List of Smith College people
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The following is a list of individuals associated with Smith College
through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.
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...
through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.
Notable alumnae
The Alumnae Association of Smith College considers all former students to be members, whether they graduated or not, and does not generally differentiate between graduates and non-graduates when identifying Smith alumnae.- Barbara AdamsBarbara Adams (General Counsel of Pennsylvania)Barbara Adams was appointed General Counsel of Pennsylvania on June 1, 2005 by Governor Edward G. Rendell. Adams, who was raised in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, had been a partner with Duane Morris LLP in Philadelphia since 1986, a firm she joined originally as a summer associate in 1977.Adams...
, General Counsel of Pennsylvania - Blanche Ames AmesBlanche Ames AmesBlanche Ames Ames was an artist, inventor, writer, and prominent supporter of women's suffrage and birth control. Born Blanche Ames in Lowell, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of Civil War General and Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames and Blanche Butler Ames and the sister of Adelbert Ames...
, 1899, President of the Class of 1899, portraitist, women's rights activist, and inventor - Natalie BabbittNatalie BabbittNatalie Babbitt is an American author and illustrator of children's books. Her novels Tuck Everlasting and The Eyes of the Amaryllis have been made into films . Her novel Knee-Knock Rise is a Newbery Honor book.- Life :Natalie Babbitt was born in Dayton, Ohio. Now lives in Providence, Rhode Island...
, 1954, Newbery Honor Book award-winner - Tammy BaldwinTammy BaldwinTammy Suzanne Green Baldwin is the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district, serving since 1999. She is a member of the Democratic Party. In September 2011, Baldwin announced she would be a candidate in the 2012 U.S...
, 1984, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives - Ada ComstockAda ComstockAda Comstock was an American women's education pioneer. She served as the first dean of women at the University of Minnesota and later as the first full-time president of Radcliffe College.-Early life and education:...
, 1897, an American women's education pioneer and first full-time president of Radcliffe CollegeRadcliffe CollegeRadcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the coordinate college for Harvard University. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges. Radcliffe College conferred joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas beginning in 1963 and a formal merger agreement with...
. - Mildred Grosberg BellinMildred Grosberg BellinMildred Grosberg Bellin was an American cookbook author. She is most noted for her influential cookbooks Modern Jewish Meals and The Jewish Cookbook, which brought modern nutritional ideas into Jewish cooking....
, 1928, cookbook author - Deborah BergaminiDeborah BergaminiDeborah Bergamini is an Italian politician and journalist, currently personal assistant of Silvio Berlusconi. She entered the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 2008 as a member of The People of Freedom political movement....
, 1993, politician - Leanna BrownLeanna BrownLeanna Brown is an American Republican Party politician who served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature, where she represented the 26th Legislative District. She was the first Republican woman elected to the New Jersey Senate....
, 1956, politician - Barbara Pierce Bush (class of 1947, did not graduate; she left the college in 1945 to marry George H. W. BushGeorge H. W. BushGeorge Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
) - Ernestine Gilbreth CareyErnestine Gilbreth CareyErnestine Moller Gilbreth Carey was an American author.-Biography:Born in New York City, she was the daughter of Lillian Moller Gilbreth and Frank Bunker Gilbreth, early 20th-century pioneers of time and motion study and what would now be called organizational behavior...
, 1929, author of Cheaper by the Dozen. - Erin Casler, 1999, Miss Deaf America (2004-06)
- Julia McWilliams ChildJulia ChildJulia Child was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for introducing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, the most notable of which was The French Chef, which...
, 1934, chef, author, and television personality. - Jennifer ChrislerJennifer ChrislerJennifer Chrisler is the Executive Director of Family Equality Council , the national LGBT families.Formerly Chrisler was an assistant to her current wife, former MA state Senator Cheryl Jacques, and she was at the center of a controversy after receiving very large pay raises by Jacques.Jennifer...
