In this clip, Bob Gallamore ’63 revisits his favorite memories of Wesleyan, which include two seminar courses he took with famed theorist Hannah Arendt, who was a visiting professor at Wesleyan from 1961–63. Bob remembers the professor who had the greatest impact on him—from her guttural, gravelly voice and melancholy eyes, to the questions she asked his class, to her seminar on “Eichmann in Jerusalem” at Russell House.
Bob Gallamore is a leading expert on railway and intermodal economics, technology and safety. He has worked in both policy and leadership positions in government, industry, academia, consulting and non-profits. In addition to teaching at Northwestern University and Michigan State University, Bob founded and expanded The Gallamore Group consultancy.
Bob received his B.A. from Wesleyan with high honors in government. He went on to receive an MA in Public Administration and Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard University.
[Ed. Note: Bob would like us to clarify that “A Report on the Banality of Evil” is the subtitle of Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” not her earlier book “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” and that Arendt did not consider herself a philosopher but someone engaged in political theory.]
