News & Views
Anne Berg - Teaching on COVID Time
It’s Wednesday again and I am about to invite my students into my bedroom, who will welcome me to theirs. That’s not something I imagined myself ever saying and in the age of #metoo it feels profoundly disorienting having explain this particular reality.Sarah Barringer Gordon-A brief commentary on the legal history of epidemics in America, 1890 -2020
Courtesy of the Library Company of PThe History Department is ready for Advance Registration
Fall ’20 Advance Registration has been rescheduled to run from April 14-April 24, and the History Department is ready to help students plan their fall semesters! All Penn students are welcome to schedule a meeting with Dr.Alex Chase-Levenson interviewed by Penn Today
Alex Chase-Levenson was interviewed by Penn Today regarding his upcoming book on historical quarantines,Two Penn History Ph.Ds published in the Journal of American History
The March 2020 issue of the Journal of American History includes articles by two Penn PhDs: Emma Teitelman and Adam Goodman. Info on the articles below.Alex Chase-Levenson - on Pandemics, Quarantines and History
Epidemic diseases are terrifying. So, to many, are quarantines. Forcibly ordering people to withdraw from the rhythms of everyday life seems at once intrusive and extraordinary.Aron Brouwer interviewed in Omnia
Aron Brouwer, a first-year Ph.D. student, was interviewed in Omnia.The History of African American Voting
Kathleen Brown, Mary Frances Berry, and Political Science's Adolph Reed define what the “Black vote” means when viewed through history, and what it doesn’t mean when viewed as an indivisible bloc.Karen Tani named a Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor
Karen Tani named a Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, with faculty appointments in the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and in the Department of History in the School of Arts and Sciences.History Major Daniel Brennan wins a Thouron Award
Daniel Brennan, a History Major currently finishing his Honors Thesis, has won the prestigious Thouron Award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.
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Upcoming Events
CANCELLED-The Cradle of Words: Language and Knowledge Making in Early Latin America
Latin American and Latino Studies/Department of History
Valeria López Fadul, Wesleyan University
Valeria López Fadul is an Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University . She studies the intellectual and cultural history of colonial Latin America and…
CANCELLED-Joint Seminar: The McNeil Center for Early American Studies and The Department of History UPenn
A Penn Graduate Training in History in the Making of One Scholar's Career
Nicholas Canny, National University of Ireland, Galway
Nicholas Canny (Penn Ph.D. 1971) is author or editor of 11 books and author of over 100 published papers. He specializes in early modern…
Featured Students
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.
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.
John Mullan
John is a double-major in History and Arabic and Islamic Studies.
