Year
|
Speaker
|
Description
|
| 2009–2010 |
Dr. Ronald C. White Jr. |
"Lincoln's Sermon on the Mount: The Second Inaugural Address;" Dr. White is the author of A. Lincoln: A Biography, among other works. |
2008–2009
|
Ms. Jan Crawford Greenburg
|
Political commentator, author of Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court
|
2007–2008
|
Ms. Elizabeth Spencer
|
Novelist, writer of more than 15 books, including her memoir, Landscapes of the Heart
|
2006–2007
|
Mr. Doug Marlette
|
Columnist/political cartoonist/novelist
|
2005–2006
|
Dr. Carlos Eire
|
"Is Freedom a Luxury? Confessions of a Cuban Boy;" religious historian and writer of the National Book Award-winning memoir, Waiting for Snow in Havana
|
2004–2005
|
Dr. Paul Sereno
|
National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, paleontologist; "Dinosaurs on Drifting Continents"
|
2003–2004
|
Dr. Dan Carter
|
Historian, filmmaker, educator, author (2nd appearance)
|
2003–2004
|
Dr. Greg Jones
|
Dean, Duke University Divinity School
|
2002–2003
|
The Honorable Janet Reno
|
Former Attorney General of the United States
|
2001–2002
|
Dr. Martin Marty
|
Religious historian, author, educator
|
2000–2001
|
Mr. John Updike
|
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
|
1998–1999
|
Ms. Dee Dee Myers
|
Presidential Press Secretary under President Bill Clinton
|
1997
|
Dr. Peter Schickele
|
Composer, musician, satirist, creator of PDQ Bach
|
1996
|
Dr. Jane Goodall
|
Animal behaviorist, researcher, educator
|
1995
|
Dr. Donald Johanson
|
Paleoanthropologist who discovered "Lucy"
|
1994
|
Dr. John Horner
|
Paleontologist concentrating research on dinosaurs
|
1985
|
Dr. Thomas Anderson Langford
|
Duke University
|
|
Dr. Karl Haas
|
Pianist, conductor, host of NPR's "Adventures in Good Music"
|
|
Dr. Sandra Scarr
|
Expert in child psychology and behavioral genetics
|
|
Dr. Dan Janzen
|
Internationally known tropical biologist
|
|
Dr. David McCullough
|
Television host and author, historian
|
|
Dr. Neville Richardson
|
South Africa's University of Natal
|
|
Dr. Dan Carter
|
(first appearance)
|