Phi Beta Kappa’s Visiting Scholar Program offers undergraduates the opportunity to spend time with some of America’s most distinguished scholars. Visiting Scholars spend two days at each institution; they meet informally with students and faculty members, participate in classroom discussions and seminars, and give a public lecture open to the entire academic community. Members of Delta of North Carolina will be notified by email of upcoming events and are encouraged to participate! For more information about the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program, click here.
Scholars who have visited Wake Forest under the aegis of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program include:
2019-20 Jock Reynolds, Yale University Art Gallery The Museum Exhibition as a Collaborative Learning Experience
2018-19 Dava Newman, MIT Exploring Space for Earth: Earth’s Vital Signs Revealed
2017-18 Judith Carney, UCLA Seeds of Memory: Food Legacies of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
2016 Larry A. Silver, University of Pennsylvania India Ink: Europe’s First Views of the Subcontinent
2014 Jeffry Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology, Yale University Cultural Trauma, Social Solidarity, and Moral Responsibility
2013 David Forsythe, Charles J. Mach Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, University of Nebraska The United States and Torture after 9/11
2011 John Straub, Professor of Chemistry, Boston University Molecules in Motion: How the Dynamics of Molecules Dictate the Form and Function of Our World
2010 Ronald Mellor, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles East Meets West: Encounters along the Silk Road
2008 Michael J. B. Allen, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles Neoplatonic Myths of the Text in the Renaissance
2006 Jean E. Taylor, Professor Emerita of Mathematics, Rutgers University Soap Bubbles and Crystals
2005 Joseph A. Farrell, Jr., Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 BC-AD 235
2003 Leonard Barkan, Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University Words on Pictures
2001 Terry L. Anderson, Stanford University Free Market Environmentalism
2000 Giles B. Gunn, Professor of English and of Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Rethinking Human Solidarity: The Difference that Difference Makes in a Globalized World
2000 William F. May, Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics, Southern Methodist University Contending Myths for Understanding Nature and the Role of Technology
1997 Luke Timothy Johnson, Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Emory University The Influence of Greco-Roman Religion in Early Christianity
1994 Vera Pless, Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago The Last Fifty Years: A Period of Great Change
1989 Paul J. Steinhardt, Mary Amanda Wood Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania The Inflationary Universe
1963 C. Vann Woodward, Sterling Professor of History, Yale University Is History Obsolete?