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Honorary Degree Recipients

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  • Alberto Vilar, Doctor of Humane Letters (rescinded, October 2018)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

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