A List of Every Person to Receive an Honorary Degree from Emerson College
Emerson College awarded honorary degrees for the first time in 1955. Eighteen people were honored as part of that inaugural group. Since then, more than 300 people have been recipients of honorary degrees.
From that first group, two received a Doctor of Laws, 12 received a Master of Arts, and three people received a Doctor of Humane Letters. Unlike honorees from the past several decades, there were no hugely famous recipients in 1955. One of the more noteworthy honorees was the founder of WERS and chair of the Broadcasting Department, Charles W. Dudley.
As the decades went along, Emerson awarded honorary degrees to many people; some were already alums, and others were connected to industries that Emerson students studied.
Depending on your cultural references, the first nationally-known honoree was Richard “Red” Skelton in 1961. He starred on television and radio starting in the 1930s, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The majority of honorees have received a Doctor of Humane Letters. Honorees have also been awarded with a Doctor of Laws, Doctor of Literature, Master of Arts, and in 1983, Alfred D. Sensenbach became the one and only honoree to be awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts. Since 2009, Emerson has only awarded Doctor of Humane Letters to honorees.
A look back through the decades and you’ll see quite a bit of famous names. Norman Lear ’44 received a Doctor of Humane Letters in 1968. Other honorees include journalist David Frost, author John Updike, actor Alan Alda, actor Ben Vereen, actress Marlee Matlin, comedian Jerry Lewis, actor James Earl Jones, actress Jane Fonda, and comedian Carol Burnett.
Along with Lear, famous alums who received honorary degrees include Henry Winkler ‘67 (whose mentor, Professor Emerita Charlotte Lindgren, received one several years before him), Vin DiBona ‘66, Jay Leno ’73, Denis Leary ’79, and Bobbi Brown ‘79.
Noted politicians to receive degrees include current U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, the late civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis, and in 2003, President (then-Senator) Joe Biden was honored with a Doctor of Laws.
All research to create this exhaustive list was performed by the Emerson Archives & Special Collections Department.
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| Honorary Degrees | |||||
| Year | Ceremony | Honoree | Degree | ||
| 1955 | Julius S. Bixler | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Edna Allen Doriot | Master of Arts | ||||
| George F. Doriot | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Clare Plaummer Dresser ’92 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Charles W. Dudley | Master of Arts | ||||
| Rev. Rowland Gray-Smith | Master of Arts | ||||
| Jessie Royer Greaves ’01 | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Lillian Rose Hartigan ’12 | Master of Arts | ||||
| William Howland Kenney | Master of Arts | ||||
| Lynn Lunt (Lynn Fontanne) | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| S. Justus McKinley | Master of Arts | ||||
| June Hamblin Mitchell ’35 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Rev. Richard Donald Pierce | Master of Arts | ||||
| Samuel Dowse Robbins | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Helen Volansky Rose ’38 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Jessie Eldridge Southwick | Master of Arts | ||||
| Lowell Thomas | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Barbara Wellington ’18 | Master of Arts | ||||
| 1956 | Helen Hunt Arnold | Master of Arts | |||
| Alexander Brin | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| F. Curtis Canfield | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Anna Williams Cutler | Master of Arts | ||||
| Carl S. Ell | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Herbert J. Gezork | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Florence Stiles Lewis ’37 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Robert J. Munce | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Harriet Diven Nesbitt ’24 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Helen T. Patten | Master of Arts | ||||
| Jacob Weslet Reeves | Master of Arts | ||||
| 1957 | Vernon R. Alden ’45 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Sylvia Folsom Bushnell ’19 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Harold C. Case | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Mary A. Doehler | Master of Arts | ||||
| Clara F. Fraser | Master of Arts | ||||
| Claude Moore Fuess | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Rev. Duncan Howlett | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Catherine Croswell Perry ’20 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Irene K. Thresher | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 1958 | Dana Meserve Cotton | Doctor of Laws | |||
| H. Barrett Davi ’29 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Janet Yorston Goldberg ’37 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Donald W. Goodrich | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| William Howland Kenney | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Elizabeth Wellington Lord ’57 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Herbert I. Margolis | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Grover J. Oberle | Master of Arts | ||||
| Elsie Rutherford Riddell | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| John Francis Sheilds ’38 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Melville Smith | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Jacob Stein | Master of Arts | ||||
| Joseph Nye Welch | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1959 | Bernice L Caswell ’20 | Master of Arts | |||
| Allen H.W. Higgins | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| William Francis Keesler | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| William Edgar Park | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Richard Wall | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Edward A. Weeks | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| John W. Zorn ’34 | Master of Arts | ||||
| 1960 | Astrid Linnea Anderson ’29 | Master of Arts | |||
| Philip G. Cashman | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Bill Dana ’50 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Joseph Kaplan | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Asa S. Knowles | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Leslie W. Leavitt | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Ralph Lowell | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Alice Moss Lyons | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Ethel Currie Odell ’13 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Mary Danforth Wappker ’24 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Roger C. Wilder | Master of Arts | ||||
| Amelia Green Wyner ’13 | Master of Arts | ||||
| 1961 | Coleman Bender | Master of Arts | |||
