Jefferson Lecture Past Awardee List Ruth J. Simmons2023 Andrew Delbanco2022 Father Columba Stewart2019 Dr. Rita Charon2018 Martha C. Nussbaum2017 Ken Burns2016 Anna Deavere Smith2015 Walter Isaacson2014 Martin Scorsese2013 Wendell E. Berry2012 Drew Gilpin Faust2011 Jonathan Spence2010 Leon Kass2009 John Updike 2008 Harvey Mansfield2007 Tom Wolfe2006 Donald Kagan2005 Helen Vendler2004 David McCullough2003 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2002 Arthur Miller2001 James McPherson2000 Caroline Walker Bynum1999 Bernard Bailyn1998 Stephen Toulmin1997 Toni Morrison1996 Vincent Scully1995 Gwendolyn Brooks1994 Robert Conquest1993 Bernard Knox1992 Gertrude Himmelfarb1991 Bernard Lewis1990 Walker Percy1989 Robert Nisbet1988 Forrest McDonald1987 Leszek KoĊakowski1986 Cleanth Brooks1985 Sidney Hook1984 Jaroslav Pelikan1983 Emily Vermeule1982 Gerald Holton1981 Barbara W. Tuchman1980 Edward Shils1979 C. Vann Woodward1978 Saul Bellow1977 John Hope Franklin1976 Paul A. Freund1975 Robert Penn Warren1974 Erik Erikson1973 Lionel Trilling1972
