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Each year at Commencement, the College awards honorary doctorates to those honorees selected by a committee of faculty. The Honorary Degree Committee makes their selection from a list of nominees compiled from suggestions made by faculty and staff. For more information about the selection criteria, see page A7 in the . Note: Click on the name of the honoree for more information, such as a link to video of their ceremony remarks, a news story, and/or text of their honorary degree award citation, as available.

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2019

Amy Tan, DHL

Edith Renfrow Smith ’37, DHL

Richard Royal Fisher ’61, DS

Kristin DeMoss, DSS

2018

2017

Kumail Nanjiani ’01, DHL

Emily Pfitsch, DHL

Barb Van Ersvelde, DH

Daniel Werner ’91, DL

2016

Zadie Smith, DHL

Thomas Cole ’71, DL*

Fred Hersch ’77, DHL

Claudia Swisher, DSS

2015

Bill McKibben, DHL

Penny Bender Sebring ’64 and Charles Ashby Lewis, DL

Mary Seely, DS

Kit Abel Hawkins, DSS

2014

Nancy Giles, DHL

Dorje Gurung ’94, DS

Sterling Lord ’42, DHL

Jaya Subramanian, DSS

2013

Sarah Kay, DHL

Nathaniel Borenstein ’80, DS

David Abarr ’83, DS

Bonnie Tinker ’69, DHL

2012

Jamaica Kincaid, DHL

Kay Bucksbaum ’51, DL

Pat Irwin ’77, DHL

2011

Anna Quindlen, DHL

David Feldman ’71, DHL

Henry Wilhelm ’68, DS

Pardis Sabeti, DS

2010

Jeffrey Sachs, DHL

Lonabelle “Kappie” Kaplan Spencer ’47, DL

Sam Tanenhaus ’77, DHL

2009

Thomas L. Friedman, DHL

Jodie Levin-Epstein ’72, DL

John F. Schwaller ’69, DHL

A. Gregory Theilmann ’72, DL

2008

Judith Butler, DHL

Rekha Basu, DHL

Dr. John W. Canady ’80, DS

James H. Lowry ’61, DL

2007

Angela Y. Davis, DHL

Susan Asbrook Harvey ’75, DHL

John Brady Keisling, DL

Margaret Tolbert ’79, DS

2006

Thomas Vilsack, DL

James Banks, DHL

Patricia O’Conner ’71, DHL

Christopher Vaughan ’71, DS

2005

Carol Bellamy, DHL

Kathryn Jagow Mohrman ’67, DHL

Rein Saral ’65, DHL

2004

William Schulz, DHL

Frances Moore Lappé, DHL

Debhanom Muangman ’58, DS

Mary Sue Wilson Coleman ’65, DS

2003

Gordon Edelstein ’76, DFA

Vernon E. Faulconer ’61, DL

Merry Wiesner-Hanks ’73, DHL

2002

Robert B. Reich, DL

Raymond D. Horton ’62, DHL

Vera Cooper Rubin, DS

2001

Caroline Scheaffer Arnold ’66, DHL

Robert A. Dahl, DL

Jim Diers ’75, DL

Robert P. Moses, DHL

2000

Dolores C. Huerta, DHL

Kim Kihwan ’57, DHL

Mary Rosenthal Lefkowitz, DHL

Arthur C. Risser ’60, DHL

1999

Marcia L. Colish, DHL

Duane W. Krohnke ’61, DHL

Anne Campbell Spence ’66, DS

Fred Wertheimer, DHL

1998

Alberta Nelson Coleman ’35, DHL

Joycelyn Elders, DS

George T. McJimsey ’58, DHL

Kunio Waki ’66, DHL

1997

Bertha Daubendiek ’36, DHL

Jean Bethke Elshtain, DHL

David McCullough, DHL

David Mura ’74, DHL

1996

Robert F. Austin ’54, DHL

Paula J. McDermott ’75, DHL

Albert J. Pinder, DHL

Ann W. Richards, DL

1995

Claude W. Ahrens ’38, DHL

Sister Dorina Chase, DHL

Thomas W. Merrill ’71, DL

Alan D. Wheat ’72, DL

