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Officers and Selection Committees

Officers, Committees for Members in Course, Annual Meetings, and Installation Ceremonies of Omicron of California Chapter San Francisco State University.

Officers (2022-2023)

Masahiko Minami, President, e-mail: mminami@sfsu.edu
Michael Goldman, Vice President, e-mail: goldman@sfsu.edu
Eva Sheppard Wolf, Secretary, e-mail: shepwolf@sfsu.edu
Maxine J. Lee, Treasurer, e-mail: mclee@sfsu.edu

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Michael Goldman, Chair
Robert Cherny
David Bao
Susan Roe
Mihaela Mihailova

Installation Ceremony Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 14:30 to 17:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Humanities Symposium Room (587)

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Robert W. Cherny, Professor Emeritus of History

Officers (2022)

Masahiko Minami, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
Eva Sheppard Wolf, Secretary
Lisa Takeyama, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Michael Goldman, Chair
Robert Cherny
Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir
Samuel McCormick

Installation Ceremony Date: Monday, June 20, 2022 - 14:00 to 16:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Zoom

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Robert W. Cherny, Professor Emeritus of History

Officers (2021)

Masahiko Minami, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
Eva Sheppard Wolf, Secretary
Lisa Takeyama, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Michael Goldman, Chair
Robert Cherny
Kimberly D Tanner
Susan J Roe

Installation Ceremony Date: Thursday, August 12, 2021 - 14:00 to 16:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Zoom

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Robert W. Cherny, Professor Emeritus of History

Officers (2020)

Masahiko Minami, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
Eva Sheppard Wolf, Secretary
Lisa Takeyama, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Michael Goldman, Chair
Robert Cherny
Samuel McCormick
Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir
Susan Roe

Installation Ceremony Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - 15:00 to 16:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Zoom

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Robert W. Cherny, Professor Emeritus of History

Officers (2019)

Masahiko Minami, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
Eva Sheppard Wolf, Secretary
Lisa Takeyama, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Michael Goldman, Chair
Robert Cherny
Samuel McCormick
Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir
Susan Roe

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 3, 2019 - 15:00 to 17:00

Installation Ceremony Location: J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 121 (Events Room)

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Leslie Wong, President, San Francisco State University

Officers (2018)

Masahiko Minami, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
Eva Sheppard Wolf, Secretary
Lisa Takeyama, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Michael Goldman, Chair
Robert Cherny
Samuel McCormick
Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdottir
Susan Roe

Installation Ceremony Date: Thursday, May 3, 2018 - 15:00 to 17:00

Installation Ceremony Location: J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 121 (Events Room)

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Jennifer Summit, Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs

Officers (2017)

Masahiko Minami, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
Eva Sheppard Wolf, Secretary
Lisa Takeyama, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Michael Goldman, Chair
Robert Cherny
Dawn Terrell
Samuel McCormick
Susan Roe
Gretchen L George

Annual Meeting Date: Thursday, April 6, 2017 - 14:15

Annual Meeting Location: HSS 143

Installation Ceremony Date: Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 15:00 to 17:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Administration Building Fifth Floor Patio

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Joel Kassiola, Professor, Department of Political Science College of Liberal & Creative Arts San Francisco State University

Officers (2016)

Masahiko Minami, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
Eva Sheppard Wolf, Secretary
Lisa Takeyama, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Michael Goldman, Chair
Robert Cherny
Dawn Terrell
Samuel McCormick
Susan J Roe

Annual Meeting Date: Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 14:30

Annual Meeting Location: HSS 143

Installation Ceremony Date: Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 15:00 to 17:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Administration Building Fifth Floor Patio

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Anita Silvers, Chair Philosophy Department, College of Liberal & Creative Arts, San Francisco State University

Officers (2015)

Masahiko Minami, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
Eva Sheppard Wolf, Secretary
Lisa Takeyama, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Michael Goldman, Chair
Philip J. Dreyfus
Samuel McCormick
Susan Roe
Dawn Terrell

