This is a list of alumni of Brooklyn College, a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Academia Chancellors, deans, and presidents Walter Adams (B.A. 1942), economist and President of Michigan State University Glenn Altschuler (B.A. 1971), Dean of the Cornell University School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, noted for his work on the history of American popular culture Samuel Baskin (B.A. 1942), psychologist and educational reformer and first President of the Union Institute & University Barbara Aronstein Black (B.A. 1953), Dean at Columbia University School of Law Carmen Fariña (M.S.Ed. 1968), New York City Schools Chancellor Leon M. Goldstein (died 1999), President of Kingsborough Community College, and acting Chancellor of the City University of New York Alfred Gottschalk (B.A. 1952), President of Hebrew Union College and leader in the Reform Judaism movement Donald Kagan (B.A. 1954), historian; Dean at Yale University Jeffrey Kraus (B.A. 1978), Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, (Wagner College) 2018-2021 Barry Munitz (B.A. 1963), Chancellor, California State University (1991–98) Steven Schwartz (B.A. 1967), Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia Lisa Staiano-Coico, aka Lisa S. Coico (B.S. 1976), president of City College of New York Robert S. Stone (B.A. 1942), pioneering pathologist; Deans of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, University of Oregon School of Medicine, and Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine; Director of The National Institutes of Health 1973–1975 Donald P. Zingale (B.A. 1967), president of the State University of New York at Cobleskill Anthropology Jerome H. Barkow (B.A. 1964), Canadian anthropologist at Dalhousie University, has made important contributions to the field of evolutionary psychology Melvin Konner (B.A. 1966), Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and associate professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Emory University Jeffrey Laitman (B.A. 1973), anatomist and physical anthropologist, Distinguished Professor of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, President-Elect of the American Association of Anatomists Sidney Mintz (B.A. 1943), anthropologist, known for his studies of Latin America and the Caribbean Marjorie Shostak (B.A. 1966), anthropologist; specialist in the !Kung San people of the Kalahari desert in south-western Africa Richard J. Smith (B.A. 1969), Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished Professor of Physical Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis Economics Paul Davidson (B.S. 1950), macroeconomist who has been one of the leading spokesmen of the American branch of the Post Keynesian school in economics Israel