Jul 19, 2022, 9:51 AM
St. John’s Graduate Institute Student Wins Creative Writing Award
Abdullah Wadood, (AGI23) has been named as the winner of the 2022 Confluence Award for Excellence in Creative Writing for his story series “Ellipses I.”
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Jul 18, 2022, 3:07 PM
Graduate Institute Hosts Teachers’ Workshop on the Black Intellectual Tradition and Classic Texts
Angel Adams Parham, co-authorof The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature, led a workshop for teachers at the St. John’s Graduate Institute in July 2022.
Jul 15, 2022, 3:21 PM
Nicole Nelson-Jean: Connecting Internationally Through Great Books
Nicole Nelson-Jean's (AGI00) career at the U.S. Department of Energy has taken her all over the world: Japan, Austria, Russia, South America. “How much respect I received by being so well-read—I was kind of taken aback,” she says.
Jun 21, 2022, 7:16 AM
Welcome to Our Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series 2022
Everyone is invited to the Graduate Institute’s free Summer Lecture program each Wednesday night, June 29-July 27. You can attend remotely or in-person to engage with our speakers on compelling topics ranging from constitutional law, to legal advocacy, to poetry inspired by work in medicine, and to classic literature.
Apr 12, 2022, 5:18 AM
Jason Gots (EC96) Discusses his Memoir, Humanity is Trying
Jason Gots (EC96) is a writer, musician, and podcast producer who lectures in Columbia University’s Graduate School of the Arts’ writing department. After studying acting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he earned an Eastern Classics degree from St. John’s and a master’s in developmental psychology from Columbia. Here he discusses his memoir, Humanity is Trying, which was released by HarperCollins/Hanover Square Press on March 1, 2022 and chronicles (among other things) the loss of his sister Meri Gots (SF97), who died in 2015.