The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Visiting Professorship was created to bring distinguished scholars, teachers, and practitioners to Goucher's campus to advance local and national dialogues on pressing issues of our time. The theme of the Meyerhoff lecture series through 2011 was environmental science, and now is current affairs and politics.

Speakers

2018-2019

DeRay Mckesson, Civil Rights Activist; Host of “Pod Save The People”; and Author of “On the Other Side of Freedom” (Spring 2019)

2017-2018

Charles M. Blow, visual op-ed columnist, The New York Times, CNN contributor and NY Times best-selling author (Fall 2017)

2016-2017

Garrison Keillor, writer and humorist best known for his popular live radio variety show, A Prairie Home Companion (Spring 2017)
Anna Deavere Smith, Playwright, actor, and professor (Spring 2017)

2014-2015

Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of The Beautiful Struggle, senior editor and essayist for The Atlantic (Spring 2015)
Freeman Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Spring 2015)
Colin L. Powell, retired general and former U.S. secretary of state (Spring 2015)

2013-2014

Stanley McChrystal, retired General and former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan (Spring 2014)
Frank Bruni, New York Times op-ed columnist (Fall 2013)

2012-2013

Nicholas D. Kristof, journalist, author, New York Times op-ed columnist, and Pulitzer Prize-winner (Spring 2013)
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer, historian, and political commentator (Fall 2012)

2011-2012

David Brooks, author and New York Times columnist (Spring 2012)
Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey (Fall 2011)

2010-2011

Jean-Michel and Celine Cousteau (Spring 2011)
Jane Goodall, British primatologist, ethnologist, anthropologist, and U.N. Messenger of Peace (Fall 2010)

2009-2010

Michael Pollan, author, journalist, activist, and well-known critic of the global industrial food complex (Spring 2010)
Robert Kennedy, environmental activist and attorney (Fall 2009)

2008-2009

Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (Spring 2009)
Tom Friedman, three time Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist and author (Fall 2008)

If you have any questions about The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Visiting Professorship Series or speaker suggestions, please contact the President's Office.