, 1992, Executive Director of Family Equality Council. - Patience ClevelandPatience ClevelandPatience Cleveland was an American film and television actress.-Personal life:Patience Cleveland was born, the youngest of six siblings, to an old established New Hampshire family, to Dr. Mather Cleveland, M.D. and Susan Colgate Cleveland. Her father authored New Hampshire and the Civil War and...
, 1952, American film and television actress. - Emily CouricEmily CouricEmily Couric was a Virginia Democratic state senator from Charlottesville.Couric was born to Elinor Couric, a homemaker and part-time writer, and John Martin Couric, a public relations executive and news editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the United Press in Washington, D.C....
, 1969, late Virginia state senator and sister of Katie CouricKatie CouricKatherine Anne "Katie" Couric is an American journalist and author. She serves as Special Correspondent for ABC News, contributing to ABC World News, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, This Week and primetime news specials... - LaWanda CoxLaWanda CoxLaWanda Fenlason Cox was a pioneering historian of the American Civil War and the period of Reconstruction. Cox was born on September 24, 1909 in Aberdeen, Washington. She received her Bachelors at the University of Oregon in 1931, her masters from Smith College and her Ph.D. from the University...
, 1934, M.A., noted historian of slavery and reconstruction at Hunter CollegeHunter CollegeHunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized... - Otelia CromwellOtelia CromwellOtelia Cromwell is the first African-American graduate of Smith College. The college later began the tradition of canceling afternoon and evening classes in her honor every November as a venue to talk about race and diversity....
, 1900, educator and first African-American woman to receive a Yale degree. - Stephanie CutterStephanie CutterStephanie Cutter is a Democratic Party operative. She serves as Deputy Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama.- Biography :Cutter was born in Taunton, Massachusetts and raised in nearby Raynham, Massachusetts...
Chief Spokesperson for the Obama-Biden Transition Project and was a senior advisor for the presidential campaign. - Ann DownerAnn DownerAnn Downer is an American writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and young adults, as well as short fiction and poetry....
, 1982, writer. - Margaret EdsonMargaret EdsonMargaret Edson is an American playwright. She graduated with a B.A. in Renaissance History from Smith College, and received a master's in English literature from Georgetown University...
, 1983, American playwright. - Leecia EveLeecia EveLeecia Roberta Eve is an attorney in New York. A resident of Fort Washington, Maryland and former resident of Buffalo, NY, Eve is the daughter of former Assembly member Arthur Eve and was candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York during the 2006 election. She was a Senior Policy adviser to...
, 1986, attorney and Senior Policy adviser to U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton during her 2008 primary campaign for President. - Julie Nixon EisenhowerJulie Nixon EisenhowerJulie Nixon Eisenhower is the younger daughter of 37th U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon, and sister to Patricia Nixon Cox....
, 1970, second daughter of Richard Nixon.. - Lisa Evans, 1982, quilt historian
- Margaret Petherbridge Farrar, 1919, an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for the New York Times.
- Shirley FlemingShirley FlemingShirley Fleming was an American music critic and editor. Born in New York City, she was the daughter of novelist Berry Fleming who enjoyed popularity during the 1930s and 1940s with a series of successful works, and later in the 1980s with his Captain Bennett's Folly. Shirley grew up in Augusta,...
, American music critic and editor - Betty Goldstein FriedanBetty FriedanBetty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist.A leading figure in the Women's Movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the "second wave" of American feminism in the twentieth century...
, 1942, an American writer of The Feminine MystiqueThe Feminine MystiqueThe Feminine Mystique, published February 19, 1963, by W.W. Norton and Co., is a nonfiction book written by Betty Friedan. It is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States....
, activist and feminist. - Anne FroelickAnne FroelickAnne Froelick Taylor was an American screenwriter from 1941 to 1950, and later a playwright and novelist. Her screenwriting career ended when she was identified as a communist by two witnesses at a hearing before the HUAC....
