Brandeis Alumni, Family and Friends
Deborah E. Lipstadt, MA’72, PhD’76, Will Deliver Address at Brandeis’ 68th Commencement
April 1, 2019
Historian and author Deborah E. Lipstadt, MA’72, PhD’76, will deliver the Commencement address at Brandeis University’s 68th Commencement on Sunday, May 19. Lipstadt and six other distinguished individuals will be awarded honorary degrees at the ceremony in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center.
Brandeis’ other honorary degree recipients will be Rivka Carmi, pediatrician, neonatologist, medical geneticist, and former president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Jon Landau ’68, music executive, writer, and visionary; Chinese novelist Cixin Liu; philanthropist Barbara Mandel, P’73; financier and former Brandeis Board of Trustees chair Perry Traquina ’78; and Susan Windham-Bannister, PhD’77, innovation executive, and the former president and CEO of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.