Phi Beta Kappa

Resident Members are members of Phi Beta Kappa who hold faculty or staff positions at the University of Mississippi. These members are responsible for conducting chapter business.

• Patrick Alexander – English and African American Studies
• Heather Allen – Modern Languages
• Jake Bennett – Physics & Astronomy
• Lee M. Cohen – College of Liberal Arts and Psychology
• Robert Colby – History
• Donald Dyer – College of Liberal Arts and Modern Languages
• Cristin Ellis – English
• Deborah Gochfeld – National Center for Natural Products Research
• Richard Gordon – Electrical Engineering
• April Holm – History
• Joshua Howard – History
• Catherine Janasie – Mississippi Law Research Institute
• Jonah Jurss – Chemistry & Biochemistry
• John Lobur – Classics
• Neil Manson – Philosophy & Religion
• Emily Maples – Modern Languages
• Daniell Mattern – Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Kathryn McKee – English and Southern Studies
• Chris Melton – School of Business Administration
• Micah Baruch Milinovich – Mathematics
• Stephanie Moussalli – Accountancy
• Matthew Murray – Sociology & Anthropology
• Daniel O’Sullivan – Modern Languages
• Charlotte Parks – University Development
• Molly Pasco-Pranger – Classics
• Eva Payne – History
• Sandra Spiroff – The Graduate School and Mathematics
• Henry Thompson – Economics
• Mary Thurlkill – Philosophy & Religion
• Noell Wilson – History

EMERITUS MEMBERS

• Luanne Buchanan – Modern Languages
• Larry Bush – Law
• Michael Danahy – Modern Languages
• Maurice Eftink – Chemistry
• Robbie Ethridge – Anthropology and Southern Studies
• Benjamin Fisher – English
• Ann Fisher-Wirth – English
• Jean Gispen – Employee Health Center
• Kees Gispen – Croft Institute for International Studies and History
• Sydney Green – Arabic Flagship
• Rhona Justice-Malloy – Theatre Arts
• Marjorie Holland – Biology
• Donald Kartiganer – English
• Colby Kullman – English
• Sarah Moses – Philosophy & Religion
• Robert Moysey – Classics
• Ted Ownby – History and Southern Studies
• William Schenck – Croft Institute
• Ronald Schroeder – English
• Warren Steel – Music
• Maribeth Stolzenburg – Physics & Astronomy
• Jeffrey Scott Vitter – Computer & Information Science
• Jay Watson – English
• Peter Wirth – English

Foundation Members were elected for their significant scholarly contributions and to help organize the Chapter. These members were inducted at the Chapter Installation Ceremony on April 6, 2001.

Arthur C. Guyton (deceased)
Physician; Emeritus Professor and Chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center; author of Textbook of Medical Physiology, a widely used standard medical text; developer of a computer model of the human body which led to important discoveries about the nature of blood pressure and the role of the kidneys in blood pressure; undergraduate alumnus of the University of Mississippi.

Josephine Ayres Haxton (Ellen Douglas) (deceased)
Author and novelist writing as Ellen Douglas; winner of the Houghton-Mifflin Fellowship Award in 1962 for A Family’s Affairs; nominated for the National Book Award in 1973 for Apostles of Light; Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Literature Award recipient in 1979 and 1982; received the Hillsdale Award for Fiction in 1989 from the Fellowship of Southern Writers in recognition of her entire body of work; former Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi; undergraduate alumna of the University of Mississippi.

Robert C. Khayat 
Fifteenth Chancellor of the University of Mississippi; Professor, University of Mississippi School of Law; received the Distinguished American Award from the National Football Foundation and the National Football League Career Achievement Award; led the revitalization of the University of Mississippi through increased student enrollment, campus enhancement projects, new educational programs, expanded research funding, and greatly increased endowment from private donors; alumnus of the University of Mississippi.

Robert P. Moses (deceased)
Developer of The Algebra Project, a program to help minority students learn the fundamentals of mathematics; co-author, with Charles E. Cobb, Jr., of Radical Equations—Organizing Math Literacy in America’s Schools; civil rights movement organizer; former Field Secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; undergraduate alumnus of Hamilton College.

William F. Winter (deceased)
Former Governor of the State of Mississippi; fought for and won an education reform program for the state; proponent of equal opportunity for all races and of better relations between the races; served on President Clinton’s Advisory Board of the President’s Initiative on Race; Jamie Whitten Professor of Law and Government at the University of Mississippi School of Law (Fall 1989); alumnus of the University of Mississippi.

Graduates of the University of Mississippi elected for their significant contributions since graduation.

D. Ronald Musgrove
Former Governor of the State of Mississippi; strong and effective advocate for high quality, public education at all levels; secured scholarship funds for Mississippi teachers; quadrupled the number of Master Teachers in the State; signed the education reform bill that would ensure proven educational programs were funded first in the State’s budgeting process.

Inducted on April 2, 2004.

Raymond E. Mabus

Secretary Mabus served as Governor of Mississippi from 1988 to 1992, the United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 1994 to 1996, and the United States Secretary of the Navy from 2009 to 2017. Secretary Mabus developed the Gulf Coast Restoration Plan after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of the Environmental Defense Fund and José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen. He is Chairman of InStride, a public benefit education company, a senior advisor to Google Ventures, a director of two public companies, and one of the top fifty CEOs in America, as selected by Glassdoor. Secretary Mabus is a native of Ackerman, Mississippi, and received a Bachelor’s Degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Mississippi in 1969, a Master’s Degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1971, and a Law Degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1975.  Secretary Mabus served in the Navy as an officer aboard the cruiser USS Little Rock.

Inducted on April 3, 2020.

Clem Damon Miguel Moore

Dr. Moore (Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics) is the University of Mississippi’s twenty-third Rhodes Scholar. He is also the first African American elected to a Rhodes Scholarship from the state of Mississippi. Entering Ole Miss twenty years after James Meredith, Dr. Moore was a charter member of the University Honors Program. As a junior, he received the Taylor Medal for excellence in English. As a senior, he was president of the premed honor society AED. After graduating summa cum laude with a BA in English in 1986, Dr. Moore began his medical studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, taking a two-year leave of absence to earn a second BA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University, before returning to Hopkins to complete his MD in 1992. Dr. Moore completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle and then worked in Byhalia, Mississippi, as a pediatrician in the National Health Service Corps. For the last twenty-three years he has been a physician partner in private practice in northern Virginia. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic and, since 2015, chaired the Charitable Foundation and Philanthropic Committee of Loudoun Medical Group. Dr. Moore was one of two pediatricians nationally recognized with the Local Heroes Award by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2012. While Dr. Moore’s first newborn patients are now in graduate school, he continues his work with the next generation as physician, mentor, and friend.

Inducted on April 3, 2020.

John Guyton, MD

John Richard Guyton is a Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Pathology at Duke University School of Medicine.  He received his BS from the University of Mississippi (1969) and MD from Harvard University (1973). His current research efforts focus on the role of niacin in clinical lipid practice.

Inducted on April  14, 2023

Kit Hansell Bowen, Jr.

Kit Hansell Bowen, Jr. is the E. Emmet Reid Professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University.  He received his BS from the University of Mississippi (1970), and his MS (1973) and MD (1977) from Harvard University. Professor Bowen’s research interests are centered around clusters and nanoparticles.

Inducted on April 14, 2023