Distinguished Lectureship

Dr. Amy Wood History, Fall 2022, "Sympathy for the Devil:  The Origins of Modern Criminology"

Dr. Maura Toro-Morn Sociology and Anthropology, Spring 2022 "Gendered Migrations  in the Age of Global Disruption"

Dr. Lisa Szczepura Chemistry, Fall 2021 "Precious Metal Clusters"                                     

• Rajeev Goel
  Economics, Fall 2019
• Alison Bailey
  Women and Gender Studies, Spring 2019
• Daniel Liechty
  Social Work, Fall 2018
• Laura Vogel
  Biological Sciences, Spring 2018
• Maria Smith
  Sociology and Anthropology, Fall 2017
• Alan Lessoff
  History, Spring 2017
• David Malone
  Geography-Geology, Fall 2016
• Dr. Tim Hunt
  English, Spring 2016
• Dr. Ken Clements
  Mathematics, Fall 2015
• Robert McLaughlin
  English, Spring 2015
  So Many Possibilities: Stephen Sondheim and the American Musical Theater
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• Roger Thomas
  Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Fall 2014
  "Word Spirit": Language Ideologies in Japan and Elsewhere
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• Louis Perez
  History, Spring 2014
  In Search of the Beautiful Death: Japanese Samurai Aesthetics
• Timothy D. Lash
  Chemistry, Fall 2013
  Porphyrins - Nature's Rainbow Coalition
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• Mark Swerdlik
  Psychology, Spring 2013
  Securing the Yellow Ribbon: Caring for Our Veterans and Their Families During Phases of Deployment
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• Wib Leonard
  Sociology and Anthropology, Fall 2012
  Symbolic Immortality in Sports
• C. Andrew Weeks
  Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spring 2012
  German Anticlerical Culture in the Age of Faith
• William Cupach
  Communication, Fall 2011
  The Dark Side of Relationship Pursuit: Stalking and Obsessive Relational Intrusion
• Lane Crothers
  Politics and Government, Spring 2011
  Making Tea: The Rise of the American Tea Party
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• Roberta Seelinger Trites
  English, Fall 2010
  The Pixar Maturity Formula: Sexism, Growth, and Social Responsibility in Children's Movies
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• Krzysztof Ostaszewski
  Mathematics, Spring 2010
  Modigliani, Miller, and Mortgages
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• James Stanlaw
  Anthropology, Fall 2009
  Culture, Cognition, and Contact: What the Meeting of Japanese and English Has to Say About Current Theories in Anthropology, Linguistics and Cognitive Science
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• Lynn Worsham
  English, Spring 2009
  The Humanities in an Age of Catastrophe
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• David Williams
  Biological Sciences, Fall 2008
  Not Neglecting Neglected Diseases: Efforts to Identify New Drugs for the Treatment of Schistosomiasis
• Ron Fortune
  English, Spring 2008
  'Scattered Impostures': Writing and the Work of Literary Forgery
• Paul Garris
  Biological Sciences, Fall 2007
  The Chemistry-Biology Interface: Bridging rat and human to understand Parkinson's disease
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• Radheshyam K. Jayaswal
  Biological Sciences, Spring 2007
  Evolution of Super Bug Staphylococcus aureus: How far from the pre-antibiotic era?
• Curtis White
  English, Fall 2006
  Contrition: a Performance and Reading from Requiem
• Charles Su
  Physics, Spring 2006
  Enlightened by Lasers
• Charles Thompson
  Biological Sciences, Fall 2005
  Life in Little Wooden Houses on the Prairie: What House Wrens Have Taught Us About the Evolution of Reproductive Tactics
• Norma Presmeg
  Mathematics, Spring 2005
  Bridging the Arts and Sciences in Mathematics Education Research

