Stanford Humanities Center
May 28, 2026
The five Hume Fellows, who were supported this year by the Stanford Humanities Center, include Sita Antel, Caspar Griffin, Kastella Nguyen, Kristine Pashin, and Catherine Titzer. They are among the 229 inductees Stanford has selected for its 2026 Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) class. Ten percent of each graduating class is elected by the University based on excellence of study across the liberal arts and sciences.
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“It’s lovely to be joining the nation’s oldest and most historical honor society,” said Antel ’26 MA ’27. “I was very shocked and surprised.”
To Antel, her PBK induction is especially meaningful as it represents “my four years of mainly humanities scholarship at Stanford, which is a school not necessarily known for its humanities or social sciences as much as it should be.”
Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest academic honor society and recognizes students for undergraduate academic accomplishments. Stanford’s chapter, the second in California, was established in 1903. PBK members include notable figures in history, including W.E.B Du Bois, Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Helen Keller.
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