| Henry Stewart Carter | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Gertrude Binley Kay | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Rev. Walter D. Kring | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Anne D. MacDougall ’36 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Robert E. Moody | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Richard “Red” Skelton | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Douglas Sloane | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Patria Gerald Winalski | Master of Arts | ||||
| Erma Southard Winters ’36 | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1962 | Nelson W. Aldrich | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Helena Cook Beale ’25 | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Margaret Just Butcher ’34 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Alford Carleton | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Stweart Lee Garrison | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Gertrude Morrison ’15 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Dora Mitnick Nahum | Master of Arts | ||||
| Ruth Adams Parker ’10 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Mary Pickford Rogers | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Margaret E. Steward | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Rev. Rhys Williams | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1963 | Mark Bortman | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Rev. Lancelot A. Garrard | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Leonidas A. Nickole ’49 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Elliott Norton | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| George S. Richardson | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Barbara Christie Samuels ’41 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Robert W. Sarnoff | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| William B. Spink ’38 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Russell H. Stafford | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Malcolm R. Sutherland | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1964 | Albert Bush-Brown | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Josiah Floyd Buzzard | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Hon. Charles W. Cole | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Edward F. Gilday | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Rev. Rowland Gray-Smith | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Mary Larlin Huddy ’07 | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Loomis Patrick | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| George Sherman | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 1965 | Hon. Edward W. Brooke | Doctor of Laws | |||
| John F. Chapman ’24 | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Rev. Canon W. David Crockett | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| John Kielty | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Lt. Col. Lewis L. Millett | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Harry N. Nickerson ’51 | Master of Arts | ||||
| Robert Pettitt | Master of Arts | ||||
| Russell T. Smith | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Roger B. Tyler | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1966 | Felix Forte | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Donald H. McGannon | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| F. McLaughlin ’35 | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Dorothy Hall Parkhurst | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Roy Messer Pearson | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Catherine Croswell Perry ’20 | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Rev. Richard Donald Pierce | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| S. Richard Silverman | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1967 | Edward Albee | Doctor of Literature | |||
| Linton Andrews | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Roger W. Arnold | Master of Arts | ||||
| Paul L. Beane | Master of Arts | ||||
| Ross Cannon | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Thomas H. Dahill, Jr. | Master of Arts | ||||
| Herbert H. Harwood | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Charlotte H. Lindgren | Master of Arts | ||||
| Ruth Southwick Maxfield ’15 | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| S. Justus McKinley | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| John T.G. Nichols | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Charles E. Phillips | Master of Arts | ||||
| Cornelia Otis Skinner | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| 1968 | John Edward Fenton | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Howard B. Jefferson | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Norman Lear ’43 | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Elma Ina Lewis ’43 | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Joseph E. Levine | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| W. Webster McCann | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 1969 | Elmer E. Baker | Doctor of Literature | |||
| Ralph Arthur Burns | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Yousuf Karsh | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Hon. Elliot L. Richardson | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Charles E. Shain | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Col. Thomas P. Stafford | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1970 | Stuart Chase | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| David Frost | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Alanson B. Houghton | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| John Updike | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| 1971 | Erwin D. Canham | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Arthur Fiedler | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Hal Prince | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Rod Serling | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 1972 | Richard Chapin | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| R. Buckminster Fuller | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Laura Cabot Hodgkinson | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| DeHaven Ross | Master of Arts | ||||
| Charles I. Schottland | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1973 | Chester F. Collier ’50 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Donald Grunewald | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Edith Bladeslee Phelps | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Agnes H. Powers | Master of Arts | ||||
| Eugene Wesley Roddenberry | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Frank Stanton | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1974 | Louis George Cowan | Doctor of Literature | |||
| Elmer W. Lower | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Edwin Wilson Martin, Jr. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 1975 | Wallace Alger Bacon | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Nancy Hanks | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Ada Louise Huxtable | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| John. M. Lavine | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Lee Remick | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Helvi Siplia | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Thomas Wicker | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 1976 | Schuyler Garrison Chapin | Doctor of Literature | |||
