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Fellowships

Sawyer Seminars (1994 to present)

Grantmaking areaHigher Learning
DateJanuary 19, 2024

2023

  • Brown University, "Global Indigenous Studies in Action: Centering Indigenous Knowledges, Promoting Reciprocal Approaches to Community Engagement, and Examining Opportunities for Coalition Building," Kevin Escudero and Evelyn Hu-Dehart
  • The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, "Transpacific Thought and the Problem of Asia," Kandice Chuh and Thuy Linh Tu
  • The Pennsylvania State University, "Birthing the nation: Gender, sex, and reproduction in ethnonationalist imaginaries," Scott Burnett
  • Rice University, "Reimagining Technologies of Care: Racial Health Equity and Data Justice," Kirsten Ostherr, Sabia Abidi, Melissa Bailar, and Anthony Brandt
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, "Potentialities of Justice: Toward Collective Reparative Futures," Mayte Green-Mercado, Lauren Shallish, and Gaiutra Bahadur
  • Tulane University, "The New Green Wave: Reproductive Justice in the Gulf South and Beyond," Kathryn Baldwin, Karissa Haugeberg, and Clare Daniel
  • University of California at Davis, “Thinking Food @ the Intersections: Justice and Critical Food Studies," Daniela Gutiérrez Flores, Kimberly Nettles-Barcelón, Erica Kohl, Charlotte Biltekoff, Pierpaolo Polzonetti, and Audrey Russek

2022

  • Boston University, "US and EU Border Externalization Regimes: Ethics, Identities, and Impacts," Carrie Preston, Muhammad Zaman, Noora Lori, and Marina Lazetic
  • Brandeis University, "Imperiled Bodies: Slavery, Colonialism, Citizenship and the Logics of Gender-Based Violence," Anita Hill, Harleen Singh, and ChaeRan Freeze
  • Georgetown University, "Creative Placemaking, Black Restorative Ecologies, and Black Spatial Futures," Amani Morrison, Rosemary Ndubuizu, and Zandria Robinson
  • Indiana University, "Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom," Pedro Machado and Olimpia Rosenthal
  • Northwestern University, "On Decolonizing Theatre," Tracy Davis, Jesse Rosenburg, and Ivy Wilson
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, "The Afterlives of Liberation: Antiracist Praxis for the 21st Century," Sylvia Chan-Malik, Radhika Balakrishnan, and Erica Edwards
  • Stanford University, "The Data that Divides Us: Recalibrating Data Methods for New Knowledge Frameworks across the Humanities," Giovanna Ceserani, Mark Algee-Hewitt, Grant Parker, and Laura Stokes
  • University of Michigan, "The Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy: Seminar for Interdisciplinary Study of Blackness and Muslimness," Samer Ali, Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, and Murad Idris
  • University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, "Just Policing: Transnational Perspectives on the Definition and Possibility of Justice in Law Enforcement," William Jones, Sarah Balakrishnan, Yalile Suriel, Susanna Blumenthal, and Michelle Phelps
  • University of Toronto, "Evasion: Thinking the Underside of Surveillance," Kevin O'Neill and Kamari Clarke

2021

  • Emory University, "Visions of Slavery:  Histories, Memories, and Mobilizations of Unfreedom in the Black Atlantic," Walter Rucker, Mariana P. Candido, Adriana Chira, Bayo Holsey, Dianne M. Stewart, and Meina Yates-Richard
  • Harvard University, "Changing Contours of Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Contestation, Consolidation, and Contradictions," Yanilda González, Alejandro de la Fuente, Bruno Carvalho, Tamar Herzog, and Doris Sommer
  • Johns Hopkins University, "Rethinking the Right to the City through the Black Radical Tradition," Lester Spence and Robbie Shilliam
  • New York University, "Indigenous Futures in Times of Crisis," Elizabeth Ellis, Edward Berenson, Faye Ginsburg, Eugenia Kisin, Dean Saranillio, and Jane Anderson
  • University of California at Irvine, "Black Reconstruction as a Portal," Damien Sojoyner and Yousuf Al-Bulushi
  • University of California at Riverside, "Unarchiving Blackness: Why the Primacy of African and African Diaspora Studies Necessitates a Creative Reconsideration of Archives," Jody Benjamin, Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, Ayana Omilade Flewellen, André Carrington, and Jade S. Sasser
  • University of California at Santa Cruz, "Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine," Jennifer Derr, Maya Peterson, and Jenny Reardon
  • University of Iowa, "Racial Reckoning and Social Justice through Comics," Corey Creekmur, Ana Merino, and Rachel Williams
  • University of Southern California, "Precarious Ecologies: Science and Social Justice in the Production of Environmental Knowledge," Juan De Lara and Andrew Lakoff
  • University of Virginia, "Reimagining the American Landscape: Race and the Future of Public History," Laurent Dubois, Louis P. Nelson, and Jalane Schmidt

2020

  • Brown University, "Rethinking the Dynamic Interplay of Migration, Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and Latin America," Patsy Lewis, Barrymore A. Bogues, and Brian Meeks
  • The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, "Race and the Middle East/North Africa," Beth Baron and Mandana Limbert
  • The New School, "Currency and Empire: Monetary Policy, Race, and Power," Gustav Peebles, Paulo L. dos Sanatos, Emma Park, Aaron Jakes, and Sanjay Reddy
  • Pennsylvania State University, "Transmission, Containment, Transformation: A Comparative Approach to Architecture and Contagion in Early Modern Cities," Elizabeth Mansfield
  • Rice University, "Diasporic Cultures of Slavery: Engaging Disciplines, Engaging Communities," Jim Sidbury, Daniel B. Domingues da Silva, Jeffrey Fleisher, Molly Morgan, and Anthony B. Pinn
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, "Natives and Nativists, Migrants and Immigrants in an American City," Belinda Edmondson, Kornel Chang, and Sean Mitchell
  • Tulane University, "Sites of Memory:  New Orleans and Place-based Histories in the Americas," Adrian Anagnost and Mia Bagneris
  • University of California at Santa Barbara, "Race, Precarity, and Privilege: Migration in a Global Context," Jean Beaman, France Winddance Twine, John S. W. Park, Lisa Parks, and Kim Yasuda
  • University of Massachusetts at Amherst, "Race and Visual Culture in the Americas 20th–21st Centuries," Karen Kurczynski and Ximena Gomez
  • University of Rochester, "Unbordering Migration in the Americas: Causes, Experiences, Identities," Joan Shelley Rubin, Daniel Reichman, Ruben Flores, Molly Ball, Travis Baseler, Randall Curren, Matthew Omelsky, Pablo Sierra Silva, Rosa Terlazzo, and Brianna Theobald

2019

  • Columbia University, "Trust and Mistrust of Science and Experts," Gil Eyal, Peter Bearman, Michael Schudson, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Colin Wayne Leach, and Valerie Purdie Greenaway
  • Duke University, "Language Discrimination in Fragile and Precarious Communities," Edna Andrews, Lee Baker, and Liliana Paredes
  • Indiana University, "The Comparative Study of Cultures," Jutta Schickore and William Newman
  • Northwestern University, "The Black Arts Archive: The Challenge of Translation," E. Patrick Johnson, Ramon Rivera-Servera, Huey Copeland, Krista Thompson, and Aymar Christian
  • University of Arizona, "Neoliberalism at the Neopopulist Crossroads," Leerom Medovoi, Brian Silverstein, Anna Reynolds Cooper, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Eithne Luibheid, and Hai Ren 
  • University of California at Los Angeles, "Sanctuary Spaces:  Reworlding Humanism," Ananya Roy, Leisy Abrego, Gaye Theresa Johnson, and Maite Zubiaurre
  • University of Cambridge, "Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power," Richard Staley, Sarah Dillon, Jonnie Penn, Stephanie Dick, Matthew L. Jones, and Syed Mustafa Ali
  • University of Colorado at Boulder, "Deep Horizons: Making Visible an Unseen Spectrum of Ecological Casualties & Prospects," Erin Espelie, Brianne Cohen, Lori Peek, and James Andrew Cowell
  • University of Michigan, "Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest," Yopie Prins, Marlon James Sales, Silke Maria-Weineck, Kristin Dickinson, and Maya Barzilai
  • University of Washington, "Humanitarianisms: Migrations and Care through the Global South," Arzoo Osanloo and Cabeiri Robinson

2018

  • Carnegie Mellon University, "Bread and Water: Access, Belonging, and Environmental Justice in the City," John Soluri, Edda L. Fields Black, Abigail E. Owen, Joel A. Tarr, and Noah Theriault
  • Johns Hopkins University, "Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data," Naveeda Khan, Veena Das, and Jeremy Greene
  • Tufts University, "Defamiliarizing the Family: Genealogy and Kinship as Critical Method," Kendra Field and Sarah Pinto
  • University of California at Irvine, "Suffer Well," James Lee and Douglas M. Haynes
  • University of California at Santa Cruz, "Beyond the End of the World," T. J. Demos, Hunter Bivens, Mayanthi Fernando, Deborah Gould, and Matt O'Hara
  • University of Illinois at Chicago, "Urban Edges: Dreams, Divisions, and Infrastructures – Comparative Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues about 21st Century American Cities," Stacey Sutton, Teresa Córdova, and Jennifer Brier
  • University of Iowa, "Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging," Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, Rene Rocha, and Ariana Ruiz
  • University of Kansas, "Chronic Conditions: Knowing, Seeing & Healing the Body in Global Africa," Kathryn Rhine, Cassandra Mesick Braun, and Abel Chikanda
  • University of Pittsburgh, "Information Ecosystems: Creating Data (and Absence) from the Quantitative to the Digital Age," Lara Putnam, Alison Langmead, Michael Colaresi, Michael Dietrich, Melanie Hughes, Ruth Mostern, Werner Troesken, Annette Vee, and Randall Walsh
  • Yale University, "The Order of Multitudes: Atlas, Encyclopedia, Museum," Deborah Coen, Ayesha Ramachandran, Marta Figlerowicz, Lisa Messeri, Richard Prum, and Travis Zadeh

