The list of New School people includes notable students, alumni, faculty, administrators and trustees of the New School . The New School is a private university in New York City . In 2008, approximately 53,000 living New School alumni resided in more than 112 countries.[1]
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New School alumni (right to left) James Baldwin , Marlon Brando and Harry Belafonte at a civil rights march in 1963
Academics
Ruth Westheimer (Dr. Ruth)
Stanley Aronowitz , B.A., 1968, sociologist
Nelson Barbosa , Ph.D., economist, ex Brazil's Minister of Finance
Ruth Benedict , psychological anthropologist, author of Patterns of Culture
Peter L. Berger , sociologist; co-author of The Social Construction of Reality
Heather Boushey , Ph.D., economist
Jean L. Cohen , Ph.D., political theorist
Barbara A. Cornblatt , Ph.D., M.B.A., psychologist
Uri Davis , M.A. anthropology, 1973
Eugene Goossen , art critic and historian[5]
Richard Grathoff , Ph.D. 1969, sociologist
Eduard Heimann (1889–1967), economist and social scientist
Mady Hornig , psychiatrist
Stephen Kinsella Ph.D., economist
Abraham Maslow , psychologist, a founder of Humanistic Psychology
Kevin Mattson , historian and political analyst
George E. McCarthy , M.A., Ph.D., sociologist
Sidney Mintz , anthropologist
Franco Modigliani , Soc. Sci. D., economist; 1985 Nobel Prize in Economics winner
Richard Noll , clinical psychologist and writer
Ira Progoff , Ph.D. psychology, psychotherapist
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III , Ph.D., economist
Yossi Sarid , M.A. political science, journalist
Steven Seidman , sociologist
Michael Wenger , M.A., Zen priest, Dean of Buddhist Studies, San Francisco Zen Center
Ruth Westheimer , M.A. sociology, 1959, the first famous sex therapist, born Karola Siegel, 1928; known as "Dr. Ruth", German-American, also talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper.[6]
Nelson Ikon Wu , M.A. art historian, author of Song Never to End
Writers
James Baldwin
Jack Kerouac
James Baldwin , Go Tell It on the Mountain [8]
Anatole Broyard , writer, literary critic
Mike Doughty [9]
Lorraine Hansberry , playwright, A Raisin in the Sun , youngest Drama Desk Award winner in history[10]
Andrew Hubner , novelist
Travis Jeppesen
Jack Kerouac , On the Road , forerunner of the Beat Generation [11]
Jamaica Kincaid [12] [13]
Amy Kurzweil , cartoonist and graphic novelist
Sam Lansky , author of The Gilded Razor and Broken People
Paul Levinson , author of The Silk Code, Locus Award winner, Best First Novel, 2000, and The Plot to Save Socrates
Leandra Medine , author of the blog Man Repeller
Mario Puzo , author of The Godfather , two-time Academy Award Winner, including Best Screenplay[14]
Brother Sean Sammon , Superior General of the Marist Brothers
William Styron , Sophie's Choice , The Confessions of Nat Turner [15]
Tennessee Williams , two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright[16] [17]
Sean Wilsey , author of Oh the Glory of It All
Fashion designers
Marc Jacobs
Isaac Mizrahi
Zac Posen
Gilbert Adrian , costumer designer[19]
Bill Blass , President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities member; co-founder of Council of Fashion Designers of America[20]
Donald Brooks [21]
Angela Gisela Brown , former New York fashion designer, now known as Princess Angela of Liechtenstein
Doo-Ri Chung , Swarovski's Perry Ellis Award winner
Tom Ford ,[22] filmmaker and founder of the Tom Ford brand
Prabal Gurung
Lazaro Hernandez
Gigi Hadid Marc Jacobs , fashion designer[23]
Elois Jenssen , costume designer for I Love Lucy
Kevin Johnn , appeared on Project Runway
Anand Jon , fashion designer; convicted serial rapist
Donna Karan , creator of the DKNY label[24]
Reed Krakoff , creative director of Tiffany & Co.
