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Honorary Degree Recipients

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  • Alberto Vilar, Doctor of Humane Letters (rescinded, October 2018)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