Year Ranges
2020-2029
2020
Jessye Norman, D.A. (Posthumous)
Henry Louis Gates Jr., D.H.L.
Martina Vandenberg β90, LL.D.
2021
Ady Barkan, D.H.L.
Gustavo Dudamel, D.A.
William Keller '70 P'19, LL.D.
2022
Jennifer Doudna β85, D.Sc.
Stewart Russell Smith β68, LL.D.
2023
Peggy Lee Dean β77, D.H.L.
Sherrilyn Ifill, LL.D.
2024
Tani Cantil-Sakauye, LL.D.
Cecilia Conrad, D.H.L.
Harry Elam, D.H.L
Emil Kakkis β82, Dr. Med.
2010-2019
2010
Janet Napolitano, LL.D.
Robert Price β64, D.H.L.
Robert Towne β56, Litt.D.
2011
Judy Burton β62, Ed.D.
Steven Chu, D.Sc.
Edwin Krupp β66, D.Sc.
Douglas Preston β77, Litt.D.
2012
Marigold Linton, Ed.D.
David Keith Murray β77, Mus.D.
Cameron Munter, LL.D.
Jonathan Veitch, D.H.L.
2013
Sharon L. Camp β65, LL.D.
Ranney E. Draper β60, D.H.L.
Walter S. Isaacson, D.H.L.
2014
Father Gregory Boyle, D.H.L
PlΓ‘cido Domingo, Mus.D.
Valerie B. Jarrett, LL.D.
Michael Starbird β70, D.Sc.
At Special Convocation February 4, 2014
HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand, D.H.L.
2015
France A. CΓ³rdova, D.Sc.
Michael Dickerson 2001, D.Sc.
Andrew Hoyem β57, Litt.D.
Stephen Reinhardt β51, LL.D.
2016
Deborah Bial, D.H.L.
Vikram Chandra β84, Litt.D.
M. Helen Pashgian β56, D.F.A.
2017
Sarah CR Elgin β67, D. Sc.
Gay McDougall, LL.D.
Brian Schatz β94, LL.D.
Frederick Sontag D.H.L.
Susan Sontag β64, D.H.L.
2018
Danielle Allen, D.H.L
Kenji Yoshino, D.H.L.
2019
Esther Brimmer β83, D.P.S.
2000-2009
2000
John Hope Franklin, Litt.D.
Karl Kohn, D.H.L.
Lynda Obst β72, D.F.A.
2001
Julie Buring β71, D.Sc.
Barbara Smith β42, Mus.D.
James Turrell β65, D.F.A.
Garrick Utley, Litt.D.
2002
Jennie Keith β64, Litt.D.
Arturo Madrid, Litt.D.
Joseph E. Stiglitz, LL.D.
At Convocation in September 2002
John E. Edwards, Jr. β64, D.Sc.
2003
Louis Menand β73, Litt.D.
Akira Iriye, Litt.D.
Theodore Mitchell, Ed.D.
Lucy Shelton β65, Mus.D.
2004
Walter Cronkite, D.H.L.
R. Stanton Hales β64, D.Sc.
Andrea Van de Kamp, D.F.A.
2005
Steven S. Koblik, Litt.D.
John Payton β73, LL.D.
Thomas Dean Pollard β64, D.Sc.
2006
Rev. William Sloane Coffin, D.H.L.
Thomas Crow β69, D.F.A.
Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran β69, Ed.D.
2007
Mary Patterson McPherson, D.H.L.
Robert Ernest Tranquada β51, D.Sc.
Daniel Robert Graham, LL.D.
2008
Alex Gibney, D.F.A
Ingrid Rowland β74, D.F.A.
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mus.D.
Peter W. Stanley, D.H.L.
2009
Robert Herbert, D.H.L.
Mary Schmich β75, D.H.L.
Luis Valdez, D.F.A.
1990-1999
1990
Karen Nicholson Horn β65, LL.D.
1992
Corwin Hansch, D.Sc.
Antonia Hernandez, LL.D.
1993
James Gerstley, LL.D.
Donald McIntrye, D.Sc.
Kathleen Ross, LL.D.
1994
Shelton L. Beatty, Litt.D.
Peter F. Drucker, LL.D.
Jean B. Walton, D.Sc.
