The Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association is one of the
largest and most active PBK alumni associations in the country

Scholarship and  Teaching Excellence Awards - April,  2024

In fulfillment of its mission to encourage scholarship and research, the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association is honoring the following outstanding Phi Beta Kappa graduate students with $10,000 scholarship awards to assist them in completing their educational objectives:

The Scholarship Awards for 2024 were presented to:

M. Taylor Black, UC Davis, History

Louisa Brandt, UC Davis, History

Sophie Cushman, UC Berkeley, Classical Archaeology

Brianne Felsher, UC Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy

S. Freeman, UC Berkeley, Geography

Alexia Hernandez, Stanford, Linguistics (Reed Scholarship)

Sarah Manney, Stanford Law, Law (Hendess Scholarship)

Marilyn Steyert, UC San Francisco, Biomedical Science (Hardardt Scholarship)

Yisheng Tang, UC Berkeley, Japanese Language

Alex Ullman, UC Berkeley, English

Yutong Zhan, UC Davis, History (Norall Scholarship)

Seth Zupanc, UC San Francisco, Medicine

The Scholarship Committee: Jeff Fenton, Lynne Fovinci, Rona Giffard, Judith Hardardt, Jean James, Joanne Sandstrom (Chair)

The Teaching Excellence Award, given to teachers nominated by their students, consists of a Certificate and a $1000 honorarium

The Teaching Excellence Awards for 2024 were presented to:

Sophia Azeb, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UC Santa Cruz

Olivia Bailey, Philosophy, UC Berkeley (Hasenkamp Award)

Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg, Legal Studies, UC Berkeley

Erik Ellis, Writing and Rhetoric Studies, Stanford

Peter Minowitz, Political Science, Santa Clara University

Giovanni Peri, Economics, UC Davis

Wendy Salkin, Philosophy, Stanford

Nasser Zakariya, Rhetoric, UC Berkeley

Teaching Excellence Committee: Andrea Braga, Melisa Lasell, Leilani Miller, Melissa Stevens (Chair)