Immigration policy and the 2024 presidential election U.S. Border Patrol agents with migrants seeking asylum, mainly from Colombia, China, and Ecuador, in a makeshift, mountainous campsite after crossing the border between Mexico and the United States on Feb. 2, 2024, near Jacumba, California. (Image: AP Photo/Gregory Bull) Immigration policy and the 2024 presidential election An April 2 symposium will bring together policy analysts, immigration scholars, and representatives of nonprofit advocacy organizations to discuss immigration policies and their impact.
‘Are Civil Rights Enough?’ PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts addresses the audience at the 23rd annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice. nocred ‘Are Civil Rights Enough?’ During the 23rd annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice, PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts addressed the question “Are Civil Rights Enough?”
Marci Hamilton works to prevent child sex abuse globally Marci Hamilton, Professor of Practice in Political Science. (Image: Jason Varney/OMNIA) Marci Hamilton works to prevent child sex abuse globally A new initiative from Hamilton’s CHILD USA and a survivor-led nonprofit called the Brave Movement will research statutes of limitations for every country in the world and track their findings in a global dashboard.
Archiving empire with religious studies’ Megan Robb Professor Megan Robb (center) worked with a team of students including Michael Goerlitz (left) and Juliana Lu (right) to create a digital archive centered on Elizabeth Sharaf-un-Nisa, an 18th-century Mughal woman who cohabited with a European man working for the East India Company, bearing children, marrying him, and ultimately living out the remainder of her life in England. Archiving empire with religious studies’ Megan Robb A long-unseen archive centered on an 18th-century Mughal woman will soon be publicly accessible, thanks to the work of religious studies professor Megan Robb of the School of Arts & Sciences and a team of Penn students.
Historian Mia Bay on ‘Traveling Black’ Jacksonville Union Terminal segregated waiting room during the Great Migration. Q&A Historian Mia Bay on ‘Traveling Black’ The professor of history’s new book explores the intertwined history of travel segregation and African American struggles for freedom of movement.