These are lists of persons (students, alumni, faculty or academic affiliates) associated with the Claremont Graduate University in California, United States. With over 23,000 alumni, people listed here are CGU distinguished alumni award recipients, distinguished alumni service award recipients, and members of the alumni hall of fame, among others.
Notable faculty and staff
Humanities
Social sciences
Behavioral and organizational sciences
Business and management
- Peter Drucker - widely influential thinker and writer on management theory and practice; self-described "social ecologist"
- Ira Jackson - dean of Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management
- Roger Johnson - businessman and government official
- Jean Lipman-Blumen - professor of public policy and professor of organizational behavior
- Ikujiro Nonaka - influential on business thinking, known for his study of knowledge management
Mathematics and information
Health and sciences
Arts
Religion
Notable alumni
Government, politics, and international organizations
- Michael Anton (MA) - lecturer and research fellow at Hillsdale College, senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, and former deputy assistant to the president for Strategic Communications on the United States National Security Council
- Stephen Cambone (Ph.D. 1982) - first U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
- Tom Cotton (master's degree program) - United States Senator and Congressman from Arkansas
- David Dreier (MA 1976) - Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives 1981âÂÂ2013; Chairman of the House Rules Committee 1999âÂÂ2007 and 2011âÂÂ2013
- Jonathan D. Farrar (MA) - chief of mission of the United States Interests Section in Havana, Cuba
- Kenneth J. Hagan (Ph.D. 1970) - naval historian
- Steven F. Hayward (MA/Ph.D.) - author, political commentator, AEI policy scholar
- Teresa Patterson Hughes (Ph.D. 1973) - professor of education at California State University, Los Angeles; California State Assembly member (1975âÂÂ1992); California state senator (1993âÂÂ2000)
- Susan M. Leeson (Ph.D. 1971) - associate justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
- Ronald F. Lehman (Ph.D. 1975) - director of the Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; Department of State's U.S. Chief Negotiator on (START I); and Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
- Mary Parker Lewis (MA) - political consultant
- Philippe Maystadt (MA 1973) - former Belgian Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister of Finance, and Deputy Prime Minister as well as current President of European Investment Bank, Luxembourg, Belgium
- Paul O'Neill (MA 1961) - United States Secretary of the Treasury; chairman of the RAND Corporation
- Susan Orr (Ph.D. 1992) - head of the Office of Population Affairs and United States Children's Bureau
- Verne Orr (Ph.D. 2005) - 14th Secretary of the Air Force
- Robert R. Reilly (MA 1978) - former director, Voice of America
- Peter W. Schramm (Ph.D. 1981) - professor of political science; executive director of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs
- Jack Scott (Ph.D. 1970) - California state senator; chancellor, California Community Colleges
- Kermit Staggers (Ph.D. 1986) - professor of history, University of Sioux Falls; South Dakota senator and Sioux Falls city councilman
- Srettha Thavisin (MBA) - 30th prime minister of the Kingdom of Thailand
- Michael Uhlmann (Ph.D. 1978) - visiting professor of government in the department of politics and policy at Claremont Graduate University and Claremont McKenna College; assistant attorney general in the Gerald Ford administration; special assistant to President Ronald Reagan
- Jerry Voorhis (MA) - Democratic US Representative from California
- Diane Watson (Ph.D. 1988) - Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives 2001âÂÂ2011
- Abdulla Yameen - president of the Maldives, elected in 2013
Academia and science
- William Barclay Allen (MA 1968/Ph.D. 1972) - political scientist at Michigan State University
- Joyce Appleby (Ph.D. 1966) - historian at UCLA; President of the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association
- Larry P. Arnn (MA 1976/Ph.D. 1985) - educator and writer; 12th and current president of Hillsdale College
- José Aybar (Ph.D. 1978) - president of Richard J. Daley College
- Sacvan Bercovitch (Ph.D. 1965) - Americanist, literary and cultural critic; Powell M. Cabot Research Professor at Harvard University; visiting faculty member at the School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College
- Elizabeth Castelli (MA 1986/Ph.D. 1987) - professor of religion, Barnard College
- Angelo Codevilla (Ph.D. 1973) - professor emeritus of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
