| University of Wisconsin at Madison | Sawyer Seminars - Vulnerability and Resilience: Rethinking Human Rights for the 21st Century | 06/19/09 | $150,000 | Madison, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Cape Town | Sawyer Seminars - Knowledge, Diversity, and Power | 06/13/08 | $150,000 | Cape Town, South Africa | Higher Learning |
| University of Oxford | Sawyer Seminars - About Turns: Conversion in Late Antiquity | 06/13/08 | $150,000 | Oxford, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| Stanford University | Sawyer Seminars - Gender Bias in the Past and Future of Asia | 06/19/09 | $150,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Edinburgh | Sawyer Seminars - Embodied Values: Bringing the Senses Back to the Environment | 06/19/09 | $150,000 | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| University of Michigan | Sawyer Seminars - Ethnicity in African Societies: Historical Comparative and Contemporary Investigations | 06/19/09 | $150,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Oxford | Sawyer Seminars - National Economic Policy Making | 06/13/08 | $150,000 | Oxford, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| Boston University | Sawyer Seminars - Energy Transitions and Society | 06/19/09 | $150,000 | Boston, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Sawyer Seminars - How Deep is the Ocean: The Rise and Fall of Jazz as Popular Music | 06/13/08 | $150,000 | St. Louis, MO, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of the Witwatersrand | Sawyer Seminars - Property, Race, and Poverty: Paradoxes of the Law and the Possibility of Justice in Contemporary South Africa | 06/19/09 | $150,000 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Higher Learning |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Sawyer Seminars - Japan Embodied: New Approaches to Japanese Studies | 06/19/09 | $150,000 | St. Louis, MO, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Cambridge | Sawyer Seminars - Modeling Futures | 06/13/08 | $149,000 | Cambridge, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Sawyer Seminars - Diversity and Conformity in Muslim Societies | 06/13/08 | $148,000 | Chapel Hill, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Northwestern University | Sawyer Seminars - Theater After Athens | 06/13/08 | $148,000 | Evanston, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Vanderbilt University | Sawyer Seminars - The Age of Emancipation: Black Freedom in the Atlantic World | 06/03/11 | $145,700 | Nashville, TN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Sawyer Seminars - Sensing the Unseen | 06/19/09 | $145,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of London | Sawyer Seminars - Fratricide/Fraternite | 06/13/08 | $144,000 | London, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| Indiana University | Sawyer Seminars - Rupture and Flow: The Circulation of Technoscientific Facts and Objects | 06/19/09 | $144,000 | Bloomington, IN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Wesleyan University | Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures | 09/24/09 | $142,000 | Middletown, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Los Angeles | Sawyer Seminars - Homosexualities, From Antiquity to the Present | 06/13/08 | $135,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Cambridge | Sawyer Seminars - Crisis, What Crisis? | 06/13/08 | $128,000 | Cambridge, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| Duke University | Sawyer Seminars - Public Health and the Environment in China and India | 06/17/05 | $120,000 | Durham, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Cambridge | Sawyer Seminars - Debt, Sovereignty, and Power | 06/17/05 | $120,000 | Cambridge, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Berkeley | Sawyer Seminars - The Dilemmas of Judicial Power: Constitutional Courts, Politics, and Society | 06/16/06 | $120,000 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Minnesota at Twin Cities | Sawyer Seminars - Humanitarianisms and World Orders | 06/16/06 | $120,000 | Minneapolis, MN, United States | Higher Learning |