| Bong Soo Lee | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Robert E. Leestamper | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| John P. McGovern | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Andrija Puharich | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Maurice H. Saval | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Richard E. Smolowe | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Robert Jospeh Wussler | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1977 | Alan Alda | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Morton N. Dubitsky (Dean) ’57 | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Patricia Neighbors ’43 | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Roderick Parker ’51 | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Benjamin A. Vereen | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 1978 | Jeffrey Auer | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Art Buchenwald | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Donis Dondis | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Edna Allen Doriot | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Marian Seldes | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Jean Stapleton | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Henry F. Winkler | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 1979 | Hon. Paul E. Tsongas | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Pedro Thomas Vasquez | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Oliver Woodruff | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1980 | Tharon Musser | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Michael Schultz | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Carol Burnett | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| June H. Mitchell | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| Thomas P. O’Neill | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Cardinal Umberto Medieros | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1981 | Betty W. Atherton | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Coleman C. Bender | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Mervyn E. Griffin | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Leonard H. Goldenson | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Virgil Thomson | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| 1982 | Leo Leroy Beranek | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Daniel J. Travanti | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 1983 | Tony Schwartz | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Alfred D. Sensenbach | Doctor of Fine Arts | ||||
| 1984 | Peggy Charren | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Sylvia Richardson | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| John Bernard Duff | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Jack Valenti | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1985 | Dorothy E. Rowe | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Julian J. Smith | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Isabel Sanford | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 1986 | Charlotte I. Lee | Doctor of Literature | |||
| Roger Dane | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Hon. Mark O. Hatfield | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1987 | Frank A. Tredinnick | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Fred W. Friendly | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Naomi Stroh Janover | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| William Work | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1988 | Richard A. Dysart | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Nikos Psacharopoulos | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Liv Ullman | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Marie Langster Boone | Master of Arts | ||||
| Ruth Fritz | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 1989 | Michael S. Dukakis | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| David Curtis Knapp | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| George Gerbner | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Steven Bochco | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| 1990 | Pran Dith | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Kathleen Turner | Doctor of Literature | ||||
| 1991 | Thomas J. Brokaw | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Michael Jay Solomon | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1992 | Lucille S. Salhany | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Irma Mann Stearns | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| John C. Zacharis | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Edward J. Markey | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Patricia McGovern | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1993 | Roger Monroe King | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Jerry Lewis | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Marlee Matlin | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Mary E. Moore | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| James St. Clair | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1994 | Vincent J. DiBona | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| James Earl Jones | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Kay Koplovitz | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Eckhardt C. Beck | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Enrique F. Senior | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1995 | Henry Hampton | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Donald Thurston | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Leslie Stahl | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Thomas M. Menino | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 1996 | David Brudnoy | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Jess Cain | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Doris Kearns Goodwin | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Alma Johnson Powell | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Henry W. Foster, Jr. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 1997 | Undergraduate | Shelton Jackson, M.F.A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| Marion Heard, M. Ed. | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Shoo Iwasaki, J.D. | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Donald Law, B.A. | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Patrick J. Purcell, M.B.A. | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Graduate | Eileen McNamara, M.S. | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Jerrold Ross, Ph.D. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 1998 | Graduate | David Hays, M.F.A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| Anna Faith Jones, M.A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 1999 | Undergraduate | Alice Hoffman, M.A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| Anthony Quinn | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Morley Safer | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Ted Leonsis | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Graduate | Tomie dePaola, Ph.D. | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Kip Tiernan, Ph.D. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2000 | Undergraduate | Jane Fonda | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| Doris R. Haddock | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| R.E. Turner, B.A. | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Graduate | Frank Newman, Ph.D. | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Ed.D. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2001 | Undergraduate | Edmund N. Ansin, B.S. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| Charles J. Beard, Esq., J.D. | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Patricia Edenfield Mitchell, M.A. | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Graduate | Stanley Kunitz, M.A., L.H.D., Litt.D. | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Sue Miller, M.A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2002 | Undergraduate | Gerald Schoenfeld, L.L.B. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| Sherry Lansing, B.S. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Graduate | Walter V. Robinson, B.A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Edward Eskandarian, M.B.A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2003 | Undergraduate | Leo J. Hindery, Jr., M.B.A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| The Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr., L.L.B. | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| Graduate | Thomas Lux ’70, B.A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Christopher B. Cerf, A.B. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2004 | Undergraduate | Terry Semel | |||
| Michael E. Capuano | |||||
| William C. Van Faasen | |||||
| Graduate | David Gergen | ||||
| Gish Jen | |||||
| 2005 | Undergraduate | Denis Leary ’79, B.F.A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| Peter G. Meade ’70 | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Robert F. X. Sillerman, B.A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Graduate | Jean Picker Firstenberg, B.A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Evan Thomas, L.L.B. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2006 | John Kerry | ||||
| Gwen Ifill | |||||
| Thomas Payzant | |||||
| Robert Steele | |||||
| 2007 | Undergraduate | Robert A Silverman, Ph.D. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| Ted Cutler ’51, A.B. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Tom Freston, M.B.A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Graduate | Ian Bowles, M.A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Walter Mosley, B.A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2008 | Undergraduate | Andrew Sarris | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| Doug A. Herzog ’81 | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Graduate | Charles V. Willie | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Rebecca Newberger Goldstein | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2009 | Undergraduate | Miloš Forman, MA | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| Blair Underwood, BFA | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Graduate | Fernando M. Reimers, EdD | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), BA | Doctor of Laws | ||||
| 2010 | Undergraduate | Melvin b. Miller, JD | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| Bernard Cornwell, BA | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Graduate | Mark Samels, BS | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Vicki S. Freimuth, PhD | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2011 | Undergraduate | Janet Langhart Cohen | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| Kevin Bright, BA ‘76 | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Marilyn Zacharis, MA | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Jacqueline W. Liebergott, PhD | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Richard LaGravenese, MFA | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Graduate | Janet Yuen-Mei Wu, BA | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Clifford Christians, PhD | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2012 | Undergraduate | Tony Kushner, MFA | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| Bobbi Brown, BFA ‘79 | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Robert Pinsky, PhD | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| David Gregory, BA | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2013 | Undergraduate | Debbie Allen, BFA | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| Rita Dove, MFA | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Eugene Lang, MS | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Max Mutchnick, BS ‘87 | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2014 | Undergraduate | Scott Simon | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| Catherine D’Amato, BA | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Don Lemon, BA | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Jay Leno, BSSp ‘73 | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2015 | Undergraduate | Robin Roberts | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| Cheri Blauwet, MD | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Natasha Tretheway | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Anne Hawley | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2016 | Alice Sebold | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Danielle Legros Georges ‘86 | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Juan Gonzalez | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2017 | Undergraduate | Anita Hill, JD | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| David McCullough, BA | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Claudia Rankine, MFA | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Dennis Lehane, MFA | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2018 | Undergraduate | Elspeth Cypher, BA ’80, JD | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||
| Tom Perrotta, MA | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Deeyah Khan | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Billy Collins, PhD | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2019 | Eduardo Padrón, PhD | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Nell Irvin Painter, PhD | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Jose Antonio Vargas, BA | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| Soledad O’Brien, BA | Doctor of Humane Letters | ||||
| 2022 | Undergraduate | Adele Lim ’96 Toshi Reagon Steve Samuels | Doctor of Humane Letters Doctor of Humane Letters Doctor of Humane Letters |
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