Historical Resources at Penn
The resources for historical study at Penn extend far beyond the boundaries of the Department of History. Historians of note can be found in most of the other eleven schools on campus, including:
- Annenberg School for Communication
- Graduate School of Education
- School of Law
- School of Nursing
- Wharton School
History graduate students at Penn are also invited to join faculty seminars and colloquia organized by a variety of affiliated Penn research centers, forums, and institutes. Many of these centers offer special lectures, courses, and occasionally aid packages that are of interest to History graduate students.
Scholars with strong historical interests can be found in other School of Arts & Sciences departments and programs, including:
- Department of Anthropology
- Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations
- Department of Classical Studies
- Department of Economics
- Department of English
- Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
- Department of the History of Art
- Department of History & Sociology of Science
- Program in International Relations
- Latin American & Latino Studies Program
- Medieval Studies
- Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
- Political Science Department
- Department of Romance Languages
- Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
- Department of Sociology
- Department of South Asia Studies
- Urban Studies Program
- Women's Studies Program
Many faculty members from these departments take an active part in the History Graduate Program at Penn and regularly serve on student advisory committees. Moreover, the Penn Department of History maintains close cooperative ties with history faculty at nearby colleges and universities.
Finally, the Department spearheads the unique Ethnohistory Program, which allows graduate students in History to be engaged in a multidisciplinary concentration allowing for mastery in anthropological and historical methods and issues.