conceptual and performance artist, and photographer. His work was in many instances presented as photographs and film of his performances. He made perf ...

(MA 1967) - Dutch conceptual artist, filmmaker, performance artist, and photographer *

Lewis Baltz Lewis "Duke" Baltz (September 12, 1945 – November 22, 2014) was an American visual artist, photographer, and educator. He was an important figure in the New Topographics movement of the late 1970s.

(MA 1971) - Visual artist; Professor for Photography at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland * Bennett Bean (MA 1966) - Ceramic artist *

Karl Benjamin Karl S. Benjamin (December 29, 1925 – July 26, 2012) was an American painter of vibrant geometric abstractions, who rose to fame in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles-based Abstract Classicists and subsequently produced a critically acclaime ...

(MA 1960) - Painter of vibrant geometric abstractions *

Greg Colson Greg Colson (born April 23, 1956) is an American artist best known for works that straddle the line between painting and sculpture that address concepts of efficiency and order. Using scavenged materials, Colson allows the physicality of his ma ...

(MFA 1980) - Artist best known for wall sculptures constructed of salvaged materials *

Kim Dingle Kim Dingle (born 1951) is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist working across painting, sculpture, photography, found imagery, and installation. Her practice explores themes of American culture, history, and gender politics through both figurati ...

(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 Ferne Jacobs, who is also known as Ferne K. Jacobs and Ferne Kent Jacobs is an American fiber artist and basket maker. Life She was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1942 to Jewish parents who emigrated from Eastern Europe. Her family moved to Lo ...

(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 Claire Van Vliet (born 1933 in Ottawa, Ontario) is an artist, illustrator, and typographer who founded Janus Press in San Diego, California in 1955. Biography Van Vliet received the Bachelor of Arts in 1952 from San Diego State College, and t ...

(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 Ian Fowles is an American musician, author, and actor, best known as the current guitarist for the Orange County rock band The Aquabats, in which he performs under the stage name and persona of EagleBones Falconhawk (originally Eagle "Bones" Falc ...

(MA 2008) - Musician and author *

Daniel Lewis Daniel, Dan or Danny Lewis may refer to: * Dan Lewis (rugby league), rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s and 1910s for Wales, Welsh League XIII, and Merthyr Tydfil * Dan Lewis (footballer) (1902–1965), Welsh football goalkeeper * Dan ...

(MA 1951) - Orchestral conductor and pedagogue; Professor Emeritus at

(MFA 1963) - Art critic and art writer for the ''

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''; lecturer on Art History and Criticism at CGU and

* Edith Pattou (MA 1979) - Author * Rachel Pollack (MA) - Science fiction author; comic book writer; expert on divinatory tarot *

Benjamin Saltman Benjamin Saltman (September 7, 1927 – January 9, 1999) was an American poet and Professor of verse writing and contemporary American literature at California State University, Northridge. The Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award is given annually by R ...

(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 ''Scientific American'', informally abbreviated ''SciAm'' or sometimes ''SA'', is an American popular science magazine. Many famous scientists, including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, have contributed articles to it. In print since 1845, it i ...

''; author of '' Why Darwin Matters'', '' The Science of Good and Evil'', and '' Why People Believe Weird Things'' *

Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. Cornelius Cole "Corney" Smith Jr. (July 18, 1913 – April 27, 2004) was an American author, military historian, illustrator and painter. A survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he was an officer in the United States Marines during ...

(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 The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language. It is the most complete extant early Buddhist canon. It derives mainly from the Tamrashatiya school. During th ...

, President and Editor of Buddhist Publication Society, Chairman of the Yin Sun Foundation, Chairperson of Buddhist Global Relief *

Craig A. Evans Craig Alan Evans (born January 21, 1952) is an American biblical scholar. He is a prolific writer with 70 books and over 600 journal articles and reviews to his name. Career He earned his B.A in history and philosophy from Claremont McKenna Col ...

(MA/Ph.D.) - Theologian, Acadia Divinity College *

David Ray Griffin David Ray Griffin (August 8, 1939 – November 26, 2022) was an American professor of philosophy of religion and theology and a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.Sources describing David Ray Griffin as a "conspiracy theorist", "conspiracist", "conspirac ...

(Ph.D. 1970) - Professor of philosophy of religion and theology *

Nancy R. Howell Nancy R. Howell (born 23 January 1953) is an American professor of Theology and Philosophy of Religion at Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri. Biography Howell earned a B.S. at The College of William and Mary, and a Th.M. and ...

(MA/Ph.D.) - Professor of Theology and Philosophy of Religion * Marvin Meyer (Ph.D. 1979) - Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies,

Chapman University Chapman University is a private research university in Orange, California. It encompasses ten schools and colleges, including Fowler School of Engineering, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Fowler School of Law, and Schmid College of Scie ...

* 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 Bomani Babatunde Jones (born August 26, 1980) is an American sports journalist who is currently employed by ESPN. He was the co-host of '' Highly Questionable'' with Dan Le Batard, before leaving the show in June 2017 to develop his own show, ' ...

(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 John G. West is a senior fellow at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute (DI), and associate director and vice president for public policy and legal affairs of its Center for Science and Culture (CSC), which serves as the main hub of the pseudoscie ...

(Ph.D. 1992) - Senior Fellow at the Seattle-based

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; Associate Director and Vice President for Public Policy and Legal Affairs of its

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References

External links

CGU Distinguished Alumni Award

CGU Distinguished Alumni Service Award

CGU Alumni Hall of Fame

Flame: The Magazine of Claremont Graduate University

Flame online pdf archive
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