Honorary Degree Recipients
2024
- Terry Fulmer, Doctor of Humane Letters
2023
- Kevin Ryan, Doctor of Humane Letters
- James White, Doctor of Humane Letters
2022
- Fr. Christopher Keenan, Doctor of Humane Letters
2021
- Charles L. Flynn, Jr., Doctor of Humane Letters
2019
- James J. Breheny, Doctor of Science
- Daniel A. Reingold, Doctor of Laws
2018
- Howard M. Fillit, MD, Doctor of Science
2017
- Laura L. Anglin, Doctor of Laws
- Maria T. Vullo, Doctor of Laws
2016
- Michael Capasso and NYCO, Doctor of Arts
2015
- Deryck A. Palmer, Doctor of Laws
- Hon. Albert del Rosario, Doctor of Laws
2014
- Eugenia Ulasewicz, Doctor of Laws
2013
- Vikki Pryor, Doctor of Laws
2012
- Julianne Imperato-McGinley, Doctor of Science
2011
- Robert Gallo, Doctor of Science
2010
- Rosemary T. Berkery, Doctor of Laws
2009
- John Patrick Shanley, Doctor of Humane Letters
2008
- Trina D. Gordon, Doctor of Laws
2007
- Nicholas Lehmann, Doctor of Laws
2006
- Thomas J. Moran, Doctor of Laws
2005
- James Goodrich, Doctor of Science
- David Staffenberg, Doctor of Science
2003
- Paula Madison, Doctor of Laws
2002
- Valerie J. Reidy, Doctor of Science
- The Editors and Reporters of The New York Times “Portraits of Grief,” Doctor of Humane Letters
2001
- Mary Bresnahan, Doctor of Laws
- Florence Wald, Doctor of Laws
- Alberto Vilar, Doctor of Humane Letters (rescinded, October 2018)
2000
- Nancy Lublin, Doctor of Humane Letters
1999
- Margaret C. Heagarty, MD, Doctor of Humane Letters
1998
- Nancy Leftenant-Colon, Doctor of Humane Letters
- Mary Ann Quaranta ’48, Doctor of Laws
1997
- Brother Thomas Scanlan, Doctor of Laws
- Juanita Bing Newton, Doctor of Laws
- Helen Prejean, CSJ, Doctor of Humane Letters
1996
- Maria Lawrence Keating, SC, Doctor of Humane Letters
- Doris Smith, SC, Doctor of Humane Letters and President Emerita
- Karel Husa, Doctor of Humane Letters
- Marjorie C. Wagner, Doctor of Humane Letters
1995
- Suzanne Farrell, Doctor of Humane Letters
- William J. Flynn, Doctor of Laws
- Miriam Naveira DeRodon, Doctor of Laws
1994
- Thomas A. Coleman, Doctor of Laws
- Kathleen P. Knowles, Doctor of Humane Letters
1993
- Mary Rose McGeady, SC, DC, Doctor of Humane Letters
- Charles Osgood, Doctor of Humane Letters
1992
- Mary J. Giuffra, Doctor of Humane Letters
- Giandomenico Picco, Doctor of Laws
1991
- Robert J. McGuire, Doctor of Laws
1990
- Leonard Lief, Doctor of Humane Letters
- Peter H. Sauer, Doctor of Laws
1989
- John F. Keenan, Doctor of Laws
1988
- Mary Linehan, SC, Doctor of Humane Letters
- Fred R. Sullivan, Doctor of Humane Letters
- Robert M. Hayes, Doctor of Laws
1987
- Brother J. Stephen Sullivann, Doctor of Humane Letters
1986
- Vartan Gregorian, Doctor of Humane Letters
1985
- J. Peter Grace, Doctor of Laws
1984
- Aline Griffith ’41, Doctor of Humane Letters
- Maria Corazon Cojuangco Aquino ’53, Doctor of Humane Letters
- John Cardinal O’Connor, Doctor of Humane Letters
1983
- John W. Kluge, Doctor of Laws
1982
- Henry D. Paley, Doctor of Laws
1981
- Hon. Peter A. Peyser, Doctor of Humane Letters
1980
- Hon. Mario Merola, Doctor of Laws
1979
- Martin F. Shea, Doctor of Laws
1977
- Thomas A. Murphy, Doctor of Humane Letters
1976
- Hon. John E. Flynn, Doctor of Laws
1975
- Brother Gregory Nugent, Doctor of Letters
- Hon. Malcolm Wilson, Doctor of Laws
1973
- Mary David Barry, SC, Doctor of Letters
1972
- Joseph W. McGovern, Doctor of Letters
1971
- Joseph Tusiani, Doctor of Letters
- Mattie M. Cook, Doctor of Humane Letters
1970
- Brother Abdon Lewis Garavalia, FSC, Doctor of Letters
1969
- John A. Coleman, Doctor of Humane Letters
1968
- Terence Cardinal Cooke, Doctor of Laws
- James A. Shannon, MD, Doctor of Humane Letters
1967
- Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, PhD, Doctor of Laws (rescinded, October 2018)
1966
- Helen Augusta Wayne, Doctor of Humane Letters
- Hon. Sir Etienne Dupuch, OBE, Doctor of Laws
1965
- Anthony Terrine, Doctor of Letters
- Kathryn O’Hay Granahan, Doctor of Laws
1964
- Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenans, Doctor of Laws
1963
- Francis Cardinal Spellman, Doctor of Laws
1955
- Matilde Ibanez de Battle Berres, Doctor of Humane Letters
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1953
- Marie Lyons Killilea, Master of Humane Letters
1947
- Marie Roach Dougherty, Doctor of Humane Letters
- Anne Murray McDonnell, Doctor of Humane Letters
- Elizabeth Sullivan Ridder, Doctor of Humane Letters
- Anne O’Hare McCormick, Doctor of Letters
1937
- Evelyn Quinlan Gonzales, Doctor of Humane Letters
1934
- Rev. James Gillis, Doctor of Letters
1932
- Mary T. Delaney, Doctor of Letters
1931
- Susan Duffy, Doctor of Letters
- Francis New, Doctor of Letters
1930
- Baptiste Meras, Doctor of Letters
- John Reber, Doctor of Letters
1922
- Agnes L Sadlier, Doctor of Letters
- Anna T. Sadlier, Doctor of Letters
1919
- Blanche M. Kelly, Doctor of Literature