2023
Du Yun, PhD ’06, Music
Daniel Goleman, PhD ’74, Psychology and Social Relations
Mina Bissell, AB ’63, PhD ’69, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Sanford Greenberg, PhD ’65, HLS ’68, Government
Catherine Cesarsky, PhD ’71, Astronomy
John Dower, AM ’61, PhD ’72, Regional Studies–East Asia and East Asian History
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2022
Neil Harris, PhD ’65, History
John Kamm, AM ’77, Regional Studies—East Asia
Vicki Sato, AB ’69, PhD ’72, Molecular Biology
Robert Jeffrey Zimmer, PhD ’75, Mathematics
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2021
Lotte Bailyn, PhD ’56, Social Psychology
John Hutchinson, PhD ’63, Mechanical Engineering
Marvin Kalb, AM ’53, Regional Studies—USSR
Peggy McIntosh ’56, PhD ’67, English and American Literature and Language
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2020
Stephen Cook, PhD ’66, Mathematics
Albert Fishlow, PhD ’63, Economics
Margaret Kivelson ’50, PhD ’57, Physics
Helen Vendler, PhD ’60, English and American Literature
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2019
Carroll Bogert, AB ’83, AM ’86, Regional Studies—East Asia
Lael Brainard, PhD ’89, Economics
Roger Ferguson, AB ’73, JD ’79, PhD ’81, Economics
Jane Lubchenco, PhD ’75, Biology
Joseph Nye, PhD ’64, Government
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2018
Beth Adelson, PhD ’83, Experimental Psychology
Guido Goldman '59, PhD ’69, Government
Harold Luft '68, PhD ’56, Economics
Choon Fong Shih, PhD ’73, Applied Mathematics
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2017
From left to right: Russell Mittermeier, Sarah Morris, Thomas Pettigrew, Richard Sennett.
Russell Mittermeier, PhD ’77, Anthropology
Sarah Morris, PhD ’81, Classical Archaeology
Thomas Pettigrew, PhD ’56, Social Psychology
Richard Sennett, PhD ’69, History of American Civilization
2016
Francis Fukuyama, PhD ’81, Government
David Mumford ’57, PhD ’61, Mathematics
John O’Malley, PhD ’65, History
Cecilia Rouse ’86, PhD ’92, Economics
2015
Wade Davis, AB ’75, PhD ’86, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
Robert Richardson, AB ’56, PhD ’61, English and American Language and Literature
Louise Ryan, PhD ’83, Statistics
Gordon Wood, PhD ’64, History
2014
Bruce Alberts, AB ’60, PhD ’66, Biophysics
Keith Christiansen, PhD ’77, Fine Arts
Judith Lasker, PhD ’76, Sociology
Leo Marx, SB ’41, PhD ’50, History of American Civilization
2013
Everett Mendelsohn, PhD ’60, History of Science
Arnold Rampersad, PhD ’73, English
Louise Richardson, PhD ’89, Government
Sherry Turkle, AB ’69, PhD ’76, Sociology
2012
Daniel Aaron, PhD ’43, History of American Civilization
Karl Eikenberry, AM ’81, Regional Studies—East Asia
Nancy Hopkins, AB ’64, PhD ’71, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Robert Keohane, PhD ’66, Government
2011
Heisuke Hironaka, PhD ’60, Mathematics
Jeffrey Alan Hoffman, PhD ’71, Astrophysics
Richard Wall Lyman, PhD ’54, History
Nell Irvin Painter, PhD ’74, History
2010
David Bevington, AB ’52, PhD ’59, English
Stephen Fischer-Galati, AB ’46, PhD '49, History
Eric Maskin, AB ’72, PhD ’76, Applied Mathematics
Martha Nussbaum, PhD ’75, Classical Philology
2009
Svetlana Leontief Alpers, AB ’57, PhD ’65, Fine Arts
David Brion Davis, PhD ’56, History of American Civilization
Thomas Crombie Schelling, PhD ’51, Economics
