Roosevelt Montás
- Senior Lecturer and Director, Freedom and Citizenship Program, Columbia University
Roosevelt Montás is senior lecturer in American studies and English at Columbia University and director of the Freedom and Citizenship Program, which introduces low-income high school students to the Western political tradition through the study of original texts. From 2008 to 2018, he served as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum. He is the author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation (Princeton University Press, 2021).
Events
Engaging Students with Democracy’s Contested Questions
Prudence Layne, Roosevelt Montás, Josiah Ober, Carol Geary Schneider, Trygve Throntveit
Scholar-teachers discuss promising national initiatives to revitalize democracy learning, help students explore alternative conceptions of the democratic promise, and give precollegiate learners from underserved communities meaningful access to studies that foster humanity, expression, civic inquiry, and social power.
