Faculty Archive

For seven months in 2023, this image of Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought Emerita, hung in the National Portrait Gallery, part of an exhibit featuring works from photographer Brian Lanker’s book I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America.

Corine Labridy, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, writes and teaches about laughter, as well as its role in building identity and making sense of tough times.

Faculty from Penn Arts & Sciences are confronting the climate crisis and contributing to solutions. They say there’s still time to act.

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

Archaeologist Lynn Meskell, Richard D. Green University Professor of Anthropology, discusses UNESCO and why places designated as cultural touchstones often signify much more.

Why are ghosts such a persistent presence in literature? Professor Liliane Weissberg, who teaches the course The Fantastic and the Uncanny in Literature, shares her thoughts.

Mathematician Phillip Gressman and political scientist Daniel Hopkins discuss the latest research methods informing the creation of new voting district boundaries.

The three-day MindCORE initiative, now in its third year, aims to encourage people with diverse backgrounds to pursue advanced degrees in fields like neuroscience and psychology.

The High School Summer Latinx Leadership Institute brought students to campus to expand their college readiness.

Penn Arts & Sciences faculty, staff, and graduate students discuss the importance of this time on campus and beyond.  

In his new book, science historian Sebastián Gil-Riaño explores the lives of scientists who shaped one of the first international efforts to combat racism—and then got left out of the story.

Cinema & Media Studies’ Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve on the spate of recent movies about everything from sneakers to snack foods—and of course, the doll with the dream house.

In the lab of neuroscientist Jay Gottfried, sixth-year psychology Ph.D. student Clara Raithel tries to understand how people’s brains respond to odors.

Mining metals for electric car batteries can be wasteful and destructive. Andrew Ahn, C’26, ENG’26, spent the summer fine-tuning a chemical reaction that could make the process greener.

This fall’s 60-Second Lectures included a special Constitution Day edition and 1.5 Minute Climate Lectures during Climate Week at Penn.

In his new book, Assistant Professor Brent Cebul explores the history of public-private partnerships to rethink how liberalism has served businesses over underprivileged people.

Climate scientist Michael Mann talks with OMNIA about this summer's unprecedented weather events and why there's still time to take action.

Amy Lutz, a senior lecturer in History and Sociology of Science, discusses her new book about autism, intellectual disability, and her beliefs about the need to provide services for the most severely impaired.

College students from the Class of 2027 moved in and got to know Penn Arts & Sciences through the Exploration Expo, where departments, majors, and programs were on display.

Lecturer in Critical Writing Amy Paeth’s new book uses the history of the U.S. poet laureate as a window into how the arts, government, industry, and private donors interact and shape culture.