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Who Majored in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and Where Are They Now?

African and African-American Studies

  • Angela Bassett, actor
  • Vince Carter, NBA all-star player
  • Mae Jemison, astronaut
  • Ranna I. Parekh, psychiatrist

American Studies

  • Mary Chapin Carpenter, musician
  • Janeane Garofalo, actor
  • Maria Schriver, journalist
  • Emily Silver, Olympic swimmer
  • Jesse Thorne, radio producer

Children and Youth Studies

  • Biana Mashevich, attorney
  • Theresa Murzyn, senior user experience researcher, Comcast
  • Martin Woodside, poet and teacher
  • Ella Yadushlivy, teacher

Classics

  • Jerry Brown, former governor of California
  • Ted Turner, founder, CNN

Communication Arts, Sciences and Disorders

  • Oprah Winfrey, actor and media executive

Communications

  • Robert Iger, CEO, The Walt Disney Company
  • Howard Schultz, Starbucks founder

English

  • Mario Cuomo, former governor of New York
  • Michael Eisner, CEO, The Walt Disney Company
  • Jodie Foster, actor
  • James Franco, actor
  • Hugh Grant, actor
  • Andrea Jung, CEO, Avon
  • Judy McGrath, CEO, MTV
  • Gloria Naylor, author
  • Hank Paulson, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
  • Joan Rivers, actor
  • Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts and current senator from Utah
  • Martin Scorsese, director
  • Eric Shinseki, former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs
  • Sting, musician
  • Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize–winning cancer researcher
  • Emma Watson, actor
  • Renée Zellweger, actor

History

  • Carly Fiorina, CEO, Hewlett-Packard
  • Conan O'Brien, comedian
  • Sam Palmisano, CEO, IBM
  • Susan Wojcicki, CEO, YouTube

Interdisciplinary Studies

  • Steve Carell, actor
  • Sacha Baron Cohen, actor
  • Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense
  • Elana Kagan, Supreme Court Justice
  • Ayn Rand, author
  • Stephen Schwarzman, CEO, Blackstone Group

Judaic Studies

  • Mayim Bialik, actor and neuroscientist

Linguistics

  • Larry Bohn, investor
  • Nils Hasselmo, former president, University of Minnesota
  • Paul Watson, environmental activist

Modern Languages and Literatures

  • Ashley Judd, actor
  • A.G. Lafley, CEO, Procter & Gamble
  • Joan Lunden, TV host
  • Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico;
  • J.K. Rowling, author
  • Mary F. Sammons, CEO, Rite Aid
  • Gail Simmons, culinary expert

Philosophy

  • Herbert Allison Jr., CEO, Fannie Mae
  • Sheila Bair, chair, FDIC
  • Stewart Butterfield, founder, Flickr
  • Ken Chenault, CEO, American Express
  • Carl Icahn, activist and investor
  • George Soros, hedge fund manager
  • Peter Thiel, founder, PayPal

Political Science

  • Richard Anderson, CEO, Delta
  • Lloyd Blankfein, CEO, Goldman Sachs
  • Larry Fink, CEO, BlackRock
  • Dan Hesse, CEO, Sprint Nextel
  • Brian Moynihan, CEO, Bank of America

Puerto Rican and Latino Studies

  • Jim Himes, Congressman from Connecticut
  • Anetta Kahane, journalist
  • Kristie Kenney, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand
  • Ken Keen, U.S. Army general
  • Steven Loza, ethnomusicologist

Sociology

  • Saul Bellow, author
  • Shirley Chisholm, former Congresswoman from New York
  • Christopher Connor, CEO, Sherwin-Williams
  • Stephanie Izard, as seen on Top Chef
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., minister and activist
  • Michelle Obama, attorney and former First Lady
  • Maxine Waters, Congresswoman from California

Studies in Religion

  • Shane Battier, NBA player
  • James Comey, former director, FBI
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal, actor
  • Rashida Jones, actor

Urban Sustainability

  • Patrick Chung, co-founder, XFUND
  • Damien Hughes, former General Secretary, Caribbean Football Union

Women's and Gender Studies

  • Haleh Afshar, Muslim feminist
  • Malini Chib, disability rights advocate
  • Anne Hathaway, actor
  • Theopista Sekitto Ntale, banker, entrepreneur and philanthropist
  • Charlotte Wessels, singer / songwriter
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  • Discussions Around the Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Who Majored in the Humanities and Social Sciences and Where are They Now?

 

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