HANOVER — Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed will deliver the main address at Dartmouth’s graduation ceremony on June 13, the college announced this week.
Gordon-Reed, who graduated from Dartmouth in 1981, is the author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009.
Gordon-Reed, a university professor at Harvard, also served as a Dartmouth trustee for eight years.
Among the other honorary degree recipients announced by Dartmouth are poet Louise Glück, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature last year; Pulitzer-winning novelist N. Scott Momaday; former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest J. Moniz; and choreographer Moses Pendleton.