List of American University people

Government, politics, society, and royalty

• Atiaf Alwazir – Lebanese human rights activist
• Erik Altieri – executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), CAS
• Charles R. Black, Jr. – chief campaign adviser for Senator John McCain in the 2008 US presidential election; lobbyist for BKSH & Associates
• Juan Mari Brás – Puerto Rican independence advocate, founder of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, WCL
• Julie E. Cram – lobbyist and Republican operative
• Quentin Fulks – campaign manager, SPA/MA '15
• Patricia Harrison – co-chair of the Republican National Committee, SIS
• Hubert Horatio "Skip" Humphrey III – politician, son of Vice President Hubert Humphrey
• Princess Iman – daughter of King Hussein bin Talal and Queen Noor of Jordan, half-sister to King Abdullah II of Jordan
• Julia Imene-Chanduru – diplomat, has served as deputy permanent representative of Namibia to the United Nations in New York and permanent representative of Namibia to the United Nations Office in Geneva^[1]
• Paul D. Irving – sergeant-at-arms of the United States House of Representatives
• Sara Dunlap Jackson – National Archives and Records Administration archivist, Military Archives Division
• Nancy Jacobson – Democratic Party fundraiser, SPA/MA
• Rosalie Gardiner Jones – suffragette, DCL '22
• Prince Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa of Bahrain – son of Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, crown prince and prime minister of Bahrain
• Victor Kamber – labor union activist and political consultant WCL/JD
• Petra Kelly – founder of Germany's Green Party, SIS/BA '70
• Pan Suk Kim – South Korean professor of public administration, researcher, scholar
• Koko Kondo, born Koko Tanimoto – prominent atomic bomb survivor (Hiroshima) and international peace activist, '69
• Corey Lewandowski – campaign manager for Senator Bob Smith and Donald Trump^[2]
• Prince Joel Dawit Makonnen – lawyer, member of the Ethiopian imperial family
• Mindy Myers – Democratic political strategist and campaign executive, SPA/BA '98
• Bob Odell – former member of the New Hampshire Senate.
• Alice Paul – feminist, author of the Equal Rights Amendment, WCL/LLM '27 PhD '28
• Yabshi Pan Rinzinwangmo – daughter of Choekyi Gyaltsen, the 10th Panchen Lama of Tibet
• Nicholas Sarwark – chairman of the U.S. Libertarian Party (2014–present)
• V. Lance Tarrance, Jr. – leading Republican Party pollster and political strategist, SPA/MA
• Edmundo González Urrutia – diplomat and president-elect of Venezuela
• Edward von Kloberg III – lobbyist, CAS

