Previous Speakers:

• 2001 - Marcus J. Borg, Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture, at Oregon State University.
• 2002 - Jonathan Z. Smith, Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities; also in the Committees on the Ancient Mediterranean World and on the History of Culture, and the College; Associate Faculty in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.
• 2003 - Amy-Jill Levine, Ph.D., E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, where she also holds the position of Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality at Vanderbilt University.
• 2004 - John Dominic Crossan, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, DePaul University, Chicago
• 2005 - Yvonne Haddad, Ph.D., Professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.
• 2006 - Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.
• 2007 - Derek H. Davis, B.A., M.A., J.D., Ph.D., Dean of the College of Humanities and Interim Dean of Graduate Programs and Research at University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Belton, Texas.
• 2008 - Bart D. Ehrman, Ph.D., Chair of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
• 2009 - Peter J. Gomes,Ph.D, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Chaplain at Harvard University.
• 2011 - Ferdinand Schlingensiepen, Executive Director of the Diakoniewerk, Kaiserswerth, Duesseldor, Germany
• 2012 - Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Ph.D., William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African-American Studies, Princeton University