- Michael Lesy
Michael Lesy is a writer and professor of literary journalism at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. His books, which combine historical photographs with his own writing, include "Wisconsin Death Trip" (1973), "Dreamland: America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century" (1997) and (with Angelo Rizzuto) "Angel's World: The New York Photographs of Angelo Rizzuto" (2005). - Ralph Hexter
Ralph J. Hexter is the current president of Hampshire College, a progressive alternative college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Prior to assuming the post, Hexter was Executive Dean of Letters and Science and Dean of Arts and Humanities and at University of California, Berkeley. Hampshire is part of the five college consortium, which includes Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. - Eqbal Ahmad
Eqbal Ahmad (1933/34 - May 11, 1999) was a Pakistani writer, journalist, and anti-war activist. He was strongly critical of the Middle East strategy of the United States as well as what he saw as the "twin curse" of nationalism and religious fanaticism in such countries as Pakistan. - Eugene Mirman
Eugene Boris Mirman is a Russian-born American comedian, writer, and film maker, who is based in New York City. Mirman attended Lexington High School in Lexington, MA, and later Hampshire College in Western Massachusetts. Mirman has appeared on several TV shows, including Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Comedy Central's Premium Blend and Jump Cuts, VH1, Third Watch, Cartoon Network's Home Movies, Cheap Seats, HBO's Flight of the Conchords and more. - Jerome Liebling
Jerome Liebling (born 1924) is an American photographer and filmmaker. He studied photography under Walter Rosenblum and Paul Strand, and joined New York's famed Photo League. In the same period, he became involved with motion-picture production and worked as a documentary filmmaker. While a professor of film and photography at the University of Minnesota, … - David Kelly
David C. Kelly is an associate professor of mathematics at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He directs the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics, and has been involved in the organization of "Yellow Pig's Day," an annual celebration of mathematics. He is quite familiar with many of the interesting properties of the number 17. - Neil Gust
Neil Gust is an American musician. He is best known for co-founding Heatmiser (for which he played guitar and provided vocals) with the late Elliott Smith in 1992. He and Smith first met in 1987 while the pair were attending Hampshire College, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Gust was also founding member of the now defunct No. 2. He currently works as an Editor for Outside, NY - Aaron Lansky
Aaron Lansky (b. 1955) is the founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, an organization he created to help salvage Yiddish language publications. When he began saving books in the early 1980s, most experts believe that there were fewer than 70,000 Yiddish volumes extant. Lansky feared that this literature would be lost. The National Yiddish Book Center now has more than 15 million books. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989 for his work. - Benjamin Mako Hill
Benjamin Mako Hill is a Debian hacker and author of the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible and "The Official Ubuntu Book". He works in the Computing Culture group of the MIT Media Lab, and is on the boards of Software Freedom International (the organization that organizes Software Freedom Day) and the Ubuntu Foundation. Hill was on the board of Software in the Public Interest from March 2003 until July 2006, serving as the organisation's vice-president from August 2004. Read more... - Ted Selker
Dr. Ted Selker is an Associate Professor at the MIT Media and Arts Technology Laboratory and the Director of the Context Aware Computing Lab (www.media.mit.edu/context). Prior to joining MIT faculty, in November 1999, Ted worked at the IBM Almaden Research Center, where he became an IBM Fellow in 1996. He has served as a consulting professor at Stanford University, taught at Hampshire University of Massachusetts, at Amherst and Brown Universities. - Eric Schocket
Eric Schocket was an Associate Professor of American literature at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He wrote primarily on issues of class. In "Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature" (University of Michigan Press, 2006), Schocket examined the way in which class-conscious American literature (such as by Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Howells, … - Chuck Collins
Chuck Collins (b. 1959) is an author and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He was the cofounder of the organizations United for a Fair Economy and Responsible Wealth in Boston, Massachusetts. - Daniel Warner
Daniel Warner is composer and professor of music at Hampshire College. He studied electronic music at Princeton University with Milton Babbitt and J.K. Randall. With Christoph Cox, he co-edited the volume Audio Culture (Continuum, 2004). He is an authority on the developing field of installation art. Warner's record label, Virtuelle Records, distributes his works and is on the web. Daniel Warner's personal page with examples of his work can be found here - Lee Smolin
