Fr. Walter Ong (ΦΒΚ, St. Louis University) revolutionized scholars’ understanding of language. His home campus honors him with a “Pillars of the University” marker.
As a student, ΦBK member Therese Bottomly didn’t know how to plan for her career, so she focused on the liberal arts. Now she’s the editor and vice president of The Oregonian.
Read about ΦΒΚ winners and finalists for this year’s MacArthur Foundation Fellowships, ΦΒΚ Book Awards, National Book Awards, Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes.
This winter might be the perfect time to learn from one of our Visiting Scholars, attend a local museum tour, or participate in a book club. Find an event near you!
Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee partnered to host Jordan September 13-14. He gave a public lecture titled “The First Crusade and Jewish Martyrdom”.
Nora Eigenbrodt recently joined Phi Beta Kappa as the National Arts & Sciences Initiative Associate. You can reach her at advocacy@pbk.org.
Our advocacy efforts are essential, especially in polarized times. The value of higher education, and the liberal arts in particular, requires champions on both sides of the aisle.
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky (ΦBK, Harvard College) is the recipient of the 2018 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award.
On May 9, Tanishq Abraham was inducted into the Kappa of California chapter at the University of California-Davis.
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls is the 2018 Christian Gauss Award winner. The award recognize outstanding books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism.
Yibing Huang, Associate Professor of Chinese at Connecticut College and previously a ΦΒΚ Poet, spoke to the Key Reporter about his craft and the poem he delivered 12 years ago.
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 by Mike Wallace is the recipient of the 2018 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.