, blacklisted screenwriter. - Meg GreenfieldMeg GreenfieldMary Ellen Greenfield was a Washington Post and Newsweek editorial writer and a Washington, D.C. insider known for her wit and for being reclusive....
, 1952, Washington Post and Newsweek editorial writer. - Shelley HackShelley HackShelley Marie Hack is an American supermodel, actress, producer, and political & media advisor. Hack is best remembered for her role as Tiffany Welles in the fourth season of the ABC Television Drama Charlie's Angels ; replacing the departing Kate Jackson...
, 1969, actress and model. - Mira Hinsdale HallMira Hinsdale HallMira Hinsdale Hall was the founder of the Miss Hall's School in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.-Early life:Mira Hinsdale Hall was born to Charles and Elizabeth Wing Hinsdale Hall in Leroy, New York, on the twenty-first of April, 1863. Her father died when she was very young...
, 1883, founder of Miss Hall's SchoolMiss Hall's SchoolMiss Hall's School, located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is a highly selective independent school for girls aged 14–18. It was one of the first girls' boarding schools established in New England.... - Sarah P. HarknessSarah P. HarknessSarah Pillsbury Harkness is an American architect. She was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts.She attended the Smith College Graduate School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in 1940. She was a founder, in 1945, and now Principal Emeritus of the Architects' Collaborative...
, 1937, American architect. - Jean HarrisJean HarrisJean Harris was the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia who made national news in 1980 as the defendant in a high-profile murder case of her lover Dr...
, 1945, headmistress and defendant in a high-profile murder case. - Jane Lakes HarmanJane HarmanJane Margaret Lakes Harman is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1993 to 1999, and from 2001 to 2011. She is a member of the Democratic Party....
, 1966, U.S. House of Representatives from California's 36th district. - Harriet Boyd-HawesHarriet Boyd-HawesHarriet Boyd Hawes was a pioneering American archaeologist, nurse and relief worker. She is best known as the first director of an archaeological excavation to discover and excavate a Minoan settlement and palace site on the Aegean island of Crete.Born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States,...
, 1892, pioneering American archaeologist, nurse and relief worker. - Doan HoangDoan HoangDoan Hoang is an award-winning Vietnamese-American film producer, screenwriter, and director who made the successful 2007 documentary "Oh, Saigon" about the life of her family after they left Vietnam, as it fell in the 1970s, how she and her family were carried out on the last helicopter on April...
, 1994, award-winning Vietnamese-American film producer, screenwriter, and director. - Elisabeth IrwinElisabeth IrwinElisabeth Antoinette Irwin was the founder of the Little Red School House. She was an educator, psychologist, reformer, and declared lesbian, living with her life partner Katharine Anthony and the two children they adopted.-Biography:Irwin was born in Brooklyn to William Henry Irwin and Josephina...
, 1903, founder of the Little Red School House. - Molly IvinsMolly IvinsMary Tyler "Molly" Ivins was an American newspaper columnist, populist, political commentator, humorist and author.-Early life and education:Ivins was born in Monterey, California, and raised in Houston, Texas...
, 1966, a populist American newspaper columnist, political commentator, humorist and bestselling author. - Svava JakobsdóttirSvava JakobsdóttirSvava Jakobsdóttir was one of Iceland's foremost 20th Century authors and feminist politicians. As a writer her work was characterized by "unique brand of surreal feminism." Her father Jakob Jónsson was a Lutheran minister...
, Icelandic author, politician and women's rights activist. - Sally KatzenSally KatzenSally Katzen is an American lawyer, legal scholar, and government official. Katzen was a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project's Agency Review Working Group responsible for the Executive Office of the President and government operations agencies, and held various positions in the Bill...
, 1964 law scholar and civil servant. - Shelly Lazarus, 1968, chairman and CEO of Ogilvy & MatherOgilvy & MatherOgilvy & Mather is an international advertising, marketing and public relations agency based in Manhattan and owned by the WPP Group. The company operates 497 offices in 125 countries with approximately 16,000 employees.-History:...