1994

Mary Frances Berry, DHL

I. Craig Henderson ’63, DS

Paul G. Risser ’61, DS

Joseph F. Rosenfield 1925, DHL

Lanford Wilson, DHL

1993

Harry Edwards, DHL

Wallace D. Loh ’65, DL

David G. Marker ’59, DS

Martha Nussbaum, DHL

1992

Alfred W. Crosby, DHL

Evelyn Davis, DL

Linda Kaufmann Kerber, DHL

Randall C. Morgan, Jr. ’65, S

1991

David Billington, DC

Bob Edwards, DHL

Grant O. Gale, DS

Liane Ellison Norman ’59, DHL

1990

Johnnetta B. Cole, DL

Amb. George E. Moose ’66, DL

Michael P. Schulhof ’64, DS

Lauren Soth, DHL

1989

Edward M. Hirsch ’72, DHL

Donald E. Knuth, DS

Tetusuo Najita ’58, DL

Geneva Overholser, DHL

1988

Charles W. Anderson, DL

Marian Wright Edelman, DL

Gary Giddons ’70, DFA

Meridel LeSueur, DHL

1987

Thomas R. Cech ’70, DS

Mario M. Cuomo, DL

Helene Scriabine, DHL

Robert B. Winter ’54, DS

1986

Hortense Calisher, DHL

Curtis A. Harnack ’49, DHL

Brian E. Urquhart, DL

Henry T. Wingate ’69, DL

1985

Benjamin R. Barber, DL

Judith L. Mann, DHL

1984

Sir Roger Bannister, DS

E. Douglas Brown, DHL

Amy K. Clampitt ’41, DHL

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, DHL

Mary Louise Smith, DL

1983

John Kenneth Galbraith, DL

Margaret E. Kuhn, DL

George W. Simon ’55, DS

1982

Samuel Hoyt Elbert 1928, DHL

Mary Emily Hannah ’58, DL

William Jovanovich, DHL

Dean Melvin Roosa, DS

1981

Barry Commoner, DL

John C. Culver, DL

Philip F. Nelson ’50, DHL

Clinton A. Rehling ’39, DHL

1980

Joan Wilson Sullivan ’50, DHL

Howard M. Warrington ’34, DL

Edwin M. Yoder, Jr., DHL

1979

Bernard Bailyn, DHL

Jane Temple Howard, DHL

John R. Parish 1927, DS

Marilyn Walsh ’50, DL

1978

Betty Hornor Liljestrand, DL

Samuel R. Rosenthal, DHL

Joseph Frazier Wall ’41, DHL

Edward Osborne Wilson, DS

1977

R. Hal Dean ’38, DL

Patricia A. McIlrath ’37, DHL

Louis “Studs” Turkel, DHL

Garrett “Garry’ Trudeau, DHL

1976

Murray Kempton, DL

Ann Jacobson McGonigle ’49, DA

Gregor Piatigorsky, DA

Thomas Fisher Railsback ’54, DL

1975

Ralph James Kaufmann ’47, DHL

Glenn Leggett, DHL

1974

Thomas Barnabas, DL

Hanna Holborn Gray, D.Litt.

William F. Hejna ’54, DS

Blair Stewart, DL

Nancy Theilgaard Watts ’48, DHL

1973

Harry A. Duncan ’38, DHL

Lucius Perry Gregg, DS

Burton W. Jones ’23, DS

Marion Musser Lloyd, DL

Louise Rosenfield Noun 1929, DHL

1972

Robert W. Crawford, DL

G. Lester Duke 1925, DHL

R. Buckminster Fuller, D.Litt.

Herbert J. Hancock ’60, DFA

Clair C. Patterson ’43, DS

Dorothy Daniell Schramm, DL

James S. Schramm, DFA

John R. Spencer ’47, DFA

Jessie L. Ternberg ’46, DS

Fred A. Winter 1921, DHL

1971

Andrew Billingsley ’51, DHL

Roy J. Clampitt 1911, DHL

Alfred F. Conard ’32, DL

Robert B. Heilman, DL

Bayless A. Manning, DL

Randall C. Morgan, DHL

S. Idell Pyle 1916, DS

Robert D. Ray, DL

Harvey Uhlenhopp ’36, DL

1970

Horace Mann Bond, DHL

H. Maurice Fridlund 1918, DL

Morse W. Rew 1907, DS

John G. Stoessinger ’50, DL

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., D.Litt.

