Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

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.

Penn Libraries on Manuscript Team that Won a "Digging into Data" Challenge Grant

The Penn Libraries is pleased to announce that a team of humanities scholars and information scientists that includes Lynn Ransom, curator of programs at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, has been awarded a 2017

Two From Penn Awarded Soros Fellowships

Ivan Kuznetsov, an M.D./Ph.D.

Field Center at Penn Identifies Risk Factors Making Homeless Youth Vulnerable to Sex Trafficking

The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research at the University of Pennsylvania joined forces with Covenant House, an agency dedicated to helping homeless youth, and Loyola University’s Modern Slavery Research Project to conduct a

Antoinette Zoumanigui and Selamawit Bekele of Penn to Educate Youth in Senegal

In the streets of Senegal, young boys beg for food and money, but two students from the University of Pennsylvania are working to address this issue through Project Y.V.E.T.A.,

Visualizing Future Doesn’t Increase Delayed Gratification, Penn Study Shows

Some people are more impulsive than others.

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