Past Lecturers

Provost's Distinguished Women's Lecturer Program

2007-2008

Christine Stansell
University of Chicago
Gender Studies

Deborah Lipstadt
Emory University
Theology

2006-2007

Naomi Chazan
Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem
Political Science

Cecilia Rouse
Princeton University
Economics and Public Affairs

2005-2006

Pamela J. Smock
University of Michigan
Sociology

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Harvard University
Gender Studies, History, & American Studies

2004-2005

Nancy Folbre
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Economics & Policy Studies

Ruth Kluger
University of California-Irvine
Theology

Robin Lakoff
University of California at Berkeley
Anthropology

2003-2004

Cathy Cohen
University of Chicago
Political Science

Maryse Conde
Columbia University
Romance Languages & Literatures

2002-2003

Ann Banfield
University of California at Berkeley
PhD in Literature

Katharine Abraham
Former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Economics

Amy Gutmann
Princeton University
Gender Studies and Philosophy

Elizabeth A. Clark
Duke University
Christian Studies, Theology and Classics

Patricia Fortini Brown
Princeton University
Art History

Jo Labanyi
University of Southampton
Romance Languages

2001-2002

Judith Bennett
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
History

Lynn Tatlock
Washington University in St. Louis
German

Cynthia Hogue
Bucknell University
English

2000-2001

Julie Nelson
Harvard Divinity School

Naomi Schor
Yale University
French

1999-2000

Anne Fausto-Sterling
Brown University
Biology and Medicine

Barbara Reskin
Harvard University
Sociology

1998-1999

Christine Korsgaard
Harvard University
Philosophy

Joan Wallach Scott
Princeton University
Institute for Advanced Study

Julie Dash
Screenwriter and film director

Theda Skocpol
Harvard University
Sociology and Government

1997-1998

Elizabeth Altmaier
The University of Iowa
Psychology

Lani Guinier
University of Pennsylvania
Law School

Catherine Zuckert
Carleton College
Political Science

1996-1997

Seyla Benhabib
Harvard University Center for European Studies

Marina Brownlee
University of Pennsylvania
Romance Languages

Antonia Kalu
University of Northern Colorado
Black Studies

Linda Kerber
University of Iowa
History

Susan Treggiari
Stanford University
Classics

1995-1996

Alice Amsden
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Economics

Annette Baier
University of Pittsburgh
Philosophy

Nancy Folbre
University of Massachusetts
Economics

Lori Damrosch
Columbia University
The School of Law

Evelyn Keller
Fox University of California at Berkeley
Gender Studies Program

Evelyn Higgenbotham
Harvard University
History

Linda Nochlin
New York University
History

Martha Nussbaum
Brown University
Liberal Studies

Jane Snyder
The Ohio State University
Classics

Ann Swidler
University of California at Berkeley
Sociology

1994-1995

Rebecca Blank
Northwestern University
Economics

Margaret Ezell
Texas A & M University
English

Jean Hampton
University of Arizona
Philosophy

Elizabeth Johnson
Fordham University
Theology

Sarah McClanahan
Princeton University
Sociology