List of New School people

Alumni

World leaders

• Hage Geingob, 3rd President of The Republic of Namibia
• Shimon Peres, President of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
• Eleanor Roosevelt, political activist; First Lady; United Nations Human Rights Prize recipient

  Writers

• James Baldwin,Go Tell It on the Mountain
• Anatole Broyard, writer, literary critic
• Mike Doughty
• Lorraine Hansberry, playwright, A Raisin in the Sun, youngest Drama Desk Award winner in history
• Jack Kerouac, On the Road, forerunner of the Beat Generation
• Jamaica Kincaid
• Sam Lansky, author of The Gilded Razor and Broken People
• Paul Levinson, author of The Silk Code, Locus Award winner, Best First Novel, 2000, and The Plot to Save Socrates
• Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather, two-time Academy Award Winner, including Best Screenplay
• William Styron, Sophie's Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner
• Tennessee Williams, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
• Sean Wilsey, author of Oh the Glory of It All
• Mick Spillane, Philosophy,2000. Writer/Editor, Turn of Phrase Editorial
• Leandra Medine, author of the blog Man Repeller

  Fine artists

• Kevin Appel, painter
• Laia Cabrera, filmmaker and installation artist
• Rosemary Cove, sculptor
• Julio Rosado del Valle, painter
• Dorathy Farr, painter
• Jane Frank, painter, mixed media artist, sculptor, advertising designer, illustrator
• Adolph Gottlieb, painter
• Julie Harvey, painter
• Edward Hopper, painter
• Jasper Johns, forerunner of pop art and minimalism
• Shirley Kaneda, painter, Guggenheim Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts Fellow
• Shigeko Kubota, vice chairman of Fluxus
• George Maciunas, founding member of Fluxus
• Yucef Merhi, visual artist and new media art pioneer
• Rob Pruitt, sculptor
• Norman Rockwell, painter; Presidential Medal of Freedom winner
• Gavin Spielman, painter and musician
• Roman Turovsky, painter and musician
• Julie Umerle, painter
• Storme Webber, interdisciplinary artist
• Ai Weiwei, filmmaker, installation artist and architectural designer
• Janise Yntema, painter
• Sol Kjøk, visual artist

  Fashion designers

• Gilbert Adrian
• Bill Blass, President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities member; co-founder of Council of Fashion Designers of America
• Donald Brooks
• Angela Gisela Brown, former New York fashion designer, now known as Princess Angela of Liechtenstein
• Doo-Ri Chung, Swarovski's Perry Ellis Award winner
• Tom Ford
• Prabal Gurung
• Lazaro Hernandez
• Marc Jacobs
• Elois Jenssen, costume designer for I Love Lucy
• Kevin Johnn, fashion designer; appeared on Project Runway
• Anand Jon, fashion designer; convicted serial rapist
• Donna Karan, creator of the DKNY label
• Derek Lam
• Jillian Lewis, appeared on Project Runway
• Claire McCardell
• Raul Melgoza, fashion designer, former CE at LUCA LUCA
• Isaac Mizrahi, four-time CDFA award winner
• Sarah Phillips
• Patrick Robinson
• Narciso Rodriguez
• Lela Rose
• Behnaz Sarafpour
• Willi Smith
• Peter Som
• Anna Sui
• Zang Toi
• Kay Unger
• Carmen Marc Valvo
• Alexander Wang, fashion designer for Michelle Obama and Ivana Trump
• Jason Wu

  Illustrators and animators

• Peter DeSeve, illustrator and character designer
• Julia Gran, graphic designer and illustrator, children's book writer and illustrator
• Bessie Pease Gutmann, magazine and children's book illustrator in the early 1900s
• Hidekaz Himaruya, manga artist
• Joel Resnicoff, commercial artist and fashion illustrator
• Brian Wood, graphic novelist, illustrator, designer
• Dan Yaccarino, children's book writer and illustrator

  Photographers

• David Attie, photographer
• Jill Enfield
• Ed Feingersh, photojournalist
• Ryan McGinley
• Steven Meisel, fashion photographer
• Stewart Shining, fashion photographer
• Marion Post Wolcott

