- Christian Gauss
Christian Gauss (1878-1951) was an influential literary critic and professor of literature. Gauss served as Dean of the College at Princeton University, and after retiring from Princeton was President of Phi Beta Kappa. Though he was not a prolific author or a public figure, Gauss left a mark on literary scholarship: Princeton University's semiannual series of "Christian Gauss Seminars in Criticism" (founded in 1949 by R.P. Blackmur), …
- John Howard
John Howard (April 14 1913 - February 19 1995) was an American actor. Born John R. Cox, Jr. in Cleveland, Ohio, he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of what is now Case Western Reserve University. At college he discovered a love for the theater, and took part in student productions. The goodlooking and personable young Howard soon became a contract player for Paramount, …
- James Kent
James Kent (July 31, 1763 Doansburg, Putnam County, New York – December 12, 1847 New York City) was an American jurist and legal scholar.
- Arthur Levitt
Arthur Levitt Jr. (born 1931) was the twenty-fifth and longest serving Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 1993 to 2001. Widely hailed as a champion of the individual investor, he has been criticized for not pushing for tougher accounting rules. Growing up in Brooklyn, Levitt received his first exposure to the world of finance through his father, Arthur Levitt, Sr., …
- William Huntington Russell
William Huntington Russell William Huntington Russell (12 August 1809, Middletown, Connecticut - 19 May 1885, New Haven, Connecticut) was co-founder of Skull and Bones along with Alphonso Taft. He was a descendant of the most noted New England families, including Pierpont, Hooker, Bingham, and Willet. William was a cadet at the United States Military Academy, where he was taught under strict military discipline.
- E. J. Dionne
Dionne began his twice-weekly op-ed column for The Washington Post in 1993. In 1996, it was syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group, and he now appears in more than 90 newspapers in the United States and abroad. Dionne joined The Post in 1990 as a reporter covering national politics. His best-selling book, Why Americans Hate Politics (Simon & Schuster), was published in 1991.
- Thomas R. Pickering
Ambassador Pickering is senior vice president for international relations for Boeing. He has had a long career spanning five decades as a U.S. diplomat, serving as under secretary of state for political affairs, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and as U.S. ambassador to Russia, India, Israel, Nigeria, Jordan, and El Salvador. He also served on assignments in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman (born August 7, 1953) is an American author, editor and teacher. A native of New York, Anne Fadiman is the daughter of the renowned literary, radio and television personality Clifton Fadiman and World War II correspondent and author Annalee Jacoby Fadiman. She attended Harvard University, graduating in 1975 from Radcliffe College. Fadiman's 1997 book "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
- Nadine Strossen
Nadine Strossen , president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and professor of law at New York Law School, will speak about cyber censorship on Thursday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. in the Chapel. She was named one of "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" by National Law Review two times and among the top "100 Executives Leading the Digital Revolution" by Upside Magazine, in addition to many other distinctions.
- Michael Porter
Michael Eugene Porter is an American academic focused on management and economics. He has made important contributions to strategic management and strategy theory, Porter's main academic objectives focus on how a firm or a region can build a competitive advantage and develop competitive strategy. Porter's strategic system consists primarily of: * 5 forces analysis * strategic groups (also called strategic sets) * the value chain * the generic strategies of cost leadership, …
- David Drake
David Drake (born September 24, 1945) is a successful author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now one of the premier authors of the military science fiction subgenre. Drake graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa, majoring in history (with honors) and Latin. His studies at Duke University School of Law were interrupted for two years by the U.S. Army, …
- Bushrod Washington
Bushrod Washington (June 5, 1762 - November 26, 1829) is perhaps most noted for his long career on the U.S. Supreme Court as one of the Justices that made up the Marshall Court. The nephew of George Washington, he authored the famous opinion of "Corfield v. Coryell", 6 Fed. Cas. 546 (C.C.E.D. Penn. 1823), while riding circuit as an Associate Justice.
- John Heath
John Heath (May 8, 1758- October 13, 1810) was an American lawyer and politician from Northumberland County, Virginia. He represented Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1793 to 1797. Heath was one of the students at William and Mary who organized the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity in 1776, and served as its first president. The town of Heathsville, Virginia, the county seat of Northumberland County, is named for him.
- Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and educated at Princeton and at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. An active research scientist in astronomy and physics for two decades, he has also taught both subjects on the faculties of Harvard and MIT. international best seller; Good Benito ; The Diagnosis , which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Reunion .
- Vartan Gregorian
Vartan Gregorian (born April 8, 1934 in Tabriz, Iran) is a distinguished American academic, currently serving as the president of Carnegie Corporation of New York. After receiving his dual Ph.D. in history and humanities from Stanford University in 1964, Gregorian served on the faculties at several American universities before joining the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where he became the founding dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1974, …
- Larry Sabato
Dr. Sabato is Director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, and along with being the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, he is one of just a half-dozen University Professors at U.Va. He is a former Rhodes Scholar and Danforth Fellow.
- Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith (born December 9, 1973) is an American politician and academic from Missouri. He is currently the Senator from Missouri's 4th District, representing the western portion of the City of St. Louis. Smith was raised in the St. Louis suburb of Olivette, Missouri and graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School.
- Erika Harold
Erika Harold was Miss America 2003 and was the Miss Illinois 2002. Her platform is "Preventing Youth Violence and Bullying: Protect Yourself, Respect Yourself." Her platform is said to have grown out of personal experience; she claims to have been the subject of racial and sexual harassment while growing up. Erika is of Greek, German and Welsh (father) and Native-American, African-American and Russian (mother) descent.
- Timothy Johnson
Dr. G. Timothy Johnson, frequently called Tim Johnson, is the current main medical editor/contributor for ABC News. He provides on-air medical ABC's "World News Tonight", "Nightline" and "20/20". He also appears on "Good Morning America". Johnson is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and on the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital. Johnson received his undergraduate degree from Augustana College, …
- Ian Caldwell
Ian Caldwell was a Phi Beta Kappa in history at Princeton University. He co-wrote the semi-autobiographical "The Rule of Four" with his childhood friend, Dustin Thomason after graduating in 1998. Caldwell graduated from the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology with Thomason in 1994. In 2005, his wife Meredith gave birth to their first child, Ethan Sawyer Caldwell. They live in Newport News, Virginia.
- Timothy J. Sullivan
Timothy Jackson Sullivan was the Twenty-fifth President of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Sullivan’s life has long been intimately linked with William and Mary. He first came to the college as a freshman in 1962. He left four years later with a bachelor’s degree in government, a Phi Beta Kappa key and membership in Omicron Delta Kappa. His wife, Anne Doubet Klare, was a fellow member of the class of 1966.
- William Monroe Trotter
William Monroe Trotter, William Monroe Trotter was born to James Trotter and Virginia Isaacs on April 7, 1872. William was born in Springfield Township, Ohio. James Trotter was the son of a slave owner in Mississippi who proved his worth by rising in the ranks to 2nd lieutenant in the Black Massachusetts 55th regimen during the civil war. James and Virginia decided to settle down in Massachusetts shortly after the war.
- Charles King
Charles King is Ion Raţiu Associate Professor of Romanian Studies, Associate Professor of International Affairs, and Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University, where he also serves as Chairman of the Faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is the author of two books, "The Black Sea: A History" (Oxford University Press, 2004) and "The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture" (Hoover Institution Press, …
- Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago (born Judy Cohen on July 20, 1939) is a feminist artist, author, and educator. Judy Chicago is a feminist artist who has been making work since the middle 1960s. Her earliest forays into art-making coincided with the rise of Minimalism, which she eventually abandoned in favor of art she believed to have greater content and relevancy. Major works include The Dinner Party and The Holocaust Project.
- Susan Stewart
Susan Stewart is an American poet, university professor and literary critic born in 1952. She teaches the history of poetry, aesthetics, and the philosophy of literature, most recently at Princeton University. Recent works of criticism include "Poetry and the Fate of the Senses", (winner of the Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism in 2003 from Phi Beta Kappa and the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2004), …
- Joel Porte
Joel Miles Porte was an American literary scholar, who was an internationally renowned authority on the life and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Porte was born in Brooklyn, New York to "impecunious and unpedigreed" second-generation Russian Jewish immigrants and was raised there with his two younger brothers. Intellectually curious from an early age, he mastered Morse code and obtained, at the age of fourteen, a licence to operate the radio station W2YIR.
