Anschutz Lectures

Lectures by leading public scholars, Pulitzer, Emmy, Peabody and Academy Award winners

Anschutz Distinguished Fellows have spoken on the art of narrative nonfiction, presidential speechwriting, social media poetics, experimental theater, and much more.

The Anschutz Distinguished Fellowship brings to Princeton for one semester a leading scholar or practitioner in American arts, letters, politics, or commerce.

Endowed in 1997 through the generosity of Philip and Nancy Anschutz and their daughters Sarah Anschutz Hunt ’93 and Elizabeth Anschutz ’96

All Anschutz Distinguished Fellows present a public lecture throughout their semester at Princeton.

Fall 2024 Anschutz Lecture

Spring 2024 Anschutz Lecture

Fall 2023 Anschutz Lecture

Watch and Read About Recent Lectures

Susana Morris at the podium in East Pyne Hall Room 010; audience, cover of 1970s edition of 'Kindred' by Octavia Butler
Reflection on Susana Morris’ Lecture on Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred’
Tiffany King
Emergent ecologies: in the tense of Black and Indigenous ‘Future-Now’

Screenings and Conversations : Explore the Archive

Anschutz fellows have led discussions including on “The Photographer as Historian/The Historian as Photographer” and “Reviving Rivers, Reinventing Cities.”
Man harvesting asparagus at dawn

Richard Steven Street, Asparagus harvester at dawn, San Joaquin Valley, CA, 1996. Courtesy of Streetshots