- Nelson Figueroa
Nelson Figueroa is an American professional baseball player from Brooklyn, New York. He attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts where he pitched for three years and earned a bachelors degree in American Studies. He was drafted 833rd overall by the New York Mets in the 30th round of the 1995 MLB Amateur Draft and was subsequently traded along with outfielder Bernard Gilkey to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Jorge Fábregas, Willie Blair and cash considerations.
- Jehuda Reinharz
Jehuda Reinharz (born 1944) is the President of Brandeis University, and a Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History at the same institution.
- Robert Reich
Robert B. Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton . He has written eleven books, including The Work of Nations , which has been translated into 22 languages; the best-sellers The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet , and his most recent book, Supercapitalism .
- Jonathan Sarna
Jonathan D. Sarna is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History in the department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University and the director of the Hornstein Program in Jewish Professional Leadership. He is regarded as one of the most prominent historians of American Judaism. Sarna is a prolific author, including the seminal work on the 350th anniversary of the founding of the American Jewish community, …
- Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom 's bestselling books remind us of what truly matters in life. Called "a beautifully written book of great clarity and wisdom," Tuesdays with Morrie is Albom's touching memoir of his visits to his dying professor, Morrie Schwartz , and the life lessons learned along the way. Filled with humor and hope, what began as a way for Albom to help Morrie pay his medical bills became an international phenomenon and the bestselling memoir of all time.
- Sumner Redstone
Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein on May 27 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts) is majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, he is majority owner of Midway Games, Viacom and CBS Corporation.
- Anita Hill
Anita F. Hill (born July 30, 1956) is a professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management and a former colleague of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She is best known for accusing Thomas of sexual harassment during his 1991 Senate confirmation hearing.
- Kanan Makiya
Kanan Makiya is an Iraqi-American academic. He is the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. Although he was born in Baghdad, he left Iraq to study architecture at M.I.T., later joining Makiya Associates to design and build projects in the Middle East.
- Tony Goldwyn
Anthony Howard "Tony" Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor and director. He may be best remembered for his roles of the villain Carl Bruner in "Ghost" (who had his friend and co-worker Sam Wheat killed), Kendall Dobbs in "Designing Women" and the voice of the title character of the Disney animated "Tarzan" and "Kingdom Hearts"
- Louis Brandeis
Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American litigator, Supreme Court Justice, advocate of privacy, and developer of the Brandeis Brief. In addition, he helped lead the American Zionist movement. Justice Brandeis was appointed by Woodrow Wilson to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1916 (sworn-in on June 5), and served until 1939.
- James Pustejovsky
James Pustejovsky is a professor of computer science at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. His main topic of research is Natural Language Processing. Pustejovsky proposed Generative Lexicon theory which is an emerging theory in lexical semantics. His other interests include temporal reasoning, events, information extraction, computational linguistics.
- David Hackett Fischer
David Hackett Fischer (b. December 2, 1935) is University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. His major works have tackled everything from large macroeconomic and cultural trends ("Albion's Seed," "The Great Wave") to narrative histories of significant events ("Paul Revere's Ride," "Washington's Crossing") to explorations of historiography ("Historians' Fallacies").
- Ha Jin
Jīn Xuěfēi is a contemporary Chinese-American writer using the pen name Ha Jin (哈金). Ha Jin was born in Liaoning, China in 1956. His father was a military officer, and Jin joined the People's Liberation Army in 1969 during the Cultural Revolution. In 1981 he graduated from Heilongjiang University with a Bachelor's degree in English studies, and three years later obtained his Masters in Anglo-American literature at Shandong University.
- Linda Hirshman
Linda Redlick Hirshman (born April 26, 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a lawyer, feminist, and the author of "The Woman's Guide to Law School" and "Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex". She is a retired Distinguished professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Brandeis University. She holds a law degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in philosophy. She has written for a variety of periodicals, including Glamour, Tikkun, Ms., the ABA Journal, …
- Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American socialist organizer, professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Davis's main association however, was her membership in the Communist Party USA. She first achieved nationwide notoriety when she was linked to the murder of judge Harold Haley during an attempted Black Panther prison break; she fled underground, …
- Ray Jackendoff
Ray Jackendoff (born January 23, 1945) is an influential contemporary linguist who has always straddled the boundary between generative linguistics and cognitive linguistics, committed as he is both to the existence of an innate Universal Grammar (an important thesis of generative linguistics) and to giving an account of language that meshes well with the current understanding of the human mind and cognition (the main purpose of cognitive linguistics).
