Faculty Archive

The Penn Program in Environmental Humanities promotes interdisciplinary, collaborative teaching and learning with real-world impacts.

Tariq Thachil has been named Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) and Associate Professor of Political Science, effective July 1, 2020. As Director of CASI, he will also hold the Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India.

Four Penn Arts & Sciences faculty were recognized with University-wide teaching awards in 2020.

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted traditional festivities, but the College of Arts & Sciences celebrated the Class of 2020 with a virtual graduation ceremony on Sunday, May 17.

Karen Tani has been named the 24th Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, effective July 1, 2020.

Penn Arts & Sciences recently announced the launch of a center that will advance research and the development of theoretical tools on social norms, along with practical applications in the form of interventions intended to impact specific behaviors.

Recent recognitions for our faculty

Howard Neukrug, Professor of Practice in Earth and Environmental Science and Executive Director of The Water Center at Penn, on the importance of providing safe and plentiful water to all citizens.

Advancing knowledge always involves uncovering connections previously unimagined—between disciplines, ideas, and even atoms. In our physics and chemistry labs, we have a number of scientists whose work is opening the doors to the development of new materials with properties that were unimaginable 20 years ago.

Paul Sniegowski, Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College and Professor of Biology, discusses adapting during a challenging time.

Chemistry faculty adapt to working remotely as the coronavirus stifles lab activity.

Julia Alekseyeva, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, shares her list of the best works of global cinema to watch while you're at home.

Kok-Chor Tan, Professor of Philosophy, says the ways in which individuals are affected by the pandemic are a result of a complex tapestry of economic, social, and cultural factors.

On Super Tuesday, Julia Lynch, Associate Professor of Political Science, discusses her new book, which argues that the way politicians frame the problem of health inequality sets it up to be unsolvable.

Faculty from the Department of Political Science discuss the early results from the Democratic primaries and what they tell us about the electorate.

Yun Ding, Assistant Professor of Biology, studies the courtship behavior of fruit flies to learn how genes and brains evolve to change animal behaviors.

Hyunjoon Park, Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology, sheds light on why marriage rates are falling in South Korea, particularly among highly educated women and low-educated men.

The “El difícil arte de migrar” exhibit brings a new narrative about migration to academia.

Ahead of the series finale of NBC's The Good Place, Errol Lord, Associate Professor of Philosophy, weighs in on how to be a good person and how the show might end.

A new book by Amy Offner, Assistant Professor of History, traces the roots of neoliberalism to mid-century development in Latin America.