Marjorie Fortunoff Mayrock Lecture Series

Founded in 1979 by Elliot Mayrock (History, '73) and renamed in 1984 in honor of his mother, the Marjorie Fortunoff Mayrock Lecture Series brings outstanding scholars in history to Ithaca College, and provides our students, faculty and community the opportunity to consider a variety of historical issues through public lectures and class visits.

Recent Mayrock Lectures include:

2009-2010

Judy Richardson, Documentary Filmmaker, "From Eyes on the Prize to The Orangeburg Massacre: Interpreting the Civil Rights Movement in Film." (7 PM, April 8, 2010)

Paul Gootenberg, SUNY-Stony Brook, “The Pre-Colombian Origins of Drug Trafficking in the Americas: Illicit Cocaine, 1945–1973”

2008-2009

Debra Diamond, Associate Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Penny M. von Eschen, University of Michigan. Duke Ellington Plays Baghdad: Rethinking Power after 1945

2007-2008

Douglas Egerton, LeMoyne College.  History without Border: Thinking about the Atlantic World

Beth Bailey, Temple University.  Today’s Army: Is It Your Bag? Advertising, Recruiting, and the All-Volunteer Force in the Early 1970s

2006-2007

Jeff Roche, College of Wooster.  Creating Conservatism: Right-Wing Grassroots Politics during the Cold War

Lynne Viola, University of Toronto. The Unknown Gulag: Stalin's Special Settlements

2005-2006:

Deborah Buffton, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. Peace, War and Memory

2004-2005

Alexis Dudden, University of Connecticut. A Future-Facing Past: Japan’s Apologetic Technique

Isaac Kramnick, Cornell University.  God, the Constitution, and the Pledge of Allegiance

2002-2003

Edward Ayers, University of Virginia, Digital History and the American Civil War

2001-2002

Peter Harrington, Brown University. War, Death and Art

1998-1999

Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania.  Race and Rust: Detroit and the Fate of the American City

1997-1998

Walter LeFeber, Cornell University.  Theodore Roosevelt's Ghost and America in the 1990s