Karen Brooks

Courses across Penn Arts & Sciences show how immersion enhances a liberal arts education.

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.

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.

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.

Fellows of the 2022-2023 Undergraduate Humanities Forum share their research on “The World We Inherit.”

Gabriel Raeburn, GR’22, Dean’s Teaching Fellow for Excellence in Religious Studies, highlights religion’s role in recent blockbuster rulings.

Gabriel Raeburn, GR’22, Dean’s Teaching Fellow for Excellence in Religious Studies, highlights religion’s role in recent blockbuster rulings.

Michael Platt, James S. Riepe University Professor, studies how biology fuels social behavior.

Grace Choi, C’23, aims to redefine food insecurity on college campuses.

Regina Baker, Assistant Professor of Sociology, challenges literature that touts marriage as a cure for poverty.

Stephanie Gibson, a doctoral candidate in the history of art, explores monuments of trauma in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Black Atlantic.

In his new book, Cheikh Anta Babou, Associate Professor of History, captures the vitality of the Senegalese Murid diaspora.