2024 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture:
More information coming soon.
Past Dean's Distinguished Lectures:
| 2023-2024 |
Jonathan Karp, Judaic Studies and History "Everybody’s Doin’ It Now": The Peculiar Place of Jews in Early Jazz |
| 2022-2023 |
Tom McDonough, Art History |
| 2021-2022 |
Olga Shvetsova, Political Science |
| 2020-21 |
Jaimee Wriston Colbert, English and Creative Writing |
| 2019-20 | Matt Johnson, Psychology Predicting Marital Discord & Divorce |
| 2018-19 | Anne Bailey, History The Weeping Time and Divided America |
| 2017-18 | Max Pensky, Philosophy and Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention Is the Battle Against Impunity Worth Winning? |
| 2016-17 | Subal Kumbhakar, Economics Performance, Productivity and Profit: A Primer |
| 2015-16 | Tim Lowenstein, Geological Sciences Predicting future climate change from study of Earth's past |
| 2014-15 | Nancy Um, Art History A Mosque, a Tomb, and the Arabian Legacy of Coffee |
| 2013-14 | Benjamin Fordham, Political Science Protectionist Empire: Trade, Tariffs, and United States Foreign Policy, 1890–1914 |
| 2012-13 | Karin Sauer, Biological Sciences Disarming Biofilms - How to Turn a Microbe Against Itself |
| 2011-12 | Maria Mazziotti Gillan, English William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, and Paterson: Poets of the City |
| 2010-11 | Donald Quataert, History Views from Below and the Writing of Ottoman History |
| 2009-10 | Marilynn Desmond, English and Comparative Literature Transitional Feminism and the Middle Ages |
| 2008-09 | J. Koji Lum, Anthropology and Biological Sciences Human Settlement and Malaria of the Pacific |
| 2007-08 | Thomas Dublin, History The Face of Decline - Deindustrialization in Pennsylvania Anthracite Religion |
The Harpur College Dean's Distinguished Lecture was inaugurated in 1998 as an annual forum to feature the exemplary research and scholarly and creative work that is being conducted across the disciplines in Harpur College. These lectures also provide an opportunity for distinguished members of the Harpur College faculty to address an audience of their peers and students, in addition to the wider local community. The Harpur Dean's Distinguished Lecture is open to the public. The Harpur College Dean's Distinguished Lecture is co-sponsored by the ßÙßÇÂþ» Chapter of United University Professions.