Chief National Correspondent for Slate.com; author of Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War Anna Shechtman – journalist and crossword compiler Kenneth Turan – film critic of The Los Angeles Times Mark Vonnegut – physician and author, son of Kurt Vonnegut; his memoir of schizophrenia The Eden Express opens with his Swarthmore graduation Nora Waln – journalist and memoirist on China and Nazi Germany Micah White – creator of Occupy Wall Street Mary Wiltenburg – journalist Valerie Worth (d. 1994) – poet and writer; especially known for her children's poems Rowan Ricardo Phillips – poet and writer; author of Living Weapon: Poems and The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey College leadership Presidents Valerie Smith, 2015– Rebecca Chopp, 2009–2014 Alfred H. Bloom, 1991–2009 David W. Fraser, 1982–1991 Theodore W. Friend, 1973–1982 Robert D. Cross, 1969–1971 Courtney C. Smith, 1953–1969 John W. Nason, 1940–1953 Frank Aydelotte, 1921–1940 Joseph Swain, 1902–1921 William W. Birdsall, 1898–1902 Charles De Garmo, 1891–1898 William Hyde Appleton, 1889–1891 Edward Hicks Magill, 1871–1889 Edward Parrish, 1865–1871 Notable professors Current faculty Alan Baker, philosophy Amanda Bayer, economics Barry Schwartz, psychology Theodore B. Fernald, linguistics K. David Harrison, linguistics Gerald Levinson, music Donna Jo Napoli, linguistics Ron Tarver, art and art history Andrea Lee, English literature Chinelo Okparanta, English literature Nathalie Anderson, English literature James Magruder, theatre Joseph Church, music Theodore B. Fernald, linguistics K. David Harrison, linguistics and cognitive science Rodney Evans, film and media studies Mark I. Wallace, religion, environmental studies Aimee Johnson, mathematics and statistics Former faculty Solomon Asch, psychology W. H. Auden (poet), literature Monroe Beardsley, philosophy Brand Blanshard, philosophy Daniel J. Boorstin, history Richard Brandt, philosophy Ralph Bunche, political science Bruce Cumings, international relations Robert Gallucci Kenneth Gergen, psychology Lila R. Gleitman, linguistics Harold Clarke Goddard, English, Shakespeare studies Frank Hastings Griffin, chemistry Rush D. Holt, Jr., physics Raymond F. Hopkins, political science Jennie Keith, anthropology Nannerl O. Keohane, political science Robert Keohane, political science Wolfgang Köhler, psychology James Kurth, political science, editor of Orbis Joseph Leidy, natural history George W. Lewis, engineering Kenneth Lieberthal, political science Louis Massiah, black studies, film and media studies Judith Moffett, English Jonathan D. Moreno Scott Nearing, economics Harold E. Pagliaro, English Frederic Pryor, economics Maria L. Sanford, history Barry Schwartz, psychology Wolfgang F. Stolper, economics Judith G. Voet, chemistry and biochemistry Hans Wallach, psychology Kenneth Waltz, political science Clair Wilcox, economics Michael Marissen, music James Freeman, music Ann McNamee,