PI DELTA PHI

Pi Delta Phi, a French Honor society, was founded at the University of California at Berkeley in 1906. The purpose of the Society is to recognize outstanding scholarship in the French language and its literature and to stimulate cultural activities. The society was admitted to membership in the Association of College Honor Societies in 1967. Today it numbers more than 300 chapters in almost every state in the United States.

The purpose of the Society is to recognize outstanding scholarship in the French language and its literatures, to increase the knowledge and appreciation of Americans for the cultural contributions of the French-speaking world, and to stimulate and to encourage French and francophone cultural activities.

The Kappa Beta Chapter at The American University of Paris was established in 1987 on the initiative of Dean Charlotte Lacaze. Maud Nicolas, the chapter's moderator for the last 14 years, was awarded a Pi Delta Phi medal in 1997 in recognition of her work.

Every year, the chapter holds an initiation ceremony to welcome the new members, French Majors or Minors with outstanding achievement. Every summer, AUP offers a full tuition summer session scholarship to an undergraduate Pi Delta Phi member chosen through a US-wide selective examination.

2017

Regular members
Clara Zimmerman
Heather Linebaugh
Brittany Paquay

Honorary member
Christine Tomasek

2016

Regular members
Ariana Mozafari
Daniel Umstaedter 

2014

Regular Members
Maren Hill
Kerrin Laferriere

2013

Regular Members
Pamela Lian
Alexandre Otto
Judith Rice
Chelsea White

2012

Regular members
Lisa Clark
Cody Marler

2010

Regular member
Margaret Malmquist-West

2009

Honorary member
Kevin Fore

Regular Members
Melinda Douangratdy
Rachel Levy
Paul McCain

2008

Regular members
Nicole Kaelin
Tylea Murray

2007

Regular members
Irina Angelova Kraicheva
Petra Prade
Kenneth Peyser
Zineb Ait Bahajji

2006

Regular members
Ashley Madsen
Laura Cook

2005

Regular members
Katherine Egan
Femke Peter
Timothy Aaron Priest
Shandy Schied

2003

Honorary member
Edith Taieb

Regular members
Simone de Meneses
Christopher Dean
Hugh Ehreth
Mariella Savvides
Ashleigh Stegeman
Anoosh Tertzakian

2002

Regular members
Alex Baughman
Liza Perez-Sanchez
Maria Lujan Tubio

2001

Regular members
Suwon Lee
Craig Mehron Partamian

2000

Regular members
Naomi Mccormick
Jessica Lee
Justin Scherer
Elisabeth Kendall
Camilla Rzewuski
Caleb Pagliasotti

1999

Honorary members
Dominique Mougel
Claudie Moy

Regular members
Hilary Charles-Betaille
Manyuk Chingmay Jo
Vera Litvinova
Ann Cecilia McGovern

1998

Regular member
Danielle James

1997

Regular members
Grace Koh
Amanda Oliver
Troy Blythe

1996

Regular members
Justin Hodges
theresa Le
Anna Mireille Tyson
Natalija Vysniauskaite

1995

Regular members
Leanne Brusacoram
Evan Dawson
Rebecca Deppner
Joseph Loux
Jon P. Tribell

1994

Regular members
Carrie Fiedler
Shawn Thane

1993

Honorary member
Henri-Robert Perez

Regular members
Karen Archer
Rachel Herr
Margaret Hicks
Maria Urionabarrenechea

1992

Regular member
Sandra Von Kendell

1991

Regular members
Harold Alexander Boling
Sanjeev Bhalla
Carrie Shaffer

1990

Honorary member
Marc Montheard

Regular members
Claire Hostalier
Aimee Nichols
Marie-Anne Ayavou
Frank Dohl

1989

Regular members
Karin Blixrud
Cecilia Cruz
Melynda Gierard
Richard Lerchbaum
Phoebe Lockwood
Mina Mehr-Dil
Robert Pianto
Jan Schwire

1988

Regular members
Jeanne-Cybele Bantowsky
Laleh Brown
Renee Bushore
Jennifer Mitchell

1987

Honorary members
Jean Bardot
Clelia Hutt
Maud Nicolas

Regular members
Patrick Bavasi
Mary-Ellen Santa-Lucia