2017

  • Brown University, "Race and Indigeneity in the Americas," Jessaca Leinaweaver
  • New School for Social Research, "Imaginative Mobilities," Alex Aleinikoff, Anthony Dunne, Victoria Hattam, Fiona Raby, and Miriam Ticktin
  • Pennsylvania State University, "Racial Disposability and Cultures of Resistance," Cynthia Young, Ebony Coletu, Amira Rose Davis, Abraham Khan, AnneMarie Mingo, Courtney Desiree Morris, Zachary Morgan, Sarah Stefana Smith, and Timeka Tounsel
  • Princeton University, "Global Migration: The Humanities and Social Sciences in Dialogue," Sandra Bermann, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Beth Lew-Williams, Stephen Macedo, Douglas Massey, Joe Stephens, and Michael Wood
  • University of California at Berkeley, "Linguistic Anthropology and Cultural Critique," Michael Lucey, Andrew Garrett, and Tom McEnaney
  • University of California at Davis, "Academic Brands: Privatizing, Quantifying, and Transforming the University," Mario Biagioli and Madhavi Sunder
  • University of California at San Diego, "Claiming the City: Urban Citizenship, Hybrid Cultures, and Governance in the Modern Era," Nancy Postero, Nancy Kwak, Pamela Radcliff, and Sharon Rose
  • University of California at Santa Barbara, "Energy Justice in Global Perspective," Javiera Barandiaran, Mona Damluji, Stephan Miescher, David Pellow, and Janet Walker
  • University of Massachusetts at Amherst, "The Universal Basic Income: History and Theory of a Utopian Desire," Nicholas Xenos, James K. Boyce, Toussaint Lossier, Jord/ana Rosenberg, and Adam Sitze
  • University of Wisconsin at Madison, "Interrogating the Plantationocene," Monique Allewaert, Pablo Gomez, and Gregg Mitman

2016

  • Boston University, "Philosophy of Emerging Computational Technologies:  Humans, Values, and Society in Transition," Juliet Floyd, James Katz, and Russell Powell
  • Brandeis University, "Forgotten Dreams and Misplaced Revolutions: Conceptualizing Twentieth Century Revolutions in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East," Gregory Childs and Naghmeh Sohrabi
  • Columbia University, "Global Language Justice," Lydia H. Liu, Anupama Rao, Stathis Gourgouris, Brent H. Edwards, and Elizabeth A. Povinelli
  • Duke University, "Corporate Rights and International Law: Past, Present, and Future," Rachel Brewster and Philip J. Stern
  • Georgetown University, "Approaching the Anthropocene: Global Culture and Planetary Change," Dana Luciano, John R. McNeill, and Nathan K. Hensley
  • Stanford University, "Digital Humanities Asia: Harnessing Digital Technologies to Advance the Study of East, South, Southeast, and Inner/Central Asia," Thomas S. Mullaney, Dan Jurafsky, David McClure, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, and Julie Sweetkind-Singer
  • University of Chicago, "Urban Art and Urban Form," Bill Brown, Theaster Gates, Christine Mehring, W. J. T. Mitchell, and Jessica Stockholder
  • University of Minnesota, "The Politics of Land: Colony, Property, Ecology," Robert Nichols, Nancy Luxon, and Jean O'Brien
  • University of Oxford, "Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation," Kate McLoughlin and Niall Munro
  • University of Washington, "Capitalism and Comparative Racialization," Jack Turner, Megan Ming Francis, Vicente L. Rafael, Moon-Ho Jung, and Michael W. McCann
  • Washington University in St. Louis, "Grounding the Ecocritical: Materializing Wastelands and Living on in the Middle East," Nancy Reynolds and Anne-Marie McManus

