Other recent masterclasses and lectures have included:
Arts
Anthony McGill, principal clarinet for the New York Philharmonic
John Carroll Lynch, B.F.A. 1986, accomplished film and television actor
Renée Fleming, world-renowned soprano
Gary Sinise, actor and veterans advocate
Business
Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
Seth Godin, entrepreneur and marketing guru
Tom Nealon, president of Southwest Airlines
Arthur Brooks, president of American Enterprise Institute
Robert E. Lighthizer, U.S. Trade Representative
Humanities
William Chester Jordan, medievalist
Law, Politics, and Policy
Michael Hayden, former CIA director
Cornell William Brooks, president of the NAACP
Ron Dermer, American-born Israeli ambassador
Michael Morell, former acting director of the CIA
Robert George, Princeton University’s McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence
Mitch Landrieu, B.A. 1982, former mayor of New Orleans
Martin O'Malley, B.A. 1985, former governor of Maryland
Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., anti-death penalty activist and author of Dead Man Walking
Marco Rubio, Florida senator
Samuel Alito, associate justice, Supreme Court
Media
Peggy Noonan, Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal columnist
Chuck Todd, host of “Meet the Press”
Science
John Butler, forensic DNA expert
Louis J. Ignarro, nobel prize winning pharmacologist.
Robert Gallo, biologist and virologist
Theology and Philosophy
Cardinal Sean O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap., M.A. 1972, archbishop of Boston
Charles Taylor, noted philosopher
Michael Walzer, political theorist
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, S.T.L. 1987, S.T.D. 1991, archbishop of Manila
Cardinal Berhaneyesus Souraphiel, the metropolitan archbishop of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia