Wilbur Cross Medalists by Department

HUMANITIES

African American Studies
2009   Richard J. Powell, MA ‘82, PhD ‘88 (History of Art)

American Studies

2025    Philip J. Deloria '94 PhD
2014    Thomas C. Holt, PhD ‘73
2008    David M. Kennedy, PhD ‘68
2003    Edward L. Ayers, PhD ‘80 
1990    Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr., PhD ‘57
1990    Eleanor Holmes Norton, MA ‘63
1969    James Patrick Shannon, PhD ‘55

Classical Languages and Literatures/Classics
2006   Eva Brann, PhD ‘56
1989   Garry Leo Wills, PhD ‘61 
1976   Josephine Pauline Bree, PhD ‘33
1971   Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox, PhD ‘48
1969   Murray Barnson Emeneau, PhD ‘31
1967   Carl William Blegen, PhD ‘20

Comparative Literature
1998   Peter Demetz, PhD ‘56
1990   Angelo Bartlett Giamatti, PhD ‘64

East Asian Languages & Literatures
2001   Stephen Owen, BA ‘68, PhD ‘72

English Language and Literature
2024   John D. Guillory ’89 PhD 
2011   Stanley Fish, PhD ‘62
2010   Stephen Greenblatt, PhD ‘69
2007   Carol T. Christ, PhD ‘70 
2006   Richard Brodhead, BA’68, PhD ‘72
1996   Marie Borroff, PhD ‘56
1994   Jerome John McGann, PhD ‘66
1992   J. Dennis Huston, PhD ‘66
1991   Aubrey Williams, PhD ‘52
1987   Richard David Ellmann, PhD ‘47
1986   Arthur Dwight Culler, PhD ‘41
1985   Eugene Mersereau Waith, PhD ‘39
1984   Louis Lohr Martz, PhD ‘39
1983   George Harry Ford, PhD ‘42
1981   Bernard Nicholas Schilling, PhD ‘36
1981   Warren Hunting Smith, PhD ‘31
1979   Richard Benson Sewall, PhD ‘33
1978   Maynard Mack, PhD ‘36
1977   Gordon Sherman Haight, PhD ‘33
1974   Alvin Bernard Kernan, PhD ‘54
1972   John Collins Pope, PhD ‘31
1970   Bertrand Harris Bronson, PhD ‘27
1967   Frederick Albert Pottle, PhD ‘25
1967   Marjorie Hope Nicolson, PhD ‘20

French
2013   Fredric Jameson, PhD ‘59
2002   Julia M. McNamara, PhD ‘80
1985   Victor Henri Brombert, PhD ‘53

Germanic Languages and Literatures/German
1982   Theodore Joseph Ziolkowski, PhD ‘57
1976   William Gamwell Moulton, PhD ‘41

History/History, the Arts and Letters
2020   Brenda Stevenson, PhD ‘90
2012   Alfred W. McCoy, PhD ‘77
2004   William Cronon, PhD ‘90
2002   Linda Gordon, PhD ‘70
1997   Francis Oakley, PhD ‘60
1997   William Louis Gaines, PhD ‘51
1996   Miriam Usher Chrisman, PhD ‘62
1995   Mark Edward Neely, Jr., PhD ‘73
1993   Marcia L. Colish, PhD ‘65
1990   Franklin LeVan Baumer, PhD ‘38
1988   Richard Samuel Westfall, PhD ‘55
1987   Harry Rudolph Rudin, PhD ‘31
1979   Elizabeth Read Foster, PhD ‘38
1976   Laura Anna Bornholdt, PhD ‘45
1975   George Berkeley Young, PhD ‘39
1975   Ralph Henry Gabriel, PhD ‘19
1974   Constance McLaughlin Green, PhD ‘37
1973   George Wilson Pierson, PhD ‘33
1972   Dumas Malone, PhD ‘23
1967   Wallace Notestein, PhD ‘08

History of Art
2021   Mary E. Miller, PhD ‘81 
2018   Elizabeth W. Easton, PhD ‘89
2009   Richard J. Powell, MA ‘82 (African American Studies), PhD ‘88 
2006   Mimi Gardner Gates, PhD ‘81
1994   Vincent Joseph Scully, Jr., PhD ‘49
1984   George Alexander Kubler, PhD ‘40
1976   George Heard Hamilton, PhD ‘42