1969

John F. Chapman 1924, DL

Philip P. Hallie ’46, D.Litt.

Harold E. Hughes, DL

Roger P. Loveland 1919, DS

Dring D. Needham 1914, DL

James H. Stauss ’36, DL

Curtis W. Tarr, DHL

1968

Barry Commoner, DS

Dennis H. Kelly 1918, DS

Myron Koenig ’32, DHL

Dwight J. Porter ’38, DL

1967

James I. Armstrong, D.Litt.

Daniel Bell, DHL

Stephen Benedict, DHL

George Champion, DL

Ralph Ellison, DHL

Fred W. Friendly, DHL

Richard Gilman, DHL

Peter S. Hackes ’48, DHL

Samuel I. Hayakawa, D.Litt.

Gerald Holton, D.Sc.

Sally Hughes-Schrader 1917, DS

Martin Luther King, Jr., DHL

William H. Lawrence, DHL

Benjamin E. Mays, D.Litt.

George McGovern, DL

Dean E. McHenry, DL

Marshall McLuhan, D.Litt.

Leonard B. Meyer, DHL

Ashley Montagu, DS

Willie Morris, DHL

Calvin H. Plimpton, DS

Robert Rauschenberg, DHL

Richard H. Rovere, DHL

Harold C. Schonberg, DHL

1966

E. Wilson Lyon, DL

Gabriel R. Manalac 1916, D.Ed.

1965

H. Eugene Breitenbach 1925, DL

Dwight David Eisenhower, DL

Mary Patterson Routt 1908, DH

Helen Constance White, DHL

1964

Howard Rothmann Bowen, D.Litt.

Francis Crispin Ellis 1914, DD

Theodore Alexander Gill, DD

Eugene Johnson McNeel, DL

James Louis Robertson 1929, DL

Henry Nelson Wieman, D.Litt.

1963

I. Hwthorne Arey 1928, DL

George A. Buttrick, DD

Arthur J. Jones 1893, DL

Arnold J. Toynbee, DHL

1962

Harry S. Ashmore, DL

Luang Binbakyha Bidyabhed ’23, DS

Eugene Carson Blake, DD

James H. Douglas, DL

L. F. Hickernell 1920, DS

Anna Federsen Petteys 1912, DL

1961

Joseph I. Brody 1911, DL

William Graham Cole, DL

Dwight G. McCarty 1901, DL

Allan Nevins, D.Litt.

William B. Otis 1901, DHL

Alonzo Petteys 1911, DL

1960

Conrado Benitez, DL

James Wills Lenhart, DD

C. Ward Macy 1920, DL

Wilfred J. McNeil, DL

Herbert A. Templeton 1905, DL

Paul Weiss, DHL

Theodore O. Yntema, DL

1959

Browne Barr ’39, DD

Carl C. Compton 1913, DL

Roswell Garst, DL

Raymond D. Harriman 1909, DHL

Keyes D. Metcalf, D.Litt.

George D. Stoddard, DFA

Burt J. Thompson 1894, DL

1958

Robert H. Aborn 1918, DS

Evelyn Fisher Frisble 1898, DS

Edward R. Murrow, DL

Eber L. Palmer 1918, DL

1957

Lewis R. Barrett 1917, DL

Gardner Cowles, DL

Clifford C. Crump, DS

Frank F. Everest ’26, DL

James F. Findlay 1922, DL

Raymond A. Hare 1924, DL

MacKinlay Kantor, D.Litt.

Perry Miller, D.Litt.

