Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program for 2017-2018

To: Departmental Executive Officers
From: Donna Parsons, President, Alpha of Iowa Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
RE: Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program for 2017-2018

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Since 1956, the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program has been offering 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 campus by making possible an exchange of ideas between the Visiting Scholars and the resident faculty and students.

If your department is interested in co-sponsoring, along with the Alpha of Iowa chapter, a Visiting Scholar for 2017-2018, please contact me at donna-parsons@uiowa.edu as soon as possible. The chapter must send its final request(s) to the national office by Monday, April 17.

A list of Visiting Scholars available for 2017-2018 is below. More detailed information about each scholar may be found at this link.

  • Victor S. Batista, Professor of Chemistry, Yale University
  • Judith Carney, Professor of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles
  • George Dyson, Historian of Technology, Bellingham, Washington
  • Price V. Fishback, Thomas R. Brown Professor of Economics, University of Arizona
  • David L. Haberman, Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University
  • Bonnie Honig, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor in Political Science and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
  • Thomas W. Laqueur, Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
  • Lydia H. Liu, Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
  • Mary Miller, Sterling Professor of the History of Art, Yale University
  • Osamu James Nakagawa, Ruth N. Halls Distinguished Professor of Photography, Indiana University
  • Ayanna Thompson, Professor of English, George Washington University
  • Amy Cheng Vollmer, Isaac H. Clothier, Jr. Professor of Biology, Swarthmore College
  • Stephen Walt, Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University
  • Paige West, Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College/Columbia University
  • James C. Zachos, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz

 

For more information about the Visiting Scholar program, please see https://www.pbk.org/web/PBK_Member/Programs/Visiting_Scholars/Visiting_Scholars.aspx