The Wilbur Cross Medal, or Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, is an award by the Yale Alumni Association for "distinguished achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service". The award is made to a small number (up to six) 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:
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 Zedillo Ponce 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