History
Joy James (2019)
Mar 19, 2019
Joy James is a professor at Williams College. Her research considers the role of mass incarceration in the class and race struggles of the 1970s, and considers incarceration as a form of state violence while also exploring how people of colour resist it through organizing [...]
Susan Stryker (2015)
Feb 25, 2015
“Transgender Histories and Futurities” Susan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is a historian, writer, educator, artist, documentary filmmaker, and human rights activist. Her work lies at the intersection of Queer [...]
Ariella Azoulay (2011-2012)
Jan 20, 2012
“Toward a Visual Declaration of Human Rights: Revisiting The Family of Man” Ariella Azoulay is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature at [...]
Linda Colley (2004-2005)
Nov 25, 2004
“The Difficulties of Empire: Present, Past and Future” Linda Colley is the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 professor of history at Princeton University and the author of Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837, which investigated how inhabitants of England, Scotland, and Wales came to [...]
Margaret MacMillan (2004-2005)
Nov 04, 2004
“The Uses and Abuses of History: Versailles and Beyond” Margaret MacMillan is a provost at Trinity College and Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is also emeritus Professor of International History and the former Warden of St. Antony’s College at the [...]
Edward W. Said (1993-1994)
Nov 03, 1993
“Historical Experience and Multiculturalism” Edward Said was a Palestinian-American academic, political activist, and literary critic who was a founder of postcolonial studies. After receiving a BA at Princeton, he attended Harvard, where he specialized in English [...]
Stephen Jay Gould (1987-1988)
Nov 18, 1987
“Human Equality is a Contingent Fact of History” Stephen J. Gould was an evolutionary scientist, a professor at Harvard, and a leading opponent of scientific creationism. He was also a prominent author. His award-winning book, The Mismeasure of Man, examined the racist [...]
C. Northcote Parkinson (1977-1978)
Jan 20, 1978
“Empires, Kingdoms, and Provinces: A Discussion of Regionalism in Europe” Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a British writer, economist, and historian. After the Second World War, he taught history at the University of Liverpool before being appoint Raffles Professor of [...]
George Rudé (1976-1977)
Nov 03, 1976
“Violence: An Historical Perspective” George Rudé was a researcher and writer, author of 15 books, and editor of many others. He was a Marxist historian, greatly influenced by “history from below,” whose research explored the French Revolution and the importance of crowds [...]
Donald Creighton (1975-1976)
Jan 14, 1976
“The Individual and the Welfare State” Donald Creighton was a historian and author. After completing graduate work at the University of Oxford, he returned to Canada to teach history at the University of Toronto in 1927, where he remained for his entire career. He was chair [...]
Juliet Mitchell (1974-1975)
Jan 13, 1975
“Femininity and Feminism” Juliet Mitchell is an internationally known psychoanalyst, scholar, feminist and author. Born in New Zealand in 1940, Juliet Mitchell moved to England shortly afterward. She was educated at Lausanne University, Switzerland, and St. Anne’s College, [...]
William H. McNeill (1967-1968)
Feb 12, 1968
“The Idea and Practice of World History” William H. McNeill was the Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Chicago, where he taught for 40 years until his retirement in 1987. He was born in 1917 in Vancouver and educated at the University of Chicago and [...]