2025
Dr. Simon Deschamps
Senior Lecturer, Centre for Anglophone Studies, Université 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”
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”
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”
2020
Dr. Cécile Révauger
Professor Emerita of English Studies, Bordeaux University
“Enlightenment, Gender and Race: Personal Reflections of Leading Issues in Masonic Studies”
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”
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?”
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”
2014
Dr. Renée Lafferty-Salhany
Associate Professor of History, Brock University
“Brothers in Arms: Freemasons and the War of 1812”
2013
Dr. Joy Porter
Professor of Indigenous History, Hull University
“Native American Freemasonry: From Joseph Brant to the 21st Century”
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”
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”
Video recording
New lecture series looks at Masonic Lodge and its role in society
