ΦBK member Becca Gadiel of Knox College was named Student Laureate for the 2021-2022 school year by the Lincoln Academy of Illinois for her exceptional academic achievements.
At age 65 Melinda Spitzer graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Florida International University with a B.A. in women’s and gender studies.
Rachel Pollock (ΦBK, University of Tennessee, Knoxville) is a professional costumer and has worked as a dyer at the Broadway production house Parsons-Meares, Ltd. on shows like Hamilton, Lion King, and Frozen.
Former Phi Beta Kappa Senator Rita Dove (ΦBK, Miami University) discusses her latest collection of poems, Playlist for the Apocalypse.
Television and film producer Caty Borum Chattoo (ΦBK, Virginia Tech) skillfully entertains with creativity and documentary storytelling that underline the importance of social justice.
In her latest book Helene Meyers (ΦBK, Pennsylvania State University) discusses films that have brought healing as well as helped viewers and actors to recognize antisemitism previously invisible to them.
Reuters News journalist Andrea Januta (ΦBK, Yale University) earned a 2021 Pulitzer Prize in the category or Explanatory Reporting for the series “Shielded.”
Congratulations to Ardem Patapoutian (ΦBK, UCLA) of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Scripps Research and Joshua D. Angrist (ΦBK, Oberlin College) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, two of our members among this year’s winners.
We are living in a time saturated with rankings, but what we treasure most about a university experience cannot fully be captured by that which can be concretely measured.
As we look ahead to this winter and beyond, Phi Beta Kappa will continue to highlight opportunities to strengthen democracy through liberal arts and sciences education.
For the founder of Custom Tradition, Chisama Ku Penn (ΦBK, Earlham College), learning has been about centering other individuals and communities, understanding their needs as they define them.
The ΦBK Book Awards are given annually to outstanding scholarly books published in the United States. See this year’s winners!
