Graduating senior and double history and political science major Ben Wallis received the Outstanding Student Award in history at the May 11, 2018 academic honors awards ceremony. Wallis was a 2017 recipient of a TruScholars award, and was a preceptor in two student-initiated courses,”Understanding the Black Lives Matter Movement” (Spring 2017) and “Introduction to the Marxist Theory of Capitalism” (Spring 2018). His senior seminar research project was “The Moving Contradiction: The Status of Marxism in the Black Panther Party.” Wallis was also a leader of Truman’s chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
