| 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 |
| Brandeis University | Sawyer Seminar: Forgotten Dreams and Misplaced Revolutions | 09/15/16 | $175,000 | Waltham, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Columbia University | Sawyer Seminar: Global Language Justice | 09/15/16 | $175,000 | New York, NY, 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 |
| The Graduate Center of the City University of New York | Sawyer Seminars - Democratic Citizenship and the Recognition of Cultural Differences | 06/03/11 | $174,400 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Wisconsin at Madison | Sawyer Seminars - Biopolitics: Life in Past and Present | 06/18/10 | $174,000 | Madison, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Davis | Sawyer Seminars - Indigenous Cosmopolitics | 06/03/11 | $173,800 | Davis, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Washington | Sawyer Seminars - Now Urbanism: City-Making in the 21st Century and Beyond | 06/18/10 | $172,000 | Seattle, WA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Indiana University | Sawyer Seminars - Food Choice, Freedom, and Politics | 06/03/11 | $172,000 | Bloomington, IN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Rice University | Sawyer Seminars - Cultures of Energy | 06/03/11 | $170,600 | Houston, TX, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Berkeley | Sawyer Seminars - Speciesism in Biology, Culture, and Sociopolitics | 06/03/11 | $165,000 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | Sawyer Seminars - International Women's Human Rights: Paradigms, Paradoxes, and Possibilities | 06/18/10 | $165,000 | Chicago, IL, 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 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 |