Derek Lam
Jillian Lewis , appeared on Project Runway
Jenna Lyons
Claire McCardell
Raul Melgoza , fashion designer, former CE at LUCA LUCA[25]
Isaac Mizrahi , four-time CDFA award winner[26]
Zac Posen , fashion designer
Sarah Phillips
Patrick Robinson
Narciso Rodriguez [27]
Lela Rose
Behnaz Sarafpour
Willi Smith , fashion designer
Peter Som
Anna Sui [28]
Kay Unger
Carmen Marc Valvo
Alexander Wang , fashion designer for Michelle Obama and Ivana Trump [29]
Jason Wu , artist and fashion designer[27]
Fine artists
Sol Kjøk
Norman Rockwell
Julie Umerle
Kevin Appel , painter
Rosemary Cove , sculptor
Julio Rosado del Valle , painter
Stephen Edlich , artist, known for his collages, sculptures, and prints
Dorathy Farr , painter[30]
Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal), painter, mixed media artist, sculptor, advertising designer, illustrator
Adolph Gottlieb , painter
Julie Harvey , painter
Edward Hopper , painter[31]
D Hwang , sculptor and painter[32]
Jasper Johns , forerunner of pop art and minimalism [33]
Shirley Kaneda , painter, Guggenheim Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts Fellow[34]
Sol Kjøk , visual artist
Dan Flavin , lighting artist
Shigeko Kubota , vice chairman of Fluxus
George Maciunas , founding member of Fluxus
Yucef Merhi , visual artist and new media art pioneer
Rob Pruitt , sculptor
Norman Rockwell , painter; Presidential Medal of Freedom winner[35] [36]
Gavin Spielman , painter and musician
Roman Turovsky , painter and musician
Julie Umerle , painter
Storme Webber , interdisciplinary artist
Ai Weiwei , filmmaker, installation artist and architectural designer
Janise Yntema , painter
Illustrators and animators
Peter DeSeve , illustrator and character designer
Julia Gran , graphic designer and illustrator, children's book writer and illustrator
Bessie Pease Gutmann , magazine and children's book illustrator in the early 1900s
Hidekaz Himaruya , manga artist (Hetalia: Axis Powers , Chibi-san Date )
Joel Resnicoff , commercial artist and fashion illustrator
Brian Wood , graphic novelist, illustrator, designer[37]
Dan Yaccarino , children's book writer and illustrator[38]
Musicians
Harry Belafonte , singer
Burt Bacharach , composer
Michel Camilo , pianist and composer
Kelly Chen , Hong Kong singer and actress
Bethany Cosentino , singer[39]
Danielle de Niese , opera singer (lyric soprano)[40]
Ani DiFranco [41]
Mike Doughty , B.A. from Lang in poetry[42]
Bill Evans , pianst and composer
Robert Glasper , jazz pianist and Grammy -winning R&B artist
Larry Goldings , jazz pianist and organist
Richard Goode , pianist
Larry Harlow , M.A. in Philosophy, salsa pioneer[43]
Yonghoon Lee , opera singer (tenor)[44]
Matisyahu (born Matthew Miller), 2002, reggae artist[45]
Brad Mehldau , jazz pianist and composer
Murray Perahia , pianist
John Popper , singer/harmonica player for Blues Traveler [46]
Jake Shears
Alex Skolnick , Trans-Siberian Orchestra , Testament and the Alex Skolnick Trio
Sufjan Stevens , MFA, creative writing, 2000[47]
Marcus Strickland , jazz saxophonist
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk , composer, lutenist and painter
Sean Yseult , bassist for White Zombie
Daniel Zamir
Michael Zager , music producer
Wallice , indie pop musician
Actors, directors, and producers
Marlon Brando
Jesse Eisenberg
Jonah Hill
Walter Matthau
Shelley Winters
Beatrice Arthur , theater and television actress, Tony Award winner, star of Maude and The Golden Girls [48]
Sean Baker , director of The Florida Project [49]
Harry Belafonte
Richard ("Dick") Bernstein
Derrick Borte
Marlon Brando
Vinnette Justine Carroll , playwright, actress, and theatre director
T.V. Carpio , actress and singer
Bradley Cooper , Academy Award-nominated actor[50]
Adrian Cronauer
Tony Curtis [51]
Paul Dano , Little Miss Sunshine [52]
Matt Deitsch, film director and freelance photographer
Deepti Divakar , Indian model, actress, writer, Femina Miss India World 1981
Elisa Donovan , Clueless and Sabrina the Teenage Witch [53]
Jesse Eisenberg , The Social Network [54]
Peter Falk , B.A. political science, Columbo
Stacy Farber , actress, former Degrassi: The Next Generation cast member
Ben Gazzara [55]
Jillian Hervey [56]
Jonah Hill , Superbad, Academy Award Nominee Wolf of Wall Street, Moneyball [57]
Harry Hurwitz , film director and artist
Adam Jasinski , winner of Big Brother 9
Sun Lee , Miss Korea 2007
Karen Maine , director and screenwriter, Yes, God, Yes , Starstruck (2021 TV series)
Walter Matthau
Charis Michelsen , actress[58]
Adam Pally , actor
Lauren Patten , actress
Joel Schumacher , film director and producer
Kevin Smith , Clerks (did not graduate)[59]
Rod Steiger , On The Waterfront [60]
Elaine Stritch [61]
Shih-Ching Tsou [62]
Rob Weiss , kicked out of film program
Shelley Winters [63]
Rob Zombie (born Robert Cummings), musician, writer and director[64]