George C. Wolfe β76, Litt.D
1995
Bruce Edward Babbitt, LL.D.
Anita L. DeFrantz, LL.D.
Patrick Stewart β72, Litt.D.
1996
Catharine Alexander, Litt.D.
David Alexander, Litt.D.
Myrlie Evers Williams β68, LL.D.
1997
Richard Seaver β43, D.F.A.
1998
Roy E. Disney β51, D.F.A.
Lee Cameron McDonald β48, LL.D.
Richard M. Preston β76, Litt. D.
1999
John Cleese, Litt. D.
James A. Joseph, LL.D.
1980-1989
1980
Julian Nava β51, LL.D.
F. Raymond Fosberg β30, D.Sc.
1981
Paul Fussell, Jr. β45, Litt.D.
Vernon Orr β37, LL.D.
Leonard A. Shelton β32, LL.D.
1982
Bill Bradley, LL.D.
1983
Nancy Adams Mosshammer Neuman β57, LL.D.
1984
Coretta Scott King, LL.D.
Yale B. Griffith β25, LL.D.
Edward A. Knapp β54, D.Sc.
1985
Michael Armacost, LL.D.
H. Russell Smith β36, LL.D.
1986
W.T. Jones, D.H.L.
1987
Cruz Reynoso β53, LL.D.
Twyla Tharp β62, D.F.A.
1988
Stephen Jay Gould, D.Sc.
Lucia Myers β35, LL.D.
1989
Raymond Barre, LL.D.
John Brooks Slaughter, D.Sc.
1970-1979
1970
Mrs. Victor Montgomery β41, D.F.A.
Mrs. Frank R. Seaver, LL.D.
Ernest A. Strathmann, Litt.D.
1971
Mason L. Hill β26, D.Sc.
M. Stanley Livingston β26, D.Sc.
Morris B. Pendleton β22, LL.D.
Maurice H. Stans, LL.D.
Alfred O. Woodford 1913, D.Sc.
1972
Richard Armour β27, Litt.D.
Richard Chamberlain β43, D.F.A.
Peter B. Clark β52, LL.D.
Ved P. Mehta β56, Litt.D.
1973
Muriel Beadle β36, LL.D.
Raymond B. Cowles 1921, D.Sc.
Kristoffer Kristofferson β58, D.F.A.
Wright Morris β34, Litt.D.
1974
Stanley Sumner Ballard β28, D.Sc.
Robert James Bernard 1917, LL.D.
M. Frederick Hawthorne β49, D.Sc.
Carolyn Bartel Lyon, L.H.D.
Elijah Wilson Lyon, L.H.D.
Vladimir A. Ussachevsky β35, D.F.A.
1975
Jean Goodwin Ames β25, D.F.A.
Donald Carnegie McKenna β29, LL.D.
Frederic John Robbins, D.Sc.
1976
Laurence William Lane β42, Jr., LL.D.
Melvin Bell Lane β44, LL.D.
Harvey Harlow Nininger 1917, D.Sc.
C. Page Smith, Litt.D.
Frank Allan Southard, Jr. β27, LL.D.
Stephen K. Tamura β33, D.C.L.
1978
Danny Kaye, D.F.A.
J. Edward Sanders, LL.D.
Louise Maxwell Warren β30, L.H.D.
1979
Joan Adams Mondale, D.F.A.
J. Martin Carovano β57, LL.D.
Morton S. Robert β48, D.Sc.
Norman Edward Shumway, D.Sc.
1960-1969
1960
Charles Alfred Anderson β24, D.Sc.
Agnes Marie Johnson, M.A.
1961
George Wells Beadle, D.Sc.
David Elliott Bell β39, LL.D.
Merrimon Cunninggim, Litt.D.
Philip Alexander Munz, D.Sc.
1962
Allen F. Hawley 1916, LL.D.
Thompson Webb, LL.D.
1963
Charlotte Dickinson Elmott β26, LL.D.
Fulton Freeman β37, LL.D.
Philip Albert Leighton 1920, D.Sc.
Relman George Morin β29, Litt.D.
A.T. Richardson 1903, LL.D.
1964
Paul Fussell, LL.D.
1965
Francis Edward Blacet β22, D.Sc.
