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
Pauline Francez Gordula reads Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon and Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own to look at the history of women’s rights and the challenges women face in today’s society.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Alena Gutierrez examines the debate over abortion and women’s sexual agency by looking at its long history from Aristophanes and Mary Shelley to the present to show how oppressive gender roles affect society and the lives of individual women.
Civic Leadership Summit
Dylen and Maosuf write about thinking on their feet and adapting their teaching strategies to facilitate a conversation with their peers.
Civic Leadership Summit
At City College, students from different backgrounds read transformative texts on education and race.
Civic Leadership Summit
Kaly writes about being pleasantly surprised by his friends’ willingness to read and discuss challenging texts.
Civic Leadership Summit
Heaven writes about learning to foster dialogue in her campus reading group by listening and asking questions.
Civic Leadership Summit
At City College
Civic Leadership Summit
How Afsana stopped lecturing and started developing a dialogue with her reading group on education.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Tamba Jagana reads James Baldwin and Ta-Nehisi Coates to examine the power of love and education to overcome racial prejudice and discrimination in America.
Teagle Humanities Fellowship
Kwame Ankamah reads James Baldwin and Ta-Nehisi Coates to explore the real meaning of integration, and the necessity of transforming our education system in order to achieve it.