Faculty Archive

A summer research seminar by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH) allowed students to conduct research on Philadelphia's waterways and collaborate with community partners.

In a new OMNIA Podcast, Dawn Teele, Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor of Political Science, discusses the unprecedented number of women running for office in this year's midterm elections.

John MacDonald, Professor of Criminology, says lessons about environmental stressors and crime can be extended to the relationship between heat and crime.

Jamal J. Elias, Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, studies the emotional space occupied by children in modern Islamic societies in a first-of-its-kind new book.

Camille Zubrinsky Charles, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences; Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies, and Education; and Director of the Center for Africana Studies, talks about residential segregation and the promises and failures of the Fair Housing Act in light of the legislation’s 50th anniversary.

In her new book, Emily Steinlight, Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English, focuses on overpopulation as a central theme of 19th-century British novels.

Rogers Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, discusses presidential privilege.

In her new book, Heather J. Sharkey, Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, explores Muslim, Christian, and Jewish relations in the period before World War I.

We sat down with Michael Hanchard, Professor and incoming Chair in the Department of Africana Studies and Director of the Marginalized Populations Project, to discuss his new book, "The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy."

The Program on Race, Science, and Society hosted an international symposium that brought together scholars to discuss how the categorizing of racial difference has significant implications for individuals across the globe.

Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, presents a new perspective on climate change.

Faculty present minute-long talks on topics like "The French Enlightenment and Benjamin Franklin's University."

Michael Kahana, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Computational Memory Lab, is working with his collaborators to improve patients’ memories.

Clark Erickson, Professor of Anthropology, has made a career of studying humans’ effect on their physical landscapes—past and present.

Michael Gamer, Professor of English, and Scott Enderle, Digital Humanities Specialist at Penn Libraries, are designing a database to classify historical playbills.

In November, Emily Wilson, Professor of Classical Studies, became the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer's Odyssey.

Daniel José Mindiola, Presidential Professor of Chemistry, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon members of AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society, by their peers. Mindiola’s expertise is in studying inorganic and organometallic synthesis, catalysis, and mechanistic chemistry.

Hans-Peter Kohler, Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography, is the Principal Investigator for the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH), one of very few long-standing publicly available longitudinal cohort studies in sub-Saharan Africa.