Micayla Nadeau-Williams

Allison Grenda, a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, received the 2026 Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship for exceptional young scholars in the field of Greek language, literature, history, or archaeology. Grenda graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles, and earned her master’s degree from the University of California, Davis.

Felipe De Brigard of Duke University and Sarah Robins (ΦBK, Hendrix College) of Purdue University have been named recipients of the 2026 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution. Their proposed symposium topic, “The Distinctiveness of Memory,” centers on a fundamental question at the intersection of philosophy and cognitive science: What, if anything, distinguishes memory from other cognitive capacities?

The Phi Beta Kappa Society awarded the 2026 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award to America, América: A New History of the New World (Penguin Press, 2025), by historian Greg Grandin (ΦBK, Brooklyn College). Presented annually, the Emerson Award recognizes a book of scholarly study that significantly contributes to our understanding of humanity’s intellectual and cultural condition.