Grace A. Tanner Center History & Archives

1980: Vance Packard, "A Look at the Future" —
Telecommunications and Downsizing the Automobile"

1981: Ian Watt, "Humanities on the River Kwai"

1982: Douglas R. Hofstadter, "The Tumult of Inner Voices or
What is the Meaning of the Word 'I'?"

1983: Norman Cousins, "New Dimensions in Healing"

1984: Lord Asa Briggs, "Social History and Human Experience"

1985: Rex E. Lee, "The Case for Federalism"

1986: Julian Bond, "Politics for the People"

1987: Arno A. Penzias, "The Computer-Enhanced Human Being"

1988: Lord Harold Wilson, "A View from 10 Downing Street"

1989: Barbara Thomas, "Hong Kong —
A Story of Capitalism to Communism 1997"

1990: Donald Kennedy, "Responsibility and the University"

1991: Boris Notkin, "Good Evening Moscow"

1992: Jack Anderson, "The Washington, D.C. Beat"

1993: David P. Gardner, "The Case for the American University"

1994: Sterling M. McMurrin, "The Crisis of Western Culture"

1995: Douglas Hofstadter, "Hiroshima Ma Migonne:
The Endlessly Creative Spark of the Human Mind"

1996: Kenneth J. Arrow, "What Does the Present Owe the Future?"

1997: President George Bush, "Reflections on the Presidency"

1998: Carolyn Tanner Irish, "Disciplined Freedom"

1999: E. Gordon Gee, "The 21st Century American University:
Visions of a New Learning Community"

2000: Sissela Bok, "Deceit and Truthfulness in Public Life"

2001: Vartan Gregorian, "The Real Crisis in the Classroom:
How We Have Devalued the Teaching Profession"

2002: Sylvia A. Earle, "Wild Ocean"

2003: Bryan Sykes, "Secrets of the Human DNA"

2004: Omar Kader, "The Challenge of Promoting Democracy
in the Middle East"

2005: Steven Pinker, "The Blank Slate"

2006: Alan Lightman, "Einstein's Dreams"

2007: Morris Berman, "Locating the Enemy"

2008: Stephen Lewis, "Time to Deliver: Winning the Battle Against Poverty and Disease in the Developing World"

2009: Kenneth Miller, "Darwin, God, & Design: America's Continuing Problem with Evolution"

2010: Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers”

2011: Dava Sobel, “Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love”

2012: Jared Diamond, “The Origin and Future of Human Rights”

2013: Margaret Atwood, “The Futures Market – Stories We Tell About Times to Come”

2014: Alfie Kohn, "Overhauling the Transmission Model: Creating a Learning Centered Classroom and Campus"

2015: Nathan Wolfe, "Viral Forecasting for Pandemic Prevention"

2016: Bart Ehrman, “Did the Early Christians Forget Jesus? What the Study of Memory Can Tell Us About the Gospels”

2017: Jelani Cobb, "The Half-life of Freedom: Race and Justice in America Today"

2017: Maria Hinojosa, "Narrative as Witness: America's Untold Stories"

2018: Sarah Lewis, "Images, Place, and Restorative Justice"