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.
Julie Taddeo (ΦBK, University of Rochester, 1987), a specialist in gender studies and class history, discusses Edwardian Britain’s depiction in TV period dramas like Downton Abbey.
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.
Aileen Bailey (ΦBK, Beloit College, 1994) credits her liberal arts background with leading her to neuroscience and works to make the sciences more open to women in general.
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.
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.
Cultural and medical anthropologist Peter Locke (ΦBK, University of Virginia, 2000) prepares a new generation of global health leaders to think across cultures.
The Writers Resist movement promotes literature that is diverse, inclusive, and empathetic in order to encourage those values not just in our country’s art but in our lives.
Primatologist Robert M. Sapolsky (ΦBK, Harvard College, 1978) works to uncover the biological explanations behind many of the daily challenges facing modern humans.
Civil rights lawyer, activist, and ΦBK member William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. was directly involved in court cases that changed America during the twentieth century.
Steven Fesmire (ΦBK, Millsaps College, 1990) discusses why colleges and universities need more democratic conditions for social inquiry and problem-solving.
ΦBK member Allen Boyer shares memories of his father, the subject of his fifth book Rocky Boyer’s War, recently published by the Naval Institute Press.
