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Established in 1996 by the California Lambda chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at the University of California, Santa Barbara to commemorate a founding member and longtime secretary of the chapter. Known nationally as an expert on the life and work of Henry David Thoreau, at UCSB "Double-L Willson" was a force in the intellectual life of the campus from the day he arrived in 1947. Jovian in manner, acerbic in tone, witty and insightful, he enchanted generations of students and colleagues, and was the only member of the UCSB faculty to be honored with Distinguished Teaching Awards by both the Academic Senate (1979) and the Alumni Association (1995). His favorite quotation from his favorite author catches the spirit of this quintessential New Englander, and of the Willson Lectureship. |
"Eastward I go
only by force; but westward I go free."
Henry D. Thoreau, "Walking" (1862)
The following people have been awarded the Lawrence Willson Memorial Lectureship.
| 2008 Herbert Kroemer | Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSB "Semiconductors everywhere -- what is all the fuss about?" |
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| 2007 Anabel Ford | MesoAmerican Research Center, UCSB "Adapting to Climate Change: The Ancient Mayan Forest Garden" |
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| 2006 Evelyn Hu | California NanoSystems Institute, UCSB |
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| 2005 Luann Becker | Geological
Sciences, UCSB "When Life Almost Perished From the Earth" |
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| 2004 Joseph Polchinski | Kavli Institute for Theoretical
Physics, UCSB |
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| 2003 R. Stephan Humphreys | History, UCSB "Is the Middle East a Bottomless Pit?" |
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| 2002 Alan Liu | English,
UCSB "Lessons for the Cool" |
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| 2001 Giles Gunn | English,
UCSB "Rethinking Human Solidarity: The Difference that Difference Makes in a Globalized World" |
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| 2000 Tanya Atwater | Geological
Sciences, UCSB "Plate Tectonic Origins of the Western Northern American Landscape" |
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| 1999 Benjamin J. Cohen | Political
Science, UCSB "The Globalization of Money" |
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| 1998 Ramon Guiterrez | History,
UCSD "Beyond Black and White: New Models of Race in the United States" |
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| 1997 Richard Hecht | Religious
Studies, UCSB "The Moral Life" |
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| 1996 Leda Cosmides | Psychology,
UCSB "Evolutionary Psychology" |
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