List of University of California, Santa Cruz people

This page lists notable alumni and faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz; alumni may have attended without graduating.

Notable alumni

Academia

• William Drea Adams – President of Colby College, Waterville, Maine
• Michelle Anderson, B.A. 1989 – (born 1967) – President of Brooklyn College, and a scholar on rape law
• Stefano Bloch, B.A. 2001 - Author, graffiti artist, and professor of cultural geography at the University of Arizona ^[1]
• Hume A Feldman, BA 1984 – Professor and Chair, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Kansas, APS Fellow
• Gabriel Filippelli, Ph.D, 1994 - biogeochemist and climate change researcher, IUPUI
• Yoav Freund, Ph.D. 1994 – professor of computer science at the University of California San Diego, winner of the Gödel prize
• Kristen R. Ghodsee, B.A. 1993 – Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College; winner of 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship
• Alexander Gonzalez, Ph.D. 1979 – President of California State University, Sacramento
• Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, artist and writer, School of Visual Arts
• Victor Davis Hanson, B.A. 1975 – historian, Professor Emeritus of Classics at California State University, Fresno; Hoover Institution Fellow; 2007 National Humanities Medal recipient
• Eva Simone Hayward, Women's Studies researcher on faculty at University of Arizona ^[2]
• Caren Kaplan, Ph.D. – Professor of American Studies at UC Davis
• Steven G. Krantz, B.A – Professor of Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis; winner of the Chauvenet Prize
• Andrew Jolivette; Ph.D. – Professor of Ethnic Studies, senior specialist Native American and Indigenous Studies at University of California, San Diego
• Annette Lareau, B.A. 1974 – Professor of Sociology at University of Pennsylvania
• Lisa Lowe, Ph.D. – Professor of American Studies at Yale
• Patricia Nelson Limerick – Professor of History at University of Colorado and a leading historian of the American West
• Tod Machover – MIT Media Lab
• Austin E. Quigley, Ph.D. – Dean of Columbia College of Columbia University
• John R. Rickford, B.A. 1971 – Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University and African American Vernacular English or Ebonics expert
• Sally Sedgwick, B.A. 1978 – Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at University of Illinois at Chicago
• Jeffrey C. Stewart, B.A. 1971 – Professor of Black Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara
• Bret Weinstein, B.A. – American biologist and evolutionary theorist