James A. Pike, DD

William G. Pollard, DD

Liston Pope, DD

David Riesman, DL

James Johnson Sweeney, DFA

James A. Van Allen, DS

William H. Whyte, Jr., DL

Norbert Wiener, DS

1956

George Leland Bach ’36, DL

Mandell Morton Bober, DL

Hallie Flanagan Davis 1911, DFA

Donald A. Quarles, DS

J. Stuart Russell 1913, DL

1955

John Cowles, DL

Charles Harold McCloy, DS

1954

Mason Ladd 1920, DL

Thurgood Marshall, DL

John H. Spencer ’29, DL

Joseph N. Welch 1914, DL

1953

Christopher J. Abbott, DL

Truman B. Douglass, DL

Frederick D. Kirsch, Jr., DFA

Wu Kuo-cheng ’23, DL

Raymond B. McClenon, DS

1952

Nelson I. Baxter, DD

Carl Joachim Friedrich, DL

Gerard S. Nollen 1902, DL

Hudson H. Pittman 1912, DD

Earle D. Ross, DHL

1951

Detley Wulf Bronk, DS

Clark Graham, DL

Robert Wells Harper, DL

William L. Laurence, DHL

1950

Mary Braginton 1920, DHL

James Francis Cooke, DFA

James Norman Hall 1910, D.Litt.

Earl D. Strong 1909, DL

1949

Maynard B. Barnes 1919, DL

John Scott Everton, DD

Theodore W. Schultz, DL

Forrest W. Seymour, DHL

1948

William Gardner McLaren 1898, DL

Royal John Montgomery, DD

Philip Winston Pillsbury, DL

Arthur William Radford, DL

1947

John Stark Evans 1913, DM

Archibald K. Gardner 1891, DL

William Gardner, DL

Byron Sharpe Hollinshead, DL

Andrew Conway Ivy, DS

Leland West Mann, DD

1946

Ronald Bridges, DD

Jean Charlot, DFA

Marshall Field III, DL

Norman Foerster, DHL

Carl Joaquin Hambro, DL

Paul Gray Hoffman, DL

Leonard Eugene Hurtz, DL

Ralph H. Lyman 1907, DM

W. Albert Noyes Jr. 1919, DS

Ezequiel Padilla, DL

Jules Romains, D.Litt.

Wiley Blount Rutledge, Jr. DL

John Patrick Ryan, DL

John H. Talbott ’24, DS

Everett Stanton Turner 1911, DL

1945

Ernest Edward Charlton 1913, DS

Donald J. Cowling, DL

Fred Darby 1895, DL

John Dashiell Stoops, DL

1944

Henry Shoemaker Conard, DS

Russell Cowles, DFA

Delton Thomas Howard, DHL

Harold S. Matthews 1916, DD

Richard Morrow Steiner ’24, DD

Harry S. Truman, DL

Carl S. Weist, DD

1943

Jesse M. Burlew 1900, DS

Herbert C. Holdridge, DL

Florence Stewart Kerr 1912, DL

Harold Dewey Smith, DL

Edward A. Steiner, DHL

1942

Paul Hensen Appleby 1913, DL

David Ernest Crabb 1902, DD

Eleanor Lowden 1903, DHL

Henry Robinson Luce, DL

Modie Spiegel, Jr., MA

Joseph Sunnen, MS

1941

Arthur Edward Andersen, DL

Virgil Melvin Hancher, DL

Dennis Hugh Kelly 1918, MA

William Wesley Waymack, D.Litt.

James Vincent Yager 1920, MA

1940

Glenn Clark 1905, D.Litt.

Charles Eben Cushman 1891, DD

Albert William Merrill 1890, D.Ed.

John Scholte Nollen DHL

1939

Frederick H. Bair 1912, D.Ed.

Paul W. Richards 1894, DL

1938

Rudolph Ganz, DM

P. Adelstein Johnson, DD

Francis Eber Palmer 1888, DL

1937

Ernest Baden Benger 1907, DS

Rossetter Gleason Cole, DM

1936

Oliver Ellsworth Buckley 1909, DS

1935

Chester Charles Davis 1911, DL

Harry Lloyd Hopkins 1912, DL

Ervine Peter Inglis 1916, DD

Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, DL

1932

Eliot �������� Mears, DL

Reinhold Niebuhr, DD

Irving Berdine Richman, D.Litt.

