Department News
Omnia publishes piece on the History Honors Program
Omnia, the Penn Arts and Sciences magazine, devoted an article to the History Honors program, highlighting our recent undergraduate Honors students' works.
Penn and Slavery Project Piece Published in the Philadelphia Inquirer
An article on the Penn and Slavery Project was published in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Genevieve Tan published in the Washington Post
Graduate student Genevieve Tan has been published in the Washington Post's "Made by History" series. Read her essay, How Taiwan is using same-sex marriage to assert its national identity," here:
Kathryn Taylor awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at Penn State
The fellowship is part of the Institute’s “Humanities in the World” initiative, which aims to advance the contemporary social importance of work in the humanities.Conor Donnan awarded a grant by CSERI
The Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration at Penn awards Donnan a grant in support of his dissertation project.The Alice Paul Center Receives Making A Difference in Diverse Communities Grant
Transgender, Non-Binary and Gender Nonconforming Oral History Archive receives grant.Penn and Slavery Project wins an Impact Grant from the Provost’s Office and SAS Dean
Support the Augmented Reality Campus tour (Lead Historian Kathy Brown, Post-Doctoral Fellow Alexis Neumann, and Public History Fellow VanJessica Gladney).Juan Pablo Ardilla Pubished in El Tiempo
Juan Pablo Ardila has just published an op-ed piece in El Tiempo, Colombia’s largest-circulation newspaper, under the headline “Rumors and Fear: The End of Religion and the Fury of God”:
Nimrod Ben-Zeev Receives Dissertation Fellowship Grant
Ben-Zeer awarded grant from the Charlotte Newcombe Foundation, in conjunction with the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.Tom Stevens awarded a 2019-2020 Dissertation Research Grant
Tom Stevens, who has spent much of 2018-19 conducting archival research deep inside Russia, has received a grant from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Welcome to the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Over thirty historians in the standing faculty with a broad range of research specialties advance our understanding of the past.
Featured Students
Matthew Palcynzski
Matthew Palczynski is a senior, graduating in December, who is majoring in History with a World concentration.
Justin Estreicher
Justin Estreicher is a member of the Class of 2019 majoring in American history and minoring in anthropology. A native of Long Island, he grew up with a love of history encouraged by exposure to museums in his local community and in nearby New York City.
Maggie Rymsza
Maggie is a a Junior studying American History, concentrating on colonial America. She assists with the rare books and manuscripts at the Kislak Center of Van Pelt Library.
