Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship 2025

The professorship carries a stipend of $7,500, which will be awarded in addition to the recipient’s regular salary. The professorship is not renewable. The recipient will be expected to give a series of three special lectures during the year of the professorship. The lectures are to be given on or near the awardee’s home institution and must be open to the general public as well as to the academic community. The winner of the Professorship has the opportunity to prepare their lectures for publication in a monograph series that the Oxford University Press has created featuring Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Lectures. 

Required Documents:

• A brief explanation of the nominee’s current philosophical interests and how the nominee meets the following criteria: “The Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship in Philosophy is intended to recognize not only the distinguished achievement but also the recipient’s contribution or potential contribution to public understanding of philosophy.”

• The nominee’s curriculum vitae.

• Two letters, only, of support for the nominee. One of the letters should come from someone outside the sheltering institution. The letters should be written by individuals familiar with the nominee’s qualifications for the award.

• Three brief paragraphs outlining the overall scope or thesis of the proposed lecture series, as delivered in three parts. This need not be considered a binding proposal.