PBK Visiting Scholar Program

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.

 

 

PBK Visiting Scholars at Albion College

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  2022 – Kathryn Lofton, Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies and Professor of History and Divinity – Yale University
  View the feature article in The Key Reporter about Lofton’s visit to Albion.

• 2019 – Harold Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law – Yale Law School
• 2017 – Dr. Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor Philosophy – Columbia University
• 2014 – Gregory Petsko, American biochemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences – Weill Cornell Medical College
• 2012 – Wick Haxton, physicist – University of California, Berkeley – “Origin of Elements”
• 2011 – Terry Castle,  literary scholar – Stanford University – “Education & Estrangement”
• 2008 – Saskia Sasson, sociologist – Columbia University – “Global City: A New Frontier”
• 2005 – Deborah Stone, government & public policy – Dartmouth University
• 2002 – Dr. Michael S. Turner, cosmologist and Rauner Distinguished Service Professor – University of Chicago
• 1999 – Dr. Carl E. Wieman, Distinguished Professor Physics – University of Colorado at Boulder
• 1998 – Dr. Jack Horner, Curator of Paleontology Museum – Montana State University
• 1993 – Sidney Mintz, anthropologist – Johns Hopkins University
• 1991 – Richard Fiske, volcanologist – Smithsonian Institution – “Krakatau”
• 1989 – Nel Noddings, professor of education – Stanford University
• 1988 – James McCarthy, biologist – Harvard University
• 1985 – Neil Harris, historian – University of Chicago