HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS 2019 This year, as every year, AUP is awarding honorary degrees to academics, artists or public figures whose achievements embody the University’s ethos and mission. Given out during the commencement ceremony in May, these degrees recognize vital work within liberal arts disciplines that promotes international cooperation and diverse perspectives.
Warden of St Antony’s College, Oxford. Her bestselling books include Women of the Raj (1988, 2007); Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (2001), for which she was the first woman to win the Samuel Johnson Prize; Nixon and Mao: the Week that Changed the World (2007); and Extraordinary Canadians: Stephen Leacock (2009). Her most recent books are The War that Ended Peace: the Road to 1914 (2013) and History’s People: Personalities and the Past (2015). She is also a regular media commentator, often on the subject of the First World War. Professor MacMillan is a trustee of the Central European University in Budapest and the Imperial War Museum and sits on the editorial boards of two journals, International History and First World War Studies. She is also a Companion of the Order of Canada and a Companion of Honour (UK).
Margaret MacMillan
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature as well as an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, University of Toronto; Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford; and St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. In
Margaret MacMillan is a Professor of History at the University of Toronto and the former 11
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May 2019, Professor MacMillan will deliver the keynote address at the Paris Centennial Conference, an event being hosted by AUP to mark the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
Marian Goodman Known for her taste, high standards and loyalty to her artists, Marian Goodman is one of the most respected gallerists active today, with over 50 years’ experience working in the art world. The Marian Goodman Gallery in New York City, which she founded in late 1977, has helped introduce numerous European artists to American audiences. Her work through the gallery contributes to fostering much-needed interactions between international art institutions and artists working around the world.
