List of Columbia University honorary degree and commencement prize recipients
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| A.B. | Bachelor of Arts |
| A.M. | Master of Arts |
| D.D. | Doctor of Divinity |
| LH.D. | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Litt.D. | Doctor of Letters |
| LL.B. | Bachelor of Laws |
| LL.D. | Doctor of Laws |
| M.D. | Doctor of Medicine |
| M.S. | Master of Science |
| Mus.D. | Doctor of Music |
| Sc.D. | Doctor of Science |
| S.T.D. | Doctor of Sacred Theology |
This is a partial list of honorary degrees and commencement honors awarded by Columbia University in the City of New York.
1700-1799[edit]
1750s[edit]
1758
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Daniel Isaac Brown | A.M. |
| Samuel Brown | A.M. |
| Isaac Browne | A.M. |
| Leonard Cutting | A.M. |
| Samuel Fayerweather | A.M. |
| Cary Ludlow | A.M. |
| David Mathews | A.M. |
| John McKesson | A.M. |
| Josiah Ogden | A.B. |
| Cyrus Punderson | A.M. |
| Ebenezer Punderson | A.M. |
| Daniel Treadwell | A.M. |
| Timothy Wetmore | A.M. |
1760s[edit]
1761
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| John Beardsley | A.B. |
| William Jackson | A.M. |
| William Samuel Johnson | A.M. |
| Samuel Peters | A.M. |
| James Scovil | A.M. |
| Samuel Seabury | A.M. |
| Agur Treadwell | A.B. |
| Edward Winslow | A.M. |
1762
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Samuel Andrews | A.M. |
| Robert Harpur | A.M. |
| Bela Hubbard | A.M. |
| Robert McKean | A.M. |
| Ebenezer Parmele | A.M. |
1764
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Matthew Cushing | A.M. |
| Samuel Giles | A.B. |
1765
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Jeremiah Leaming | A.M. |
1767
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Samuel Auchmuty | D.D. |
| Ephram Avery | A.M. |
| Thomas Bradbury Chandler | D.D. |
| George Glentworth | A.M. |
| Charles Inglis | A.M. |
| Hugh Neill | A.M. |
| John Ogilvie | A.M. |
| John Tyler | A.B. |
1768
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Samuel Bard | M.D. |
| John Beardsley | A.M. |
| Samuel Clossy | M.D. |
| Myles Cooper | LL.D. |
| John Jones | M.D. |
| Peter Middleton | M.D. |
1769
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Ebenezer Kneeland | A.M. |
| John Tyler | A.M. |
1770s[edit]
1770
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Thomas Barton | A.M. |
| Robert Blackwell | A.B. |
| John Ogilvie | D.D. |
1771
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Boucher | A.M. |
1772
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Edmund Fanning | A.M. |
1773
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Isaac Hunt | A.M. |
| Joseph Lamson | A.M. |
| Harry Munro | A.M. |
| John Stuart | A.M. |
1774
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Luke Babcock | A.M. |
| George Panton | A.M. |
| James Sayre | A.M. |
| William Tryon | LL.D. |
1780s[edit]
1787
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| James Hardie | A.B. |
1788
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Robert Annan | A.M. |
| William Cochran | A.M. |
| Alexander Hamilton | A.M. |
| Robert Charles Johnson | A.M. |
| Samuel Latham Mitchill | A.M. |
| Daniel Crommelin Verplanck | A.M. |
| James Watkin Watkins | A.M. |
1789
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Roger Alden | A.M. |
| Abraham Beach | D.D. |
| John Daniel Gros | D.D. |
| Jacob Rusten Hardenbergh | D.D. |
| Samuel Evan Johnson | A.M. |
| Jeremiah Leaming | D.D. |
| William Linn | D.D. |
| Benjamin Moore | D.D. |
1790s[edit]
1790
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Joshua Bloomer | D.D. |
| James Hardie | A.M. |
| Henry Maeller | A.M. |
| Thomas Lambert Moore | A.M. |
| James Proudfit | A.M. |
1793
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Ebenezer Dibble | D.D. |
| Andrew Jaffray | D.D. |
| William Ogivile | LL.D. |
1794
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Richard Channing Moore | A.M. |
1795
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Campbell | A.M. |
| John Coffin | A.M. |
1797
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Bowden | D.D. |
| James Kent | LL.D. |
1798
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| William Best | A.M. |
| William Scott | A.M. |
| Andrew Smith | A.M. |
| Robert Griffeth Wetmore | A.M. |
1800-1899[edit]
1800s[edit]
1802
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| William Duke | A.M. |
| James Kemp | D.D. |
1804
| Recipient | Honorary Degree | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Edmund D. Barry | A.M. | |
| Edward Jenkins | D.D. | |
