The Political Science Program, in conjunction with the Office of Convocations, sponsors a leading scholar in the field to deliver an annual lecture. Here are some of our notable guests:
- James David Barber – 1978
- Richard Fenno – 1979
- Everett Carll Ladd – 1980
- William Julius Wilson – 1984
- Richard Pipes – 1985
- Edward Warner – 1986
- Ann Stuart Anderson – 1987
- Jerry Hough – 1989
- John Lewis Gaddis – 1998
- Ed Meese – 2001
- Sumit Ganguly – 2004
- David Beckmann – 2005
- Stephen Walt – 2008
- Larry Sabato – 2009
- Darrell West – 2010
- Theodore Lowi – 2012
- Nicholas Burns – 2013
- Russell Hanson – 2014
- Theda Skocpol – 2015
- John Hibbing – 2016
- Beth Simmons – 2017
- Michael Klarman – 2018
- Shauna Shames – 2019
- Norman Ornstein – 2020
- Valerie Hudson – 2021