The following is a list of individuals associated with Radcliffe College through attending as a student, or serving as college president or dean.
List of presidents
- Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, 1894–1900 (honorary president 1900–1903)
- LeBaron Russell Briggs, 1903–1923
- Ada Louise Comstock, 1923–1943
- Wilbur Kitchener Jordan, 1943–1960
- Mary Bunting, 1960–1972
- Matina Horner, 1972–1989
- Linda Wilson, 1989–1999
Deans
- Frances R. Brown
- Agnes Irwin, 1894–1909
Notable alumnae
Art and architecture historians
- Leila Cook Barber, MA degree 1928, art historian and professor emeritus at Vassar College, specializing in the Renaissance art and medieval studies.[1]
- Mary Berenson (1864–1945), Harvard Annex student 1884-1885, art historian
- Katharine Seymour Day, historical preservationist
- Florence M. Montgomery (1914–1998), American art historian and curator at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
- Eva Moseley, American curator and archivist
- Phoebe Stanton (1914–2003), MA 1939, architectural historian, professor at Johns Hopkins University, and urban planner for Baltimore.[2]
Writers, poets, journalists
- Virginia Hamilton Adair, poet
- Alice Adams, writer
- Fannie Fern Andrews, writer
- Margaret Atwood, 1961, author
- Marita Bonner, writer, playwright
- Elizabeth Brewster, poet
- Anne Fadiman, essayist and reporter
- Amy Goodman, journalist and political activist
- Joyce Ballou Gregorian, 1968, science fiction author
- Rona Jaffe, author
- Helen Keller, deaf blind writer, activist
- Maxine Kumin, poet and author
- Ursula K. Le Guin, American writer, poet
- Alison Lurie, writer
- Michel McQueen Martin, 1980, journalist
- Anne McCaffrey, 1947, science fiction author
- Priscilla Johnson McMillan, MA 1953, journalist, translator, author, historian
- Andrea Nye a feminist philosopher and writer
- Linda Pastan, poet
- Julia Quinn, New York Times best selling author
- Clara Claiborne Park (1923–2010), author who raised awareness of autism[3]
- Francine Prose writer
- Adrienne Rich, poet
- Margot Roosevelt, journalist
- Elsie Singmaster, author
- Gertrude Stein, American writer, poet, playwright and feminist
- Jean Valentine, poet
- Lally Weymouth, journalist
- Ruth Whitman, poet
- Charlotte Wilder, MA, poet and eldest sister of Thornton Wilder
Others
- Elizabeth Bailey, economist
- Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller, singer
- Deborah Batts, judge
- Gail Lee Bernstein, Japanese historian
- Susan Berresford, 1965, president of the Ford Foundation 1996–2007
- Marsha Berzon, judge
- Benazir Bhutto, first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996)
- Melissa Block, radio journalist, co-host, All Things Considered
- Thérèse Bonney, photographer and publicist
- Jane Britton, 1967, murdered while a graduate student at Harvard University
- Stockard Channing, actress, famous for her roles in Grease and The West Wing
- Nancy Chodorow, sociologist
- Judy Clapp, 1952, computer scientist
- Zoe Cruz, business, co-president of Morgan Stanley (most powerful woman on Wall Street)
- Natalie Zemon Davis, historian of the early modern period
- Frances Gardiner Davenport (1870–1927), historian of he later Middle Ages and the European colonization[4]
- Jane Dempsey Douglass, feminist theologian, ecclesiastical historian, and president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
- Peggy Dulany, heiress and philanthropist
- Eva Beatrice Dykes, academic
- Debbie Ellison
- Rebecca Elson
- Barbara Epstein
- Norma Farber
- Abigail Folger, 1964, American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee
- Mary Parker Follett
- Anne Garrels
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
- Carol Gilligan
- Ellen Goodman
- Jennifer Gordon
- Susanna Grannis, academic and nonprofit organizer
- Phyllis Granoff
- Linda Greenhouse
- Marjorie Grene
- Gisela Kahn Gresser
- Lani Guinier
- Amy Gutmann, current president of the University of Pennsylvania
- Melissa Glenn Haber
- Rachel Hadas
- Virginia Hall
- Olive Hazlett
- Diana Mara Henry, photographer
- Helen Sawyer Hogg
- Elizabeth Holtzman
- Elizabeth Hubbard
- Ruth Hubbard, professor, biologist, feminist
