44 inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Beta Kappa, America’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor society, has 44 new members from Connecticut College’s Class of 2018.
Since its founding in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa has championed education, fostered freedom of thought and recognized academic excellence. Only 10 percent of U.S. colleges and universities have Phi Beta Kappa chapters and each chapter selects only 10 percent of its arts and sciences graduates to join. The Delta of Connecticut Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society was installed at Connecticut College on February 13, 1935.
Each year, the College selects a small group of exceptional scholars for Phi Beta Kappa membership in February. These seniors receive the designation of Winthrop Scholar, the highest academic honor bestowed by the College.
This year, 14 Winthrop Scholars and 30 graduating seniors were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa at a ceremony during Commencement weekend. The ceremony featured remarks by chapter president and Professor of Philosophy Lawrence Vogel; chair of the membership committee, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Associate Dean of the College for Curriculum Christopher Hammond; chapter historian and Assistant Professor of English Michelle Neely; and Associate Dean of the College Marina Melendez.
At the ceremony, Geoffrey Babbitt ’03 was honored as the 2018 Phi Beta Kappa Poet. Babbitt is the author of Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light, which was a finalist for the Colorado Prize for Poetry, the Robert Kroetsch Award in Innovative Poetry, the Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize, the Madeleine P. Plonsker Innovative Poetry First Book Prize and the New Measure Poetry Prize. His poems and essays have appeared in many literary journals, including North American Review, Pleiades, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Notre Dame Review, TYPO, Tarpaulin Sky and The Collagist. Babbitt holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah and is now an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, where he coedits Seneca Review.
Three alumni and one member of the Class of 2018 were also awarded Phi Beta Kappa scholarships for graduate study. The 2018 recipients are Sophia DeLevie-Orey ’15, who is pursuing a Master of Science in Nursing from Yale University; Dominique D’Onofrio ’18, who is pursuing a Master of Arts in Transnational Crime, Justice and Security from the University of Glasgow; Sarah Joelson ’15, who is pursuing a Doctor of Psychology from Stanford University School of Medicine; and Jordan Thomas ’15, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
The 2018 Phi Beta Kappa inductees are:
* indicates designation as a Winthrop Scholar
Julia Korp Boldrick ’18
Major: Environmental Studies
Cecilia McNeill Bole ’18
Majors: Classics and Philosophy
Minor: Dance
Hanako Imai Brais ’18
Majors: Anthropology and French
Rebecca Claire Brill Weitz ’18*
Major: Student Designed Interdisciplinary Major-Performance Design and Technology
Minor: Dance
Kelly Ann Carlson ’18
Majors: Architectural Studies and Dance
Minor: Environmental Studies
Annette Dueck Davis ’18*
Majors: Anthropology and Hispanic Studies
Madeleine Closey Dickey ’18*
Majors: Dance and Global Islamic Studies
Dominique Ariana D’Onofrio ’18
Majors: Classics and Italian Studies
Kerry Lynn Dugandzic
Majors: Global Islamic Studies and Government
Minor: Arabic Studies
Thomas Benoit Edwards ’18
Major: Computer Science
Minor: Applied Statistics
Bruno Rowan Ulrich Eire ’18
Major: History
Kelley Janet Fairman ’18*
Majors: Dance and Economics
Minor: Environmental Studies
Catherine Malaine Florentine ’18
Major: Biochemistry, Chemistry and Molecular Biology
Minor: Dance
Caroline Evans Glass ’18
Major: International Relations
Minors: Arabic Studies and Economics
Kate Elizabeth Carlson Goldberg ’18
Major: American Studies
Minor: Environmental Studies
Mary Angela Goulding ’18*
Major: Psychology
Minors: Dance and Philosophy
Jonathan Keith Greiner ’18
Major: Mathematics
Minor: French
Kali Jiang Guise ’18
Majors: French and Gender and Women’s Studies
Laura Anne Henderson ’18*
Majors: Psychology and Sociology
Minor: Africana Studies
Maia Carroll Hibbett ’18
Majors: English and Latin American and Latino Studies
Sarah Katrin Hyde ’18
Majors: Anthropology and Human Development
Minor: Dance
Stephanie Elizabeth Jackvony ’18*
Majors: Behavioral Neuroscience and Philosophy
Fiona Rose Kinmonth ’18
Major: Biological Sciences
Minor: Art
Rebecca Thier Kremens ’18
Major: Psychology
Minor: Human Development
Michelle Briana Lee ’18*
Major: International Relations
Minors: French and Global Islamic Studies
Hayley McMahon ’18
Major: Biological Sciences
Micaela Lynne Nee ’18
Majors: Art and Psychology
Edward Goodison Parsons V ’18*
Major: Economics
Minors: Government and Mathematics
Alexandra Hull Potts ’18
Major: Psychology
Minor: Linguistics
Emma Ward Race ’18*
Majors: English and Latin American and Latino Studies
Sarah Hoffman Rakin ’18
Major: English
Minor: History
Christina Elyse Longeway Rankin ’18
Majors: Economics and Government
Kori Lynn Rimany ’18
Majors: English and Gender and Women’s Studies
Minor: Mathematics
Caroline Sawyer Smith ’18*
Major: Sociology
Minor: Human Development
Ruichen Sun ’18*
Major: Psychology
Nikolas McGeary Theopold ’18
Major: ACS Certified Chemistry
Minor: Mathematics
Minh Nhat Tran ’18
Major: ACS Certified Chemistry
Minor: Economics
Elizabeth Ashley Varoli ’18
Majors: Government and History
Asa B Waterworth ’18
Majors: Africana Studies and French
Minor: Psychology
Albert Francis Webson ’18
Majors: Government and Mathematics
Minors: Computer Science and Economics
Hannah Meredith Wing ’18
Major: Psychology
Minor: Sociology
Justin Thomas Winokur ’18*
Major: International Relations
Minors: French and German Studies
Yi Xie ’18
Majors: Computer Science and Film Studies
Fei Xue ’18*
Majors: Art and Art History
