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Jean E. Howard Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Senate
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For Immediate Release
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Oct. 19, 2009
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Phi Beta Kappa Society is pleased to announce the election of Jean E. Howard (right) to its senate. The decision was made October 3 at the Society’s 42nd Triennial Council in Austin, Tex. Howardwill serve a six-year term.
Howard is the George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities and chair of the Department of English at Columbia University where she teaches Renaissance literature, feminist studies and literary theory. A past president of the Shakespeare Association of America, Howard has also served as a Trustee of Brown University, chaired Columbia’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender and served as Columbia’s first Vice Provost for Diversity Initiatives. The author and editor of numerous books, Howard is also one of the co-editors of The Norton Shakespeare.
In response to her election, Howard remarked, “I am thrilled with the opportunity to work for the pre-eminent honor society in the nation, and I look forward to helping to maintain its high intellectual standards and distinguished history of service to higher education.”
“Phi Beta Kappa is very fortunate to have secured the services of Jean Howard as a senator,” observed John Churchill, secretary and chief executive officer of the Society.
Other senators elected in Austin are as follows: YOLANDA BROYLES-GONZALEZ, University of Arizona; FRED H. CATE, Indiana University; LINDA GREENHOUSE, Yale Law School; GEORGE GREENIA, College of William and Mary; VALERIE HOTCHKISS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; ROBERT C. KOONS, University of Texas at Austin; RACHEL MORAN, Berkeley Law School; GILDA L. OCHOA, Pomona College; LYNN PASQUERELLA, University of Hartford; JEFFREY T. SAMMONS, New York University; ANDREW D. MCNITT, Eastern Illinois University; THEOPOLIS FAIR, La Salle University; MICHAEL GAUGER, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; KATE LEHMAN, Arizona State University.
“Members of our senate serve as the directors who guide the Society in matters of policy and set the direction for Phi Beta Kappa’s future. This group of senators brings a deep understanding of education in the liberal arts and sciences and a variety of perspectives for assessing the best ways to advance the values of liberal education in American society. I look forward to working with them,” Churchill said.
About the Phi Beta Kappa Society
Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest academic honor society. It has chapters at 280 institutions and more than half a million members throughout the country. Its mission is to champion education in the liberal arts and sciences, to recognize academic excellence, and to foster freedom of thought and expression. Among its programs are academic and literary awards, lectureships, a fellowship, a professorship, and publication of The American Scholar, an award-winning quarterly journal.