Martha Nussbaum, (Fall 2004), Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago "Gender Justice, Human Rights, and Human Capabilities"

Michael Ondaatje, (Fall 2002), Author "A Conversation with Michael Ondaatje"

Dorothy Allison, (Fall 2001), Author "Conversations with Dorothy Allison"

Barbara Ehrenreich, (Fall 2000), Author "Down and Out in Post-Welfare America"

Angela Davis, (Spring 2000), University of California Presidential Chair, University of California at Santa Cruz "Race, Gender, and Justice"

Gerda Lerner, (Spring 1999), the Robinson-Edwards Professor Emerita of Women's History at the University of Wisconsin at Madison "Women's Studies- The Intellectual Revolution of the Twentieth Century"