“Education is our outstanding asset. Our American system of education is what has made these United States the outstanding nations of the world.... Education is our surest guarantee of maintaining our present high standing and of providing for our future advancement.”—William T. Patten
Former Lecturers
1936 - Alfred Manes
1938 - Raymond Pearl
1939 - Harold J. Laski
1940 - Robert Triastram Coffin
1942 - Bernard DeVoto
1949 - Douglas Bush
1949 - L. Dudley Stamp
1950 - Julian Huxley
1952 - Louis B. Wright
1954 - George Sarton
1955 - Brock Chisholm
1956 - Aziz S. Atiya
1957 - Roy Ellsworth Harris
1958 - Edmundo O'Gorman
1959 - Bruno Snell
1960 - Meyer Schapiro
1961 - Morris Bishop
1962 - James David Ebert
1963 - Ernest J. Simmons
1964 - Elder Olson
1965 - Dexter Perkins
1966 - Harry Tuchman Levin
1967 - Alexander Coburn Soper III
1968 - Samuel Noah Kramer
1970 - Thomas D. Clark
1971 - John C. Eccles
1972 - C. R. Rao
1973 - Kenneth E. Boulding
1973 - Rene Welleck
1974 - Ralph W. tyler
1974 - Martin Kamen
1975 - S. Dillon Ripley
1975 - Fred Hoyle
1975 - H. C. Robbins Landon
1975 - Barbara Hardy
1976 - Garrett Hardin
1976 - Mary Boyce
1977 - Joseph Needham
1977 - Henry Steele Commager
1977 - Marcel Ophuls
1977 - Arnaldo Dante Momigliano
1977 - Michael Harrington
1978 - Edwin O. Reischauer
1978 - James M. Fallows
1978 - Ann Cornelisen
1978 - Adrien Albert
1979 - Darwin T. Turner
1979 - Rene Thom
1979 - Russell Kirk
1979 - Andrew Porter
1979 - Jorge Luis Borges
1979 - Stanley Cavell
1979 - Cao Yu
1979 - Lee N. Robbins
1980 - Theodore J. Lowi
1980 - Theodore J. Ziolkowski
1980 - Manfred Eigen
1980 - Norman Corwin
1980 - Eugen Joseph Weber
1980 - Yuan Kejia
1980 - Stanley Kauffman
1981 - Irving Howe
1981 - John Barth
1981 - Israel Scheffler
1981 - Ralph Manheim
1981 - Saul Kripke
1981 - David Brion Davis
1981 - Stanley Engerman
1981 - Gavin Wright
1981 - P.J. Vatikiotis
1981 - Colin Renfrew
1981 - George Steiner
1981 - Czeslaw Milosz
1982 - Umberto Eco
1982 - Stanislaw Ulam
1982 - Robert Hughes
1982 - Olwen Hufton
1982 - Sheldon Glashow
1982 - Gerald Holton
1983 - Robert Darnton
1983 - Robert Shaw
1983 - Michael Walzter
1983 - Chen Ning Yang
1983 - Toni Morrison
1983 - Denis Mack Smith
1984 - Ralph Cohen
1984 - Sir Edmund R. Leach
1984 - Lawrence R. Klein
1984 - Marvin Minsky
1984 - Raymond Boudon
1984 - Leondard B Meyer
1985 - Linda K. Kerber
1985 - Jeremiah P. Ostriker
1985 - Vina Deloria, Jr.
1985 - David Del Tredici
1985 - Janet T. Spence
1985 - Flora Lewis
1986 - John C. Caldwell
1986 - May Sarton
1986 - Richard Wilbur
1986 - Lester C. Thurow
1986 - Stanley Fish
1986 - John Hope Franklin
1987 - Natalie Zemon Davis
1987 - Herbert Robbins
1988 - Malcom Toon
1988 - Roger Shattuck
1988 - Rex Nettleford
1989 - Paule Marshall
1989 - Evelyn Fox Keller
1990 - Donna Haraway
1990 - Richard C. Lewontin
1990 - Jonathan Spence
1991 - Meir Sternberg
1991 - Sir John Boardman
1991 - Wilem J.M. Levelt
1992 - J. M. Coetzee
1992 - Sir John Meurig Thomas
1992 - Michael J. Sandel
1993 - Peter Lamont Brown
1993 - Noam Chomsky
1993 - John Rochard Krebs
1994 - Gregor E. Morfill
1994 - Amy Gutmann
1994 - Gregory Nagy
1994 - Frank Press
1995 - Lawrence M. Friedman
1995 - Jerome J. McGann
1995 - Edward W. Said
1996 - Michael B. Katz
1996 - Etel Adman
1996 - Christopher A. Sims
1996 - Richard Wightman Fox
1997 - Wole Soyinka
1997 - Majorie Perloff
1997 - Robert A. Ferguson
1997 - Bernard McGinn
1998 - Joan Tower
1998 - Tony R. Judt
1998 - Alexander W. Astin
1998 - Oleg Grabar
1999 - Elizabeth Loftus
1999 - Jorge Castaneda
1999 - Lynn Hunt
1999 - Robert H. Bates
2000 - Elizabeth A. Clark
2000 - Benjamin Bagby
2000 - Catharine R. Stimpson
2000 - Joel Smoller
2001 - Amos Oz
2001 - Anthony Grafton
2001 - Jay Winter
2002 - Patricia J. Williams
2002 - Oscar Arias
2002 - Laurence J. Kotlikoff
2002 - Uchang Kim
2003 - Persi Diaconis
2003 - Millicent Hodson
2003 - Fernando Nottebohm
2003 - Darlene Clark Hine
2004 - Adam Phillips
2004 - Geoffrey W. Marcy
2004 - Claude M. Steele
2005 - Mary Beard
2005 - Daniel C. Dennett
2005 - David Levering Lewis
2005 - Charles Rosen
2006 - Fritz Stern
2006 - Bruce Alberts
2006 - Amartya Sen
2007 - Richard N. Zare
2007 - Strobe Talbott
2007 - Neta Bahcall
2007 - Martha Nussbaum
2007 - Gillian Beer
2008 - Thomas Schelling
2008 - James O'Donnell
2008 - Werner Sollors
