History
Joy James (2019)
Mar 19, 2019
Joy James is a professor at Williams College. Her research considers the role of mass incarceration in the class and race struggles of the 1970s, and considers incarceration as a form of state violence while also exploring how people of colour resist it through organizing [...]
Susan Stryker (2015)
Feb 25, 2015
鈥淭ransgender Histories and Futurities鈥 Susan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women鈥檚 Studies at the University of Arizona. She is a historian, writer, educator, artist, documentary filmmaker, and human rights activist. Her work lies at the intersection of Queer [...]
Ariella Azoulay (2011-2012)
Jan 20, 2012
鈥淭oward a Visual Declaration of Human Rights: Revisiting The Family of Man鈥 Ariella Azoulay is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature at [...]
Linda Colley (2004-2005)
Nov 25, 2004
鈥淭he Difficulties of Empire: Present, Past and Future鈥 Linda Colley is the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 professor of history at Princeton University and the author of Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837, which investigated how inhabitants of England, Scotland, and Wales came to [...]
Margaret MacMillan (2004-2005)
Nov 04, 2004
鈥淭he Uses and Abuses of History: Versailles and Beyond鈥 Margaret MacMillan is a provost at Trinity College and Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is also emeritus Professor of International History and the former Warden of St. Antony鈥檚 College at the [...]
Edward W. Said (1993-1994)
Nov 03, 1993
鈥淗istorical Experience and Multiculturalism鈥 Edward Said was a Palestinian-American academic, political activist, and literary critic who was a founder of postcolonial studies. After receiving a BA at Princeton, he attended Harvard, where he specialized in English [...]
Stephen Jay Gould (1987-1988)
Nov 18, 1987
鈥淗uman Equality is a Contingent Fact of History鈥 Stephen J. Gould was an evolutionary scientist, a professor at Harvard, and a leading opponent of scientific creationism. He was also a prominent author. His award-winning book, The Mismeasure of Man, examined the racist [...]
C. Northcote Parkinson (1977-1978)
Jan 20, 1978
鈥淓mpires, Kingdoms, and Provinces: A Discussion of Regionalism in Europe鈥 Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a British writer, economist, and historian. After the Second World War, he taught history at the University of Liverpool before being appoint Raffles Professor of [...]
George Rud茅 (1976-1977)
Nov 03, 1976
鈥淰iolence: An Historical Perspective鈥 George Rud茅 was a researcher and writer, author of 15 books, and editor of many others. He was a Marxist historian, greatly influenced by 鈥渉istory from below,鈥 whose research explored the French Revolution and the importance of crowds [...]
Donald Creighton (1975-1976)
Jan 14, 1976
鈥淭he Individual and the Welfare State鈥 Donald Creighton was a historian and author. After completing graduate work at the University of Oxford, he returned to Canada to teach history at the University of Toronto in 1927, where he remained for his entire career. He was chair [...]
Juliet Mitchell (1974-1975)
Jan 13, 1975
鈥淔emininity and Feminism鈥 Juliet Mitchell is an internationally known psychoanalyst, scholar, feminist and author. Born in New Zealand in 1940, Juliet Mitchell moved to England shortly afterward. She was educated at Lausanne University, Switzerland, and St. Anne鈥檚 College, [...]
William H. McNeill (1967-1968)
Feb 12, 1968
鈥淭he Idea and Practice of World History鈥 William H. McNeill was the Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Chicago, where he taught for 40 years until his retirement in 1987. He was born in 1917 in Vancouver and educated at the University of Chicago and [...]