Honorary Degree Recipients


2004 Honorary Degree Recipients

Christiane Amanpour
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Nicholas Boyle
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Rita Rossi Colwell
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Linda Greenhouse
Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa

Catherine R. Kinney
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Donald Knowlan, M.D.
Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa

Theodore Cardinal McCarrick
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Andrea Riccardi
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

David Satcher
Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa

Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa


2005 Honorary Degree Recipients

His Magesty King Abdullah II Bin Al-Hussein
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Jill Ker Conway
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Freeman Dyson
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Lee Hamilton
Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa

Eugene Kahn
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Lt. General Kevin Christopher Kiley, M.D.
Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa

M. Margaret McKeown
Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa

Paul O'Neill
Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa

W. Richard West
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa


2006 Honorary Degree Recipients

Kofi Annan
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Karen Armstrong
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

David Abshire
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Robert Axelrod
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Joseph A. Bellanti, M.D.
Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa

Benjamin Bradlee
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Ken Burns
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Rick Curry, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Richard N. Haass
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Hamid Karzai
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Robert Steven Ledley, M.D.
Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa

Gay J. McDougall
Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa

Joseph Volpe
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa


2007 Honorary Degree Recipients

Bernard Bailyn
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

John C. Bogle
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Stuart Bondurant, M.D.
Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa

Francis Sellers Collins, M.D.
Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa

Edward Hirsch
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Jessica Tuchman Mathews
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Ladisas Orsy, S.J.
Doctors of Laws, Honoris Causa

Cynthia Ozick
Doctor of Human Letters, Honoris Causa

Orhan Pamuk
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Catherine B. Reynolds
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Charles Swift
Doctors of Laws, Honoris Causa

Nina Totenberg
Doctors of Laws, Honoris Causa

Paul A. Volcker
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Jim Wallis
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Derek Yach
Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa


2008 Honorary Degree Recipients

Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D.
Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa

Mark R. Dybul, M.D.
Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa

Haleh Esfandiari
Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa

Carlos M. Gutierrez
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Joel I. Klein
Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa

Wendy Kopp
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Jane Lubchenco
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa


2009 Honorary Degree Recipients

John Anthony Barasso, M.D.
Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa

Laurie A. Garrett
Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa

Jessie Gruman
Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa

The Honorable Chuck Hagel
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

James A. Hallock, M.D.
Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa

Freeman A. Hrabowski, III
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Gwen Ifill
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Daniel Kahneman
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Luis Alberto Moreno
Doctor of Human Letters, Honoris Causa

Ana Palacio
Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa

Seth P. Waxman
Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa


Contact:  Joan Leach, Office of the President, JVL6@georgetown.edu