Arts and letters

• Will Bagley, BA 1971 – historian of 1800s American West
• Michael A. Bellesiles, BA 1975 – author of a book "Arming America: The origins of a National Gun Culture" which won the Bancroft Prize in 2001; the prize was rescinded by Columbia University in 2002 as for having "violated basic norms of scholarship and the high standards expected of Bancroft Prize winners."
• Susie Bright – writer, sex activist and sex therapy focus leader
• Dean Byington, BA 1980 – visual artist
• Gail Carriger, MA 2008 – steampunk author
• Maya Chinchilla, BA 2000 – Guatemalan-American poet
• Fred Cohen, BA 1980 — Director of the School of Music & Dance, San Jose State University
• David Farley- BA 1995 – Author of "An Irreverent Curiosity", food and travel writer
• William Finnegan- BA 1974 – 2016 Pulitzer prize author of "Barbarian Days", journalist
• Laurie Garrett, BA 1975 – Newsday science reporter and author, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Philip Kan Gotanda – playwright
• Reyna Grande, BA 1999 – author, American Book Award winner
• Kira Lynn Harris, MFA 1998 – artist
• bell hooks, PhD 1983 – author, educator, social critic
• Miranda July ^[3] – filmmaker and writer
• Lori Kay, BA 1986 – artist, sculptor ^[4]
• Persis Karim, BA 1985 – poet, editor, educator, scholar of Iranian-Americans ^[5]
• Jayne Ann Krentz, BA 1970 – New York Times bestselling author
• Katerina Lanfranco, BA 2001 – artist
• Deborah Madison, BA 1968 – cookbook author, founding chef of the Greens Restaurant
• Steve Martini, BA 1968 – bestselling mysteries author
• Lou Mathews, BA 1973 – writer, "Best Book" of 1999 for L.A. Breakdown (L.A. Times)
• Omar Musa – award-winning Australian author, poet and rapper
• Kent Nagano, BA 1974 – conductor of the Los Angeles Opera and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra
• Catherine Newman, PhD, memoirist and novelist
• Jenny Parks – comics artist, fan artist, and scientific illustrator ^{[6] [7]}
• Larry Polansky, BA – composer
• Johanna Poethig, BA 1980 – visual, public and performance artist
• Dana Priest, BA 1981 – Washington Post reporter and author; winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting and 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
• Tanya Ragir, BA 1976 – artist
• Tlaloc Rivas, BA 1995 – theatre director, writer, and professor
• Joe Safdie, BA 1975 - poet
• Michael Schennum, BA 2000 – photojournalist
• Andrea Smith, PhD 2002 – Cherokee activist and author
• David Talbot, BA – founder of Salon.com, author, journalist
• Mark Teague, BA 1985 – author and illustrator of children's books
• Hector Tobar, BA – Los Angeles Times columnist, author, winner of Pulitzer Prize in 1992
• Bernt Wahl, BA 1984, BS 1986 – author and entrepreneur, Fulbright Fellow. November 1985 coined UC Santa Cruz motto "Fiat Slug"
• Annie Wells, BA 1981 – photographer, filmmaker, winner of Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1997
• Lawrence Weschler, 1974 – author
• Richard White – historian of American West, Native American history, and environmental history; MacArthur Foundation fellowship, 1995
• Daniel James Wolf, BA 1983 – composer
• Laurence Yep – author
• Sahar Khoury, BA 1996 – Sculptor

Business

• Mike Cagney, BA/MS – co-founder and former CEO of SoFi ^{[8] [9]}
• Jonah Peretti, BS 1996 – founder of BuzzFeed and Huffington Post
• Sage Weil, PhD 2007 – founder of Ceph
• Susan Wojcicki, MS – former CEO of YouTube

Economics

• Andréa Maechler, PhD – Swiss economist. The first woman to join the board of directors of the Swiss National Bank ^[10]

