Annual Gordon Lecture in American Studies
2022 | Dr Charisse Burden- Stelly | Organize, Fight, Win: The Dialectic of Radical Black Organizing and U.S. State Repression |
2019 | Professor Sarah Churchwell (School of Advanced Study, University of London) | Behold, America: a History of American First and the American Dream |
2017 | Roddy Hart (Singer/Songwriter) | Roddy Hart: An American Lyric |
2016 | Brad McDonald | Deep South: A conversation with Chef Brad McDonald |
2015 | David Willis (BBC California Correspondent) | Hollywood and the American Dream |
2014 | Professor David Blight (Class of 1954 Professor of History, Yale University) and Professor Richard Blackett (Andrew Jackson Professor of History, Vanderbilt University) | The Fugitive Slave Act and the Coming of the American Civil War |
2013 | Professor Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University) | Recycling Gilgamesh: Lousiana, Vietnam, Iraq? |
2012 | Professor Alan Brinkley (Columbia University) | ‘The Great Depression, Then and Now |
2011 | Professor Harvey Bryan (Arizona State University), Professor Gary Libecap (University of California at Santa Barbara) and Professor Ian Tyrell (University of New South Wales) | The American Environment: A conversation |
2010 | Mr Bruce Molsky | A performance of American traditional and folk |
2009 | Professor Douglas Tallack (University of Leicester) | The line of history: the Society of Iconophiles and New York City, 1895-1939 |
2008 | Professor Vincent Carretta (University of Maryland) | Reading Equiano Reading Milton (and others): Poetry in the Service of History |
2007 | Professor Susan Castillo (King’s College London) | George Washington Cable and the Gothic of the Caribbean |
2006 | Professor Tony Badger (Cambridge University) | Martin Luther King Jr.: Who Needs Him? |
2005 | Professor Richard King (University of Nottingham) | Another Country: The Crisis in US Political Culture |
2004 | Professor John Stauffer (Harvard University) | The Prophetic Vision of James McCune Smith |
2003 | Mr. Marc Pachter (Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC) | Posing for the Presidency: Style and Substance in Portraits of America’s Leaders |
2002 | Professor William Deverell (University of Southern California) | History and the City of the Future: Writing the Los Angeles Past |
2001 | Professor Andrew Hook (Emeritus, University of Glasgow) | F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda, and the Crack-Up |