The list of New School people includes notable students, alumni, faculty, administrators and trustees of the New School. The New School is a private university located in New York City that offers degrees and diplomas in seventy one programs and majors in its eight colleges. Approximately 53,000 living New School alumni reside in more than 112 countries.
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
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
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 (1889–1967), 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
Uri Ram, Ph.D. sociology, 1992, President of the Israeli Sociological Society
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, born Karola Siegel, 1928; known as "Dr. Ruth", German-American, also talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper.
Nelson Ikon Wu, M.A. art historian, author of Song Never to End
Athletes
Nate Fish (born 1980), baseball player and coach
Nicole Ross (born 1989), Olympic foil fencer
Businesspeople
Douglas Cliggott, chief investment strategist, JPMorgan Chase
Stewart Krentzman, President & CEO Oki Americas, Inc.
Dolly Lenz, New York real estate agent
Bradford Shellhammer, entrepreneur and designer, founding editor of Queerty
Brian Willison
Writers
James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
Anatole Broyard, writer, literary critic
Mike Doughty
Simone Gorrindo, journalist and memoirist
Lorraine Hansberry, playwright, A Raisin in the Sun , youngest Drama Desk Award winner in history
Andrew Hubner, novelist
Travis Jeppesen
Jack Kerouac, On the Road , forerunner of the Beat Generation
Jamaica Kincaid
Amy Kurzweil, cartoonist and graphic novelist
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
Leandra Medine, author of the blog Man Repeller
Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather , two-time Academy Award Winner, including Best Screenplay
Brother Sean Sammon, Superior General of the Marist Brothers
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
Designers
Hector Luis Bustamante, actor and graphic designer
Philippe Cramer, furniture designer
Herbert Muschamp, architectural critic
Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum), art director and graphic designer
Will Wright, creator of The Sims
Fashion designers
Gilbert Adrian, costumer designer
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, filmmaker and founder of the Tom Ford brand
Prabal Gurung
Lazaro Hernandez
Marc Jacobs, fashion designer
Elois Jenssen, costume designer for I Love Lucy
Kevin Johnn, appeared on Project Runway
Anand Jon, fashion designer; convicted serial rapist
Donna Karan, creator of the DKNY label
Reed Krakoff, creative director of Tiffany & Co.
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
Zac Posen, fashion designer
Sarah Phillips
Patrick Robinson
Narciso Rodriguez
Lela Rose
Behnaz Sarafpour
Willi Smith, fashion designer
Peter Som
Anna Sui
Zang Toi
Kay Unger
Carmen Marc Valvo
Alexander Wang, fashion designer for Michelle Obama and Ivana Trump
Jason Wu, artist and fashion designer
Fine artists
Kevin Appel, painter
Rosemary Cove, sculptor
Julio Rosado del Valle, painter
Dorathy Farr, painter
Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal), painter, mixed media artist, sculptor, advertising designer, illustrator
Adolph Gottlieb, painter
Julie Harvey, painter
Edward Hopper, painter
D Hwang, sculptor and painter
Jasper Johns, forerunner of pop art and minimalism
Shirley Kaneda, painter, Guggenheim Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts Fellow
Sol Kjøk, visual artist
Dan Flavin, lighting artist
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
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 (Hetalia: Axis Powers , Chibi-san Date )
Joel Resnicoff, commercial artist and fashion illustrator
Brian Wood, graphic novelist, illustrator, designer
Dan Yaccarino, children's book writer and illustrator
Musicians
Harry Belafonte, singer
Burt Bacharach, composer
Michel Camilo, pianist and composer
Kelly Chen, Hong Kong singer and actress
Bethany Cosentino, singer
Danielle de Niese, opera singer (lyric soprano)
Ani DiFranco
Mike Doughty, B.A. from Lang in poetry
Bill Evans, pianst and composer
Robert Glasper, jazz pianist and Grammy-winning R&B artist
Larry Goldings, jazz pianist and organist
Richard Goode, pianist
Larry Harlow, M.A. in Philosophy, salsa pioneer
Yonghoon Lee, opera singer (tenor)
Matisyahu (born Matthew Miller), 2002, reggae artist
Brad Mehldau, jazz pianist and composer
Murray Perahia, pianist
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
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk, composer, lutenist and painter
Sean Yseult, bassist for White Zombie
Daniel Zamir
Michael Zager, music producer
Wallice, indie pop musician
Photographers
David Attie, photographer
Jill Enfield
Ed Feingersh, photojournalist
Ryan McGinley
Steven Meisel, fashion photographer
Stewart Shining, fashion photographer
Marion Post Wolcott
Actors, directors, and producers
Beatrice Arthur, theater and television actress, Tony Award winner, star of Maude and The Golden Girls
Sean Baker, director of The Florida Project
Harry Belafonte
Richard ("Dick") Bernstein
Derrick Borte
Marlon Brando
Vinnette Justine Carroll, playwright, actress, and theatre director
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, Columbo
Stacy Farber, actress, former Degrassi: The Next Generation cast member
Ben Gazzara
Jillian Hervey
Jonah Hill, Superbad, Academy Award Nominee Wolf of Wall Street, Moneyball
Harry Hurwitz, film director and artist
Adam Jasinski, winner of Big Brother 9
Sun Lee, Miss Korea 2007
Karen Maine, director and screenwriter, Yes, God, Yes , Starstruck (2021 TV series)
Walter Matthau
Charis Michelsen, actress
Adam Pally, actor
Lauren Patten, actress
Joel Schumacher, film director and producer
Kevin Smith, Clerks (did not graduate)
Rod Steiger, On The Waterfront
Elaine Stritch
Shih-Ching Tsou
Rob Weiss, kicked out of film program
Shelley Winters
Rob Zombie (born Robert Cummings), 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 Senate
Janine Jackson, MA sociology, program director of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Ellen Johnson, MA political science, president of American Atheists
Illir Deda, member of parliament of Kosovo and founder of The Alternative party.
