| Yale University | Sawyer Seminars - Genocide | 12/06/96 | $100,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| National Humanities Center | Sawyer Seminars - Liberal Cultures and Critics | 12/29/99 | $40,000 | Research Triangle Park, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Irvine | Sawyer Seminars - Redress in Social Thought, Law, and Literature | 03/15/02 | $110,000 | Irvine, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at Newark | Sawyer Seminar - Natives and Nativists, Migrants and Immigrants in an American City | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | Newark, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Los Angeles | Sawyer Seminar -- Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism | 09/12/19 | $225,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Michigan | Sawyer Seminar--Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest | 09/12/19 | $225,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | Sawyer Seminars - Western Economic Values and European Monetary Union | 03/17/97 | $200,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Berkeley | Sawyer Seminars - Private Wealth and Public Power: Oligarchs, Tycoons, and Magnates | 06/17/05 | $120,000 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Stanford University | Sawyer Seminars - The Dynamics of Inequality | 06/16/06 | $120,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Sawyer Seminars - The Changing Nature[s] of Land: Property, Peasants, and Agricultural Production in a Global World | 06/16/06 | $120,000 | Chapel Hill, NC, 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 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 |
| 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 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 California at Irvine | Sawyer Seminar: Suffer Well | 09/06/18 | $225,000 | Irvine, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | Sawyer Seminar:The Order of Multitudes: Atlas, Encyclopedia, Museum | 09/06/18 | $225,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Southern California | Sawyer Seminar - "Visual History: The Past in Images" | 06/04/15 | $175,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brandeis University | Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: Rethinking the Age of Revolution | 05/31/12 | $175,000 | Waltham, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Ohio State University | Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: Language, Politics, and Human Expression | 05/31/12 | $175,000 | Columbus, OH, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Pennsylvania | Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: Race Across Time and Space | 05/31/12 | $175,000 | Philadelphia, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Northwestern University | Sawyer Seminars - What Do We Know? Theoretical Issues in Social Epistemology | 06/06/13 | $175,000 | Evanston, IL, 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 |
| Vanderbilt University | Sawyer Seminar: 'When the Fringe Dwarfs the Center: Vernacular Islam Beyond the Arab World' | 06/05/14 | $175,000 | Nashville, TN, United States | Higher Learning |
