{"id":571,"date":"2018-06-01T07:48:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T12:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/?p=571"},"modified":"2018-06-01T07:48:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T12:48:33","slug":"ben-wallis-received-history-academic-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/2018\/06\/01\/ben-wallis-received-history-academic-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Wallis received history academic honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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,&#8221;Understanding the Black Lives Matter Movement&#8221; (Spring 2017) and &#8220;Introduction to the Marxist Theory of Capitalism&#8221; (Spring 2018). His senior seminar research project was \u201cThe Moving Contradiction: The Status of Marxism in the Black Panther Party.\u201d Wallis was also a leader of Truman&#8217;s chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-572\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/06\/AcademicHonorAwardsMay2018-14-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Wallis Academic Honors\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/06\/AcademicHonorAwardsMay2018-14-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/06\/AcademicHonorAwardsMay2018-14-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2018\/06\/AcademicHonorAwardsMay2018-14-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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,&#8221;Understanding the Black Lives Matter Movement&#8221; (Spring 2017) and &#8220;Introduction to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}