Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college

Liberal arts colleges in the United States

Liberal arts colleges in the United States are certain undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise offers a definition of the liberal arts as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general...

 in Amherst

Amherst, Massachusetts

Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,819, making it the largest community in Hampshire County . The town is home to Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts...

, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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. It was founded in 1965 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley

Pioneer Valley

The Pioneer Valley is the colloquial name for the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts's portion of the Connecticut River Valley. The Pioneer Valley consists of three counties in Massachusetts which collectively feature much of New England's most fertile farmland...

: Amherst College

Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...

, Smith College

Smith College

Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters...

, Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and served as a model for some of the others...

, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Massachusetts Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system...

. Together they are now known as the Five Colleges

Five Colleges (Massachusetts)

The Five Colleges comprises four liberal arts colleges and one university in the Connecticut River Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, totaling approximately 28,000 students. The schools belong to a consortium called Five Colleges, Incorporated, established in 1965...

, or the Five College Area.

The College is widely known for its alternative curriculum, focus on portfolios rather than distribution requirements, and reliance on narrative evaluations instead of grades and GPAs. It is known particularly for facilitating the study of film, music, theater, and the visual arts. In some fields, it is among the top undergraduate institutions in percentage of graduates who enroll in graduate school. Fifty-six percent of its alumni have at least one graduate degree and it is ranked 30th among all US colleges in the percentage of its graduates who go on to attain a doctorate degree (notably first among history doctorates). Its School of Cognitive Science was the first interdisciplinary undergraduate program in cognitive science

Cognitive science

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...

 and has few peers.

History

The College opened to students in 1970. Its history dates to the immediate aftermath of World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. The first The New College Plan

The New College Plan

The New College Plan resulted in the formation of Hampshire College.In 1958, the presidents of Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst , all located in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, formed the Committee for an Experimental...

was drafted in 1958 by the presidents of the then-Four Colleges, and was revised several times after planning for the College began in the 1960s. Many original ideas for non-traditional arrangements for the College's curriculum, campus, and life were discarded along the way. Many new ideas generated during the planning process were not described in the original documents.

For several years immediately after its founding in the early 1970s, Hampshire College was among the most selective undergraduate programs in the United States. Its admissions selectivity declined thereafter, but the school's number of applications increased in the late 1990s, allowing for greater admissions selectivity since then. The college's rate of admissions is now comparable to that of many other small liberal arts colleges.

The school has struggled with financial difficulties since its founding. At some points, the administration seriously considered ceasing operations or merging into the University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Massachusetts Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system...

. In recent years, the school is on more solid financial footing, though without a sizable endowment. Its financial stability is often credited to the fundraising efforts of its most recent past presidents, Adele Simmons and Gregory S. Prince, Jr.

Gregory S. Prince, Jr.

Gregory Smith Prince, Jr. became Hampshire College's fourth president in 1989 and retired in 2005.In his 15 years at the helm of Hampshire, Prince worked to broaden the public's awareness of the value and role of liberal arts education, reinforcing the understanding that the liberal arts are about...

. The College has also distinguished itself recently with a draft for a "sustainable campus plan" and a "cultural village" through which organizations not directly affiliated with the school are located on its campus. The cultural village includes the National Yiddish Book Center

National Yiddish Book Center

The National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, on the campus of Hampshire College. It is a cultural institution dedicated to the preservation of books in the Yiddish language. It is a member of Museums10 and is a non-profit institution, and its cultural programs are...

 and the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is a museum devoted to the art of the picture book and especially the children's book. It is a member of Museums10 and is adjacent to the campus of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts...

.

On April 1, 2004, president Gregory Prince announced he would retire at the end of the 2004-05 academic year. On April 5, 2005, the Board of Trustees named Ralph Hexter

Ralph Hexter

Ralph J. Hexter is a professor of classics and the former president of Hampshire College.-Biography:Ralph Hexter received an A.B. from Harvard College, a B.A. and an M.A...

, formerly a dean at University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

's College of Letters and Science, as the college's next president, effective August 1, 2005. Hexter was inaugurated on October 15, 2005. The appointment made Hampshire one of a small number of colleges and universities in the United States with an openly gay

Gay

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 president.

Some of the most important founding documents of Hampshire College are collected in the book The Making of a College (MIT Press, 1967; ISBN 0-262-66005-9). The Making of a College is (as of 2003) out of print but available in electronic form from the Hampshire College Archives

Curriculum

Hampshire College describes itself as "experimenting" rather than "experimental," to emphasize the changing nature of its curriculum. From its inception, the curriculum has generally had certain non-traditional features:

• An emphasis on project work as well as, or instead of, courses
• Detailed written evaluations (as well as portfolio evaluations) for completed courses and projects, rather than letter or number grades
• A curriculum centered on student interests, with students taking an active role in designing their own concentrations and projects
• An emphasis on independent motivation and student organization, both within and without the college's formal curriculum

The curriculum is divided into three "divisions" rather than four years, and students complete these divisions in varying amounts of time. The administration has recently made efforts to encourage students to stick more closely to the traditional four-year model by requiring that students spend three semesters in Division I, three semesters in Division II, and that they complete Division III in a year.

• Division I, the distribution stage, requires students to complete one course in each of the five "Schools of Thought," plus three other courses, either on or off campus. (Until fall 2002, Division I required student-directed independent projects; the new system, designed for quicker and smoother student progress, has caused a great deal of controversy on campus.)
• Division II requires students to complete two years of course work in their selected area(s) of study (which may or may not be traditional academic fields.) Most students combine related subject matter to form an interdisciplinary concentration such as "The chemistry of oil painting." Still, some choose to concentrate in multiple areas without drawing such connections, instead simply concentrating in "Both Chemistry and Oil Painting." Some students complete an in-depth concentration in one field only. Students design their own Division II, in cooperation with a committee of at least two faculty members (subject to their approval). Many students choose a faculty committee whose members represent their own interdisciplinary interests. The Division II requirements also include a community service project and a multicultural perspectives requirement.
• Division III, the advanced project, requires students to complete an in-depth project in their field (which is generally related to the Division II field). Division III usually lasts one year and is completed while taking few or no courses, but two "advanced learning activities," which might be courses, internships or specific independent studies, and may or may not be related to the Division III, are required. A Division III topic can be a long written academic paper (in which case it is best considered as something between a traditional college's "bachelor's" or "honors" thesis and a Master's or other graduate thesis), but it can also be a collection of creative work (writing, painting, photography, and film are popular choices) or a hands-on engineering, invention, or social organizing project.

