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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baker | Russell Wayne | 1989 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Sang | Philip David | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hyde | Mary Morley Crapo | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Winkler | Henry R. | 1977 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Vermeule | Emily Dickinson Townsend | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Brée | Germaine | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Ifill | Gwen | 2008 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Miers | Earl Schenck | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Trethewey | Natasha | 2021 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Baron | Salo Wittmayer | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Scullion | Sister Mary | 2016 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hayden | Carla D. | 2017 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Wilson | G. Willow | 2021 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Ozick | Cynthia | 1999 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Miller | Samuel Clifford | 1983 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Charanis | Peter | 1980 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bate | W. Jackson | 1979 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Rees | Mina | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Mailer | Norman | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Mitchell | Eleanor | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hellman | Lillian | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Franklin | John Hope | 1990 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Marchand | Leslie Alexis | 1981 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hinojosa | Maria | 2022 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Jensen | Merril | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Schlesinger, Jr. | Arthur M. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Herbert | Robert M. "Bob" | 2006 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Johnson | Thomas Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Moore | Marianne Craig | 1955 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Lerner | Gerda | 1988 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Friend, Jr. | Albert Mathias | 1955 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Remnick | David Jay | 2022 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Parsons | Talcott | 1977 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Morgan | Edmund Sears | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bryan | James Edmund | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Morris | Richard Brandon | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Reston | James Barrett | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Marshall | Paule | 1996 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Cobb | Jewel Plummer | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Jordan | Barbara | 1993 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bundy | McGeorge | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Morrison | Toni | 2011 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Duverger | Maurice | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bowen | William Gordon | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bunting | Mary Ingraham | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hirschman | Albert O. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Judson | Margaret Atwood | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stillman | W. Paul | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dwyer | Bernard J. | 1993 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weintraub | Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws |
