Department News
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.Michael Brinley awarded a 2019-20 Dissertation Research Grant
Having passed his comprehensive exams this spring, Michael Brinley has been awarded a 2019-20 Dissertation Research Grant by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, to conduct research in Russia, Armenia, Belarus, and other countries of the former Soviet Union. Michael’s
Congratulations to Amy Offner
Amy Offner has receive a University Research Foundation grant to support her next book project, The Disappearing Worker. Congratulations Amy!
Congratulations to Roquinaldo Ferreira and Melissa Teixeira
Congratulations to Roquinaldo Ferreira and Melissa Teixeira who, along with Michael Hanchard (AFRC), received a Making a Difference in Diverse Communities grant from Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences. Part of the funds will be used to support the “Memory and Identity in Afro-Brazilian Archives”
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.
