Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards

Throughout her career in the alternative investments sector, Deborah Festa has established herself as an industry leader in the Los Angeles area. Aside from her professional activities, Deborah Festa remains active in Phi Beta Kappa, a widely recognized academic honor society in the United States and beyond. Every December, Phi Beta Kappa gives out a number of book awards, which honor outstanding scholarly works in the U.S.

Typically drawn from fields such as social science, the natural sciences, mathematics, and the humanities, Phi Beta Kappa Book Award winners must be accessible to the general reader. First offered in 1959, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science recognizes the contributions of scientists to the literary field. Winners of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award typically submit interpretations of the cultural and intellectual condition of humanity. In the same vein, the Christian Gauss Award recognizes lscholars and critics who submit literary biographies with predominantly critical emphases.