Fall Distinguished Speakers

The Committee has been honored to have the following scholars serve as its Fall Distinguished Author in Social Theory:

• 1991: Douglas Kellner (Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin)
• 1992: Mark Poster (History/Critical Theory, University of California, Irvine)
• 1993: David Biale (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley)
• 1994: Dominick LaCapra (History/Humanities Center, Cornell University)
• 1995: Seyla Benhabib (Government/Center for European Studies, Harvard University)
• 1996: Jane Flax (Government, Harvard University)
• 1997: Martin Jay (History, U.C. Berkeley)
• 1998: Tom Nairn (University of Edinburgh)
• 1999: Hans Jörg Rheinberger (Max Plank, Institute at Berlin)
• 2000: Nancy Fraser (Political Science, New School for Social Research)
• 2001: Charles Lemert (Sociology, Wesleyan University)
• 2002: Jeffery Alexander (Sociology, Yale University)
• 2003: W.J.T. Mitchell (English and Art History, University of Chicago)
• 2004: Christopher Lane (English, Northwestern University))
• 2005: John Hartigan, Jr (Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin)
• 2006: Walter Benn Michaels (English, University of Illinois-Chicago)
• 2007:  Joan Wallach Scott (School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study in NJ)
• 2008: Elizabeth A Povinelli (Anthropology, Columbia University)
• 2009: Nancy Armstrong (English, Duke University)

Spring Lecture Series Speakers

1. Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Social Theory (1989)

• Derek Gregory (Geography, British Columbia)
• Davyd Greenwood (Anthropology, Cornell)
• Bob Jessop (Government, Essex & University of Chicago)
• Dominick Lacapra (History, Cornell)
• Charles Taylor (Philosophy, McGill)

2. Reassessing Modernity and Postmodernity (1990)

• Richard Bernstein (Philosophy, New School)
• Fred Dallmayr (Government, Notre Dame)
• Catherine Lutz (Anthropology, North Carolina)
• Rainer Nägele (German, Johns Hopkins)
• Edward Soja (Architecture/urban planning, UCLA)

3. Objectivity and its Others (1991)

• Jim Boon (Anthropology, Princeton)
• David Hoy (Philosophy, Santa Cruz)
• Gunnar Olsson (Geography, Nordplan, Stockholm)
• Bonnie Smith (History, Rutgers)
• Sam Weber (English, UCLA)

4. The Social and Political Body (1992)

• Judith Butler (rhetoric, UC Berkeley)
• Thomas Laqueur (History, UC Berkeley)
• Emily Martin (Anthropology, Johns Hopkins)
• John O'Neill (Sociology, York )
• Kathy Peiss (History, Rutgers)

5. Contemporary Democracy and Democratic Theory (1993)

• Ben Agger (sociology, SUNY Buffalo)
• Sam Bowles/Herbert Gintis (Economics, U Massachusetts, Amherst)
• Chantal Mouffe (College International de Philosophie, Paris)
• Michele Wallace (English/women's studies, City College)
• Iris Young (Public and International Affairs, Pittsburgh)

6. Disciplining Boundaries (1994)

• Stewart Clegg (Management, Sydney)
• Arturo Escobar (Anthropology, U Massachusetts, Amherst)
• David Lloyd (English, Berkeley)
• Doreen Massey (Geography, Open University)
• Charles Tilly (Center for Study of Social Change, New School)

7. Representing Reason (1995)

• Russell Berman (German studies, Stanford)
• Hubert Dreyfus (Philosophy, UC Berkeley)
• Elizabeth Grosz (Cltural studies, Monash)
• Timothy Mitchell (Political science, NYU)
• Michael Roth (History, Claremont)

8. Crisis in Progress: Revisioning Ecological-Social Justice (1996)

• Robert Bullard (Justice Research Center, Clark Atlanta)
• David Harvey (Geography, Johns Hopkins)
• Timothy Luke (Political science, VPI)
• Carolyn Merchant (Conservation and resource studies, Berkeley)
• Michael Zimmerman (Philosophy, Tulane)

