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