The ΦΒΚ Book Awards are administered in the following three, non-fiction categories:
The Christian Gauss Award: Celebrates outstanding books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism. The Phi Beta Kappa Award for Science: Recognizes superior books by scientists written to illuminate aspects of science for a broad readership. The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award: Honors scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.
Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present By Dennis Tyler, NYU Press
By Dennis Tyler, NYU Press
Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James By Jane F. Thrailkill, University of Pennsylvania Press
By Jane F. Thrailkill, University of Pennsylvania Press
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times By Azar Nafisi, Dey Street Books
By Azar Nafisi, Dey Street Books
The Secret Life of Literature By Lisa Zunshine, The MIT Press
By Lisa Zunshine, The MIT Press
What is American Literature? By Ilan Stavans, Oxford University Press
By Ilan Stavans, Oxford University Press
A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet & Disease By Shilpa Ravella, W. W. Norton & Company
By Shilpa Ravella, W. W. Norton & Company
A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems By Joseph L. Graves Jr., Basic Books
By Joseph L. Graves Jr., Basic Books
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas By Jennifer Raff, Twelve
By Jennifer Raff, Twelve
Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow By Nicole Yunger Halpern (ΦBK, Dartmouth College), Johns Hopkins University Press
By Nicole Yunger Halpern (ΦBK, Dartmouth College), Johns Hopkins University Press
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions By Temple Grandin, Riverhead Books
By Temple Grandin, Riverhead Books
Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance By Joseph Luzzi, W. W. Norton & Company
By Joseph Luzzi, W. W. Norton & Company
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan By Darryl Pinckney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
By Darryl Pinckney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War By Deborah Cohen (ΦBK, Radcliffe College), Random House
By Deborah Cohen (ΦBK, Radcliffe College), Random House
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family By Kerri K. Greenidge, Liveright
By Kerri K. Greenidge, Liveright
Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America By Dan Flores, W. W. Norton & Company
By Dan Flores, W. W. Norton & Company
Please email Hadley Kelly at hkelly@pbk.org with any inquiries.
