McCabe Lecture Series
Elizabeth Drake, director of sustainability at Swarthmore College, delivers the 2023 McCabe Lecture
The Thomas B. McCabe Lecture is an annual event that brings individuals with distinguished careers in varied fields to speak on campus.
| Year | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Elizabeth Drake, director of sustainability at Swarthmore College (video) |
| 2022 | Jenny Rickard ’86, expanding college access as President & Chief Executive Officer of Common App (video) |
| 2021 | Michael Greenstone ’91, economist focused on uncovering the benefits and costs of environmental quality (video) |
| 2020 | Brian Wong '96, entrepreneur and the first American to join Alibaba Group (video) |
| 2019 | Mary Schmidt Campbell ’69, H’09, president of Spelman College (video) |
| 2018 | Claudia Kawas '74, a geriatric neurologist and researcher in the areas of aging and dementia (video) |
| 2017 | Paul Young '92, an Emmy-Award-winning producer (video) |
| 2016 | Patrick Awuah '89, founder and president of Ashesi University (video) |
| 2015 | Thom Collins Jr. '88, director of The Barnes Foundation (video) |
| 2014 | Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot ’66, a MacArthur prize-winning sociologist and distinguished professor of education at Harvard University (video) |
| 2013 | Dawn Porter '88, director and producer (video) |
| 2012 | Christopher Edley Jr. '73, dean of UC-Berkeley Boalt School of Law (video) |
| 2011 | Anne Schuchat '80, assistant surgeon general of the United States Public Health Service and director for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Center for Disease Control (video) |
| 2010 | Cindi Leive '88, Editor-In-Chief of Glamour Magazine (video) |
| 2009 | Victor Navasky '54, publisher emeritus of The Nation (video) |
| 2008 | David L. Cohen '77, executive vice president of the Comcast Corporation (video) |
| 2007 | Dr. John C. Mather ’68, astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Nobel Prize laureate (video) |
| 2006 | Alberto J. Mora '74, former general counsel of the Department of the Navy and current vice president and general counsel for the International Department of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. |
| 2005 | Kurt A. Eichenwald '83, journalist and writer about white collar crime |
| 2004 | Richard M. Harley '72, author |
| 2003 | Clyde Prestowitz '63, president of the Economic Strategy Institute (ESI) in Washington D.C. |
| 2002 | Michael S. Dukakis '55, former governor of Mass. and Democratic Party presidential candidate in 1988 |
| 1997 | Paul Verkuil, former dean of the Tulane Law School and special master in the case New Jersey v. New York over the sovereignty of Ellis Island |
| 1997 | Juan A. Williams, Washington Post writer and political analyst |
| 1995 | Galina Starovoitova, member of USSR and Russian Federation legislatures |
| 1994 | Michael D. McCurry, spokesman for the U.S. State Department |
| 1992 | Clyde Prestowitz '63, president of the Economic Strategy Institute (ESI) in Washington D.C. |
| 1990 | Archibald Cox, professor of law at Harvard, head of Common Cause, and former director of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force |
| 1988 | Frank A. Oski '54, physician and chief pediatrician at Children’s Medical and Surgical Center of Johns Hopkins University |
| 1987 | Robert McNamara, former Secretary of Defense |
| 1986 | Hon. William W. Scranton '67, former governor of Pennsylvania |
