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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Cameron | Donald Forrester | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
Boyd | Hugh Newell | 1970 | Doctor of Letters | |
Boyd | Julian Parks | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
Mitchell | Eleanor | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
Quarles | Benjamin | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
Mailer | Norman | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
Cunningham | John T. | 1974 | Doctor of Letters | |
Jensen | Merril | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
Redd | Dana | 2023 | Doctor of Letters | |
Fergusson | Francis | 1975 | Doctor of Letters | |
Hellman | Lillian | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
Bailyn | Bernard | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
Marchand | Leslie Alexis | 1981 | Doctor of Letters | |
Welty | Eudora | 1978 | Doctor of Letters | |
Oates | Joyce Carol | 1997 | Doctor of Letters | |
Baker | Russell Wayne | 1989 | Doctor of Letters | |
Salisbury | Harrison Evans | 1983 | Doctor of Letters | |
Johnson | Thomas Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
Moore | Marianne Craig | 1955 | Doctor of Letters | |
Bunch | Lonnie G. | 2013 | Doctor of Letters | |
Lerner | Gerda | 1988 | Doctor of Letters | |
Vermeule | Emily Dickinson Townsend | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
Herbert | Robert M. "Bob" | 2006 | Doctor of Letters | |
Sang | Philip David | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
Wescott | Glenway | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
Brée | Germaine | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
Morgan | Edmund Sears | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
Morris | Richard Brandon | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
Baron | Salo Wittmayer | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
Jordan | Barbara | 1993 | Doctor of Letters | |
Ozick | Cynthia | 1999 | Doctor of Letters | |
Marshall | Paule | 1996 | Doctor of Letters | |
White, Jr. | Lynn | 1979 | Doctor of Letters | |
Morrison | Toni | 2011 | Doctor of Letters | |
Charanis | Peter | 1980 | Doctor of Letters | |
Rees | Mina | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
Bate | W. Jackson | 1979 | Doctor of Letters | |
Franklin | John Hope | 1990 | Doctor of Letters | |
Schlesinger, Jr. | Arthur M. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
Bon Jovi | Jon | 2015 | Doctor of Letters | |
Wicker | Thomas Grey | 1970 | Doctor of Letters | |
Parsons | Talcott | 1977 | Doctor of Letters | |
Mumford | Lawrence Quincy | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
Friend, Jr. | Albert Mathias | 1955 | Doctor of Letters | |
Wideman | John Edgar | 1991 | Doctor of Letters | |
Kenyon | Cecelia M. | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
Bryan | James Edmund | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
Reston | James Barrett | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
Cobb | Jewel Plummer | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
Bundy | McGeorge | 1982 | Doctor of Letters |