• Manfred Steger, Politics and Government, Fall 2004
  From Market Globalism to Imperial Globalism: Ideology and U.S. Hegemony after 9/11
• John Shields, English, Spring 2004
  My Love of Learning and Desire for God
• Susan Sprecher, Sociology, Fall 2003
  Close Relationships: The Study of Attraction, Love, and Friendship
• Rainer Grobe, Physics, Spring 2003
  Atoms, Lasers and Computers
• Thomas Simon, Philosophy, Fall 2002
  Confessions of a Virtual Terrorist: "An Autobiography of Someone Else?"
• Janice Neuleib, English, Spring 2002
  Women Can't Do That: Writing Beyond the Rules
• Paul Holsinger, History, Fall 2001
  TALES FROM THE DARK CORNER: Kinfolks and Strangers in the Mountain South
• A. Lee Beier, History, Spring 2001
  Why Class? Why Gender? Why Race? The World Picture and its Dissolution in Renaissance England, 1500-1600
• Steven Juliano, Biological Sciences, Fall 2000
  Homage to St. Francis, St. Mark, & St. Genevieve: Mosquito ecology from behavior to communities
• Douglas H. Lamb, Psychology, Spring 2000
  Slippery Slopes: Sexual and Other Dual Relationships Between Psychologists and Their Clients, Supervisees, and Students

• Robert Hunt, Politics and Government, Fall 1999
  Resilient Communities for a New Era: Sustenance Without Magic?
• Richard Martin, Physics, Spring 1999
  Aurora, Chaos, and Undergraduate Education
• Charles Orser, Anthropology, Fall 1998
  An Archaeological Look at Race and Tradition in Pre-Famine Ireland
• Sandra Metts, Communication, Spring 1998
  The Pervasive Influence of Face and Facework in Social and Personal Relationships
• Diane F. Urey, Foreign Languages, Fall 1997
  Homer, Cervantes, and Galdós: Heroic Sieges in History
• Raymond M. Bergner, Psychology, Spring 1997
  Approaches to Problems of Meaninglessness
• Willard Bohn, Foreign Languages, Fall 1996
  Conceiving Concrete Poetry
• Brian J. Wilkinson, Biological Sciences, Spring 1996
  Staph Germs and Us: Flash Fire Invasions and Smoldering Border Disputes
• Jamal R. Nassar, Politics and Government, Fall 1995
  In Search of Destiny: The Middle East Between Peaceful Coexistence and Religious Revivalism
• William Morgan, English, Spring 1995
  Of Fiddles, Manuscripts, and Silences: Watching Thomas Hardy at Work

• Laura E. Berk, Psychology, Fall 1994
  Why Children Talk to Themselves
• John Barron Pryor, Psychology, Spring 1994
  The Social Psychology of Sexually Harassing Behavior
• Mark Wyman, History, Fall 1993
  America, Europe, and Immigrants Who Returned
• Richard J. Payne, Politics and Government, Spring 1993
  Culture and Force in American Foreign Policy
• Lucia Cordell Getsi, English, Fall 1992
  Matters of Life and Death: Poetry and the (Un)Making of Self
• Glenn D. Reeder, Psychology, Spring 1992
  Inferring the Traits that Others Possess
• L. Moody Simms, History, Fall 1991
  Why Popular Culture?
• Elizabeth McMahan, English, Fall 1990
  Edith Wharton, Summer, and Sexuality
• Richard A. Stivers, Sociology, Spring 1990
  The Deconstruction of the University
• Carl J. Ekberg, History, Fall 1989
  Stealing Women in French Illinois

• Anthony E. Liberta, Biological Sciences, Spring 1989
  The Influence of Surface Mining on the Survival of Symbiotic Soil Fungi
• Earl Reitan,History, Fall 1988
  The Glorious Revolution in England, 1688-89: A Tri-Centennial View
• Carol Thomas Neely, English, Spring 1988
  Reading Women and Madness in Shakespeare and His Culture
• Alan Monroe, Politics and Government, Fall 1987
  Does the U. S. Government Do What the People Want?
• Gerlof D. Homan, History, Spring 1987
  The Fall and Rise of France, 1940-1945
• Ray Lewis White, English, Fall 1986
  A Walking Tour of Winesburg, Ohio
• Rodger L. Tarr, English, Spring 1986
  The Victorian Lady Jane Welsh Carlyle and the Psycho-Feminist Myth
• John B. Freed, History, Fall 1985
  The Medieval Legacy of the Family
• Roger C. Anderson, Biological Sciences, Spring 1985
  The State of Prairies
• John A. Dossey, Mathematics, Fall 1984
  The Second International Mathematics Study: Who's on First and Why