Entertainment and broadcasting

• Lorin Ashton, aka Bassnectar – free-form electronic music artist and DJ
• Juliet Bashore, BA English Literature/Film, award-winning filmmaker ( Kamikaze Hearts , The Battle of Tuntenhaus )
• Jello Biafra, ^[3] singer and songwriter of the Dead Kennedys
• Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, BA, filmmaker ( V/H/S , Southbound ) and guitarist for Link 80
• Brannon Braga ^[3] – award-winning film writer for Star Trek Generations and an executive producer of 24
• Bob Byington, BA 1988 – filmmaker ( 7 Chinese Brothers , Lousy Carter )
• Bill Carter, BA Politics, Economics – documentary film director and author
• Rick Carter, BA, Oscar-winning art director and production designer
• John Craigie, BA Mathematics 2002 – folk singer
• Dennis Delaney, BA Anthropology 1976 – writer and actor
• Brett Dennen – singer, songwriter
• Jacob Aaron Estes, BA 1994 – film screenwriter and director
• Sven Gamsky, aka Still Woozy BA 2014 – musician, songwriter
• Anne Flett-Giordano, BA 1976 – television writer and producer ( Kate & Allie , Frasier , Desperate Housewives )
• Cary Joji Fukunaga, BA 1999 – Award-winning filmmaker and showrunner ( Sin Nombre , True Detective , Beasts of No Nation )
• Matthew Gray Gubler, ^[3] BA – actor ( Criminal Minds ) and director
• Richard Gunn, BA 1997 – actor ( Dark Angel , Granite Flats , and For the Love of Money )
• Richard Harris – National Public Radio science reporter
• Anohni Hegarty – attended in late 1980s – Composer and singer for Anohni and the Johnsons, and visual artist
• Alice Inoue – former television presenter and author
• Ethan Klein, BA English Literature 2009 – YouTube video blogger and satirist known for h3h3Productions
• Elissa Knight, BA Theater & English Literature 1997 - voice actress
• Victor Krummenacher ^[3] – bassist for Camper Van Beethoven, Monks of Doom
• Gretchen Lieberum – singer, songwriter
• David Lowery, BA 1984 – singer and songwriter for Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker
• Camryn Manheim, BA 1984 – actress
• Barry Mendel – film producer (Rushmore, Sixth Sense, Munich, Funny People)
• Stephen Mirrione, BA – Academy Award-winning film editor
• Dacoury Natche, aka DJ Dahi – Grammy nominated Hip-hop producer
• Bradley Nowell, ^[3] singer and songwriter with Sublime
• Marti Noxon, BA – TV producer
• Joe Palca, PhD 1982 – National Public Radio science reporter
• Jack Passion, BA 2006 – competitive beard grower and star of IFC's Whisker Wars
• Stephanie Foo, BA 2008 – Radio producer for This American Life .
• Rebecca Romijn ^[3] – supermodel, actress
• Maya Rudolph, BA 1995 – SNL cast member
• Andy Samberg, ^[3] BA – Saturday Night Live cast member
• Tim Schafer ^[3] – game designer for LucasArts and founder of Double Fine Productions
• Akiva Schaffer, BA – Saturday Night Live writer, filmmaker
• Stuart Schuffman, aka Broke-Ass Stuart, BA 2003 – travel writer, poet, host of IFC's Young Broke & Beautiful
• Amber Sealey, BA - film director and actress
• Jonathan Segel, BA 1985 – composer, multi-instrumentalist for Camper Van Beethoven
• Nikki Silva, BA 1973 – one half of The Kitchen Sisters, who are regularly featured on NPR
• Julie Snyder, BA 1995 – producer of NPR's Serial (podcast) and S-Town
• Chris Tashima ^[3] – actor, Academy Award-winning filmmaker
• Jesse Thorn, BS – host of NPR's Bullseye with Jesse Thorn and co-host of Jordan, Jesse, Go!
• Omi Vaidya - American actor in Bollywood films known for role in 3 Idiots
• Rubén Valtierra, BA – keyboardist for "Weird Al" Yankovic
• Ally Walker, BS – actress known for roles in Profiler , Sons of Anarchy , and The Protector
• Gillian Welch, BA 1990 – singer and songwriter
• Kennedy Ashlyn Wenning, musician under the name SRSQ ^[3]
• Rich Wilkes, BA 1988 – writer, filmmaker (Billy Madison, Stoned Age, Beer Money, XXX, Airheads)

Law

• Nate Cardozo, BA 2003 – privacy and civil rights attorney, currently managing privacy at WhatsApp
• Vince Girdhari Chhabria, BA 1991 – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of California
• Joan E. Donoghue, BA 1978 – judge, International Court of Justice
• Ricardo García, BA 1991 – public defender for Los Angeles County
• Rachel Goslins, BA 1991 – copyright attorney, Director of the Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Museum, former executive director of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
• Charles Harder, BA 1991 – entertainment and civil lawyer known for representing President Donald Trump, Melania Trump, and many celebrities.
• Ellen Leonida, BA 1993 – defense attorney for Scott Dyleski

