Visiting Scholars

Beginning in 1976 the Rose Tucker Foundation generously supported the Visiting Scholars’ Lecture Series for many years; this project allowed us to work with colleagues from other departments throughout the campus, and with seminar groups of our students, in preparation for the visits of our distinguished speakers. Our guests typically had two responsibilities: the delivery of a public lecture on their current research, and meeting with that seminar group of students. Many expressed surprise and pleasure at such a project being focused around undergraduate students; equally as many expressed pleasure at the level of the discourse encountered in the seminar.

Throughout the years we have taken, at times, the opportunity to focus these visits around the themes of particular colloquia; thus, for instance, we invited Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Hayden White and Richard Harvey Brown to discuss the social sciences and forms of discourse; other colloquia have included those on contemporary economics (Heilbroner, Hirsch), on feminism and literary theory (Gilbert, Cixous), on the medical humanities (Stewart, Carson, Richelle), on Orientalism (Said, Grafflin, Tetsuo), on science and technology (Hollinger, Meyer, Kevles), on Augustine and the medieval world (Morrison, Murphy, Stock), on classics and the modern world (Lamberton, Reiss, Beye), on Pascal and the Pensées (Natoli, Sellier, Force, Wetsel, Davidson, Melzer), on the discourses of the sciences and the social sciences (Haraway, McCloskey, Nelson), on Foucault and the terrain of the human subject (Goldberg, Bové, duBois), and other topics.

A partial list of the scholars taking part in the Honors Curriculum is given below:

Robert E. Kohler, Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Sir Ernst Gombrich, The Warburg Institute, London
Edward Said, Professor of Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Todd Savitt, Professor of History, University of Florida
Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel Laureate in Science
Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie, Professor of History, Collège de France
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Professor of English Literature, University of Texas
Hayden White, Professor of History, University of California-Santa Cruz
Richard Harvey Brown, Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland
Carl Weber, Chair, Department of Directing, School of Theatre, New York University
Leon Richelle, M.D., Professor of Biology and President, University of New Orleans
Martin Jay, Professor of History, University of California-Berkeley
Robert Heilbroner, Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research
Lawrence Friedman, Professor, School of Law, Stanford University
Gunther Stent, Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology, University of California-Berkeley
Werner Hirsch, Professor of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles
Harry Paul, Professor of History, University of Florida
Rosemary Reuther, Professor of Theology, Garrett Theological Seminary
Vincent Sarich, Professor of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley
Bruce Kuklick, Professor of History and American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Carlos Fuentes, Novelist, Professor of Literature, University of Mexico City
Mark Poster, Professor of History, University of California-Irvine
William Clebsch, Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University
Robert McAfee, Professor of Theology, Pacific School of Religion
Aldo Scaglione, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Sandra Gilbert, Professor of English Literature, University of California-Davis
Stephen Toulmin, Professor of Philosophy, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Michael Holroyd, Biographer
Alice Stewart, M.D., Research Scientist, National Cancer Registry (U.K.), University of Birmingham (England)
Ronald Carson, M.D., Institute for the Medical Humanities, Galveston, Texas
Eleanor Leacock, Professor of Anthropology, City College of New York
Richard Lewontin, Professor of Zoology, Director of the Agassiz Museum, Harvard University
George Lewis, Professor of Sociology, University of the Pacific
Mott Greene, Professor of History, Skidmore College, MacArthur Prize Fellow
Hélène Cixous, Professor of Literature and Feminist Studies, University of Paris-Vincennes
Najita Tetsuo, Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Chicago
Dennis Grafflin, Professor of Chinese History, Bates College
Benjamin Keen, Professor Emeritus, Northern Illinois University
John Root, Professor and Chair, Humanities and Social Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology
Nell Sinton, Painter
Perry Anderson, Editor, New Left Review, London
Mary Catherine Bateson, Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College
David Hollinger, Professor of the History of Science, University of Michigan
Steven Meyer, Professor of the History of Science and Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology, National Science Foundation Fellow
Ted Humphrey, Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University
Daniel Kevles, Professor of the History of Science and Technology, California Institute of Technology
Marcia Colish, Frederick Artz Professor of Medieval History, Oberlin College, Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies
Fredric Jameson, Head, Department of Comparative Literature, Duke University
Karl Morrison, Ahmansohn-Murphy Distinguished Professor of History, University of Kansas, Guggenheim Fellow
James J. Murphy, Head, Department of Rhetoric, University of California-Davis
Brian Stock, Senior Fellow, The Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, Visiting Fellow, Collège de France
Howard Wiarda, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Timothy Reiss, Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University
Robert Lamberton, Professor of Classics, Princeton University
Charles Rowan Beye, Distinguished Professor of Classics, Lehmann College, City University of New York
Charles Natoli, Professor of Philosophy, St. John Fisher College
Philippe Sellier, Université de Paris - Sorbonne
Pierre Force, Professor of French Language and Literature, Columbia University
David Wetsel, Professor of French Language and Literature, Arizona State University
Hugh Davidson, Commonwealth Professor of French Literature, University of Virginia
Sara Melzer, Professor of French Language and Literature, University of California Los Angeles
Leo Steinberg, Benjamin Franklin Professor, Mellon Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania
Thomas Hughes, Professor of the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Craig Kallendorf, Professor of English and Classical Language, Texas A & M
Anthony Grafton, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History, Princeton University
Robert Proctor, Professor of Italian, Connecticut College
Frank Turner, Professor of History and Provost, Yale University
Dominick LaCapra, Professor of History, Cornell University
Donna Haraway, Professor, History of Consciousness Board, University of California Santa Cruz
Donald McCloskey, Professor of Economics and Co-Director, Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry, University of Iowa
Stephanie Coontz, Professor of History, The Evergreen State College
John S. Nelson, Professor of Political Science and Co-director, Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry, University of Iowa
Jonathan Goldberg, Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature, the Johns Hopkins University
Paul Bové, Professor of English Literature, University of Pittsburgh
Page duBois, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of California San Diego
Bette Talvacchia, Professor of Art History, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Dorothy Ross, Distinguished Professor, University of Virginia
John Dixon Hunt, the Oak Spring Garden Library, Senior Editor Word and Image
Warren Wagar, Distinguished Teaching Professor, SUNY-Binghampton
Erika Rummel, Professor of History, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
Mario Biagioli, Professor of History of Science, Harvard University
Thomas L. Dumm, Professor of American Politics and Contemporary Political Thought, Amherst College
Laurence Lampert, Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University at Indianapolis
Matt Matsuda, Professor History, Rutgers University
Wolfgang Iser, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Constance
Edith Wyschogrod, J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rice University
John Caputo, David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University
Mary Poovey, Director, Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, Professor of English, New York University
Peter Dear, Professor of History and Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
Geraldine Heng, Director of Medieval Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Kempton Distinguished Service Professor of History in South Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Chicago
David Tracy, Greeley Distinguished Service Professor of Catholic Studies and Professor of Theology and Philosophy of Religion in the Divinity School, University of Chicago