- Josephine Hull
- Leslie P. Hume, historian and philanthropist
- Catharine Sargent Huntington, actress, producer, director, founder of multiple theater companies, activist
- Lydia P. Jackson, former Louisiana state legislator
- Nancy Johnson
- Sara Murray Jordan, gastroenterologist
- Roberta Karmel (born 1937), Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and first female commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Caroline Kennedy
- Sinah Estelle Kelley, chemist
- Jean Kwok
- Susanne Langer
- Mary Lasker, health activist and philanthropist
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt
- Judith Ledeboer, architect
- Mary Lefkowitz
- Edith Lesley
- Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson
- Pauline Maier
- Emily Mann (BA English literature 1974), director
- Elizabeth Holloway Marston, MA 1921—involved in the creation of the comic book character Wonder Woman
- Helen Reimensnyder Martin
- Jessica Mathews
- Laura Meneses, political activist
- Karen Nelson Moore
- Alice Vanderbilt Morris
- Amelia Muir Baldwin, interior designer and women's suffrage activist
- Chris Mulford, AB 1963, breastfeeding advocate[5]
- Laura Nader, professor in controlling processes
- Daisy Newman
- Ursula Oppens, classical pianist
- Deborah Orin
- Mary White Ovington
- Masako Owada, 1985, empress of Japan
- Judith Palfrey:
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, astronomer
- Josephine Preston Peabody
- Katha Pollitt
- Carol Potter, actress
- Bonnie Raitt (attended one year), Grammy Award-winning singer and musician
- Philinda Rand
- Emeline Hill Richardson, archeologist
- Alice Rivlin, economist
- Helen Jean Rogers
- Judith Ann Wilson Rogers
- Michelle Rosaldo, anthropologist
- Phyllis Schlafly, political activist, coined term A choice not an echo
- Ellen Schrecker
- Mary Sears, oceanographer
- Edie Sedgwick (attended), iconic American socialite and Warhol superstar
- Carla J. Shatz, neuroscientist
- Ellen Biddle Shipman, landscape architect (left after one year)
- Judith Shuval, sociologist
- Cynthia Solomon, computer scientist, co-designer of Logo (programming language), and co-developer of LCSI Logo.
- Diane Souvaine, computer scientist
- Diane B. Snelling
- Anne Whiston Spirn, landscape architect
- Edith G. Stedman, 1910, head the Appointment Bureau 1930–1954
- Doris Zemurray Stone, 1930 (1909–1994), archaeologist and ethnographer of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures[6]
- Abby A. Sutherland, cum laude graduate, head mistress, president, and owner of The Ogontz School for Girls. Sutherland deeded the school to Penn State in 1950.
- Mary E. Switzer
- Martha J. B. Thomas, (1926–2006), PhD MBA, chemical engineer
- Caroline Thompson, screenwriter-director
- Barbara Tuchman
- Lily Tuck
- Abby Howe Turner
- Ruth Turner
- Julie Vargas
- Emily Vermeule, archeologist
- Maribel Vinson, figure skater
- Caroline F. Ware
- Ruth Wendell Washburn, educational psychologist
- Hannah Weiner
- Natalie Wexler
- Nancy Wexler, geneticist
- Marina von Neumann Whitman, economist
- Olive Winchester, professor at the Point Loma, Northwest, and Eastern Nazarene colleges
- Marie Winn
Notes
- ↑ "Barber, Leila Cook". Dictionary of Art Historians. 21 February 2018. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
- ↑ Cowles, Amy (October 6, 2003). "Obituary: Phoebe Stanton, 88, Outspoken Guardian of City's Architecture". Johns Hopkins Gazette, Vol. 33 No. 6. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- ↑ Hevesi, Dennis. "Clara Claiborne Park, 86, Dies; Wrote About Autistic Child", The New York Times, July 12, 2010. Accessed July 13, 2010.
- ↑ Introduction to European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and its Dependencies, vol. 2 (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 2010 edition)
- ↑ "Obituary - Chris Mulford, IBCLC (1941-2011)".
- ↑ Union College Office of Communications (January 1995). "Doris Zemurray Stone dies" (online reproduction). Union College Magazine. Schenectady, NY: Union College. OCLC 6850493. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
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