Begley-Van Cleve Lectureship

The Department of Political Science is honored to be the custodian of the Begley-Van Cleve Lectureship, established in 1978 by Professor Roy R. Ray of Southern Methodist University in honor of his sisters, Edna Ray Begley and Faye Ray Van Cleve. The terms of the lectureship call for a “scholar of American politics,” broadly defined, to present a lecture to a campus-wide audience and, when possible, visit with students in smaller group settings such as classes.

 

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
2013 (January 31 Convocation)	Theodore Lowi	John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell University	“The Politics of Change”
2010 (November 4 Convocation)	Darrell West	Vice President and Director of Governance Studies and the Brookings Institute	“Elections 2010: Understanding the Results and Future Implications”
2009 (October 1 Convocation)	Larry Sabato	Director, University of Virginia Center For Politics	“Politics Is a Good Thing”
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”
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