Past Communities

Cities

How do cities work?

Prof. Deb Niemeier
Fall 2021

Enterprising Cultures

How does personal identity shape our lives as entrepreneurs, workers, and consumers in a thoroughly business-oriented society?

Prof. David Sicilia
Fall 2017, 2018, & 2019

Free Speech

Why is the right to free speech so fiercely defended in a democracy and such a threat to totalitarianism?

Prof. Cynthia Martin
Fall 2018, 2020

Freedom Fighting

How did ordinary people destroy American slavery?

Prof. Richard Bell
Fall 2019 & 2020

Linguistic Profiling

What are the implications of speaking with a dialect?

Prof. Ebony Terrell-Shockley
Fall 2018, 2019

Novel Humans

What are the dark, uncertain borders between the human and the nonhuman, between the natural and the unnatural, between life and death?

Prof. Jonathan Auerbach
Fall 2015 & 2016

Riots

When and how can riots be morally justified?

Prof. Bernard Cooperman
Fall 2018, 2019, & 2020

Write Now

Why does poetry matter?

Prof. Joshua Weiner & Michael Collier
Fall 2014 & Spring 2015