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List of University of Washington people
This page lists notable students, alumni and faculty members of the University of Washington.
Notable alumni
[edit]Nobel laureates
[edit]Academic administration and teaching
[edit]- Fouad Ajami (1945–2014) - Lebanese-born American scholar, author, and professor
- JP Anderson – assistant professor of Race and Public Law in America at San Diego State University, musician of the Band Rabbit Junk
- Lloyd Barber – President Emeritus; former president and former vice chancellor of the University of Regina
- H. Kim Bottomly – former president of Wellesley College
- Paul Brass – expert on the politics of India
- Jonathan Bricker - clinical psychologist, academic, and scientist
- Ron Chew – museum professional
- Geraldine Dawson (PhD 1979) – Professor of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; chief science officer, Autism Speaks
- William C. Dement (1951) – Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine; Division Chief of the Stanford University Division of Sleep; founding president of the American Sleep Disorders Association, now the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
- Mark Emmert (1975) – former president of the University of Washington; current president of the NCAA
- Elaine Tutt
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Presidential Blog
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Ann Dunham
American anthropologist, mother of Barack Obama (1942–1995)
Not to be confused with the equestrian Anne Dunham.
Stanley Ann Dunham (November 29, 1942 – November 7, 1995) was an American anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia.[1] She was the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.
Born in Wichita, Kansas, Dunham studied at the East–West Center and at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Honolulu, where she attained a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology (1967),[2] and later received Master of Arts (1974) and PhD (1992) degrees, also in anthropology.[3] She also attended the University of Washington in Seattle from 1961 to 1962. Interested in craftsmanship, weaving, and the role of women in cottage industries, Dunham's research focused on women's work on the island of Java and blacksmithing in Indonesia. To address the problem of poverty in rural villages, she created microcredit programs while working as a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development. Dunham was also employed by the Ford Foundation in Jakarta and she consulted with the Asian Development Bank in Gujranwala, Pakistan. Towards the latter part of her li