- Nicholas Cummings (MA) - psychologist and former president of the American Psychological Association
- Jack Cuzick (Ph.D. 1974) - John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at the Wolfson Institute, Queen Mary University of London
- Stewart Donaldson (Ph.D. 1991) - distinguished university professor known for his work on evaluation science and positive organizational psychology; executive director of the Claremont Evaluation Center and the Evaluators' Institute (TEI), and past president of the American Evaluation Association
- Jacqueline Powers Doud (Ph.D. 1976) - president of Mount St. Mary's College
- John C. Eastman (Ph.D.) - politician; former professor and dean at Chapman University School of Law; staff member at the Claremont Institute; former law clerk to Clarence Thomas; attorney for Donald Trump during his attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election
- Irene Eber (Ph.D.1966) - sinologist and historian, Louis Frieberg Professor of East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- David H. French (MA 1940) - anthropologist and linguist
- Arthur Janov (Ph.D.) - psychologist, psychotherapist, and the creator of primal therapy
- Robert Erwin Johnson (Ph.D. 1956) - professor of history and considered "one of the finest scholars of the nineteenth century U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard"
- David Keirsey (Ph.D. 1967) - psychologist
- Robert E. Kennedy (Ph.D.) - president of California Polytechnic State University
- Christopher Manfredi (Ph.D. 1987) - dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal
- Warren Montag (MA 1981/Ph.D. 1989) - Brown Family Professor in Literature and English, Occidental College
- Milton C. Moreland (MA/Ph.D.) - archaeologist and president of Centre College
- Vincent Phillip Muñoz (Ph.D. 2001) - associate professor, Political Science, University of Notre Dame
- Franklin Patterson (Ph.D. 1955) - first president of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts
- Tomas J. Philipson (MA 1985) - Daniel Levin Chair in Public Policy at the University of Chicago
- Kathleen Ross (Ph.D.) - founding president of Heritage University
- Jem Spectar (MA/Ph.D.) - president of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
- Laurence Thompson (MA 1947) - USC professor of East Asian/Taiwanese languages and cultures
- William Van Cleave (MA 1965/Ph.D. 1967) - advisor to President Ronald Reagan, Department of Defense, and Department of State; founder of the program of Defense and Strategic Studies at University of Southern California and Missouri State University
- Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran (Ph.D. 1977) - president of Kalamazoo College
- Donald Yacovone (Ph.D. 1984) - historian and research manager at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, and an associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University
Business and industry
Fine arts
- Lisa Adams (MFA 1980) - painter
- Bas Jan Ader (MA 1967) - Dutch conceptual artist, filmmaker, performance artist, and photographer
- Lewis Baltz (MA 1971) - visual artist; professor for Photography at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland
- Bennett Bean (MA 1966) - ceramic artist
- Karl Benjamin (MA 1960) - painter of vibrant geometric abstractions
- Greg Colson (MFA 1980) - artist best known for wall sculptures constructed of salvaged materials
- Kim Dingle (MFA 1990) - contemporary artist working in paint, sculpture and installation
- John Frame (MFA 1980) - sculptor, photographer, composer and filmmaker
- William Hemmerdinger (MFA 1975/Ph.D.) - artist, writer, gallery owner, educator
- Ferne Jacobs (MFA) - fiber artist and basket-maker
- Adele Y. Schonbrun (MFA 1965) - ceramic artist
- David Scott (MFA) - museum director
- James Strombotne (MA 1959) - painter
- James Turrell (MA 1973) - installation artist primarily concerned with light and space
- Claire Van Vliet (MA) - fine artist, illustrator and typographer
Literature and performing arts
Religion
- Bhikkhu Bodhi (Ph.D. 1972) (civilian name Jeffrey Block) - Buddhist monk, translator of important works in the PÃÂli Canon, president and editor of Buddhist Publication Society, chairman of the Yin Sun Foundation, chairperson of Buddhist Global Relief
- Craig A. Evans (MA/Ph.D.) - theologian, Acadia Divinity College
- David Ray Griffin (Ph.D. 1970) - professor of philosophy of religion and theology
- Nancy R. Howell (MA/Ph.D.) - professor of theology and philosophy of religion
- Marvin Meyer (Ph.D. 1979) - Griset Professor of Bible and Christian studies, Chapman University
- George F. Regas (Ph.D. 1972) - rector emeritus, All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena, California
- Deepak Shimkhada - adjunct professor, Board of Visitors of School of Religion
Others
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