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unusual facts about D.Litt.



Albert Burstein

A resident of Tenafly, New Jersey, Burstein has been a partner in the law firm of Herten, Burstein, Sheridan, Cevasco, Bottinelli, Litt, & Harz, L.L.C. He served as chair of the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation Review Committee, chair of the New Jersey Law Revision Commission, chair of the Bergen County IIB South District Ethics Committee as well as serving as a member of the New Jersey Law Journal editorial board.

Asghar Ali Engineer

He has been awarded several awards, including the Dalmia Award for communal harmony in 1990, honorary D.Litt. by the University of Calcutta in 1993, the 'Communal Harmony Award' in 1997 and the Right Livelihood Award in 2004 (with Swami Agnivesh) for his 'strong commitment to promote values of co-existence and tolerance'.

Geoffrey Hill

Hill was awarded an honorary D.Litt. degree by the University of Leeds in 1988, the same year he received an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award.

John Tzetzes

For the other works of Tzetzes see J. A. Fabricius, Bibliotheca graeca (ed. Harles), xi.228, and Karl Krumbacher, Geschichte der byz. Litt. (2nd ed., 1897); monograph by G. Hart, "De Tzetzarum nomine, vitis, scriptis," in Jahn's Jahrbucher für classische Philologie. Supplementband xii (Leipzig, 1881).

Justine Cassell

She holds a DEUG in Lettres Modernes from the Université de Besançon (1981), a BA in Comparative Literature/Linguistics from Dartmouth College (1982), a M.LITT.

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

Similar to liberal studies graduate programmes, Drew University, in Madison, New Jersey, offers an interdisciplinary graduate degree programme leading to the conferring of a Master of Letters (M.Litt) and Doctor of Letters (D.Litt).

Michael Valpy

He has won three National Newspaper Awards (two for foreign reporting and one for an analysis of dysfunctional students in the public education system) and been nominated for a fourth (for a profile of Michael Ignatieff), In 1997, he was awarded an honorary doctorate (D.Litt) from Trent University.

Norman McLeod Rogers

He went to University College, Oxford (University of Oxford), where he was awarded a BA Honours (MA) degree in Modern History, the B.Litt., and the BCL.

Paul Crouch

Crouch also received three honorary doctorates: a Doctor of Litterarum (D.Litt) on May 29, 1981, from the California Graduate School of Theology, Glendale, California; a Doctor of Divinity on May 29, 1983, from the American Christian Theological Seminary, Anaheim, California; and a Doctor of Laws degree on May 5, 1985, from Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Ralph Gustafson

from Mount Allison in 1973, a D.C.L. from Bishop's University in 1977, and a D. Litt from York University in 1991.

Robert Ian Tricker

Bob Tricker was awarded a doctorate (D.Litt) by the UK Council for National Academic Awards, and has served on the Councils of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants.

Robert S. Litt

Litt clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the Southern District of New York and Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Robert S. Litt is the second General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI); the U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination by unanimous consent on June 25, 2009.

Shakeelur Rahman

He studied at Patna University, where he gained a B.A. with First Class Honours, an M.A. with First Class Honours (awarded the Patna University Gold Medal) and a D.Litt.

Tariq Rahman

In 1989, he also got an M.Litt in linguistics from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

Thomas B. Costain

He received a Doctor of Letters (D. Litt) degree from the University of Western Ontario in May 1952 and he received a gold medallion from the Canadian Club of New York in June 1965.


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