Since 2002, the school has taken steps to expand and attract more academically conventional students. The most significant change was a revision of the Division I program for first year students. Before the fall of 2002, Division I consisted of four major exams, one in each of the academic departments and/or quantitative analysis. These exams took one of three forms: a "two-course option," where a student could take two sequential courses; a "one-plus-one," where a Hampshire course supplements an outside course (AP score of a four or five, or a summer college class); or a project, usually involving a primary or significant secondary research paper, or an art production (a short film, a sculpture, etc.), that stems from previous coursework. Students were required to complete at least two project-based exams, while transfer students usually had one project requirement waived. In the fall of 2002, a new first-year program was started in response to the high numbers of second- and third-year students who had not completed Division I. The program now mandates eight courses in the first year, at least one in each of the five schools. This reduces the required work for passing Division I significantly, as the old system could require up to 10 courses.
Effective in Fall of 2011, the first year requirements have been changed once more. Students most now fulfill FOUR of the FIVE distribution areas: Arts, Design, and Media (ADM), Culture, Humanities, and Languages (CHL),
Mind, Brain, and Information (MBI), Physical and Biological Sciences (PBS), Power, Community, and Social Justice (PCSJ. Students are expected to complete seven courses in their first year, four to fulfill distribution areas and three elective courses in areas of their own choosing.

Schools and programs

The Hampshire College faculty are organized broadly in defined Schools. The Schools function much as departments do at a traditional liberal arts college. The Schools' names and definitions have varied over the College's history, but they have always numbered between three and five. As of 2010, the Schools were:

• Cognitive Science
  Cognitive science
  Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...
  
   (CS): includes linguistics, most psychology, some philosophy, neuroscience, and computer science.
• Humanities
  Humanities
  The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
  
  , Arts
  ARts
  aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
  
  , and Cultural Studies
  Cultural studies
  Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory and literary criticism. It generally concerns the political nature of contemporary culture, as well as its historical foundations, conflicts, and defining traits. It is, to this extent, largely distinguished from cultural...
  
   (HACU): includes film, some studio arts, literature, media studies, and most philosophy.
• Critical Social Inquiry (CSI): includes most sociology and anthropology, economics, history, politics, and some psychology.
• Natural Science
  Natural science
  The natural sciences are branches of science that seek to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world by using empirical and scientific methods...
  
   (NS): includes most traditional sciences, mathematics, and biological anthropology.
• Interdisciplinary Arts
  ARts
  aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
  
   (IA): includes performing arts, some studio arts, and creative writing.

The Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS) is based at Hampshire; its director is Michael Klare

Michael Klare

Michael T. Klare is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is located at Hampshire College, defense correspondent of The Nation magazine, and author of Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency...

.

Five College Consortium

Hampshire College is the youngest of the schools in the Five-College Consortium. The other schools are Amherst College

Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...

, Mt. Holyoke College, Smith College

Smith College

Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters...

 and the University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Massachusetts Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system...

.

Students at each of the schools may take classes and borrow books at the other schools, generally without paying additional fees. They may use resources at the other schools, including internet access, dining halls, and so forth. The five colleges collectively offer over 5,300 courses, and the five libraries have over eight million books. The Pioneer Valley Transit Authority (PVTA) operates bus services between the schools and the greater Pioneer Valley

Pioneer Valley

The Pioneer Valley is the colloquial name for the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts's portion of the Connecticut River Valley. The Pioneer Valley consists of three counties in Massachusetts which collectively feature much of New England's most fertile farmland...

 area.

There are two joint departments in the five-college consortium: Dance and Astronomy. Several certificate programs among the schools are available to students at any of the schools:

• African Studies
• Architectural Studies
• Asian/Pacific/American Studies
• Buddhist Studies
• Coastal and Marine Sciences+
• Cognitive Neuroscience+ ^
• Culture, Health, and Science
• International Relations
• Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies
• Logic
• Middle Eastern Studies
• Native American Indian Studies
• Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES)

+ pending approval at Amherst College
^ pending approval at UMass Amherst

Re-radicalization

In the spring of 2004, a student group calling itself Re-Radicalization of Hampshire College (Re-Rad) emerged with a manifesto

Manifesto

A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature. Manifestos relating to religious belief are generally referred to as creeds. Manifestos may also be life stance-related.-Etymology:...

 called The Re-Making of a College, which critiques what they see as a betrayal of Hampshire's founding ideas in alternative education and student-centered learning. On May 3, 2004, the group staged a demonstration that packed the hall outside the President's office during an administrative meeting. Response from the community has generally been amicable and Re-Rad has made some progress.

The Re-Radicalization movement is responding in part to a new "First-Year Plan" that changes the structure of the first year of study. Beginning in the Fall of 2002, the requirements for passing Division I were changed so that first-year students no longer had to complete independent projects (see Curriculum above). Though still a major source of contention, this change is rapidly fading from memory as most students who entered under the old plan have graduated or are in their final year. Re-Rad submitted its own counter-proposal in both 2006 and 2007, but these proposals were not acted on, and no follow-up was attempted.

The Re-Radicalization of Hampshire College assisted the administration in launching a pilot program known as mentored independent study. This program paired ten third semester students with Division III students with similar academic interests to complete a small study—observed by, and subject to the approval of, a faculty member. The program was judged successful and has been institutionalized.