History of Science
1984   Margaret Walsh Rossiter, PhD ‘71

Music
2022   Phil Ewell, PhD ‘01
2007   Anne Walters Robertson, PhD ‘84
1979   Jacquelyn Anderson Mattfeld, PhD ‘59

Near Eastern Languages and Literatures/Semitic Languages & Literatures
1970   Roland Herbert Bainton, PhD ‘21

Philosophy
2023   Robert Gooding-Williams ‘75 ‘82 PhD
2019   Ruth Garrett Millikan, PhD ‘69
2005   Richard Rorty, PhD ‘56
2000   Ruth Marcus, PhD ‘46
1990   Adolf Grünbaum, PhD ‘51
1988   Thomas Kaehao Seung, PhD ‘65 
1980   Maurice H. Mandelbaum, PhD ‘36 
1971   John Robert Silber, PhD ‘56
1967   Luther Allan Weigle, PhD ‘05

Religious Studies/Religion
2015   Jonathan Z. Smith, PhD ‘69 
1998   George A. Lindbeck, PhD ‘55
1996   James Thomas Laney, PhD ‘66
1974   Amos Niven Wilder, PhD ‘33
1968   Filmer S.C. Northrop, MA ‘19

Romance Languages
1978   Thomas Goddard Bergin, PhD ‘29

Spanish & Portuguese
1991   Russell George Hamilton, Jr., PhD ‘65

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 

Cell Biology
2021   Donald Ingber, BA ‘77, MA ‘77 (MB&B), PhD ‘84, MD ‘84 
2017   Eric J. Nestler BA ‘76, PhD ‘82 (Pharmacology), MD ‘83 
2008   Stephen G. Emerson, PhD ‘80, MD ‘80
1997   G. Virginia Upton, PhD ‘64 (Physiology)

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 
2005   Lincoln Pierson Brower, PhD ‘57 (Zoology)
2004   Barbara Schaal, PhD ‘74 (Biology)
1999   Geerat Vermeij, PhD ‘71 (Biology)
1994   Thomas Eugene Lovejoy, PhD ‘71 (Biology)
1993   Walles Thomas Edmondson, PhD ‘42 (Zoology)

Epidemiology and Public Health
2023   Elizabeth Bradley ‘96 PhD
1999  Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD ‘68
1995   Jennifer Louise Kelsey, PhD ‘69
1970   Leona Baumgartner, PhD ‘32 (Bacteriology)

Forestry and Environmental Studies
2020   Dorceta Taylor, PhD ‘91 (combined with Sociology)
2016   Eleanor Jane Sterling, BA ‘83, PhD ‘93   
2012   John D. Aber, BA ‘71, MFS ‘73, PhD ‘76
1978   Stephen Hopkins Spurr, PhD ‘50

Genetics
2025   Jeffrey E. Settleman ‘89 PhD
2022   Sarah Tishkoff, PhD ‘96
2020   Matthew State, PhD ‘01
2016   Ira Mellman, PhD ‘78
2011   Huntington F. Willard, PhD ‘79

Microbiology
2003   Charles Yanofsky, PhD ‘51, ScDH ‘81

Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry/Biochemistry/Physiological Chemistry
2018   Kelsey C. Martin, PhD ‘91, M.D.’92
2015   Philip C. Hanawalt, PhD ‘59
2013   Alan M. Lambowitz, PhD ‘72
2010   Timothy J. Richmond, PhD ‘75
2009   Michael S. Levine, PhD ‘81
2006   Lewis E. Kay, PhD ‘88
2006   Richard A. Young, PhD ‘79
1998   Helen Murphy Tepperman, PhD ‘42
1997   Anne M. Briscoe, PhD ‘49
1991   Maxine Singer, PhD ‘57
1983   Barbara Illingworth Brown, PhD ‘50
1982   Mary Ellen Jones, PhD ‘51

Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
2024   Anne C. Ferguson-Smith ’89 (Biology)
2019   Douglas R. Green, BS ‘77, PhD ‘81 (Biology)
2017   Donna J. Haraway, PhD ‘72 (Biology)
2013   Annette Thomas, PhD ‘93 (Biology)
2012   Jonathan M. Rothberg, PhD ‘91 (Biology)
2005   Eric F. Wieschaus, PhD ‘74 (Biology)
2002   Sharon R. Long, PhD ‘79 (Biology)
2001   Elliot M. Meyerowitz, PhD ‘77 (Biology)
1993   Estella Bergère Leopold, PhD ‘55 (Botany)
1992   Gerald R. Fink, PhD ‘65 (Biology)
1989   Mary Lou Pardue, PhD ‘70 (Biology)
1988   Joseph Grafton Gall, PhD ‘52 (Zoology)
1981   Grace Evelyn Pickford, PhD ‘31 (Zoology)
1971   Jane Marion Oppenheimer, PhD ‘35 (Zoology)
1969   Joshua Lederberg, PhD ‘48 (Botany)

PHYSICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING

Applied Physics
2004   Julia Phillips, PhD ‘81

Chemistry
2020   Veronica Vaida, PhD ‘77
2016   Arthur J. Nozik, PhD ‘67
2010   Paul A. Wender, PhD ‘73
2009   Laura L. Kiessling, PhD ‘89
2005   Peter B. Dervan, PhD ‘72
2003   John Fenn, PhD ‘40
1999   Francis S. Collins, PhD ‘74
1994   Theodore Frederic Cooke, Jr., PhD ‘37
1989   Pauline Newman, PhD ‘52
1988   Gérard LePoutre, PhD ‘53
1987   Julian Munson Sturtevant, PhD ‘31
1983   Daniel Berg, PhD ‘53
1980   Bingham Johnson Humphrey, PhD ‘30
1974   Milton Harris, PhD ‘29
1972   Lars Onsager, PhD ‘35
1970   Melvin Spencer Newman, PhD ‘32
1968   James Bliss Austin, PhD ‘28

Chemical Engineering
1988   Charles Allen Walker, D.Eng. ‘48

Computer Science
2024   Kai Li ’86 PhD
2011   Leslie F. Greengard, PhD ‘87, MD ‘87

Electrical Engineering
2023   Che-Chia Wei ‘85 PhD 
2021   Tamer Basar, PhD ‘72 
2014   Eric R. Fossum, PhD ‘84 
1984   Burton Irving Edelson, PhD ‘60
1967   Robert William Buchheim, PhD ‘53

Geology and Geophysics
2022   Kirk R. Johnson, PhD ‘89
2019   Susan M. Kidwell, PhD ‘82
2015   Jeremy Bradford Cook Jackson, PhD ‘71
2007   John Suppe, PhD ‘69
1994   Zunyi Yang, PhD ‘39
1994   John Imbrie, PhD ‘51
1987   Thomas Brennan Nolan, PhD ‘24
1985   Peter Tyrell Flawn, PhD ‘51
1973   Preston E. Cloud, PhD ‘40
1969   George Gaylord Simpson, PhD ‘26

Mathematics
2018   Eng Chye Tan, PhD ‘89
2000   James Arthur, PhD ‘70
2000   Evelyn Boyd Granville, PhD ‘49
1977   Jacob Theodore Schwartz, PhD ‘52
1975   Robert Phelan Langlands, PhD ‘60
1973   Marshall Hall, PhD ‘36
1972   Grace Murray Hopper, PhD ‘34

Physics
2025   Andrew J. Lankford ’72, ’78 PhD
2009   William J. Willis, BS’54, PhD ‘58
2003   Gerald Brown, PhD ‘50
1999   Allen L. Sessoms, PhD ‘72
1998   David Lee, PhD ‘59
1991   Joseph Percival Allen, IV, PhD ‘65
1991   W. Edwards Deming, PhD ‘28
1986   Robert Joseph Birgeneau, PhD ‘66
1985   John Paul Schiffer, PhD ‘54
1981   Henry Margenau, PhD ‘29
1976   James Henry Wakelin, Jr. PhD ‘40
1968   William Martin Fairbank, PhD ‘48

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Administrative Sciences
2021    Anat Admati, PhD ‘83 

Anthropology
2022   Virginia Rosa Dominguez, PhD ‘79
2016    Eleanor Jane Sterling, BA’83, PhD ‘93
2007   Paul Friedrich, PhD ‘57
1999   William Nelson Fenton, PhD ‘37
1992   Irving B. Rouse, PhD ‘38
1983   Floyd Glenn Lounsbury, PhD ‘49

Economics
2019   Urjit Ravindra Patel, PhD ‘90
2017   Douglas W. Diamond, PhD ‘80 
2014   Edmund Phelps, PhD ‘59
2008   Yoriko Kawaguchi, MPhil ‘72
2001   Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, PhD ‘81
1997   Janet L. Yellen, PhD ‘71
1996   Heidi I. Hartmann, PhD ‘74
1995   Alfred Edward Kahn, PhD ‘42
1993   Jaime Serra Puche, PhD ‘79
1993   Richard Charles Levin, PhD ‘74
1989   Paul Webster MacAvoy, PhD ‘60
1987   Barbara Ann Feinn, PhD ‘52
1982   Richard Nathaniel Rosett, PhD ‘57
1980   Phyllis Ann Wallace, PhD ‘48
1969   Allan Murray Cartter, PhD ‘52
1967   George Peter Murdock, PhD ‘25
1966   Edgar Stephenson Furniss, PhD ‘18

Education
1988   Ellis Crossman Maxcy, PhD ‘41
1984   Homer Daniels Babbidge, Jr., PhD ‘53
1973   Samuel Miller Brownell, PhD ‘26

International Relations
1992   Raymond L. Garthoff, PhD ‘51
1983   Morton H. Halperin, PhD ‘61
1970   Lucian Wilmot Pye, PhD ‘51

Linguistics
2025    Samual Jay Keyser '62 PhD
2018   Marianne Mithun, PhD ‘74
2012   Sarah Grey Thomason, PhD ‘68
1977   Mary Rosamond Haas, PhD ‘35

Political Science
2024   James C. Scott, PhD ’67 post humous
2016   Arend Lijphart, PhD ‘63
2013   Theodore J. Lowi, PhD ‘61
2010   Fred I. Greenstein, PhD ‘60
2008   Robert Axelrod, PhD ‘69
2005   Jennifer L. Hochschild, PhD ‘79
2004   Hong Koo Lee, PhD ‘68
2003   Robert Putnam, PhD ‘70
2002   David E. Price, B.D. ‘64, PhD ‘69
1995   Catharine Alice MacKinnon, PhD ‘87
1987   Nannerl Overholser Keohane, PhD ‘67
1986   Robert Alan Dahl, PhD ‘40
1985   Nelson Woolf Polsby, PhD ‘61
1977   Joseph Austin Ranney, PhD ‘48
1968   James Gardner March, PhD ‘53

Psychology
2023   James M. Jones ‘70 PhD 
2015   Carol S. Dweck, PhD ‘72
2004   Peter Salovey, PhD ‘86
2004   Philip Zimbardo, PhD ‘59
2001   Roger N. Shepard, PhD ‘55
2000   Shelley E. Taylor, PhD ‘72
1997   Alvin M. Liberman, PhD ‘42
1996   David C. McClelland, PhD ‘41
1995   Gordon Howard Bower, PhD ‘59
1992   Frances Keesler Graham, PhD ‘42
1981   Jerome Kagan, PhD ‘54
1975   Eliot Herman Rodnick, PhD ‘36
1973   Eleanor Jack Gibson, PhD ‘38
1971   Ernest Ropiequet Hilgard, PhD ‘30
1967   Neal Elgar Miller, PhD ‘35

Sociology/Social Studies
2020   Dorceta Taylor, PhD ‘91 (combined with Forestry and Environmental Studies)
2017   Lawrence W. Sherman, PhD ‘76
2014   Kristin Luker, PhD ‘74
2011   Bernice A. Pescosolido, PhD ‘82
1989   Menno Boldt, PhD ‘73
1986   Richard Derecktor Schwartz, PhD ‘51
1975   Orville Gilbert Brim, PhD ‘51 
1971   Gladden Whetstone Baker, PhD ‘22

HONORIS CAUSA

2015   Thomas Pollard
2010   Jon Butler
2004   Peter Salovey, PhD ‘86 
2003   Susan Hockfield
1998   Thomas Appelquist
1993   Richard Levin, PhD ‘74 
1992   Judith Rodin
1991   Jerome Jordan Pollitt
1986   Keith Stewart Thomson
1980   Wendell Richard Garner
1978   Jaroslav Pelikan
1975   Donald Wayne Taylor
1969   John Perry Miller