Business and economy

• Charles T. Akre – investor, financier and businessman
• Adrienne Arieff – entrepreneur and author
• Jordan Belfort – convicted of securities fraud, founded Stratton Oakmont which inspired the film Boiler Room; author of The Wolf of Wall Street and Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, CAS/BS '84
• Walter E. Boomer – president and CEO of Rogers Corporation; retired four-star General, BS '73
• Alan S. Chartock – president and CEO of WAMC Northeast Public Radio Network, MA
• Michael Chasen – co-founder, president, CEO and director of Blackboard Inc.
• Richard T. Clark – president and CEO of Merck & Co., KSB/MBA '70
• Gary Cohn – president and COO, Goldman Sachs, KSB/BSBA '82
• Louis Dubin – New York City real estate developer; president and CEO of Athena Group, WCL/JD
• Sulaiman al-Fahim – CEO of UAE-based Hydra Properties and former chairman of Manchester City F.C.
• Jeffrey Gedmin – president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, CAS/BA, CAS/MA
• Avram Glazer – owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, co-chairman of Manchester United football club; president and CEO of the Zapata Corporation, WCL/JD '85
• Bryan Glazer – owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, SOC/BA '86
• Joel Glazer – owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, SPA/BA '89
• Marco Gobbetti – CEO of Givenchy SA, president and managing director of Céline SA, former CEO of Moschino, KSB/BSBA
• Koba Gvenetadze – governor of the National Bank of Georgia
• Patricia Harrison – president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Co-chair of the Republican National Committee, SIS
• Daniel J. Hilferty – CEO of Comcast Spectacor, former president and CEO of Independence Blue Cross, SPA/MPA '81
• Wilbert Hopper – president and CEO of Petro-Canada, BS
• Jesse Itzler – vice chairman of Marquis Jet; former Billboard Hot 100 rapper, BA
• Tom Karsch – executive vice president and general manager, Turner Classic Movies
• Michael Kempner – founder and CEO of MikeWorldWide; Member of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, SPA/BS '81
• Shahal M. Khan – owner of Plaza Hotel and venture capitalist
• Robert P. Kogod – president of Archstone Real Estate company, KSB/BSBA '62
• Thomas G. Labrecque – former president, CEO, and COO of Chase Manhattan Bank, KSB/MBA
• David Lereah – chief economist of the National Association of Realtors; executive vice president of Move Inc., KSB/BA
• Ross Levinsohn – media executive who has worked in media and technology, SOC/BA '85
• M. Peter McPherson – director of Dow Jones, president of Michigan State University, director of USAID, WCL/JD '69
• Jean-Luc Migué – Canadian economist, senior fellow at the Fraser Institute and the Montreal Economic Institute, CAS/PhD '68
• Lawrence Mishel – president of the Economic Policy Institute, CAS/MA
• Erik Mollatt – CEO of M. Peterson & Søn, KSB/BSBA '67
• Mark Murphy – president and CEO of the Green Bay Packers, former player for the Washington Redskins, KSB/MBA '83.
• David Nason – Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions under Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson; key architect of the federal response to the 2008 financial crisis, KSB/BSBA '92, WCL/JD '95
• Vincent Obsitnik – president of the Systems Development Division at Unisys, vice president, International at Litton Industries; United States Ambassador to Slovakia; KSB/MBA
• Mollie Orshansky – economist and statistician; developed the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds
• Terence M. O'Sullivan, Jr. – general president, Laborers' International Union of North America KSB/BSBA '74
• Matthew Pritzker – investor and businessperson, member of the Pritzker family
• Steven Rales – billionaire businessman; co-founder of Danaher Corporation, WCL/JD '78
• Arthur F. Ryan – CEO of Prudential Financial
• Bill Sweeney – CEO of International Foundation for Electoral Systems, former deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, SPA/BA
• Marilyn Ware – CEO of American Water, ambassador of the United States to Finland

Sports, entertainment, and media

Law

• Arthur Monty M. Ahalt – circuit court judge, Prince George's County, Maryland; founder and CEO of VirtualCourthouse.com, WCL/JD '67
• Terrence Boyle – federal judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina; nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (US Senate confirmation vote pending), WCL/JD
• Michael Cohen – lawyer and spokesperson for President Donald Trump, BA 1988
• Abre' Conner, Director of the Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP
• Adrian Cronauer – lawyer and former radio disc jockey, inspiration for the film Good Morning, Vietnam
• Charles Bernard Day – magistrate judge; withdrawn Obama Administration nominee to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, WCL/JD
• Claude M. Hilton – federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, WCL/JD '66
• Henry E. Hudson – federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, BA '69, WCL/JD '74
• Hubert Horatio "Skip" Humphrey III – Minnesota's 27th attorney general and former state senator; son of Vice President Hubert Humphrey and U.S. Senator Muriel Humphrey
• Juliane Kokott – advocate general at the European Court of Justice
• Stephen Latchford – aviation expert and lawyer; diplomat during the administrations of Roosevelt and Truman
• Gerald Bruce Lee – United States District Court judge, Eastern District of Virginia CAS/BA '73, WCL/JD '76
• Sharon Prost – federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, WCL/JD '79
• Irma S. Raker – Maryland Court of Appeals judge, WCL/JD '72
• Warren M. Silver – Maine Supreme Judicial Court justice, WCL '73
• Adam Streisand – trial attorney notable for litigation over prominent celebrity estates, WCL/JD
• Reggie Walton – federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, WCL/JD '74
• Stanley Woodward – lawyer

