- Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee
- Tony Martin
Tony Martin (born 1942) was an American professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. A lecturer and prolific author of scholarly articles about Black History, primarily the Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, his written works and statements about the involvement and responsibility of Jews in the American slave trade, which echo allegations made by the Nation of Islam, have been a source of ongoing controversy.
- Mary Lefkowitz
Mary R. Lefkowitz (born 1935) and Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, USA. She earned her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1957 and received her Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Radcliffe College (Harvard University) in 1961. She has published on subjects including mythology, women in antiquity, Pindar, and fiction in ancient biography.
- Katharine Lee Bates
Katharine Lee Bates, is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful". Bates was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The daughter of a Congregational pastor, she graduated from Wellesley College in 1880 and for many years was a professor of English literature at Wellesley.
- Marshall Goldman
Marshall Goldman is an expert on the economy of the former Soviet Union. Goldman is a Professor of Economics at Wellesley College and Associate Director of the Harvard Russian Research Center. Goldman received his Ph.D. in Russian studies from Harvard University in 1961. Goldman is well known for his study of the career of Mikhail Gorbachev.
- Peggy Levitt
Peggy Levitt is an American sociologist and associate professor at Wellesley College. Levitt is an expert on immigration and how the religious practices of both new and established immigrant groups are changing America and the homelands from which they come. Her work is centered on migrants who maintain strong ties to their homeland. In "The Transnational Villagers", Levitt describes groups in Miraflorenos and Boston, …
- Diane Sawyer
Lila Diane Sawyer is a television journalist for the U.S. network ABC News and co-anchor of ABC's "Good Morning America," along with Robin Roberts. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by "Ladies Home Journal".
- Nannerl O. Keohane
Nannerl Overholser Keohane , named for Mozart's musically talented sister and affectionately called "Nan," recently completed 11 years as Duke's eighth (and first female) president. During her tenure, she led the $2.36 billion Campaign for Duke, started the Robertson Scholars program with UNC, built the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership and championed the Women's Initiative.
- Margaret Clapp
Margaret Antoinette Clapp (April 10 1910 - 1974) was an American scholar and educator. She was born in East Orange, New Jersey and graduated from East Orange High School in 1926 and Wellesley College in 1930. She taught English literature at the Todhunter School for Girls in New York City for twelve years while working on her Masters degree, which she obtained from Columbia University in 1937. During and after World War II, she taught history at City College of New York, …
- Diane Ravitch
Diane Ravitch 's June 7 Gadfly article took the New York City Department of Education to task for hyping the most recent reading scores for students in More...
- Jean Kilbourne
Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D. (born January 4, 1943) is a social theorist known for her video documentaries on the subject of alcohol and tobacco advertising, and the representation of women in advertising. She is a graduate of Wellesley College. Among her lectures are "Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women", "Still Killing Us Softly", and "Killing Us Softly 3". With Sut Jhally she produced several videos: * Killing Us Softly 3 (1999), …
- Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart (b. 1939 in Bakersfield, California) is an American academic and award-winning poet. In 1957, he began to study at the University of California at Riverside and went on to Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. He began studying with Lowell and Reuben Brower in 1962. He has taught at Wellesley College since 1972 and is currently (as of 2007) a professor of English there.
- Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron (born May 19 1941) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, and blogger. Ephron was born in Brooklyn, New York. She was born into a Jewish family and her parents, Henry and Phoebe Ephron, were both East Coast-born and raised screenwriters. They based Sandra Dee's character in the James Stewart film "Take Her, She's Mine" on their 22-year-old daughter Nora. Both died from alcoholism.
- Alice Freeman Palmer
Alice Freeman Palmer (February 21 1855 - December 6 1902) was an American educator. She was born Alice Elvira Freeman in Colesville, New York and brought up in Windsor, New York. She graduated at the University of Michigan in 1876, taught at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (1876-77), and at Saginaw, Mich. (1877-79). Elected to the chair of history in Wellesley College in 1879, she became acting president the next year and president of Wellesley College in 1882.
