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
Miranda Rodriguez Cruz reads Richard Rodriguez and Ta-Nehisi Coates to reflect on the meaning of American identity.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Alba Martinez reads Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem to show us that technological and scientific innovation must be guided by moral and ethical principles that put human well-being at their center.
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
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.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Matthew Sandoval reads Mary Shelley and Frederick Douglass to show how human connection is essential to living a fully human life.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Donovan Morrow reads John Weir and Ta-Nehisi Coates to explore the complex and multifaceted meanings of culture and identity in the twenty-first century.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Ava Frederick reads Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir to examine and critique the recent social media phenomenon of “Trad Wives” – those who deliberately embrace traditional female gender roles.
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.