News & Views
Nick Foretek (Doctoral candidate in history at the University of Pennsylvania) - Anatomy of an Exodus From Russia. As the war in Ukraine progresses, an anthropologist catalogs the mass departure
The end came for all of us at once. (Interview Subject 1) On March 1, in a Moscow therapist’s office, Alevtina “Alya” Borodulina chose to leave Russia.A historical look at Diana, 25 years after her death. Emma Hart, History, offers her perspective on the history of royal celebrity, the British monarchy’s current role in public life
August 31 marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon: ‘Like a bad 1980s spy film’ Brittney Griner’s imprisonment reveals Russia’s embrace of pariah identity
Earlier this month, a court in Moscow sentenced Brittney Griner to nine years in prison for bringing cannabis oil into Russia in February 2022.Tina Irvine (PhD 2019): Climate Change Just Erased the Past in Kentucky. Where Will it Happen Next?
In the early morning hours of Thursday, July 28, the rising floodwaters of Troublesome Creek in Knott County, Kentucky breacWho, What, Why: History Major Hannah De Oliveira’s study of Japanese American internment (Brandon Baker)
Through a spring Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships grant, rising senior Hannah De Oliveira explored archives across the country to study viewpoints within Japanese American internment camps. ____ WhoProfessor Sophia Rosenfeld, new chair of the History Department, University of Pennsylvania
Professor Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, will serve as Chair of the History Department from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. At Penn, Prof.The legacy of Shinzo Abe. Frederick R. Dickinson, professor of Japanese history, offers his take on Abe’s impact on Japan,. (Kristen de Groot)
A conversation with Kristen de Groot, Penn TodayGrant Stanton - The unsung Black Patriots of Revolutionary Boston They fought so that those who came after them would be ‘born free and equal.’ It’s time we remembered their names. (Boston Globe)
It was in Boston, almost 250 years ago, that a group of formerly enslaved Black men led the first organized movement for abolition in America’s history.
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.
In an age of wrenching social change and momentous global challenges, history gives us fresh perspectives, important distinctions, and a sense of how we got here. This year, join Penn historians for lively discussions of the past that seek to better orient us in the present. Because as events unfold, that’s History Speaking, too.
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.
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.
Bianca Serbin
My name is Bianca, and I’m a senior pursuing the general history major and minoring in French. From a young age, I was certain I wanted to study history. I was influenced by my father, who is a historian and who always encouraged me to value stories about the past.
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.