- Susan Estrich
To learn the answers to questions like these, one need only look through some of the prolific writing of Susan Estrich -- politician, professor, lawyer and writer.
- Suzanne Davis
Suzanne Davis (born 1953) is an American jazz pianist. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College. She went on to do the score for the independent film In Between and worked with Grover Washington Jr. among others. She headed the "Suzanne Davis Quartet" as well. She is currently a part-time faculty member and Assistant Professor at the Berklee College of Music.
- Alan Schechter
Alan Schechter is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. He was educated at Amherst College, where he received his AB, and at Columbia University, where he earned his PhD. He was also Hillary Rodham's advisor during her years at Wellesley College; according to Susan Estrich in her book "The Case for Hillary Clinton", both she and Rodham wrote their honors thesis for Professor Schechter (at different times).
- Richard Rorty
Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher. Rorty's long and diverse career saw him working in Philosophy, Humanities, and Literature departments. His complex intellectual background gave him a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the analytical tradition he would later famously reject.
- Rafael Moneo
José Rafael Moneo Vallés is a Spanish architect. He was born in Tudela, Spain, and won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996. He studied at the ETSAM, Technical University of Madrid (UPM) from which he received his architectural degree in 1961. From 1958 to 1961 he worked in the office in Madrid of the architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza.
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (April 7 1890 - May 14 1998) was an eminent American conservationist and writer. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she was a descendant of one of the founders of the Underground Railroad. After the divorce of her parents, she was raised in Taunton, Massachusetts and educated at Wellesley College. She married a newspaper editor, Kenneth Douglas, in 1914. The marriage failed, and she moved to Miami in the Fall of 1915.
- Lois Juliber
Ms. Juliber joined Colgate from General Foods to become President of Colgate's Far East Division in 1988. In 1992, she was promoted to Chief Technology Officer of the Corporation, a position she held until her promotion to President - Colgate North America in 1994.
- Lynn Sherr
Lynn Sherr (born 4 March 1942) is an American broadcast journalist and author, best known as a correspondent for the ABC news magazine 20/20. Sherr was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Lower Merion High School in Ardmore. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College. She was a freelance host at WNET-TV in New York, then staff. She worked for the Associated Press and WCBS-TV.
- 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.
- Henry Fowle Durant
Henry Fowle Durant (February 22, 1822 – October 3, 1881) was an American lawyer and philanthropist Durant was born in Hanover, New Hampshire He graduated from Harvard in 1841, studied law, and subsequently practiced in Boston. He underwent a religious conversion and became a lay preacher in Massachusetts and New Hampshire in 1864-75. He contributed between one and two million dollars to found Wellesley College. Durant died from Bright's Disease at the age of 59.
- Katharine Coman
Katharine Coman (23 November,1857 - 11 January, 1915) was a social activist and distinguished economist. She specialized in teaching about the development of the American West. Wellesley College named a professorship in her honor. She was born to Levi Parsons Coman and Martha Seymour in Newark, Ohio, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1880. She was professor of history (1883-1900), then chaired the Economics Department, and was dean of Wellesley College.
- Pamela Melroy
Colonel Pamela Anne Melroy (born 17 September 1961) is an American astronaut and veteran pilot of two space shuttle missions. Melroy received a bachelor's degree in physics and astronomy from Wellesley College in 1983 while also earning her commission in the United States Air Force through the ROTC program. She then earned a master's degree in earth and planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984.
- Martin Bernal
Martin Bernal (born 1937 in London) is a scholar of modern Chinese political history who claims classical civilization in Ancient Greece was heavily influenced by Afroasiatic and Semitic cultures, not just by Europe. He calls this the "Revised Ancient Model", based on Classical historians' recognition of an Egyptian and Phoenician cultural heritage. This model contrasts with what he has termed the "Aryan Model", …
- Wendy Lee Gramm
Before joining the Mercatus Center, Dr. Gramm served as chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 1988-1993. She was administrator for Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget from 1985-1988, the executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief, and director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics. Dr. Gramm was on the research staff of the Institute for Defense Analysis.