- Madeleine L'EngleMadeleine L'EngleMadeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for her young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time...
, 1941, Newbery Medal-winning author. - Anne Morrow LindberghAnne Morrow LindberghAnne Morrow Lindbergh was an American author, aviator, and the spouse of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh.She was an acclaimed author whose books and articles spanned the genres of poetry to non-fiction, touching upon topics as diverse as youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and...
, 1928, a pioneering American aviator, author, and the spouse of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh. - Susan LindauerSusan LindauerSusan Lindauer is an American journalist, author, and antiwar activist. She was accused of conspiring to act as an agent for the Iraqi Intelligence Service and engaging in prohibited financial transactions involving the government of Iraq under Saddam Hussein...
, 1985, an American journalist and antiwar activist. - Maria LopezMaria LopezMaria Lopez is a Cuban-American former judge and a former television jurist on the syndicated television show Judge Maria Lopez....
, 1975, a Cuban-American former judge and a former television jurist. - Charlise Lyles, 1981, author
- Joan Lynch, psychiatrist
- Enid MarkEnid MarkEnid Mark was an American editor and publisher. -Life:She attended the High School of Music & Art in Manhattan and Smith College, where she studied English literature and studio art. She pursued painting and print making in the early years of her career, and came to favor the technique of...
, 1954, founded the ELM Press. - Catharine MacKinnonCatharine MacKinnonCatharine Alice MacKinnon is an American feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher and activist.- Biography :MacKinnon was born in Minnesota. Her mother is Elizabeth Valentine Davis; her father, George E. MacKinnon was a lawyer, congressman , and judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit...
, 1968, an American feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher and activist. - Sarah MacLeanSarah MacLeanSarah MacLean is a best-selling American author of young adult novels and romance novels. Her first adult romance novel, Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List, where it stayed for four weeks.-Biography:MacLean was born in Lincoln, Rhode Island to...
, 2000, bestselling author of young adult and romance novels. - Ann Matthews Martin, 1977, children's author [example: "The Baby-Sitters Club"]
- Tori MurdenTori MurdenVictoria Murden McClure is an explorer who was the first woman to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat. She was also the first woman and first American to ski to the geographic South Pole...
, 1985, an explorer and adventurer who was the first woman to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat. - Mary Patterson McPhersonMary Patterson McPhersonMary Patterson McPherson is the current Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society, and former President of Bryn Mawr College.McPherson received her B.A. and L.L.D. from Smith College, her M.A. from the University of Delaware, and her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College...
, 1957, sixth president of Bryn Mawr College, former Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and currently leads the American Philosophical Society. - Olive Beaupre MillerOlive Beaupre MillerOlive Beaupre Miller was an American author, publisher and editor of children's literature.She received her B.A...
(née Olive Kennon Beaupré), 1904, an American author, publisher and editor of children's literature. - Margaret MitchellMargaret MitchellMargaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author and journalist. Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 for her epic American Civil War era novel, Gone with the Wind, which was the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime.-Family:Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta,...
, class of 1922, left the college shortly after her mother's death in the 1918-1919 school year: Pulitzer Prize winning author in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind. - Nina MunkNina MunkNina Munk is an American journalist and non-fiction author. She is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair, where she writes about finance and business, and is the author of .- Background :...
, 1988, an American journalist, author, and Contributing Editor at Vanity FairVanity 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...
. - Maureen OgdenMaureen OgdenMaureen B. Ogden is an American Republican Party politician who served seven terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, from 1982 to 1996...
, 1950, seven term member of the New Jersey General AssemblyNew Jersey General AssemblyThe New Jersey General Assembly is the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature.Since the election of 1967 , the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts for a term of two years, each representing districts with average...
. - Jacquelyn A. Ottman, author of Green Marketing: Opportunity for Innovation
- Ruth OzekiRuth OzekiRuth Ozeki is a Canadian-American novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. She worked in commercial television and media production for over a decade and made several independent films before turning to writing fiction.-Life:...