| Jacob Larzelere | A.M. | Lecturer at l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques and l'Ecole Nationale d'Administration |
| Peter Stryker | A.M |
1805
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Clement Merriam | A.M |
1806
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| William James MacNeven | M.D. |
1809
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Abraham Bronson | A.M. |
1810s[edit]
1811
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Croes | D.D. |
| James Hall | D.D. |
| William Harris | D.D. |
| Isaac Wilkins | D.D. |
1812
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Oliver Cromwell Comstock | M.D. |
| William Kirkpatrick | M.D. |
| Andrew Morton | M.D. |
| Alexandra Sheldon | M.D. |
| John Augustine Smith | M.D. |
| John Stearns | M.D. |
| David Baillie Warden | M.D. |
| Joseph White | M.D. |
| Westel Willoughby | M.D. |
1814
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Churchill Osborn | M.D. |
| Wright Post | M.D. |
1815
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Frederick Beasley | D.D. |
1816
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Schureman | D.D. |
1817
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John D. Jaques | M.D. |
1818
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Robert Adrian | LL.D. |
| Joseph Hopkinson | LL.D. |
| Samuel Nichols | A.M. |
| Andrew Mitchell Thomson | D.D. |
1819
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Thomas Church Brownell | D.D. |
| Philander Chase | D.D. |
| Richard Davidson | M.D. |
| John Philip | D.D. |
| William H Richardson | M.D. |
| John Van Cleve | M.D. |
1820s[edit]
1820
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Isaac Auld | M.D. |
| William Forrest | A.M. |
1821
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Thaddeus Fiske | D.D. |
| Washington Irving | A.M. |
| Daniel McDonald | D.D. |
1822
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| William Lowndes | LL.D. |
| Thomas Lyell | D.D. |
| Pierre Proal | A.M. |
| John Reed | D.D. |
| Stephan N Rowan | D.D. |
| John Walsh | A.M. |
1823
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Carroll | A.M. |
| Abraham Oothout Halsey | A.M. |
| Chauncey Lee | D.D. |
| Edward Livingston | LL.D. |
| John Stark Ravenscroft | D.D. |
| Nathan Sanford | LL.D. |
| John Savage | LL.D. |
| Samuel Seabury | A.M. |
| Ambrose Spencer | LL.D. |
1824
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Langdon Cheves | LL.D. |
| William A Clark | A.M. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | A.M. |
| Thomas Addis Emmet | LL.D. |
| Ernest Lewis Hazelius | D.D. |
| Levi Silliman Ives | A.M. |
| James Kirke Paulding | A.M. |
| Daniel Webster | LL.D. |
2000-[edit]
2000s[edit]
2000
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Martti Ahtisaari | LL.D. | Statesman; Humanitarian |
| David D. Ho | Sc.D. | Pioneer of Biomedical Research |
| Judith Jamison | L.H.D. | Dancer; Choreographer; Virtuoso |
| Paul Alan Marks | Sc.D. | Teacher; Researcher; Institution Builder |
| Robert E Rubin | LL.D. | Financial Savant; Public servant |
| Oscar Schachter | LL.D. | Teacher; Scholar; Diplomat |
2001
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Timothy Berners-Lee | LL.D. | Inventor of the Web |
| Peter Robert Lamont Brown | Litt.D. | Historian; Biographer |
| Isidore S. Edelman | Sc.D. | Biochemist; Genomecist |
| Judith Smith Kaye | LL.D. | Chief Judge |
| Arthur Levitt, Jr. | LL.D. | Public Servant |
| Maxwell L. Roach | Mus.D. | Percussionist; Conductor |
| George P. Shultz | LL.D. | Statesman |
| Zhen-Yi Wang | Sc.D. | Medical Pioneer |
2002
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Jack Beeson | Mus.D. | Composer; Teacher |
| Lee. C Bollinger | LL.D. | President of Columbia University |
| Joan Didion | Litt.D. | Novelist; Essayist |
| Roberto Gonalez Echevarria | Litt.D. | Scholar; Teacher |
| Brenda Milner | Sc.D. | Scientific Pioneer |
| George J. Mitchell | LL.D. | Statesman; Public Servant |
| Ruth J. Simmons | LL.D. | President of Brown University |
2003
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Maya Angelou | Litt.D. | Author; Activist |
| Julian Hochberg | Sc.D. | Centennial Professor Emeritus of Pyschology |
| Frank Kermode | Litt.D. | Critic; Scholar; Teacher |
| Mary-Claire King | Sc.D. | Geneticist |
| Constance Baker Motley | LL.D. | United States District Judge |
| Cecil Taylor | Mus.D. | Musician; Composer |
| Andrew Wiles | Sc.D. | Mathematician |
2004
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Laurie Anderson | Mus.D. | Performing Artist |
