Faculty Bookshelf
Recent books from Penn Arts & Sciences faculty in Music, Sociology, Africana studies, History and Sociology of Science, and History.
Sounding Latin Music, Hearing the Americas
Jairo Moreno
Professor of Music
Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
Benjamin Shestakofsky
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar
Barbara D. Savage
Geraldine R. Segal Professor Emerita of American Social Thought
Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America
Beth Linker
Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Professor in the Social Sciences
The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492
Marcy Norton
Associate Professor of History
Spring/Summer 2024
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