Politics and public life

• Jamus Lim, MA 2006, PhD 2006 – Member of the 14th Parliament of Singapore, member of the opposition Workers’ Party of Singapore and associate professor at ESSEC Business School
• Bettina Aptheker, PhD – leader in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement
• Claire Pierangelo, BA 1982 — Current US Ambassador to the Republic of Madagascar and Union of Comoros
• Katherine Canavan, BA – former United States Ambassador to Botswana and United States Ambassador to Lesotho
• Rebecca Cokley, BA – Former director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress (CAP) ^[11]
• John Doolittle, BA 1972 – Member, U.S. House of Representatives, California's 4th Congressional District
• Eli Erlick, PhD – writer, transgender activist, founder of Trans Student Educational Resources
• Ron Gonzales, BA – Mayor of San Jose, California, 1999–2006
• Victor Davis Hanson, BA 1975 – Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
• James Charles Kopp, BA Biology 1976 – murderer of Buffalo abortion doctor Barnett Slepian in 1998; convicted in 2003 and serving sentence of 25 years to life
• John Laird, BA 1972 – California Natural Resources Agency Secretary, former California Assemblyman, and Mayor of Santa Cruz
• Don Lane, former mayor of Santa Cruz, California
• Nina Milliken, BA 2010, maine state representative ^[12]
• Azadeh Moaveni, BA – journalist and writer
• Huey P. Newton, BA 1974, PhD 1980 – Co-founding member of the Black Panther Party
• Aaron Peskin, San Francisco Board of Supervisors member
• Drummond Pike, BA 1970 – Tides Foundation founder, philanthropist, and social entrepreneur
• Art Torres, BA 1968 – California Democratic Party Chairman, former California State Senator
• Yvette Quiroga, 1995 BA Psychology, Mayor of Mendota ^[13]

Science

• Richard Bandler, MA 1975 ^[14] – co-creator of neuro-linguistic programming
• Joseph DeRisi, BA 1992 – molecular biologist, professor at UC San Francisco, MacArthur Fellow, known for work on SARS and malaria
• Alan Dressler, PhD 1976, staff astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science, member of the National Academy of Sciences, cosmologist, author
• J. Doyne Farmer, PhD 1981 – pioneer in chaos theory, Prediction Company, Santa Fe Institute
• Judy Fierstein, multiple - American geologist
• Debra Fischer, PhD 1998, Professor of Astronomy at Yale University, planet finder
• Yoav Freund, PhD 1993 – computer scientist, professor at University of California, San Diego, inventor of AdaBoost
• John Grinder, PhD 1971 – linguist, co-creator of neuro-linguistic programming ^[15]
• Howard Hang, BS 1998 – Professor of Chemistry at Rockefeller University
• Steven Hawley, PhD 1977 – astronaut, Professor of Physics at the University of Kansas
• Holly Jones, BS – restoration ecologist and conservation biologist, associate professor at Northern Illinois University
• Stacy Jupiter, PhD 2003 — Director of the Melanesia Program for the Wildlife Conservation Society, MacArthur Fellows Program
• Geoffrey Marcy, PhD 1982 – Professor of Astronomy at UC Berkeley, planet finder, and member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Lara Mahal, BA 1996 – Professor of Chemistry at New York University
• Marc Okrand, BA 1972 – linguist, creator of the Klingon language
• Julie Packard, BA 1974, MA 1978 — Founder and executive director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium
• Mark M. Phillips, PhD 1978 – staff astronomer at Las Campanas Observatory, inventor of the Phillips relationship, pioneer in supernova cosmology
• Rob Shaw, PhD 1980 – MacArthur Award for work on chaos theory, 1988
• Pamela Silver, BA 1974 – Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, first Director of Harvard University Systems Biology Graduate Program, synthetic biologist
• Deborah Steinberg, PhD 1973 – biological oceanographer, Antarctic researcher
• Kathryn D. Sullivan, BS 1973 – astronaut, science museum CEO (COSI Columbus), Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, NOAA Administrator
• Nicholas B. Suntzeff, PhD 1980 – Professor of Astronomy at Texas A&M University; cosmologist; co-founder of High-Z Supernova Search Team, which discovered dark energy
• Bill Woodcock, BA 1993, - best known for his 1989 origination of the anycast routing technique that is now ubiquitous in Internet content distribution networks and the domain name system

