Faculty Archive

Sociologist Melissa Wilde offers a new explanation for the revolutionary transformation of the Roman Catholic Church.

PIK Professor John Jackson talks about the new reality of race in America.

Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s new book explores the case for genetic screening.

Sociologist Randall Collins argues that violent confrontations go against human hardwiring.

Classics professor Thomas Tartaron explores a Bronze Age harbor to understand the mechanisms of expansion and trade in ancient Greece.

Sociologist Frank Furstenberg’s new book explores why the topic of teen pregnancy has become so politically powerful — and so misunderstood.

John DiIulio's new book argues for the middle ground between secular and religious extremes in America's public life.

David Grazian takes readers on a “sociological tour” of Philadelphia’s nightlife.

Forty years ago, in an attempt to deal with a country rocked by racial unrest, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission. Last week, the intense public scrutiny garnered by Senator Barack Obama’s speech on race testified that the issue continues to strike at the nation’s soul. The recently published Kerner Plus 40 Report assesses just how far the U.S.

Sarah Trice and Gary Molander alter the landscape of pharmaceutical synthesis.

Brig Williams and team close in on the mysterious “God particle.”

Making Sense of the 2008 Presidential Election in Real Time

Political scientist Don Kettl answers questions about the candidates' experience and the challenges they face.

Cosmologist Mark Devlin builds a telescope that floats to the edge of space.

Biologist Dorothy Cheney and psychologist Robert Seyfarth explore the intelligence underlying baboons' social organization.

Penn psychologists identify neural correlates of visual and verbal cognitive styles.

A new book by historian Steven Hahn takes up the hidden history of African American politics and the politics of writing history.

American historian Bruce Kuklick shares his thoughts on this inaugural moment.

Penn political science faculty members weigh in on the new president’s challenges and opportunities for U.S. foreign policy.

Technology Historian Nathan Ensmenger checks the pulse of the e-health revolution.