News & Views
2021 HUAB Teaching Awards go to Kathy Peiss and Shang Yasuda
After an initial round of nominations from all History Majors, the Department of History’s student-run Undergraduate Advisory Board (HUAB) is pleased to announce the winners of this year's departmental teaching awards:Two Ph.D History students - VanJessica Gladney & Kimberly St Julian Varnon - among the Inaugural Presidential Ph.D. Fellows.
President Amy Gutmann, Provost Wendell PritchettHope and help for wrongfully incarcerated Pennsylvanians
With Project HOPE, President’s Engagement Prize winners Carson Eckhard(History Major), Natalia Rommen, and Sarah Simon will address the lack of support to wrongfully incarcerated people in Philadelphia and across the state.Historian Walter Licht – President Biden’s big plans through the lens of history. The American Jobs Plan and how it compares to national projects of the past
President Biden introduced a $2 trillion plan last month to rebuild America’s infrastructure and reshape the economy in the wake of the pandemic.2020-21 Undergraduate Research Prizes
Adolph G. Rosengarten, Jr. Prize for the most outstanding Honors thesis E. Carson Eckhard Ragged Battalions, Plotting Liberty: Convict Leasing and the Construction of Carceral Capitalism in Florida, 1875-1925Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon - My joy over the Derek Chauvin verdict was fleeting because I know America
No Black mother has ever had the privilege of living in ignorance of the dangers America poses to her children.An interview with Prof. Jared Farmer - What Can We Learn from Trees?
HUMANITIES – The Magazine of the National Endowment for the HumanitiesHistory Major Chinaza Ruth Okonkwo has been awarded a 2021 Beinecke Scholarship to pursue a graduate education in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Okonkwo is one of only 16 Beinecke Scholars chosen throughout the United States, and the 14th recipient from Penn since the award was fiCheikh Anta Babou, a Penn historian of Islam and the modern West African Muslim diaspora, publishes The Muridiyya on the Move. Islam, Migration, and Place Making (Ohio University Press, 2021)
The construction of collective identity among the Muridiyya abroad is a communal but contested endeavor.
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.
Upcoming Events
Iran and Global Decolonization
A Symposium
This symposium brings together scholars whose work investigates Iran’s experiences with colonialism and decolonization from a multiplicity of perspectives – including, but not confined to, race and ethnicity; foreign…
The Penn & Slavery Project teaches us that no colony, state, or well-funded university was buffered from slavery’s reach. Penn’s story is a national story, and one of great importance to our ongoing efforts to come to terms with our nations’s history of slavery.
Featured Students
John Mullan
John is a double-major in History and Arabic and Islamic Studies.
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.
