Faculty Archive

A summer research seminar by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH) allowed students to conduct research on Philadelphia's waterways and collaborate with community partners.

In a new OMNIA Podcast, Dawn Teele, Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor of Political Science, discusses the unprecedented number of women running for office in this year's midterm elections.

John MacDonald, Professor of Criminology, says lessons about environmental stressors and crime can be extended to the relationship between heat and crime.

Jamal J. Elias, Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, studies the emotional space occupied by children in modern Islamic societies in a first-of-its-kind new book.

Camille Zubrinsky Charles, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences; Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies, and Education; and Director of the Center for Africana Studies, talks about residential segregation and the promises and failures of the Fair Housing Act in light of the legislation’s 50th anniversary.

In her new book, Emily Steinlight, Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English, focuses on overpopulation as a central theme of 19th-century British novels.

Rogers Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, discusses presidential privilege.

In her new book, Heather J. Sharkey, Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, explores Muslim, Christian, and Jewish relations in the period before World War I.

The Program on Race, Science, and Society hosted an international symposium that brought together scholars to discuss how the categorizing of racial difference has significant implications for individuals across the globe.

We sat down with Michael Hanchard, Professor and incoming Chair in the Department of Africana Studies and Director of the Marginalized Populations Project, to discuss his new book, "The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy."

Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, presents a new perspective on climate change.

Faculty present minute-long talks on topics like "The French Enlightenment and Benjamin Franklin's University."

Michael Kahana, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Computational Memory Lab, is working with his collaborators to improve patients’ memories.

Etienne Benson, Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, writes on the fight over Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah.

OMNIA visits a history course that covers challenging moments in American history.

Jeffrey Edward Green, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, has some ideas.

Bonus content section for the Spring/Summer 2017 edition of the OMNIA magazine.

Penn Arts and Sciences faculty bike varied terrain to get to campus.

Kristen R. Ghodsee, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, explores the impacts of Cold War rhetoric on the progress of women's rights.

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Professor of Economics, discusses the potential—and pitfalls—of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.