Faculty
OMNIA Q&A: Polarization and Policymaking
Matthew Levendusky, Professor of Political Science and Penny and Robert A. Fox Director of the Fels Institute of Government, on how hyperpartisanship interferes with democracy.
Humans in the Loop
Benjamin Shestakofsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology, finds interconnections between humans and machines in the future of work.
Amateur Music-Making in the Early Republic
In a new book, Glenda Goodman, Assistant Professor of Music, probes how hand-copying musical compositions and amateur performance shaped identity and ideas in the post-Revolutionary War period.
Bringing History to the Surface
Mantha Zarmakoupi, Morris Russell and Josephine Chidsey Williams Assistant Professor in Roman Architecture, conducts underwater surveys to map ancient travel and political intrigue.
Café Conversations (Video)
In the virtual edition of the Penn Café series, faculty pairs discussed the timely topics of vaccine ethics and the light and dark sides of loving land.
Science, Politics, and Vaccine Acceptance
As the COVID-19 vaccine is being distributed across the country, new research out of the Department of Philosophy shows that knowledge about the nature of science can combat political biases.
OMNIA Q&A: Is Demography Destiny?
Michael Jones-Correa, President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science, discusses Latino voters’ complex role in the U.S. electorate.
Life in the Screen
In two classes, Rahul Mukherjee, Dick Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media Studies, is looking at the big picture of our digital life.
Omnia Podcast: In These Times (Audio)
A six-episode podcast series that explores the forces that have shaped events in 2020.
New Faculty Join Penn Arts & Sciences
New members of the faculty for the 2020–2021 academic year
Agent of Change
Madeleine Joullié makes molecules and waves, leaving her mark in her specialty, her institution, and the lives of her students.
Lost and Found
Translation is an art that allows us to communicate across cultural difference.
Looking to Corporations to Learn About Religion
Jolyon Thomas, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, investigates the interdependent roles of corporations and religion.
Dialogue, Revisited
OMNIA looks back on books from three faculty whose contributions to the conversation on race and social justice have stood the test of time.
Plato Was Right. Earth Is Made, on Average, of Cubes.
Earth and Environmental Science’s Douglas Jerolmack and colleagues have found that the ancient Greek philosopher was onto something.