John Seery and Douglas Greenberg Honored at 42nd Council
The Phi Beta Kappa Society stands for freedom of inquiry and expression, disciplinary rigor, breadth of intellectual perspective, the cultivation of skills of deliberation and ethical reflection, the pursuit of wisdom, and the application of the fruits of scholarship and research in practical life. Among the many ways that ΦBK fosters these values is by recognizing those who work to preserve and promote the liberal arts and sciences.
Sidney Hook Memorial Award
JOHN SEERY is the George Irving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government and Professor of Politics at Pomona College. His books include Political Returns: Irony in Politics and Theory from Plato to the Antinuclear Movement, America Goes to College: Political Theory for the Liberal Arts, and Too Young To Run? A Proposal for an AGE Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, among others. The Hook award is given for scholarship, undergraduate teaching and leadership in the liberal arts.
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Award for Distinguished Service to the Humanities
DOUGLAS GREENBERG is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University. The author and editor of many books and essays on the history of early America and American law, as well as on technology, scholarship and libraries, he also writes and speaks widely about the Holocaust, genocide and Jewish identity in the post-Holocaust United States. The Humanities award is given to individuals who have made significant contributions in one or more fields of the humanities.
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Both awards were presented on October 3 during the closing banquet of the 42nd Triennial Council of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, held in Austin, Tex.
John Seery (left) and Douglas Greenberg following the closing banquet
of the 42nd Council, October 3, Austin, Tex.
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