Phi Beta Kappa selects 92 new Brandeis members

The Brandeis University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most prestigious undergraduate honor society in the country, has announced the election of 92 new members.

“It is always a privilege for our chapter to honor the new inductees,” said Alice Kelikian, associate professor of history and president of the Brandeis Phi Beta Kappa Chapter. “They represent distinction in coursework not only in their fields of concentration but also personify academic diversity in the liberal arts and sciences.”

Founded at the College of William and Mary in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa’s standards of excellence have made it one of the highest academic honors for college undergraduates. Selection for membership is based on the quality of the candidates’ academic record, the breadth of their scholarly interests beyond their concentration, and the judgments of the faculty and senior administrators concerning the intellectual achievements and character of the students. 

It took only 13 years from the university's founding in 1948 for Brandeis to be admitted into the Phi Beta Kappa community.

Of the new members, 84 come from the class of 2018 and 8 come from the class of 2019. The new members will be recognized in a ceremony May 12 at 1:30 p.m. at Spingold Theater.

Class of 2018: Charlotte Jeanne Aaron, Keren Mia Adler, Anthony Arcese, Luyi Bai, Jillian Dorris-Anna Baker, Emilia Ravn Boess, Micah Solomon Breiger, Tin Yiu Chan, Hannah Julia Chidekel, Daniella Sydney Cohen, Saul Joshua Cohen, Kristin Mary Diamantides, Catherine Teresa Eccleston, Zakaria El Amrani El Idrissi, Hengyang Fang, Benjamin Rui Lin Fong, Linda Ashlee Forrester, Emily Leah Galloway, Di Gan, Marian Kidist Eleanor Noiles Gardner, Rachel Gizella Geller, Emma Kate Gutman, Anisa Sadia Haque, Yujie He, Grace Elizabeth Hoefs, Miriam Rose Hood, Jingyuan Huang, Jacqueline Genevieve Jeon-Chapman, Qiongying Jiang, Daniel Maxwell Klein, Zachary G Kolar, Rachel Lynn Kriegsman, Rachel Paige Kurland, Felicia Dasom Lee, Ian Robert Leeds, Megan Rose Leubner, Piera Elizabeth Weber Licht, Meisui Liu, Siyuan Lyu, Melchior Herbert Julius Maetzener, Hannah Elizabeth Naomi Malin, Henry Timothy McDonald, Mira Chaya Mellman, Gabriella Elizabeth Nail, Eric Hayoung Paik, Alexander Edwin Peters, Rachel Lauren Portnoy, Gabriella Lauren Potter, Gali Amogha Rao, David Michael Ritzwoller, Benjamin Herman Rosenfeld, Carmi Joseph Rothberg, Jordan Raphael Saadon, Matthew Elijah Schattner, Robin Elizabeth Schectman, Faraz Shamsi, Kathryn R Shangraw, Alexandra Gabrielle Shapiro, Amanda Krystal Shilton, Avital Simone, Shoshanah Gilit Singer, Julia London Sirota, Sivan Spector, Michael Paul Spittler, Hannah Frankie Stewart, Stephanie Faye Strifert, Senmiao Sun, Elizabeth Ida Tilden, Kayleigh To, Yuying Wan, Ze Wang, Rebecca Rose Weiss, Nadisha Samadhi Wickramaratne, Maggie Wong, Benjamin Paul Woodhouse, Jason Xin, Kaitlyn Marie York, Sarah Magda Zainelabdin, Tong Zhan, Yucen Zhao, Amanda Zhou, Christine Yinie Zhu, Rachel T Zhu, Yue Zhu.

Class of 2019: Daniel Joshua Albert-Rozenberg, Rebecca Leah Cohen, Katherine E. Dorfman, Emma Joan Farrell, Mark Gregory, Erica Leigh Gunzelman, Sankirth V. Madabhushi, Julia Amber Tartaglia.

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