| 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 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Sawyer Seminars - Sensing the Unseen | 06/19/09 | $145,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| New York University | Sawyer Seminars - City, Modernism, and Problems | 03/17/97 | $100,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Georgetown University | Sawyer Seminar: Approaching the Anthropocene | 09/15/16 | $175,000 | Washington, DC, 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 |
| 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 Davis | Sawyer Seminar: Academic Brands: Privatizing, Quantifying, and Transforming the University | 09/11/17 | $225,000 | Davis, 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 |
| Stanford University | Sawyer Seminars - Settlement, Race, and Sovereignty | 12/17/01 | $110,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Johns Hopkins University | Sawyer Seminars | 12/06/96 | $100,000 | Baltimore, MD, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | Sawyer Seminars - Around 1948: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Global Transformation | 06/18/10 | $175,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Sawyer Seminars - Precarious Work in Asia | 06/18/10 | $175,000 | Chapel Hill, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Berkeley | Sawyer Seminars - Graeco-Arabic Rationalism in Islamic Traditionalism: The Post-Classical Period | 06/18/10 | $175,000 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Southern California | Sawyer Seminar: Precarious Ecologies: Science and Social Justice in the Production of Environmental Knowledge | 09/13/21 | $225,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| New York University | Sawyer Seminar: Indigenous Futures in Times of Crisis | 09/13/21 | $225,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Indiana University | Sawyer Seminars - Food Choice, Freedom, and Politics | 06/03/11 | $172,000 | Bloomington, IN, 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 |
| University of Minnesota at Twin Cities | Sawyer Seminars - Just Policing: Transnational Perspectives On the Definition and Possibility of Justice in Law Enforcement | 12/08/22 | $225,000 | Minneapolis, MN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Stanford University | Sawyer Seminars - The Data that Divides Us: Recalibrating Data Methods for New Knowledge Frameworks Across the Humanities | 12/09/22 | $224,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Harvard University | Sawyer Seminar - Comparative Study of Cultures: Hearing Modernity | 05/31/12 | $175,000 | Cambridge, MA, 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 |
| University of Texas at Austin | Sawyer Seminars - Territorial Roots and Diasporic Routes | 06/06/13 | $175,000 | Austin, TX, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Davis | Sawyer Seminar: 'Surveillance Democracies?' | 06/05/14 | $175,000 | Davis, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Massachusetts at Amherst | Sawyer Seminar: 'The Medieval in the Modern: Rethinking Global Paradigms of Political Economy and Culture' | 06/05/14 | $175,000 | Amherst, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Graduate Center of the City University of New York | Sawyer Seminar - Race and the Middle East/North Africa | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