While some students worry about what they see as Hampshire's headlong plunge into normality, the circumstances of Hampshire's founding tends to perennially attract students who revive the questions about education the institution was founded on, and who challenge the administration to honor the founding mission. Unsurprisingly, then, Re-Rad was not the first student push of its type. Similar efforts have sprung up at Hampshire with some regularity, with varying impacts. In 1996, student Chris Kawecki spearheaded a similar push called the Radical Departure, calling for a more holistic, organic integration of education into students' lives. The most durable legacy of the Radical Departure was EPEC, a series of student-led non-credit courses. A more detailed account of movements such as these can be found in a history of Hampshire student activities, a Division III thesis written by alumnus Timothy Shary, subsequently a faculty member at Clark University

Clark University

Clark University is a private research university and liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts.Founded in 1887, it is the oldest educational institution founded as an all-graduate university. Clark now also educates undergraduates...

 of Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, as of the 2010 Census the city's population is 181,045, making it the second largest city in New England after Boston....

, and University of Oklahoma

University of Oklahoma

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In the media

In 1979, Hampshire was the first college in the nation to divest from apartheid South Africa (with the nearby University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Massachusetts Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system...

 second). Legal and financial research undertaken by student Michael Current and faculty member Kurtis Gordon was promoted nationally by business activists Douglas Tooley and Debbie Knight.

In November 2001, a controversial All-Community Vote at Hampshire declared the school opposed to the recently-launched War on Terrorism

War on Terrorism

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, another national first that drew national media attention, including scathing reports from Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch

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's Fox News Channel

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 and the New York Post

New York Post

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 ("Kooky College Condemns War"). Saturday Night Live

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had a regular sketch, "Jarret's Room," starring Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy Fallon

James Thomas "Jimmy" Fallon, Jr. is an American actor, comedian, singer, musician and television host. He currently hosts Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, a late-night talk show that airs Monday through Friday on NBC...

, which purports to take place at Hampshire College but is inaccurate. It refers to non-existent buildings ("McGuinn Hall," which is actually the Sociology and Social Work building at fellow cast member Amy Poehler

Amy Poehler

Amy Meredith Poehler is an American comedian, actress and voice actress. She was a cast member on the NBC television entertainment show Saturday Night Live from 2001 to 2008. In 2004, she starred in the film Mean Girls with Tina Fey, with whom she worked again in Baby Mama in 2008. She is...

's alma mater, Boston College

Boston College

Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

) and features yearbooks, tests, seniors, fraternities, three-person dorm rooms, and a football team—none of which the school has ever had (though in the Fall 2005, 2006, and 2007 semesters the college experienced a higher than expected number of freshmen and temporarily had to convert some common spaces into three-person dorms). The sketch also claims that the college is actually in New Hampshire

New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...

 (a common mistake).

Alumnus Ken Burns

Ken Burns

Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs...

 wrote of the college: "Hampshire College is a perfect American place. If we look back at the history of our country, the things we celebrate were outside of the mainstream. Much of the world operated under a tyrannical model, but Americans said, 'We will govern ourselves.' So, too, Hampshire asked, at its founding, the difficult questions of how we might educate ourselves... When I entered Hampshire, I found it to be the most exciting place on earth." Loren Pope

Loren Pope

Loren Brooks Pope was an American writer and independent college placement counselor.In 1965, Pope, a former newspaperman and education editor of The New York Times, founded the College Placement Bureau, one of the first independent college placement counseling services in the United States...

 wrote of Hampshire in the college guide Colleges That Change Lives

Colleges That Change Lives

Colleges That Change Lives is a college educational guide by Loren Pope. It was originally published in 1996, with a second edition in 2000, and a third edition in 2006...

: "Today no college has students whose intellectual thyroids are more active or whose minds are more compassionately engaged." In 2006, the Princeton Review named Hampshire College one of the nation’s "best value" undergraduate institutions in its book "America’s Best Value Colleges."

Notable alumni

• Joshua Beckman
  Joshua Beckman
  Joshua Beckman is an American poet. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including Take It, Shake, and Things Are Happening, which won the first annual Honickman-APR book award. He is also the author of two collaborations with New York–based poet Matthew Rohrer, including Nice Hat...
  
  , poet
• Xander Berkeley
  Xander Berkeley
  Alexander Harper "Xander" Berkeley is an American actor. His roles include George Mason on the television series 24.-Early life:Berkeley was born in Brooklyn, New York, but has lived most of his life in New Jersey...
  
  , actor
• George Bonanno
  George Bonanno
  George A. Bonanno is a professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University, Teachers College. He is known as a pioneering researcher in the field of bereavement and trauma. The New York Times on February 15, 2011, stated that the current science of bereavement has been "driven primarily" by...
  
  , psychologist, Columbia University, pioneered scientific methodology for studying grief, author of "The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After a Loss."
• Heather Boushey
  Heather Boushey
  Heather Marie Boushey is a senior economist at the Center for American Progress.-Life and career:Boushey was born in Seattle and grew up in Mukilteo, Washington. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for Social Research and her B.A...
  
  , economist
• Dennis Boutsikaris
  Dennis Boutsikaris
  Dennis Boutsikaris is an American two-time Obie-Award winning character actor. He is a Broadway Actor and frequent television guest star and leading man in made-for-TV movies...
  
  , screen and stage actor, "*batteries not included
  *batteries not included
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  , W.
  W. (film)
  W. is a 2008 American film based on the life and presidency of George W. Bush. It was produced and directed by Oliver Stone, written by Stanley Weiser, and stars Josh Brolin as Bush, with a cast that includes Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Scott...
  
  , Sight Unseen
  Sight Unseen (play)
  Sight Unseen is a play by Donald Margulies. At its center is Jonathan Waxman, a Brooklyn Jew who has become a very wealthy critically acclaimed artist. Happily married, with a baby on the way, he travels to London for a retrospective of his work...
  
  
• Ken Burns
  Ken Burns
  Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs...
  
  , documentary filmmaker, The Civil War
  The Civil War (documentary)
  The Civil War is a documentary film created by Ken Burns about the American Civil War. It was first broadcast on PBS on five consecutive nights from Sunday, September 23 to Thursday, September 27, 1990. Forty million viewers watched it during its initial broadcast, making it the most-watched...
  
  , Baseball
  Baseball (documentary)
  Baseball is an 18½ hour, Emmy Award-winning documentary series by Ken Burns about the game of baseball. First broadcast on PBS, this was Burns' ninth documentary.- Format :...
  
