Dr. Michael Galaty, associate professor of anthropology, will speak at the Phi Theta Kappa annual Honors Institute at the University of Richmond in Virginia June 22-26. The Honors Institute provides a weeklong opportunity for participants to hear challenging speakers address various aspects of the Society's interdisciplinary Honors Study Topic, engage in stimulating small-group discussions, and enjoy scholarly fellowship with their peers from Phi Theta Kappa chapters throughout the world.
Galaty, who is head of the Shala Valley Project in Albania, will speak on primatology, anthropology and archaeology and discuss both affluence and violence in human culture and their connection. He is one of five speakers who will explore the 2008-2010 Honors Study Topic, The Paradox of Affluence: Choices, Challenges, and Consequences.
"Our International Honors Institute is the 'crown jewel' of honors programming. It affords chapter members and advisors the opportunity to spend a week in intensive study of our Honors Study Topic," said Susan Edwards, Phi Theta Kappa's Dean of Academic Affairs and Honors Programs. "Participants will also have the opportunity to study and discuss the interconnection of our Society's Hallmarks of scholarship, leadership, service, and fellowship that we call the Phi Theta Kappa Experience and the ways in which their study can translate into Honors in Action programs that benefit their colleges and communities."
Each year Millsaps College offers a number of Phi Theta Kappa scholarships to active Phi Theta Kappa members based on academic performance, office positions held and other campus involvement and leadership activities.
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, is the largest honor society in American higher education with 1,250 chapters on college campuses in all 50 of the United States, Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the British Virgin Islands, the United Arab Emirates and U.S. territorial possessions. More than two million students have been inducted since its founding in 1918, with approximately 100,000 students inducted annually.
