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Joan DeJean on ‘Mutinous Women’
Joan DeJean and the cover of her book Mutinous Women

In her latest book “Mutinous Women,” Joan DeJean of the School of Arts & Sciences investigates the lives of female prisoners deported in 1719 from Paris to the French Colony of Louisiana. DeJean’s research follows their paths and corrects the historical record, documenting that they were victims, unjustly accused and convicted.

(Image: Candace diCarlo)

Joan DeJean on ‘Mutinous Women’

In her latest book, Joan DeJean of the School of Arts & Sciences investigates the lives of female prisoners deported in 1719 from Paris to the French colony of Louisiana.
Wale Adebanwi on democratic reform in Africa
Illustrations of chat boxes, African American hands holding a handful of stones, and an African American person in profile.

Image: Kingsley Nebechi

Wale Adebanwi on democratic reform in Africa

The Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies teaches an undergraduate course, Popular Culture and Youth in Africa. He discusses successes and challenges of democratic reform in post-Cold War Africa.

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Mural expresses culture and belonging in South Philadelphia
mural with many illustrations in bright colors on a long wall with a sidewalk and cars

Mural artist Shira Walinsky of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design and fourth-grade teacher Lisa Yau, a fellow in the Penn-based Teachers Institute of Philadelphia, worked together with students to transform a blank wall across the street from the Francis Scott Key School entrance on 8th Street in South Philadelphia. (Image: Steve Weinik, courtesy of Mural Arts Philadelphia)

Mural expresses culture and belonging in South Philadelphia

Shira Walinsky of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design and fourth-grade teacher Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau, a fellow in the Penn-based Teachers Institute of Philadelphia, worked with students to create a mural across from Francis Scott Key School in South Philadelphia.
Regular folks in the Roman Empire
Kim Bowes and the cover of her book The Roman Peasant Project 2009-2014 with an illustration of a small wooden house in the country with a tree

Kimberly Bowes, archaeologist, classical studies professor, and director of the Integrated Studies Program, focuses not on the elite during the Roman Empire, but on the lived experience of the working poor and the economies that dominated their lives. Bowes has received both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to expand her research.

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    • Regular folks in the Roman Empire

    Kimberly Bowes of the School of Arts & Sciences focuses on the lived experience of the Roman Empire’s working poor and the economies that dominated their lives 2,00 years ago.
    What I’ve learned: Wharton’s Anita Summers
    Anita Summers.

    Wharton professor emeritus Anita Summers. (Image: Knowledge at Wharton)

    What I’ve learned: Wharton’s Anita Summers

    Professor emeritus Anita Summers talks about her groundbreaking career in economics and public policy, and why integrity and evidence go hand in hand.

    From Knowledge at Wharton

    Talking admissions with Whitney Soule
    Whitney Soule.

    Whitney Soule, vice provost and dean of admissions. (Image: Lisa Godfrey)

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    • Talking admissions with Whitney Soule

    As vice provost and dean of admissions, Soule is challenged daily with thinking strategically about undergraduate enrollment at Penn—from recruitment to application processes and all that goes into admitting a class, to how financial aid and retention fits into the mix.

    Lauren Hertzler

    With plants as a model, studying the ‘complexity and reproducibility’ of developmental biology
    Aman Husbands

    By studying how plants develop, Aman Husbands, who joined the Department of Biology faculty this year, may make insights that find application well beyond the plant kingdom. 

    With plants as a model, studying the ‘complexity and reproducibility’ of developmental biology

    In his first year at Penn, biologist Aman Husbands is busy working on projects aimed at illuminating the molecular mechanisms that govern plant development.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Six from Penn elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022
    A grid of people that includes, in the top row, Dorothy Roberts, Drew Weissman, and Katalin Karikó, and in the bottom row, Yale Goodman, Nicholas Sambanis, and Diana Kotzin.

    Six researchers and faculty affiliated with the Perelman School of Medicine, School of Arts & Sciences, Graduate School of Education, and Penn Law have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022. (Images: Courtesy of [counterclockwise from top left] Penn Law, Peggy Peterson/Penn Medicine, Penn Engineering, Nicholas Sambanis, Graduate School of Education)

    Six from Penn elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022

    Faculty from the Perelman School of Medicine, School of Arts & Sciences, Graduate School of Education, and Law School join more 260 honorees recognized for contributions to academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research.

    Michele W. Berger

    Supporting education in Ghana
    person with a cell phone

    The Graduate School of Education’s Sharon Wolf (not pictured)  is leading a research project on reaching parents in remote and impoverished regions of Ghana with supportive text messages to share information on helping their children, especially girls, succeed in school.

    Supporting education in Ghana

    The Graduate School of Education’s Sharon Wolf is leading a research project on reaching parents in remote and impoverished regions of Ghana with supportive text messages to share information on helping their children, especially girls, succeed in school.
    How universities can support mid-career faculty of color
    People sitting under trees in the middle of Penn campus.

    How universities can support mid-career faculty of color

    Faculty leaders at Penn and other Ivy Plus institutions attended a symposium to discuss what universities can do to better support mid-career faculty of color.

    Dee Patel