News & Views
Penn Today: Alexei Navalny’s death and legacy featuring Kimberly St. Julian Varnon
Three experts from around the University share their thoughts on what Navalny’s death means for the opposition movement, for Putin’s grip on power, and for Russia going forward.Penn Today: New dialogue series explores open expression and free speech, with Beth Wenger and Sophie Rosenfeld
The School of Arts & Sciences launched the ‘Living the Hard Promise’ series with a conversation examining the purpose, history, and challenges of open expression across campus.OMNIA: LESSONS FROM 17TH CENTURY “NEW NETHERLAND” with Molly Leech
Through study of the fur and wampum trade between the Lenape and Dutch in the 1600s, fourth-year history Ph.D. candidate Molly Leech is aiming to recenter Indigenous contributions to global trade.Penn Today: Prof. Marcy Norton on ‘The Tame and the Wild’
Historian Marcy Norton’s new book looks at the history of human-animal relationships in Europe and Native America and how they became entangled after 1492.NYT Op Ed: Prof Sophia Rosenfeld on Free Speech
I Teach a Class on Free Speech. My Students Can Show Us the Way Forward. By Sophia RosenfeldLA Sentinel: Penn’s ‘Long Tradition’ Center for Study of African American History
New hires in the History Department are bolstering the University of Pennsylvania’s position as one of the best places for the field of African American history.Congratulations, Prof. Sally Gordon!
American Society for Legal History 2023 Honorary FellowPenn Today: Penn’s ‘long tradition’ as a center for the study of African American history
New hires like Marcia Chatelain and Vaughn Booker in Africana Studies and William Sturkey in the History Department are bolstering Penn’s position as one of the best places for the field of African American history.Penn Today: Dr. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Sarah Eskandari (PhD candidate), and Dr. Fatemah Shams on Women. Life. Freedom.
Marking a monumental death In honor of the first anniversary of the killing of Mahsa (Jîna) Amini in Iran and the subsequent outpouring of protest, Penn will host a two-day conference on violence against women.Prof. Domenic Vitiello wins Kenneth Jackson Award from Urban History Association for Best Book in N. American History
Congratulations to Domenic Vitiello—our Weitzman colleague, member of our graduate group, and Penn History PhD—on winning the Kenneth Jackson Award from the Urban History Association!
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
Book conversation with Melissa Teixeira and Warren Breckman
Penn Historian Series
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Melissa Teixeira and Dr. Warren Breckman discussing A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil &…
We Will Put Them Out”: The Legal and Imperial Formations of Anti-Asian Violence in Twentieth Century America” with Prof. Hardeep Dhillon
Legal History Workshop
You are invited to the Legal History Workshop on April 18th at 12:00 pm ET. Professor Hardeep Dhillon, from …
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, class of '20
John double-majored 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.
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.
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.
