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Honorary doctors

On this page, you can see the Faculty of Social Sciences' honorary doctors from 1967 onwards.

Photo during the doctoral graduation 2016. Photo.
From the 2016 doctoral graduation ceremony. Photo: Kennet Ruona

2024

Samir Abu Eid, Sverige

Michel Agier, Frankrike

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2023

Mimi Abramovitz, USA

Leonie Hudd, USA

2021

Klas Östergren, Sweden

2020

Ernest Aryeetey, Ghana

2019

Tomas Ramberg, Sweden

2018

Jack Halberstam, USA

Jacqui True, Australia

2017

Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Netherlands

Jaber F Gubrium, Canada

2016

Jeff Hearn, Great Britain

Michael Hall, New Zeeland

2015

Ulla Carlsson, Sweden

Vilhelm Ekensteen, Sweden

2014

Christine Sylvester, USA

2013

Lawrence Lessig, USA

2012

Cynthia Enloe, USA

Meric Gertler, Canada

2011

Alex Carlberg, Sweden

Bengt Linde, Sweden

2010

Gunther Teubner, Germany

Paul Ekman, USA

2009

Philip Zimbardo, USA

Andrew Sayer, Great Britain

Kathleen Craveros, Switzerland

2008

Chandra Talpade Mohanty, India/USA

David Harvey, USA

2006

Phil Cooke, Great Britain

2005

Immanuel Wallerstein, USA

Ruth Wächter, Sweden

2004

Lasse Berg, Rwanda/Sweden

2003

Thomas Mathiesen, Norway

2002

Hitoshi Hashimoto, Japan

2001

Robert M Emerson, USA

2000

Leonard W Poon, USA

1999

Björn Gillberg, Sweden

1998

Arthur Easterlin, USA

1997

Jay Barney, USA

Lennart Nilsson, Sweden

1996

Bruno Latour, France

1995

Christer Denrell, Sweden

1994

Anne-Lise Christensen, Denmark

Stig Ramel, Sweden

Alexander George, USA

1993

Birgit Rodhe, Sweden

Michael Bromwich, Great Britain

1992

Peter Hall, USA

Karl-Erik Sahlberg, Sweden

1990

Nathan Rosenberg, USA

Lars O Andersson, Sweden

1989

Henry Mintzberg, Canada

Ingvar Carlsson, Sweden

1988

Lennart Petri, fil Vilhelm Aubert, Norway

Erik Dahmén, Sweden

1987

William R Mead, Great Britain

Margareta Holgersdotter Dahlberg, Sweden

1986

Alf Lüning, Sweden

Bertil Kugelberg, Sweden

1985

Mihailo Markovic´, Czechoslovakia

Valborg Cecilia Ryde, Sweden

Sven Herbert Ryde, Sweden

1984

Signe Höjer, Erik Homburger Erikson

Hans Cavalli-Björkman, Sweden

1983

Norman F Dixon, Great Britain

C West Churchman, USA

Axel Leijonhufvud, USA

Ingvar Kamprad, Denmark

1982

Stefan Dedijer, Sweden

1981

Reimer Jensen, Denmark

1980

Basil Bernstein, Great Britain

1979

Hans Rausing, Sweden

Erik Homburger Erikson

1978

Frank Harary, USA

1977

Alan Williams, Great Britain

1976

Joseph Sandler, Great Britain

1975

Börje Langefors

Carsten Weliner

Sigfrid Leander

1972

Holger Crafoord

1969

Evert Lundberg

1968

Herbert A Simon, USA

Walter Christaller, Germany

1967

Per Stjernquist

Ernst Wehtje