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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Patterns of Soviet Jewish emigration in the post-Stalin era
Patterns of Soviet Jewish emigration in the post-Stalin era
For four decades, more than one million Jews left the USSR despite the Soviet Union’s complex bureaucracy and opposition to emigration. Doctoral candidate Sasha Zborovsky explores the intricate dynamics.
PBS News Hour Classroom wins Civics Award to develop community college resources
PBS News Hour Classroom wins Civics Award to develop community college resources
The award from the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics will provide PBS News Hour Classroom with over $58,000 to create and publish 32 multimedia resources for adult learners.
A Q&A with Penn’s Latin American Studies Librarian
A Q&A with Penn’s Latin American Studies Librarian
Brie Gettleson speaks about her role as a subject librarian with the Penn Libraries and liaison for the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies.
Democrats and Republicans vastly underestimate the diversity of each other’s views
Democrats and Republicans vastly underestimate the diversity of each other’s views
A new study from the Annenberg School for Communication finds that Democrats and Republicans consistently underestimate the diversity of views within each party on hot-button issues like immigration and abortion.
An updated Database of Early English Playbooks: DEEP 2.0
An updated Database of Early English Playbooks: DEEP 2.0
The 20-year-old Database of Early English Playbooks has become an invaluable resource for research on Shakespeare and many other playwrights of his time. The catalogue has been revised and relaunched as DEEP 2.0, with support from Penn’s Price Lab for Digital Humanities.
Teaching and learning abroad in Vietnam
Teaching and learning abroad in Vietnam
In a Q&A, Fred Dickinson of the Department of History discusses his semester as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Vietnam and building out Southeast Asian studies at Penn.
Students fill critical behind-the-scenes Election Day roles for NBC News
Students fill critical behind-the-scenes Election Day roles for NBC News
Three dozen undergraduates worked with the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies this year to track turnout, assemble results, and build on-air graphics.
Protecting Indigenous heritage in an age of climate vulnerability
Protecting Indigenous heritage in an age of climate vulnerability
A preservation plan being developed by researchers in the Weitzman School in consultation with local stewards conserves a millennium of human settlement.
Fritz Steiner’s service as Weitzman School of Design dean at Penn is extended
Fritz Steiner’s service as Weitzman School of Design dean at Penn is extended
Steiner’s tenure as dean of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design is extended through June 30, 2027.
Is sustainable development an oxymoron?
Is sustainable development an oxymoron?
Teresa Giménez, director of the Spanish Language Program and lecturer in foreign languages in the School of Arts & Sciences, discusses the tensions at play when considering this type of growth in Latin America.
In the News
USA Today
Wages are rising faster than inflation. Why are consumers still feeling the pinch?
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the real wage of a person that spends much of their income on food and housing might not have kept up with their personal inflation.
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The New York Times
This man won birthright citizenship for all
Rogers M. Smith of the School of Arts & Sciences says that it’s ambiguous whether birthright citizenship applies to the children of unauthorized aliens.
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Los Angeles Times
A pivotal senator says he extracted vaccine concessions from RFK Jr. How will that play out?
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on the likelihood that U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy would be able to influence Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after his installation at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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GOP gains in voter registration raise red flags for Democrats
Marc Meredith of the School of Arts & Sciences says that Nevada and New Jersey are two states that saw significant shifts towards the Republicans in November.
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Huffington Post
Experts reveal the one hack that will help you finally tackle your to-do list
According to research from the College of Liberal and Professional Studies at the School of Arts & Sciences, scheduling time blocks with breaks to complete different tasks can help achieve the goals of a to-do list.
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