Fall Football Lectures Archive

The Fall Football Lecture Series takes place on the mornings of Ivy League home football games. Faculty members from a variety of departments are asked to discuss their current research, thereby giving alumni a taste of intellectual life on campus prior to attending tailgates and cheering on the Tigers on the gridiron.

As part of our effort to make alumni education programming accessible to the widest possible alumni audience, we are videotaping these lectures and making them available online. Lectures that make use of copyrighted material are limited to Princeton University computers or are protected by TigerNet UserID and password to abide by Fair Use regulations.

Fall Football Lectures 2008


November 22, 2008
“Gehry at Princeton: New Space for New Learning”
Ronald McCoy *80, University Architect

Fall Football Lectures 2007

	The Challenge of Adding to the Legacy of Princeton Basketball Sydney Johnson ’97, Head Coach, Men’s Basketball 56K 350K 56K 350K
	Asian America: Race and Fantasy Anne A. Cheng '85, English 56K 350K 56K 350K
	Economic Inequality and American Democracy Larry Bartels, Woodrow Wilson School 56K 350K 56K 350K

Fall Football Lectures 2006

	Presidents, Public Opinion, and Policy Brandice Canes-Wrone '93, Woodrow Wilson School 56K 350K 56K 350K
	Is the Universe Shaped Like a Football? Measuring the Geometry and Topology of Space   David Spergel '82, Astrophysics 56K 350K 56K 350K

	The Strange Science of Antarctic Lakes Bess Ward, William J. Sinclair Professor of Geosciences 56K 350K 56K 350K
	A Morning's Odyssey with Robert Fagles Robert Fagles, Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus 56K 350K 56K 350K
	Networks and Globalization Miguel Centeno, Professor of Sociology 56K 350K 56K 350K

Fall Football Lectures 2004

	Dark Satanic Fields: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and United States Industrialization Jennifer Greeson, Assistant Professor of English 56K 350K 56K 350K
	Engineering, Culture and the Urban Environment: Unique Opportunities for Princeton David P. Billington '50, Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor of Engineering 56K 350K 56K 350K
	Mapping a Sea of Fire: Moby Dick and the History of Science D. Graham Burnett '93, Associate Professor of History 56K 350K 56K 350K
	Putting Woodpeckers in the Bank ... and Other Strange, New Approaches to Protecting Endangered Species on Private Property David Wilcove *85, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School 56K 350K 56K 350K