- M. Carey Thomas
M(artha) Carey Thomas (January 2, 1857-December 2, 1935) was an American educator, suffragist, and second President of Bryn Mawr College. Carey Thomas, as she preferred to be called, was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She was the daughter of James Carey Thomas and Mary Whitall Thomas. Her family included many prominent Quakers, including her uncle and aunt Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith, … - Rufus Jones
Rufus Matthew Jones (January 25 1863-June 16 1948) was an American writer, journal editor, and college professor. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Haverford Emergency Unit (a pre-cursor to the American Friends Service Committee). One of the most influential Quakers of the 20th century, he was a Quaker historian and theologian as well as a philosopher. Jones was born into an old Quaker family in South China, Maine. - Drew Gilpin Faust
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust '68 will shatter one of America's oldest glass ceilings when she becomes the first woman to lead Harvard University in the school's 371-year history. Her appointment as president was unanimously approved by Harvard's Board of Overseers on Sunday, Feb. 11, after a highly publicized, yearlong search. - Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore was a Modernist American poet and writer. - Nancy J. Vickers
Nancy J. Vickers is the seventh president of Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, a position she has held since 1997. She is referred to as 'Nancy J.' by the students there. She has announced her intention to step down as president of the college in June 2008. Vickers received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1967, and her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1976. - Rhys Carpenter
Rhys Carpenter (born 1889 Cotuit, Massachusetts; died January 2, 1980 Devon, Pennsylvania) was a classical art historian and professor at Bryn Mawr College. Carpenter took his B.A. in Classics at Columbia University in 1909. Carpenter won a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, studying at Balliol College. There he published his own poetry and earned a second B.A. (1911) and an M.A. (1914). He spent the year 1912-13 at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. - Clark McCauley
Clark Richard McCauley is an American psychologist. He currently is a professor of psychology at Bryn Mawr College. McCauley received his Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Providence College in 1965, his Master of Arts degree in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967, and his Ph.D in social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970. He has worked a a psychology professor at Bryn Mawr College since 1970, … - Mary Patterson McPherson
Mary Patterson McPherson served as the sixth president of Bryn Mawr College from 1978-1997. She 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. She has taught at the University of Delaware and served as professor and dean at Bryn Mawr before being elected president. She is currently Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and will lead the American Philosophical Society. - Harris Wofford
Harris Llewellyn Wofford (born April 9, 1926) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania from 1991 to 1995. He was also the fifth president of Bryn Mawr College. Harris Wofford was born in New York City in 1926. While attending high school, he was inspired by Clarence Streit's plea for a world government to found the Student Federalists (see). - Ludlow Ogden Smith
Ludlow Ogden Smith (February 6 1899, Pennsylvania - July 13 1979, New Canaan, Connecticut) was a Philadelphia businessman. He married Katharine Hepburn in 1928; she was 21 and he was 29. They met while she was in her senior year at Bryn Mawr College, through a mutual friend who lived next to campus. They separated in 1934 and Kate traveled to Mexico to gain a divorce. After the divorce and his purging from the Philadelphia Social Register, … - Rachel Simon
Rachel Simon (born 1959 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American writer of both fiction and non-fiction. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1981, and published her first book, a collection of short stories, in 1990. She followed this with a novel, a self-help book for writers, and a memoir. In addition to writing, Simon has worked as television analyst, a belly dancer, an artist's model, an events coordinator for a bookstore, and a creative writing teacher. - Sarah Jones
Sarah Jones (b. November 29, 1973) is a Tony and Obie Award-winning playwright, actress, and poet. Called "a master of the genre" by "The New York Times", Jones has written and performed four multi-character solo shows, including "Bridge & Tunnel", which was produced Off-Broadway in 2004 by Oscar-winner Meryl Streep, and which went on to Broadway in 2006 and received a special Tony Award. - Emily Greene Balch
Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 - January 9, 1961) was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 (the prize that year was shared with John Mott), notably for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston into an affluent family, she was amongst the first graduates of Bryn Mawr College in 1889. - Edith Hamilton
Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1868 - May 31, 1963) was a classicist and educator before she became a writer on mythology. Her most famous books are "The Greek Way" (1930) and "Mythology" (1942). "Mythology" remains in print after six decades and is still used as an introductory text to mythology in high schools and colleges; a mark of its status is that study guides to the book exist. - Hanna Holborn Gray
