The Phi Beta Kappa Society is pleased to announce the appointment of fourteen visiting scholars for 2011-2012.
Each year the Society selects top scholars in the liberal arts and sciences to travel to universities and colleges where Phi Beta Kappa chapters are located. Visiting scholars spend two days on each campus meeting informally with undergraduates, participating in classroom lectures and seminars, and giving one major address open to the entire academic community.
Since 1956, the Society’s Visiting Scholar Program has been offering undergraduates the opportunity to spend time with some of America’s most distinguished scholars and enriching the intellectual life on campuses across the country.
The 2011-2012 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars:
Teodolinda Barolini, Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Columbia University
Peter Crane, Carl W. Knobloch Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
Charles M. Falco, Professor of Optical Sciences and Chair of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Arizona
Pamela S. Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, Stanford University
Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, Harvard University
James J. O’Donnell, Professor of Classics and Provost, Georgetown University, 2011-2012 ΦBK-Frank M. Updike Memorial Scholar
Trevor Pinch, Professor of Science and Technology Studies and of Sociology, Cornell University
Gloria Ferrari Pinney, Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art, Harvard University
Teofilo F. Ruiz, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles
William Schweiker, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics, University of Chicago
Thayer Scudder, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, California Institute of Technology
David Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
Richard A. Shweder, William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development, University of Chicago
John E. Straub, Professor of Chemistry, Boston University
For more information about Phi Beta Kappa’s Visiting Scholar Program, click here.