SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND ARTS

Notable Alumni

Sofia Adrogué
English & Legal Studies | 1988

Judge, 11th Division Texas Business Court; former senior partner, Diamond McCarthy LLP

Mark Brice
Art & Art History | 1980

Won an Emmy for cinematography for the PBS series Carrier about the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier during the Iraq War

William Broyles Jr.
History | 1966

Founding editor of Texas Monthly, editor at Newsweek and screenwriter for the television series China Beach and such films as Cast Away, Unfaithful and Apollo 13

Carol Flake Chapman
English | 1969

Founding editor of Vanity Fair, horse racing correspondent for The New Yorker, rock critic for Village Voice, stringer for U.S. News & World Report, and editor and columnist for Boston Globe

Daisy Chung
Visual Arts | 2014

Visual communicator and illustrator who was part of Reuters team awarded the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for an investigation into the fentanyl trade between China and the United States

Linda Coffee
German | 1965

Was just 30 when she and another attorney argued the U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade case

Alison Cook
English | 1969

Restaurant critic who won the industry’s top honors, including the MFK Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing from the James Beard Foundation, along with James Beard Awards for restaurant reviewing — the Oscars of the culinary arts

Ronnie Cummins
English & Philosophy | 1969

Co-founded the Organic Consumers Association and became a leading promoter of organic food and a forceful critic of genetically modified food

David Eagleman
English | 1993

Neuroscientist, Guggenheim fellow and New York Times bestselling author recognized for his work on sensory substitution, time perception, brain plasticity, synesthesia and neurolaw

Kyle Henry
Art and Art History | 1994

Film director, editor and educator who co-edited Emmy Award-winning film, Where Soldiers Come From

Amy Hobby
Art and Art History | 1987

Oscar-nominated and Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer of What Happened, Miss Simone?, a documentary about the singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone

Ray Isle
English | 1986

Executive wine editor for Food & Wine magazine; one of the best-known wine writers in the country and among the top in the world

Alexander Karsner
Religious Studies | 1989

Conservationist, venture capitalist, innovation strategist, energy entrepreneur, former diplomat, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Energy

Jo Ling Kent
Asian Studies, History & Policy Studies | 2006

A television journalist and the senior business and technology correspondent at CBS News

Lauren Kern
History | 1997

Editor-in-chief at Apple News, former executive editor and editorial director of New York Magazine, and as deputy editor of the New York Times Magazine

Noorain Khan
Religious Studies, Women & Gender Studies, & Political Science | 2006

National President, Girl Scouts of the USA

Dolly Li
Art & Economics | 2012

Emmy award-winning video journalist and filmmaker

Casey Michel
English & Sports Management | 2010

Investigative journalist, head of the Combating Kleptocracy Program at the Human Rights Foundation and author of Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World

Evan Mintz
History | 2008

Journalist, attorney, and opinion and community engagement editor for Houston Chronicle, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing for a series on gun laws and violence

James Mischka
Art & Art History | 1985

Studied at Parsons School of Design, where he met Mark Badgley, and the duo went on to launch the fashion design label Badgley Mischka

Charles Renfro
Art, Art History & Architecture | 1987, 1989

Award-winning partner at Diller Scofidio + Renfro who led the team that designed Sarofim Hall, our new home for the visual arts at Rice

Huidi Xiang
Studio Art & Architecture | 2018

Sculptor based in Brooklyn, New York, whose work has been exhibited internationally