Faculty Archive
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OMNIA visits a history course that covers challenging moments in American history.
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Jeffrey Edward Green, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, has some ideas.
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Bonus content section for the Spring/Summer 2017 edition of the OMNIA magazine.
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Kristen R. Ghodsee, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, explores the impacts of Cold War rhetoric on the progress of women's rights.
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Penn Arts and Sciences faculty bike varied terrain to get to campus.
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Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Professor of Economics, discusses the potential—and pitfalls—of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
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Mecky Pohlschröder, Professor and Undergraduate Chair of the Department of Biology, on gaining insights into the workings of microscopic ecosystems.
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To “teach the world” is generally not the first thing that comes to my mind when I think about my daily to-do list on campus. But I would argue that it is a useful way to describe what universities are all about, and at Penn Arts and Sciences, the idea of teaching the world resonates on multiple levels.
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Angela Duckworth, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, explores why perseverance matters.
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Clark Erickson, Professor of Anthropology, has made a career of studying humans’ effect on their physical landscapes—past and present.
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In November, Emily Wilson, Professor of Classical Studies, became the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer's Odyssey.
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Michael Gamer, Professor of English, and Scott Enderle, Digital Humanities Specialist at Penn Libraries, are designing a database to classify historical playbills.
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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.
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Daniel Gillion, Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt Presidential Associate Professor of Political Science, discusses youth activism in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
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Joan DeJean, Trustee Professor of French, discusses her forthcoming book, The Queen’s Embroiderer: Lovers, Swindlers, Paris, and the First Stock Market Crisis.
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Nikhil Anand, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, discusses the looming water crisis in Cape Town, his research on water scarcity in Mumbai, India, and the future of water shortages globally.
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We spoke with Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music, about his role in the authorship of the book, The Transformation of Black Music: The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora.