Clark lecturers

woman with light brown skin and short white hair wearing a blue top and a red sweater 2023–24
Laura Pulido, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Geography, University of Oregon. “White Nationalism and GOP Climate Obstruction.” Part of the Humanities Matter(s) series.
Charlotte Coté 2022–23
Chartlotte Coté (Tseshaht First Nation), American Indian Studies, University of Washington.  “c̓uumaʕas. The River that Runs through Us.” Part of the Belonging series.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2021-22
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, and musician. “Rehearsals for Living: My First Letter.” Part of the Imagining Futures series.
Bathsheba Demuth 2020-21
Bathsheba Demuth, History and Environment and Society at Brown University. “The Reindeer at the End of the World.” Part of the Climate Justice series.
Elizabeth Rush 2019-20
Elizabeth Rush, Creative Nonfiction, Brown University; author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore (2018). “On Rising Together: Creative and Collective Responses to the Climate Crisis.” Part of the Convergence series.
Nalini Nadkarni 2018-19
Nalini Nadkarni, Professor of Biology, University of Utah.“Tapestry Thinking: Weaving the Threads of Humans and Nature”. Part of the Common Good series.
 Robin Wall Kimmerer 2017-18
Robin Wall Kimmerer, plant ecologist, writer and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York.“We the People: Expanding the Circle of Citizenship”.” Part of the We the People series.
Lucy Jones 2016–17
Lucy Jones, former U.S. Geological Survey seismologist, founder of the Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society. “The Fault Lies Not in Our Stars: Why Natural Disasters Become Human Catastrophes.” Part of the Humanities series.
Lori Gruen 2015–16
Lori Gruen, Philosophy and Animal Studies, Wesleyan University. Author of Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethics for our Relationships with Other Animals (2015).“Justice and Empathy Beyond the Human.” Part of the justice series.
Franz DeWaal 2014–15
Frans de Waal, director, Living Links Center; C. H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior, Emory University. Author of The Age of Empathy: (2009) and The Bonobo and the Atheist (2013). “The Evolution of Connectivity: Empathy, Altruism, and Primate Social Skills.” Part of the connection series.
Craig Childs 2013-14
Craig Childs, science writer and adventurer; author of Apocalyptic Planet: A Field Guide to the Future of the Earth and The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild. “Apocalyptic Planet: A Field Guide to the Future of the Earth.” Part of the vulnerable series.
David Eagleman 2012-13
David Eagleman, neuroscientist and director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action, Baylor College of Medicine; author of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives and Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. “The Secret Lives of the Human Brain.” Part of the being human | human being series
Doug Peacock 2011-12
Doug Peacock, naturalist, outdoorsman, and author of Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness and Walking it Off: A Veteran’s Chronicle of War And Wilderness. “The Greatest Adventure: A Survivor’s Guide to a Melting Century.” Part of the Conflict series.
Richard Louv 2010-11
Richard Louv, journalist and author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. “Beyond Nature-Deficit Disorder: The Restorative Power of the Natural World.” Part of the Sustenance series.
Denis Hayes 2009-10
Denis Hayes, President and CEO of the Bullitt Foundation, National Coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970. “Is Prosperity Incompatible with Posterity?“
Sean Carroll 2008-09
Sean Carroll, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institution, University of Wisconsin. “Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species.” Part of the Darwin Lecture Series.
Stephen Schneider 2007-08
Stephen Schneider, biology and environmental studies, Stanford. “Global Warming: How Do We Manage the Risks?“
David James Duncan 2006-07
David James Duncan, writer. “Why the American West Needs the Asian East”
William Fox 2005-06
William L. Fox, writer. “Terra Antarctica: Looking into the Emptiest Continent” and “Climbing Mt. Limbo: On the Edge of Land and Language.”
2004-05
There was no Clark Lecture
Daniel Slosburg 2003-04
Daniel Slosberg, fiddler and living historian. “Pierre Cruzatte: A Musical Journey along the Lewis and Clark Trail.”
Kathleen Dean Moore 2002-03
Kathleen Dean Moore, Professor of Philosophy, Oregon State University, and Director, Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. “The Sound of Human Longing: Field Notes for an Environmental Ethic of Care.”
David Quammen 2001-02
David Quammen, science writer. “The Improbable Lion and the Post-Communist Bear: Man-Eating Predators in a Crowded World.”
William Cronon 2000-01
William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Telling Tales on Canvas: Landscapes of Frontier Change.”
Terry Tempest Williams 1999-2000
Terry Tempest Williams, author, naturalist, and environmental activist. “Hieronymus Bosch in North America.”
1998-99
There was no Clark Lecture
David R. Wallace 1997-98
David Rains Wallace, Recipient, John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, former NEA and Fulbright Foundation fellow. “Land Bridges and Land Ethics.”
Chris Maser 1996-97
Chris Maser, forest ecologist, writer on nature and culture. “Sustainable Community Development.”
Robert D. Clark 1995-96
Robert D. Clark, President Emeritus, University of Oregon. “Thomas Condon, Geologist and Preacher: His Reconciliation of Science and Religion.”