The lectureship provides travel and hospitality as well as an honorarium. Nominations are welcomed from all areas of the campus, with the final selection being made by the Department of Political Science.
| Year |
Speaker |
Title |
Topic |
| 2008 (March 27 Convocation) |
Stephen Walt |
Professor of International Relations and Dean of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
What Went Wrong with U.S. Foreign Policy |
| 2005 ("Engaging Our World" Conference) |
David Beckmann |
President, Bread for the World Institute |
Keynote Speech: "Engaging Our World" |
| 2005 (March 17 Convocation) |
Sumit Ganguly |
Professor of Political Science, Indiana University (1977 Berea College Graduate). Expertise in Ethnic Conflict, Southeast Asia-U.S. Relations |
"U.S.-India Relations: From Estrangement to Engagement" |
| 2001 (Convocation) |
Ed Meese |
75th Attorney General of the United States, Heritage Foundation Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institute Distinguished Fellow |
"Capital Punishment in the United States" |
| 1998 (November 18 Convocation) |
John Lewis Gaddis |
Professor of History and Director of the Contemporary History Institute, Ohio University; CIA Historical Advisory Committee |
"How the Cold War Ended" |
| 1989 (Convocation) |
Jerry Hough |
Professor of International Relations, Duke University; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute |
"Russia And The West: Gorbachev and the Politics of Reform" |
| 1987 (Convocation) |
Ann Stuart Anderson |
Fellow, American Enterprise Institute |
"The House That Mr. Madison Built: An Adventure In Constitution-Making" |
| 1985 (Symposium) |
Edward Warner |
Senior Defense Analyst, RAND Corporation; Professor of Political Science, George Washington University |
Soviet Foreign Policy |
| 1985 (Symposium) |
Richard Pipes |
Professor of History, Harvard University |
Soviet Politics and History |
| 1984 (Convocation) |
William Julius Wilson |
Professor of Urban Sociology, University of Chicago |
"Race-Specific Policy and the Truly Disadvantaged"
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| 1980 (Convocation) |
Everett Carll Ladd |
Professor of Political Science and Director of Roper Center, University of Connecticut |
"The 1980 Election" |
| 1979 (Convocation) |
Richard Fenno |
Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester |
"Campaigning for the U.S. Senate" |
| 1978 |
James David Barber |
Professor and Chair of Political Science, Duke University |
TBA |
