Distinguished Annual Lectures
Each year the Department hosts distinguished lecturers from around the world through its distinguished lecture series. These events are free and open to the public.
The O. Meredith Wilson Lecture
The Wilson Lecture was created at the University of Utah in 1976 under the auspices of the Tanner Lecture Trust at the request of Obert C. Tanner. Its namesake, O. Meredith Wilson, was a professor of history at the University of Utah and the University of Chicago before going on to serve as President of the University of Oregon, the University of Minnesota, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. The Wilson Lecture is the Department of History's prominent annual lecture series. Lecturers are selected each year by committee and cover a variety of historical disciplines.
The David E. Miller Lecture
David E. Miller is a prominent Utah historian and an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Utah. In 1947 he received his Ph.D. from theUniversity of Southern California and thereafter returned to his native Utah. His career at the U spanned three decades where he was affectionately referred to as the "dean of Utah historians." He was a prodigious writer and as a result Professor Miller is well published. He is most recognized for his work on Mormon and Western migration. David Miller died on August 21, 1978.
The Vern & Bonnie Bullough Lecture in the History of Gender & Sexuality
The Vern and Bonnie Bullough Lecture in the History of Gender and Sexuality was created by Vern L. Bullough, who passed away on June 21, 2006, in California. Dr. Bullough wrote extensively on sexuality and medicine; his first wife, Bonnie Bullough, worked with him on these subjects as well. Dr. Bullough was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1928. He earned an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Utah in 1951, and he received his doctorate in the history of medicine and science from the University of Chicago. Dr. Bullough taught at California State and SUNY Buffalo, where he served as Dean. He is survived by his wife, Gwen W. Brewer and his children. The Bullough Lecture takes place every 2 years.
Past Vern & Bonnie Bullough Lecturers in the History of Gender and Sexuality
The O. Meredith Wilson Lecture
William McNeill
(1977)
David Brion Davis
(1978)
Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie
(1979)
Eric Hobsbawm
(1980)
Peter Gay
(1982)
Kenneth Stampp
(1983)
Peter Brown
(1984)
Carl Degler
(1985)
Chester Starr
(1986)
G.R. Elton
(1987)
Jonathan Spence
(1988)
Olwen Hufton
(1989)
Hayden White
(1990)
Aleksander Gieyzstor
(1991)
Gerda Lerner
(1992)
Natalie Zemon Davis
(1993), University of Toronto
Joan Wallach Scott
(1994), Institute for Advcanced Study
Roger Chartier
(1995), Collège de France
Gary B. Nash
(1996), UCLA
Carlo Ginzburg
(1997), UCLA
David Keightley
(1999), UCLA Berkley
Bernard Bailyn
(2000), Harvard University
Linda Kerber
(2001), University of Iowa
Friedrich Katz
(2003), University of Chicago
John Brewer
(2004), California Technical Institute
Michael Adas
(2005), Rutgers University
Vicki Ruiz
(2006), University of California Irvine
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
(2007), Harvard University
Anthony Grafton
(2008), Princeton University
Kenneth Pomeranz
(2009), University of Chicago
Mark Mazower
(2010), Columbia University
John Thornton
(2011), Boston University
Eric Foner
(2012), Columbia University
Ann Blair
(2013), Harvard University
James C. Scott
(2014), Yale University
Stuart Schwartz
(2015), Yale University
Gary Y. Okihiro
(2016), Harvard University
Marcy Norton
(2017), George Washington University
Judith Weisenfeld
(2018), Princeton University
Jordanna Bailkin
(2019), University of Washington
Julia Adeney Thomas
(2022), University of Notre Dame
Daniel J. Sargent
(2023), University of California - Berkeley
Gabrielle Hecht
(2024), Stanford University
The David E. Miller Lecture
Anne Hyde (2014)
Department of History, University of Oklahoma
Connie Chiang (2024)
Department of History and Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College
The Vern & Bonnie Bullough Lecturers in the History of Gender and Sexuality
Thomas W. Laqueur (2005)
Department of History, UC Berkeley
"The Ethics of Solitary Sex: The History of a Problem From the Enlightenment to the Present"
Mrinalini Sinha (2006)
Department of History, English & Women’s Studies, University of Michigan
"Facts and Frames: Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Oversexed Hindu"
George Chauncey (2007)
Department of History, Columbia University
"Why ‘Come Out of the Closet’? Secrecy, Authenticity, and the Shifting Boundaries of the Public and Private Self in the 1950s and 60s"
Judith Walkowitz (2009)
Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
"The Windmill Theatre: Erotic Display, Middlebrow Culture, and the Spirit of the Blitz"
Ann Laura Stoler (2011)
Department of Anthropology & History,The New School for Social Research
"Beyond Sex: Bodily Exposures in the Colonial and Postcolonial Present"
Alice Dreger (2012)
Independent Scholar
"Where Hermaphrodites Came from, and Where They Went"
Peter Boag (2014)
Department of History, Washington State University
"Gender, Sexuality, and the Decolonization of the Mythic American West"
Laura Briggs (2018)
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Where Did Trump Come From? Reproductive Politics, Whiteness, and Neoliberalism"
Mark Hunter (2023)
Department of Human Geography, University of Toronto
"Gender, Race and Drugs in South Africa: From Beer to Heroin to Xanax."
