• Royce Fellowship
Arthur
Samuels

Concentration 

History

Award Year 

1998

Arthur will write and publish a paper on the Ku Klux Klan hearings of 1871. He hopes that his work on these hearings, which have never before been fully examined, will provide insight into the experience of the Reconstruction.

Art is the Founder and Executive Director at MESA Charter High School in New York City. He was a member of the founding faculty at the Renaissance Charter High School for Innovation, in East Harlem, where he developed the curriculum for the College Bound program that is taught at MESA. Prior to that, he was the first Director of College Guidance and Academic Culture at the Williamsburg Charter High School, where he built a college program that saw students accepted with full scholarships to schools such as Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, Wesleyan University and New York University. He also built partnerships with CUNY through the CollegeNow program, and created the innovative Essay Busters college essay-mentoring program. Art has worked for the COACH college-readiness program in Roxbury, MA, and the TEAK Fellowship in New York City. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Master of Arts in Education Leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University. He sits on the Advisory Board of NYC Promise, an initiative to promote greater college success among low-income students.