Voices and Ideas
What I Learned as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
Adorno's specialization in colonial Latin American literature offered the opportunity to discuss issues that are incandescently alive in American university and public life today.
French Public Art in the Third Republic: Interview with Irina Markina
Irina Markina is Phi Beta Kappa's 2017 The Walter J. Jensen Fellow. The Jensen Fellowship supports advanced research in French language, literature, and culture.
Women and Textile Production in Ancient Greece: Interview with Katherine Harrington
ΦBK has awarded Katherine Harrington the 2017 Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship for her project "Women’s Labor and the Market in Classical and Hellenistic Greece.”
Under the Needle: A Conversation with Dr. Karen Lindeman
In a field where new research overturns old methods and helps doctors to provide better services, a desire and a willingness to continue to learn are invaluable.
Rhonda Y. Williams on Black Women, History, and Social Justice
Rhonda Y. Williams (ΦBK, University of Maryland College Park, 1989) spoke at Mississippi State University as part of a series celebrating Women’s History Month.
ΦBK Member Named Chief Market Intelligence Officer
Andrew B. Busch (ΦBK, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1983) was appointed by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and officially assumed his duties on April 10.
The Impact of Three ΦBK Justices on Brown v. Board of Education
Associate Justices William O. Douglas, Harold H. Burton, and Felix Frankfurter helped to decide the case that provided a turning point in American Civil Rights.
Crossing Borders for Global Health
Cultural and medical anthropologist Peter Locke (ΦBK, University of Virginia, 2000) prepares a new generation of global health leaders to think across cultures.