News & Views
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon published in Foreign Policy
Incoming PhD student Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon recently contributed a piece to Foreign Policy called "The Curious Case of 'Russian Lives Matter'"Timothy Kent Holiday Interview-Cholera vs. Flu: Philadelphia's historical epidemic successes and failures
Ph.D. alum Timothy Kent Holliday was recently interviewed in Penn Today.UPENN-SAS 60-Second Lectures on Racial Injustice
In an effort to amplify the messages of the protests, Penn Arts & Sciences presents a special series: What Happens to a Dream Deferred? 60-Second Lectures on Racial Injustice.Michael Hanchard in Penn Today on continuing injustice and the fight for equal protections
“Michael Hanchard, chair and Gustave C.AHA Statement on the History of Racist Violence in the US
The American Historical Association (AHA) has issued a statement urging a reckoning with the United States' deplorable record of violence against African Americans, a record that stretches back centuries.Ellen J. Amster-History’s crystal ball: What the past can tell us about COVID-19 and our future
Penn Ph.D. alumnus Ellen J. Amster was recently published in The Conversation.Chelsea Chamberlain on Institutions and Disease in 1918 and Today
Chelsea Chamberlain was recently published in the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era's series exploring the lived experience of the 1918 influenza pandemic.Alex Chase-Levenson publishes The Yellow Flag
Alex Chase-Levenson recently publishedDavid Ruderman-Final Chapter in a Pandemic’s Shadow
David Ruderman was recently interviewed in Penn Today about his retirement during the COVID-19 pandemic.Jessica Gooding-I don't see the American flag as a representation of freedom
Jessica Gooding, an LPS student majoring in History, wrote an op-ed in the Daily Pennsylvania on race in America.
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Featured Students
Carson Eckhard
Carson didn’t come to Penn set on being a History Major. Yet her freshman year she enrolled in “The American South” and there wrote a paper about Southern U.S. universities and slavery.
Archana Upadhyay
I’m a senior from Chicago majoring in World History. I transferred to Penn as a sophomore from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
John Mullan
John is a double-major in History and Arabic and Islamic Studies.