Hanna Holborn Gray (born 1930), is a historian of political thought in the Renaissance and Reformation, and an emerita professor at the University of Chicago. The daughter of Hajo Holborn, a professor of European history who fled to America from Nazi Germany, and of Annemarie Bettmann, a philologist, she graduated from Bryn Mawr College and travelled to Oxford as a Fulbright Scholar. - Frederica de Laguna
Frederica ("Freddy") de Laguna was an American anthropologist. Her parents, Theodore Lopez de Leo de Laguna and Grace Mead Andrus, were, respectively, Spanish-American and, in Frederica's own words, "Connecticut Yankee." Both received Doctorates from Cornell and would later teach philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. On her father's side she also had French, German, and Italian ancestry. She is most noted for her work with the Tlingit and Athapaskan peoples, … - Ira Einhorn
Ira Samuel Einhorn, a.k.a. "The Unicorn Killer", (born May 15, 1940) was an American activist in the 1960s and 1970s who is now serving a life sentence for the murder of Holly Maddux in 1977. Einhorn was active in ecological and antiwar groups in the 1960s. At one time, he was a friend and contemporary of Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman. He also claimed to have been instrumental in creating Earth Day in 1970, and participated in the Earth Day rally in Philadelphia that year, … - Bruce Cole
Bruce Cole is the eighth chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was born in Ohio and attended Case Western Reserve University. He earned his master's degree from Oberlin College and his doctorate from Bryn Mawr College. For two years he was the William E. Suida Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. He has held fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Kress Foundation, … - Allyson Schwartz
Allyson Y. Schwartz (born October 3, 1948) is a Democratic U.S. politician from the state of Pennsylvania, currently representing the state's 13th Congressional district (map) in the U.S. House. The district includes parts of Montgomery County, and a portion of Philadelphia. In the 110th Congress she is the only woman from Pennsylvania's delegation. - Judith Shapiro
Judith R. Shapiro (born January 24, 1942) is the current President of Barnard College, a liberal arts college for women affiliated with Columbia University; as President of Barnard, she is also an academic dean within the university. She is also a professor of anthropology at Barnard. Shapiro became Barnard's 10th president in 1994 after a teaching career at Bryn Mawr College, where she was Chair of the Department of Anthropology, then Provost, the chief academic officer, … - Florence Bascom
Florence Bascom (1862 in Williamstown, Massachusetts; died 1945) was the first woman hired by the United States Geological Survey. She was of Huguenot and Basque ancestry. She came from an academic background as her father, John Bascom, was President of Williams College. In the 1880s she received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin. She received her doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1893 and two years taught at Bryn Mawr College. - Alice Rivlin
Alice Mitchell Rivlin (born March 4, 1931 in Philadelphia) is an economist, a former U.S. Cabinet official, and an expert on the budget. Rivlin is an alumna of The Madeira School, earned a B.A. at Bryn Mawr College in 1952 and earned a Ph.D. from Radcliffe College in 1958. She has been affiliated several times with the Brookings Institution, including stints from 1957-66, 1969-1975, 1983-1993, and 1999-present. - Ellen Axson Wilson
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson (May 15, 1860 - August 6, 1914), first wife of Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1913 until her death. Ellen Louise Axson was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1860. She grew up in Rome, Georgia, where her father, the Reverend S.E. Axson, was a Presbyterian minister. Thomas Woodrow Wilson first saw her when he was about six and she only a baby. In 1883, as a young lawyer from Atlanta, … - Helen Taft Manning
Helen Herron Taft Manning (August 1, 1891 in Cincinnati, Ohio - February 21,1987), was the daughter of President of the United States William Howard Taft and his wife Helen Herron. Helen was the second child of the Tafts and like all of the children, she was a high achiever. Helen was able to fulfill goals that her own mother intended to pursue but restrictions placed on women at the time prevented her from doing. Taft earned a scholarship to attend Bryn Mawr College. - Richmond Lattimore
Richmond Alexander Lattimore (May 6, 1906 - February 26, 1984) was an American poet and translator known for his translations of the Greek classics, especially his versions of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey", still considered superior despite their age. Born to David and Margaret Barnes Lattimore in Paotingfu, China, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1926. (His brother was the China expert Owen Lattimore, … - Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actress, playwright, and professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She formerly taught in the drama department at Stanford University. Smith is best known as the author of "Fires in the Mirror", which dealt with the 1991 Crown Heights Riot, and "Twilight: Los Angeles 1992", … - Machteld Mellink
Machteld Johanna Mellink (born 1917 in the Netherlands; died February 24, 2006, in Haverford, Pennsylvania) was a leading Near Eastern archaeologist of the twentieth century. Mellink received her undergraduate training at the University of Amsterdam and her doctorate from Utrecht in 1943. Professor Mellink moved to Bryn Mawr College in the 1946 as a Marion Reilly Fellow and spent the summer of 1947 at the University of Chicago on a Ryerson Grant. - Tony Rothman
