Professor Anita Hill (HS) will receive an honorary degree from Smith College at the school's commencement ceremony on May 19.Hill, who in addition to working at Brandeis as a professor of social policy, law and women's studies, is also the author of "Speaking Truth to Power," an account of her experience as a witness at the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.

Hill will join six other women at Smith's commencement exercises.

Harvard Law School professor and civil rights champion Lani Guinier will give the commencement address, while Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Anne Martindell, U.S. ambassador to New Zealand, Cynthia Moss, director of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project, Katha Pollitt, columnist, critic and poet, and Sima Wali, president and CEO of Refugee Women in Development, will all join Hill as honorary degree recipients.