1986 to 1997, replacing Ashbery (who accepted a MacArthur Fellowship and later moved to Bard College) Betty Glad, Chair of Political Science at the University of Illinois Ralph Goldstein (1913–1997), Olympic épée fencer Joel Glucksman (born 1949), Olympic saber fencer Maxine Greene (née Meyer), William F. Russell Professor in the Foundations of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University David Grubbs (born 1967), musician, composer, recording artist Carey Harrison (born 1944), novelist/dramatist Amy Hempel (born 1951), short story writer, journalist, and coordinator of the MFA Fiction-Writing Program Seymour L. Hess, meteorologist and planetary scientist Shintaro Higashi, 6th degree black belt in judo, 2007 and 2011 USA Judo Senior National Champion Agnieszka Holland (born 1948), film director, best known for Europa Europa (1992) Carl Holty, painter Karen Brooks Hopkins, President of the Brooklyn Academy of Music John Hospers, first presidential candidate of the US Libertarian Party; professor 1956–66 Paul Jacobs, classical pianist; specialist in modern music KC Johnson, professor of American history Mburumba Kerina (1932–2021), Deputy Speaker of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia Béla Király (1912–2009), professor emeritus, former Hungarian general taught military history and central European history Alfred McClung Lee, Chairman of the Sociology and Anthropology departments at Wayne University and Brooklyn College Tania León, Cuban-born composer and conductor, Pulitzer Prize for Music winner Don Lemon, CNN anchor and journalist Ben Lerner, poet and writer Ira N. Levine (1937–2015), author and professor in the Chemistry Department 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 1937–1951 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 Denise O'Connor (born 1935), Olympic foil fencer Carol J. Oja, musicologist and scholar of American Studies, William Powell Mason Professor at Harvard University Ursula Oppens, pianist, co-founded the contemporary music ensemble Speculum Musicae, Conservatory of Music Philip Pearlstein, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, influential painter known for his Modernist Realism nudes Itzhak Perlman, violinist, Conservatory of Music Roman Popadiuk, US Ambassador to Ukraine Tubby Raskin (1902–1981), basketball player and coach Inez Smith Reid, Senior Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Mark Rothko (born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz; 1903–1970), influential abstract expressionist painter Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, novelist and Broeklundian Professor of English Albert Schatz, microbiologist, co-discoverer of streptomycin William