Lee Alvin DuBridge, D.Sc.
John McDonald Ide β27, D.Sc.
Victor LaRue Klee β45, Jr., D.Sc.
Per Kristen Kofstad, D.Sc.
1966
Hedley Donovan, Litt.D.
Richard Carleton Gilman, LL.D.
William B. Himrod 1908, LL.D.
J. Robert Schaetzel β39, LL.D.
Dana Adams Schmidt β37, Litt.D.
James Robert Squire β44, Litt.D.
1968
R. Stanton Avery β32, LL.D.
Robert B. Coons, LL.D.
Rollin Eckis β27, D.Sc.
Ira N. Frisbee 1919, LL.D.
James E. Mercereau β53, D.Sc.
H. Victor Neher β26, D.Sc.
1969
George C.S.Benson β28, LL.D.
1950-1959
1950
Arthur J. McFadden 1901, LL.D.
Philip E. Smith 1908, D.Sc.
Arnold J. Toynbee, Litt.D.
1951
Norris E. Bradbury β29, D.Sc.
Arthur G. Coons, LL.D
1952
Truman B. Douglass β23, D.D.
1953
Robert L. Shaw β38, D.Mus.
Carl Brent Swisher β26, Litt.D.
Rudolph J. Wig, LL.D.
1954
Clifford J. Backstrand 1920, LL.D.
Essae Martha Culver 1905, Litt.D.
Henry David Gray β30, D.D.
1955
Avery S. Hoyt 1910, D.Sc.
1956
William W. Clary 1911, LL.D.
1957
Roger Randall Revelle β29, D.Sc.
Tokuzo Takiyama β24, LL.D.
1958
Harold C. Bryant 1908, D.Sc.
Charles William Metz 1911, D.Sc.
Frank Roger Seaver 1905, LL.D.
Edward Weeks, Litt.D.
1959
Alexander Corbin Judson 1907, Litt.D.
Clark Kerr, LL.D.
Richard Freeman Post β40, D.Sc.
Howard Shelton Swan β28, LL.D.
Carl I. Wheat 1915, LL.D.
1940-1949
1940
Arthur L. T. Gould 1901, LL.D.
1941
Frank Aydelotte, LL.D.
Bernadotte Schmitt, Litt.D.
1946
Donald Bertrand Tresidder, LL.D.
1947
Frank Parkhurst Brackett, D.Sc.
Wilson Popenoe 1914, D.Sc.
1949
Alva R. Davis 1912, D.Sc.
Sir Oliver Franks, Litt.D.
J. E. Wallace Sterling, Litt.D.
1930-1939
1930
Joseph Chandler Harper, LL.D.
Charles Edward Harwood, LL.D.
Lan-fang Mei, Litt.D.
1931
Gregorio Martinez-Sierra, Litt.D.
Ernest Carroll Moore, LL.D.
Robert G. Sproul, LL.D.
1933
David L. Crawford 1911, LL.D.
Frederick W. Hodge, D.Sc.
Herbert C. Ide. D.D.
1935
Alfred C. Reed 1906, D.Sc.
Albert D. Stauffacher, D.D.
Henry R. Wagner, Litt.D.
1937
Remsen DuBois Bird, LL.D.
Max Mason, LL.D.
1938
Julean Arnold β36, LL.D.
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, D.Mus.
1920-1929
1922
William M. Bade, D.D.
Foo Sec Fong 1905, LL.D.
Josiah Sibley 1899, D.D.
1923
Gilbert N. Brink 1898, D.D.
1924
Danjo Ebina, LL.D.
George W. Marston, LL.D.
Henry M. Robinson, LL.D.
1925
Mrs. Susan M. Dorsey, LL.D.
Daniel F. Fox, D.D.
1926
Walter S. Adams, LL.D.
1927
Mrs. Elldridge Fowler, M.A.
Leslie E. Fuller 1907, D.D.
Ellen B. Scripps, LL.D.
1928
James A. Blaisdell, LL.D.
Max Farrand, LL.D.
Cass Arthur Reed 1906, D.D.
1929
Hugh S. Gibson, LL.D.
1910-1919
1912
Charles B. Sumner, LL.D.
1914
David P. Barrows 1894, LL.D
1918
Hugh S. Gibson, M.A.