List of Goshen College people
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This is a list of notable individuals associated with the American Goshen College, a private liberal arts college located in Goshen, Indiana. The list includes students, alumni, and faculty.
- Stephen Ainlay, 18th president of Union College (since 2006)
- Harold S. Bender (class of 1918), former president, American Society of Church History and author of The Anabaptist Vision (1944)
- Denise Konan (class of 1988), professor of Economics and dean of the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa[1]
- Alan Kreider (class of 1962), professor, writer and speaker
- John W. Meyer (class of 1955), professor, sociologist
- Steven Nolt, professor at Elizabethtown College
- John Mark Ramseyer (class of 1976), Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at the Harvard Law School
- Emma Richards, first ordained female Mennonite minister
- Said Sheikh Samatar (class of 1973), Somali scholar, historian and writer
- Rebecca Stoltzfus (B.A. 1984 Chemistry), professor and vice provost at Cornell University[2]
- John Howard Yoder, Christian theologian, ethicist, and Biblical scholar best known for his radical Christian pacifism
- Howard Zehr, "father of restorative justice"; assisted with the founding of a victim-offender reconciliation program
The arts
- Abbie Adams, contemporary artist and illustrator
- Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE (class of 2008), editor and literary critic
- Howard Dyck, Canadian conductor and radio broadcaster
- Vance George, Grammy Award–winning choral director of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus (1982–2006)
- Luke and Jesse Miller, members of the electronic jam band Lotus
- Sofia Samatar, professor, editor and writer
- James C. Strouse, independent filmmaker, writer and director who wrote the comedy-drama film Lonesome Jim (2005) and directed the drama film Grace Is Gone (2007)
- Rudy Wiebe, taught at Goshen College 1963–1967
Politics
- Christine Kaufmann, member of the Montana House of Representatives
- Arthur L. Gilliom, 25th Indiana attorney general[3]
- Jesse B. Martin, Canadian bishop and peace activist[4]
- David Dale Reimer, U.S. ambassador to Mauritius and the Seychelles.
Popular culture
- Justin Yoder, first child with a disability to drive a soapbox in the All-American Soapbox Derby
Science, technology and medicine
- David Bartel (class of 1982), biology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, member of the Whitehead Institute, investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Philip A. Beachy, Gallo Professor of Developmental Biology at Stanford University
- Roger N. Beachy, biologist, founding president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
- Owen Gingerich, astronomy professor at Harvard University
Sports
- Errick McCollum, professional basketball player
- Katie Sowers, first openly gay and first female coach in Super Bowl history
