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Researching cultural heritage at the Penn Museum
Sierra Williams standing on a stairway in a library.

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Researching cultural heritage at the Penn Museum

Aiming for a career in the museum field, Sierra Williams, a rising third-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, is working on a research study at the Penn Museum’s Penn Cultural Heritage Center through the Summer Humanities Internship Program.

Louisa Shepard

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Lynn Meskell elected Fellow to the British Academy
Lynn Meskell

Meskell is the Richard D. Green Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor with joint appointments in the School of Arts & Sciences, the Weitzman School of Design, and the Penn Museum.

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Lynn Meskell elected Fellow to the British Academy

The honor recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.

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Katz Center Fellow Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar trains her anthropologist’s lens on ultra-Orthodox and Amish communities

Katz Center Fellow Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar trains her anthropologist’s lens on ultra-Orthodox and Amish communities

Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar is a senior lecturer at Sapir Academic College in Sderot, Israel, where she teaches courses on research methods, communication, religion, and gender. She is one of 18 current Fellows at Penn’s Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. This year’s 2024–25 fellowship year is devoted to the study of Jews and health, exploring health through the intersection between bodies and systems, language and physicality, religion, and science.

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Who, What, Why: Xiao Schutte Ke on Tibetan pastoralists and citizen science
Xiao Schutte Ke.

Image: Courtesy of Xiao Schutte Ke

Who, What, Why: Xiao Schutte Ke on Tibetan pastoralists and citizen science

Schutte Ke, a sixth-year linguistic anthropology doctoral candidate in the School of Arts & Sciences, explains the importance of Indigenous citizen scientists in understanding a crucial ecosystem of nomadic livestock herders on the mountainous region of the Tibetan Plateau.

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Bringing museum filmmaking into the classroom
Sosena Solomon on stage during a Q&A at the Met with two other people.

Sosena Solomon participated in a panel conversation at The Met on May 31 with international co-hosts for the Arts of Africa: Jonathan Nsubuga, chief architect of JE Nsubuga and Associates, and Fasil Giorghis, associate professor of architecture and the chair of conservation of urban and architectural heritage at the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development.

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Bringing museum filmmaking into the classroom

Filmmaker Sosena Solomon taught Documentary Ethnography for Museums and Exhibitions amid filming in Africa for a Metropolitan Museum of Art redesign. The Arts of Africa galleries just reopened, including in-gallery and online films Solomon shot in 12 countries.

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