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• Alberto Vilar, Doctor of Humane Letters (rescinded, October 2018)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