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Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture Series

Leonard Hastings Schoff (1884-1978) was a textile manufacturer, economist, and educator. In 1948, he was appointed “life membership” as Associate Member of The University Seminar on Rural Life (1945-1968). In 1970, Leonard Hastings and Suzanne Levick Schoff made a generous bequest to aid in the publication of manuscripts in the fields of economics, sociology, psychology, penology, or the behavioral sciences, which began The Leonard Hastings Schoff and Suzanne Levick Schoff Memorial Fund. This fund has been used to support hundreds of authors whose scholarly work was presented and discussed at a University Seminar prior to publication. The Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture Series was established in collaboration with Columbia University Press in 1993. With few exceptions, each fall, a speaker is invited to give a series of three consecutive lectures. These lectures become the manuscript for a book then published by Columbia University Press as part of the Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures series.

Past Schoff Lecturers