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
