UC Riverside Distinguished Humanist Achievement Lecturer
In 1991-92 The Center for Ideas and Society inaugurated an annual lecture to honor the scholarly achievements and accomplishments of a faculty member of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty. The purpose of the annual UC Riverside Humanist Achievement Lecture is to recognize, acknowledge, and celebrate a significant recent scholarly research accomplishment (or performance) by one of our colleagues, or a series of such achievements, whether this is a recent book or a series of articles, or indeed, an especially distinguished performance. This recognition is without regard to rank or length of service at the University of California, Riverside.
| Year | Awardee | Department | Paper Title |
| 2008-2009 | Georgia Warnke | Philosophy | Social Meanings and Complex Identities |
| 2007-2008 | Chris Abani | Creative Writing | Ethics and Narrative: The Human and Other |
| 2006-2007 | Cliff Trafzer | History | Turning the Power: American Indian Boarding Schools within the Native Universe |
| 2005-2006 | Roger Ransom | History | War: The Ultimate Gamble |
| 2004-2005 | Dale Kent | History | DHAL Lecture |
| 2002-2003 | Robert Essick | English | Information and Knowlege on the Internet: The Example of the William Blake Archive. |
| 2001-2002 | Keith Griffin | Economics | A Witness of Two Revolutions |
| 2000-2001 | Susan Foster | Dance | Frame Theory |
| 1999-2000 | Philip Brett | Music | Auden's Britten |
| 1998-1999 | Sterling Stuckey | History | The Artist and His Audience: The Case of Paul Robeson |
| 1997-1998 | Susan Straight | Creative Writing | Readings from her work in
progress |
| 1996-1997 | Carl Cranor | Philosophy | Regulating Toxic Substances Through a Glass Darkly: Using Science
Without Distorting the Law |
| 1995-1996 | John Fischer | Philosophy |
Free Will and Creative Self-Expression |
| 1994-1995 | Fred Strickler | Dance | Dance/Lecture Performance |
| 1993-1994 | Amelia Jones | History of Art | Postmodernism and the Seductions of Marcel Duchamp |
| 1992-1993 | Zhang Longxi | Comparative Literature | Knowledge, Skepticism, and Cross Cultural Understanding |
| 1991-1992 | Brian Copenhaver | History and Philosophy | Was There a Renaissance in Natural Philosophy? The Aristotelian Magic of Pietro Pomponazzi |