THE AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
2002: Nell Painter, Princeton University Edwards Professor of American History,
“Creating Black Americans”
2003: Bell Gale Chevigny, Professor Emeritus at SUNY Purchase and a Soros Senior
Justice Fellow, “Locked Out: What You Don’t Know about the Prisoners’ Experience”
2004: Martha Banta, Professor Emeritus at UCLA, “Raw, Ripe, and Rot: 19th-Century
Pathologies of the American Aesthetic”
2005: Pascal Bruckner, “Paradoxes of Anti-Americanism in Europe”
2006: Leslie Wilson, Curator of the Concord Free Public Library, “No Worthless Books':
Elizabeth Peabody's Foreign Library.”
2007: Catherine E. Kelly, Associate Professor of History, University of Oklahoma,
“Waxing Political: Political Personae in the Early Republic”
2008: John Carlos Rowe, USC Associates’ Professor of the Humanities in the
Department of English and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the
University of Southern California, “Transnationalism, Disease, and the Americas”