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Wendy Doniger ’62, the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago, will also receive an honorary doctor of letters degree.
Another honoree is Academy Award winning director and screenwriter Pedro Almodóvar, who will receive a doctorate of arts degree.
Author Joan Didion will be the recipient of an honorary doctor of letters degree. In 2005, she received a National Book Award for her novel The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir she wrote following her husband’s sudden death.
Jazz artist Wynton Marsalis will receive an honorary doctor of music degree. He has won nine Grammy awards and is the only person to receive a Grammy award for classical and jazz performances in the same year. In 1997, he became the first jazz musician to win a Pulitzer Prize...
Ronald Dworkin ’53, the Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at New York University and Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree. He is a 1957 graduate of Harvard Law School.