Honorary Degrees Since 1702

Name Degreesort ascending Year
Winlock, Herbert Eustis Doctor of Letters 1933
Lowes, John Livingston Doctor of Letters 1928
Burroughs, John Doctor of Letters 1910
Osgood, Charles Grosvenor Doctor of Letters 1946
Alexander, Elizabeth Doctor of Letters 2018
Wilson, August Doctor of Letters 1988
Nabuco, Joaquim Doctor of Letters 1908
Stevens, Wallace Doctor of Letters 1955
Morison, Samuel Eliot Doctor of Letters 1949
Blume, Judy Doctor of Letters 2021
Mann, Thomas Doctor of Letters 1938
Merrill, James Doctor of Letters 1982
Matthiessen, Peter Doctor of Letters 2007
O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone Doctor of Letters 1926
Feuillerat, Albert Doctor of Letters 1920
Pamuk, Orhan Doctor of Letters 2010
Russell, George William Doctor of Letters 1928
Lowell, Robert Doctor of Letters 1968
Malone, Kemp Doctor of Letters 1951
Eliot, Thomas Stearns Doctor of Letters 1947
Albee, Edward Doctor of Letters 2006
Becker, Carl Lotus Doctor of Letters 1932
Sandburg, Carl Doctor of Letters 1940
Cross, Wilbur Lucius Doctor of Letters 1930
Danticat, Edwidge Doctor of Letters 2013
Bond, Edward Doctor of Letters 1977
McIlwain, Charles Howard Doctor of Letters 1951
Garrison, Fielding Hudson Doctor of Letters 1932
McCabe, William Gordon Doctor of Letters 1897
Frost, Robert Doctor of Letters 1924
Brown, Sterling Allen Doctor of Letters 1981
Merriam, Charles Edward Doctor of Letters 1951
Tinker, Chauncey Brewster Doctor of Letters 1946
Warren, Robert Penn Doctor of Letters 1960
Kermode, Frank Doctor of Letters 1995
Williams, Bernard A.O. Doctor of Letters 2001
Wolfe, Thomas Doctor of Letters 2004
Robinson, Marilynne Doctor of Letters 2018
Soyinka, Wole Doctor of Letters 1980
Murakami, Haruki Doctor of Letters 2016
Chapman, John Jay Doctor of Letters 1916
Morey, Charles Rufus Doctor of Letters 1951
Welty, Eudora Doctor of Letters 1975
Benet, Stephen Vincent Doctor of Letters 1937
Notestein, Wallace Doctor of Letters 1951
Hersey, John Doctor of Letters 1984
Hamilton, Edith Doctor of Letters 1959
Annette Gordon-Reed Doctor of Letters 2025
Kittredge, George Lyman Doctor of Letters 1924
Adichie, Chimamanda Doctor of Letters 2019