Year

Name

Department

Lecturer Title

2012-13

Rita Cameron-Wedding

Professor of Women's Studies and Ethnic Studies

“A Challenge to Colorblindness: Racial Inequality in the 21st Century.”

2011-12

Thomas Krabacher

Professor of Geography

“The Public University as Public Good.”

2010-11

Jeffrey Lustig

Professor of Government

"The University Besieged: Local Harms and Larger Costs"

2009-10

Roberto Pomo

Professor of Theatre and Film Studies

"In the Eye of the Storm: Preparing for California's Higher Education Restructuring Paradigms"

2008-09

Jackie Donath

Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies

"Aphorisms for the Academy"

2007-08

Cristy Jensen

Professor of Public Policy and Administration

"Faculty As Academic Leaders: Our Students Are Counting on Us (Whether They Know It or Not)"

2006-07

William Dorman

Professor of Journalism and Government

"A Teaching Life: Values Then and Now"

2005-06

Alexandre Kimenyi

Professor of Linguistics, African Languages and Ethnic Studies

"The Cliché Paradox"

2004-05

Craig Kelley

Professor of Marketing

"Structuring Business Education to Meet the Needs of Business Practitioners"

2003-04

Valerie Wheeler

Professor of Anthropology

"The Art of Farming: Ethnography Enlightened by Photography"

2002-03

Dan Decious

Professor of Chemistry

"Making Use of the CSUS ‘Web’: A Small Town Retention Model"

2001-02

John Henry

Professor of Economics

"Property and the Limits to Democracy"

2000-01

Joseph Morrow

Professor of Psychology and Behavior Analysis

"Applied Behavior Analysis and the Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder"

1999-00

Scott Farrand

Professor of Mathematics

"Opportunities and Responsibilities for the Professoriate in K-12 Education"

1998-99

Otis Scott

Professor of Ethnic Studies and Government

"Duboisian Insight: Problematics of the Color Line Then and Now"

1997-98

Erwin Kelly

Professor of Economics Emeritus

"Taking Stock: Fifty Down, Fifty to Go--CSUS, the First Hundred Years"

1996-97

Juanita C. Barrena

Professor of Biological Sciences

"The Promise of the CSU--Dead or Alive?"

1995-96

William A. Dorman

Professor of Journalism

"Mass Media and the American Conversation: Money, Culture and the Marketplace of Ideas"

1994-95

John W. Connor

Professor of Anthropology

"The Cultural, Ecological Antecedents of Chinese and Japanese Modernization Endeavors in the Nineteenth Century"

1993-94

John F. Brackmann, Jr.

Professor of Psychology Emeritus

"Never Mind"

1992-93

David Covin

Professor of Government and Ethnic Studies

"The African Race: The Politics of an Idea in the United States"

1991-92

Betty Ch'maj

Professor of Humanities

"We Who Believe in Freedom…Multicultural America and the PC Debate"

1990-91

Perry D. Weddle

Professor of Philosophy

"A Case for Historical Thinking"

1989-90

Robert Metcalf

Professor of Biological Sciences

"Cooking with the Sun: A CSUS Contribution to the Global Environment"

1988-89

Robert L. Curry, Jr.

Professor of Economics

"Prospects for Africa's Development"

1987-88

Leland L. Nichols

Professor of Communication Studies

"Democracy and the Manipulation of Consent--Three Decades Later"

1986-87

Angus Wright

Professor of Environmental Studies

"Poisoned Development: Pesticides and Social Change in Mexico and Central America"

1985-86

Albert Cook

Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

"Attacking Disability Byte by Byte"

1972-73 through 1984-85 awards discontinued

1970-71

Martin Rogers

Professor of Psychology

"The Evolution of Community"

1969-70

Rollo Darby

Professor of Biological Sciences

"Is Concern for our Environment to be our Final Fad?"

1968-69

Marc Tool

Professor of Economics

"A View of Relevance"

1967-68

no award made

1966-67

Robert Good

Professor of Psychology

"Drop-outs, Push-outs, and Cop-outs--Students and Schools"

1965-66

Victor Comerchero

Professor of English

"The Underground Man"

1964-65

George Tokmakoff

Professor of History

"The Soviet Dilemma in the Sixties"

1963-64

Gerard Larson

Professor of Theatre Arts

"The Comic Condition"

1962-63

Thomas Billings

Professor of Education

"The Nerve of Failure"

1961-62

Norman Rudy

Professor of Business Administration

"The Student and the Reform of the Colleges"

1960-61

John Linnell

Professor of Philosophy

"Facts and Values (A Preliminary and Tentative Examination of Some of the Fundamental Metaphysical and Epistemological Considerations Involved in Axiological Judgments with Special Application to Some Recent Judicial Decisions on Leasing, Letting, and Licensing)"

1959-60

Robert Else

Professor of Art

"Art and an American Ideal"

1958-59

John C. Livingston

Professor of Government

"Democracy and the Manipulation of Consent"