For detailed information of our past Sankey Lecture Series events, including videos of the lectures, please visit: sankeylectures.ca
2023: Dr. Heather K. Calloway
Executive Director of University Collections, Indiana University
“Skeletons in the Lodge Hall: Hidden Collections and Fraternal Curiosities”
2022: Prof. J. Scott Kenney
Associate Professor of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
“A Tale of Two Lodges: Weberian Ideal Types and an Analytical Model of Canadian Masonic Involvement in the 21st Century”
2021: Prof. Margaret C. Jacob
Professor of History, University of California at Los Angeles
“Enroute to the History of Freemasonry: Frances Yates, Northern Ireland, John Toland and the Knights of Jubilation”
2020: Prof. Cécile Révauger
Professor Emerita of English Studies, Bordeaux University
“Enlightenment, Gender and Race: Personal Reflections of Leading Issues in Masonic Studies”
2019: Prof. Chernoh Sesay Jr.
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
“Democracy, Freedom and the Beginnings of Black Freemasonry”
2018: Prof. William D. Moore
Associate Professor of American Material Culture, Department of the History of Art & Architecture, Boston University
“Catechism, Spectacle, Burlesque: American Fraternal Ritual Performance, 1733-1933”
2017: Dr. Aimee E. Newell
Executive Director, Luzerne County Historical Society, Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania
“The Badge of a Freemason: New Stories from Old Aprons”
2016: Prof. Andrew Prescott
Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Glasgow
“Searching for the Apple Tree: What happened in 1716?”
2015: Prof. Susan Mitchell Sommers
Professor of History, Saint Vincent College, Pennsylvania
“The Masonic Empire of Thomas Dunckerley: England to Quebec and the Broad Oceans In-between”
2014: Prof. Renée Lafferty-Salhany
Associate Professor of History, Brock University
“Brothers in Arms: Freemasons and the War of 1812”
2013: Prof. Joy Porter
Professor of Indigenous History, Hull University
“Native American Freemasonry: From Joseph Brant to the 21st Century”
2012: Prof. Steven Bullock
Professor of History, Humanities & Arts – Worcester Polytechnic InstituteWorcester Polytechnic Institute
“The Heart of Masonry: Upstate New York and the New Nation, 1776-1826”
2011: Prof. Jessica Hartland-Jacobs
Associate Professor of History, University of Florida
“Global Fraternalism: Canadian Freemasons, the British Empire, and the World”
2010: Dr. Andreas Önnerfors
Director, Centre for Research into Freemasonry, University of Sheffield
“Perceptions of Freemasonry from the 18th century to the Internet”