| David Baltimore | Sc.D. | Scientist; Educator |
| The Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg | LL.D. | Leader; Philantropist |
| The Honorable Robert L. Carter | LL.D. | Pioneering Civil Rights Attorney; Jurist |
| Arthur C. Danto | Litt.D. | Art Historian; Critic; Philosopher |
| Oliver W. Hill | LL.D. | Pioneering Civil Rights Attorney; Jurist |
| The Honorable Louis H. Pollak | LL.D. | Pioneering Civil Rights Attorney; Jurist |
| Leo Steinberg | Litt.D. | Art Historian; Author; Educator |
| The Honorable Jack B. Weinstein | LL.D. | Pioneering Civil Rights Attorney; Jurist |
2005
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Robert A. Dahl | Litt.D. | Scholar; Political Scientist |
| Henry Franklin Graff | Litt.D. | Presidential Scholar; Teacher |
| Zaha M. Hadid | L.H.D. | Architect |
| Dorothy Irene Height | LL.D. | Social Activist |
| Brent Scowcroft | LL.D. | Military Leader; Presidential Adviser |
| Shirley M. Tilghman | Sc.D. | Molecular Biologist; Teacher |
| Endel Tulving | Sc.D. | Cognitive Scientist |
| August Wilson | Litt.D. | Playwright |
2006
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Kenneth Chenault | LL.D. | Business; Community Leader |
| C.K. Chu | Sc.D. | Mathematician |
| Gerda Lerner | Litt.D. | Historian |
| Maya Lin | L.H.D. | Artist; Architect |
| Oswaldo Paya | LL.D. | Human Rights Activist |
| Irving Weissman | Sc.D. | Cell Biologist |
2007
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Aharon Barak | LL.D. | Israel Supreme Court President |
| Santiago Calatrava | L.H.D. | Architect |
| Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. | Sc.D. | Neurosurgeon |
| Susan Lindquist | Sc.D. | Microbiologist |
| Barbara Novak | Litt.D. | Art Historian |
| Felix G. Rohatyn | LL.D. | Financier; Public Servant |
| Jonathan Spence | Litt.D. | Historian |
| Stephen Joel Trachtenberg | LL.D. | Leader in Higher Education |
2008
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Fazle Hasan Abed | LL.D. | Social Entrepreneur |
| Emanuel Ax | Mus.D. | Pianist |
| Dawn Greene | LL.D. | Philantropist |
| Eric S. Lander | Sc.D. | Geneticist |
| William E. Leuchtenberg | Litt.D. | Historian |
| Gertrude F. Neumark | Sc.D. | Physicist |
| Judith Shapiro | LL.D. | Educator |
2009
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Kwame Anthony Appiah | Litt.D. | Philosopher |
| P.N. Bhagwati | LL.D. | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India |
| Caroline Walker Bynum | Litt.D. | Medieval History Scholar |
| Ainslie T. Embree | Litt.D. | Historian of Modern South Asia |
| Paul Farmer | Litt.D. | Physician; Anthropologist |
| Helene D. Gayle | LL.D. | International Humanitarian |
| H. FitzGerald Lenfest | LL.D. | Media Entrepreneur; Philanthropist |
| Joseph L. Sax | LL.D. | Environmental Law; Property Law Scholar |
2010s[edit]
2010
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Bernard Bailyn | Litt.D. | Historian |
| Jacqueline K. Barton | Sc.D. | Chemist |
| Geoffrey Canada | LL.D. | Social Activist, Educator |
| C. Lowell Harriss | Litt.D. | Economist; awarded posthumously. |
| Joel I. Klein | LL.D. | Education Reformer, Attorney |
| Tony Kushner | Litt.D. | Playwright |
| Koji Nakanishi | Sc.D. | Chemist |
| Xu Bing | L.H.D. | Artist |
2011
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Ornette Coleman | Mus.D. | Musician (Jazz) |
| Martin Meisel | Litt.D. | English Scholar, Columbia University professor/administrator |
| Eleanor Jackson Piel | LL.D. | Lawyer; "champion of social justice" |
| Joan A. Steitz | Sc.D. | Geneticist |
| Keith Thomas | LL.D. | Historian |
2012
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Muhal Richard Abrams | Mus.D. | Pianist and composer |
| Michelle Bachelet | LL.D. | Political Leader and Physician |
| Shu Chien | Sc.D. | Vascular Physiology and Bioengineering Scholar |
| Jean Franco | Litt.D. | English and Comparative Literature Scholar; Columbia University Professor Emerita. |
| Amy Gutman | LL.D. | University of Pennsylvania President, Political Scientist, and Philosopher |
| Gloria Steinem | LL.D. | Author and Activist |
2013
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Herbert Irving | LL.D. | Philanthropist |
| Florence Irving | LL.D. | Philanthropist |
| Peter E. Steiger | LL.D. | Editor and Journalist |
| Arnold Rampersad | Litt.D. | Biographer, Literary Critic, Scholar |
| Laurence H. Tribe | Litt.D. | University Professor and Constitutional Law Scholar at Harvard, Attorney |
| Stanley Falkow | Sc.D. | Microbiologist |