• Joel G. Verner, Politics and Government, Spring 1984
  The Cuban Revolution and the International System
• Cheryl R. Stevenson, Chemistry, Fall 1983
  The Interface Between the Atom, Electron and Dasein (Consciousness)
• John F. Cragan, Communication, Spring 1983
  American Political Communication: An Orwellian View of Computer-based Campaign Speeches and Rallies
• Jonathan E. Reyman, Anthropology, Fall 1982
  Prehistoric Pueblos: Models for the Future
• William Linneman, English, Spring 1982
  Will Rogers and Art Buchwald: Fifty Years of Political Humor
• John Guegen, Politics and Government, Fall 1981
  Selfism and the Dark Night of the Intellect
• Arlan Richardson, Chemistry, Spring 1981
  Aging, Diet, and Cancer
• F. James Davis, Sociology, Fall 1980
  Who is Black?: The Societal Definition of Race
• Charles B. Harris, English, Spring 1980
  Humor and the Recent American Novel

• Harvey G. Zeidenstein, Politics and Government, Fall 1979 Presidential Popularity and Presidential Support in Congress: Eisenhower to Carter
• Mark A. Plummer, History, Spring 1979
  Lincoln's Railsplitter: Richard J. Oglesby
• Norton B. Crowell, English, Fall 1978
  The Anti-Intellectual Legacy of Romanticism
• Phares G. O'Daffer, Mathematics, Spring 1978
  Mathematics in the Schools: Myths, Realities, and a Look into the Crystal Ball
• Jack A. Ward, Biological Sciences, Fall 1977
  Fish Tales and Facts - Food for Thought and the Impoverished
• Bernard L. Ryder, Chemistry, Spring 1977
  A Mural of Organic Chemistry for the Ivy'd Halls
• Frederic N. Firestone, Economics, Fall 1976
  Change in Economics: Darwin Meets Newton
• Roger J. Champagne, History, Spring 1976
  Political Leadership and the American Revolution
• E. Joan Miller, Geography, Fall 1975
  Nothing but Feet on the Ground: Folk Geography of the Ozarks
• Robert K. Ritt, Mathematics, Spring 1975
  Non-Deterministic Model of the Universe

• Dale B. Vetter, English, Fall 1974
  Likeness, Difference, and the Humanities
• Herman E. Brockman, Biological Sciences, Spring 1974
  Most Precious Heritage--Is it Endangered
• Vernon C. Pohlmann, Sociology, Fall 1973
  The Census Counts on You - Can You Count on the Census
• Walter S. G. Kohn, Politics and Government, Spring 1973
  Wine, Voters, and Song: An Essay on Austrian Politics
• Edward L. Schapsmeier, History, Fall 1972
  Paul H. Douglas From Pacifist to Soldier - Statesman
• Edward B. Jelks, Anthropology, Spring 1972
  Digging is My Bag
• Wesley C. Calef, Geography, Fall 1971
  The Public Lands: Perennial Problem
• Stanley E. Grupp, Sociology, Spring 1971
  The Marihuana Muddle
• Stanley S. Marzolf, Psychology, Fall 1970
  What Has a Clinical Psychologist Been Up to All These Years?
• Alice L. Ebel, Politics and Government, Spring 1970
  The Dilemma of Local Government

• Edward L. Mockford, Biological Sciences, Fall 1969
  Natural History of Bark Lice and Book Lice
• Gary L. Cronkhite, Speech/Psychology, Spring 1969
  Cultural Deprivation the Wasp Ghetto
• Helen M. Cavanagh, History, Fall 1968
  Illinois in Region and Nation, 1850-1861