Joseph Taylor, PhD ’68, Astronomy
2008
Susan Lindquist, PhD ’77, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Earl Powell III, PhD ’74, Fine Arts
Frank Shu, PhD ’68, Astronomy
Ezra Vogel, PhD ’58, Sociology
2007
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., PhD 56, Mathematics
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, AB 68, PhD 75, Anthropology
Neil L. Rudenstine, PhD 64, English and American Literature and Language
Jeffrey D. Sachs, AB 76, PhD 80, Economics
2006
Daniel Callahan, PhD ’65, Philosophy
Sandra Faber, PhD ’72, Astronomy
Robert Solow, PhD ’51, Economics
Kevin Starr, PhD ’69, English and American Literature and Language
2005
Michael Artin, PhD ’60, Mathematics
H. Robert Horvitz, PhD ’74, Molecular Biology
Elaine Pagels, PhD ’70, Study of Religion
Michael Spence, PhD ’72, Economics
2004
John Coolidge Adams, AB '69, AM '72, Music
Susan Tufts Fiske, AB '73, PhD '78, Social Psychology
Richard M. Hunt, PhD '60, History
George Rupp, PhD '72, Study of Religion
2003
Agnes Gund, AM '80, Fine Arts
Amy Gutmann, AB '71, PhD '76, Government
Leon Richard Kass, PhD '67, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
William Schneider, PhD '72, Government
2002
Lewis Branscomb, PhD '50, Physics
Madhav Gadgil, PhD '69, Biology
Joanne Martin, PhD '77, Psychology and Social Relations
Allen Puckett, SB '39, SM '41, Applied Sciences
2001
Bernard Bailyn, PhD '53, History
Carolyn Walker Bynum, PhD '69, History
Elliott Carter, AB '30, AM '32, Music
Walter Kohn, AB '30, PhD '48, Physics
2000
Harold Amos, PhD '52, Division of Medical Sciences
Stanley Cavell, PhD '61, Philosophy
Jill Ker Conway, PhD '69, History
1999
Frances Daly Fergusson, PhD '73, Fine Arts
Nguyen Xuan Oanh, PhD '54, Economics
Carl Emil Schorske, PhD '50, History
Edward Osborne Wilson, PhD '55, Biology
1998
Sissela Bok, PhD '70, Philosophy
I. Bernard Cohen, PhD '47, History of Science
Richard Zare, AB '61, PhD '64, Chemistry
1997
Richard Karp, AB '55, PhD '59, Applied Mathematics
Stuart Rice, PhD '55, Chemistry
Henry Rosovsky, PhD '59, Economics
Ruth Simmons, PhD '73, Romance Languages and Literatures
1996
Leon Botstein, PhD '85, History
Victor K. Fung, PhD '71, Applied Mathematics
Paul Guyer, AB '69, PhD '74, Philosophy
Maxine Kumin, AB '46, AM '48, Comparative Literature
1995
Philip Anderson, PhD '49, Physics
Zbigniew Brzezinski, PhD '53, Government
1994
Hanna H. Gray, PhD '57, History
Roald Hoffmann, PhD '62, Chemical Physics
Rosalind Krauss, PhD '69, Fine Arts
1993
Renee C. Fox, PhD '54, Sociology
Marilyn French, PhD '72, English and American Literature and Language
Rolf Landauer, SB '47, PhD '50, Physics
1992
Edward Bernstein, PhD '31, Economics
Saul Cohen, AB '37, PhD '40, Chemistry
Stanley Kunitz, AB '26, AM '27, English and American Literature and Language
Alice Rivlin, PhD '58, Economics
1991
Eleanor Lansing Dulles, PhD '26, Economics
Caryl P. Haskins, PhD '35, Biology
Wesley W. Posvar, PhD '64, Government
Susan Sontag, AM '57, Philosophy
1990
Margaret Atwood, AM '62, English
Samuel H. Beer, PhD '43, Government
Leo P. Kadanoff, AB '57, PhD '60, Physics
1989
Thomas Eisner, AB '51, PhD '56, Biology
Jesse Greenstein, AB '29, PhD '37, Astronomy
Robert Motherwell, GSA '38 Philosophy
David Woodley Packard, PhD '67, Classics
Reginald H. Phelps, AB '30, PhD '47, History
James Tobin, AB '39, PhD '47, Economics
Margaret D. Wilson, PhD '65, Philosophy
