This academic year, the culmination of the Gallatin Scholars group experience—traveling—remains impossible. However, both the Albert Gallatin Scholars (AGS) and Deans Honor Society (DHS) students have continued to build community around various academic themes through virtual meetings.
Sinan Antoon, this year’s faculty mentor for AGS, has led the students to explore slavery and race in Muslim societies with trans-Atlantic connections. On October 19, Eve Troutt Powell, the leading historian of race and slavery in the Middle East and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, gave a virtual lecture to discuss her latest book, Tell This in My Memory.
Lisa Daily is the faculty mentor for the Dean’s Honor Society this year. The group has been studying the theme, “Reimagining Service,” and are exploring questions about where power resides and how it takes shape, as well as the role of imagination in shaping one’s response to systemic, communal, and/or personal problems.
In the past years, Gallatin Scholars group students have traveled to many destinations, including Mauritius, Louisiana, Japan, and England most recently, and have studied a vast array of issues. Students’ reflections from these trips are available in Mosaic, Gallatin’s Scholars group journal.