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, M.D., 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Alberto Vilar, Doctor of Humane Letters (rescinded, October 2018)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, M.D., 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, C.S.J., Doctor of Humane Letters

1996
Maria Lawrence Keating, S.C., Doctor of Humane Letters
Doris Smith, S.C., 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, S.C., D.C., 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, S.C., 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, S.C., 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, F.S.C., Doctor of Letters

1969
John A. Coleman, Doctor of Humane Letters

1968
Terence Cardinal Cooke, Doctor of Laws
James A. Shannon, M.D., Doctor of Humane Letters

1967
Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Ph.D., Doctor of Laws (rescinded, October 2018)

1966
Helen Augusta Wayne, Doctor of Humane Letters
Hon. Sir Etienne Dupuch, O.B.E., 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 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