Previous Holders of the Mary Flexner Lectureship
| Academic Year | Lecturer | Subject of Lectures | Title of Book |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Mindy Fullilove | The Psychology of Place and the Collective Trauma of Displacement | |
| 2021-2022 | Fred Moten | Hesitant Sociology: Blackness and Poetry | |
| 2017 | Bonnie Honig | Theaters of Refusal | A Feminist Theory of Refusal |
| 2011 | Judith Butler | Bodies in Alliance | Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly |
| 2009 | Sanjay Subrahmanyam | Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness in Early Modern Eurasia | Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia |
| 2007 | Rashid Khalidi | The United States, the Middle East, and the Cold War | Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East |
| 2005-06 | K. Anthony Appiah | The End of Ethics? | Experiments in Ethics |
| 1999-2000 | Irene Winter | Visual Affect: Aesthetics and the Art of the Ancient Near East | |
| 1992 | Oswyn Murray | The Greek Symposium | |
| 1990 | Harold Bloom | Shakespeare and Originality | Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human |
| 1987-1988 | Natalie Zemon Davis | The Gift in Sixteenth Century France | The Gift in Sixteenth Century France |
| 1984-1985 | Svetlana Alpers | The Master's Touch: Rembrandt In (and Out) of Dutch Art | Rembrandt's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market |
| 1982-1983 | Gregory Nagy | Pindar's Homer and the Traditions of Greek Lyric Poetry | Pindar's Homer |
| 1981 | E. Talbot Donaldson | The Relevance of Chaucer to Shakespeare: Traffic in Stolen Goods | The Swan at the Well: Shakespeare Reading Chaucer |
| 1978-1979 | Erika Simon | Festivals of the Athenians | Festivals of Attica |
| 1977-78 | Stephen Toulmin | Living a Life | |
| 1977-78 | Phyllis Lehmann | Cyriacus of Ancona's Egyptian Visit and its Reflection in Paintings by Gentile Bellini and Hieronymus Bosch. | Cyriacus of Ancona 's Egyptian Visit and its Reflections in Gentile Bellini and Hieronymus Bosch |
| 1973-1974 | Arnoldo Momigliano | Political Allegiance in the Ancient World | Alien Wisdom: the Limits of Hellenization |
| 1972-1973 | C. R. Boxer | Women in Iberian Expansion Overseas, 1415-1815 | Mary and Misogyny: Women in Iberian Expansion Overseas, 1415-1815, some facts, fancies, and personalities |
| 1967-1968 | Wolfgang Stechow | The Creative Copy in Visual Arts, Music, Literature | |
| 1966-1967 | Kurt Bittel | Hattusha: The Capital of the Hittites | Hattusha: The Capital of the Hittites |
| 1965-1966 | Frank Kermode | The Long Perspective, The Theory of Fiction | The Sense of an Ending |
| 1960-1961 | Douglas Cooper | Cubism | |
| 1959-1960 | Paul Henry Lang | Music and Christian Worship | |
| 1955-1956 | Jean Seznec | Diderot and Antiquity | Essais sur Diderot et l'Antiquité |
| 1953-1954 | Denys Page | The Homeric Odyssey | The Homeric Odyssey |
| 1951-1952 | Isaiah Berlin | The Rise of Modern Political Ideas in the Romantic Age (1700-1830) | |
| 1946-1947 | Arnold Toynbee | Encounters between Civilizations | Incorporated in his Study of History |
| 1945-1946 | Alfred H. Barr, Jr. | Dogma and Practice in Modern Art | |
| 1943-1944 | Henri Peyre | The Contemporary Novel in France | The Contemporary French Novel |
| 1942-1943 | Erich Frank | Philosophy of Religion | Philosophical Understanding and Religious Truth |
| 1941-1942 | Gisela Richter | Art of Archaic Greece against its Historical Background | Archaic Greek Art Against its Historical Background: A Survey |
| 1939-1940 | Arturo Torres-Rioseco | The Literature of Spanish America | |
| 1938 | Edwin F. Gay | Economic History of England during the Renaissance | |
| 1937-1938 | Erwin Panofsky | Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance | Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance |
| 1935-1936 | I. A. Richards | The Interpretation of Prose | The Philosophy of Rhetoric |
| 1932-1933 | Ralph Vaughan Williams | Nationalism in Music | National Music |
| 1931-1932 | Kirsopp Lake | The Apostle Paul: The Text of the New Testament | Paul, His Heritage and Legacy |
| 1930-1931 | Paul Hazard | La Poésie française entre 1815 et 1914 | Quatre études: Baudelaire. Romantiques. Sur un cycle poétique. L'homme de sentiment |
| 1929-1930 | Alfred North Whitehead | The History of Ideas | Adventures of Ideas, Chapters 1,2,3,7, & 8 |
| 1928-1929 | James H. Breasted | The New Crusade | Lectures embodied in The Dawn of Conscience |