  , Jazz, The War, etc.
• Nicholas Callaway
  Nicholas Callaway
  Nicholas Callaway is an app producer, publisher, television producer, writer, and photographer. He is the chairman and chief creative officer of Callaway Digital Arts, which publishes premium lifestyle and children’s applications for Apple’s iPad, iPhone, and iPod family of products.In 1980,...
  
  , founder of Callaway Arts & Entertainment
  Callaway Arts & Entertainment
  Callaway Arts & Entertainment is a family entertainment company specializing in the design, production, and publication of illustrated books and multimedia products....
  
  
• Charlie Clouser
  Charlie Clouser
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  , musician, former member of Nine Inch Nails
  Nine Inch Nails
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• Leah Hager Cohen
  Leah Hager Cohen
  Leah Hager Cohen is an American author who writes both fiction and nonfiction.Cohen's father was superintendent of the Lexington School for the Deaf in Queens, New York, and she became fluent in sign language there. She entered NYU at age 16, intending to study drama, but later transferred to...
  
  , writer
• Peter Cole
  Peter Cole
  Peter Cole is an American Jewish poet who lives in Jerusalem and New Haven.-Early life:Cole was born in 1957 in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended Williams College and Hampshire College, and moved to Jerusalem in 1981.-Literary career:...
  
  , poet
• Chuck Collins
  Chuck Collins
  Chuck Collins is an author and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He is also cofounder of . He is an expert on U.S...
  
  , political activist, co-founder of United For a Fair Economy
  United for a Fair Economy
  United for a Fair Economy is a national Boston, Massachusetts-based movement support organization that highlights the detriments of uneven wealth distribution. UFE was co-founded by Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel in 1995...
  
  
• E. V. Day
  E. V. Day
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  , artist and sculptor
• Toby Driver
  Toby Driver
  Toby Driver is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and artist, best known for his work as the frontman of the experimental bands maudlin of the Well and Kayo Dot....
  
  , musician and artist, Kayo Dot
  Kayo Dot
  Kayo Dot is an American avant-rock/experimental music group that was formed in 2003 by Toby Driver. They released their debut album Choirs of the Eye on John Zorn's Tzadik Records label that year. Tzadik's descriptive label on that album reads: "Kayo Dot powerfully integrates elements of modern...
  
   and Maudlin of the Well
  Maudlin of the Well
  maudlin of the Well is an avant-garde metal band from Boston, Massachusetts. Their music contains elements from many different genres including doom metal, indie rock, jazz, progressive rock, post rock, progressive metal, death metal, gothic metal, as well as chamber music, ambient music and New...
  
  
• Ed Droste
  Ed Droste
  Edward "Ed" Droste is an original member of the Brooklyn-based indie-rock group, Grizzly Bear. The group began as the solo effort of Droste with the release of 2004's Horn of Plenty, originally released on Kanine Records. All songs were written and performed by Droste...
  
  , singer/songwriter from the Brooklyn-based indie group Grizzly Bear (band)
  Grizzly Bear (band)
  Grizzly Bear is a Brooklyn-based indie rock band, composed of Edward Droste , Daniel Rossen , Chris Taylor and Christopher Bear . The band employs traditional and electronic instruments...
  
   (transferred from Hampshire after one academic year)
• John Falsey
  John Falsey
  John Henry Falsey, Jr. is an American television writer and producer.Falsey was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Patricia Helene and John Henry Falsey...
  
  , Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
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  -winning creator of St. Elsewhere
  St. Elsewhere
  St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series is set at fictional St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End neighborhood...
  
  , I'll Fly Away
  I'll Fly Away (TV series)
  I'll Fly Away is a television series set during the late 1950s and early 1960s, in an unspecified Southern U.S. state. It aired on NBC from 1991 to 1993 and starred Regina Taylor as Lilly Harper, a black housekeeper for district attorney Forrest Bedford and his family...
  
  , and Northern Exposure
  Northern Exposure
  Northern Exposure is an American television series that ran on CBS from 1990 to 1995, with a total of 110 episodes.-Overview:The series was given a pair of consecutive Peabody Awards: in 1991–92 for the show's "depict[ion] in a comedic and often poetic way, [of] the cultural clash between a...
  
  
• Noah Falstein
  Noah Falstein
  Noah Falstein is a freelance game designer and producer who has been in the video game industry since 1980. He was one of the first 10 employees at Lucasfilm Games , DreamWorks Interactive , and The 3DO Company...
  
  , video game designer, Sinistar
  Sinistar
  Sinistar is an arcade game released by Williams in 1982. It belongs to a class of video games from the 1980s called "twitch games". Other "twitch games" include Tempest, Defender, and Robotron: 2084. Sinistar was developed by Sam Dicker, Jack Haeger, Noah Falstein, RJ Mical and Richard Witt...
  
  , and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
  Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
  Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is a point-and-click adventure game by LucasArts originally released in 1992. Almost a year later, it was reissued on CD-ROM as an enhanced "talkie" edition with full voice acting and digitized sound effects...
  
  
• Victor Fresco
  Victor Fresco
  Victor Fresco is an American television writer, producer and show creator. He is credited with creating the critically acclaimed television series Better Off Ted, which ran for two seasons on ABC. Fresco also created the FOX show Andy Richter Controls the Universe, for which he was nominated for a...
  
  , television writer and producer, My Name Is Earl
  My Name Is Earl
  My Name Is Earl is an American television comedy series created by Greg Garcia that was originally broadcast on the NBC television network from September 20, 2005, to May 14, 2009, in the United States...
  
  and Andy Richter Controls the Universe
  Andy Richter Controls the Universe
  Andy Richter Controls the Universe is a sitcom which aired from 2002–2003 on the Fox network. The series was Andy Richter's first starring role after leaving Late Night with Conan O'Brien in 2000....
  
  
• Tooker Gomberg
  Tooker Gomberg
  Tooker Gomberg was a Canadian politician and environmental activist.A native of Montreal, Quebec and a liberal-arts graduate of Hampshire College , Gomberg founded one of Canada's first curbside recycling programs in Montreal, and later moved to Edmonton, Alberta, where he created educational...
  