- Deborah Lipstadt
Deborah Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies and Director of the Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. She has taught at U.C.L.A. and Occidental College in Los Angeles. She received her bachelor's degree from City College of New York and her master's and doctorate from Brandeis University.
- Mari Fitzduff
Mari Fitzduff is a professor and director of the international master's program in coexistence and conflict at Brandeis University in Boston. Prof. Fitzduff previously held a Chair of Conflict Studies at the University of Ulster, where she directed a United Nations University centre in Northern Ireland addressing the management of ethnic, political, and religious conflict through an integrated approach using research, training, policy, program, and practice development.
- Jacqueline Jones
Jacqueline Jones (born 1948) is a Truman Professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University. She is an expert in American social history in addition to writing on economics (also Feminist Economics), women, and class.
- Eric Chasalow
Eric Chasalow is an American composer of acoustic and electronic music. He is Professor of Composition at Brandeis University, and Director of BEAMS, the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio. He holds the D.M.A. from Columbia University where his principal teacher was Mario Davidovsky and where he studied flute with Harvey Sollberger. He holds awards from, among others, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, …
- Harry Mairson
Harry Mairson is a Professor of Computer Science at Brandeis University.
- Yehudi Wyner
Yehudi Wyner is an American composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator. Although Wyner was born in Calgary in 1929, he was raised in New York City. Wyner grew up in a musical family led by his father, Lazar Weiner, the preeminent composer of Yiddish art songs. Wyner himself has written in a variety of genres, including compositions for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo voice, and solo instruments, …
- Martin Boykan
Martin Boykan (b. 1931) studied composition with Walter Piston,Aaron Copland and Paul Hindemith, and piano with Eduard Steuermann. He received a BA from Harvard University, 1951, and an MM from Yale University, 1953. In 1953-55 he was in Vienna on a Fulbright Fellowship, and upon his return founded the Brandeis Chamber Ensemble whose other members included Robert Koff (Juilliard Quartet), Nancy Cirillo (Wellesley), Eugene Lehner (Kolisch Quartet), …
- Arthur Berger
Arthur Berger was a composer who has been described as a New Mannerist. He studied as an undergraduate at New York University, during which time he joined the Young Composer's Group, as a graduate student under Walter Piston at Harvard, and with Nadia Boulanger and at the Sorbonne under a Paine Fellowship. He taught briefly at Mills College and Brooklyn College, …
- Reggie Lewis
Reggie Lewis (November 21 1965 - July 27 1993) was a basketball player for the Boston Celtics from 1987-1993. He averaged 20.8 points per game in each of his last two seasons with the Celtics, and finished with a career average of 17.6 points per contest. His #35 jersey was retired by the Celtics as a memorial to him. Born in Baltimore, Lewis played his college ball in Boston at Northeastern University, …
- Eric Yoffie
Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie is the President of the Union for Reform Judaism, the congregational arm of the Reform Jewish Movement in North America. Yoffie has remained the unchallenged head of American Judaism’s largest denomination since 1996 due to his popular advocacy of political liberalism and religious traditionalism. Raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Brandeis University and received his Rabbinical ordination from Hebrew Union College.
- Mary Baine Campbell
Mary Baine Campbell is an American poet, scholar, and professor. She teaches medieval and Renaissance literature, as well as creative writing, at Brandeis University. Her book "Wonder and Science" won the 1999 James Russell Lowell Prize, awarded to the best book of the year in literary studies, from the Modern Language Association.
- Walter Laqueur
Walter Zeev Laqueur is an American historian and political commentator. He was born in Breslau, Germany (modern Wrocław, Poland), to a Jewish family. In 1938 Laqueur left Germany for the British Mandate of Palestine. His parents, who were unable to leave, died in the Holocaust. He lived in Palestine/Israel 1938-53 and since then in the UK and USA. He wrote the foreword to Wilhelm Wulff's book "Zodiac and Swastika".