Annual Meeting Date: Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 11:30 to 12:30

Annual Meeting Location: Humanities 473

Installation Ceremony Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 - 16:00 to 18:00

Installation Ceremony Location: J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 121 (Events Room)

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Sheldon Axler, Dean, College of Science & Engineering

Officers (2014)

Masahiko Minami, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
Eva Sheppard Wolf, Secretary
Lisa Takeyama, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Michael Goldman, Chair
Robert Cherny
Dawn Terrell
Samuel McCormick
Susan J Roe

Annual Meeting Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 14:00

Annual Meeting Location: HSS 143

Installation Ceremony Date: Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 16:00 to 18:00

Installation Ceremony Location: J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 121 (Events Room)

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Paul Sherwin, Dean of the College of Liberal & Creative Arts

Officers (2013)

Pamela Vaughn, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
Masahiko Minami, Secretary
Lisa Takeyama, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Michael Goldman, Chair
Robert Corrigan
Joel Kassiola
Isabelle Pafford
Kimberly Tanner

Annual Meeting Date: Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 15:00

Annual Meeting Location: Humanities 474

Installation Ceremony Date: Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 16:00

Installation Ceremony Location: J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 121 (Events Room)

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Helen Goldsmith, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies

Officers (2012)

Pamela Vaughn, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
Masahiko Minami, Secretary
Lisa Takeyama, Treasurer

Annual Meeting Location: ADM 550

Installation Ceremony Location: Seven Hills Center

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Robert A. Corrigan, President, SF State

Officers (2011)

Pamela Vaughn, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
Masahiko Minami, Secretary
Lisa Takeyama, Treasurer

Annual Meeting Location: HUM 587

Installation Ceremony Location: Seven Hills Center

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Kelli E. Stanley, M.A. (2000 SF State alumna)

Officers (2010)

Rachelle Waksler, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
David Leitao, Secretary
Lisa Takeyama, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Michael Goldman, Chair
Philip Dreyfus
David Meredith
Dawn Terrell
Pamela Vaughn

Installation Ceremony Date: Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Seven Hills Center

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Provost Sue V. Rosser

Officers (2009)

Rachelle Waksler, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
David Leitao, Secretary
Lisa Takeyama, Treasurer

Officers (2008)

Beverly Voloshin, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
David Leitao, Secretary
Dan Buttlaire, Treasurer

Officers (2007)

Beverly Voloshin, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
David Leitao, Secretary
Dan Buttlaire, Treasurer

Officers (2006)

Betty Blecha, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
David Leitao, Secretary
Dan Buttlaire, Treasurer
Betty Blecha, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
David Leitao, Secretary
Dan Buttlaire, Treasurer

Officers (2005)

Betty Blecha, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
Gilbert Herdt, Secretary
David Meredith, Treasurer

Officers (2004)

Betty Blecha, President
Michael Goldman, Vice President
Gilbert Herdt, Secretary
David Meredith, Treasurer

Officers (2003)

Betty Blecha, President
Bill Bonds, Vice President
Dawn Terrell, Secretary
David Meredith, Treasurer

Officers (2002)

Betty J. Blecha, President
William N. Bonds, Vice President
Dawn Terrell, Secretary
David B. Meredith, Treasurer

Officers (2001)

Rachel Kahn-Hut, President
Marguerite Murphy, Vice President
Stanley Bailis, Secretary
David B. Meredith, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Marguerite Murphy
Sheldon Axler
Christopher Jackson
Rachelle Waksler
Pamela Vaughn

Officers (2000)

Rachel Kahn-Hut, President
Marguerite Murphy, Vice President
Stanley Bailis, Secretary
David B. Meredith, Treasurer

Officers (1999)

Robert Cherny, President
Marguerite Murphy, Vice President
Jacques L. Hymans, Secretary
Betty Blecha, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Marguerite Murphy
Rachelle Waksler
Rachel Kahn-Hut
Pamela Vaughn

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 14, 1999 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Seven Hills Center