  , municipal politician and environmentalist, 1980 graduate
• Neil Gust
  Neil Gust
  Neil Jacob Gust is an American musician. He is best known for co-founding Heatmiser with Elliott Smith in 1992.-Music career:Gust and Smith first met in 1987 while the pair were attending Hampshire College, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Gust wrote songs for as well as played guitar and sang in the band...
  
  , musician and artist
• Tom Hanway
  Tom Hanway
  Tom Hanway was born on August 20, 1961 in Cleveland, Ohio, grew up in Larchmont, Westchester County, New York, and attended Hampshire College. He is an American 5-string banjoist, composer, author, and an originator of "Celtic fingerstyle" banjo...
  
  , bluegrass and Celtic banjoist
• Benjamin Mako Hill
  Benjamin Mako Hill
  Benjamin Mako Hill is a Debian hacker, intellectual property researcher, activist and author. He is a contributor and free software developer as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects as well as the author of two best-selling technical books on the subject, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible and The...
  
  , technologist, free software
  Free software
  Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
  
   developer and free culture
  Free Culture movement
  The free culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works in the form of free content by using the Internet and other forms of media....
  
   advocate
• Gary Hirshberg
  Gary Hirshberg
  Gary Hirshberg is chairman, president and CEO of Stonyfield Farm, an organic yogurt producer, based in Londonderry, New Hampshire. He has been with the company since 1983....
  
  , Chairman, President, and "CE-Yo" of Stonyfield Farm
  Stonyfield Farm
  Stonyfield Farm, also simply called Stonyfield, is an organic yogurt maker located in Londonderry, New Hampshire, USA. Stonyfield Farm was founded by Samuel Kaymen in 1983, in Wilton, New Hampshire, as an organic farming school...
  
  
• Jeffrey Hollender
  Jeffrey Hollender
  Jeffrey Hollender is an American businessperson, entrepreneur, author, and activist. He was well known for his roles as CEO, co-founder, and later Chief Inspired Protagonist and Executive Chairperson of Seventh Generation Inc., the country's largest distributor of non-toxic, all-natural cleaning,...
  
  , President and CEO of Seventh Generation Inc.
  Seventh Generation Inc.
  Seventh Generation, Inc. is an American company that sells cleaning, paper, and personal care products. The company was founded in 1988 and is based in Burlington, Vermont. The company focuses its marketing and product development on sustainability and the conservation of natural resources...
  
  
• Daniel Horowitz
  Daniel Horowitz
  Daniel Horowitz is an American defense attorney who has represented several high-profile clients including talk show host Michael Savage and is a frequent commentator in the media on criminal cases in the news.-Background:...
  
  , noted criminal-defense attorney.
• Edward Humes
  Edward Humes
  -Biography:Humes was born in Philadelphia and attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1985 he moved to Southern California.In 1989 he received the Pulitzer Prize for specialized reporting for several investigative stories he wrote about the United States military...
  
  , Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• Jeph Jacques
  Jeph Jacques
  Jeph Jacques writes and illustrates the webcomic Questionable Content. He was born in Rockville, Maryland, and graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in music...
  
  , artist, Questionable Content
  Questionable Content
  Questionable Content is a slice-of-life webcomic written and drawn by Jeph Jacques. It was launched on August 1, 2003. Jacques currently makes his living exclusively from QC merchandising and advertising, making him one of the few professional webcomic artists...
  
  
• Patricia Klindienst
  Patricia Klindienst
  Patricia Klindienst is an American writer, and independent scholar.She graduated from Stanford University, with a Ph. D.She taught at Yale University.-Awards:* 2007 American Book Award...
  
  , writer and former professor at Yale
• Jon Krakauer
  Jon Krakauer
  Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writing about the outdoors and mountain-climbing...
  
  , mountain climber and author, Into Thin Air
  Into Thin Air
  Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster is a 1997 bestselling non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It details the author's presence at Mount Everest during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster when eight climbers were killed and several others were stranded by a 'rogue storm'...
  
  , Into the Wild, and Under the Banner of Heaven
• Mike Ladd
  Mike Ladd
  Mike Ladd is a hip-hop MC and producer. As an MC, he practices spoken-word and is known for his poetic lyrics. As a producer, he is known as the owner of the Likemadd label.-Biography:...
  
  , Hip Hop MC and member of the Antipop Consortium
  Antipop Consortium
  Antipop Consortium are an American alternative hip hop group. The group formed in 1997, when Beans, High Priest, M. Sayyid and producer Earl Blaize met at a poetry slam in New York City...
  
  
• Aaron Lansky
  Aaron Lansky
  Aaron Lansky is the founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, an organization he created to help salvage Yiddish language publications. When he began saving books in the early 1980s, most experts believe that there were fewer than 70,000 Yiddish volumes extant...
  
  , founder of the National Yiddish Book Center
  National Yiddish Book Center
  The National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, on the campus of Hampshire College. It is a cultural institution dedicated to the preservation of books in the Yiddish language. It is a member of Museums10 and is a non-profit institution, and its cultural programs are...
  
  
• Ken Leavitt-Lawrence, rap artist a.k.a. "MC Hawking"
• lê thi diem thúy
  Lê thi diem thúy
  Lê Thị Diễm Thúy is an award-winning poet, novelist, and performer. Her pen name is lê thi diem thúy. She was born in the South Vietnamese village of Phan Thiết on January 12, 1972 during the heart of the Vietnam War.-Life:...
  
  , writer and solo performance artist.
• Daniel Lopatin/Oneohtrix Point Never
  Oneohtrix Point Never
  Oneohtrix Point Never is the recording name of Brooklyn-based experimental musician Daniel Lopatin, whose album Returnal was released by Editions Mego in June 2010...
  
  , musician
• Jeff Maguire
  Jeff Maguire
  Jeff Maguire is an American screenwriter. Regarded for his talent for writing sports films, Jeff Maguire got his first screenwriting break with his script Escape to Victory, a film about soccer directed by John Huston in 1981. His most recent contribution is Gridiron Gang, released in 2006...
  
