The Wilbur Cross Medal, or Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, is an award by the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association for "distinguished achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service". The award is made to a small number of individuals annually, and was first awarded in 1966. The award is named after Wilbur Lucius Cross, who was a Yale University dean, and also a noted scholar, editor, literary critic, author and governor of the state of Connecticut. Recipients include: 2018 Elizabeth W. Easton Kelsey C. Martin Marianne Mithun Tan Eng Chye 2017 Douglas Diamond Donna J. Haraway Eric J. Nestler Lawrence W. Sherman 2016 Arend Lijphart Ira Mellman Arthur Nozik Eleanor Sterling 2015 Carol S. Dweck Philip C. Hanawalt Jeremy Bradford Cook Jackson Jonathan Z. Smith Thomas D. Pollard 2014 Eric R. Fossum Thomas C. Holt Kristin Luker Edmund Phelps 2013
Fredric Jameson Alan M. Lambowitz Theodore J. Lowi Annette Thomas 2012 John D. Aber Alfred W. McCoy Jonathan M. Rothberg Sarah Grey Thomason 2011 Stanley Fish Leslie F. Greengard Bernice A. Pescosolido Huntington F. Willard 2010 Stephen Greenblatt Fred Greenstein Timothy J. Richmond Paul Wender Jon Butler 2009 Laura L. Kiessling Michael S. Levine Richard J. Powell William J. Willis 2008 Robert Axelrod Stephen G. Emerson Yoriko Kawaguchi David M. Kennedy 2007 Carol T. Christ Paul Friedrich Anne Walters Robertson John Suppe 2006 Eva Brann Richard Brodhead Mimi Gardner Gates Lewis E. Kay Richard A. Young 2005 Lincoln Pierson Brower Peter B. Dervan Jennifer L. Hochschild Richard Rorty Eric F. Wieschaus 2004 William Cronon Hong Koo Lee Julia Phillips Peter Salovey Barbara Schaal Philip Zimbardo 2003 Edward L. Ayers Gerald Brown John Fenn Robert D. Putnam
Charles Yanofsky Susan Hockfield 2002 Linda Gordon Sharon R. Long Julia M. McNamara David E. Price 2001 Elliot M. Meyerowitz Stephen Owen Roger N. Shepard Ernesto ZedilloPonce de León 2000 James G. Arthur Evelyn Boyd Granville Ruth Barcan Marcus Shelley E. Taylor 1999 Francis S. Collins William N. Fenton Allen L. Sessoms Rosemary A. Stevens Geerat J. Vermeij 1998 Helen Murphy Tepperman George A. Lindbeck Peter Demetz David M. Lee Thomas Appelquist 1997 Alvin M. Liberman Francis C. Oakley G. Virginia Upton Janet L. Yellen Anne M. Briscoe William Louis Gaines 1996 David C. McClelland Marie Borroff Miriam Usher Chrisman James Thomas Laney Heidi I. Hartmann 1995 Alfred Edward Kahn Gordon Howard Bower Jennifer L. Kelsey Mark Edward Neely Jr. Catharine A. MacKinnon 1994 Theodore Frederic Cooke Jr. Zunyi Yang Vincent Joseph Scully, Jr. John Imbrie Jerome John McGann Thomas Eugene Lovejoy III 1993 W. Thomas Edmondson Estella Bergère Leopold Marcia L. Colish Richard Charles Levin Jaime Serra Puche 1992 Irving B. Rouse Frances K. Graham Raymond L. Garthoff Gerald R. Fink J. Dennis Huston Judith Rodin 1991 W. Edwards Deming Aubrey L. Williams Maxine Singer Joseph Percival Allen IV Russell George Hamilton Jr. Jerome Jordan Pollitt 1990 Franklin LeVan Baumer Adolph Grünbaum Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. Eleanor Holmes Norton A. Bartlett Giamatti 1989 Pauline Newman Paul Webster MacAvoy Garry Leo Wills Mary Lou Pardue Menno Boldt 1988 Ellis Crossman Maxcy Charles Allen Walker Joseph G. Gall Gérard Lepoutre Richard S. Westfall Thomas Kaehao Seung 1987 Thomas Brennan Nolan Harry Rudolph Rudin Julian Munson Sturtevant Richard David Ellmann Barbara Ann Feinn Nannerl Overholser Keohane 1986 Robert Alan Dahl A.Dwight Culler Richard Derecktor Schwartz Robert Joseph Birgeneau Keith Stewart Thomson 1985 Eugene Mersereau Waith Peter Tyrell Flawn Victor Henri Brombert John Paul Schiffer Nelson Woolf Polsby 1984 Louis Lohr Martz George Alexander Kubler Homer Daniels Babbidge Jr. Burton I. Edelson Margaret Walsh Rossiter 1983 George Harry Ford Floyd Glenn Lounsbury Barbara Illingworth Brown Daniel Berg Morton H. Halperin 1982 Mary Ellen Jones Richard Nathaniel Rosett Theodore Joseph Ziolkowski 1981 Henry Margenau Warren Hunting Smith Bernard Nicholas Schilling Jerome Kagan Grace Evelyn Pickford 1980 Bingham Johnson Humphrey Maurice H. Mandelbaum Phyllis Ann Wallace Wendell Richard Garner 1979 Richard Benson Sewall Elizabeth Read Foster Jacquelyn Anderson Mattfeld 1978 Jaroslav Pelikan Thomas Goddard Bergin Maynard Mack Stephen Hopkins Spurr 1977 Gordon Sherman Haight Mary Rosamund Haas Joseph Austin Ranney Jacob Theodore Schwartz 1976 Josephine P. Bree James Henry Wakelin Jr. William G. Moulton George Heard Hamilton Laura Anna Bornholdt 1975 Robert Phelan Langlands Ralph Henry Gabriel Eliot Herman Rodnick George Berkeley Young Orville Gilbert Brim, Jr. Donald Wayne Taylor 1974 Milton Harris Amos Niven Wilder Constance McLaughlin Green Alvin Bernard Kernan 1973 Samuel Miller Brownell George Wilson Pierson Marshall Hall Eleanor Jack Gibson Preston E. Cloud 1972 Dumas Malone John Collins Pope Grace Murray Hopper Lars Onsager 1971 Gladden Whetstone Baker Ernest Ropiequet Hilgard Jane Marion Oppenheimer Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox John Robert Silber 1970 Roland Herbert Bainton Bertrand Harris Bronson Leona Baumgartner Melvin Spencer Newman Lucian Wilmot Pye 1969 George Gaylord Simpson Murray Barnson Emeneau Allan Murray Cartter James Patrick Shannon John Perry Miller Joshua Lederberg 1968 Filmer S. C. Northrop James Bliss Austin William Martin Fairbank James Gardner March 1967 Carl William Blegen Luther Allan Weigle Wallace Notestein Marjorie Hope Nicolson George Peter Murdock Frederick Albert Pottle Neal Elgar Miller Robert William Buchheim 1966 Edgar Stephenson Furniss
