This lectureship was endowed with an anonymous gift to honor the anthropological careers of George and Mary Foster, both of whom received their Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1990, George Foster received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Southern Methodist University.
Spring 2012
What is New About Immigration in the United States?
Dr. Nancy Foner
Distinguised Professor of Sociology
Sociology Department
Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Spring 2011
The Inevitability of Infidelity: Love, Marriage and HIV
Dr. Jennifer S. Hirsch
Associate Professor and Deputy Chair for Doctoral Studies
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
Spring 2010
Symbolism and Ritual in Mexican Politics
Dr. Larissa Lomnitz
Investigadora Emerita
Department of Anthropology
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City
Spring 2009
What Darwin Found Convincing: A New Look at his Human and Non-Human Data
Dr. William Durham
Bing Professor in Human Biology
Department of Anthropology
Stanford University
Spring 2008
Premodern Kinship in Postmodern Guise? The Chinese Lineage Under Colonialism, Communism, and Capitalism
Dr. James L. Watson
Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
Harvard University
Spring 2007
Excusing the Haves and Blaming the Have-Nots in Jared Diamond's Histories
Dr. Deborah Gewertz
G. Henry Whitcomb Proefssor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology-Sociology
Amherst College
Spring 2006
Aftermath: Calculating the Social Costs of Disasters and Reconstruction
Dr. Anthony Oliver-Smith
Professor of Anthropology
University of Florida
Spring 2005
When the Bough Breaks: Parents Who Kill Their Children
Dr. Jill Korbin
Professor of Anthropology, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences
Case Western Reserve University
Spring 2004
The Vision of the Limited Good and the Specter of the Unlimited Good
Dr. June Nash
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emerita
City College and Graduate Center, CUNY
Spring 2003
Cultural Beliefs and Cancer Risks Factors: A Study of the Perceptions of Hispanic and Anglo Women and Physicians
Dr. Leo Chavez
Director of Chicano/Latino Studies
University of California, Irvine
Spring 2002
The Cuban Health Experiment at the 21st Century
Dr. Linda M. Whiteford
Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology
University of South Florida
Spring 2001
Democratization and Culture Change in Post-Franco Spain
Dr. David D. Gilmore
Department of Anthropology
SUNY - Stony Brook
Spring 2000
Staying Sober in Mexico City
Dr. Stanley Brandes
Department of Anthropology
University of California at Berkeley