  , screenwriter, In the Line of Fire
  In the Line of Fire
  In the Line of Fire is a 1993 American thriller film about a disillusioned and obsessed former CIA agent who attempts to assassinate the President of the United States and the Secret Service agent who tracks him...
  
  
• Daniel Marcus
  Daniel Marcus
  Daniel Marcus is a science fiction author from Berkeley, California. He has written numerous short stories that have appeared in Witness, Asimov's Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and other publications. Binding Energy, a collection of his short...
  
  , science fiction author
• Gary Marcus
  Gary Marcus
  Gary F. Marcus is a research psychologist whose work focuses on language, biology, and the mind. Dr. Marcus is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at New York University and Director of the NYU Infant Language Center...
  
  , cognitive scientist
• Fred Melamed
  Fred Melamed
  Fred Melamed is a U.S. actor and writer.He was born in New York City, and received his theatrical training at Hampshire College and the Yale School of Drama. At Yale, he was a Samuel F. B. Morse College Graduate Fellow. He was also a nominee for the Irene Ryan Award, a prize conferred upon the...
  
  , actor, A Serious Man
  A Serious Man
  A Serious Man is a 2009 dark comedy written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The film stars Michael Stuhlbarg as a Minnesota Jewish man whose life crumbles both professionally and personally, leading to questions about his faith...
  
  (2009), writer
• Eugene Mirman
  Eugene Mirman
  Eugene Boris Mirman is a Russian-born American comedian, writer, and filmmaker. Mirman currently plays Yvgeny Mirminsky on Delocated, and voices Gene Belcher for the animated comedy Bob's Burgers.-Early life:Mirman was born in Russia to Jewish parents...
  
  , comedian
• David Moscow
  David Moscow
  David Raphael Moscow is an American actor. His first major role was as the young Josh Baskin in the 1988 film Big, in which his character was magically transformed into an adult played by Tom Hanks.-Early life:...
  
  , actor, Big
  Big
  Big is a 1988 romantic comedy film directed by Penny Marshall and stars Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin, a young boy who makes a wish "to be big" to a magical fortune-telling machine and is then aged to adulthood overnight...
  
  
• John Reed
  John Reed (novelist)
  John Reed is an American novelist. He is the author of four novels: A Still Small Voice , Snowball's Chance with a preface by Alexander Cockburn, The Whole , and All the World's a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare...
  
  , novelist, Snowball's Chance
  Snowball's Chance
  Snowball's Chance, is a parody of George Orwell's Animal Farm written by John Reed, in which Snowball the pig returns to the Manor Farm after many years' absence, to install capitalism — which proves to have its own pitfalls.- Background :...
  
  
• Richard Rushfield, contributing editor of Vanity Fair
  Vanity Fair (magazine)
  Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
  
  , West Coast editor of Gawker, author of Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost: A Memoir of Hampshire College in the Twilight of the '80s (2009)
• Liev Schreiber
  Liev Schreiber
  Isaac Liev Schreiber , commonly known as Liev Schreiber, is an American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. He became known during the late 1990s and early 2000s, having initially appeared in several independent films, and later mainstream Hollywood films, including the Scream trilogy of...
  
  , stage and screen actor, The Manchurian Candidate
  The Manchurian Candidate (2004 film)
  The Manchurian Candidate is a 2004 American thriller film based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Richard Condon, and a reimagining of the previous 1962 film....
  
  (2004), director, Everything is Illuminated
  Everything Is Illuminated (film)
  Everything Is Illuminated is a 2005 adventure/dramedy film, written and directed by Liev Schreiber and starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hütz...
  
  
• Joshua Seth
  Joshua Seth
  Joshua Seth Freedman is an American entertainer and voice actor. He was born in Kent, Ohio and attended the New York University film school. He has voiced dozens of well known anime characters and is sometimes credited as "Jeremiah Freedman", but has retired from voice acting in 2005...
  
  , noted hypnotist and voice over actor, Akira (2001), Tetsuo, Digimon, Tai
• Jeff Sharlet
  Jeff Sharlet
  Jeff Sharlet is an American journalist, bestselling author, and academic best known for writing about religious subcultures in the United States. He is a contributing editor for Harper's and Rolling Stone...
  
  , journalist, Harper's
• David Shulkin
  David Shulkin
  David Shulkin an internist, is currently President of Morristown Memorial Hospital, part of Atlantic Health in the United States.-Career:David Shulkin is the previous President and Chief Executive Officer of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City...
  
  , internist
• Elliott Smith
  Elliott Smith
  Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity...
  
  , musician and artist
• Lee Smolin
  Lee Smolin
  Lee Smolin is an American theoretical physicist, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo. He is married to Dina Graser, a communications lawyer in Toronto. His brother is David M...
  
  , theoretical physicist
  Theoretical physics
  Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena...
  
   at the Perimeter Institute
  Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
  Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is an independent, resident-based research institute devoted to foundational issues in theoretical physics located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Perimeter Institute was founded in 1999 by Mike Lazaridis...
  
  
• Sonya Sones
  Sonya Sones
  Sonya Sones is an American poet and author. She has written four young adult novels in verse, as well as a novel in verse for adults and a picture book.-Biography:...
  
  , author of What My Mother Doesn't Know
  What My Mother Doesn't Know
  What My Mother Doesn't Know is a novel in verse by Sonya Sones. The free verse novel follows ninth-grader Sophie Stein as she struggles through the daily grind of being a freshman in high school, her romantic crushes and family life....
  
  and other young adult novels in verse
• Barry Sonnenfeld
  Barry Sonnenfeld
  Barry Sonnenfeld is an American filmmaker and television director. He worked as cinematographer for the Coen brothers, then later he directed and produced big budget films such as Men in Black.-Life and career:...
  
  , director, Men in Black
  Men in Black (film)
  Men in Black is a 1997 science fiction comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith and Vincent D'Onofrio. The film was based on the Men in Black comic book series by Lowell Cunningham, originally published by Marvel Comics. The film featured the creature effects...
  