2015

  • Emory University, "New Scholarship in the Affects," Elizabeth A. Wilson, Rizvana Bradley, Carla Freeman, Lynne Huffer, and Michael Moon
  • Indiana University, "Documentary Media and Historical Transformations," Jeffrey Gould, Marissa Moorman, Joshua Malitsky, and Christina Ochoa
  • New York University, "Cuban Futures Beyond the Market: Geopolitics and Interpretive Infrastructures in Humanities, Social Science and the Law," Ana Dopico, Ada Ferrer, Jill Lane, Arlene Davila, and Meg Satterthwaite
  • Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, "Ethical Subjects: Laws, Moralities, Histories," Seth Koven and Judith Surkis
  • Tufts University, "Comparative Global Humanities," Lisa Lowe, Kris Manjapra, and Kamran Rastegar
  • University of California at Irvine, "Documenting War," Carol Burke and Cècile Whiting
  • University of California at Santa Cruz, "Non-Citizenship," Catherine Ramirez, Juan Poblete, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, and Sylvanna Falcón
  • University of Illinois at Chicago, "Geographies of Justice: A Scholarly and Public Dialogue Series about the Contested Terrain and Meaning of Freedom in the 21st Century World," Barbara Ransby
  • University of Iowa, "Cultural and Textual Exchanges: The Manuscript across Pre-Modern Eurasia," Timothy D. Barrett, Paul Chandler Dilley, and Katherine Hutchins Tachau
  • University of Southern California, "Visual History: The Past in Images," Vanessa R. Schwartz and Daniela Bleichmar
  • Yale University, "Genealogies of the Excessive Screen," Francesco Casetti, Rüdiger Campe, and Craig Buckley

2014

  • Brown University, "Displacement and the Making of the Modern World: Histories, Ecologies, and Subjectivities," Beshara Doumani, Barrymore Anthony Bogues, and Rebecca Nedostup
  • Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, "Cultures & Histories of Freedom:  Ideology, Slavery, and Creolization, 1500–1900," Herman L. Bennett and Robert F. Reid-Pharr
  • Princeton University, "Imperial Histories and Global Regimes," Jeremy Adelman, Molly Greene, G. John Ikenberry, Atul Kohli, Rachel Lee Price, and Michael A. Reynolds
  • Rice University, "Platforms of Knowledge in a Wide Web of Worlds: Production, Participation, and Politics," Farès el-Dahdah, Melissa Bailar, and Lisa Spiro
  • University of California at Davis, "Surveillance Democracies?" Kriss Ravetto and Anupam Chander
  • University of California at Riverside, "Alternative Futurisms," Sherryl Vint, Robert Latham, and Nalo Hopkinson
  • University of Massachusetts at Amherst, "The Medieval in the Modern: Rethinking Global Paradigms of Political Economy and Culture," Laura Doyle, Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge, Annette Damayanti Leinau, Johan Mathew, and Mwangi wa Gitinji
  • University of Toronto, "Religious Materiality in the Indian Ocean World, 1300–1800," Ajay Rao, Karen Ruffle, Walid Saleh, and Nhung Tuyet Tran
  • University of Wisconsin, "Bibliomigrancy: World Literature in the Public Sphere," B. Venkat Mani and Caroline Levine
  • Vanderbilt University, "When the Fringe Dwarfs the Center: Vernacular Islam Beyond the Arab World," Tony Stewart, David J. Wasserstein, and Samira Sheikh

2013

  • Boston University, "Teaching the 20th Century to 21st Century Students," Jonathan R. Zatlin, Bruce J. Schulman, Andrew J. Bacevich, and Brooke L. Blower
  • Carnegie Mellon University, "The Ghetto:  Concept, Conditions, and Connections in Transnational Historical Perspective, from the 11th Century to the Present," Wendy Z. Goldman and Joe William Trotter, Jr.
  • Cornell University, "Political Will," Elizabeth Anker, Tracy McNulty, Camille Robcis, and Neil Saccamano
  • Georgetown University, "Critical 'Silk Road' Studies," James Millward and Michelle C. Wang
  • Northwestern University, "What Do We Know? Theoretical Issues in Social Epistemology," Sanford Goldberg, Fabrizio Cariani, Steven Epstein, Jennifer Lackey, and Uri Wilensky
  • University of California at Los Angeles, "The Environmental Humanities: Emergence and Impacts," Ursula Heise
  • University of Cambridge, "Comparing Comparatisms," Geoffrey Lloyd, Simon D. Goldhill, and Renaud Gagné
  • University of Minnesota, "Making the Mississippi: Formulating New Water Narratives for the 21st Century and Beyond," Ann Waltner, Patrick Nunnally, and Katherine Hayes
  • University of Texas at Austin, "Territorial Roots and Diasporic Routes: Creative Tensions in Native American and Indigenous Cultural Politics in the Americas," Shannon Speed and Charles R. Hale

