Individual chapters must apply and be approved to receive this honor. Wells College has hosted lectures by the following Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars:
2018–19
Jamsheed Choksy
Distinguished Professor of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University–Bloomington
“State and Faith in Iran: Recent History as a Key to Understanding the Present”
Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018
2017–18
Lydia Liu
Professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University
“Who Owns Great Ideas?”
Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017
2016–17
Shuhai Xiao
Professor of Geobiology at Virginia Tech
“On the Eve of the Cambrian Revolution”
Monday, Oct. 24, 2016
2015–16
Blaire Van Valkenburgh
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA and Associate Dean of Academic Programs in the Life Sciences
“Other Worlds: the View from the Pleistocene”
Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015
2014–15
Bambi Schieffelin
Collegiate Professor and Professor of Anthropology at New York University
“Language and intentionality: Whose mind are you speaking?”
Monday, Oct. 27, 2014
2012–13
Peter Crane
Carl W. Knobloch Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University
“The Future of Plants”
Monday, Feb. 25, 2013
2011–12
Richard A. Shweder
William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Processor of Human Development, University of Chicago
“Robust Cultural Pluralism in the New World Order: Three Prophecies”
Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011
2010–11
Jane Ginsburg
Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, Columbia University School of Law, and director of its Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts
“The Author’s Place in the Future of Copyright”
Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010
2008–09
Anne Kostelanetz Mellor
Distinguished Professor of English, UCLA
“Mothering Monsters: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
Monday, April 6, 2009
2007–08
Dan Huttenlocher
John P. and Rilla Neafsey Professor of Computing, Information Science and Business and Stephen H. Weiss Fellow, Cornell
“Computer Vision: From Autonomous Vehicles to Video Surveillance to Image Search”
Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007
2006–07
Chris Impey
Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona”The End of the World: Astronomy Meets Eschatology”
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
2005–06
Linda Greenhouse
New York Times Supreme Court Correspondent
“Court, Country, and Culture”
Thursday, April 6, 2006