Articles

ΦBK Member Ta-Nehisi Coates Releases Debut Novel The Water Dancer

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ novel, released in September to critical and popular acclaim, brings the world of Antebellum slavery to life.

Love of Sport and Love of Learning

Caroline Yarbrough (ΦBK, Davidson College) was earlier this year nominated in the Atlantic 10 Conference for the 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

Magic, Health, and Healing in Classical Antiquity

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

Essay on a Big Sister by Her Little Brother

John E. Bassett (ΦBK, Ohio Wesleyan University) reflects on Mary Anne Bassett Frey (ΦBK, George Washington University) and her path from high school dropout to NASA scientist.

Investment in Scholarship Bears Fruit (and Robotic Fowl)

Doctoral candidate Ryane Logsdon (ΦBK, University of Rochester) discusses her research and her presentation at the upcoming 34th annual Asilomar Conference.

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.

Modern Classicist

Donna Zuckerberg (ΦBK, University of Chicago) takes on the old guard, scholarly fragility, and internet trolls with a Socratic honesty and a feminist tenacity.

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.

Phi Beta Kappa’s “30 Under 30”

Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list honors the brightest young achievers in a variety of professions. Find out about the 38 ΦBK’s who made the 2019 list!