Previous Distinguished Lecturers
- 2024 Dr. Johnnetta Cole
- 2022 Dr. Ana Celia Zentella
- 2021 Faye Harrison
- 2018 Emily Martin
- 2016 Frans de Waal
- 2014 Bruno Latour
- 2012 Rayna Rapp
- 2010 Jeremy Sabloff
- 2008 Johnetta Cole
- 2006 Sydel Silverman
- 2004 Robert Edgerton
- 2002 Fredrik Barth
- 2000 Laura Nader
- 1998 Emoke Szathmary
- 1997 Yolanda T Moses
- 1996 Sidney W Mintz
- 1994 Patty Jo Watson
- 1992 J. Desmond Clark
- 1991 Marvin Harris
- 1990 Floyd G Lounsbury
- 1989 Eric R Wolf
- 1988 Mary T Douglas
- 1987 Albert C Spaulding
- 1986 David F Aberle
- 1985 David R Pilbeam
- 1984 Charles F Hockett
- 1983 Clifford Geertz
- 1982 Marshall Sahlins
- 1981 Kent Flannery
- 1980 Raymond Firth
- 1979 Eliot D Chapple
- 1978 Milton Singer
- 1977 F. Clark Howell
- 1976 Robert McC. Adams
- 1975 Elizabeth Colson
- 1974 Miguel Leon-Portilla
- 1973 John W M Whiting
- 1972 George Condominas
- 1971 Robert Braidwood
- 1970 Joseph Greenberg