| Zena A. Stein | Sc.D. | Professor Emerita of Public Health and Psychiatry, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Pioneer of HIV Prevention for Women |
2014
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Renzo Piano | L.H.D. | Architect |
| Cicely L. Tyson | L.H.D. | Actress |
| Mortimer B. Zuckermer | LL.D. | Real Estate Developer, Publisher, Philanthropist |
| David Remnick | Litt.D. | Writer and Editor |
| David Rosand | Litt.D. | Art Historian |
| Robert B. Silvers | Litt.D. | Editor of The New York Review of Books |
| Natasha Trethewey | Litt.D. | US Poet Laureate, Author, Scholar |
| Joseph B. Keller | Sc.D. | Mathematician |
2015
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Theda Skocpal | Litt.D. | Professor at Harvard |
| Albie Sachs | LL.D. | Anti-apartheid activist |
| David Levering Lewis | Litt.D. | Historian |
| Miloš Forman | L.H.D. | Film director |
| Anthony S. Fauci | Sc.D. | HIV Researcher |
| William V. "Bill" Campbell | LL.D. | Business executive |
2016
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Ban Ki-Moon | LL.D. | Eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations |
| Amanda M. Burden | LL.D. | Urban planner |
| Zhu Chen | Sc.D. | Leading scientist in leukemia translational studies and China's Minister of Health (2007-2013) |
| Robert Darnton | Litt.D. | Cultural historian and academic librarian. Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard University |
| Susan Meiselas | L.H.D. | Photographer |
| Arthur Mitchell | L.H.D. | Dancer; A pioneer, an icon, and a self-described “political activist through dance,” |
| Robert Owen Paxton | Litt.D. | Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences at Columbia University |
2017
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Jacques Pépin | L.H.D. | Author and Chef |
| Eric H. Holder, Jr. | LL.D. | 82nd Attorney General of the United States |
| Admiral Michael Mullen | LL.D. | 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| Padma Desai | Litt.D. | Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor Emerita of Comparative and Economic Systems and Economics |
| Martin Duberman | Litt.D. | Historian, Biographer, Autobiographer, Political Essayist, Playwright, and Gay Rights Advocate |
| João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira | Mus.D. | Musican and Composer |
| Allen Irwin Hyman, M.D. | Sc.D. | Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology, Physican, and Public Health Advocate |
2018
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Diller | L.H.D. | Architect and Designer |
| Thelma Golden | L.H.D. | Museum Director and Curator |
| Patrick Hubert Gaspard | LL.D. | Human rights advocate, public servant, and former United States Ambassador to South Africa |
| Bradley R. Efron | Sc.D. | Statistician |
| Lynn R. Sykes | Sc.D. | Higgins Professor Emeritus of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Seismologist |
2019
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Awn | Litt.D. | |
| Douglas A. Chalmers | L.H.D. | Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Special Assistant to the Provost for Faculty Retirement, and Executive Director of the Society of Senior Scholars at Columbia University. |
| Karen Brooks Hopkins | LL.D. | Board Member and Senior Advisor to the Onassis Foundation USA. She is also the Nasher Haemisegger Fellow at the National Center for Arts Research, located at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. |
| Robert Langer | Sc.D. | Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
2020s[edit]
2022
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | LL.D. | |
| Carla Hayden | Litt.D. | |
| Jodi Kantor | University Medal for Excellence | |
| William Kentridge | LH.D. | |
| Yo-Yo Ma | Mus.D. | |
| James Stewart Polshek | LH.D. | |
| Patti Smith | Mus.D. |
2023
| Recipient | Honorary Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Katori Hall | University Medal for Excellence |
| Joyce Ladner | Litt.D. |
| Jeannie Bachelor Lavine | LL.D. |
| Jonathan Lavine | LL.D. |
| Tania León | Mus.D. |
| Minouche Shafik | LL.D. |
| Bob Woodward | Litt.D. |
| Shing-Tung Yau | Sc.D. |
Notes[edit]
Honorees from 1758-2019 sourced in its entirety from Columbia University Libraries.[1] Honorees 2022-present sourced from Columbia University Office of the Secretary.[2] Additional or edited information is cited inline where applicable.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Honorary Degree Recipients". Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
- ↑ "Honors and Prizes". Columbia University, Office of the Secretary.
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