1. Thorstein Veblen (1857)

American Academic

An American author known for his famous work The Theory of the Leisure Class, he combined Darwinism with economic theory to critique capitalism. He served on the faculty of both...

2. William Chomsky (1896)

American Academic

Father of the renowned author and thinker Noam Chomsky who was also a noted expert in Hebrew.

3. John Stapp (1910)

American Academic

Army physician who studied the effects of acceleration and deceleration g-forces on humans. As a result of the findings of his experiments the British Royal Air Force began installing backward-facing...

4. Allan Bloom (1930)

American Academic

Best remembered for his exploration of Continental Philosophy and Platonism.

5. Tomás Rivera (1935)

American Academic

A Chicano author and poet, he wrote the award-winning Faulknerian novella, Y no se lo Trago la Tierra (1971). His other works include This Migrant Earth (1987) and The Searchers:...

6. Diane Ravitch (1938)

American Academic

Education policy expert who served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush. She is also a longtime professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture,...

7. John Esposito (1940)

American Academic

American educator known as a professor of Islamic Studies and International Affairs at Georgetown University. He is the author of more than thirty-five acclaimed books, including 2008's "Who Speaks for...

8. Ruth Simmons (1945)

American Academic

Before becoming President of Brown University in 2001, this Africana Studies and Comparative Literature scholar served as President of Smith College and held various teaching and administrative positions at the...

9. Temple Grandin (1947)

American Academic

Professor of animal science and advocate for better conditions for livestock. One of the first public figures to discuss her diagnosis with autism, she created the "hug box," a device...

10. Jay Rosen (1956)

American Academic

Known as a leader of the "citizen journalism" (or "public journalism") movement, this New York University journalism professor published a 1999 work titled What Are Journalists For?

11. Boyce Watkins (1971)

American Academic

Economist who has spread his knowledge of finances on the media in places like CNN, Good Morning America, MSNBC, Fox News, BET, and NPR. He has 340,000 followers on his therealboycewatkins Instagram account. 

12. Mark Schaefer (1960)

American Academic

American author, keynote speaker and strategist who became the executive director of Schaefer Marketing Solutions. He has written numerous books including The Content Code, The Tao of Twitter and Marketing Rebellion: The Most...

13. Thomas Woods (1972)

American Academic

Bestselling American author and historian known for his books on politics, economics, and religion. His best-known works include The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History and Meltdown: A Free-Market Look...

14. Hyuck Kwon (1954)

American Academic

Hyuck M. Kwon is a Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Wichita State University Wichita Kansas. His research focuses on wireless communications CDMA and MIMO. He received B....

15. Matthew Hoch (1975)

American Academic

Matthew Hoch is an American academic and teacher of singing. Hoch is currently Assistant Professor of Music at Auburn University where he teachers applied voice diction and opera workshop. From...

16. Drew Sarich (1975)

American Academic

Drew Sarich is a stage actor and singer from St. Louis Missouri.

17. Alberta Banner Turner (1909)

American Academic

Alberta Banner Turner is the first African American to receive a doctorate in Psychology from the Ohio State University and a noted civil rights and women's rights activist in the...

18. Michael Sims (1958)

American Academic

Michael Sims is a noted American nonfiction writer author most recently of The Story of Charlotte's Web. His other nonfiction books include In the Womb: Animals Apollo’s Fire Adam's Navel...

19. Alan M. Wachman (1958)

American Academic

Alan Michael Wachman was a scholar of East Asian politics and international relations specializing in cross-strait relations and Sino-U. S. relations. He was a professor of international politics at...

20. Andrew Lear (1958)

American Academic

Andrew Lear is a Classicist and scholar of gender history and the history of sexuality. His research focuses on ancient Greek poetry and art. His book on male-male erotic scenes...

21. Vahakn Dadrian (1926)

American Academic

Vahakn N. Dadrian is a professor of sociology historian and an internationally-renowned expert on the Armenian genocide. He is one of the early scholars of the academic study of genocide...

22. Margie Profet (1958)

American Academic

Margaret J. Margie Profet is an American evolutionary biologist with no formal biology training who created a decade-long controversy when she published her findings on the role of Darwinian evolution...

23. Danny Quah (1958)

American Academic

Danny Quah is Professor of Economics and Kuwait Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore....

24. Robert Jensen (1958)

American Academic

Robert William Jensen is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin College of Communication. He joined the faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph. D. in...

25. Kathleen P. King (1958)

American Academic

Dr. Kathleen P. King is an American author and educator.