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Professor Eric Solomon (read by Professor Robert Cherny)

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Marguerite Murphy
Lee Davis
Christopher Jackson
Pamela Vaughn
Rachelle Waksler

Annual Meeting Date: Thursday, April 6, 2000 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: BSS Dean's Conference Room - HSS361

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 12, 2000 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Seven Hills Center

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Professor DeVere Pentony

Annual Meeting Location: BSS Dean's Conference Room - HSS361

Installation Ceremony Date: Thursday, May 11, 2000 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Seven Hills Center

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Professor Laurie Zoloth

Officers (1998)

Robert Cherny, President
Marguerite Murphy, Vice President
Jacques L. Hymans, Secretary
Betty Blecha, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Marguerite Murphy
Pamela Vaughn
William Issel
Rachel Kahn-Hut
Rachelle Waksler

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 15, 1998 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Guest Center

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Professor William N. Bonds

Officers (1997)

William Bonds, President
James Peters, Vice-President
Jacques L. Hymans, Secretary
Betty Blecha, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Jim Peter, Chair
William Bonds
Rachel Kahn-Hut
Pamela Vaughn
Rachelle Waksler

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 16, 1997 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Seven Hills Center

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Dean Joel Kassiola

Officers (1996)

William Bonds, President
James Peters, Vice-President
Jacques L. Hymans, Secretary
Betty Blecha, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Jim Peters
William Issel
Ggisela Nass
Eric Solomon
Rachelle Waksler

Annual Meeting Date: Thursday, April 18, 1996 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: Burk Hall - Room 311

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 10, 1996 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Guest Center

Officers (1995)

Gail Whitaker, President
James Peters, Vice-President
Jacques L. Hymans, Secretary
Betty Blecha, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

William Bonds, Consultant
Richard Giardina
Ggisela Nass
James Peters
Eric Solomon
Rachelle Waksler

Annual Meeting Date: Thursday, April 6, 1995 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: HSS 233

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 12, 1995 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Seven Hills Center

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Professor Lisa White

Officers (1994)

Gail Whitaker, President
James Peters, Vice-President
Jacques L. Hymans, Secretary
Betty Blecha, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Richard Giardina
Ggisela Nass
James Peters
Janet Sim
Rachelle Waksler

Annual Meeting Date: Wednesday, April 6, 1994 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: Verducci Room - University Club

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 13, 1994 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Seven Hills Center

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Professor Eric Solomon

Officers (1993)

Svetlana K. Vassilieff Thomson, President
William Bonds, Vice-President
Jacques L. Hymans, Secretary
Jerrold Jayne, Treasurer
Betty Blecha, Treasurer-elect

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Betty Blecha
James Peters
Janet Sim
Eric Solomon

Annual Meeting Date: Friday, April 23, 1993 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: President's Conference Room - ADM 562

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 21, 1993 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Guest Center

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Professor Gail Whitaker

Officers (1992)

Svetlana K. Vassilieff Thomson, President
William Bonds, Vice-President
Jacques L. Hymans, Secretary
Jerrold Jayne, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Betty Blecha
Marguerite Murphy
Beverly Ovrebo
May Shih

Annual Meeting Date: Thursday, April 23, 1992 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: President's Conference Room - ADM 562

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 8, 1992 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Seven Hills Center

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Professor Bernice Biggs

Officers (1991)

Svetlana K. Vassilieff Thomson, President
William Bonds, Vice-President
Jacques L. Hymans, Secretary
Jerrold Jayne, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Marguerite Murphy
Beverly Ovrebo
Wayne Peterson
May Shih

Annual Meeting Date: Thursday, April 18, 1991 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: Verducci Room - University Club

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 10, 1991 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Seven Hills Center

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Professor DeVere Pentony

Officers (1990)

Svetlana K. Vassilieff Thomson, President
Williams Bonds, Vice-President
Jacques L. Hymans, Secretary
Jerrold Jayne, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Daniel Buttlaire
Patricia Lee
Beverly Ovrebo
May Shih

