1985-1988

 

Christopher Hill, History, Oxford

Bridget Hill History, Open University-England

Geoff Eley History, Michigan

William Sewell, Jr., History, Chicago

William Cronon History, UW-Madison

George Rudé History, Concordia University, Montreal

Henry Giroux, Education, Penn State

 

1988-89

 

Michael Apple, Education, UW-Madison

Fred Inglis, Education, Warwick

Robin Blackburn, History and Editor

New Left Review, London

Victor Kiernan, History, Edinburgh

 

1989-90

 

Dorothy Thompson, History, Birmingham

E.P. Thompson, History, England

George Comninel, Sociology, York

Michael Bess, History, Vanderbilt

 

1990-91

 

Daniel Singer, European Editor, The Nation, Paris

David Lowenthal, Geography, London

Allen Hunter, Sociology, UW-Madison

Linda Gordon, History, UW-Madison

Carl Chinn, History, Birmingham

Natalie Zemon Davis, History, Princeton

 

1991-92

 

Ron Schultz, History, Wyoming

Sara Kenyon, Sociology, Colorado

Joe Kincheloe, History of Education, Penn State

Shirley Steinberg, Educator, Penn State

Ateret Cohn, Educator, Milwaukee

Al McCoy, History, UW-Madison

Stuart Ewen, Communications & Sociology, CUNY

Michael Parenti, Politics, Washington DC

 

1992-93

 

Rickie Solinger, History, Colorado

John Fiske, Communications, UW-Madison

Toby Morantz, Anthropology, McGill

Mari Jo Buhle, American Civilization, Brown

Paul Buhle, American Civilization, Brown

Michael Herzfeld, Anthropology, Harvard

Russell Jacoby, History, UCLA

 

1993-94

 

William Chambliss, Sociology, George Washington

Stephanie Coontz, History, Evergreen State

George Lipsitz, Ethnic Studies, UC-San Diego

Vitaly Timofeev, History, Karkov

Victor Kiernan, History, Edinburgh

James Barrett, History, Illinois

Alice Wexler, History, UCLA

Elliot Gorn American Studies, Miami of Ohio

David Myers State Historical Society, Wisconsin 

 

1994-95

 

Caroline Brettell, Anthropology, Southern Methodist

Eric Foner, History, Columbia

Eric Hobsbawm, History, London

Anthony Platt, Criminology, California State Sacramento

 

1995-96

 

David Montgomery, History, Yale

Thomas Bender, History, NYU

Louise Tilly, History, New School

John Gillis ,History, Rutgers

Meta Mendel-Reyes, Political Science, Swarthmore

Mike Allewitz, Labor Muralist, Rutgers

Michael Tomasky,  New York Magazine

 

1996-97

 

Isaac Kramnick, Government, Cornell

Janet Zandy, Literature, Rochester Inst. of Technology

Edward Linenthal, Religion, UW-Oshkosh

Paul Buhle, American Civ., Brown

Eileen Boris, History, Howard

Robert McChesney, Communications, UW-Madison

Nelson Lichtenstein, History, Virginia

Susan Brewer, History, UW-Stevens Point

Donald Sassoon, History, London

1997-1998

David Thelen, History, Indiana University

Nell Painter, History/American Studies, Princeton University

Christopher Caldwell, Journalist, The Weekly Standard

Susan Meiselas, Photojournalist

Jane Schneider, Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center

Peter Scheider, Anthropology/Sociology,

Fordham University

E.P. Thompson visited the Center in 1990

1999-2000

 

Fred Inglis, Education, University of Sheffield

Darlene Clark Hine, History, Michigan State

Allan Winker, History, Miami of Ohio

E.J. Dionne, Columnist, Washington Post

David Brooks, Senior Editor, Weekly Standard

Nelson Lichtenstein, History, University of Virginia

 

2000-2001

 

Robin Kelley, History, New York University

Linda Kerber, History, University of Iowa

Michael Kazin, History, Georgetown University

Elliot Gorn, History, Purdue University

Peter Rachleff, History, Macalester College

Thomas Frank, The Baffler 

 

2001-2002

 

Todd Gitlin, Sociology, Columbia University
Craig Coenen, History, Lehigh University
Penny Colman, Independent Scholar and Young Adult Author, New York
Jonathan Holloway, History and African American Studies, Yale
Charles Mathewes, Religious Studies. University of Virginia
Gary Gerstle, History, University of Maryland

 

2003-2004

Isaac Kramnick,  Cornell University
Paul J. Griffiths, University of Illinois at Chicago
Mark Noll, Wheaton College in Illinois
Rickie Solinger, Independent Scholar and Author
Eileen Boris, UC-Santa Barbara
Joe Conason, National Political Columnist
Jeremi Suri, UW-Madison
James Green, University of Massachusetts-Boston

2004-2005

Seth Cotlar,  Historian, Willamette University
Christine Compston,  Legal Historian, Boston

Ian Dowbiggen,  Historian, University of Prince Edward Island  

Cass Sunstein, Law, University of Chicago
Susan Smulyan Brown University
Thomas Guglielmo Historian, Notre Dame

2005-2006

Eric Alterman, columnist for The Nation

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University
Kriste Lindenmeyer, Professor of History, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Jeremi Suri, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Anthony Quiroz, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

2006-2007

Craig Coenen, Assistant Professor, Mercer County College.

Jillian Duquaine-Watson, Assistant Professor of Women Studies at the Texas Woman's University

Michael Novak, Jewett Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute

Michael Tomasky, Editor-at-Large, The American Prospect

2007-2008

Merry Wiesner Hanks, Professor of History, UW-Milwaukee
Marc Gilbert, Chair, World History and Humanities, Hawaii Pacific University
Alfred W. McCoy, Professor of History, UW-Madison
Roger Daniels, Professor Emeritus, University of Cincinnati.

2008-2009

Ted Widmer, Director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
Rick Perlstein, Senior Fellow at the Campaign for America's Future.
Elizabeth Borgwardt, Associate Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis.
Joseph J. Foy, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UWC-Waukesha.
Judith P. Zinsser, Professor of History, Miami University of Ohio.

John Summers Visiting Scholar at the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College.

Jonathan Holloway Professor of History and African American Studies - and Master of Calhoun College - at Yale University.

Jeremi Suri E. Gordon Fox Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

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