Faculty Archive

  • Tyshawn Sorey, Presidential Assistant Professor of Music, conducts his song sequence, “Cycles of My Being,” in a filmed presentation by Opera Philadelphia.

  • After Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem captured attention, the director of Kelly Writers House reflects on what poetry can do.

  • The graduation speakers were Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and a professor of history and Africana studies, and Justin Greenman, C’21, a double major in history and political science.

  • Penn Arts & Sciences events continued to showcase student and faculty work in virtual settings during the spring semester.

  • The Critical Writing Program, led by Valerie Ross, Director of the Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing, has begun a new research collaboration with Ashoka University in India.

  • Rahul Mukherjee, Dick Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media Studies, looks at the big picture of our digital life.

  • Mantha Zarmakoupi, Morris Russell and Josephine Chidsey Williams Assistant Professor in Roman Architecture, conducts underwater surveys to map ancient travel and political intrigue.

  • Benjamin Shestakofsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology, finds interconnections between humans and machines in the future of work.

  • In a new book, M. Susan Lindee, Janice and Julian Bers Professor of History and Sociology of Science, explores the interplay between scientific progress and violence in modern war.

  • Nicole R. Holliday, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, on the science of what we say and how we say it.

  • After a year of teaching online, Penn Arts & Sciences faculty reflect on how they’ve made it work.

  • The life of a university is built around transitions, from the matriculation and graduation of our students to the day-to-day work of our scholars as they continually build, expand, and refine our understanding of the world.

  • More than 40 Penn Arts & Sciences faculty members have recently received notable honors. Here are just a few.

  • The following faculty and graduate students were honored for their exceptional teaching in a year that demanded new approaches and technology along with tried-and-true pedagogic methods.

  • Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell Orenstein, professors of Russian and East European Studies, discuss their new book, Taking Stock of Shock.

  • David S. Roos, E. Otis Kendall Professor of Biology, on COVID-19, variants, and vaccines.

  • Matthew Levendusky, Professor of Political Science and Penny and Robert A. Fox Director of the Fels Institute of Government, on how hyperpartisanship interferes with democracy.

  • After Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem captured attention, the director of Kelly Writer’s House reflects on what poetry can do.

  • Benjamin Shestakofsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology, finds interconnections between humans and machines in the future of work.

  • In a new book, Glenda Goodman, Assistant Professor of Music, probes how hand-copying musical compositions and amateur performance shaped identity and ideas in the post-Revolutionary War period.

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