Sports

• Anton Peterlin ^[3] – soccer player

Notable faculty

• Martin Abadi - Professor Emeritus, Computer Science and Engineering. Known for Burrows–Abadi–Needham logic and Baby Modula-3
• Ralph Abraham – professor emeritus of mathematics, notable for founding the Visual Mathematics Institute and for his pioneering work on chaos theory
• Bettina Aptheker – professor of feminist studies and history
• Elliot Aronson – professor emeritus of psychology; author of The Social Animal and Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion after Columbine ; creator of the Jigsaw Classroom model; one of the few psychologists to win the American Psychological Association's highest honor in all three fields
• John Backus – late adjunct professor of Computer Science; Won Turing Award for creating Fortran
• Reyner Banham – late professor of art history and a preeminent architectural historian, in particular of the modern era
• Tom Banks – professor of physics. Known for work on string theory, elementary particle physics, and cosmology
• Gregory Bateson – late lecturer and fellow of Kresge College; anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist
• George R. Blumenthal – professor of astronomy and astrophysics, and chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz
• Bakthan Singaram – professor of organic chemistry and former researcher
• Norman O. Brown – late professor emeritus of humanities
• William L. Burke – late professor of physics (cosmologist); chaos theory "godfather"
• James H. Clark – assistant professor of information science, founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape
• James Clifford – professor of history of consciousness, known for publications of postmodernist and postcolonial interpretations of anthropology and ethnography
• David Cope – professor of music; notable for his experiments in A.I. and computer-created musical compositions
• Angela Davis – professor of history of consciousness, writer, activist
• Nathaniel Deutsch – professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
• John Dizikes – professor emeritus of American studies, author, won the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award
• Frank Drake – professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics; proposed the Drake Equation; member of the AAAS (elected 1974) ^[16]
• William Everson – late lecturer and poet-in-residence
• Sandra M. Faber – professor of astronomy and astrophysics; instrumental in inventing cold dark matter theory and fundamental work in the field of galaxy formation and evolution; member of the NAS (elected 1985), the AAAS (elected 1989), ^[16] and the American Philosophical Society (elected 2001)
• Alison Galloway – forensic anthropologist who worked in identifying the physical remains of Laci Peterson in the trial of Scott Peterson ^[16]
• Shelly Grabe – associate professor of social psychology and scholar-activist in women's human rights
• Craig Haney – professor of psychology and instrumental researcher in the Stanford Prison Experiment
• Donna Haraway – professor of history of consciousness; doctorate in biology; often-cited author of feminist history of science and culture studies of cyborg
• David Haussler – professor of biomolecular engineering; he and his team assembled the public draft human genome and developed the Genome Browser as part of the Human Genome Project; member of the AAAS (elected 2006) ^[16] and the National Academy of Sciences
• George Herbig – emeritus professor of astronomy and astrophysics, pioneer in the study of star formation, discoverer of the Herbig Ae/Be stars and Herbig-Haro Objects, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• George Hitchcock – late lecturer, poetry and theater
• Albert Hofstadter - deceased; professor of philosophy
• David A. Huffman – deceased; founding faculty of the Information and Computer Science Board; developed Huffman coding
• Harry Huskey – deceased; Professor of Computer Science; advised many countries on how to establish an academic Computer Science program
• Frederic Jameson – professor of history of consciousness; cultural critic and theorist of the post-modern; published the essay "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism", a significant investigation into contemporary culture and the political economy
• Jim Kent – associate research scientist in the Department of Biomolecular Engineering; directs the genome browser development and quality assurance staff of the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group; created the computer program that assembled the first working draft of the human genome sequence; participates in the public consortium efforts to produce, assemble, and annotate genomes
• Robert P. Kraft – professor of astronomy and astrophysics, stellar astronomer, member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Cynthia Ling Lee – professor of theatre arts, known for postmodern and classical Indian dance
• Tom Lehrer – lecturer in American studies and mathematics; known for his satire and songwriting
• Darrell Long – professor of computer science and engineering, fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Chip Lord – professor of film and digital media; member of Ant Farm, a groundbreaking, experimental art and architecture collective he founded in 1968 with fellow architect Doug Michels
• Nathaniel Mackey – poet and editor
• Dominic W. Massaro – professor of psychology and computer engineering; originator of the fuzzy logical model of perception, one of the leading theories of speech perception
• Claire Ellen Max – professor of astronomy and astrophysics, member of the AAAS (elected 2002) ^[16] and the National Academy of Sciences
• Gordon Mumma – professor emeritus of music, composer
• Richard Abel Musgrave – member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1961) ^[16]
• Maurice Natanson - deceased; professor of philosophy
• Jerry Nelson – professor of astronomy and astrophysics; pioneered the use of mirror segments, making the Keck telescopes possible; member of the NAS
• Harry Noller – professor of biology. RNA research; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1969) ^[16] and the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1992)
• Donald E. Osterbrock – member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1968) ^[16] and the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1966)
• Micah Perks – fiction writer and memoirist
• Larry Polansky – professor of music, composer and performing artist
• Joel Primack – professor of physics, noted cosmologist; renowned for Cold Dark Matter Theory proposed along with Sandra Faber (see above) and Sir Martin Rees
• Geoffrey Pullum – professor of linguistics and distinguished professor of humanities; co-author of Cambridge Grammar of the English Language ; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2003) ^[16]
• Adrienne Rich – late professor, poet and essayist
• Constance M. Rockosi – chair of the astronomy and astrophysics department
• Beth Shapiro – professor of ecology and evolutionary biology; author of How to Clone a Mammoth
• Page Smith – Historian
• Michael Ellman Soule – member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2005) ^[16]
• Ben Stein – former professor of economics, more notable for his work as a comedian, actor and political commentator
• Stephen Thorsett – professor of astronomy and astrophysics; dean of physical and biological science; known for work on properties of compact stars
• Anna Tsing – professor of anthropology; Guggenheim Fellow and Niels Bohr Professorship
• Noah Wardrip-Fruin – associate professor of computer science, digital media and interactive fiction researcher
• Manfred K. Warmuth – Professor of Computer Science, known for Weighted Majority Algorithm
• Hayden White – member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1991) ^[16]
• Jim Whitehead – chair of Computer Science and creator of WebDAV
• Harold Widom – member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2006) ^[16]
• Gurdon Woods – sculptor, founding chair of the art department at UC Santa Cruz, from 1966 to 1974 ^{[17] [18]}
• Stanford E. Woosley – professor of astronomy and astrophysics; noted for his work on supernova gamma ray bursts; member of the NAS (elected 2006) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2001) ^[16]
• Karen Tei Yamashita – author and playwright, recipient of the National Book Award's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2021

