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Jefferson Lecture Past Awardee List

Ruth J. Simmons
2023
Andrew Delbanco
2022
Father Columba Stewart
2019
Dr. Rita Charon
2018
Martha C. Nussbaum
2017
Ken Burns
2016
Anna Deavere Smith
2015
Walter Isaacson
2014
Martin Scorsese
2013
Wendell E. Berry
2012
Drew Gilpin Faust
2011
Jonathan Spence
2010
Leon Kass
2009
John Updike
2008
Harvey Mansfield
2007
Tom Wolfe
2006
Donald Kagan
2005
Helen Vendler
2004
David McCullough
2003
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2002
Arthur Miller
2001
James McPherson
2000
Caroline Walker Bynum
1999
Bernard Bailyn
1998
Stephen Toulmin
1997
Toni Morrison
1996
Vincent Scully
1995
Gwendolyn Brooks
1994
Robert Conquest
1993
Bernard Knox
1992
Gertrude Himmelfarb
1991
Bernard Lewis
1990
Walker Percy
1989
Robert Nisbet
1988
Forrest McDonald
1987
Leszek KoĊ‚akowski
1986
Cleanth Brooks
1985
Sidney Hook
1984
Jaroslav Pelikan
1983
Emily Vermeule
1982
Gerald Holton
1981
Barbara W. Tuchman
1980
Edward Shils
1979
C. Vann Woodward
1978
Saul Bellow
1977
John Hope Franklin
1976
Paul A. Freund
1975
Robert Penn Warren
1974
Erik Erikson
1973
Lionel Trilling
1972

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