  
• Danny Tamberelli
  Danny Tamberelli
  Daniel "Danny" Tamberelli is an American actor and musician.-Biography:Tamberelli played Jackie Radowski on the television series The Baby-Sitters Club shortly before more notably playing Little Pete on the Nickelodeon television show The Adventures of Pete & Pete and provided the voice for Arnold...
  
  , actor, The Mighty Ducks and television series All That
  All That
  All That is an American live-action, sketch comedy-variety show that aired on the Nickelodeon cable television network featuring short comedic sketches and weekly musical guests. The theme song for All That was performed by TLC...
  
  and The Adventures of Pete and Pete
• Naomi Wallace
  Naomi Wallace
  Naomi Wallace is a playwright, screenwriter and poet from Prospect, Kentucky, United States.-Life:Wallace obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College and did graduate studies at the University of Iowa....
  
  , playwright, One Flea Spare
  One Flea Spare
  One Flea Spare, by Naomi Wallace, is an award-winning play set in plague-ravaged 17th Century London.Play synopsis from Eclipse Theater:A wealthy couple is preparing to flee their home when a mysterious sailor and a young girl appear sneaking into their boarded up house. Now, quarantined together...
  
  , Slaugher City
• Ken Ward
  Ken Ward
  Ken Ward is an environmental activist who served as Executive Director of NJPIRG and RIPIRG, Deputy Executive Director, Greenpeace USA, cofounder of a number of organizations, including Green Corps , National Environmental Law Center , Public Interest GRFX, Environmental Endowment for New Jersey,...
  
  , climate campaigner
• Jessamyn West
  Jessamyn West (librarian)
  Jessamyn Charity West is an American librarian and blogger, best known as the creator of librarian.net and for her unconventional views of her profession...
  
  , well-known librarian and blogger
• Christopher Young
  Christopher Young
  Christopher Young is an American music composer for both film and television.Many of his music compositions are for horror films, including Hellraiser, Tales from the Hood, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, Urban Legend, and Drag Me to Hell...
  
  , film composer, Spider-Man 3
  Spider-Man 3
  Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 American superhero film written and directed by Sam Raimi, with a screenplay by Ivan Raimi and Alvin Sargent. It is the third film in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man...
  
  

Fictional alumni

• Alice Kinnon and Charlotte Pingress, characters in the film The Last Days of Disco
  The Last Days of Disco
  The Last Days of Disco is a 1998 sardonic comedy-drama film written and directed by Whit Stillman and loosely based on his travels and experiences in various nightclubs in Manhattan, including Studio 54. The film concerns a group of Ivy League and Hampshire graduates falling in and out of love in...
  
  
• Jarret and Gobi, characters in the Saturday Night Live
  Saturday Night Live
  Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
  
   skit Jarret's Room. In the same recurring sketch Al Gore once appeared as a professor.
• In the webcomic Questionable Content
  Questionable Content
  Questionable Content is a slice-of-life webcomic written and drawn by Jeph Jacques. It was launched on August 1, 2003. Jacques currently makes his living exclusively from QC merchandising and advertising, making him one of the few professional webcomic artists...
  
  , occasional run-ins with Hampshire students and faculty occur.
• In Party of Five
  Party of Five
  Party of Five is an American teen drama television series that aired on Fox for six seasons, from September 12, 1994, until May 3, 2000.Critically acclaimed, the show suffered from low ratings and after its first season was slated for cancellation...
  
  , Bailey is accepted to Hampshire College.

Notable past and present faculty

• Eqbal Ahmad
  Eqbal Ahmad
  Eqbal Ahmad was a Pakistani writer, journalist, and anti-war activist. He was strongly critical of the Middle East strategy of the United States as well as what he saw as the "twin curse" of nationalism and religious fanaticism in such countries as Pakistan.-Life:Ahmad was born in the village of...
  
  , post-colonial political scholar
• Diane Arbus
  Diane Arbus
  Diane Arbus March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal." A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid.....
  
  * (co-instructor of a photography class for a summer term), photographer
• James Baldwin
  James Baldwin (writer)
  James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.Baldwin's essays, for instance "Notes of a Native Son" , explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th century America,...
  
  , writer
• Leonard Baskin
  Leonard Baskin
  Leonard Baskin was an American sculptor, book-illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.-Life and work:...
  
  , artist
• Bill Brand
  Bill Brand (film artist)
  Bill Brand is an experimental film and video artist, educator, activist and film preservationist.-Life and career:Brand's films and videos were first shown at Anthology Film Archives in New York City in 1973...
  
  , experimental filmmaker
• Ray Copeland
  Ray Copeland
  Ray Copeland was a jazz trumpet player and teacher. Throughout his career he participated on many swing and hard bop dates, appearing on the well known Monk's Music by Thelonious Monk in 1956...
  
  , Jazz musician, trumpet
• Susan Douglas, sociologist, writer
• Mark Dresser
  Mark Dresser
  Mark Dresser is an American double bass player and composer.-Biography:He has performed and recorded with many of the luminaries of "new" jazz composition and improvisation. For ten years he performed with the Anthony Braxton Quartet, as well as diverse groups led by Ray Anderson, Tim Berne,...
  
  , jazz musician, contrabass virtuoso
• David Anthony Durham
  David Anthony Durham
  David Anthony Durham is an American novelist, author of historical fiction and fantasy.Durham's first novel, Gabriel's Story, centered on African American settlers in the American West. Walk Through Darkness followed a runaway slave during the tense times leading up to the American Civil War...
  
  , acclaimed historical and epic fantasy novelist
• Marty Ehrlich
  Marty Ehrlich
  Marty Ehrlich is a multi-instrumentalist and is considered one of the leading figures in experimental or avant-garde jazz....
  
  , jazz musician
• Alan H. Goodman
  Alan H. Goodman
  Alan H. Goodman is a biological anthropologist and the author/editor of numerous publications, including , , and . He served as president of the American Anthropological Association from 2005 to 2007 and has been an important contributor to many of the organization's projects, including...
  
  , anthropologist
• Lynne Hanley
  Lynne Hanley
  Lynne Hanley is an American feminist author and literary critic. She is currently Professor of Writing and Literature at Hampshire College.-Background:...
  