Annual Meeting Date: Monday, April 23, 1990 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: Verducci Room - University Club

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 11, 1990 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Seven Hills Center

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Provost Marilyn Boxer

Officers (1989)

Jacques L. Hymans, President
Svetlana K. Vassilieff Thomson, Vice-President
Jean DeSales Bertram, Secretary
Jerrold Jayne, Treasurer

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Daniel Buttlaire
Theodore Jitodai
Max Kirkeberg
Patricia Lee

Annual Meeting Date: Wednesday, March 29, 1989 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: Vercucci Room - University Club

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 12, 1989 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Seven Hills Center

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Dean Robin Roger Ekins (Butte College)

Officers (1988)

Jacques L. Hymans, President
Svetlana K. Vassilieff Thomson, Vice-President
Jean De Sales Bertram, Secretary
Jerrold Jayne, Treasurer
Bernice Biggs
Kay House, Acting President, Spring

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Svetlana Thomson
Eric Moe
Dan Buttlaire
Ted Jitodai

Annual Meeting Date: Thursday, March 24, 1988 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: Library 434

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 6, 1988 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Seven Hills Center

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Professor Jean De Sales Bertram

Officers (1987)

Jacques L. Hymans, President
Svetlana K. Vassilieff Thomson, 25 February, 1987 Vice President (Interim)
Jean De Sales Bertram, Secretary
Jerrold Jayne, Treasurer
Bernice Biggs
Rachel Kahn-Hut

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Svetlana Thomson
Kay House
Bernice Biggs
Jerrold Jayne

Annual Meeting Date: Wednesday, February 25, 1987 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: Verducci Room - University Club

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, March 20, 1987 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Seven Hills Center

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Professor Ernan McMullin (Notre Dame University)

Officers (1986)

Jacques L. Hymans, President
R. Newby Schweitzer, Vice President
Jean De Sales Bertram, Secretary
Jerrold Jayne, Treasurer
Myron J. Lunine
Rachel Kahn-Hut

Selection Committee for Members in Course

R. Newby Schweitzer
Jean De Sasles Bertram
Robert Cherny
Siegfried Neustadter
Svetlana Thomson

Annual Meeting Date: Wednesday, March 19, 1986 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: Verducci Room - University Club

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 9, 1986 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: University Club

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Professor Jacques Lodewijk Hymans

Officers (1985)

Daniel Buttlaire, President
Jean De Sales Bertram, Secretary
Peter Radcliff, Treasurer
Rachel Kahn-Hut
Myron J. Lunine

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Peter Radcliff
Maurice Bassan
Robert Cherny
Siegfried Neustadter
DeVere E. Pentony

Annual Meeting Date: Wednesday, March 13, 1985 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: Blakeslee Room - Thornton Hall

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 3, 1985 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: University Club

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Associate Provost Richard Giardina

Officers (1984)

Daniel Buttlaire, President
Steven R. Pease, Vice-President
Jean De Sales Bertram, Secretary
Peter Radcliff, Treasurer
Helen Heise
Rachel Kahn-Hut

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Steven Pease
John Fell
Kay House
Siegfried Neustadter
DeVere E. Pentony

Annual Meeting Date: Wednesday, March 14, 1984 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: Blakeslee Room - Thorton Hall

Installation Ceremony Date: Thursday, May 3, 1984 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: University Club

Installation Ceremony Speaker: President Chia-Wei Woo

Officers (1983)

Jon S. Galehouse, President
Jean De Sales Bertram, Vice President
Niel K. Snortum, Secretary
Peter Radcliff, Treasurer
Siegfried F. Neustadter
Helen Heise

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Jean De Sales Bertram
Daniel Buttlaire
William Dickey
Kay House
Steven Pease

Annual Meeting Date: Wednesday, March 16, 1983 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: Blakeslee Room - Thorton Hall

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 6, 1983 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: University Club

