September 1979 Louise and Charles Tilly
October 1979 Dr. Aboubacar Barry
October 1979 Susan Gross
October 1979 Elizabeth Brown
February 1980 John Womack
October 1980 Alfred Crosby
February 1981 Carl N. Degler
May 1981 Marcel Ophuls
October 1981 Lynn Hunt
February 1982 George Frederickson
November 1982 Robert G.L. Waite
February 1983 Allen Isaacman
March 1983 Giles Constable
May 1983 R.A. Rafeg
September 1983 Bernard Bailyn
February 1984 Arno J. Mayer
November 1984 Paul Boyer
February 1985 Robert Darnton
October 1985 Samuel P. Hays
February 1986 Thomas P. Metcalf
October 1986 Linda Kerber
February 1987 Charles Maier
April 1987 Carl Petry
February 1988 Evelyn Rawski
March 1988 Scott Borg
April 1988 Karen Halttunen
October 1988 James Axtell
February 1989 Lynn Hunt
March 1990 Paul Fussell
March 1990 Harold Deutsch
May 1990 Donald Worster
November 1991 Gail Minnault
February 1991 Michael Geyer
February 1992 Steven Feierman
May 1992 Patty Limerick
November 1992 Alan Beyerchen
February 1993 Martin Palous
February 1993 Sister Benedicta Ward
October 1993 Jerry Bentley
February 1994 Harvey Kaye
October, 1994 Virginia Scharff
February 1995 Clarence Walker
April 4, 1995 Paul Nagel
November 10, 1995 Michel Troper
February 14, 1996 Emily Rosenberg
April 11, 1996 Robert W. Scribner
October 22, 1996 Kevin Gaines
October 25, 1996 Saul Landau
April 3, 1997 Hanna Schissler
April 23, 1997 Peter Collins
April 30, 1997 David Rodiger
October 14, 1997 Monica McCormick
October 20, 1997 Claire Robertson
October 21, 1997 Sonal Shukla
November 4, 1997 Dr. A. Majeed Khan
April 16, 1998 Prof. John Dittmer
November 3, 1998 Alan Isaacman
October 20, 1999 Merry Wiesner
October 22, 1999 Albie Sachs
February 21, 2000 Michael Chamberlain
February 16, 2001 Michael Christofferson
April 26, 2001 Anthony Grafton
October 19, 2001 Robert Brentano
January 31, 2002 Barbara Welke
October 8, 2002 T.J. Stiles
January 17, 2003 Ann Blair
January 21, 2003 Kirsten Fischer
February 7, 2003 Mary Stroll
February 19, 2003 Dena Goodman
May 22, 2003 Richmond Teye Ackam (w/Art History)
October 10-11, 2003 Conference on Revolutionary Aftermaths (Lynn Hunt Keynote speaker)
October 23, 2003, Gail Bederman
February, 2004, Christine Kinealy
October 14-15, 2004, Erik Midelfort
October 20-22, 2004, Ben Vinson III
February 9-11, 2005, David Chappell
October 18, 2005, Joe Logan
October 26-28, 2005, Geoffrey Koziol
January 16-17, 2006, Paul Cohen
March 3, 2006, Sheldon Garon
April 20, 2006, Yeung Chan
May 3, 2006, Middle East Discussion talk and panel discussion Arie Zamora and Ali Abunimah, Louis Fishman, moderator
May 22-May 25, 2006, Dr. Un-Chan Chung, President, Seoul National University
September 22-23, 2006 David Ludden
February 13, 2007, Kai Bird
September 27, 2007, Mrinilini Sinha
February 12, 2008, Eric Van Young
May 8, 2008, Peter C. Perdue

For more information about recent Lefler speakers:

2007-08

Peter C. Perdue, Yale University, "Was Qing China a Colonial Empire?", 5:00 p.m. Leighton 304 (or Boliou 104 if Leighton 304 becomes too crowded), Thursday, May 8, 2008. http://www.yale.edu/history/perdue_pc.html

Eric Van Young, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego, Feb. 12, 2008, "Tales from the Dark Side: Lucas Alaman, Conservatism, and Modernization in 19th-Century Mexico. http://historyweb.ucsd.edu/VanYoung/pages/profile.html

Mrinilini Sinha, Department of History and Religious Studies at Penn State University, Sept. 27, 2007, "Civis Britannicus: The Strange Death of an Imperial Ideal." http://php.scripts.psu.edu/dept/history/faculty/sinhaMrinalini.php

2006-07
Kai Bird, Carleton '73, Pulitzer Prize winning biographer and journalist, History Department Winter Lefler Speaker. Kai Bird, a Carleton alum, Class of '73. Feb. 13, 2007, From Hiroshima to 9-11: In the Shadow of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Boliou Hall, Room 104. Additional site of interest: http://www.historyhappens.net/archival.htm

David Ludden, University of Pennsylvania, "Empire and the Inequality Predicament in South Asia." http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dludden/. Friday, September 22, 2006, 4:30 pm. Leighton 304.

Francis Wilson, South African Economist, "Halfway There: The Long Walk to Freedom & Economic Justice in South Africa. http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/datafirst_francis.html. Tuesday, October 24, 5:00 p.m., Leighton 304.

2005-06
Geoffrey Koziol, University of California, Berkeley, presented "The Goddess, the Magdalene, the Templars, and the Duping of Primetime Live." http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Koziol/

Paul Cohen, Professor Emeritus, Wellesley, "A King for All Seasons: The Goujian Story in 20th Century China, Monday, January 16, 2006, 4:30 p.m., Leighton 305. pcohen@wellesley.edu

2004-05
Erik Midelfort. Julian Bishko Professor of History, "The History of Witchcraft: Past and Future," Erik Midelfort, University of Virginia.

Ben Vinson III, Associate Professor of Latin American History, "Black Experiences in Mexico," http://web.jhu.edu/history/Faculty_Bio/vinson.html. (Johns Hopkins, 2008)

David Chappell, University of Arkansas, "Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow" http://www.uark.edu/depts/histinfo/history/chappell/chappell.html