- Tristan Taormino
Tristan Taormino (born May 9, 1971) is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, pornographic film director (and occasional actress) and self-styled "anal sexpert". She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with her Bachelor's degree in American Studies from Wesleyan University in 1993. Tristan Taormino is the niece of author Thomas Pynchon.
- Scott Turow
Scott Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American novelist and author, as well as a practicing lawyer. Turow has written eight fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 25 million copies. Movies have been based on several of his books.
- Joseph Finder
Joseph Finder (born 1958 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer of several thrillers set in a business environment. His books include "Paranoia", "Company Man", and "Killer Instinct". His novel "High Crimes" became a hit movie starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman. Finder's work is informed by his background as a world traveler, Soviet scholar and relentless researcher.
- Daniel Gilbert
Daniel Gilbert is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He rose to popular prominence with the book Stumbling on Happiness , which uses social psychology to explore the ways in which humans endeavor to envision the future, and how well we can predict if we will enjoy it. His work with Tim Wilson on affective forecasting looks at the ways in which people make predictions about the emotional impact of future events.
- Paul Adelstein
Paul Adelstein is an American television and film actor who has played agent Paul Kellerman in the hit TV series Prison Break. Paul Adelstein attended Bowdoin College where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a degree in English. He has made several acting appearances in TV shows such as, starting with the least recent working up to the most recent as of 2007 starting from 1990.
- Robert Khayat
Dr. Robert Khayat (born April 18, 1938 in Moss Point, Mississippi) is the 15th Chancellor of the University of Mississippi. He was appointed in 1995. Robert Khayat, a former student of the University of Mississippi, is the only Chancellor of the university to be a member of the Student Hall of Fame there. He currently has degrees from both the University of Mississippi and Yale University. Khayat also played football in the NFL as a kicker for the Washington Redskins.
- David Milch
David S. Milch (March 23, 1945, Buffalo, New York) is an American television writer and producer. He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Yale and won the Tinker Prize in English. He earned an MFA from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. To avoid the draft during the Vietnam War, Mich enrolled in Yale Law School, but was expelled for shooting out a police car siren with a shotgun.
- Eric Chaisson
Eric Chaisson , a cosmologist and head of the Wright Center, notes that the world around us is literally changing all the time. From galaxies and stars, to planets and life forms, change is constant. This is as true for social and economic systems as it is for the physical world. As Eric puts it, "Change is constant, time is irreversible, energy is ubiquitous, and adaptation is essential."
- Emily Bergl
Emily Bergl (born on April 25, 1975, in Milton Keynes, England) is an English-American actress. She moved to Chicago with her family when she was a child and attended Glenbrook South High School and Grinnell College, where she was the lead in several school productions. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1997 with a B.A. in English and Theater. Bergl played the lead role in the film, "The Rage: Carrie 2". Much of her acting also takes place on television.
- Arthur Taylor
Arthur R. Taylor (born 1935) is an American businessman. Taylor was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University. He began his corporate career with the First Boston Corporation. He was later Vice President Finance and Executive Vice President of International Paper Company. He was president of CBS from 1972 until 1976, when he was ousted by William S. Paley. Taylor was placed on the master list of Nixon political opponents during his time at CBS.
- John C. Stennis
John Cornelius Stennis was a U.S. Senator from the state of Mississippi. He was a Democrat.
- Jake Tapper
Jake Tapper (born March 12, 1969) is a journalist working for ABC News in Washington, DC. Born in New York City, he was raised in Philadelphia. For high school, he attended Akiba Hebrew Academy. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1991 with a B.A. in history modified by visual studies. He briefly attended graduate school at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.
- Molly Corbett Broad
Director since 2007. A leading spokesperson for American higher education, Molly Corbett Broad became the twelfth president of the American Council on Education (ACE) on May 1, 2008. She is the first woman to lead the organization since its founding in 1918. Ms. Broad came to ACE from the University of North Carolina (UNC), where she served as president from 1997 to 2006, leading UNC through a period of unprecedented enrollment growth.
- Stacy London
Stacy London (born May 25, 1969 in New York City, New York) is an American fashion consultant and media personality, known best for her role as a co-host on the makeover reality program "What Not to Wear", which broadcasts on TLC in the United States and Canada. London was born to Jewish-American parents in New York City on May 25, 1969. She received her B.A. from Vassar College with a double major in philosophy and Germanic studies, graduating Phi Beta Kappa.