  , literary critic
• Paul Jenkins
  Paul Jenkins (poet)
  Paul Jenkins is an American academic. He is currently Professor of Poetry at Hampshire College.Jenkins received an M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Washington, Seattle...
  
  , professor of poetry
• Norton Juster
  Norton Juster
  Norton Juster is an American architect and author. He is best known as an author of children's books, including The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line.- Biography :...
  
  , architect and writer
• David Kelly
  David Kelly (mathematician)
  David C. Kelly is an associate professor of mathematics at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He directs the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics, and has been involved in the organization of "Yellow Pig's Day," an annual celebration of mathematics...
  
  , professor of mathematics, founder and director of the 3-decade-old Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics
  Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics
  The Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics is a residential program for mathematically talented high school students. The program has been conducted each summer since 1971, with the exceptions of 1981 and 1996, and has more than 1500 alumni....
  
   program
• Michael Klare
  Michael Klare
  Michael T. Klare is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is located at Hampshire College, defense correspondent of The Nation magazine, and author of Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency...
  
  , scholar on U.S. defense policy
• Yusef Lateef
  Yusef Lateef
  Dr. Yusef Lateef is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in 1950.Although Lateef's main instruments are the tenor saxophone and flute, he is known for...
  
  , musician
• Michael Lesy
  Michael Lesy
  Michael Lesy is a writer and professor of literary journalism at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. His books, which combine historical photographs with his own writing, include Wisconsin Death Trip , Time Frames: The Meaning of Family Pictures , Bearing Witness: A Photographic Chronicle...
  
  , writer, author of Wisconsin Death Trip
• Jerome Liebling
  Jerome Liebling
  Jerome Liebling was an American photographer, filmmaker, and teacher.He studied photography under Walter Rosenblum and Paul Strand, and joined New York's famed Photo League...
  
  , filmmaker and photographer
• Elaine Mayes
  Elaine Mayes
  Elaine Mayes is an American photographer.Known for her portraits of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury residents in 1967-8 and for her iconic images of rock and roll performers in the late 1960s, Mayes' subject matter has also included landscapes and conceptual projects including her series,...
  
  , filmmaker and photographer
• Walid Raad
  Walid Raad
  Walid Raad is a contemporary media artist. The Atlas Group is a fictional collective, the work of which is produced by Walid Raad....
  
  /Atlas Group
  Atlas Group
  The Atlas Group is a diversified dealing in engineering, financial services and trading. The Atlas Group was laid in 1962, with the establishment of Shirazi Investments Limited...
  
  , artist
• David Roberts
  David Roberts (climber)
  David Roberts is a climber, mountaineer, and author of books and articles about climbing. He is particularly noted for his books The Mountain of My Fear and Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative, chronicling major ascents in Alaska in the 1960s, which had a major impact on the form of mountaineering...
  
  , mountaineer and author
• Eric Schocket
  Eric Schocket
  Eric Schocket was an Associate Professor of American literature at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He wrote primarily on issues of class...
  
  , American studies scholar
• Andrew Salkey
  Andrew Salkey
  Andrew Salkey was a novelist, poet, freelance writer and journalist of Jamaican and Haitian origin. Salkey was born in Panama but was raised in Jamaica...
  
  , writer
• Chase Twichell
  Chase Twichell
  Chase Twichell is an American poet, professor, and publisher, the founder in 1999, of Ausable Press. Her most recent poetry collection is Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been, which earned her Claremont Graduate University's prestigious $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award....
  
  , poet, founder of Ausable Press
• Carrie Mae Weems
  Carrie Mae Weems
  Carrie Mae Weems is an award-winning photographer and artist. Her photographs, films, and videos have been displayed in over 50 exhibitions in the United States and abroad and focus on serious issues that face African Americans today, such as racism, gender relations, politics, and personal identity...
  
  , photographer

Presidents of the college

• Franklin Patterson
  Franklin Patterson
  Franklin Kessel Patterson was a professor and author, and the first president of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He was also, along with the other presidents of the Five Colleges, a co-author of the New College Plan.-Early life:Patterson was born on September 14, 1916 in Ellsworth, Iowa...
  
   (1966–1971)
• Charles R. Longsworth (1971–1977)
• Adele Simmons (1977–1989)
• Gregory S. Prince, Jr.
  Gregory S. Prince, Jr.
  Gregory Smith Prince, Jr. became Hampshire College's fourth president in 1989 and retired in 2005.In his 15 years at the helm of Hampshire, Prince worked to broaden the public's awareness of the value and role of liberal arts education, reinforcing the understanding that the liberal arts are about...
  
   (1989–2005)
• Ralph Hexter
  Ralph Hexter
  Ralph J. Hexter is a professor of classics and the former president of Hampshire College.-Biography:Ralph Hexter received an A.B. from Harvard College, a B.A. and an M.A...
  
   (2005–2010)
• Marlene Gerber Fried (2010-2011)
• Jonathan Lash
  Jonathan Lash
  Jonathan Lash is the president of Hampshire College and former President of the World Resources Institute-Biography:Jonathan Lash received an A.B...
  
   (2011-

See also

• Hampshire.edu Hampshire College Website
• Hampedia.org Hampshire's Own Wiki page*
• Non-Satis.org The Petition to Save Hampshire College
• Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics
  Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics
  The Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics is a residential program for mathematically talented high school students. The program has been conducted each summer since 1971, with the exceptions of 1981 and 1996, and has more than 1500 alumni....
  
   program for high-school students
• Colleges That Change Lives
  Colleges That Change Lives
  Colleges That Change Lives is a college educational guide by Loren Pope. It was originally published in 1996, with a second edition in 2000, and a third edition in 2006...
  
  

External links

• http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/10/magazine/what-s-new-at-frisbee-u.html An RAL-like profile of Hampshire College by The New York Times.
• Hampshire College
• Hampshire College Archives, featuring PDF text of The Making of a College and documents from Hampshire College history
• The Climax student newspaper
• The Hampshire College Daily Jolt
• The Princeton Review: Hampshire College
• The student website hosting the video of the all-community surveillance camera discussion.
• Hampedia.org A tool for documenting Hampshire's academics and life and culture.