Politicians
Medea Benjamin
Johanna Contreras , acting executive of Ulster County, New York Bradley Cooper
Kevin Parker , New York State Senator
William Donohue , sociology, Catholic League president
Millicent Fenwick , editor, politician, diplomat
Abraham Foxman , director of Anti-Defamation League
Alice-Mary Higgins , independent senator and member of the Irish Senate
Janine Jackson , MA sociology, program director of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Ellen Johnson , MA political science, president of American Atheists
Illir Deda , member of parliament of Kosovo and founder of The Alternative party.[65]
Tinga Seisay , diplomat, pro-democracy activist
Vanessa Wruble , co-founder of The Women's March on Washington [66]
Past
Woody Allen
Hannah Arendt
Betty Friedan
Ágnes Heller
Janet Abu-Lughod
Woody Allen [59]
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German-born American political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor
W. H. Auden , British-American poet
Jason Bateman
Seth Benardete
Eugene Biel-Bienne (1902–1969), Austrian-born American painter
Franz Boas
André Breton
Nathan Brody
Laurie Halsey Brown
William F. Buckley, Jr. [4]
Judith Butler
John Cage
Edmund Snow Carpenter
Harry Cleaver
Stanley Coren
Henry Cowell
Agnes de Lima , Director of Public Relations[67]
Jacques Derrida
John Dewey
Stanley Diamond
W. E. B. Du Bois
John Eatwell
Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990), German-American illustrator and arts educator
Millicent Fenwick
Sándor Ferenczi
Joel Fink , Associate Dean of Roosevelt University
Marvin Frankel
Betty Friedan [68]
Erich Fromm (1900–1980), German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist
Robert Frost , poet[59]
Donna Gaines
Alexander Goldenweiser
David Gordon
Hermann Grab
Martha Graham
Joseph Greenberg
Aron Gurwitsch
Jürgen Habermas
Michael Harner
Marcia Haufrecht , actress, playwright and director, as well as a noted acting teacher and coach
Robert Heilbroner (1919–2005), economist and historian of economic thought
Werner Hegemann (1881–1936), German-born city planner, architecture critic, and author
Ágnes Heller (1929–2019), Hungarian philosopher and lecturer
Christopher Hitchens
Eric Hobsbawm
Karen Horney
Michael Hudson (born 1939), economics professor
Roman Jakobson
Hans Jonas , (1903–1993), German-born American philosopher, the Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School
Horace Kallen (1882–1974), German-born American philosopher
Ira Katznelson
John Maynard Keynes [59]
Kenneth Koch
Julia Kristeva
Ernesto Laclau
Emil Lederer
Emanuel Levenson [69] [70]
Paul Levinson
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), French anthropologist and ethnologist
Adolph Lowe
Ernest Mandel
Everett Dean Martin
Bohuslav Martinů
Margaret Mead
Jonas Mekas
N. B. Minkoff (1893–1958), Polish-born American Yiddish poet, newspaper editor, and educator
Piet Mondrian
Sidney Morgenbesser
Lewis Mumford
David Neiman (1921–2004), Russian-born American scholar in the fields of Biblical Studies and Jewish history
Reinhold Niebuhr
Claus Offe
Frank O'Hara
Elsie Clews Parsons
Cipe Pineles
Erwin Piscator
Richard Plant (1910–1998), gay Jewish emigre from Nazi Germany, taught German language and literature
Eliezer Rafaeli (1926–2018), Israeli founding President of the University of Haifa
Adolph L. Reed, Jr. (born 1947), professor emeritus of political science
Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), Austrian doctor of medicine and a psychoanalyst
Herman Rose , the professional pseudonym of Herman Rappaport (1909–2007), painter and artist[71]
Justus Rosenberg (1921–2021), Free City of Danzig -born literature professor
Bertrand Russell
Paul Ryan
Jeremy D. Safran (1952–2018), Canadian-born American clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, lecturer, and psychotherapy researcher
Albert Salomon (1891–1966), German-born American sociologist
Meyer Schapiro (1904–1996), Lithuanian-born American art historian
Alfred Schutz (1899–1959), Austrian philosopher and social phenomenologist
Benjamin Shwadran (1907–2001), Mandatory Palestine-born Israeli author and professor of Middle Eastern studies
Ali Shayegan (1903–1981), Iranian politician
Leo Strauss (1899–1973), German-American political philosopher and classicist
Sekou Sundiata
Paul Sweezy
G.M. Tamás [72]
Charles Tilly
Thorstein Veblen
Thomas Vietorisz
Max Wertheimer (1880–1943), Austro-Hungarian psychologist
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), architect, designer, writer, and educator
Abraham Yahuda (1877-1951), Palestinian Jew, polymath, teacher, writer, researcher, linguist, and collector of rare documents
Michael Zager
Slavoj Žižek
Dorothy H. Hirshon Directors-in-Residence
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