A love of learning and a commitment to thoughtful inquiry guided our start, providing a foundation for grappling with the questions that will define the years ahead. Few are more pressing or consequential than those surrounding artificial intelligence (AI).
Behind every consequential policy decision is someone capable of turning ideas into action. For Phi Beta Kappa members on Capitol Hill, that work is grounded in an arts and sciences education that equips them to ask better questions, weigh competing perspectives, and navigate complex challenges.
Tomás R. Jiménez, Joan B. Ford Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and founding director of Stanford’s Institute for Advancing Just Societies, is one of 13 preeminent scholars in the arts and sciences selected to serve as a ΦBK Visiting Scholar during the 2026–2027 academic year.
Felipe De Brigard of Duke University and Sarah Robins (ΦBK, Hendrix College) of Purdue University have been named recipients of the 2026 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution. Their proposed symposium topic, “The Distinctiveness of Memory,” centers on a fundamental question at the intersection of philosophy and […]
Allison Grenda, a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, received the 2026 Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship; Abby H. Shepherd, a Ph.D. candidate in Romance Studies at Duke University, is the 2026 recipient of the Walter J. Jensen Fellowship.
This December, The Phi Beta Kappa Society will mark 250 years since five students at the College of William & Mary founded a society built on the conviction: love of learning is the guide of life.
A planned gift is a way to carry that legacy forward, ensuring that future generations have access to the same spirit of inquiry, discovery, and freedom of thought.
Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and of Black Studies at Yale University, visited Bowdoin College as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program.
The University of San Diego’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter inducted Noelle Norton and Nicholas Santilli as honorary members on April 27 in a campus ceremony held on the eve of the Society’s first regional program in its 250th celebration.
This year’s winner is America, América: A New History of the New World (Penguin Press, 2025), by historian Greg Grandin (ΦBK, Brooklyn College).
This spring, the Society named 20 students as its Class of 2026 Key into Public Service Scholars.
Why has confidence fallen, and how can higher education restore it? Phi Beta Kappa has a unique role in answering these questions in our semi-quincentennial year as we commemorate the ideals that inspired our start in 1776.
