| 2017-2018 |
Dr. Alida Merlo from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Presentation: "Criminal Justice Policy Reform: How the Court Transformed Juvenile Justice" |
| 2014-2015 | Dr. Sean Safford, director of the Master of Public Affairs Program and associate professor of economic sociology at Sciences Po in Paris |
| 2013-2014 | Dr. John Corvino, chair of the Philosophy Department at Wayne State University |
| 2012-2013 | Terry Schreiber, director of Tony-nominated play K2, The Trip Back Down on Broadway |
| 2011-2012 | Dr. W. Robert Connor, Senior Advisor, The Teagle Foundation |
| 2010-2011 | Barbara Rosenwein, Professor of History at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois |
| 2009-2010 | Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio’s “Voice of Books” and professor of English at George Mason University, teaching in their Creative Writing Program |
| 2008-2009 | Dr. Roy F. Fox, Professor of English Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia |
| 2007-2008 | John David Mooney, an artist, who is the founder and artistic director of the John David Mooney Foundation |
| 2006-2007 | Dr. S. Ravi Rajan, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Provost of College Eight at the University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 2005-2006 | Dr. Nancy Tuana, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, Penn State University |
| 2004-2005 | Dr. Alan Dawley, Professor of History at the College of New Jersey |
| 2003-2004 | Dr. Wolfgang Mieder, professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont |
| 2002-2003 | Dr. Judy C. Pearson, professor of communication, director of the doctoral program, and associate dean of the college of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at North Dakota State University |
| 2001-2002 | E. Ethelbert Miller, Poet and Humanities Lecturer |
| 2000-2001 | E. Mark Cummings, Notre Dame |
| 1999-2000 | Judy Chicago, Feminist, Artist |
| 1998-1999 | William Corsaro, IU Sociologist |
| 1997-1998 | Francis Fukuyama, George Mason U. Political Scientist |
| 1994-1995 | Jonathan Brown, Historian at the U. of Texas |
| 1993-1994 | Uwe Timm, German author and Screenwriter |
| 1991-1992 | Tony Jones, School of the Chicago Art Institute |
| 1990-1991 | Dale Van Etta, Investigative Reporter |
| 1989-1990 | Nikki Giovanni, Poet |
| 1988-1989 | Richard Cohen, Columnist |
| 1987-1988 | Allan Bloom, Philosopher |
| 1986-1987 | Karl Haas, Musician, Broadcaster |
| 1985-1986 | John Ciardi, Poet |