, 1980, Japanese American novelist and filmmaker. - Sylvia PlathSylvia PlathSylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College, Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer...
, 1955, poet, novelist, children's author, and short story author. Known primarily for the "The Bell Jar". - Halina PoświatowskaHalina PoswiatowskaHalina Poświatowska - Polish poet and writer, one of the most important figures in modern Polish literature....
, 1961, Polish poet and writer: one of the most important figures in modern Polish literature. - Sally QuinnSally QuinnSally Sterling Quinn is an American author and journalist, who writes about religion for a blog at The Washington Post.-Personal:...
, 1963, author and journalist who writes about religion for The Washington Post. - Nancy Davis ReaganNancy ReaganNancy Davis Reagan is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989....
, 1943, former First Lady of the United States. - Florence R. SabinFlorence R. SabinFlorence Rena Sabin was an American medical scientist. She was a pioneer for women in science; she was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the...
, 1893, pioneer for women in science, first woman to: hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, elected to National Academy of Sciences and to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. - Lara M. SchwartzLara M. SchwartzLara M. Schwartz , a music video producer and authority on the art of making music videos, is the author of Making Music Videos: Everything You Need to Know From the Best in the Business The book was published by Random House, and the foreword of the book was written by famed Director Brett Ratner...
, 1992, music video producer - Sandy SkoglundSandy SkoglundSandy Skoglund is an American photographer and installation artist.Skoglund creates surrealist images by building elaborate sets or tableaux, furnishing them with carefully selected small children and other objects, a process of which takes her months to complete. Finally, she photographs the set,...
, 1968, artist - Julianna SmootJulianna SmootJulianna Smoot is the Deputy Manager of Barack Obama's 2012 presidential reelection campaign, having previously served as White House Social Secretary, Deputy Assistant to the President., and Chief of Staff to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk. Smoot previously served as a professional...
, 1989, leading professional fundraiser for the Democratic Party - Martha Southgate, 1982, award-winning author
- Denise SpellbergDenise SpellbergDenise A. Spellberg is an American scholar of Islamic history. She is an associate professor of history and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Spellberg holds a BA from Smith College and a PhD from Columbia University....
, 1980, scholar of Islamic history. - Gloria SteinemGloria SteinemGloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s...
, 1956, feminist, journalist, and social and political activist. - Juliet Taylor, 1967, director.
- Sarah ThomasSarah Thomas (librarian)Sarah E. Thomas is a university librarian. She has held the office of Bodley's Librarian and Director of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford since February 2007...
, 1970, librarian - Niki TsongasNiki TsongasNicola Dickson "Niki" Sauvage Tsongas is the U.S. Representative for , serving since a special election in 2007. She is a member of the Democratic Party.She is the widow of U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas, who represented the 5th district in the 1970s...
, 1968, U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 5th district - Laura D'Andrea TysonLaura D'Andrea TysonLaura D'Andrea Tyson is an American economist and former Chair of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration. She also served as Director of the National Economic Council...
, 1969, American economist and former Chair of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers, former Director of the National Economic Council and professor at UCBerkeley, as well as an economic adviser to President Barack Obama. - Yoshiko UchidaYoshiko Uchida-Life:Yoshiko Uchida was the daughter of Japanese immigrants Takashi and Iku Uchida. Her father came to the United States from Japan in 1903 and worked for the San Francisco offices of Mitsui and Company...
, 1944, Japanese American writer. - Cynthia Irving VoigtCynthia VoigtCynthia Voigt is an American author of books for young adults dealing with various topics such as adventure, mystery, racism and child abuse. Her first book in the Tillerman family series, Homecoming, was nominated for several international prizes and made into a 1996 film...
, 1963, Newbury Medal-winning author. - Cynthia WadeCynthia WadeCynthia Wade is an American television and film director, producer and cinematographer based in New York City. She has directed documentaries on social issues including Shelter Dogs in 2003 about animal welfare and Freeheld in 2007 about LGBT rights....