9. Whiteness (1997)

• David Roediger (History and American Studies, University of Minnesota)
• Earl Lewis (History, University of Michigan)
• Linda Alcoff (Philosophy, Syracuse University)
• Mark Wigley (Architecture, Princeton University)
• Chris Newfield (English, UC-Santa Barbara)

10. Nation Theory (1998)

• Geoff Eley (History, University of Michigan)
• Marie Smyth (University of Belfast)
• Domna Stanton (French, University of Michigan)
• Cairns Craig (English, University of Edinburgh)
• J. Victor Koschmann (History, Cornell University)

11. Masculinity and the Male Body (1999)

• Michael Kimmel (Sociology, SUNY, Stony Brook)
• Richard Wrangham (Anthropology, Harvard University)
• Klaus Theweleit (Sociology, Freiburg University)
• Peter Jackson (Geography, Sheffield University)
• Fred Pfeil (English, Trinity College)

12. Children at the Millennium (2000)

• Anne Higonnet (Art History, Wellesley)
• James Kincaid (English, University of Southern California)
• Dan Kindlon (Psychiatry / Maternal and Child Health, Harvard University)
• Jo Boyden (Refugee Studies Programme, Oxford University)
• Nancy L. Stein (Psychology, University of Chicago)

13. Metropolis (2001)

• Alex Krieger (Urban Design, Harvard University)
• Steve Pile (Geography, The Open University)
• Jane M. Jacobs (Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne)
• Patrick O'Connor (Spanish, University of Chicago)
• Joseph Keft (History, University of Virginia)

14. Civic Practice/Civil Societies (2002)

• Anne McLintock (English and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin)
• Richard Couto (Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond)
• Martin Marty (Divinity School, University of Chicago)
• James Bohman (Philosophy, St. Louis University)
• Katharyne Mitchell (Geography, University of Washington)

15. Locating Globalization (2003)

• Neil Smith (Anthropology/Geography, CUNY)
• David Ruccio (Economics, Notre Dame)
• Tyler Stovall (History, University of California Berkeley)
• Matt Sparke (Geography, University of Washington)
• Hamid Naficy (Art and Art History, Rice University)

16. Religion and Identity (2004)

• Massimo Pigliucci (Botany/Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee)
• Bobby Sayyid (Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK)
• Ian Markham (Theology & Ethics/Hartford Seminary)
• Judith Weisenfeld (Religion, Vassar College)
• Laennec Hurbon (Research/Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique/Paris)

17. Intimacy (2005)

• Ethan Watters (Freelance Journalist/Writer-San Francisco)
• Ida Susser (Anthropology/CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College)David Buss (Psychology, University of Texas, Austin)
• Marianne Hirsch (Eng. & Comp. Lit./Inst. for es. on Women & Gender, Columbia University)

18. Emotion (2006)

• Jay Winter (History, Yale University)
• William Miller (Law School, University of Michigan)
• Mary Floyd-Wilson (English, University of North Carolina)
• Mark Jarzombek (History of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

19. Migrations, Displacements, and Mobilities (2007)

• Christian Joppke (Political Science, American University of Paris, France)
• Jon Goss (Geography, University of Hawaii)
• Jonathan Fox (Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz)

20. War (2008)

• Gerry Kearns (Geography, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
• Lale Yalcin-Heckmann (Max Planck, Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)
• Dana Nelson (English and Social Theory, Vanderbilt University)
• Marilyn Young (History, New York University)

21. Consuming Cultures (2009)

• Richard Wilk (Anthropology & Gender Studies, Indiana University)
• Joshua Gamson (Sociology, University of San Francisco)
• Deborah Gewertz & Frederick K. Errington (Anthropology, Amherst College & Trinity College)
• Matthew Hilton (History, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)