Parrhesia supports students in The College as they cultivate the skills vital to membership in a participatory democracy: speaking freely, writing critically, and thinking fearlessly and rigorously about the challenges and issues defining our world.
Parrhesia offers three Fellows programs associated with the different branches of our curriculum: Science Communication, Public Dialogue and Civic Leadership, and Public Thinking.
Fellows in each program meet regularly with their faculty advisors and receive a stipend of $4,500 per year. The programs are:
Science Communication Research Fellows
Science Communication Research Fellows design and carry out original research projects aimed at improving how science is communicated, understood, and engaged with by different audiences.
Dialogue and Community Fellows
Dialogue and Community Fellows work on individual or group projects that advance dialogue across difference on campus and beyond. We encourage projects that involve convening and facilitating conversations on a particular issue or set of related issues, that reflect purposeful curation of pluralistic meeting spaces and rely on relational community building. We give priority to projects that include residential life programming—e.g., dialogues in dining halls, study break activities, skill development workshops, etc.
Katharine Graham Fellows in Public Thinking
Katharine Graham Fellows apply their humanities education to original research projects, unique programming opportunities, and student publications. Katharine Graham Fellows enrich campus discourse and engage broadly with public figures outside the university community whose work—as journalists, writers, critics, academics, artists, or activists—has a significant impact on national discourse.