- John Richardson
Dr. John Richardson (born March 12, 1938) is an American academic who currently serves as Professor of International Development and as Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at American University in Washington DC. Dr. Richardson received his AB degree from Dartmouth College and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Prior to appointment at American University, Dr.
- Max Cleland
Joseph Maxwell Cleland (born August 24, 1942) is an American politician from Georgia. Cleland, a Democrat, is a former U.S. Senator, disabled US Army veteran of the Vietnam War, and a critic of the Bush Administration. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, a presidentially appointed position.
- Keith Boykin
Keith Boykin (born August 28 1965) is an American broadcaster, author and commentator. He is co-host of the BET TV talk show "My Two Cents".
- Colman McCarthy
Colman McCarthy is a journalist, teacher, lecturer, pacifist, and long-time peace activist. From 1969 to 1997, he wrote columns for The Washington Post. His topics ranged from politics, religion, and sports to education, poverty, and peacemaking. The Washingtonian magazine called him "the liberal conscience of The Washington Post." The Smithsonian magazine said he is "a man of profound spiritual awareness." He has written for The New Yorker, The Nation, The Progressive, Atlantic Monthly, …
- Julian Bond
Julian Bond, president of the NAACP: "He was a polarizing figure in black America. He was hostile to the generally accepted remedies for discrimination. His appointments were of people as equally hostile. I can't think of any Reagan policy that African Americans would embrace."
- Lloyd Ultan
Lloyd Ultan (b. New York City, June 12, 1929; d. 1998) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Ultan received a bachelor's degree from New York University, a master's degree from Columbia University, and a doctorate from the University of Iowa. In 1971, he founded, and, from 1971 to 1974, served as Director of the Composer's Residency Program at Wolf Trap Farm Park in Vienna, Virginia.
- Abdul Aziz Said
Abdul Aziz Said a Syrian-born writer and senior ranking professor of international relations in the School of International Service at American University where he has taught for fifty years.
- David H. Rosenbloom
David H. Rosenbloom is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration in the School of Public Affairs at American University. Formerly, Rosenbloom taught at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (1978-1990), where he was named the first Distinguished Professor in the School's history.
- Jehan al Sadat
Jehan Al Sadat, also spelled Jihan; birth name Jehan Safwat Raouf (Arabic: جيهان صفوت رؤوف) (born August 29, 1933) was the second wife of Anwar Sadat and served as first lady of Egypt from 1970 until Sadat's assassination in 1981.
- Samih Farsoun
Samih K. Farsoun was a professor emeritus of sociology at American University, where he taught for thirty years until his retirement in 2003. He graduated from Hamilton College in New York. He received a master's degree in 1961 and a PhD in 1971, both in sociology from the University of Connecticut. He died June 9 of a heart attack while on a walk with his wife in New Buffalo, Michigan. He was a resident of Florida and Washington, D.C. During his career at AU, …
- Anita Alpern
Anita F. Alpern (b. 1920 in New York City - d. October 31, 2006 in Silver Spring, Maryland) was an assistant commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. At the time of her retirement in the late 1970s, she was the highest ranking woman in the federal career service. Alpern received her degree at the University of Wisconsin and did graduate work in public administration at Columbia University before moving to Washington, D.C. during World War II.
- James A. Thurber
James A. Thurber is Distinguished Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University in Washington, D.C.. He was the principal investigator of a seven year grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to the Campaign Management Institute to study campaign conduct. Dr. Thurber has been on the faculty at American University since 1974 and was honored as the University Scholar/Teacher of the Year in 1996.
- M. E. Grenander
Mary Elizabeth Grenander (21 November 1918 - 28 May 1998), was a professor of English and philanthropist, for whom the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives of the University Libraries of the University at Albany, the State University of New York is named. She was an authority on Ambrose Bierce. Grenander was born in Rewey, Wisconsin. She served in the U.S. Navy during the Second World War.
- Betty T. Bennett
Betty T. Bennett (1935-2006) was Distinguished Professor of Literature and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1985-1997) at American University. She was previously Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and acting provost of Pratt Institute from 1979 to 1985. Among her numerous awards and honors, Bennett was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and fellow of American Council of Learned Societies.
