News & Views
Congratulations, Undergraduate Research Prize Recipients!
Dr. Hardeep Dhillon: Imperial Violence, Law, and Compensation in the Age of Empire, 1919–1922
Penn Today: Alexei Navalny’s death and legacy featuring Kimberly St. Julian Varnon
Penn Today: New dialogue series explores open expression and free speech, with Beth Wenger and Sophie Rosenfeld
OMNIA: LESSONS FROM 17TH CENTURY “NEW NETHERLAND” with Molly Leech
Penn Today: Prof. Marcy Norton on ‘The Tame and the Wild’
NYT Op Ed: Prof Sophia Rosenfeld on Free Speech
LA Sentinel: Penn’s ‘Long Tradition’ Center for Study of African American 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
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, class of '20
John double-majored in History and Arabic and Islamic Studies.
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.