, documentary film maker - J.R. WardJ.R. WardJessica Rowley Pell Bird is an American novelist. Under her maiden name, Jessica Bird, she writes contemporary romance novels, and as J.R. Ward, she writes paranormal romance. She has received the Romance Writers of America RITA Award.-Biography:Born Jessica Rowley Pell Bird on 1969 in...
, bestselling author of romance novels - Gertrude WeilGertrude WeilGertrude Weil was involved in a wide range of progressive/leftist and often controversial causes, including women's suffrage, labor reform and civil rights.-Life:...
, 1901, activist of women's suffrage, labor reform and civil rights. - Patricia WettigPatricia WettigPatricia Wettig is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for her roles in the television series Thirtysomething, Prison Break and Brothers & Sisters...
, 2001, American actress and playwright. - Jane YolenJane YolenJane Hyatt Yolen is an American author and editor of almost 300 books. These include folklore, fantasy, science fiction, and children's books...
, 1963, author and editor of almost 300 books. - Sherry Rehman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry Rehman, Pakistan's current ambassador to the United States
Fictional alumnae
- Emily Gilmore, from the television series Gilmore GirlsGilmore GirlsGilmore Girls is an American family comedy-drama series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. On October 5, 2000, the series debuted on The WB and was cancelled in its seventh season, ending on May 15, 2007 on The CW...
- Ainsley Hayes, from the television series The West WingThe West Wing (TV series)The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999 to May 14, 2006...
- Lysterine, from the 1997 film Booty CallBooty CallBooty Call is a 1997 comedy film, written by J. Stanford Parker and Takashi Bufford, and directed by Jeff Pollack. The film stars Jamie Foxx, Tommy Davidson, Vivica A. Fox and Tamala Jones.-Plot:...
- Ronnie Munro, from the 2009 novel, Commencement, by J. Courtney Sullivan.
- Joanna Kramer, from the 1979 film Kramer vs. KramerKramer vs. KramerKramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 American drama film adapted by Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman, and directed by Benton. The film tells the story of a married couple's divorce and its impact on everyone involved, including the couple's young son...
- Charlotte York, from the television series Sex and the CitySex and the CitySex and the City is an American television comedy-drama series created by Darren Star and produced by HBO. Broadcast from 1998 until 2004, the original run of the show had a total of ninety-four episodes...
- Dr. Cristina Yang, from the television series Grey's AnatomyGrey's AnatomyGrey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series created by Shonda Rhimes. The series premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC; since then, seven seasons have aired. The series follows the lives of interns, residents and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital in...
- Susan, from the 1971 Mike Nichols film Carnal KnowledgeCarnal knowledgeCarnal knowledge is an archaic or legal euphemism for sexual intercourse. The term derives from the Biblical usage of the verb know/knew, as in the King James and other versions, a euphemism for sexual conduct...
- Tosca LeeTosca LeeTosca Lee is a critically acclaimed American novelist of speculative fiction. Her sometimes controversial books are best known for their lyrical prose, extensive research, and vivid imagery....
, Author of Demon: A Memoir and Havah: The Story of Eve
Presidents
- Carol T. ChristCarol T. ChristCarol Tecla Christ is the president of Smith College. Smith College, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, is a liberal arts college and one of the Seven Sisters colleges....
(2002-present) - John M. Connolly (acting president 2001-2002)
- Ruth J. SimmonsRuth J. SimmonsRuth Jean Simmons is the 18th and current president of Brown University, the first black president of an Ivy League institution. Simmons was elected Brown's first female president in November 2000. Simmons assumed office in fall of 2001....
, first African-American president (1995-2001) - Mary Maples DunnMary Maples DunnMary Maples Dunn is a historian who earned her Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr College, where she taught and served as Dean. She served as the eighth president of Smith College, for ten years beginning in 1985; in 2001 the college dedicated the Mary Maples Dunn Garden in recognition of her service and...
