Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars (1956–present)
Since the inception of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars program in 1956–1957, the Carleton PBK chapter has hosted dozens of these prominent scholars on campus, including a return visit to campus by former Carleton President Larry Gould in 1971–72. We thank the PBK National office for their help in assembling this list of 50+ years of these visitors to Carleton:
2018–19 | William Chester Jordan | History | Princeton | The Lorn Land: A Winter's Tale, an exploration of the peasant experience of winter in the Middle Ages |
2017–18 | Paige West | Anthropology | Columbia | Dispossession, Racism, and Environment |
2016–17 | Jeremy Sabloff | Archaeology | Pennsylvania | Archaeology Matters: The Relevance of Archaeology in the Modern World |
2015–16 | Vincent Wimbush | religion | Institute For Signifying Scriptures | Signifying on Scriptures: The Black Atlantic Reads the King James Bible |
2013–14 | John Comaroff | anthropology | Harvard | Ethnicity, Inc. |
2012–13 | Sarah Keller | chemistry | Washington | Using Basic Science to Understand 21st Century Energy Options |
2009–10 | Doug McAdam | sociology | Stanford | The Long-term Civic Impact of Youth Activism: The Curious Contrast between Freedom Summer and Teach for America |
2008–09 | Faye Ginsburg | anthropology, film | NYU | Native Intelligence: A Short history of debates on Indigenous Media |
2006–07 | Sarah Morris | classics, archaeology | UCLA | Apollo, Poseidon and the Walls of Troy: Homer and Archaeology |
2004–05 | Stanley Engerman | economics | Rochester | |
2003–04 | James Trefil | physics | George Mason | |
2000–01 | Nancy Folbre | economics | Massachusetts | |
1998–99 | Carmela Franklin | classics | Columbia | |
1997–98 | Gary Tomlinson | music | Pennsylvania | |
1996–97 | Douglass C. North | economics | Washington U. | |
1994–95 | Leon Eisenberg | psychiatry | Harvard | |
1993–94 | Miriam Kastner | geology | UC San Diego | |
1992–93 | Stephen G. Miller | archeology | UC Berkeley | |
1991–92 | Joseph Taylor | astrophysics | Princeton | |
1990–91 | Stanley Tambiah | anthropology | Harvard | |
1989–90 | Paul Steinhardt | physics | Pennsylvania | |
1985–86 | Neil Harris | history | Chicago | |
1982–83 | John R. Searle | philosophy | UC Berkeley | |
1980–81 | Harry Levin | comparative literature | Harvard | |
1978–79 | Susanne Rudolph | political science | Chicago | |
1976–77 | Harvey Brooks | physics | Harvard | |
1975–76 | Helen North | classics | Swarthmore | |
1974–75 | Donald Treadgold | Russian history | Washington | |
1972–73 | Milton Babbitt | music | Princeton | |
1971–72 | Laurence Gould | geology | Arizona | |
1970–71 | Henry Abraham | political science | Virginia | |
1968–69 | Marston Bates | zoology | Michigan | |
1964–65 | William Arrowsmith | classics | UT Austin | |
1963–64 | Morris Bishop | Romance languages | Cornell | |
1962–63 | Sherwood Washburn | anthropology | UC Berkeley | |
1960–61 | Ross Lee Finney | music | Michigan | |
1959–60 | Hallett Smith | English | Caltech | |
1958–59 | Ernest Simmons | Russian literature | Columbia | |
1957–58 | Harlow Shapley | astronomy | Harvard | |
1956–57 | Herbert J. David | English | University of Oxford |