- Barry Freundel
Barry Freundel is the rabbi of Kesher Israel congregation in Washington DC, and a leading rabbi in the Modern Orthodox Jewish world. A writer and lecturer, Rabbi Freundel addresses topics ranging from environmentalism to Jewish medical ethics. Popular among collegiates, he has served as a visiting scholar at Princeton, Yale and Cornell and guest lecturer at Columbia, University of Chicago and other universities. He is also an adjunct professor at several universities.
- Jim Lynam
Jim Lynam (born September 15 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American former college and professional basketball coach. He coached at the college level for Fairfield University from 1968-70, American University from 1973-78, and St. Joseph's University from 1978-81. In the National Basketball Association, Lynam coached the San Diego Clippers/Los Angeles Clippers from 1983-85, the Philadelphia 76ers from 1987-92, and the Washington Bullets from 1995-97.
- Leon Hadar
Leon T. Hadar specializes in foreign policy, international trade, the Middle East, and South and East Asia. He is the former United Nations bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post and is currently the Washington correspondent for the Singapore Business Times .
- George Ayittey
George Ayittey is a prominent Ghanaian economist and president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington DC. He is a professor at American University and an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He has championed the argument that "Africa is poor because she is not free", that the primary cause of African poverty is oppression and mismanagement both by colonial powers, then by often equally oppressive native autocrats.
- Gary Lafree
Gary LaFree is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the Universities of Maryland, College Park and New Mexico. He is a former chairman of both the "Crime, Law, and Deviance" section of the American Sociological Society and a division of the American Society of Criminology.
- Floyd M. Riddick
Floyd M. Riddick (July 13, 1908 - January 25, 2000) was a Parliamentarian of the United States Senate from 1964 to 1974, and is most famous for developing Riddick's Senate procedure. He sat immediately below the presiding officer in the Senate chamber, providing information on precedents and advising other senators on parliamentary procedure. He is famous for discussions of the censures of Joseph McCarthy and Thomas Dodd, …
- Bernard B. Fall
Bernard B. Fall (November 19, 1926-February 21, 1967) was a prominent war correspondent, historian, political scientist, and expert on Indochina during the 1950s and 1960s. Born in Vienna, Austria, Fall was taken by his parents, Leon Fall and Anna Seligman, to live in France when Austria was united with Nazi Germany in 1938. After France fell to Germany in 1940, Leon Fall aided the French Resistance. Leon Fall was eventually arrested and executed by the Germans, …
- Ellis O. Knox
Dr. Ellis O'neal Knox was the first African-American to be awarded a Ph.D. on the West Coast. Knox received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1922 from the University of California, Berkeley and his doctorate in the history and philosophy of education from the University of Southern California in the 1931. Ellis O. Knox was born in Northern California on July 6, 1900. The son of a Latin teacher, Prince Albert Knox, and homemaker, Addie Knox, …
- Karen O'Connor
Karen O'Connor is a political science professor at American University in Washington, D.C., where she is Director of the Women and Politics Institute. O'Connor earned her B.A., J.D., and Ph. D. degrees from SUNY-Buffalo. She taught at Emory University from 1977 until moving to American University in 1995. O'Connor has written, co-authored, or edited several books, including "American Government: Continuity and Change", 8th ed. (2004), and "Women, …
- Louis W. Goodman
Louis W. Goodman is an academic in the field of international relations and the current Dean of the School of International Service at American University. He has held the position since 1986. He is a past president of The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs.
- Michael Berenbaum
Michael Berenbaum (b. 1945) is an American scholar, professor, writer, and film-maker, who specializes in the study of the memorialization of the Holocaust. He is perhaps most famous for his work as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and as such should be considered the creator of the museum.
- Jamie Raskin
Jamie Raskin is a professor of constitutional law at American University and Director of its Program on Law and Government. He founded the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project, which sends law students into public high schools and junior high schools to teach about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He is the bestselling author of We the Students and Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People.
