UF Faculty Publishes Article on Black Women in Phi Beta Kappa

Stephanie Evans, Assistant Professor of African-American Studies and Women's Studies and Gender Issues at the University of Florida, published an article in the Winter 2005 issue of the Key Reporter, the Phi Beta Kappa Newsletter.  The article is entitled, "Recent Research Rewrites Society's History with Identity of First Black Woman Member." Evans' research revealed that Mary Annette Anderson was inducted into the PBK chapter of Middlebury College in Connecticut in 1899. It was previously believed that Jessie Redmon Fauset (1905, Cornell) had been the first black woman initiate.