(1985-1995) - Jill Ker ConwayJill Ker ConwayJill Ker Conway is an Australian-American author. Well known for her autobiographies, in particular her first memoir, The Road from Coorain. She was also Smith College's first woman president, from 1975–1985, and now serves as a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
, first woman president (1975-1985) - Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian)Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian)Thomas Corwin Mendenhall II was a professor of history at Yale University, the sixth President of Smith College, and the leading authority on the history of collegiate rowing in the United States.-Early life and education:The grandson and namesake of Thomas Corwin Mendenhall ,...
(1959-1975) - Benjamin Fletcher Wright (1949-1959)
- Herbert DavisHerbert DavisHerbert Davis was the fourth official president of Smith College, serving from 1940 to 1949, succeeding acting president Elizabeth Cutter Morrow. During World War II, he presided over the creation of America's first Officers' Training Unit of the Women's Reserve .- References :...
(1940-1949) - Elizabeth Cutter MorrowElizabeth Cutter MorrowElizabeth Cutter Morrow, born Elizabeth Reeve Cutter was an American poet in the early 20th century, and became the first female head of Smith College, acting as college president from 1939 to 1940 . She was the wife of U.S...
(acting president 1939-1940) - William Allan NeilsonWilliam Allan NeilsonWilliam Allan Neilson was a Scottish-American educator, writer and lexicographer. He was president of Smith College between 1917 and 1939....
(1917-1939) - Marion LeRoy BurtonMarion LeRoy BurtonMarion LeRoy Burton was the second president of Smith College, serving from 1910 to 1917. He left Smith to become president of the University of Minnesota from 1917 to 1920....
(1910-1917)WEF - Laurenus Clark SeelyeLaurenus Clark SeelyeLaurenus Clark Seelye , known as L. Clark Seelye, was the first president of Smith College, serving from 1873-1910. He graduated from Union College in 1857 with Phi Beta Kappa honors and membership in The Kappa Alpha Society. Seelye later studied at Andover Theological Seminary and the...
(1875-1910)
Notable deans, administrators, and faculty (past and present)
- Alice AmbroseAlice AmbroseAlice Ambrose Lazerowitz was an American philosopher, logician, and author.Alice Ambrose was born in Lexington, Illinois and studied philosophy and mathematics at Millikin University. After completing her PhD at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1932, she went to Cambridge University to study...
- professor of philosophy - Newton ArvinNewton ArvinNewton Arvin was an American literary critic and academic. He achieved national recognition for his studies of individual nineteenth-century American authors....
- literary critic - Leonard BaskinLeonard BaskinLeonard Baskin was an American sculptor, book-illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.-Life and work:...
- artist - Mary Ellen ChaseMary Ellen ChaseMary Ellen Chase was an American educator, teacher, scholar, and author. She is regarded as one of the most important regional literary figures of the early twentieth century....
- professor of English - Henri ColeHenri ColeHenri Cole is an award-winning American poet.-Biography:Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to an American father and French mother, and raised in Virginia, United States. His father, a North Carolinian, enlisted in the service after graduating from high school and, while stationed in...
- poet - Sylvia PlathSylvia PlathSylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College, Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer...
- poet - John M. Connolly - professor of philosophy
- Anita DesaiAnita DesaiAnita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
- author - Donna Robinson DivineDonna Robinson DivineDonna Robinson Divine is Morningstar Family Professor in Jewish Studies and Professor of Government at Smith College. She holds a B.A. from Brandeis University, 1963, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, 1971, in Political Science...
- Alfred Einstein - musicologist
- Stanley ElkinsStanley ElkinsStanley M. Elkins is the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor Emeritus of history at Smith College.-Slavery:Slavery : A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life , based on Elkin's doctoral dissertation at Columbia University, was theoretically innovative and enormously influential in the...
- professor of history - Hallie FlanaganHallie FlanaganHallie Flanagan was an American theatrical producer and director, playwright, and author, best known as director of the Federal Theatre Project, a part of the Works Progress Administration .-Background:...
