Past Rutgers University Honorary Degree Recipients
This list of honorary degree recipients is sortable by last name, year conferred, and degree type. Click on the title of the column to sort the list by that particular content.
We have added the honorary degree citations for some of our recipients. Click on the Citation images, where shown, to read them.
Last name | First name | Year | Degree | Citation |
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Cowen | David Laurence | 1984 | Doctor of Letters | |
Remnick | David Jay | 2022 | Doctor of Letters | |
Boocock | Philip Milledoler Brett | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
Ifill | Gwen | 2008 | Doctor of Letters | |
Miers | Earl Schenck | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
Caldwell | William Anthony | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
Miller | Samuel Clifford | 1983 | Doctor of Letters | |
Ozick | Cynthia | 1999 | Doctor of Letters | |
Bowen | Catherine Drinker | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
Cameron | Donald Forrester | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
Boyd | Hugh Newell | 1970 | Doctor of Letters | |
Rees | Mina | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
Mitchell | Eleanor | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
Cunningham | John T. | 1974 | Doctor of Letters | |
Boyd | Julian Parks | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
Mailer | Norman | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
Welty | Eudora | 1978 | Doctor of Letters | |
Redd | Dana | 2023 | Doctor of Letters | |
Fergusson | Francis | 1975 | Doctor of Letters | |
Hellman | Lillian | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
Marchand | Leslie Alexis | 1981 | Doctor of Letters | |
Jensen | Merril | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
Bailyn | Bernard | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
Baker | Russell Wayne | 1989 | Doctor of Letters | |
Schlesinger, Jr. | Arthur M. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
Moore | Marianne Craig | 1955 | Doctor of Letters | |
Wescott | Glenway | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
Lerner | Gerda | 1988 | Doctor of Letters | |
Herbert | Robert M. "Bob" | 2006 | Doctor of Letters | |
Bunch | Lonnie G. | 2013 | Doctor of Letters | |
Johnson | Thomas Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
Morgan | Edmund Sears | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
Parsons | Talcott | 1977 | Doctor of Letters | |
Brée | Germaine | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
Baron | Salo Wittmayer | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
Morris | Richard Brandon | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
Reston | James Barrett | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
Marshall | Paule | 1996 | Doctor of Letters | |
Jordan | Barbara | 1993 | Doctor of Letters | |
Bate | W. Jackson | 1979 | Doctor of Letters | |
Morrison | Toni | 2011 | Doctor of Letters | |
White, Jr. | Lynn | 1979 | Doctor of Letters | |
Charanis | Peter | 1980 | Doctor of Letters | |
Judson | Margaret Atwood | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
Roberts | Dorothy | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
DiFrancesco | Donald T. | 2007 | Doctor of Laws | |
Brower | Charles Hendrickson | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
Stillman | W. Paul | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | |
Hirschman | Albert O. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
Morse | David Abner | 1957 | Doctor of Laws |