McDaniel College’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa hosted Harvard Shakespearean and contemporary culture critic Marjorie Garber October 24-25 as part of the Visiting Scholar Program.
Ross Gray (ΦBK, San Francisco State University) and Theresa Ruby are the founders of potentialism, a new socioeconomic model that they recently used to help warring factions in Nepal reach an end to a civil war.
The Saint Joseph’s University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa sponsors Constitution Day reenactment of the Supreme Court Case District of Columbia v. Heller.
ΦBK member Ayanna Thompson, Professor of English at George Washington University, has written the first black Shakespeare film adaptation, entitled H4.
Two ΦBK members, Thomas Ehrlich and Ernestine Fu, team up to share the views of different generations on the value and practice of civic service.
In the East Room of the White House, President Obama graciously presented twelve men and women with National Humanities Medals earlier this year. Phi Beta Kappa is pleased to note that William G. Bowen, a member of the Society since 1954, was among the honorees.
College teacher, filmmaker, and ΦBK member finds an educational outlet in comedy after the loss of his limbs to Group A streptococcus.
ΦBK members Luke and Daniel Brindley, owners of Jammin’ Java, have built a thriving business on cool music, hot coffee, and a background in the humanities.
ΦBK member and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education at the University of California, Riverside talks about the impact of the great recession of 2008 on higher education.
The Signal and The Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don’t by Nate Silver is the winner of the 2013 Science Book Award.
Timothy Egan’s Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis is the winner of the 2013 Emerson Award.
Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures by Claudia Johnson is the winner of the 2013 Christian Gauss Award for scholarly and critical literature.