2024

Carolyn Merchant ’58
Watch the Carolyn Merchant video.
Read more about Merchant in the July 2024 Vassar Stories article.
 

2023

Sau Lan Wu ’63
Watch Sau Lan Wu’s 2014 Commencement address.
Read more about Wu in the June 2023 Vassar Stories article.
 

2022

Jonathan Granoff ’70
Watch Granoff’s interview by Chip Reid ’77 and Granoff’s acceptance remarks.
Read more about Granoff in the March 2023 Vassar Stories article.
 

2021

Meryl Streep ’71, P’08, ’13
Watch Streep’s acceptance remarks.
Read more about Streep in the October 2022 Vassar Stories article.
 

2020

John Carlstrom ’81
Watch a fireside chat conversation with Carlstrom.
Read more about Carlstrom in the Summer/Fall 2020 VQ article.
 

2019

Phyllis Bronfman Lambert ’48
Read more about Lambert in the September 2019 Vassar Stories article.
 

2018

Lynn Povich ’65
Watch Povich’s acceptance remarks.
Read more about Povich in the September 2018 Vassar Stories article.
 

2017

Frances “Sissy” Tarlton Farenthold ’46, P’75
Watch Farenthold’s acceptance remarks.
Read more about Farenthold in the September 2017 Vassar Stories article.
 

2013

Rebecca Eaton ’69
Read more about Eaton in the Winter 2013 Vassar Quarterly article.
 

2012

Linda Nochlin ’51
Read more about Nochlin in the Winter 2012 Vassar Quarterly article.
 

2010

Dr. Anne B. Young ’69
Read more about Young in the Fall 2010 Vassar Quarterly article.
 

2009

Frances Sternhagen ’51
Watch Sternhagen’s acceptance remarks.
Read more about Sternhagen in the Spring 2009 Vassar Quarterly article.
 

2008

Laurie Schwab Zabin ’46
Watch a lecture by Zabin.
Read more about Zabin in the Spring 2008 Vassar Quarterly article.
 

2007

Vera Rubin ’48
Read more about Rubin in the Winter 2006 Vassar Quarterly article.
 

2006

Katharine Lee Reid ’63
Read more about Reid in the Winter 2005 Vassar Quarterly article.
 

2005

Jamshed J. Bharucha ’78
Read more about Bharucha in the Winter 2004 Vassar Quarterly article.
 

2004

Ellen May Galinsky ’64
Read more about Galinsky in the Winter 2003 Vassar Quarterly article.
 

2003

Dr. June Jackson Christmas ’45-4
Read more about Christmas in the Winter 2002 Vassar Quarterly article.
 

2002

Pauline Newman ’47
Read more about Newman in the Winter 2001 Vassar Quarterly article.