Wynnewood Seminary Giving Harvard Lecturer Honorary Degree

WYNNEWOOD, PA — Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood will award a Harvard lecturer with an honorary degree for her work in the university's Sociology and African American Studies Departments.

Harvard University Lecturer Dr. Jacqueline C. Rivers will be presented a Doctor of Humane Letters degree, honoris causa, at Saint Charles' Concursus ceremony on May 15.

Rivers is also the Executive Director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies.

She will also give the Concursus address.

Concursus is the Seminary’s annual graduation ceremony where academic degrees are awarded to seminarians as well as religious and lay students enrolled in its college and graduate degree programs.

"Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary is honored to present its Doctor of Humane Letters degree to Dr. Jacqueline Rivers, a distinguished lecturer and scholar in the Sociology and African American Studies Departments at Harvard," Bishop Timothy C. Senior, the Seminary’s Rector, said.

Rivers will join a distinguished list of honorary degree recipients from the Seminary including Professor Andreas Widmer, Justice Samuel Alito, Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Judge Genevieve Blatt, Mr. William Fishman and Pennsylvania Chief Justice Robert N.C. Nix, inter alios.

She has served as a lecturer at Harvard University and has presented at Princeton University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Pennsylvania, the American Enterprise Institute, the Vatican, the United Nations and in several other venues.

Her latest publication, co-authored with Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson, appears in the volume The Cultural Matrix.

She received her Ph.D., Master and undergraduate degrees from Harvard University.

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