2012

  • Brandeis University, "Rethinking the Age of Revolution: Rights, Representation, and the Global Imaginary," Jane Kamensky and Susan Lanser
  • Emory University, "Visual Exegesis: Images as Instruments of Scriptural Interpretation and Hermeneutics," Walter Melion, Elizabeth Pastan, Walter Kalaidjian, Dalia Judovitz, Scott Kugle, David Blumenthal, Vernon Robbins, Paul Courtright, Sara McClintock, Cheryl Crowley, and Joel LeMon
  • Harvard University, "Hearing Modernity," Alexander Rehding
  • Johns Hopkins University, "Capitalism in Transition/Capitalism in Crisis," Beverly T. Silver and Christopher Nealon
  • New York University, "A Post-Genomic Embrace of the Human? The Social Science and Humanities of Non-Reductionist Life Sciences," Rayna Rapp, Troy Duster, Emily Martin, Ann Morning, Patrick Sharkey, and Florencia Torche
  • Ohio State University, "Language, Politics, and Human Expression in South Asia and the Balkans: Comparative Perspectives," Theodora Dragostinova, Yana Hashamova, Pranav Jani, Brian D. Joseph, Jessie Labov, Scott Levi, Andrea Sims, and Mytheli Sreenivas
  • University of California at Santa Barbara, "Sea Change: Integrating the Historical Study of Human Cultures and Marine Environments in Three Pacific Regions," David Lopez-Carr, Peter Alagona, and Teresa Shewry
  • University of Pennsylvania, "Race, across Time and Space," David Kazanjian and Daniel K. Richter
  • University of Southern California, "Critical Mixed-Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach," Duncan Williams, Brian Bernards, and Velina Hasu Houston

2011

  • Brown University, "Animal Magnetism: The Emotional Ecology of Animals and Humans," Susan Alcock, John Bodel, and Stephen Houston
  • Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, "Democratic Citizenship and the Recognition of Cultural Differences," Carol Gould, Ruth O'Brien, Richard Wolin, and Omar Dahbour
  • Indiana University, "Food Choice, Freedom, and Politics," Richard R. Wilk and Peter M. Todd
  • Rice University, "Cultures of Energy: Global Economics and Local Communities," Caroline Levander and Nick Shumway
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, "Race, Place, and Space in the Americas: New Questions and Comparative Analysis," Mia Bay and Ann Fabian
  • University of California at Berkeley, "Speciesism in Biology, Culture and Sociopolitics," Brent Mishler
  • University of California at Davis, "Indigenous Cosmopolitics: Dialogues about the Reconstitution of Worlds," Marisol de la Cadena
  • University of Notre Dame, "The Qur'an in the World of Late Antiquity," Gabriel Said Reynolds, Abraham Winitzer, and Mehdi Azaiez
  • University of Washington, "Bordering Violence: Boundaries, Indigeneity and Gender in America," José Antonio Lucero, Juan C. Guerra, and Matt A. Barreto
  • Vanderbilt University, "The Age of Emancipation: Black Freedom in the Atlantic World," Richard Blackett, Teresa Goddu, and Jane Landers

2010

  • Duke University, "Phenomenology between Mind and Media," Mark B. N. Hansen and Robert Mitchell
  • Stanford University, "Comparative Wests: Transnational Perspectives on Rapid Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Transformations in the 19th Century Settler Colonies of Western Australia, Western Canada, the Western United States, and the Pacific Islands," Richard White and David Kennedy
  • University of Chicago, "Around 1948: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Global Transformation," Leela Gandhi, Deborah Nelson, Christine Stansell, and Lisa Wedeen
  • University of Chicago, "International Women's Human Rights: Paradigms, Paradoxes, and Possibilities," Linda Zerilli, Martha Nussbaum, and Jane Dailey
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Precarious Work in Asia," Arne Kalleberg and Kevin Hewison
  • University of Oxford, "Understanding Human Creativity: Ecologies and Practices of Invention," Chris Gosden and Sarah Whatmore
  • University of Washington, "Now Urbanism: City-Making in the 21st Century and Beyond," Kim England, Ray Gastil, Jeff Hou, Anne Vernez Moudon, Linda Nash, Margaret O'Mara, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Barbara Swift, and Thaisa Way
  • University of Wisconsin at Madison, "Biopolitics: Life in Past and Present," Richard C. Keller and Sara Guyer
  • University of Wisconsin at Madison, "Globalization and the New Politics of Women's Rights," Myra Marx Ferree, Aili Tripp, and Christina Ewig
  • Washington University, "Graeco-Arabic Rationalism in Islamic Traditionalism: The Post-Classical Period (ca. 1200–1900 CE)," Asad Q. Ahmed, Ahmet T. Karamustafa, and Jon McGinnis