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Professor DeVere E. Pentony

Officers (1982)

Jon S. Galehouse, President
Jean De Sales Bertram, Vice President
Niel K. Snortum, Secretary
Peter Radcliff, Treasurer
Siegfried F. Neustadter

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Jean De Sales Bertram
William Dickey
John Stubbs
Steven Pease

Annual Meeting Date: Monday, March 22, 1982 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: Blakeslee Room - Thorton Hall

Installation Ceremony Date: Friday, May 7, 1982 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: University Club

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Professor Myron J. Lunine

Officers (1981)

Jean De Sales Bertram, President
R. Newby Schweitzer, Vice President
Niel K. Snortum, Secretary
Mimi Sayer, Treasurer
Jon S. Galehouse
Dorothy Molyneaux

Selection Committee for Members in Course

R. Newby Schweitzer
Helen Heise
Siegfried Neustadter
John Stubbs

Annual Meeting Date: Tuesday, March 17, 1981 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: Conference Room - Sixth Floor Library

Installation Ceremony Date: Thursday, May 14, 1981 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: University Club

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Poet and Professor William Dickey

Officers (1980)

Jean De Sales Bertram, President
Bernice P. Biggs, Vice President
Niel K. Snortum, Secretary
Mimi Sayer, Treasurer
Arthur Mejia
Jon S. Galehouse

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Bernice Biggs
Ted Jitodai
Siegfried Neustadter
R. Newby Schweitzer
Roger Williams

Annual Meeting Date: Friday, May 16, 1980 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: Conference Room - Sixth Floor Library

Installation Ceremony Date: Thursday, May 22, 1980 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: University Club

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Librarian and professor Eric Solomon

Officers (1979)

William N. Bonds, President
Bernice P. Biggs, Vice President
Niel K. Snortum, Secretary
Mimi Sayer, Treasurer
Arthur Mejia
Jon S. Galehouse

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Bernice Biggs
Roy Burwen
Jon S. Galehouse
David Meredith
R. Newby Schweitzer

Annual Meeting Date: Friday, May 16, 1980 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: Conference Room - Sixth Floor Library

Installation Ceremony Date: Thursday, May 24, 1979 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Faculty Reading Room - Leonard Library

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Provost Lawrence Ianni

Officers (1978)

William N. Bonds, President
Arthur Mejia, Vice President
Jean De Sales Bertram, Secretary
Joseph Axelrod
Richard C. Giardina

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Arthur Mejia
Grace G. Cox
Jon S. Galehouse
Maxine Goldberg

Annual Meeting Date: Wednesday, April 19, 1978 (All day)

Annual Meeting Location: University Club

Installation Ceremony Date: Thursday, May 25, 1978 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: Faculty Reading Room - Leonard Library

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Professor Joseph Axelrod

Officers (1977)

William N. Bonds, President
Arthur Mejia, Vice President
Jean De Sales Bertram, Secretary
Daniel H. Buttlaire, Treasurer
Joseph Axelrod
Richard C. Giardina

Selection Committee for Members in Course

Arthur Mejia
Grace G. Cox
Maxine Goldberg
Kay S. House
John Stubbs

Installation Ceremony Date: Thursday, May 26, 1977 - 17:00 to 19:00

Installation Ceremony Location: DeBellis Room - Leonard Library

Installation Ceremony Speaker: Secretary Kenneth Green of the United Chapters

Initiation Ceremony and Reception

The most recent Phi Beta Kappa Annual Initiation Ceremony was held on Friday, May 10, 2024, from 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM in the Library Events Room (121). For further information, please contact Dr. Michael Goldman: goldman@sfsu.edu.

