wing" of the Raëlian movement Hermann Carl George Brandt - German literature and language scholar Francis Marion Burdick - legal scholar and longtime professor at Columbia Law School Mary Bucci Bush - American short story writer Albert Huntington Chester - geologist and mountaineer Richard N. Current - historian, winner of the Bancroft Prize Eugene Domack - American geologist Hubert Dreyfus - artificial intelligence philosopher and professor at University of California, Berkeley Sereno Edwards Dwight - intellectual historian and Congregationalist minister Theodore William Dwight - jurist and pioneering dean of Columbia Law School Edwin Erickson - member of the Pennsylvania Senate, representing the 26th District James Fankhauser - conductor Elizabeth Flower - American philosopher Karl Geiringer - German-American musicologist and biographer Richard Haas - President of the Council on Foreign Relations Elaine Tuttle Hansen - president of Bates College Jerome B. Komisar - economist and President of the University of Alaska John Hiram Lathrop - first president of the University of Missouri; first chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison; president of Indiana University George Lenczowski - political scientist and longtime professor at University of California, Berkeley Cheng Li - director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution Arthur Marder - naval historian Chandra Talpade Mohanty - post-colonial feminist theorist John Monteith - first President of the University of Michigan Howard Nemerov - poet, twice Poet Laureate of the United States Jay Reise - composer, now at University of Pennsylvania Duncan Rice - Principal of the University of Aberdeen; former Vice-Chancellor of New York University David P. Robbins - mathematician Bernie Sanders - U.S. Senator from Vermont Clinton Scollard - poet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - gender theorist and cultural critic Kamila Shamsie - novelist Charles Henry Smyth, Jr. - geologist Leo Strauss - political philosopher and classicist Orest Subtelny - scholar of Ukrainian history Les K. Wright - gay historian and activist Presidents of Hamilton College Azel Backus, 1812–16 Henry Davis, 1817–33 Sereno Edwards Dwight, 1833–35 Joseph Penney, 1835–39 Simeon North, 1839–57 Samuel Ware Fisher, 1858–66 Samuel Gilman Brown, 1866–81 Henry Darling, 1881–91 Melancthon Woolsey Stryker, 1892-1917 Frederick Carlos Ferry, 1917–38 William Harold Cowley, 1938–44 David Worcester, 1945–47 Thomas Brown Rudd, 1947–49 Robert Ward McEwen, 1949–66 Richard Watrous Couper, 1966-68 (acting) John Wesley Chandler, 1968–73 Samuel Fisher Babbitt, 1968-78 (Kirkland College) J. Martin Carovano, 1974–88 Harry C. Payne, 1988–93 Eugene M. Tobin, 1993-2003 Joan Hinde Stewart, 2003 -2016