Notes and references

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2. "Eva Hayward, The Department of Gender & Women's Studies". gws.arizona.edu. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
3. Attended but did not graduate.
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7. Hatheway, Cameron (June 12, 2015). "Catvengers, Assemble! The CatConLA Interview With Jenny Parks". Bleeding Cool. Rich Johnston . Retrieved September 14, 2016.
8. De Witte, Melissa (September 8, 2015). "How a UC Santa Cruz alum is tackling the student loan problem". University of California Santa Cruz.
9. Benner, Katie; Popper, Nathaniel (September 11, 2017). "Chief Executive of Social Finance, an Online Lending Start-Up, to Step Down". The New York Times.
10. "International economics graduate named deputy managing director of the IMF | UCSC". news.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
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12. "Representative Nina Milliken". legislature.maine.gov. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
13. https://medium.com/@carolizumikawa/mayor-for-a-minute-9d5e133a835d ^{[ bare URL ]}
14. BA from UCSC in 1972, MA – Lone Mountain College, 1975
15. John Grinder (1971). On deletion phenomena in English. Thesis (PhD. in Linguistics). University of California, San Diego. OCLC   17641707
16. Bulletin of the American Academy, Fall 2006, pp 66 – 104, "List of Active Members by Classes" Archived 2005-05-06 at the Wayback Machine , accessed July 17, 2007
17. Rappaport, Scott (August 12, 2007). "Gurdon Woods, sculptor who helped establish UCSC Art Department, dies at 92". UC Santa Cruz News. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
18. Zinko, Carolyne (August 10, 2007). "Gurdon Woods - sculptor who created UC Santa Cruz art department". SFGate . Retrieved 2024-04-10.