2024
Dr. Cecile Revauger
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”
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 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
Prof. Joy Porter
Professor of Indigenous History, Hull University
“Native American Freemasonry: From Joseph Brant to the 21st Century”