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
Thanh Ta considers the role of women in society from antiquity to the present day and shows how women can take action and assert themselves to create a more equal society.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Bryan Zhao shares his story of his struggles with mental health while reflecting on the stories others have told about their own struggles with mental health to show us the power that storytelling can have to build empathy, connection, and spaces for healing.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Yordani Rodriguez reads philosopher Byung-Chul Han’s Non-Things and Plato’s Republic to consider the ways in which digital technology and social media have flattened our relationships with the world around us, with other people, and with ourselves.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Susana de la Torre reads Mary Shelley and Zora Neale Hurston to explore questions of racism, colorism, and the ways people discrimination against one another in order to show us how we can put aside our differences and come together as a community.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Serena Panucci reads Nella Larsen and Virginia Woolf to discuss the ongoing and multifaceted challenges faced by women in society today.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Zoharys Jaen reflects on her experience as a student journalist and reads Plato and Richard Rodriguez to explore the true meaning of education and shows us how we can reform our nation’s schools to make them institutions that promote learning as a process of radical self-transformation.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Ovyanna Williams reads Toni Morrison and James Baldwin to show how incorporating their texts into educational curriculums can provide students with a richer, more complex approach to Black history.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Nada Ibrahim reads Sigmund Freud and the philosopher James Williams to examine how influencers on the social media platform TikTok addict, exploit, and profit off their audience, and shows us ways we can use social media with purpose.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Mram Elhussain reads Toni Morrison and Cathy Park Hong to explore the many meanings of identity–and how to navigate those meanings in America today.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Mohamed Elrefaei reads Thucydides to show how understanding the dynamics of proxy wars from the ancient world can help us to understand the complex dynamics of similar conflicts today.