- director and playwright - Jean GarrigueJean GarrigueJean Garrigue was an American poet born in Evansville, Indiana and wrote as an expatriate from Europe in 1953, 1957, and 1962. She eventually settled in [Greenwich Village]. The Ego and the Centaur was Garrigue’s first full-length publication. She was a professor at Queens College, Smith College...
- poet - Judith GordonJudith Gordon-Education:Judith Gordon studied at Oberlin Conservatory and at New England Conservatory where she studied with Patricia Zander.-New York debut:Judith Gordon gave her New York recital debut on May 27, 1990 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the museum’s Introductions series. Bernard...
- pianist - Domenico GrassoDomenico GrassoDr. Domenico Grasso is Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Vermont . Prior to holding this position, he was the Dean of the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at UVM. He did his secondary school education at St. John's High School and...
- founding director, Picker Engineering Program - William Francis GanongWilliam Francis GanongWilliam Francis Ganong, M.A., Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S.C., was a Canadian botanist, historian and cartographer. His botany career was spent mainly as a professor at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts...
- botanist - Denis JohnstonDenis JohnstonDenis Johnston was an Irish writer. He wrote mostly plays, but also works of literary criticism, a book-length biographical essay of Jonathan Swift, a memoir and an eccentric work of philosophy. He also worked as a war correspondent, and as both a radio and television producer for the BBC...
- professor of philosophy - Klemens von Klemperer - professor of history
- Kurt KoffkaKurt KoffkaKurt Koffka was a German psychologist. He was born and educated in Berlin and earned his PhD there in 1909 as a student of Carl Stumpf...
- psychologist - Helen Lefkowitz HorowitzHelen Lefkowitz HorowitzHelen Lefkowitz Horowitz is the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of American Studies and History, emerita, at Smith College. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. from Harvard University...
- historian - Barry Moser - artist and illustrator
- Eric ReevesEric ReevesDr. Eric Reeves is professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, Milton, and the history of literary theory and the history of literacy....
- professor of English - Laura Woolsey Lord ScalesLaura Woolsey Lord ScalesLaura Woolsey Lord Scales was an American educator and college dean. She served as Dean of Students at Smith College in Massachusetts for 22 years ....
- Dean of Students (1923-1944) - Roger SessionsRoger SessionsRoger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music.-Life:Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution. His mother, Ruth Huntington Sessions, was a direct descendent of Samuel Huntington, a signer of...
- composer - David StainesDavid StainesDavid McKenzie Staines, is a Canadian literary critic, university professor, writer, and editor.Staines was born in Toronto, Ontario, and studied at the University of Toronto, where he obtained a BA in 1967, and at Harvard University, where he obtained an MA in 1968 and a PhD in 1973.After a...
- literary critic - David Peck ToddDavid Peck ToddDavid Peck Todd was a noted American astronomer. He produced a complete set of photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus.-Biography:...
- astronomer - Thomas TymoczkoThomas TymoczkoA. Thomas Tymoczko was a philosopher specializing in logic and the philosophy of mathematics. He taught at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts from 1971 until his untimely death....
- philosopher - Kurt VonnegutKurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a 20th century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle , Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.-Early...
- author - Allen WeinsteinAllen WeinsteinAllen Weinstein is an American historian, educator, and federal official who has served in several different offices. He served as the Archivist of the United States from February 16, 2005 until his resignation on December 19, 2008...
- Archivist of the United States - Dorothy Maud WrinchDorothy Maud WrinchDorothy Maud Wrinch was a mathematician and biochemical theorist best known for her attempt to deduce protein structure using mathematical principles....
- mathematician - Chien-Shiung WuChien-Shiung WuChien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American physicist with expertise in the techniques of experimental physics and radioactivity. Wu worked on the Manhattan Project...
- physicist - Andrew ZimbalistAndrew ZimbalistAndrew S. Zimbalist is an American economist. He is currently the Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College....
- economist