| University of Michigan | Seminars - Comparative Cultures | 10/07/94 | $300,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Seminars - Comparative Cultures | 10/07/94 | $100,000 | Chapel Hill, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| National Humanities Center | Sawyer Seminars - Liberal Cultures and Critics | 12/14/98 | $98,000 | Research Triangle Park, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Berkeley | Sawyer Seminars - Entrepreneurs and Enterepreneuralism | 03/16/98 | $100,000 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Sawyer Seminars - The Concept and Consequences of Race | 03/16/98 | $100,000 | Chapel Hill, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brown University | Sawyer Seminar - Rethinking the Dynamic Interplay of Migration, Race, and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and Latin America | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | Providence, RI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | Sawyer Seminars - Millenialism | 03/17/97 | $100,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | Sawyer Seminars - Genocide | 01/16/98 | $50,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Irvine | Sawyer Seminar: Suffer Well | 09/06/18 | $225,000 | Irvine, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Pittsburgh | Sawyer Seminar: Information Ecosystems: Creating Data (and Absence) from the Quantitative to the Digital Age | 09/06/18 | $225,000 | Pittsburgh, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Pennsylvania | Sawyer Seminars - Power-Sharing in Deeply Divided Places | 06/16/06 | $120,000 | Philadelphia, PA, 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 |
| 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 Oxford | Sawyer Seminars - Understanding Human Creativity: Ecologies and Practices of Invention | 06/18/10 | $175,000 | Oxford, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| Johns Hopkins University | Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: Capitalism in Transition/Capitalism in Crisis | 05/31/12 | $175,000 | Baltimore, MD, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Southern California | Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: Critical Mixed-Race Studies | 05/31/12 | $175,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Cambridge | Sawyer Seminars - Comparing Comparatisms | 06/06/13 | $175,000 | Cambridge, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | Sawyer Seminar: 'Imperial Histories and Global Regimes' | 06/05/14 | $175,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Riverside | Sawyer Seminar: 'Alternative Futurisms' | 06/05/14 | $175,000 | Riverside, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Illinois at Chicago | Sawyer Seminar: "Geographies of Justice" | 06/04/15 | $175,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Duke University | Sawyer Seminar: Corporate Rights and International Law | 09/15/16 | $175,000 | Durham, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | Sawyer Seminar: Urban Art and Urban Form | 09/15/16 | $175,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Berkeley | Sawyer Seminar: Linguistic Anthropology and Cultural Critique | 09/11/17 | $225,000 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Sawyer Seminars - Rural Places, Modern Times | 12/15/00 | $107,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Sawyer Seminars - Reading Regions Globally: History, Place, and Power | 06/08/98 | $100,000 | Chapel Hill, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
