Faculty
Online Content: Fall/Winter 2018
A small sampling of recent highlights.
Music, Ethnicity, and the Legacy of War in Sri Lanka
An intense interest in drumming led Jim Sykes, Assistant Professor of Music, to study how music connects Sri Lankan populations typically defined by ethnic difference.
Invisible Partners: Recovering Relationships in Early Anthropological Research
Margaret Bruchac, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, examines the social relationships between early 20th-century anthropological collectors and Indigenous collaborators.
On the Water in Philadelphia (Video)
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.
Turning Up the Heat on Crime
John MacDonald, Professor of Criminology, says lessons about environmental stressors and crime can be extended to the relationship between heat and crime.
Omnia Podcast: The Rise of Women in Politics in 2018 (Audio)
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.
Alef is for Allah, C is for Cute
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.