  Designers

• Hector Luis Bustamante, actor and graphic designer
• Philippe Cramer, furniture designer
• Herbert Muschamp, architectural critic
• Paul Rand
• Will Wright, creator of The Sims

  Musicians

• Rami Bar-Niv, pianist and composer
• Harry Belafonte, singer
• Kelly Chen, Hong Kong singer and actress
• Melora Creager
• Danielle de Niese, opera singer
• Ani DiFranco
• Mike Doughty, B.A. from Lang in poetry
• Robert Glasper, jazz pianist and Grammy-winning R&B artist
• Larry Goldings, jazz pianist and organist
• Larry Harlow, M.A. in Philosophy, salsa pioneer
• Yonghoon Lee, opera singer
• Matisyahu, 2002, reggae artist
• Brad Mehldau, jazz pianist and composer
• John Popper, singer/harmonica player for Blues Traveler
• Jake Shears
• Alex Skolnick, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Testament and the Alex Skolnick Trio
• Sufjan Stevens, MFA, creative writing, 2000
• Marcus Strickland, jazz saxophonist
• Ronald Turini, pianist
• Roman Turovsky-Savchuk, composer, lutenist and painter
• Jimmy Urine
• David Woodard, conductor
• Ivan Yanakov, pianist
• Sean Yseult
• Daniel Zamir

  Actors, directors, and producers

• Beatrice Arthur, theater and television actress, Tony Award winner, star of Maude and The Golden Girls
• Derrick Borte
• Marlon Brando
• T.V. Carpio, actress and singer
• Bradley Cooper, Academy Award-nominated actor
• Adrian Cronauer
• Tony Curtis
• Paul Dano, Little Miss Sunshine
• Matt Deitsch, film director and freelance photographer
• Deepti Divakar, Indian model, actress, writer, Femina Miss India World 1981
• Elisa Donovan, Clueless and Sabrina the Teenage Witch
• Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
• Peter Falk, B.A. political science, Colombo
• Stacy Farber, actress, former cast member
• Ben Gazzara
• Jillian Hervey
• Jonah Hill, Superbad
• Harry Hurwitz, film director and artist
• Adam Jasinski, winner of Big Brother 9
• Sun Lee, Miss Korea 2007
• Walter Matthau
• Charis Michelsen, actress
• Olivia Palermo, New York socialite; MTV's The City co-star
• Adam Pally, actor
• Joel Schumacher, film director and producer
• Kevin Smith, Clerks
• Rod Steiger, On The Waterfront
• Elaine Stritch
• Rob Weiss, kicked out of film program
• Shelley Winters
• Rob Zombie, musician, writer and director

  Politicians

• Medea Benjamin
• Kevin Parker, New York State Senator
• William Donohue, sociology, Catholic League president
• Millicent Fenwick, editor, politician, diplomat
• Abraham Foxman, director of Anti-Defamation League
• Alice Mary Higgins, independent senator and member of the Irish Parliament
• Janine Jackson, MA sociology, program director of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
• Ellen Johnson, MA political science, president of American Atheists
• Matisyahu, B.A., Eugene Lang College, 2002, Hasidic M.C.
• Illir Deda, member of parliament of Kosovo and founder of The Alternative party.
• Brother Sean Sammon, Superior General of the Marist Brothers
• Tinga Seisay, diplomat, pro-democracy activist
• Michael Wenger, M.A., Zen priest, Dean of Buddhist Studies, San Francisco Zen Center
• Ruth Westheimer, M.A. sociology, 1959, the first famous sex therapist
• Vanessa Wruble, co-founder of The Women's March on Washington

