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The Great War and memory
Penn students walk around World War One-era trenches in a French field

Students tour the battlefield in the Butte de Vauquois in northern France. (Image: Courtesy of Arielle Schweber)

The Great War and memory

History professor Warren Breckman took his Penn Global Seminar students to the Western Front area of northern France and Belgium to look at World War I through the intersections of personal and public memory.

Kristen de Groot

Controversial jurist’s name to be removed from Law School building
Exterior of Silverman Hall at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law

A medallion with the name of controversial jurist Roger Brooke Taney adorns the exterior of Silverman Hall at The University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law.

Controversial jurist’s name to be removed from Law School building

Following a yearlong evaluation and inclusive process, the name of Roger Brooke Taney, former chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, will be removed from a decorative medallion on the exterior of Silverman Hall.

Kristen de Groot

How historical racism influences modern poverty and racial inequality
Regina Baker.

Penn sociologist Regina Baker.

How historical racism influences modern poverty and racial inequality

Sociologist Regina Baker finds that Black people in southern U.S. states with significant institutionalized historical racial practices experience worse poverty today. These states also have a wider poverty gap between Black and white populations.

Michele W. Berger

Penn and the Science History Institute to serve as new hosts of History of Science Society
Conference meeting with dozens of people seated and looking at a presentation in a church-like setting

With its relocation to Philadelphia, the History of Science Society will have a home base at Penn and the Science History Institute from which to receive support, host events, and interact with the city’s robust scholarly community. (Image: Courtesy of HSS)

Penn and the Science History Institute to serve as new hosts of History of Science Society

The arrangement highlights Philadelphia as a hub for history of science scholarship and will provide mentoring opportunities for Penn students.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Putin, personalism, and the war in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen at the end of a long table

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the government via teleconference in Moscow, March 10, 2022. (Image: Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin, personalism, and the war in Ukraine

Christopher Carothers of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China discusses how Putin managed to personalize power for himself and what that means for Russia’s neighbors and the world.

Kristen de Groot

Following the trail of Elizabeth Thomas, fossil hunter
Person standing in a large green field.

(Homepage photo) Locals advised Sabel and Pentecost-Farren (seen here) to look in this field between Hampnett and Northleach, where the pair found several fossilized sea urchins.

Following the trail of Elizabeth Thomas, fossil hunter

Claire Conklin Sabel, a doctoral student in Penn’s History and Sociology of Science department, uncovers the findings of 18th-century amateur naturalist Elizabeth Thomas, along with illustrator Alix Pentecost-Farren, who brings Thomas’ work to life.

Kristina Linnea García

Baseball history, American history
jackie robinson in the dugout

Baseball history, American history

Sarah Gronningsater’s popular course links the two in a study of the sport from the Civil War to Jackie Robinson to the current day.

Kristen de Groot

Engaging in intersectional conversations on race and racism
students in a classroom watching a guest speaker

Students in American Race: A Philadelphia Story, a Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program course, examined intersectional topics on race and racism through a broad, multidisciplinary lens. The course included directed readings, guest speaker presentations, such as this discussion led by Jessie Harper from the Graduate School of Education, and in-depth conversations about the city of Philadelphia.

Engaging in intersectional conversations on race and racism

In the spring, students engaged with complex topics, both intellectually and civically, as part of American Race: A Philadelphia Story, a Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program course.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Undergraduate research projects look at migration from multiple angles
art of people walking across a brown expanse carrying suitcases and bundles

For the 2021-2022 academic year, the Wolf Humanities Center explored the topic of migration. Image: The Migration of the Negro, #18: The migration gained in momentum, 1941. Casein tempera on hardboard, 12"x18". Lawrence, Jacob (1917-2000) ©ARS, NY Location: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Undergraduate research projects look at migration from multiple angles

The Wolf Undergraduate Humanities forum takes on the topic of migration, with individual research projects ranging from slavery debates within the Jewish Orthodox community to Southeast Asian refugee youth.

Kristina Linnea García