Lee Smolin (born 1955 in New York City) is an American theoretical physicist, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo. Smolin is best known for devising several different approaches to quantum gravity, in particular loop quantum gravity. He advocates that the two primary approaches to quantum gravity, loop quantum gravity and string theory, … - Barry Sonnenfeld
American film maker Barry Sonnenfeld (born New York City, April 1 1953) worked as cinematographer for the Coen Brothers, then later he directed and produced big budget films such as "Men in Black". On the 20 April 2007 episode of "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson," Barry Sonnenfeld said that, when he directs, he sits on a saddle. He also admits to vomiting at least once during shooting of his films. - John Reed
John Reed (b. 1969) is an American author and novelist. Reed attended Tulane University and Hampshire College. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in the mid 90s, with authors Amanda Filipacchi, Jonathan Ames, Matthew Sharpe, Claudia Rankine, Monica de la Torre and writer/director, James Gunn. Reed was an early contributor to, and subsequently an editor with, "Open City (magazine)", a New York literary journal published by Robert Bingham, … - Stephen Hannock
Stephen Hannock (1951-) was born in Albany, New York and is a top American landscape painter. His education includes The Albany Academy, Deerfield Academy, Bowdoin College, Hampshire College, Smith College, and Trinity Pawling School. - Erica Wheeler
Erica Wheeler (born October 24 in Maryland) is an American folk singer-songwriter. She currently lives in western Massachusetts. Growing up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., she was exposed to traditional folk and bluegrass music in surrounding Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland, which influenced her later style. She attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. - David Moscow
David Raphael Moscow (born 14 November 1974) is an American actor. His first major role may have been as the young Josh in the 1988 film "Big", in which his character was magically transformed into an adult, played by Tom Hanks. Moscow was born in New York City. He attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts in the 1990s. His younger brother, Lev, is a history teacher at The Beacon School in New York City. Lev was an extra in "Newsies". - Jeff Maguire
Jeff Maguire (born in 1952) is an American screenwriter. Regarded for his talent for writing sports films, Jeff Maguire got his first screenwriting break with his script Escape to Victory, a film about soccer directed by John Huston in 1981. His most recent contribution is Gridiron Gang, released in 2006. Maguire's most famous film is In the Line of Fire starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, … - Xander Berkeley
Xander R. Berkeley (born December 16, 1958) is an American actor. - Amrita Basu
Amrita Basu has served on several editorial boards including the board of "The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars" since 1992, and the "International Feminist Journal of Politics and Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism" since 2002 and 2001, respectively. Basu was the South Asia editor for The "Journal of Asian Studies" from 1995-2001. - Jeph Jacques
Jeph Jacques writes and illustrates the webcomics "Questionable Content" and "IndieTits". He was born in Rockville, Maryland, graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in music, and lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts with his girlfriend (and business manager) Cristi. Jacques is a self-described hipster. "Questionable Content" (QC) is a comedic slice-of-life webcomic that Jacques started on August 1, 2003. - Polina Barskova
Award-winning poet Polina Barskova was born on February 4, 1976, in St. Petersburg, Russia. The daughter of poet Yevgeny Rein, Barskova wrote her first poems at age 8 and published her first book of poems, Christmas, in 1991 at 15. Several poetry collections have followed. She writes in Russian, but 3 poems translated into English were published in Crossing Centuries: The New Generation in Russian Poetry (Talisman, 2000). - Andrew Salkey
Andrew Salkey was a novelist, poet, freelance writer and journalist of Jamaican and Trinidadian origin. Salkey was born in Panama but was raised in Jamaica. He died in Amherst, Massachusetts. After completing his basic education in Jamaica, Salkey attended the University of London and became a part of the West Indian Students Union (WISU), … - Daniel Asia
Daniel Asia (b. Seattle, Washington, United States, 1953) is an American composer. He received a B.A. degree from Hampshire College and a M.M. from the Yale University School of Music. His major teachers include Jacob Druckman, Stephen Albert, Gunther Schuller, and Isang Yun. He formerly served as professor of music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (1981-1986). Since 1988, he has been a professor of composition, and head of the composition department, … - Peter Hutton
Peter Hutton (born 1944 in Detroit, Michigan) is an experimental filmmaker, known primarily for his silent cinematic portraits of cities and landscapes around the world. He has also worked as a professional cinematographer, most notably for his former student Ken Burns. Hutton studied painting, sculpture and film at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has taught filmmaking at Hampshire College, Harvard University, SUNY Purchase, and Bard College, … - Danny Tamberelli