2009

  • Boston University, "Energy Transitions and Society," Cutler Cleveland and Adil Najam
  • Indiana University, "Rupture and Flow: The Circulation of Technoscientific Facts and Objects," Thomas Gieryn
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Sensing the Unseen," Heather Paxson and Stefan Helmreich
  • Stanford University, "Gender Bias in the Past and Future of Asia," Melissa J. Brown, Marcus W. Feldman, and Matthew H. Sommer
  • University of Edinburgh, IAHS, "Embodied Values: Bringing the Senses Back to the Environment," Susan Manning
  • University of Michigan, "Ethnicity in African Societies: Historical, Comparative, and Contemporary Investigations," Warren C. Whatley, Marlyse Baptista, Howard Stein, Rudolph Butch Ware, Derek Petersen, Kelly Askew, and Adam Ashforth
  • University of Wisconsin at Madison, "Vulnerability and Resilience: Rethinking Human Rights for the 21st Century," Scott Straus
  • University of Witwatersrand, "Property, Race and Poverty: Paradoxes of the Law and the Possibility of Justice in Contemporary South Africa," Achille Mbembe
  • Washington University, "Japan Embodied: New Approaches to Japanese Studies," Rebecca Copeland and Marvin Marcus

2008

  • Northwestern University, "Theatre after Athens: Reception and Revision of Ancient Greek Drama," Kathryn Bosher, Reginald Gibbons, Marianne Hopman, Richard Kraut, and Sara Monoson
  • University of California at Los Angeles, "Homosexualities, From Antiquity to the Present," Joseph Bristow
  • University of Cambridge, "Crisis, What Crisis? Collapse and Dark Ages in Comparative Perspectives," James Barrett, Martin Millett, and John Hatcher
  • University of Cambridge, "Modeling Futures: Understanding Risk and Uncertainty," David Spiegelhalter, Philip Dawid, Martin Kusch, Tim Lewens, Susan Owens, John Eatwell, M. Hashem Pesaran, and Arnoud De Meyer
  • University of Cape Town, "Knowledge Diversity and the Sciences:  Towards Curriculum Transformation in the Postcolonial University," Lesley Green, Fiona Ross, and Susan Levine
  • University of London, School of Advanced Study, "Fratricide & Fraternité: Understanding and Repairing Neighbourly Atrocity," Lars Waldorf, James Manor, and Rachel Sieder
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Diversity and Conformity in Muslim Societies: Historical Coexistence and Contemporary Struggles," Banu Gökariksel and Sarah Shields
  • University of Oxford, "About Turns: Conversion in Late Antiquity Christianity, Islam and Beyond," Neil McLynn, Arietta Papaconstantinou, and David Taylor
  • University of Oxford, "National Economic Policy-Making in the Face of Globalization," Tony Atkinson
  • University of Sydney, "The Antipodean Laboratory: Humanity, Sovereignty, and Environment in Southern Oceans and Lands, 1700–2009," Iain McCalman and Duncan Ivison
  • Washington University, "How Deep Is the Ocean: The Rise and Fall of Jazz as Popular Music," Gerald Early, Keith Sawyer, and Patrick Burke

2006

  • Cornell University, "Social Movements and Regime Change in Latin America and Post-Communist Europe," Valerie Bunce, Holly Case, Ray Craib, and Ken Roberts
  • Stanford University, "The Dynamics of Inequality," David B. Grusky
  • Stanford University, "The First Great Divergence: China and Europe, 500–800 CE," Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel, and Mark Lewis
  • University of California at Berkeley, "The Dilemmas of Judicial Power: Constitutional Courts, Politics, and Society," Gordon Silverstein, Robert Kagan, Malcolm Feeley, and Martin Shapiro
  • University of California at Los Angeles, "Disputation: Ways of Arguing In and Out of the University," Brian Copenhaver
  • University of Minnesota, "Humanitarianisms and World Order," Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "The Changing Nature(s) of Land: Property, Peasants, and Agricultural Production in a Global World," Wendy Wolford and Meenu Tewari
  • University of Pennsylvania, "Power-Sharing in Deeply Divided Places," Brendan O'Leary, Jonathan Steinberg, Rita Barnard, Clark McCauley (Bryn Mawr), Arancha Garcia del Soto, Monroe Price, and William Burke-White

2005

  • Duke University, "Human Being, Human Diversity, and Human Welfare: A Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Cultural Study in Culture, Science, and Medicine," Priscilla Wald and Timothy Lenoir
  • Duke University, "Portents and Dilemmas: Public Health and the Environment in China and India; a Comparative Study," John Richards and Ralph Litzinger
  • Stanford University, "Visualizing Knowledge: From Alberti's Window to Digital Arrays," John Bender and Michael Marrinan
  • University of California at Berkeley, "Private Wealth and Public Power: Oligarchs, Tycoons, and Magnates in Comparative Perspective," Yuri Slezkine
  • University of Cambridge, "Debt, Sovereignty and Power," David Runciman and Helen Thompson
  • University of Chicago, "The Problem of Non-Discursive Thought from Goethe to Wittgenstein:  Inquiries in Aesthetic Theory, Forms of Representation, and the Logic of the Humanities," James Conant and David Wellbery
  • University of Oxford, "Violence and Empire," Chase F. Robinson and Petra M. Sijpesteijn
  • University of Toronto, "Globalizing the Americas: World Economies and Local Communities," Rick Halpern, Daniel Bender, Kenneth Mills, and Derek Wiliams