1931

Gordon Lockwood Berry 1906, BA

Archibald Cattell 1891, DL

Harry Elmore Downer 1882, DL

Ray Anderson Eusden 1912, DD

Ruth Sucko Nuhn 1914, MA

Robert Ballantine Sweet 1900, BA

Charles Elmer Tower 1896, DD

1930

Eli P. Clark, DL

John Lewis Gillin 1895, DL

William Squire Kenyon 1890, DL

1929

Norman Robert Blatherwick 1909, DS

Salmon Oliver Levinson, DL

Vere VanderHyden Loper 1915, DD

William Albert Noyes, Sr. 1879, DS

1928

James Levi Barton, DD

Samuel Robinson Williams 1901, DS

1927

Ernest James Jaqua 1907, DL

1926

Caroline Sheldon 1893, D.Litt.

1925

Joanna Harris Haines 1865, MA

Cecelia I. Jeffrey 1909, MA

William Edward Paul 1905, DD

1924

Harry Waldo Norris 1886, D.Sc.

Garrett Polhemus Wyckoff 1894, DL

1923

Edward Weeks Cross, DD

Jesse Myron Owen 1890, MA

1922

Margaret Moninger 1913, MA

1920

Edward Cary Hayes, DL

Henry James 1883, MA

Wilmot Brookings Mitchell, D.Litt.

Edward Caldwell Moore, DL

John Winthrop Platner, DL

Walter George Smith, DL

1919

Henry Forsythe Milligan, DD

Henry Morgenthau, Sr., DL

1918

Jacob Wendell Clark, MA

Albert Shaw 1879, DL

Selden Lincoln Whitcomb 1886, D.Litt.

1917

Epghraim Douglass Adams 1887, DL

Henry Edwine Brown, MA

Malcolm Dana, DD

Daniel D. Murphy, DL

William Wheelock Peet, DL

Henry W. Tuttle, DD

Arthur L. Weatherly 1892, DD

1916

Emilius Clark Dudley 1899, DL

William D. Evans, Sr., DL

Harry Ernest Peabody, DD

Byron Webster Preston, DL

John Oliver Thrush, DD

1915

John Cheesman Clark, DL

Charles Hamilton Hughes, DL

Harvey Ingham, DL

Rev. William Allen Knight, DD

Thomas McClelland, DL

Rev. William J. Minchin, DD

John Calvin Montgomery 1893, MA

Alfred Noyes, D.Litt.

Rev. Naboth Osborne, DD

Ellen Sabin, DL

Samuel Strauss, DL

1914

James Perkins Burling 1889, DD

Raymond Calkins, DD

Harlow Spencer Mills 1874, DD

Lee L. Summers, MA

1913

Charles Luther Fitch 1896, MA

George C. Williams, DD

1912

Oliver F. Emerson 1882, D.Litt.

Charles E. McKinley 1891, DD

Theodore C. Munger 1884, DL

Edward B. Scheve D. Mus.

1911

Dana W. Bartlett 1882, DD

Jesse Macy 1870, DL

1910

Frank William Johnson 1897, MA

1909

Ewing Ogden Tade 1858, DD

1907

Alexander Francis, DD

Abbie Williams Hill, MA

Charles Noble, DD

1906

Azora S. Davis, DD

J.E. Dodge 1875, DL

Isaac A. Loos, DL

James E. Snowden, DD

George E. White 1882, DD

1905

Asa Lee Ames 1882, MA

Paul Shorey, DL

George Meason Whicher 1882, D.Litt.