Arts, sciences, academia, and literature

• Virginia Cleaver Bacon – Oregon State Librarian, MA '24
• Ann Beattie – author and educator; 1978 Guggenheim Fellow, CAS/BA '69
• Jeannette Benavides – Costa Rican nanotechnologist and physical chemist: worked at NASA
• Ilan Berman – vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council
• Jon Bowermaster – oceans expert, six-time National Geographic Expeditions Council grantee, SPA/MA '77
• Jeffrey T. Bury – political scientist and geographer; professor of Environmental Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz, SIS/MA '95
• Joe Chambers – artist
• Eleanor Coerr – author of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, CAS/BA
• Robin Davis – historian, rock bassist
• Miguel A. De La Torre – professor of Social Ethics and Latino Studies at Iliff School of Theology, SPA/MA
• Amos Eiran – Israeli president of the University of Haifa
• John Fahey – guitarist and composer
• Murray Feshbach – Cold War era scholar of Demographics of the Soviet Union and later Demographics of Russia; Sovietologist-in-residence, in the Office of the Secretary General of NATO and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, PhD
• Reuben Fink – Yiddish journalist and author
• Ann B. Friedman – founder of Planet Word, a language arts museum in Washington, D.C., '1998
• Adriane Fugh-Berman – professor in the department of pharmacology and physiology at Georgetown University Medical Center, CAS/BA
• Nick Galifianakis – cartoonist for The Washington Post; cousin of comedian Zach Galifianakis
• Dominic Giampaolo – software engineer, developed the Be File System, CAS
• Jeff Gill – professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis, SPA/PhD '96
• Edmund Gordon – scholar of African American studies; professor of Psychology Emeritus of Yale University and interim dean at Teachers College, Columbia University, CAS/MA
• Bhante Henepola Gunaratana – Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and philosopher, author of Mindfulness in Plain English
• K. David Harrison – linguist, director of research at the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
• Frederick Hart – sculptor noted for his public monuments and works in bronze, marble, and clear acrylic
• Donald Harward – philosopher, president of Bates College
• Michael Hendricks – psychologist, suicidologist, and an advocate for the LGBT community
• Mimi Herbert – painter and sculptor, CAS/MA '83
• Davoud Hermidas-Bavand – Iranian intellectual; political scientist, SIS/PhD '63
• Solange Hertz – Catholic author
• Carol M. Highsmith – photographer and author who donated her life's work of more than 100,000 images to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive for her work
• Jesse Itzler – Billboard Hot 100 rapper; vice chairman of Marquis Jet, BA
• Ronald Jensen – mathematician active in Europe, working in mathematical logic and set theory, CAS/BA '59
• Robert Kagan – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Scholar and The Washington Post columnist, PhD
• Stephen A. Kent – sociologist and researcher of new and alternative religions in Canada; professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta, CAS/MA '73
• Cornelius M. Kerwin – president of American University, SPA/BA '71
• Florence King – novelist, BA '57
• Susan Cohn Lackman – composer of contemporary classical music; professor of Music Theory and Composition at Rollins College, CAS/MA
• Matthew Lesko – author on government grants
• Vanessa Lillie – novelist
• Greg Lukianoff – president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
• Arnošt Lustig – Czech author and Holocaust survivor
• William Moulton Marston – inventor and cartoonist, invented the polygraph and produced Wonder Woman
• Edith T. Martin – artist and museum professional
• Dan Mathews – senior vice president of PETA; author of Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir
• Mariana Matthews – Chilean photographer, curator, and visual artist
• M. Peter McPherson – president of Michigan State University; director of the USAID program under President Ronald Reagan; director of Dow Jones, WCL/JD '69
• Mishlawi – American-Portuguese rapper
• Valentine Moghadam – feminist scholar, sociologist, activist, and author; professor of Sociology and Director of the Women's Studies Program at Purdue University, CAS/PhD '86
• Severino Montano – Philippine playwright, director, actor and theater organizer; dean of Instruction of the Philippine Normal University, CAS/MA, SPA/PhD
• Dambisa Moyo – economist and author of New York Times best seller Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working And How There Is a Better Way for Africa CAS/BS, KSB/MBA
• Michael M. Naydan – literary scholar and translator, academic at the Pennsylvania State University, BA, MA^[9]
• Susan B. Neuman – literacy researcher, educator and author; US Assistant Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education, BA '68
• Asra Nomani – journalist, author, feminist and activist in the Muslim reform and Islamic feminist movements; professor of Journalism at Georgetown University, SOC/MA '90
• Lisa Norris – author; professor of English and Creative Writing at Central Washington University, CAS/MFA
• John P. O'Neill – counter-terrorism expert and Special Agent in Charge in the Federal Bureau of Investigation; head of security of the World Trade Center and killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, CAS/BA '74
• Anne-Imelda Radice – art historian and museum director
• Kathy Reichs – author and forensic anthropologist CAS/BA '91
• Stanley Renshon – psychoanalyst and professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, SIS/MA
• Monica Richards – singer, songwriter, artist and writer known within the gothic subculture
• Henry Rollins – vocalist, Black Flag (attended in 1979, but did not graduate)
• Montserrat Sagot – sociologist
• Bruce Schneier – author, leading internet security advisor
• Margo Seibert – Drama Desk Award-nominated actress; the original Adrian in Rocky the Musical on Broadway
• Zaid Shakir – Western scholar of Islam, SIS/BA
• Donna Shalala – president of the University of Miami, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
• Alice Sheldon – novelist, BA '59
• Leo Suryadinata – Chinese Indonesian sinologist; professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore; director of the Chinese Heritage Center at Nanyang Technological University, PhD
• Dana Thomas – author of the New York Times bestseller Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
• Ernest Thompson – playwright, actor, Academy Award winner, CAS '71
• George S. Tolley – agricultural economist at the University of Chicago, CAS/BA '47
• Jagath Weerasinghe – Sri Lankan contemporary artist
• Tanekeya Word – artist
• Oliver Reynolds Wulf – chemist and physicist; 1932 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, MS '22