- Khalid Duran
Khalid Durán is a specialist in the history, sociology and politics of the Islamic world. He studied Middle Eastern languages and Islam in Bosnia and Morocco, and sociology and political science at the universities of Bonn and Berlin. In the 1970s, he worked at Pakistan's Islamic Research Institute and traveled extensively in the Middle East and South Asia. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Pakistan, Austria, Germany, Scandinavia and the United States, …
- Andrew Holleran
Andrew Holleran is the pseudonym of Eric Garber (born 1944), a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is a prominent novelist of post-Stonewall gay literature. He was a member of the Violet Quill, a gay writer's group that met briefly from 1980-81. The Violet Quill included other prolific gay writers like Edmund White and Felice Picano. Holleran, who has historically been very protective of his privacy, uses "Andrew Holleran" as his pseudonym.
- Corinne McLaughlin
Corinne McLaughlin is an author and a leader in the intentional communities movement. She is the co-author of "Builders of the Dawn", a study of enduring intentional communities around the world. She and her partner Gordon Davidson have been members of the Findhorn Community in Scotland and are co-founders of Sirius Community an ecological village and educational community in Massachusetts.
- Caroline F. Ware
Caroline Farrar Ware (1899-1990) was a professor of history at American University and a New Deal activist. Ware received her A.B. from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie in 1920, her A.M. from Radcliffe College, a women's college associated with Harvard University in 1924, and her Ph.D. in 1925. Ware was an associate professor of history at Vassar from 1925-1930 and from 1932-1934. She taught social science at Sarah Lawrence College from 1935-1937, …
- George H. Williams
George Howard Williams, (1918-2003), former president of American University (1968-1976). Williams receieved a BA from Hofstra University (formerly Hofstra College) and a law degree from New York University, where he became an instructor of law in 1948 and eventually executive vice president. He was a lieutenant colonel in World War II in North Africa and Europe.
- Surin Pitsuwan
Dr. Surin Pitsuwan joined the board of trustees of The Asia Foundation in 2003. He was elected Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in January, 2008. He became a Member of Parliament of Thailand in 1986, and has served in the same constituency for seven consecutive terms. During this period, he was appointed as secretary to the Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1986.
- Allan Lichtman
Allan Jay Lichtman (born April 4, 1947) is an American political historian who teaches at American University in Washington, D.C.. He ran in the 2006 Maryland senate race for the seat vacated by Paul Sarbanes.
- Hamid Mowlana
Hamid Mowlana (Hamid Molana) is Professor of International Relations and the founding director of the International Communication Program at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C. He has been on the faculty of American University since 1968, and has served as visiting professor and guest scholar in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.
- Jamie Shea
Jamie Patrick Shea is Director of Policy Planning in the Private Office of the Secretary General at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. He was born 11 September, 1953 in London, Britain and is a British citizen. He is married and has two children. He received worldwide attention during the 1999 Kosovo war, when he served as the spokesperson for NATO (as did his distinctively London accent).
- Richard McCann
Richard McCann is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, born in 1949. He currently lives in Washington, D.C., where he is a professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University. He is the author of "Mother of Sorrows", …
- Donna Denizé
Donna Denizé is an American poet and award-winning teacher at St. Albans School, located in Washington, D.C. She has contributed widely to journals and magazines with essays and poetry, written books of collections of poetry, participated in development of professional training programs for teachers as well as programs for students of multiple public schools.
- William Rea
William Rea (1912-2006) was an American real estate magnate and civic leader in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a key collaborator with H. J. Heinz II in the creation of Pittsburgh's Cultural District, and he served leadership roles on the boards of the Pennsylvania State Board of Education, Pittsburgh Public Schools, the University of Pittsburgh, Princeton University, and the Heinz Endowments.
- Charles F. Marsh
Charles F. Marsh (died 1984) became the seventh president of Wofford College on September 1, 1958 and served until his retirement in 1968. A 1925 graduate of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, he earned the Master of Arts from the University of Illinois in 1926, and the Ph.D. from Illinois in 1928. He was a faculty member at American University, and from 1930 to 1958, a professor of economics at the College of William and Mary.
- Lesley Gill
Lesley Gill is an author and a professor of anthropology at American University. She specializes in Latin America, especially Bolivia. She also writes about the military training that takes place at the School of the Americas. <br