Previous Visiting Scholars

Paula Stephan (2019)

Paula Stephan is professor of economics, Georgia State University and a research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research focuses on the economics of science and the careers of scientists and engineers. Recent work examines how bibliometric measures discourage risk taking in science, the relationship between international mobility and scientific productivity, how gender pairing between student and advisor relates to the productivity of PhD recipients and the economics of the postdoctoral position. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and member of the Board of Reviewing Editors, Science. She was named ScienceCareers’ first Person of the Year in 2012. Stephan is a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Stephan has published numerous articles in such journals as The American Economic Review, The Journal of Economic Literature, Management Science, Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Organization Science, PLOS One, Research Policy and Science. Her book How Economics Shapes Science was published by Harvard University Press, 2012 and has been translated into Chinese and Korean. An earlier book, Striking the Mother Lode in Science (co-authored with Sharon Levin) was published in 1992 by Oxford University Press. Her research has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.

Stephan currently serves on the National Academies Committee on the Next Generation of Researchers Initiative and the SUNY Research Council. In the recent past she served on the National Research Council’s Board of Higher Education and Workforce and the Committee to Review the State of the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers. She served on the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council, National Institutes of Health 2005-2009 and served on the Advisory Committee of the Social, Behavioral, and Economics Program, National Science Foundation, 2001-2008 (CEOSE, 2001-2003).

Stephan has held visiting positions at the Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Harvard University, International Center for Economic Research, Turin, Italy, and the Wizzenschaftszentrum für Social Forschung, Berlin, Germany. Stephan received her undergraduate degree in economics from Grinnell College (Phi Beta Kappa) and her PhD from the University of Michigan.

The Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar program events are supported by the Provost’s Office, the College of Science and Engineering, the Economics Department, and the National and local Omicron chapter Phi Beta Kappa.

Philip Kitcher (2017)

Philip Kitcher is John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia. His books include Living with Darwin (Lannan Foundation Notable Book Award); Science in a Democratic Society; The Ethical Project; Preludes to Pragmatism; Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach; and Life After Faith. A new book on climate change, The Seasons Alter: How to Save our Planet in Six Acts, co-authored with Evelyn Fox Keller, will be published by W.W. Norton in April 2017.

Past president of the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division and a former editor-in-chief of Philosophy of Science, he was the first recipient of the APA’s Prometheus Prize in recognition of his “contribution to expanding the frontiers of research in philosophy and science.” He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been honored by Columbia with its Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award and a Distinguished Service to the Columbia College Core Curriculum Award. He has been a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and, in the Fall of 2015, was the Daimler Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He received the Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship in Philosophy in 2003-2004.

Bambi Schieffelin (2015)

Bambi B. Schieffelin is a linguistic anthropologist who received her Master of Arts in developmental psychology and her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University. Her main research interests are centered in the ways in which linguistic and cultural practices are intertwined in contexts of language use and social interaction. She has been instrumental in developing the fields of language socialization and language ideology, and has investigated linguistic and cultural change, the introduction of literacy and translation and missionization.

Thomas Bender (2010)

Thomas Bender joined the faculty of New York University in 1974, where he now holds the position of University Professor of the Humanities and professor of history. He has been a visiting professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris and at the University of Venice. At NYU he has also served as chair of the history department and Dean for Humanities. He has held fellowships at Princeton’s Davis Center for Historical Studies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, as well as a Getty Scholar and holder of fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

His research interests span the history of cities, intellectual and cultural history, including the history of universities and academic disciplines, urban culture, forms of narrative in history, and, most recently, the global context of American history. Publications include A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History; Rethinking American History in a Global Age; New York Intellect; The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea; and American Higher Education Transformed, 1940-2005. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of American History and Modern Intellectual History.

Public Lecture: Putting the United States into World History

This lecture will outline the close relation of the discipline of history to the making of the modern nation-state and the gradual move way from that tight bond. In the past twenty years, however, historians-prompted, I think, by talk of multiculturalism and globalization--have been encouraged to explore more transnational approaches to American history. These developments have even suggested a new definition of national history as the sum or integration of histories larger and smaller than the nation. More generally, I will argue that American history is inseparable from global history and provide illustrations of how this produces significant interpretations of major events in American history, including the American Revolution and the Civil War.