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2012-13
Wade Davis, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and anthropologist; author of Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures (2009) and Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (2011). "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in a Modern World." Part of the being human | human being series.
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2011-12
Paul Gilding, author of The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World. "The Mother of All Conflicts—Infinite Economic Growth vs. a Finite Planet." Part of the Conflict series. |
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2010-11
Terry Tempest Williams, conservationist, advocate for free speech, and author of Refuge. "The Sustaining Grace of Witness.” Part of the Sustenance series. |
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2009-10
Frances Moore Lappé, democracy advocate and world food and hunger expert, author of Diet for a Small Planet. "Getting a Grip—Gaining Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want" Part of the Year of the Book series. |
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2008-09
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University Divinity School, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and Department of Religious Studies. "The Emerging Alliance of Religion and Ecology" |
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2007-08
Bill McKibben, environmentalist and writer. "Building the Climate Movement" |
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2005-06
Peter Brown, Professor of Palaeoanthropology, School of Human and Environmental Studies, University of New England, Australia.
"A Revolution in Evolution" |
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2004-05
Gary E. Moulton, Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of American History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. “Lewis and Clark’s New Look.” |
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2003-04
Ellen Dissanayake, independent scholar and writer. “The ‘Deep Structure’ of the Arts” |
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2002-03
Stephen Dow Beckham, Pamplin Professor of History, Lewis & Clark College. “The Lewis and Clark Expedition: America's Commitment to the Enlightenment” |
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2001-02
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, primatologist and award-winning author. “Maternal Love and Ambivalence in the Pleistocene, the 18th Century, and Right Now” |
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2000-01
Diana K. Myers. “The Thunder Dragon Kingdom in the Twenty-First Century” |
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1999-00
Tsianina Lomawaima, anthropology and Native American Studies, University of Arizona. “They Sacrificed for Our Survival: The Indian Boarding School Experience”
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1998-99
Henry J. Drewal, Evjue-Bascom Professor of African and African Diaspora Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Celebrating Ancestors, Shaping Community: Yoruba Egungun Masquerades in Africa and Brazil.” |
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1997-98
Randall Robinson, human rights advocate, Founding President of Trans-Africa, Inc. and Trans-Africa Forum. “Defending the Spirit.” |
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1996-97
N. Scott Momaday, recipient, Pulitzer Prize, and Regents Professor of English, University of Arizona. “A Divine Blindness: Storytelling, Oral Tradition, and Jorge Luis Borges.” |
