Amherst College

Located in Amherst, Massachusetts, a town of 35,000 people in the western part of the state. The college’s 1,000-acre campus is adjacent to downtown Amherst.
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Leadership & Staff

William Stuart Symington II Professor of Romance languages at Amherst College
• professor of Romance languages (past)
Susannah Grant screenwriter, Erin Brockovich
• Position
Lewis Williams Douglas Represented Arizona as a Democrat in US House (1927-1933)
• Instructor of History (past)
Paul R Murphy Former Legal and Administrative Counsel, Amherst College
• Legal and Administrative Counsel (past)
Anthony W Marx President of New York Public Library ; Former President of Amherst College
• President (Jul 1 '03→Jul 1 '11)
Archibald Macleish Poet
• Simpson Lecturer ('63→'67)
Rose R Olver Professor of Psychology and Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies, Amherst College
• Professor of Psychology and Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies ('62→'14)*
Alexander Meiklejohn President of Amherst College (1912-1924)
• President ('12→'24)

Board Members

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Kimberlyn Leary
• Trustee ('16→?)
John I Williams Jr president, Muhlenberg College
• life trustee
Arthur Koenig steel millionaire, philanthropist
• trustee
Christine Noyer Seaver Silicon Valley exec
• trustee (Jul 1 '15→?)
Dwight Poler ACCLR8 CEO; former Managing Director at Bain Capital (1994-2020)
• Trustee ('15→?)
Howard Gardner Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Trustee
Rosanne Haggerty
• life trustee
Shirley M Tilghman President of Princeton University; director at Google
• trustee ('13→?)
William A. O'Malley
• Trustee ('20→?)
David A. Novak
• Trustee ('18→?)

Donors

Ted Beneski CEO and Managing Partner, Insight Equity
• Donation · 15,000,000 USD ('08)
Arthur Koenig steel millionaire, philanthropist
• Donation · 6,000,000 USD ('10)

Students

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Thurston Ferdinand Teele Chairman and founder of Chemonics International; foreign service officer USAID
• BA, political science
Xiaoyun Zhang Modulo Capital
• Bachelor's Degree (?→'12)
Elizabeth Elaine Biddle Rockland, Maine lawyer
• Bachelor's Degree, Women's Studies (?→'83)
Jay L Kriegel Senior advisor at Related
• BA, English (?→'62)
Andrew N Rosenberg partner at Paul Weiss
• Bachelor's Degree
David Nevins Television executive with CBS and Showtime, Paramount TV
• BA
Matt Axelrod Biden Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement, Department of Commerce; Former federal prosecutor; Linklaters LLP
• BA (?→'92)
Catherine Lhamon Biden Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Department of Education
• Bachelor's Degree
William A. O'Malley
• BA (?→'84)
David A. Novak
• BA (?→'91)

Miscellaneous Relationships

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