26. James V. Schall (1928)

American Academic

James Vincent Schall S. J. is an American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest teacher writer and philosopher. He was most recently Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Government...

27. Clifford Nass (1958)

American Academic

Clifford Ivar Nass was a professor of communication at Stanford University co-creator of The Media Equation theory and a renowned authority on human-computer interaction. He was also known for his...

28. Anne-Marie Slaughter (1958)

American Academic

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and was formerly Dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and...

29. Jocelyn Benson (1977)

American Academic

Jocelyn Benson is the Dean of Wayne State University Law School in Detroit Michigan. She was the Democratic Party's nominee for Michigan Secretary of State in the November 2 2010...

30. Colette Inez (1931)

American Academic

Colette Inez is an American poet and a faculty member at Columbia University’s Undergraduate Writing Program. She has published ten poetry collections and has won the Guggenheim Fellowship Rockefeller Fellowship...

31. Thomas Eugene Everhart (1932)

American Academic

Thomas Eugene Everhart is an American educator and physicist. He received his A. B. from Harvard University and his M. S. from University of California Los Angeles. He held a...

32. Ray F. Ferrero, Jr. (1934)

American Academic

Ray F. Ferrero Jr. is an American academic and was the fifth President of Nova Southeastern University. Ferrero graduated with his Bachelor's degree from St. John's University. He received...

33. Hans N. Weiler (1970)

American Academic

Hans N. Weiler is a Professor Emeritus of Education and Political Science at Stanford University and a Professor Emeritus of Comparative Politics and former Rektor of the Europa-Universität Viadrina at...

34. Carl A. P. Ruck (1935)

American Academic

Carl A. P. Ruck is a professor in the Classical Studies department at Boston University. He received his B. A. at Yale University his M. A. at the University of...

35. Ruth Wisse (1936)

American Academic

Ruth R. Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She is the sister of David Roskies professor of Yiddish and...

36. Sandra Gilbert (1936)

American Academic

Sandra M. Gilbert Professor Emerita of English at the University of California Davis is an influential literary critic and poet who has published widely in the fields of feminist literary...

37. Anna Kisselgoff (1938)

American Academic

Anna Kisselgoff is a dance critic and cultural news reporter for the New York Times. She began at the Times as a dance critic and cultural news reporter in 1968...

38. Eugene Ulrich (1938)

American Academic

Doctor Eugene Charles Ulrich is the John A. O'Brien Professor of Hebrew Scripture and Theology in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is Chief Editor...

39. Temple F. Smith (1939)

American Academic

Temple F. Smith is a university professor in biomedical engineering who helped to develop the Smith-Waterman algorithm with Michael Waterman in 1981. The Smith-Waterman algorithm serves as the basis for...

40. Joan Wallach Scott (1941)

American Academic

Joan Wallach Scott is an American historian of France with contributions in gender history and intellectual history. She is currently the Harold F. Linder Professor at the School of Social...

41. Arnold Rampersad (1941)

American Academic

Arnold Rampersad is an American biographer and literary critic born in Trinidad and Tobago. The first volume of his Life Of Langston Hughes was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize...

42. Carol Voisin (1947)

American Academic

Carol Voisin is a member of the faculty at Southern Oregon University where she teaches ethics critical thinking and writing. A peace activist in the Vietnam War era she has...

43. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (1942)

American Academic

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is a scholar of Performance and Jewish Studies and a museum professional. She was born in Canada during the Second World War to Jewish immigrants from Poland. Professor...

44. Virginia Trotter (1921)

American Academic

Virginia Yapp Trotter was Assistant Secretary of Education from 1974 to 1977 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. The position was included in the Department of Health Education and...

45. Ira Katznelson (1944)

American Academic

Ira Katznelson is a leading American political scientist and historian noted for his influential research on the liberal state inequality social knowledge and institutions primarily focused on the United States....

46. Randall Packer (1953)

American Academic

Randall Packer is a contemporary multimedia artist.

47. J. N. Reddy (1945)

American Academic

Junuthula N. Reddy is a Distinguished Professor Regents’ Professor and inaugural holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University College Station Texas USA....

48. J. Kim Vandiver (1945)

American Academic

J. Kim Vandiver is an American university professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Vandiver is the dean of undergraduate research and a professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering.

49. Richard Grusin (1953)

American Academic

Richard Grusin is an American new media scholar and author who currently serves as both Professor of English and Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University...

50. Robert Root-Bernstein (1953)

American Academic

Robert Root-Bernstein is a professor of physiology at Michigan State University. In 1981 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship commonly known as a genius grant. He has also researched...