- 05.14.2021
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Associate Professor of Classics at Princeton University, on how he teaches Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan to high school students.
Watch videos of impassioned teacher-scholars on how they make texts accessible and engaging, how they encourage students to reflect on civic responsibilities, and the motivations they bring to reinvigorating the role of the humanities in general education.
- 03.25.2021
Roosevelt Montás, Senior Lecturer in American Studies at Columbia University, on how he teaches transformative texts to high school students, lifting up W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk as an example.
- 05.12.2022
Lerone Martin, Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center at Stanford University and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, on how he teaches Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
- 03.10.2023
Prudence Layne, Associate Professor of English and founder and director of the Freedom Scholars program at Elon University, on launching new Knowledge for Freedom programs, how to bring texts from the summer into the year-long civic program, and how to establish a relationship with the local community.