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Q&A with Karen Redrobe, new director of the Wolf Humanities Center
Penn professor Karen Redrobe

Karen Redrobe is the new director of Penn’s Wolf Humanities Center. (Photo by Lua Beckman) 

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    • Q&A with Karen Redrobe, new director of the Wolf Humanities Center

    In her new role, Redrobe will oversee the Center's public programs, and the research work of 29 faculty, graduate, and post-doctoral fellows, and oversee Penn Global collaboration with the Perry World House.
    Q&A with Tulia Falleti
    Tulia Falleti

    Tulia Falleti, director of Penn’s Latin American and Latino Studies program, the Class of 1965 Term Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Arts and Sciences, and a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. (Photo: Eric Sucar)

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    • Q&A with Tulia Falleti

    The political science professor explains the events of the “other” 9/11, the coup of 1973 that displaced the democratically-elected president of Chile and instated a military dictator.
    Q&A with Marci Hamilton
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    • Q&A with Marci Hamilton

    A national expert on child sex abuse, Hamilton comments on the vast Roman Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis.

    Lauren Hertzler

    A squirmy, slimy, crunchy new potential staple of the American diet
    Eating Bugs

    Psychologist Paul Rozin thinks insects should be the next big food group in the U.S. All it takes, he suggests, is a little more exposure to move beyond the disgust factor.

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    • A squirmy, slimy, crunchy new potential staple of the American diet

    Psychologist Paul Rozin discusses how it’s possible to get past the ick factor of eating bugs (the key is exposure), and how the insects actually taste. It’s all part of his research focusing on the emotion of disgust as it relates to food.

    Michele W. Berger

    Camille Z. Charles on the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act
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    Camille Z. Charles, the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences, a professor of sociology, Africana studies, and education, and the director of the Center for Africana Studies.

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    • Camille Z. Charles on the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act

    Camille Z. Charles, professor of sociology, Africana studies, and education, and director of the Center for Africana Studies, talks about residential segregation and the promises and failures of the Fair Housing Act in light of the legislation’s 50th anniversary.

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    Q&A with Mary Frances Berry: 
“History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times”
    Mary Frances Berry

    Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and a professor of history and Africana studies. (Image: Jim Abbott)

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    • Q&A with Mary Frances Berry: 
“History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times”

    The civil rights activist, historian, and author discusses her new book “History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times.”
    Talking philosophy, privacy, and race with Anita Allen
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    Anita Allen, Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and professor of philosophy.

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    • Talking philosophy, privacy, and race with Anita Allen

    On July 1, the Vice Provost and professor of Law and Philosophy became the first female African-American president of the American Philosophical Association’s Eastern Division.

    Michele W. Berger

    English professor explores poetic expressions of Japanese-American internment
    Japanese Internment--Library of Congress A photograph of the Manzanar Relocation Center, located in California, from the perspective of a tower. Courtesy of The Library of Congress Print and Photographs Division
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    • English professor explores poetic expressions of Japanese-American internment

    Josephine Park, professor of English and interim director of the Asian American Studies Program, on the poetry that originated in Japanese-American internment camps, and poetry by incarcerated populations.
    A product of the 1980s: Q&A with English professor Dagmawi Woubshet
    Penn English Professor Dagmawi Woubshet

    Dagmawi Woubshet is an associate professor of English, new to Penn this year. 

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    • A product of the 1980s: Q&A with English professor Dagmawi Woubshet

    English professor Dagmawi Woubshet describes himself an “African-Americanist” in his literary pursuits. An immigrant from Ethiopia, he focuses on the 1980s in his research and his courses.