- Robert Kraft
Robert K. Kraft, (born June 5, 1941 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is the Founder, Chairman & CEO of the Kraft Group, a diversified holding company with assets in paper & packaging, sports & entertainment, real estate development and a private equity portfolio. His best known and most visible assets are the National Football League's New England Patriots and Major League Soccer's New England Revolution, as well as the stadium where they play, Gillette Stadium.
- William Flesch
William Flesch (b. 1956) is a Professor of English Literature at Brandeis University. His areas of expertise and research range from Renaissance literature to contemporary poetry. He is especially interested in psychoanalysis, philosophy, and evolutionary psychology as they relate to literary criticism. His first book, "Generosity and the Limits of Authority: Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton", was published by Cornell University Press in 1992.
- Donald Martino
Donald Martino was a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Martino studied composition with Ernst Bacon, Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt, and Luigi Dallapiccola. Most of his mature works (including pseudo-tonal works such as <i>Paradiso Choruses</i> and <i>Seven Pious Pieces</I>; were composed using the twelve-tone method; the sound-world he worked to create leaned more towards the lyrical Dallapiccola than his other teachers.
- Olga Broumas
Olga Broumas (born 1949), is the author of 7 books of poetry, collected in "RAVE: 1975-1999", and 4 books of translations of the Greek Nobel Laureate poet Odysseas Elytis, collected in "EROS, EROS, EROS", as well as a CD recording of parts of the above, called "Olga Broumas: A Reader's Companion". She is also known for the innovative practice of co-authoring poetry collections.
- Sari Nusseibeh
Sari Nusseibeh (born in 1949 in Damascus, Syria), is a Palestinian professor of philosophy and president of the Al-Quds University in Jerusalem (Al Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem). He was also, until December 2002, the representative of the Palestinian National Authority in Jerusalem. He was born in Damascus to the politician Anwar Nusseibeh and Nuzha Al Ghussein, …
- David Crane
David Crane (born August 13, 1957 in Philadelphia) is an American writer and producer. He was one of the creators of the TV sitcom "Friends", along with his longtime friend Marta Kauffman. He is primarily known for his comedic writing. Crane lives with his partner, Jeffrey Klarik. Together, they have created a new "Friends"-like sitcom, "The Class". Crane recieved his bachelor's degree from Brandeis University
- Dessima Williams
Dessima Williams is a Grenadian diplomat and former Ambassador to the United Nations from Grenada. She is currently a professor of sociology at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Dr. Williams holds a Ph.D. from American University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota. She is also the founder and Director of the Grenada Education and Development Programme (GRENED).
- Abram L. Sachar
Abram Leon Sachar (1899 - 1993) was an American historian and university president. Born in New York City, his immigrant family moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1906 and (after a year at Harvard) he earned his AB and AM at Washington University. He went to England to do his research on the Victorian House of Lords and gained his PhD at Cambridge University in 1923. He then taught history at the University of Illinois from 1923 to 1948.
- Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck is an American stage, screen, television, and radio writer. She was born in Kenwood, Ohio (part of the Cincinnati area), and graduated from Cincinnati's Ursuline Academy in 1976. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame in 1980, and followed that with three degrees from Brandeis University: an MA in 1983, a M.F.A. in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Victorian era melodrama, awarded in 1989.
- Samuel Adler
Samuel (Sam) Adler (born March 4, 1928) is an American (German-born) composer and conductor. Adler was born to a Jewish family in Mannheim, Germany, the son of Hugo Chaim Adler, a cantor, and Selma Adler. The family fled to the United States in 1939, where Hugo became the cantor of a synagogue in Worcester, Massachusetts. Sam followed his father into the music profession, earning degrees from Boston University and Harvard University.
- Jean Bethke Elshtain
Jean Bethke Elshtain is a prolific American feminist political philosopher. She is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and is a contributing editor for "The New Republic". She is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the Bible Literacy Project, publishers of the curriculum "The Bible and Its Influence" for public high school literature courses.
- Michael Sandel
Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught political philosophy since 1980.