- Michelle Ye
Michelle Ye Xuan (born February 14 1980 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China), also known as "Michelle Yip Suen" is a Hong Kong television actress, after winning the Miss Chinese International competition in 1999.
- Linda Wertheimer
Linda Wertheimer is a radio journalist for National Public Radio (NPR). Wertheimer was born on March 19 1943 in Carlsbad, New Mexico. She graduated from Wellesley College with the class of 1965. She worked for the BBC and WCBS after graduating. Wertheimer was reportedy told she should be a researcher, rather than an on-air reporter, by an executive at NBC. NPR, however, had no such reservations. Wertheimer began her career with NPR from the beginning in 1971, …
- Mary Whiton Calkins
Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930) was an American philosopher and psychologist. Mary Whiton Calkins started her career as a Greek instructor at Wellesley College, but developed an interest in psychology. She established a psychology lab at Wellesley, the first psychology lab at a woman's college. Studying with William James and Hugo Munsterberg at Harvard University, she wrote her dissertation on memory. She developed the paired-associate technique for studying memory.
- Jane Bolin
Jane Matilda Bolin LL.B. (April 11, 1908-January 8, 2007) was the first African-American woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association, and the first to join the city's law department. She became the first black woman to serve as a judge in the United States when she was sworn in to the bench of the New York City Domestic Relations Court in 1939. Bolin was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. She was the youngest of four siblings.
- Patricia J. Williams
Patricia J. Williams (b. 1951) is a prominent law critic and a proponent of critical race theory, an offshoot of 1960s social movements that emphasizes race as a fundamental determinant of the American legal system. Williams received her BA from Wellesley College in 1972, and her JD from Harvard Law School in 1975. She was the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, which she held from June 2000 until June 2005.
- Ali Macgraw
Alice MacGraw (born April 1, 1938 in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe award winning American actress.
- Randall Thompson
Randall Thompson (April 21 1899 - July 9 1984) was an American composer. He attended Harvard University, became assistant professor of music and choir director at Wellesley College, and received a doctorate in music from the University of Rochester School of Music. He went on to teach at the Curtis Institute of Music, at the University of Virginia, and at Harvard. He is particularly noted for his choral works.
- Anne W. Patterson
Anne Woods Patterson (born 1949 in Fort Smith, Arkansas), was the acting United States Ambassador to the United Nations in 2005. She took over after former Ambassador Senator John Danforth resigned, effective on January 20 2005, and continued until John Bolton assumed the position on August 1 of the same year. On March 7 2005, President George W. Bush nominated Bolton to become the permanent U.N. Ambassador.
- Julián Marías
Julián Marías Aguilera, was a Spanish philosopher. His "History of Philosophy" (1941) is widely accepted as the greatest work written in Spanish on the subject of the history of philosophy. He was a pupil of the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset.
- Mildred H. McAfee
Mildred Helen McAfee Horton (May 12, 1900 - September 2, 1994) was an American academic who served during World War II as first director of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the United States Navy. McAfee was born in Parkville, Missouri, the daughter of the Rev. Cleland Boyd McAfee and Harriet Brown. She graduated from Vassar College and received her Master's degree from the University of Chicago.
- Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Charlotte Hawkins Brown (June 11 1883 - January 11 1961) was an American author and educator. Born Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins in Henderson, North Carolina, in the late 1880s her family moved north to settle in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An exceptional student in a very white world, during her senior year of high school, Alice Freeman Palmer, a former Wellesley College president, …
- Edith Abbott
Edith Abbott (September 26, 1876 - July 28, 1957) was a social worker, educator, and author. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Her younger sister was Grace Abbott. In 1893, Abbott graduated from Brownell Hall, a girls' boarding school in Omaha. However, her family could not afford to send her to college, so she began teaching high school in Grand Island.