2026-2027 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars Announced 

Since 1956, the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Visiting Scholar Program has offered undergraduates the opportunity to spend time with some of America’s most distinguished scholars. The purpose of the program is to contribute to the intellectual life of the institution by making possible an exchange of ideas between the Visiting Scholars and the resident faculty and students.
 
Each year, members of the Committee on the Visiting Scholar Program select top scholars in the liberal arts and sciences to visit 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 lecture open to the academic community and general public.
 
The 2026-2027 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars will make over 100 visits during the academic year, with the majority of them participating in our podcast Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa.

2026-2027 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars: 

• Naomi André, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, David G. Frey Distinguished Professor in the Department of Music 
• Squire J. Booker, University of Pennsylvania, Richard Perry PIK Professor of Chemistry and of Biochemistry & Biophysics 
• Thomas E. Burman, University of Notre Dame, Charles P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies, Professor of History 
• Derrick Darby, Rutgers University, Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of Philosophy 
• Andy Horowitz, University of Connecticut, Associate Professor of History, Connecticut State Historian  
• Tomás R. Jiménez, Stanford University, Joan B. Ford Professor in the Department of Sociology, Founding Director of Stanford's Institute for Advancing Just Societies 
• Sarah Krakoff, University of Colorado Law School, Moses Lasky Professor of Law 
• Jovan Scott Lewis, University of California, Berkeley, Professor of Geography, Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities
• Sarah Rivett, Princeton University, Professor of English and American Studies 
• Jennifer L. Roberts, Harvard University, X.D. and Nancy Yang Professor of Arts and Sciences, Drew Gilpin Faust Professor of the Humanities 
• Carla J. Shatz, Stanford University, Sapp Family Provostial Professor of Biology and Neurobiology, Director Emerita of Bio-X 
• John J. Shea, Stony Brook University, Professor of Anthropology 
• Lynn Vavreck, University of California, Los Angeles, Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics and Public Policy 
• Dawn J. Wright, Chief Scientist of the Environmental Systems Research Institute and Professor of Geography & Oceanography at Oregon State University