  Academics

• Stanley Aronowitz, B.A., 1968, sociologist
• Nelson Barbosa, Ph.D., economist, ex Brazil's Minister of Finance
• Ruth Benedict, psychological anthropologist, author of Patterns of Culture
• Peter L. Berger, sociologist; co-author of The Social Construction of Reality; Distinguished Alumnus
• Heather Boushey, Ph.D., economist
• Jean L. Cohen, Ph.D., political theorist
• Barbara A. Cornblatt, Ph.D., M.B.A., psychologist
• Uri Davis, M.A. anthropology, 1973
• Eugene Goossen, art critic and historian
• Richard Grathoff, Ph.D. 1969, sociologist
• Eduard Heimann, economist and social scientist
• Mady Hornig, psychiatrist
• Stephen Kinsella Ph.D., economist
• Abraham Maslow, psychologist, a founder of Humanistic Psychology
• Kevin Mattson, historian and political analyst
• George E. McCarthy, M.A., Ph.D., sociologist
• Sidney Mintz, anthropologist
• Franco Modigliani, Soc. Sci. D., economist; 1985 Nobel Prize in Economics winner
• Richard Noll, clinical psychologist and writer
• Ira Progoff, Ph.D. psychology, psychotherapist
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III, Ph.D., economist
• Yossi Sarid, M.A. political science, journalist
• Steven Seidman, sociologist
• Nelson Ikon Wu, M.A. art historian, author of Song Never to End

  Businesspeople

• Douglas Cliggott, chief investment strategist, JPMorgan Chase
• Stewart Krentzman
• Dolly Lenz, New York real estate agent
• Bernard L. Schwartz
• Bradford Shellhammer, entrepreneur and designer, founding editor of Queerty
• Brian Willison

  Athletes

• Nate Fish, baseball player and coach

  Faculty

Past

• Ágnes Heller
• Janet Abu-Lughod
• Woody Allen
• Hannah Arendt
• W. H. Auden
• Jason Bateman
• Seth Benardete
• Franz Boas
• André Breton
• Nathan Brody
• Laurie Halsey Brown
• William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Judith Butler
• John Cage
• Edmund Snow Carpenter
• Harry Cleaver
• Stanley Coren
• Henry Cowell
• Agnes de Lima, Director of Public Relations
• Jacques Derrida
• John Dewey
• Stanley Diamond
• W. E. B. Du Bois
• John Eatwell
• Millicent Fenwick
• Sándor Ferenczi
• Joel Fink, Associate Dean of Roosevelt University
• Marvin Frankel
• Betty Friedan
• Erich Fromm
• Robert Frost
• Donna Gaines
• Alexander Goldenweiser
• Hermann Grab
• Martha Graham
• Joseph Greenberg
• Aron Gurwitsch
• Jürgen Habermas
• Michael Harner
• Robert Heilbroner
• Christopher Hitchens
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Karen Horney
• Roman Jakobson
• Hans Jonas
• Horace Kallen
• Ira Katznelson
• John Maynard Keynes
• Kenneth Koch
• Julia Kristeva
• Ernesto Laclau
• Emil Lederer
• Emanuel Levenson
• Paul Levinson
• Claude Lévi-Strauss
• Adolph Lowe
• Ernest Mandel
• Everett Dean Martin
• Bohuslav Martinů
• Margaret Mead
• Piet Mondrian
• Lewis Mumford
• Reinhold Niebuhr
• Claus Offe
• Frank O'Hara
• Elsie Clews Parsons
• Cipe Pineles
• Erwin Piscator
• Adolph L. Reed, Jr.
• Wilhelm Reich
• Herman Rose
• Bertrand Russell
• Paul Ryan
• Alfred Schutz
• Ali Shayegan
• Leo Strauss
• Sekou Sundiata
• Paul Sweezy
• G.M. Tamás
• Charles Tilly
• Thorstein Veblen
• Thomas Vietorisz
• Max Wertheimer
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• Slavoj Žižek

  Present

• Jonathan Ames
• Robert Antoni
• Andrew Arato
• Jonathan Bach
• Jay Bernstein
• Richard Bernstein
• Jane Ira Bloom
• Susan Cheever
• Michael Cohen
• Alice Crary
• Simon Critchley
• Siddhartha Deb
• Faisal Devji
• Robert Dunn
• Nancy Fraser
• Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
• Mary Gaitskill
• Paul Goldberger
• Elana Greenfield
• Nina L. Khrushcheva
• Marcel Kinsbourne
• Ron Leibman
• David Levithan
• Arun Luthra
• Vladan Nikolic
• Pippin Parker
• Austin Pendleton
• Frank Pugliese
• John Reed
• Miguel Robles-Durán
• Jeremy D. Safran
• Anwar Shaikh
• Christopher Shinn
• Arthur Storch
• Rory Stuart
• Eugene Thacker
• Scott Thornbury
• McKenzie Wark
• Reggie Workman