2002

  • New School for Social Research, "Constitutional Design and the Politics of Difference in Mexico, Canada, and the United States," Courtney Jung
  • Northwestern University, "Comparing Truth and Reconciliation Processes in their Historical and Cultural Contexts," Douglass W. Cassell, Jr.
  • University of Aberdeen, "Citizens within Subjects: Political Rights and Participation in Historical and Contemporary Perspective," Howard Hoston
  • University of California at Irvine, "Redress: Social Thought, Law, and Literature," David Theo Goldberg
  • University of Oxford, "The Theory and Politics of Civil Society," John Gardner, Jane Lewis, David Marquand, and Alan Ryan
  • University of Virginia, "World English and Global Culture," Michael Levenson

2001

  • Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, "Mass Violence & Genocide in the Twentieth Century," Neil Smelser and Norman Naimark (Stanford)
  • Cornell University, "Towards a Transcultural and Transnational Europe," Davydd Greenwood
  • Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, "Universal Human Rights and State Sovereignty:  Towards More Effective International and Domestic Compliance," David Nasaw and Thomas G. Weiss
  • Pennsylvania State University, "Early Evidence for Contact and Cultural Transmission in the 'Axial Age' Mediterranean," Baruch Halpern and Raymond Lombra
  • Stanford University, "Settlement, Race, and Sovereignty in North America, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine," Joel Beinin, George Fredrickson, Hilton Obenzinger, Richard Roberts, and Richard White
  • Tulane University, "The Microfoundations of the Neoliberal Turn in Latin America," Anthony Pereira and Brian Potter
  • University of California at Los Angeles, "The Ethics of the Neighbor," Kenneth Reinhard
  • University of Virginia, "It's Not Your Dad's Welfare State Anymore: Institutions, Norms, and the Transformation of Welfare as We Know It," Herman Schwartz

2000

  • Columbia University, "Democracy and Inequality," Anthony W. Marx
  • Columbia University, "Globalizing City Cultures," Andreas Huyssen
  • Emory University, "Contending with Conflict," Don Donham
  • Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, "New Immigrants and American Society," John Mollenkopf
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Rural Places, Modern Times," Harriet Ritvo and Deborah Fitzgerald
  • New York University, "Cold War and Its Legacy," Marilyn B. Young and Allen Hunter
  • University of Chicago, "Circulation of Poetry," Robert Von Hallberg
  • University of Chicago, "Medieval to Modern in the Islamic World," Cornell Fleischer
  • University of Washington, "Ethno-Political Conflicts in the Modern World," Daniel Chirot and Resat Kasaba

1998

  • Columbia University, "Heterarchies: Public and Private Networks of Accountability," David Stark
  • Columbia University, "The Production of the Past: History in the Making," Nicholas Dirks and Mahmood Mamdani (U. Cape Town)
  • Duke University, "Globalization and Equity: Voices from the Periphery," Robert Keohane and Peter Lange
  • National Humanities Center, "Liberal Cultures and Their Critics," W. Robert Connor and Anthony La Vopa (North Carolina State)
  • Princeton University, "Civil Wars:  Roots and Reconciliation," Michael Doyle
  • Princeton University, "Migration and Citizenship in the Americas," Jeremy Adelman and Marta Tienda
  • University of California at Berkeley, "Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurialism, and Democracy in Communist and Post-Communist Societies," Victoria Bonnell and Thomas Gold
  • University of Chicago, "Computer Science as a Human Science," Karen Landahl and Barbara Stafford
  • University of Michigan, "Archives, Documentation and the Institutions of Social Memory," Francis X. Blouin and William Rosenberg
  • University of Michigan, "Contested Childhoods in a Changing Global Order," Sharon Stephens, Lawrence Hirschfield, and Elizabeth Goodenough
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "The Concept and Consequences of Race: Cross-National and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives," William Darity, Jr.
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Reading Regions Globally: History, Place, and Power," James Peacock, Gerald Horne, and David Moltke Hanson

1997

  • Emory University, "Defining the Public Health," Randall Packard, Peter Brown, Marcia Inhorn, Sharon Strocchia, Robert Hahn (Center for Disease Control), Howard Frumkin, and Ruth Berkelman (Center for Disease Control)
  • Emory University, "Healthcare:  Let the Market Handle It?" James Fowler, Deborah McFarland, Richard Saltman, and James Gustafson
  • New School for Social Research, "Mass Media and the Public Sphere," Andrew Arato and Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
  • New York University, "The City, Modernism, and the Problem of National Culture," Harry D. Harootunian
  • Princeton University, "European Monetary Union: Dawn or Debacle?," Kenneth Rogoff
  • Princeton University, "Western Economic Values and Alternative Models," Harold James
  • University of Pennsylvania, "Globalization and Inequality," Douglas S. Massey
  • Yale University, "The Millennium and Millennialism: Paradigms and Prospects," Abbas Amanat and Gustav Ranis

1996

  • Columbia University, "Retroactive Justice," Jon Elster, Anthony W. Marx, and Stephen Skolnick
  • Cornell University, "Democratic Detours," John Borneman, John Weiss, Hector Shamis, and Valerie Bunce
  • Johns Hopkins University, "National Cultures and the Construction of the Modern World," Anthony Pagden, Richard Kagan, Jack Greene, A. J. R. Russell-Wood, Franklin Knight, and Michael Johnson
  • New School for Social Research, "Role of the Military in Political and Social Change," Diane Davis, Anthony Pereira, and Louise Tilly
  • Yale University, "Genocide Studies," Benedict Kiernan and Gustav Ranis

1995

  • Columbia University, "Democratization, Norms and Institutions (Philosophical and Literary Discourse on Democratization and Liberalism)," Lisa Anderson, Gayatri Spivak, and David Johnston
  • National Humanities Center, "Comparative Studies of Identity Formation in Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia," W. Robert Connor and Lloyd S. Kramer (UNC Chapel Hill)
  • National Humanities Center, "Public and Personal Identities," W. Robert Connor and Lloyd S. Kramer (UNC Chapel Hill)
  • University of California at Los Angeles, "Comparative and Historical Study of the 'Triple Transition'," Robert Brenner, Rogers Brubaker, and Ivan Szelenyi
  • Yale University, "International Migration and Human Rights," Patricia Pessar and Gaddis Smith

1994

  • Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, "Comparative Study of Cycles of Revolutionary Politics," Charles Tilly (New School), Doug McAdam (U. Arizona), and Sidney Tarrow (Cornell)
  • Duke University, "Collective Actors in Transnational Societies," Herbert Kitschelt and James Leitzel
  • Duke University, "New Nationalism, New Identities, New Perspectives," Edward A. Tiryakian and John F. Richards
  • Duke University, "Public Culture and Transnationalism," Katherine Ewing
  • Duke University, "Think Globally, Act Locally: Women's Leadership and Grassroots Activism," Nancy Hewitt
  • Harvard University, "North America:  Languages, Nationhood, and the Future," Marc Shell, Werner Sollors, and Doris Sommer
  • Harvard University, "The Performance of Existing Democracies," Samuel Huntington, Susan Pharr, Robert Putnam, Michael Sandel, and Theda Skocpol
  • Harvard University, "Societies in Transition," John Womack and Richard Freeman
  • Northwestern University, "Contending 'Cultures' of Human Rights and Democracy," Jeff Winters, Meredith Woo-Cumings, and Bruce Cumings
  • Northwestern University, "Islamic Fundamentalism in Comparative Context: Historical Antecedents, Contemporary Debates," Jacob Lassner, Robert Launay, and Carl Petry
  • Stanford University, "Cultural and Historical Context of Industrialization in East Asia," Peter Duus, James Raphael, Arthur Wolf, and Tom Rohlen
  • Stanford University, "Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective," Al Camarillo, Luis Fraga, George Fredrickson, Susan Olzak, Ramon Saldivar, Sharon Holland, and Claude Steele
  • University of California at Berkeley, "The Moral Economy of Islam," Kiren Aziz Chaudry and Richard Buxbaum
  • University of California at Berkeley, "The Politics of Identity in Societies in Transition from Authoritarian Regimes," Robert Price
  • University of Chicago, "Religion, Law and  the Construction of Identities," Frank Reynolds, Richard Helmholz, Martha Nussbaum, and John Comaroff
  • University of Chicago, "Sexual Identities, Identity Politics: Cross-Cultural Investigations," Beth Povinelli, George Chauncey, Michael Camille, Deborah Nelson, and William Sibley
  • University of Chicago, "Toleration, Repression, and Authority in Early Modern Europe," Richard Strier, Martha Feldman, Cornell Fleischer, Daniel Garber, and Steven Pincus
  • University of Michigan, "Demographic Regimes and Economies in Transition: Increases in Adult Mortality in Eastern Europe and Implications for the Developing World," Barbara Anderson
  • University of Michigan, "Nation, Community and Culture in the Aftermath of Empire," Ann L. Stoler
  • University of Michigan, "Social Movements and Social Change in a Globalizing World," Mayer N. Zald
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Ethnic and Racial Economic Disparity: Cross National Perspectives," William Darity, Jr.