Tinga Seisay, diplomat, pro-democracy activist
Vanessa Wruble, co-founder of The Women's March on Washington
Faculty
Past
Janet Abu-Lughod
Woody Allen
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German-born American political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor
W. H. Auden, British-American poet
Jason Bateman
Seth Benardete
Eugene Biel-Bienne (1902–1969), Austrian-born American painter
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
Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990), German-American illustrator and arts educator
Millicent Fenwick
Sándor Ferenczi
Joel Fink, Associate Dean of Roosevelt University
Marvin Frankel
Betty Friedan
Erich Fromm (1900–1980), German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist
Robert Frost, poet
Donna Gaines
Alexander Goldenweiser
David Gordon
Hermann Grab
Martha Graham
Joseph Greenberg
Aron Gurwitsch
Jürgen Habermas
Michael Harner
Marcia Haufrecht, actress, playwright and director, as well as a noted acting teacher and coach
Robert Heilbroner (1919–2005), economist and historian of economic thought
Werner Hegemann (1881–1936), German-born city planner, architecture critic, and author
Ágnes Heller (1929–2019), Hungarian philosopher and lecturer
Christopher Hitchens
Eric Hobsbawm
Karen Horney
Michael Hudson (born 1939), economics professor
Roman Jakobson
Hans Jonas, (1903–1993), German-born American philosopher, the Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School
Horace Kallen (1882–1974), German-born American philosopher
Ira Katznelson
John Maynard Keynes
Kenneth Koch
Julia Kristeva
Ernesto Laclau
Emil Lederer
Emanuel Levenson
Paul Levinson
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), French anthropologist and ethnologist
Adolph Lowe
Ernest Mandel
Everett Dean Martin
Bohuslav Martinů
Margaret Mead
Jonas Mekas
N. B. Minkoff (1893–1958), Polish-born American Yiddish poet, newspaper editor, and educator
Piet Mondrian
Sidney Morgenbesser
Lewis Mumford
David Neiman (1921–2004), Russian-born American scholar in the fields of Biblical Studies and Jewish history
Reinhold Niebuhr
Claus Offe
Frank O'Hara
Elsie Clews Parsons
Cipe Pineles
Erwin Piscator
Richard Plant (1910–1998), gay Jewish emigre from Nazi Germany, taught German language and literature
Eliezer Rafaeli (1926–2018), Israeli founding President of the University of Haifa
Adolph L. Reed, Jr. (born 1947), professor emeritus of political science
Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), Austrian doctor of medicine and a psychoanalyst
Herman Rose, the professional pseudonym of Herman Rappaport (1909–2007), painter and artist
Justus Rosenberg (1921–2021), Free City of Danzig-born literature professor
Bertrand Russell
Paul Ryan
Jeremy D. Safran (1952–2018), Canadian-born American clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, lecturer, and psychotherapy researcher
Albert Salomon (1891–1966), German-born American sociologist
Meyer Schapiro (1904–1996), Lithuanian-born American art historian
Alfred Schutz (1899–1959), Austrian philosopher and social phenomenologist
Benjamin Shwadran (1907–2001), Mandatory Palestine-born Israeli author and professor of Middle Eastern studies
Ali Shayegan (1903–1981), Iranian politician
Leo Strauss (1899–1973), German-American political philosopher and classicist
Sekou Sundiata
Paul Sweezy
G.M. Tamás
Charles Tilly
Thorstein Veblen
Thomas Vietorisz
Max Wertheimer (1880–1943), Austro-Hungarian psychologist
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), architect, designer, writer, and educator
Abraham Yahuda (1877-1951), Palestinian Jew, polymath, teacher, writer, researcher, linguist, and collector of rare documents
Michael Zager
Slavoj Žižek
Present
Robert Antoni
Andrew Arato
Jonathan Bach
Richard Barone
Jay Bernstein
Jane Ira Bloom
Susan Cheever
Michael Cohen
Alice Crary
Simon Critchley
Siddhartha Deb
Faisal Devji
Robert Dunn
Federico Finchelstein (born 1975), Argentine historian and chair of the history department at the New School
Nancy Fraser
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Mary Gaitskill
Paul Goldberger
Elana Greenfield, playwright and short story writer
Nina L. Khrushcheva
Marcel Kinsbourne
Ron Leibman
David Levithan
Arun Luthra
Vladan Nikolic
Pippin Parker
Austin Pendleton
Frank Pugliese
John Reed
Miguel Robles-Durán
Anwar Shaikh
Christopher Shinn
Arthur Storch
Rory Stuart
Eugene Thacker
Scott Thornbury
McKenzie Wark
Maya Wiley
Reggie Workman
Lana Lin
Dorothy H. Hirshon Directors-in-Residence
2021: Sam Pollard
2020: Mary Harron
2019: Raoul Peck
2018: Sean Baker
2017: Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno
2014: Toni Dove
2013: Lynn Hershman Leeson and Benh Zeitlin
2012: Ramin Bahrani
2011: Guy Maddin
2010: Haile Gerima
2009: Jim Stark
2008: Cynthia Wade
2007: John Cameron Mitchell
2005: Laurie Anderson
2004: John Waters
2003: D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus
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