| University of Cape Town | Sawyer Seminars - Knowledge, Diversity, and Power | 06/13/08 | $150,000 | Cape Town, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Cambridge | Sawyer Seminars - Modeling Futures | 06/13/08 | $149,000 | Cambridge, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| Northwestern University | Sawyer Seminars - Theater After Athens | 06/13/08 | $148,000 | Evanston, IL, United States | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| University of London | Sawyer Seminars - Fratricide/Fraternite | 06/13/08 | $144,000 | London, United Kingdom | 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 |
| Stanford University | Sawyer Seminars - Visualizing Knowledge | 06/17/05 | $120,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Toronto | Sawyer Seminars - Globalizing the Americas | 06/17/05 | $120,000 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | 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 |
| 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 Berkeley | Sawyer Seminars - Private Wealth and Public Power: Oligarchs, Tycoons, and Magnates | 06/17/05 | $120,000 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Cornell University | Sawyer Seminars - Social Movements and Regime Change in Latin America and Post-Communist Europe | 06/16/06 | $120,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Stanford University | Sawyer Seminars - The First Great Divergence: China and Europe, 500-800 CE | 06/16/06 | $120,000 | Stanford, CA, 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 |
| University of Sydney | Sawyer Seminars - The Antipodean Laboratory | 06/13/08 | $120,000 | Sydney, Australia | Higher Learning |
| University of Cambridge | Sawyer Seminars - Debt, Sovereignty, and Power | 06/17/05 | $120,000 | Cambridge, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
