Faculty Archive

Professors of Economics Dirk Krueger and Jesús Fernández-Villaverde discuss the state of the European economy.

Matt Levendusky provides political insight on factors influencing voters’ decisions.

Assistant Professor of English Salamishah Tillet helps music stars John Legend and The Roots create a window to the past.

Associate Professor of Classical Studies Thomas Tartaron discusses the evolution of the Olympic Games.

Social scientist Jere Behrman gives an inside look at his work outside the classroom.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Kok-Chor Tan examines the intricacies of distributive justice on a global scale.

Professor of Music Emma Dillon discusses a lost, but not forgotten, musical style.

Senior Lecturer and director of the Theatre Arts Program Rosemary Malague investigates women and the claim to authenticity in the acting classroom.

Jane Willenbring measures the rapid rate at which ice sheets are receding.

Paul Rozin identifies a major roadblock to exploring new methods of attaining drinkable water.

John MacDonald sheds light on the Trayvon Martin case and the impact it's making on the public.

Ethnomusicologist writes about the power of faith in the life of music and the power of music in the life of faith.

Classicist examines the tragic fate of living too long.

Emeritus historian writes the human story from the Stone Age to today.

In the office of a typical archaeologist, you would expect to find things like stone tools, pottery fragments, and maybe even a few Wooly Mammoth bones. But Clark Erickson is no typical archaeologist. Oversize rolls of aerial photographs are stacked into tubular pyramids on a desk and worktable in his University Museum office. They fill up file cabinets and populate a storage room. At last count, he had about 700 giant aerial and satellite images—almost all of them picturing some region of the Amazon.

Nelson Mandela was released from prison one week after Rita Barnard, Professor of English and Director of the Women's Studies Program and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, first visited the Penn campus. That's when Barnard, who was born and raised in South Africa, realized that even though her doctoral training had been in American literature, she'd eventually have to focus her scholarship on the momentous changes happening in her homeland.

Penn researchers discover of three of the faintest and smallest objects ever detected beyond Neptune.

Alan Charles Kors' work described as "an amazing scholarly and publication achievement.

Brendan O'Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science and Director of the Penn Program in Ethnic Conflict, grew up thinking that ethnic conflict came standard with domestic politics. During the childhood years he spent in Nigeria, the Nigerian Civil War began when, in his neighborhood and in his own garden, members of Hausa ethnic group attacked the Igbo people. O'Leary was then sent to school in Northern Ireland – just as the Northern Ireland conflict began.

Sociologist Jerry Jacobs shows how time itself is dividing working Americans in new ways.