Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars
Since 1956, the Phi Beta Kappa Society has made available a roster of nationally recognized scholars to visit colleges and universities with Phi Beta Kappa chapters. Scholars spend two days on campus, meeting informally with students and faculty members, taking part in classroom discussions, and giving a public lecture open to the entire academic community.
Scholars who have visited Wake Forest include:
2019-20 Jock Reynlolds, 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, 321BC-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.”
1995 Annabel Patterson, Professor of English, Yale University
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?”