Tony Rothman (b. 1953) is an American theoretical physicist specializing in cosmology, and science fiction writer. Rothman holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College, (1975) and a Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin (1981), where he studied at the Center for Relativity. He continued on post-doctoral fellowships at Oxford, the University of Moscow and the University of Cape Town. - Caroline Stevermer
Caroline Stevermer (born 1955) is a writer of young adult fantasy novels and shorter works. She is best known for two series of alternate history-with-magic novels. - Nettie Stevens
Nettie Maria Stevens (July 7,1861 - May 4,1912) was an early American geneticist. She and Edmund Beecher Wilson were the first researchers to describe the chromosomal basis of sex. An outstanding student, Nettie Stevens completed in two years the four-year course at Westfield Normal School (now Westfield State College) in Massachusetts. She graduated at the top of her class. At Stanford, she received her B.A. in 1899 and her M.A. in 1900, … - Charlotte Scott
Charlotte Angas Scott D.Sc.(Lond.) (June 8 1858 - November 10 1931, Cambridge, England) was a British mathematician who spent the later of her career in the United States and was influential in the development of American mathematics, including the mathematical education of women. She was the daughter of Rev. Caleb Scott, Principal of Lancashire Independent College at Whalley Range. Scott played an important role in Cambridge changing its rules for the Tripos exam. - Paul Shorey
Paul Shorey, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D. (August 3, 1857-April 24, 1934) was an American classical scholar, born at Davenport, Iowa After graduating from Harvard in 1878 he studied in Europe at Leipzig, Bonn, Athens, and Munich (Ph.D., 1884). He was a professor at several institutions from 1885 onward. Professor Shorey served at Bryn Mawr College (1885-92), then principally at the University of Chicago. - Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. Wilson was born in Geneva, Illinois, and graduated from Yale in 1878. He earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins in 1881. He was a lecturer at Williams College in 1883-84 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1884-85. He served as professor of biology at Bryn Mawr College from 1885 to 1891. - Margaret Levi
Margaret Levi (born 1946) is an American political scientist and author, noted for her work in comparative political economy, labor politics, and democratic theory, notably on the origins and effects of trustworthy government. Levi graduated with a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and completed a Ph.D. degree in government at Harvard University in 1974. Since then, she has taught at the University of Washington in Seattle, … - Cornelia Otis Skinner
Cornelia Otis Skinner (b. May 30 1901, Chicago, Illinois; d. July 9 1979, New York, New York) was an American author and actress. She was the daughter of the actor Otis Skinner and his wife Maud (Durbin) Skinner. After attending Bryn Mawr College (1918-1919) and studying theatre at the Sorbonne in Paris, she began her career on the stage in 1921. - Elizabeth Gray Vining
Elizabeth Janet Gray Vining (October 6, 1902 - November 27, 1999), born Elizabeth Janet Gray and also known as Elizabeth Gray Vining, was a professional librarian who tutored Emperor Akihito of Japan in English while he was the Crown Prince. (She also tutored other members of the Imperial Household: Prince Hitachi and Princesses Kazuko, Atsuko, and Takako.) For her work, she was awarded the Third Order of the Sacred Crown. - Lily Ross Taylor
Lily Ross Taylor (Born in Alabama, 1886-November 18, 1969) developed an interest in Roman studies at the University of Wisconsin, earning an A.B. in 1906. She then went to Bryn Mawr College as a graduate student in 1906, receiving her Ph.D. in Latin in 1912. Her dissertation advisor was Tenney Frank. From 1912 until 1927, she taught at Vassar, and, in 1917, she became the first female Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. - Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Catherine Gilbert Murdock is an American author. Her first book was "Dairy Queen" (2006), a critically acclaimed novel for young adults. She grew up on a farm in Connecticut, and attended Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania. She now lives in suburban Philadelphia with her husband and two children. The sequal to "Dairy Queen", "The Off Season", will be released sometime in June - Candace Pert
Candace Beebe Pert (b. June 26, 1946) is a neuroscientist who discovered the opiate receptor, the cellular bonding site for endorphins in the brain. In 1974 she earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the laboratory of Solomon Snyder. Previously, she had completed her undergraduate studies, in biology, cum laude, in 1970, from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Dr. - Paul Rehak
Paul Rehak was an American archaeologist. Rehak's research interests extended from prehistoric and Classical Greece to Imperial Rome. Rehak was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he also attended the University of Michigan. In 1976 he received his B.A. "cum laude" in Classics and Archaeology. In 1980 he obtained his M.A. from Bryn Mawr College, writing on Mycenaean shrines under Machteld Mellink, and Ph.D. in 1985, writing on Roman sculpture under Brunilde Ridgway.
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