1904

Asher Anderson, DD

Andrew B. Chalmers, DD

Francis E. Clark, DL

Frank G. Smith, DD

1903

Rev. George Luther Cady, DD

Rev. George D. Marsh 1867, DD

Rev. Robert L. Marsh, DD

1902

Rev. Edward T. Harper, DD

1901

Rev. C.O. Day, DD

1898

Henry Carter Adams 1874, DL

Charles E. Bessey, DL

Eli P. Clark, MA

Homer Taylor Fuller, DD

William W. Peet, MA

James H. Pettee, DD

Charles Theodore Steck 1858, DD

Edmund March Vittum, DD

Frank N. White, DD

Frank P. Wigton 1879, MA

John Hill Windsor 1854, DD

1896

Rev. Stephen G. Barnes, DD

1894

Rev. Edward T. Fairbank, DD

1892

Charles A. Berry, DD

Dr. E.C. Dudley MA

Luther C. Harris 1881, MA

Mahlon Willett 1869, DD

1891

Rev. James L. Hill 1871, DD

Judge W.L. Pattee, DL

Rev. William H. Ryder, DD

Rev. Samuel H. Virgin, DL

1890

John L. Atkinson, MA

Rev. John Wesley Carr 1865, MA

Hiram Landis Getz, M.D., MA

Lorettus S. Metcalf, DL

1889

Allen C. Barrows, DD

Thomas Davies, DD

H.T. Englehorn, AM

C.E. Harrington, DD

J.F. Heilner, AM

Julius A. Reed, DD

1888

Alexander Fleischmann, AM

Mary E. Snell 1869, AM

R.B. Snell 1870, AM

1887

Harvey Adams, DD

Henry E. Barnes, DD

Ephraim Cutter, DL

Albert H. Heath, DD

William Kincaid, DD

Daniel Lane, DD

Robert W. McAll, DD

1886

Charles F. Buss, MA

E.M. Cravath, DD

Charles F. Craver, MA

Edward A. Goodnow, MA

Irving J. Manatt, DL

A.F. Sherrill, DD

1884

James Brande, DD

David J. Brewer, DL

Judge William R. Lewis, MA

James Powell, DD

1883

William Bruce Allison, DL

Henry Seymour Barnes, Ph.D

Silas Leroy Blake, STD

Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers, AM

James Scott, STD

1882

Ephraim Adams, STD

David Otis Mears, STD

1881

James Falconer Wilson, DL

1880

George Washington Crary, DL

James Amazias Whitney, STD

1879

William Walter Woodworth, STD

1878

John Wesley Chapman, AM

Samuel Ives Curtis, STD

Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, STD

1877

Mary Ellis, AM

Charles Hammond, DL

Jesse Winegar Hough, STD

1876

Samuel Freeman Miller, DL

1875

John Bascom, STD

Selah Merrill, STD

Joshua Thomas Tucker, STD

1874

Israel Ward Andrews, DL

Stephan Rollins Dennen, STD

1873

Job Cushman, AM

Rhys Gwesyn Jones, STD

James Madison Love, DL

1872

Arthur Sherburne Hardy, AM

1871

Lucian Caleb Blanchard, AM

Charles Edward Cheney, STD

Thomas Drummond, DL

James Bruen Howell, DL

George Henry Lewis, AM

Edward Pruyn 1869, AM

George Reed Ransom, AM

Julian Monson Sturtevant, DL

George Thacher, STD

1870

Richard Brockway Bull, AM

Chester Cicero Cole, DL

Jesse Guernsey, STD

William Gardner Hammond, DL

George Slocum Folger Savage, STD

John Teesdale, AM

1869

Charles Aldrich, AM

Moses Willard Bartlett, AM

James Frederick Joy, DL

Crescentius Niles Tarbox, STD

1868

Charles Frederick Boynton, AM

Alexander Huntington Clapp, STD

Charles Henry Conklin, AM

James Williston Patterson, DL

Orestes Hawley St. John, AM

Israel Perkins Warren, STD

Lyman Whiting, STD

1867

Samuel Davies Cochran, STD

John Putnam Gulliver, STD

James Harlan, DL

Jonathan Piper, AM

1866

Orville Willard Merrill, MA

Charles Christopher Parry, MA

Charles Abiathar White, AM

1865

Henry Martyn Dexter, DL

George Daniel Frisbie, MA

James William Grimes, DL

Francis Wayland Palmer, MA

Edwin McMasters Stanton, DL

1863

John Forest Dillon, DL

Abram Scott Kissell, MA

George Grover Wright, DL

* On Jan. 13, 2021, Thomas Cole ’71 voluntarily relinquished his honorary degree.