Other

• Maria Butina – Russian activist and convicted spy
• Jack Douglass – YouTuber
• Yannis Pappas – stand-up comedian and podcaster
• Matthew Pittinsky – entrepreneur and academic
• Richard L. Schlegel – LGBT rights activist

Politicians and public servants

• Akbar S. Ahmed – former ambassador of Pakistan to the United Kingdom
• Anita Alpern – former assistant commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service
• Walter K. Andersen – United States Department of State Analyst and specialist in Indian and Indian Ocean affairs
• Ed Bliss – editor, copywriter and producer for Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, founder of the broadcast journalism program at American University
• Nancie Caraway – First Lady of Hawaii; political scientist, feminist and author
• Joe Clark – prime minister of Canada between June 4, 1979, and March 3, 1980
• Max Cleland – former United States senator from Georgia
• Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi – Argentinian lawyer, diplomat and judge; International Criminal Court judge
• Abe Fortas – former associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• James Fyfe – police administrator and lieutenant in the New York Police Department; noted academic in criminology
• Edward M. Glick – public affairs officer for the United States Department of State; professor of Communications
• Claudio Grossman – chair of the United Nations Committee Against Torture; dean emeritus of the Washington College of Law
• Frank William La Rue – UN Special Rapporteur; 2004 Nobel Peace Prize nominee
• Robert Lehrman – former White House chief speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore; novelist
• Allan Lichtman – historian, 2006 candidate for Maryland State Senate, Department of History
• Charles Malik – former president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council
• Anita McBride – Chief of Staff to the First Lady of the United States (2005–2009)
• Constance Morella – United States representative from Maryland; Ambassador in Residence for the Women & Politics Institute
• Hamid Mowlana – former professor, adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran
• Ralph Nader – political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney; five-time candidate for President of the United States, including as Green Party nominee in 1996 and 2000
• Jackie Norris – political scientist; chief of staff under First Lady Michelle Obama
• Manfred Nowak – Austrian human rights lawyer; Austrian delegate to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
• Susan Orr – commissioner of the United States Children's Bureau
• Robert Pastor – United States National Security Advisor on Latin America and the Caribbean
• Anthony C. E. Quainton – United States Ambassador to the Central African Empire, Kuwait, Nicaragua, and Peru; United States coordinator for Counterterrorism
• Jim Ramstad – United States representative from Minnesota
• Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer – United Nations diplomat; journalist; doctor of laws
• Jamie Raskin – United States representative from Maryland, former Maryland state senator
• Susan Rice – former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; former U.S. national security advisor
• Jehan Sadat – First Lady of Egypt; wife of President Anwar Sadat
• Sally Shelton-Colby – deputy assistant undersecretary of state for Latin America; United States ambassador to the Caribbean; assistant administrator for USAID; deputy secretary general of the OECD; wife of Director of the Central Intelligence Agency William Colby

