Committee on Degrees in Social Studies

Founders

• Stanley Hoffmann, an authority on international relations;
• Alexander Gerschenkron, an eminent economic historian;
• H. Stuart Hughes, a specialist in European intellectual history;
• Barrington Moore Jr., a political sociologist writing about Soviet society and revolutions;
• Robert Paul Wolff, a student of political and social theory, who became head tutor for the first year of the program

  Chairs

• David S. Landes 1981-1993
• Charles Maier 1993-1997
• Seyla Benhabib 1997-2001
• Grzegorz Ekiert 2001-2006
• Richard Tuck 2006-

  Notable alumni

• Chuck Schumer, senior U.S. Senator from New York and current Senate Minority Leader, 1971
• E.J. Dionne, Washington Post columnist, 1973
• Ajit Pai, Chairman of the FCC, 1994
• Tom Morello, musician, 1986
• Merrick B. Garland, judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1974
• Mickey Kaus, journalist, blogger, and 2010 Senate candidate, 1973
• Michael Kremer, developmental economist, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, 1985
• Mark Whitaker, former Editor of Newsweek, 1979
• Adam Cohen, journalist and author, 1984
• Dean Norris, actor, 1985
• Joshua Redman, jazz musician, 1986
• Ben Mezrich, author, 1991
• Lucy H. Koh, federal judge, 1990
• Charles Sabel, MacArthur Fellow and noted political economist at Columbia University
• Jason Furman, Chairman of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors
• Emily Chang, the anchor and executive producer of Bloomberg Technology, 2002

  Footnotes