Articles

Linda Gregerson at the University of Iowa

ΦBK Visiting Scholar Linda Gregerson, Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Michigan.

To the Three Friends of Winter in the Arts & Sciences

How can those who champion liberal arts and sciences education remain steadfast, persevere, and become more resilient as we approach a new year of advocacy in uncertain times?

Lebowitz Prize Winners

Michael E. Bratman and Margaret P. Gilbert have won the 2019 Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize.

From the Secretary: Shifting Perceptions of Higher Education

Phi Beta Kappa has an important role to play in affirming the benefits of education, especially liberal arts education, for all of society.

Magic, Health, and Healing in Classical Antiquity

Research update from Jessica Lamont (ΦBK, William & Mary), Phi Beta Kappa’s 2019 Mary Isabel Sibley Fellow.

New from Robert Wilson, Barnum: An American Life

Barnum: An American Life, released by Simon & Schuster on August 6, is the first major biography of P.T. Barnum in a generation.

Key into Public Service

To further ΦBK’s value of arts and sciences education, the Society is launching a new program called Key into Public Service.

ΦBK Visiting Scholar Fr. Columba Stewart

Fr. Columba Stewart (ΦBK, Harvard College), a professor of theology at Saint John’s University in Minnesota.

Using Art History as a Tool to Understand the Human Experience

Jeffrey Hom (ΦBK, Bowdoin College), a board-certified internist and policy advisor in the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, is Bowdoin’s 2019 Common Good Award recipient.

From the Secretary: Opening Doors to Opportunity

Earning a key symbolizes a founding American ideal that many have questioned lately: opening the doors to opportunity based on merit.

The Wanders of the Arts & Sciences

Once you feel reinvigorated from your summer wanderings, please consider taking some easy steps to promote the value of quality arts and sciences experiences at toolkit.pbk.org.

From the Secretary: Mapping the Future of ΦBK

The Society recently adopted a new strategic plan, “Mapping the Future of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,” that focuses on ΦBK’s potential role in a changing world.