Nobel laureates

• Herbert Spencer Gasser – 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Robert S. Mulliken – 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Fulbright Scholars

• Patricia Aufderheide – film, video and radio academic
• Naomi Baron – author; president of the Semiotic Society of America; professor of Linguistics
• C. Stanley Lewis – artist and art professor
• Stephen Silvia – professor, School of International Service; affiliate professor, Department of Economics

Guggenheim Fellows

• Patricia Aufderheide – 1994 recipient; film, video and radio academic
• Naomi Baron – author; president of the Semiotic Society of America; professor of Linguistics
• Laura Beers – historian and author
• Robert Griffith – 1980 recipient; historian; author
• Michael Kazin – historian and author
• C. Stanley Lewis – artist and art professor
• Richard McCann – fiction, nonfiction and poetry writer
• Julian Simon – environmental economics academic and author

Pulitzer Prize recipients

• David Garrow – 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
• Henry S. Taylor – 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Other

• Alida Anderson – author and researcher at American University School of Education
• Kenneth Anderson – research fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, professor of Law
• George Ayittey – president of the Free Africa Foundation; political economics professor
• Robert Bausch – fiction writer, novelist and 2009 Dos Passos Prize in Literature; author of Almighty Me, released in film as Bruce Almighty
• Upendra Baxi – legal scholar; vice chancellor of the University of Delhi, honorary director (Research) of the Indian Law Institute and president of the Indian Society of International Law
• Betty T. Bennett – dean, College of Arts and Sciences (1985–1997) and professor of Literature
• Michael Berenbaum – Holocaust scholar, writer and filmmaker; deputy director of the President's Commission on the Holocaust; project director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Richard E. Berendzen – Department of Physics professor, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
• Barbara Bergmann – feminist economics academic; professor emerita of economics
• Alan Berman – psychologist, psychotherapist, and suicidologist
• Julian Bond – chairman of NAACP; distinguished professor in residence, Department of Government, School of Public Affairs
• David Bosco – journalist; author; assistant professor of international politics
• Richard Breitman – Distinguished Professor of History, American University
• Norma Broude – art historian and feminist scholar, professor emerita
• James B. Conant – president of Harvard University; chemist
• Laura DeNardis – author and Internet governance scholar; School of Communications Professor
• Elizabeth Eisenstein – author and historian on the French Revolution and early printing
• Samih Farsoun – founding dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Sharjah and the American University of Kuwait; professor emeritus of sociology
• Charles B. Ferster – Department of Psychology, behavioral psychologist, co-author with B. F. Skinner of Schedules of Reinforcement (1957)
• Lee Francis – Laguna Pueblo-Anishinaabe poet and educator; professor and interim director of Native American Studies department and the American Studies program
• Herbert Fuchs – former member of various communist cells during the 1930s and 1940s; professor of Law
• Mary Garrard – art historian and feminist scholar, professor emerita
• Walter Gautschi – mathematician and expert in numerical analysis
• Edmund Ghareeb – author and expert on the Kurds, Iraq, and media issues; professor of Middle East history and politics
• Lesley Gill – Latin America researcher and author; Department of Anthropology
• Louis W. Goodman – dean emeritus of the School of International Service
• Ross Gunn – nuclear physicist; principal in the Manhattan Project and the United States' nuclear submarine program
• Jane Hall – former Los Angeles Times reporter, Fox News Watch panelist; School of Communications
• Consuelo Hernández – Latin America scholar and poet; professor of Latin American Studies
• Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy – dean, American University School of Education
• Andrew Holleran – author, Creative Writing Program
• Louis C. Hunter – professor of economic history; author of Steamboats on the Western Rivers, an Economic and Technological History
• Victor Kamber – labor union activist and political consultant
• Mary King – political scientist and expert in peace and conflict resolution; Distinguished Scholar, Center of Global Peace
• Ellis O. Knox – desegregation champion and chairman of Education for the NAACP; professor of Education
• Iris Krasnow – School of Communications, academic director of Washington Journalism Semester
