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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan | Barbara | 1993 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hayden | Carla D. | 2017 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Wilson | G. Willow | 2021 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Nicolson | Marjorie Hope | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bate | W. Jackson | 1979 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Morrison | Toni | 2011 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Charanis | Peter | 1980 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Quarles | Benjamin | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Franklin | John Hope | 1990 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hinojosa | Maria | 2022 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Oates | Joyce Carol | 1997 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Salisbury | Harrison Evans | 1983 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Vermeule | Emily Dickinson Townsend | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Sang | Philip David | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Mumford | Lawrence Quincy | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Friend, Jr. | Albert Mathias | 1955 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Remnick | David Jay | 2022 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Kenyon | Cecelia M. | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bryan | James Edmund | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Ozick | Cynthia | 1999 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Cobb | Jewel Plummer | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Duverger | Maurice | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Rees | Mina | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bundy | McGeorge | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bishop | Elizabeth | 1972 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Redd | Dana | 2023 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Welty | Eudora | 1978 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Burke | Kenneth | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Schlesinger, Jr. | Arthur M. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| McCormick | Richard P. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Blackman | Samuel Garrison | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bunch | Lonnie G. | 2013 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Burnham | Walter Dean | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Wescott | Glenway | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Coles | Robert | 1977 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Parsons | Talcott | 1977 | Doctor of Letters | |
| McDonough | Roger Henry | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Blackmur | Richard Palmer | 1958 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Reston | James Barrett | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Burns | Eveline M. | 1981 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Block | Herbert Lawrence | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| McPhee | John Angus | 1988 | Doctor of Letters | |
| White, Jr. | Lynn | 1979 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Stillman | W. Paul | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Byrne | Brendan T. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Roberts | Dorothy | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cortés, Jr. | Ernesto J. | 2011 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weintraub | Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gross | Mason Welch | 1971 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Whitehead | John C. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws |
