Past Sankey Lectures

2025

Dr. Simon Deschamps

Senior LecturerCentre for Anglophone StudiesUniversité Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, France

“Freemasonry and Colonial Power in British India, 1730-1921”

2024

Dr. Cécile Révauger

Professor, Universite Bordeaux Montaigne

“Freemasonry, the daughter of the Enlightenment: From Religious Tolerance to Universalism”

Announcement
Video recording 

2023

Dr. Heather K. Calloway

Executive Director of University Collections, Indiana University

“Skeletons in the Lodge Hall: Hidden Collections and Fraternal Curiosities”

Announcement
Video recording
2023 Sankey Lecture to Focus on Freemason Material Culture
Public lecture offers chance to discuss Freemason treasures with experts
2023 Sankey Lecture to Offer “Masonic Antique Road Show”

2022

Dr. 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”

Video recording 

2021

Dr. 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”

Video recording 

2020

Dr. Cécile Révauger

Professor Emerita of English Studies, Bordeaux University

“Enlightenment, Gender and Race: Personal Reflections of Leading Issues in Masonic Studies”

Video recording 

2019

Dr. Chernoh Sesay Jr.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

“Democracy, Freedom and the Beginnings of Black Freemasonry”

Video recording
Black Freemasonry and its Niagara connection topic of Sankey Lecture 

 

 

2018

Dr. 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”

Video recording 

2017

Dr. Aimee E. Newell

Executive Director, Luzerne County Historical Society, Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania

“The Badge of a Freemason: New Stories from Old Aprons”

Video recording
Sankey Lecture to focus on Masonic aprons
New course looks at fraternalism throughout history  

 

2016

Prof. Andrew Prescott

Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Glasgow

“Searching for the Apple Tree: What happened in 1716?”

Video recording 

2015

Dr. 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”

Video recording 

2014

Dr. Renée Lafferty-Salhany

Associate Professor of History, Brock University

“Brothers in Arms: Freemasons and the War of 1812”

Video recording 

2013

Dr. Joy Porter

Professor of Indigenous History, Hull University

“Native American Freemasonry: From Joseph Brant to the 21st Century”

Announcement 
Video recording 

2012

Dr. Steven Bullock

Professor of History, Humanities & Arts – Worcester Polytechnic Institute

“The Heart of Masonry: Upstate New York and the New Nation, 1776-1826”

Announcement
Video recording 

2011

Prof. Jessica Hartland-Jacobs

Associate Professor of History, University of Florida

“Global Fraternalism: Canadian Freemasons, the British Empire, and the World”

Video recording 

2010

Dr. Andreas Önnerfors

Director, Centre for Research into Freemasonry, University of Sheffield

“Perceptions of Freemasonry from the 18th century to the Internet”

Video recording
New lecture series looks at Masonic Lodge and its role in society