Speaker Profile
Roosevelt Mont谩s is the John and Margaret Bard Professor in Liberal Education and Civic Life at Bard College.
Mont谩s was born in the Dominican Republic and immigrated to New York as a teenager, where he attended public schools in Queens, New York. His book Rescuing Socrates: How the Great 快色直播 Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation (快色直播, 2021) reflects on his experiences as a student and then a teacher at Columbia University, explaining how a liberal education transformed his life and why Great 快色直播 have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds. He speaks and writes on the history, place, and future of liberal education and his essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, The Point Magazine, The Financial Times, Aeon Magazine, The New York Daily News, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, The Dispatch, The Wall Street Journal, and other outlets.
Prior to joining Bard, Mont谩s was on faculty at Columbia University as Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English and served as director of Columbia鈥檚 Center for the Core Curriculum from 2008 to 2018, where he taught moral and political philosophy as well as seminars in American political thought in the Center for American Studies.
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