History

Alfred E. Golz Lecture Fund was established by Ronald A. Golz '56 in 1970 in memory of his father. This fund is used to support a lecture by an eminent historian or humanitarian to be scheduled close to the November 21 birthday of Alfred E. Golz. Past Golz lecturers have included Louis Perez, Peter Duus, Adam Hochschild, Peter Hayes, Lizabeth Cohen, Natalie Zemon Davis, James McPherson, Jonathan Spence, Ira Berlin, and David Brion Davis.

Past Alfred E. Golz Memorial Lecturers

• Naomi Orestes, University of California, San Diego, 2011
• Gary Y. Okihiro, Columbia University, 2010
• Lou Perez, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009
• Peter Duus, Stanford, 2009 (lecture for 2008-2009 academic year)
• Adam Hochschild, 2007 (A webcast of the 2007 Alfred E. Golz Lecture is available on iTunes)
• Peter Hayes '68, Northwestern University, 2006 (A webcast of the 2006 Alfred E. Golz Lecture is available through Hawthorne-Longfellow Library's Special Collections Archive)  
• Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University, 2005
• Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia, 2004
• Friedrich Katz, University of Chicago, 2003
• Barbara Metcalf, University of California, Davis 2002
• Weiming Tu , Harvard University, 2001
• Martin Schaffner, University of Basel, 2000
• Ira Berlin, University of Maryland, 1999
• Michael Blakey, Howard University, spring 1998
• Jonathan Spence, Yale University, fall 1998
• William B. Taylor, University of California, Berkeley, 1997
• David Keightley, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
• Hans Guggisberg, University of Basel, 1995
• Abiola Irele, Harvard University, 1994
• James McPherson, Princeton University 1993
• Nancy Farriss, University of Pennsylvania 1992
• Pierre Sauvage, Los Angeles, 1991
• Frederic Wakeman, University of California, Berkeley, fall 1990
• Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University, spring 1990
• David Brion Davis, Yale University, 1989