In 2006, Wigginton included Ali  in his book, The Strange Career of the Black Athlete, which draws on sports to discuss the history of race relations in America.

An essential part of Rhodes’ liberal arts approach to education is the Foundations curriculum, which encourages students to explore subject matter outside of their majors. The goal of this method is to enrich the student’s perspective and allow for greater depth and understanding of his or her chosen field.

We asked five seniors from the Class of 2016 the question, “What was your favorite class outside of your major, and why?” Here’s what they told us:

Rhodes’ 2016 Summer Service Fellowship Program kicked off this week with fellows visiting various destinations on MATA buses to better understand issues of public transportation in Memphis.

In 2015, President William Troutt organized the Compassionate Campus Initiative (CCI), a small group of faculty and staff coming together in hopes of finding ways to make Rhodes College a kinder and more mindful community. In pursuit of this goal, the CCI is engaged in multiple projects, including helping to develop new curriculum designed to cultivate compassion and working to establish Bellingrath Chapel as a space dedicated to contemplation, prayer, and meditation.

Kimberly Macharia walked the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival in France. 

With final exams over and spring courses done, 12 Rhodes international studies majors recently took a career immersion trip May 22-29.

Cierra Martin grew up in rural Mississippi, so the opportunity to live in Memphis was a big draw when choosing to attend Rhodes. Moving spurred her interest in something she had grown up with all along. 

Remember Fort Pillow, a documentary film produced and directed by Professor Dee Garceau of the Department of History, along with 14 history students from Rhodes, will be featured at the GI Film Festival (GIFF) in Washington, D.C. The massacre at Fort Pillow was a racialized atrocity that took place during the American Civil War. Although Congress investigated the incident in 1864-65, by the end of the 19th century, public memory of the massacre was silenced.

Xinran Andy Chen’s paper on the emergence of  Hong Kong’s Occupy Central Movement is the lead article in the Virginia Review of Asian Studies. Chen graduated from Rhodes in 2015 with a B.A. in economics and international studies. 

Hope Elliott ’18, an environmental science major from Waterloo, IL, has received an Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship, awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).