Karen Brooks

Karen Brooks is a Philadelphia-based freelance writer/editor who does her best work before dawn with an enormous cup of Earl Grey tea.

Flow Motion
Courses across Penn Arts & Sciences show how immersion enhances a liberal arts education.
Silver Screen Time
Faryn Pearl, C’14, discusses co-directing the DreamWorks Animation film Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, and how internships she obtained through Penn Arts & Sciences shaped her career path.
Hidden Histories Revealed
Students in a course last semester taught by Professor of English Heather Love and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Brooke O’Harra bring queer archival materials to life.
Ancient Medicine in Today’s World
Taylor Dysart, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, probes modern science’s enthrallment with the powerful Amazonian intoxicant ayahuasca.
Students on Heritage
Fellows of the 2022-2023 Undergraduate Humanities Forum share their research on “The World We Inherit.”
Church, State, and Today’s Supreme Court
Gabriel Raeburn, GR’22, Dean’s Teaching Fellow for Excellence in Religious Studies, highlights religion’s role in recent blockbuster rulings.
OMNIA Q&A: Church, State, and Today’s Supreme Court
Gabriel Raeburn, GR’22, Dean’s Teaching Fellow for Excellence in Religious Studies, highlights religion’s role in recent blockbuster rulings.
Under the Hood
Michael Platt, James S. Riepe University Professor, studies how biology fuels social behavior.
Locked Down and Opening Up
In his new book, Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, highlights the online diaries shared by Wuhan residents early in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Feeding an Open Mind
Grace Choi, C’23, aims to redefine food insecurity on college campuses.
Partnered, but Still Poor
Regina Baker, Assistant Professor of Sociology, challenges literature that touts marriage as a cure for poverty.
Forgetting Doesn’t Heal
Stephanie Gibson, a doctoral candidate in the history of art, explores monuments of trauma in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Black Atlantic.