Princeton’s newest Ph.D. and master’s degree recipients were honored Monday, May 26, at the 2025 Hooding and Recognition Ceremony for completing their advanced degrees during this past academic year.
The Graduate School’s Class of 2025 gathered under sunny skies on Cannon Green, surrounded by family, friends and the many supporters of their years of effort.
“This hooding ceremony is a wonderful opportunity for all of us — your family and friends, your teachers, your mentors — to recognize your accomplishments and express our excitement about your futures,” said Princeton University Provost Jennifer Rexford, the Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor in Engineering. “In your time here, you have become experts in your chosen fields, and the world needs your expertise, now more than ever.”
In his remarks, Graduate School Dean Rodney Priestley urged the graduates to draw on what they have gained from Princeton as they face challenges in their lives and careers.
“As you leave this campus, we recognize that the world faces many complex challenges,” said Priestley, who is also Princeton’s Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
“I know that your years of preparation here at Princeton — your hard work, your vast scholarship, the depth of your research, your skillful teaching, the relationships you’ve made, and your bold leadership across a breathtaking array of disciplines — will contribute to solutions,” Priestley said. “During moments of uncertainty, I encourage you to continue to think expansively about your goals and not let the current headwinds reduce your ambitions, but rather expand them.”
Among the 663 graduate degrees granted during this academic year (PDF) are eight recent Department of English Ph.D.s who were hooded on Monday, either by their faculty advisers or by Sandra Bermann, chief marshal for University Convocations and the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and professor of comparative literature.
Photos by Sarah Malone
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Kyra Morris is hooded by Diana Fuss, the Louis W. Fairchild Class of ’24 Professor of English.
Other English graduate degrees granted during this academic year are to: Alexis Ferguson; Promise Li, Lecturer in English, Caltech; Pasquale Toscano, Assistant Professor of English, Vassar College; and Jeewon Yoo, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Williams College.