The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States,and the most prestigious,due in part to its long history and academic selectivity. Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal arts and sciences,and to induct the most outstanding students of arts and sciences at only select American colleges and universities. It was founded at the College of William and Mary on December 5,1776,as the first collegiate Greek-letter fraternity and was among the earliest collegiate fraternal societies. Since its inception,17 U.S. presidents,40 U.S. Supreme Court justices,and 136 Nobel laureates have been inducted as members.
Carleton College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield,Minnesota. Founded in 1866,the 200-acre (81 ha) main campus is between Northfield and the approximately 800-acre (320 ha) Cowling Arboretum,which became part of the campus in the 1920s.
The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York is a public research institution and postgraduate university in New York City. Serving as the principal doctorate-granting institution of the City University of New York (CUNY) system,The CUNY Graduate Center is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities –Very High Research Activity". The school is situated in the landmark B. Altman and Company Building at 365 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan,opposite the Empire State Building. The CUNY Graduate Center has 4,600 students,31 doctoral programs,14 master's programs,and 30 research centers and institutes. A core faculty of approximately 140 is supplemented by over 1,800 additional faculty members from CUNY's eleven senior colleges and New York City's cultural and scientific institutions.
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury,Vermont. Founded in 1800 by Congregationalists,Middlebury was the first operating college or university in Vermont.
Lafayette College is a private liberal arts college in Easton,Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter and other citizens in Easton,the college first held classes in 1832. The founders voted to name the college after General Lafayette,a hero of the American Revolution.
Ann Fisher-Wirth is an American poet and scholar,based at the University of Mississippi. She has won several teaching awards,including Liberal Arts Outstanding Teacher of the Year (2006),Humanities Teacher of the Year (2007),and the Elsie M. Hood Award (2014). Her poetry has received numerous awards,including several Pushcart nominations and a Pushcart Special Mention.
The Posse Foundation is a national nonprofit organization that partners with select colleges and universities in the United States to provide student scholarships and leadership training. The unique Posse concept is centered on a cohort-based model that admits students to attend college as part of a "Posse" of 10 peers. Posse connects a network of more than 10,000 scholars and alumni.
Susan Mitchell is an American poet,essayist and translator who wrote the poetry collections Rapture and Erotikon. She is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
Mary Szybist is an American poet. She won the National Book Award for Poetry for her collection Incarnadine.
The Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC) is a nonprofit organization of 75 American liberal arts colleges which formed in 1984 under the leadership of Oberlin College's president S. Frederick Starr. CLAC brings together the IT professionals from its member colleges and universities to help those institutions make the best use of technology to enrich students’learning,facilitate teaching and research,and to support the business of the higher education. CLAC has been supporting collaboration,knowledge sharing,professional growth of its IT members,and advocacy for the liberal arts at the national level for more three decades.
Debora Kuller Shuger is a literary historian and scholar. She studies early modern,Renaissance,late 16th- and 17th century England. She writes about Tudor-Stuart literature;religious,political,and legal thought;Neo-Latin;and censorship of that period.
Diana Chapman Walsh was President of Wellesley College from 1993 to 2007. During her tenure,the college revised its curriculum and expanded its programs in global education,internships and service learning,and interdisciplinary teaching and learning. The faculty established new majors in environmental studies,quantitative reasoning,cinema and media studies,neurosciences,and astrophysics. Japanese,Arabic and Korean languages were added to the curriculum as well,and a new department of East Asian Languages and Literatures was launched.
The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS),founded in 1961,is a consortium of 90 universities and colleges in the United States that promotes the advancement of knowledge about India in the U.S. It carries out this purpose by:awarding fellowships to scholars and artists to carry out their research and artistic projects in India;by operating intensive programs in a variety of Indian languages in India;by sponsoring conferences,workshops and outreach activities;by supporting U.S. study abroad and service learning programs in India;by assisting and facilitating the research of all U.S. scholars in India;and by operating two research archives,the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology and the Center for Art and Archaeology. The AIIS is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
Françoise Lionnet serves as acting chair of the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women,Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University,where she is professor of Romance languages and literatures,comparative literature,and African and African American studies. She is distinguished research professor of comparative literature and French and Francophone studies at UCLA,and a research associate of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of Witwatersrand,Johannesburg. She served as director of the African Studies Center and Program Co-Director of UCLA's Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities:Cultures in Transnational Perspective.
Alison Donnell is an academic,originally from the United Kingdom. She is Professor of Modern Literatures and Head of the School of Literature,Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She was previously Head of School of Literature and Languages at the University of Reading,where she also founded the research theme "Minority Identities:Rights and Representations". Her primary research field is anglophone postcolonial literature,and she has been published widely on Caribbean and Black British literature. Much of her academic work also focuses questions relating to gender and sexual identities and the intersections between feminism and postcolonialism.
Gina Gabrielle Starr is an American literary scholar,neuroscientist,and academic administrator who is the 10th president of Pomona College,a liberal arts college in Claremont,California. She is known for her work on 18th-century British literature and the neuroscience of aesthetics. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship,an NSF ADVANCE award,and a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation. From 2000 to 2017,she was on the faculty at New York University. In 2017,she became the first woman and first African-American president of Pomona College. Starr was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.
Katherine Anandi Rowe is an American scholar of Renaissance literature and media history. She was named the twenty-eighth president of the College of William &Mary on February 20,2018. She began her service on July 2,2018 succeeding W. Taylor Reveley III,who had served as president since 2008 and is the first woman to be named president. After seven months in office,Rowe was formally inaugurated on February 8,2019 as part of the university's annual Charter Day ceremony.
Susan Laura Mizruchi is professor of English literature and the William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities at Boston University. Her research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature,religion and culture,literary and social theory,literary history,history of the social sciences,and American and Global Film and TV. Since 2016,she has served as the director of the Boston University Center for the Humanities.
Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks is an American literary scholar. She is the Edgar F. Shannon Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia and former President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Modern Language Association. She specializes in eighteenth-century English Literature and also writes cultural criticism on varied subjects such as boredom,gossip,and feminism. "With remarkable breadth of reference,Spacks has written more extensively than any other feminist critic on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English narrative".
Gene Andrew Jarrett is an American professor,literary scholar,and academic administrator. He is Dean of the Faculty and William S. Tod Professor of English at Princeton University.
