Knowledge for Freedom alumni are invited each summer to participate in fellowship programs to further explore major questions in political philosophy. Our most recent fellows’ essays are presented below in an anthology of student voices. These essays are the works of young scholars, and as such, reflect craftsmanship and ideas still in progress, and are written in the spirit of open inquiry.
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Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Alex Beltran asks what Virginia Woolf and Theodor Adorno would think of our era of digital distraction and fragmentation, and shows how ways we can reclaim our inner lives.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Jonah Kim reads Marcus Aurelius and Sigmund Freud to examine problems of violence and repression in America today.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Ariadna Torres Correa reads Sophocles and Herman Melville to explore the power of passive resistance, and shows how their lessons are relevant to America today.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Alanna Herbert reads Frederick Douglass, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sojourner Truth and others to show the many ways in which Black women’s lives belong at the center of the American story.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Yarile Jimenez Cuevas reads Richard Rodriguez and Cathy Park Hong to explore the question of multilingualism in America, and shows how embracing diversity strengthens American civic life.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Madeline Caro reads Cathy Park Hong and Richard Rodriguez to show us how reading can attune us to the experiences of others and help make our society more empathetic.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Yareli Miranda reads Alexis de Tocqueville and Ta-Nehisi Coates to explore questions of education, immigration, and democracy in contemporary America.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Sanovia Woods reads Richard Rodriguez and George Orwell to discuss questions of culture, class, and inequality in contemporary America.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Khadija Sankara reads Sigmund Freud and Mary Shelley to consider the ways in which the internet has made us less empathetic and more cruel, and shows us how we can recover and sustain our shared humanity.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Neyda Estefania reads Frederick Douglass and Mary Shelley to explore how education is a force with the power to both liberate and oppress, and shows us that the pursuit of knowledge must always be guided by moral principle.