Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Penn Students Recast Famous Orson Welles Radio Broadcast

In a unique class that combined history and theatre, a 79-year-old radio broadcast became surprisingly relevant to 12 University of Pennsylvania students.

Population Association of America Honors Penn Prof With Irene B. Taeuber Award

Jere R. Behrman, a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Population Studies Center, has received the biennial Irene B. Taeuber Award of the Population Association of America.

Penn and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Receive Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant to Expand Collaboration

The University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Museum of Art have been jointly awarded $500,000 from the Andrew W.

Twenty Penn Students and Alumni Offered 2017-18 Fulbright Grants

Twenty University of Pennsylvania students and alumni have been offered Fulbright U.S.

John McInerney to Take Helm of Penn‘s Sachs Program for Arts Innovation

John McInerney, vice president of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, has been named the inaugural executive director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Sachs Program for Arts Innovation.

Penn Student Theater Sparkles at Platt Student Performing Arts House

Under the umbrella of the Theater Arts Council, TACe, students at the University of Pennsylvania, have the opportunity to bask in the limelight, both behind and in front of the curtain.

Penn Professor Nancy Hirschmann Looks at Intersection of Disability and Feminism Through a Unique Lens

University of Pennsylvania professor Nancy Hirschmann studies how disability and feminism intersect from a unique perspective, that of a political theorist.

Penn Professor Diana Mutz Awarded 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship

Diana Mutz, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has been selected to receive a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Penn’s Barbara Savage Named Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Oxford University

Barbara D. Savage of the University of Pennsylvania has been chosen as the Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford for the 2018-19 academic year.

Studying Digital Marketing in a Post-Privacy Era

As consumers, we’re being watched every minute of every day. Advertisers track us anonymously, share our personal data with marketers, and sell it to the highest bidder.

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