“A liberal arts education encourages students to look at the bigger picture, to meet people who are different from themselves, and to embrace skills and perspectives that they might not gain solely from their own major.” —Sarah Kane (ΦBK, University of Pennsylvania)
Take a journey with ΦBK members Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer as they discuss the urgency needed to dispel historical myths. Their anthology, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past explores and revises some of the most malicious interpretations of American history.
Matthew Kleban (ΦBK, Reed College) is Department Chair of Physics at New York University. His research interests include string theory, theoretical cosmology, and particle physics.
As one of the nation’s leading Hispanic-Serving Institutions, University of California Irvine invited Molina to discuss in greater depth her book A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community.
Dan Flores’ Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America was shortlisted for ΦBK’s 2023 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. He recently spoke with Santa Ynez Valley Natural History Society.
Phi Beta Kappa’s magazine was nominated this year for ASME awards in the categories of “General Excellence” and “Review and Criticism.”
Read about Arizona State University’s fifty years of Phi Beta Kappa and hear from President and Dean LePore on the immense value that Phi Beta Kappa has brought to Arizona and ASU students.
Amy Ng (ΦΒΚ, Yale University) and Lydia Flock (ΦΒΚ, University of Virginia) delve into their lives abroad in the United Kingdom and their pursuits of theater and the arts.
Shortlisted for ΦBK’s 2023 Christian Gauss Award, Read Dangerously is a thought-provoking journey into some of the most remarkable and inflammatory writing of our time, the likes of James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, and more.
Phi Beta Kappa believes that a liberal arts and sciences education requires the ability to inquire deeply and to express oneself freely. This is why freedom of inquiry and freedom of expression have served among our indispensable hallmarks.
When it comes to human activities such as creating and critiquing, we flesh-and-blood mortals must remain the deciders as to how much power we are willing to cede to the machine.
The ΦBK Visiting Scholar Program offers undergraduates the opportunity to spend time with some of America’s most distinguished scholars. Find out which scholars will be representing the program this year!
