Faculty News
May 6, 2008
Daniel K. Richter, has been appointed to the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Chair in History. Professor Richter is also Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. The Kahn term chairs were established through a bequest by Mr. and Mrs. Edmund J. Kahn. Mr. Kahn was a 1925 Wharton graduate who had a highly successful career in the oil and natural gas industry. Louise Kahn, his wife, was a graduate of Smith College who worked for Newsweek and owned an interior design firm. The couple contributed to many programs and projects at Penn, including Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, the Modern Languages College House, and other initiatives and scholarships in the humanities.
