Brooklyn College - Notable Faculty

Notable Faculty

• F. Murray Abraham – actor of stage and screen; professor of theater, winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor
• Eric Alterman – American liberal journalist
• Hannah Arendt – philosopher and political theorist; author of The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and The Human Condition (1958)
• John Ashbery – poet, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Robert Beauchamp – painter
• Edwin G. Burrows – historian; Pulitzer Prize winner for co-writing Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 with Mike Wallace
• Eleanor Cory – composer
• Michael Cunningham – novelist; winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and PEN/Faulkner Award for The Hours
• Rudy D'Amico – professional National Basketball Association scout, and former Brooklyn College and professional basketball coach who coached Maccabi Tel Aviv to the Euroleague Championship
• Charles Dodge – composer, founder of the Center for Computer Music
• Paul Edwards – Professor of Philosophy, editor of the Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• John Hope Franklin, American historian, former Chairman of the History Department, president of Phi Beta Kappa, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Allen Ginsberg – beat poet; taught at Brooklyn College from 1986–97
• David Grubbs – musician, composer, recording artist
• Carey Harrison – novelist/dramatist
• Amy Hempel – American short story writer, journalist, and coordinator of the MFA Fiction-Writing Program
• Seymour L. Hess – meteorologist and planetary scientist.
• Agnieszka Holland – film director, best known for Europa Europa (1992)
• Carl Holty – painter
• John Hospers – first presidential candidate of the United States Libertarian Party; professor from 1956–66
• KC Johnson – Professor of American history
• Tania León – Cuban-born composer and conductor
• Ben Lerner – poet and writer
• Abraham Maslow – psychologist in the school of humanistic psychology, best known for his theory of human motivation which led to a therapeutic technique known as self-actualization; taught from 1937–51
• Wilson Carey McWilliams – political scientist, author of The Idea of Fraternity in America (1973, University of California Press), for which he won the National Historical Society prize in 1974
• Ursula Oppens – pianist, co-founded the contemporary music ensemble Speculum Musicae, Conservatory of Music
• Itzhak Perlman – violinist, Conservatory of Music
• Don Lemon - CNN anchor and journalist
• Susan Fromberg Schaeffer – novelist and Broeklundian Professor of English
• Albert Schatz – microbiologist, co-discoverer of streptomycin
• Mark Strand – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, essayist, and translator
• Mark Rothko, Philip Pearlstein, Ad Reinhardt, Elizabeth Murray, Vito Acconci, William T. Williams, Archie Rand – artists (1950s to present)
• Theresa Wolfson – Professor of Labor Economics, won the John Dewey Award of the League for Industrial Democracy