Daniel Paul Tamberelli (born February 8, 1982 in Wyckoff, New Jersey) is an American television and film actor. Tamberelli played little Pete on the Nickelodeon television show "The Adventures of Pete & Pete" and provided the voice for Arnold in "The Magic School Bus", as well as appearing in the films "Igby Goes Down" and "The Mighty Ducks". Many may also know him for his work on Nickelodeon's "All That", … - James Crown
James S. Crown is a businessman. He is president of Henry Crown and Company, a private investment company. He is a director of JPMorgan Chase & Co., General Dynamics and Sara Lee as well as being the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the University of Chicago. A member of Chicago's Crown family, James' father is billionaire Lester Crown. He earned his BA from Hampshire College in 1976 and his law degree from Stanford in 1980. His family owns the Aspen Skiing Company. - Gideon Bok
Gideon Bok is an American painter who lives and works in Maine. He earned his B.F.A. from Hampshire College and his M.F.A. from Yale University. He has gone on to teach painting and drawing at Hampshire, but is presently on leave from his position. He is a recipient of a 2004 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship as well as the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Fund Purchase Award through The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005. - Lynne Procope
Lynne Procope is a Trinidadian born American poet and textile designer. She is one of the founders of the louderARTS Project. In 1998 she was a member of the National Poetry Slam Championship team from New York's Nuyorican Poet's Cafe. Her most popular poems include "Elemental Woman", "Flectere" and "Evidence of Injury". Her writing focuses on the human experience of women and marginalized groups. - Naomi Wallace
Naomi Wallace is a poet and playwright from Prospect, Kentucky. Her plays include: "In The Heart of America, One Flea Spare, Slaughter City, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, The Girl Who Fell Through a Hole in Her Jumper" (with Bruce McLeod), "The War Boys," "Things of Dry Hours" and the one act play "The Retreating World". Her stage adaptation of William Wharton's novel "Birdy" opened on the West End in London. - Joshua Beckman
Joshua Beckman is an American poet. He won the first annual Honickman / APR book award and has published five books of poems. A graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, Beckman was the editor of the short-lived literary magazine "Object Lesson," which served as inspiration for subsequent literary and artistic publishing ventures. - Manvendra Singh
Manvendra Singh (born 19 May, 1964) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Barmer constituency of Rajasthan and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Barmer constituency in Rajasthan defeating Sona Ram of Indian National Congress. Manvendra is son of Jaswant Singh, a former Finance Minister of India. Born in 1964 in Jodhpur he is MA and had his education at Hampshire College, Amherst, … - Lynne Hanley
Lynne Hanley (1943-) is a feminist writer, literary critic, and "Professor of Writing and Literature", Interdisciplinary Arts, at Hampshire College. - Lê Thi Diem Thúy
lê thi diem thúy is an award-winning poet, novelist, and performer. She was born in South Vietnam in 1972, during the heart of war. In 1978, she moved to Southern California with her father among the many immigrants called "boat people." Two of Lê's older siblings drowned (separately) early in her life. Le went to Montgomery High, and then San Diego High. - Jan Carew
Jan Rynveld Carew (born 24 September, 1920 in Agricola, Guyana) is a novelist, playwright, poet and educator. Born 24 September, 1920 at Agricola, a village in Guyana also called Rome, Carew was educated at the Berbice High School. At age 17, he left Guyana for the United States where he studied at Howard University and Western Reserve University (1944-8). He also went to Charles University in Prague (1948-50) and the Sorbonne in Paris. - Sonya Sones
Sonya Sones is an American writer of young adult novels. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona and currently lives near the beach in Southern California. After graduating from Hampshire College she taught film at Harvard University; her other jobs have included baby clothes designer, animator, photographer, and film editor. Her style differs from most contemporary writers in that her novels are told in verse form rather than prose. - Tooker Gomberg
Tooker Gomberg (August 12, 1955 - March 3 or March 4, 2004) was a Canadian politician and environmental activist. A native of Montreal, Quebec and a liberal-arts graduate of Hampshire College (1980), Gomberg founded one of Canada's first curbside recycling programs in Montreal, and later moved to Edmonton, Alberta, where he created educational materials for Alberta's energy ministry and headed the EcoCity Society, an environmental agency. - Fariba Nawa
Fariba Nawa (born 1973) is an Afghanistani-American freelance journalist who grew up in Fremont, California and was born in Herat, Afghanistan. Her family fled the country during the Soviet incursion in the 1980s. She is trilingual in Persian, Arabic, and English. In 2000 she ventured into Taliban controlled Afghanistan by sneaking into the country through Iran. <br />Her report Afghanistan Inc.
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