• Stephen G. Kurtz – historian, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy
• Charles R. Larson – US scholar of African literature
• Jennifer L. Lawless – political scientist
• William Leap – department chair of Anthropology
• William M. LeoGrande – dean of the School of Public Affairs and professor in the Department of Government
• Charles Lewis – former investigative producer for ABC News and CBS's 60 Minutes; founder of the Center for Public Integrity; School of Communications professor and executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop
• Andrew Lih – author and new media researcher; professor in the School of Communication
• Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker – academic; professor of Far Eastern Studies
• Eugene Lukacs – statistician and Director of Statistics in the Office of Naval Research
• Charles F. Marsh – economist; academic; president of Wofford College
• Colman McCarthy – journalist; peace activist; columnist for The Washington Post
• Howard E. McCurdy – expert on space policy and NASA; Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History; professor of Public Affairs
• Pamela Nadell – former president of the Association for Jewish Studies (2015–2017); scholar of Jewish-American Women's History; Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender History
• Candice Nelson – political theorist, director of the Campaign Management Institute recipient (former professor)
• Karen O'Connor – political scientist, Department of Government
• Katja Oxman – German-born American visual artist
• Marshall Poe – historian and author on the Grand Duchy of Moscow
• Arturo C. Porzecanski – Distinguished Economist-in-Residence; professor and program director of the MA in International Economic Relations; Wall Street veteran
• Jamin Raskin – professor, constitutional law; co-director, program on Law and Government and Marshall-Brennan Fellows Program; author of The Supreme Court versus the American People; Maryland state senator
• John M. Richardson – director of the Center for Teaching Excellence; Department of International Development
• Floyd M. Riddick – Department of Political Science
• Aubrey Eugene Robinson, Jr. – United States federal judge
• David H. Rosenbloom – distinguished professor, Department of Public Administration & Policy
• Ivan L. Rudnytsky (1919–1984) – Ukrainian-Canadian historian, political scientist, public intellectual
• Myra Sadker – educator and researcher; dean of Education
• Abdul Aziz Said – founder of the Mohammed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace; founder and Director of the Center for Global Peace; School of International Service, Department of International Peace and Conflict Resolution; author; professor
• Stephen Silvia – expert on the German economy, labor markets and industrial relations; professor and director of MA in International Relations online degree
• Sally Smith – author; special education activist; founder of the Lab School of Washington for students with learning disabilities; education professor and director of the Graduate Program in Special Education 1976–2007
• Gregory H. Stanton – president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars
• Ben Stein – actor, writer, lawyer and commentator on political and economic issues
• Leonard Steinhorn – author; specialist in American politics and culture; professor of Communications
• Charles C. Tansill (1890–1964) – professor of History at American University from 1921 to 1937^[10]
• James A. Thurber – director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies; professor of Government, School of Public Affairs
• Michael Tigar – criminal defense attorney noted for representing high-profile clients; professor of Law
• Lloyd Ultan – composer of contemporary classical music; professor and chairman of the Department of Music
• Sanford J. Ungar – president emeritus of Goucher College and director of Voice of America; dean of the American University School of Communication
• Vivian M. Vasquez – professor of Education; author of a dozen books
• Franak Viacorka – Belarusian political activist, filmmaker, journalist
• Perry Wallace – trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice and environmental policy advisory council of the Environmental Protection Agency; professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers; first African-American varsity basketball player in the Southeastern Conference
• Celeste A. Wallander – professor; specialist on military and energy in Russia/Eurasia region; member of the Council on Foreign Relations
• Caroline F. Ware – cultural historian
• Paul R. Williams – executive director of the Public International Law & Policy Group; 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee; School of International Service and Washington College of Law