2012-13

Donna Robinson Divine, Morningstar Family Professor in Jewish Studies, Professor of Government
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 5:00 pm, Seelye Hall 201

2011-12

Peter Bloom, Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of the Humanities, Berlioz, Delacroix, and La Mort d'Ophélie

2010-11

Elizabeth Spelman, Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, Combing Through the Trash: Philosophy Goes Rummaging

2009-10

Justina Gregory, Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, Cheiron the Centaur - Some Reflections on Teachers and Teaching

2008-09

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Sydenham C. Parsons Professor, American Studies, Underneath the Whirls: Rethinking Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sex, Nervous Breakdown, and S. Weir Mitchell

2007-08

Randy Frost, Harold Edward and Elsa Siipola Israel Professor of Psychology, Buried in Treasures: The Psychopathology of Compulsive Hoarding

2006-07

Ruth Solie, Sophia Smith Professor of Music, Railroads, Beethoven & Victorian Modernity

2005-06

Stephen Tilley, Myra A. Sampson Professor of Biological Sciences, Mountains, Molecules and Salamanders: Exploring Patterns of Biodiversity in the Southern Appalachians

2004-05

Ann Rosalind Jones, Esther Cloudman Dunn Professor, Comparative Literature, Exhibiting Others: Images and Judgments of Clothing in Three Sixteenth-Century Costume Books

2003-04

Howard Nenner, Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities (History), Richard III and History: A Cautionary Tale

2002-03

Daniel Horowitz, Professor of American Studies, The Anxieties of Affluence in the United States at the End of the Twentieth Century

2002-03

Ronald Russell Macdonald, Professor of English Language and Literature; Professor Macdonald died March 8, 2002

2001-02

Philip D. Reid, Louise C. Harrington Professor of Biological Sciences, A Botanical Triptych

2000-01

Lawrence A. Joseph, Professor Emeritus of French Language and Literature, Marcel Proust and "Docteur Dieu": Letters to Samuel Pozzi.

1999-00

Myron Peretz Glazer, Barbara Richmond Professor in the Social Sciences, On the Trail of Courageous Behavior.

1998-99

Taitetsu Unno, Jill Ker Conway Professor of Religion and East Asian Studies, Space as Metaphor: Evolution of the Stupa from India to Japan.

1997-98

Helen E. Searing, Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art, Museums, Knowledge, Power: The Discourse of Display.

1996-97

Philip Green, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, No Community Without Me: Reflections on Identity.

1995-96

Jeanne A. Powell, Elsie Damon Simonds Professor of Biological Sciences, Building up Your Muscle from the Beginning: Mice in Service of Mankind.

1994-95

Paul Pickrel, Professor Emeritus of English, Enemies of Memory: On Recalling the 1930's. (Smith College, 1995.)

1993-94

Murray J. Kiteley, Sophia Smith Professor of Philosophy, Parts of Speech, Parts of the World: A Match Made in Heaven? Or Just Athens? (Smith College, 1994.)

1992-93

Andrew Zimbalist, Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics, Baseball's Economic Dilemmas and Public Policy. (Smith College, 1993.)

1991-92

Quentin Quesnell, Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities, In Search of Sophia. (Smith College, 1992.)

1990-91

Marjorie Senechal, Louise Wolff Kahn Professor of Mathematics, From Symmetry to Disorder: A Personal Odyssey

1989-90

R. Jackson Wilson, Professor of History, The Philosopher as Artist: Charles Sanders Pierce

1988-89

Elliot M. Offner, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, A Sculptor Looks Back and Ahead.

1987-88

C. John Burk, Gates Professor of Biological Sciences, After the Ice: The Changing Landscapes of New England.

1986-87

Hans Vaget, Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of German Language and Literature, Thomas Mann and Agnes E. Meyer

1985-86

Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor of History, Stalin and Veselovsky's Ivan the Terrible.

1984-85

Stanley Rothman, Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of Government, Who are Those Journalists? (And Why are They Saying Such Nasty Things?).

1983-84

Morris Lazerowitz, Sophia and Austin Smith Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Cassandra in Philosophy. (Smith College, 1984.)

1982-83

Neal H. McCoy, Gates Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, An Important Scientific Prediction.

1981-82

Philipp Otto Naegele, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Music, Gustav Mahler and Johann Sebastian Bach. (Smith College, 1984.)

1980-81

Helen Krich Chinoy, Professor of Theatre, The Chosen Ones: Politics & Passion in the Group Theatre 1931-1941.

1979-80

B. Elizabeth Horner, Myra M. Sampson Professor in the Biological Sciences, Australian Mammals: Paradoxes and Changing Perspectives

1978-79

William L. MacDonald, Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art, Piranesi's Carceri: Sources of Invention. (Smith College, 1979.)

1977-78

Peter I Rose, Sophia Smith Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen." Some Reflections on the Insider-Outsider Debate. (Smith College, 1978.)

1976-77

George E. Dimock, Jr., Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, "God, or Not God, or Between the Two?"--Euripides' Helen. (Smith College, 1977.)

1975-76

Cecilia M. Kenyon, Charles N. Clark Professor of Government, Deep Roots: The Declaration of Independence. A disquisition into the sources of evolution of the political ideas of the American Revolution

1974-75

Thomas C. Mendenhall, President and Professor of History, Chance and Change in Smith College's First Century. (Smith College, 1976.)

1973-74

Stanley M. Elkins, Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of History, Washington: The Meaning of a Capital City

1972-73

Phyllis Williams Lehmann, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Art, Skopas in Samothrace. (Smith College, 1973.)

1971-72

George W. de Villafranca, Gates Professor in the Biological Sciences, The Driving Force: Muscle. (Smith College, 1972.)

1970-71

Ely Chinoy, Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Knowledge and Action: The Role of Sociology. (Smith College, 1970.)

1969-70

Max Salvadori, Dwight W. Morrow Professor of History, A Stone of Stumbling The Debate on Democracy between The Second and Third Internationals 1919-1922. (Smith College, 1970.)

1968-69

Klemens von Klemperer, L. Clark Seelye Professor Emeritus of History, Mandate for Resistance: The Case of the German Opposition to Hitler. (Smith College, 1969.)

1967-68

Alice Ambrose Lazerowitz, Sophia and Austin Smith Professor of Philosophy, The Changing Face of Philosophy. (Smith College, 1968.)

1966-67

Helen Muchnic, Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of Russian Language and Literature, The Unhappy Consciousness; Gogol, Poe, Baudelaire. (Smith College, 1967.)

1965-66

Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Sophia Smith Professor of Art, Richardson as a Victorian Architect. (Smith College, 1965.)

1964-65

Eleanor Duckett, Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Literatures and Sophia Smith Fellow, Women and Their Letters in the Early Middle Ages. (Smith College, 1965.)

1963-64

Daniel Aaron, Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English Language and Literature, Poland: A Self-Interview. (Smith College, 1964.)

1962-63

Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy, Professor Emeritus of Art, Novelty and Tradition in Titian's Art. 52 Plates. (Smith College, 1963.)

1961-62

Oliver W. Larkin, Jessie Wells Post Professor of Art, Daumier in His Time and in Ours. (Smith College, 1962.)

1960-61

Sidney R. Packard, Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of History, The Process of Historical Revision: New Viewpoints in Medieval European History. (Smith College, 1962.)

1959-60

Elizabeth Drew, Visiting Professor of English Language and Literature, Life and Art in the Novel. (Smith College, 1962.)

1958-59

Newton Arvin, Professor of English Language and Literature, The House of Pain: Emerson and the Tragic Sense. (The Hudson Review, Volume XII, Spring, 1958.)