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
Fagr Aboudaka reads James Baldwin and Trevor Noah to discuss the Supreme Court’s recent decision to rule against affirmative action at American colleges and universities.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Matthew Judd reads Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Susan Sontag to explore questions of performativity, authorship, and queer identity.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Joshua Kim reads Virginia Woolf and Cathy Park Hong to discuss questions of diversity and representation in the modern entertainment industry.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Lydia Kim reads Cathy Park Hong, Erika Lee, and Audre Lorde to explore complex questions of Asian American identity and shows how education is essential to understanding the past, addressing injustice in the present, and building solidarity for the future.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Wilson Mach reads John Stuart Mill, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and James Baldwin to discuss the question of free speech on college campuses and on social media.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Jubaida Miami reads Virginia Woolf and Nella Larsen to explore the long history of women’s oppression and offers hope for a freer, more equal future.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Lillian Palluzzi reads Alexis de Tocqueville and James Baldwin to offer perspectives on our current moment of political crisis and injustice, and shows us how better understanding America’s troubled past can enable us to confront and address its troubled present.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Shanthal Ramos Bueno reads Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Nella Larsen to show how education is essential to achieving a just, equal, and free society.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Eli Semmel discusses some of the lessons that Mary Shelley and Harlan Ellison can teach us as we confront the promises and perils of our new age of artificial intelligence.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Jake Sokolofsky explores how and to what extent Enlightenment reason and its corresponding systems produce individuals like Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann through a reading of Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, and Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment, as well as the intersecting ideas of Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, and Frederich Nietzsche.