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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Coles | Robert | 1977 | Doctor of Letters | |
Wescott | Glenway | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
Blackman | Samuel Garrison | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
Bunch | Lonnie G. | 2013 | Doctor of Letters | |
Burnham | Walter Dean | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
Blackmur | Richard Palmer | 1958 | Doctor of Letters | |
Mumford | Lawrence Quincy | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
Roe | Robert A. | 1993 | Doctor of Letters | |
Nagel | Ernest | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
Kenyon | Cecelia M. | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
Burns | Eveline M. | 1981 | Doctor of Letters | |
Block | Herbert Lawrence | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
Shahn | Ben | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
Peyre | Henri Maurice | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
Nannes | Caspar | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
White, Jr. | Lynn | 1979 | Doctor of Letters | |
Piel | Gerard | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
Blume | Judy | 2010 | Doctor of Letters | |
Ellison | Ralph Waldo | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
Piñon | Nélida | 1998 | Doctor of Letters | |
Epstein | Benjamin | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
Pinsky | Robert | 2000 | Doctor of Letters | |
Thomson | Virgil | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
Threlkeld | Curtis Hugh | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
Roth | Philip | 1987 | Doctor of Letters | |
Cowdrey | Mary Bartlett | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
McCormick | Richard P. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
Showalter | Elaine | 2001 | Doctor of Letters | |
Bon Jovi | Jon | 2015 | Doctor of Letters | |
Cowen | David Laurence | 1984 | Doctor of Letters | |
Wicker | Thomas Grey | 1970 | Doctor of Letters | |
Boocock | Philip Milledoler Brett | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
McDonough | Roger Henry | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
Rukeyser | Muriel | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
Wideman | John Edgar | 1991 | Doctor of Letters | |
Caldwell | William Anthony | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
Nicolson | Marjorie Hope | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
Bowen | Catherine Drinker | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
Cameron | Donald Forrester | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
Boyd | Hugh Newell | 1970 | Doctor of Letters | |
McPhee | John Angus | 1988 | Doctor of Letters | |
Hannah-Jones | Nikole | 2022 | Doctor of Letters | |
Cunningham | John T. | 1974 | Doctor of Letters | |
Wilson | August | 1996 | Doctor of Letters | |
Boyd | Julian Parks | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
Meier | August | 1994 | Doctor of Letters | |
Quarles | Benjamin | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
Ackerman | Raymond | 2016 | Doctor of Letters | |
Bailyn | Bernard | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
Lowell | Robert | 1965 | Doctor of Letters |