| The New School | Sawyer Seminars - Mass Media | 03/17/97 | $100,000 | New York, NY, 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 |
| New York University | Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: A Post-Genomic Embrace of the Human | 05/31/12 | $175,000 | New York, NY, 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 California at Santa Barbara | Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: Sea Change | 05/31/12 | $175,000 | Santa Barbara, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Sawyer Seminars - The Ghetto Concept, Conditions, and Connections | 06/06/13 | $175,000 | Pittsburgh, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Georgetown University | Sawyer Seminars - Critical Silk Road Studies | 06/06/13 | $175,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Minnesota at Twin Cities | Sawyer Seminars - Making the Mississippi | 06/06/13 | $175,000 | Minneapolis, MN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brown University | Sawyer Seminar: 'Displacement and the Making of the Modern World: Histories, Ecologies, and Subjectivities' | 06/05/14 | $175,000 | Providence, RI, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Toronto | Sawyer Seminar: 'Religious Materiality in the Indian Ocean World, 1300 - 1800' | 06/05/14 | $175,000 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Higher Learning |
| University of Wisconsin at Madison | Sawyer Seminar: 'Bibliomigrancy: World Literature in the Public Sphere' | 06/05/14 | $175,000 | Madison, WI, 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 |
| Emory University | Sawyer Seminar: "New Scholarship on the Affects" | 06/04/15 | $175,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| New York University | Sawyer Seminar: "Cuban Futures Beyond the Market" | 06/04/15 | $175,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Minnesota at Twin Cities | Sawyer Seminar: The Politics of Land | 09/15/16 | $175,000 | Minneapolis, MN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brown University | Sawyer Seminar: Race and Indigeneity in the Americas | 09/11/17 | $225,000 | Providence, RI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | Sawyer Seminar: Global Migration: The Humanities and Social Sciences in Dialogue | 09/11/17 | $225,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Santa Barbara | Sawyer Seminar: Energy Justice in Global Perspective | 09/11/17 | $225,000 | Santa Barbara, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Massachusetts at Amherst | Sawyer Seminar: The Universal Basic Income: History and Theory of a Utopian Desire | 09/11/17 | $225,000 | Amherst, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Michigan | Sawyer Seminars - Archives and Contested Childhoods | 06/08/98 | $200,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Wesleyan University | Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures | 09/24/09 | $142,000 | Middletown, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Inc. | Sawyer Seminars - Aiding Attendance by Graduate Fellows | 09/26/96 | $10,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Columbia University | Sawyer Seminars | 12/06/96 | $100,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Cornell University | Sawyer Seminars | 12/06/96 | $100,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Johns Hopkins University | Sawyer Seminars | 12/06/96 | $100,000 | Baltimore, MD, United States | Higher Learning |
