Previous Visiting Scholars

Talitha Washington

In Spring of 2024, Indiana University’s Gamma chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) welcomed Talitha Washington, Director of the Atlanta University Center (AUC) Data Science Initiative and Professor of Mathematics at Clark Atlanta University, to Bloomington from February 26-27, 2024 as part of PBK’s Visiting Scholars program. This program brings distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines to campuses across the nation, and we were honored to host Dr. Washington when she spoke on “The Mathematics of the Hidden Figures” in which she uncovered the essential ideas created by Katharine Johnson that sent John Glenn into orbit and brought him back safely in a racially segregated era. This public lecture was on Monday, February 26, at 4:15pm in Chemistry Building 001.

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Kathryn Lofton

In 2023, Indiana University’s Gamma chapter of PBK welcomed Kathryn Lofton, the Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies and Professor of History and Divinity at Yale University, back to Bloomington from February 16-17, 2023. Previously an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Religious Studies at IU Bloomington, Dr. Lofton has written extensively about capitalism, popular culture, and the secular. She delivered a public lecture on Thursday, February 16, at 5:30 p.m. entitled “The Pulpit of Reason: Transphobia as Religious Practice” in the Grand Hall at Maxwell Hall.

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Nora Naranjo Morse

In 2016, the Gamma chapter participated in Phi Beta Kappa’s Visiting Scholars program, which brings distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines to campuses across the nation. Indiana University welcomed Nora Naranjo Morse, a sculptor and poet from Espanola, New Mexico, to Bloomington from November 2-5, 2016. Morse delivered a public lecture on Friday, November 5, at 5:00 p.m. entitled “Pueblo Women and Clay” in the State Room East in the IMU. The lecture was facilitated by Dr. Christina Buke from the Philbrook Museum of Art.

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Previous Visiting Scholars