Distinguished Lecturers

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, & 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
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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