News and Views

2021 HUAB Teaching Awards go to Kathy Peiss and Shang Yasuda

Two Ph.D History students - VanJessica Gladney & Kimberly St Julian Varnon - among the Inaugural Presidential Ph.D. Fellows.

Hope and help for wrongfully incarcerated Pennsylvanians

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

2020-21 Undergraduate Research Prizes

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Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon - My joy over the Derek Chauvin verdict was fleeting because I know America
Jared Farmer

An interview with Prof. Jared Farmer - What Can We Learn from Trees?
Chinaza Okonkwo

History Major Chinaza Ruth Okonkwo has been awarded a 2021 Beinecke Scholarship to pursue a graduate education in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Sam Orloff

History Major Samuel Orloff has been named a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow, one of an estimated 12 in the country chosen for a one-year fellowship at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.
Cover: The Muridiyya on the Move. Islam, Migration, and Place Making

Cheikh 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)