SAS Welcomes 37 New Standing Faculty
The School is delighted to welcome 37 outstanding scholars to its standing faculty in the 2003-2004 academic year. Many of the senior faculty who have joined the School in the fall 2003 will join departments identified by the School as central to our efforts to build and maintain SAS excellence. As in other years, the choices we have made are directed to achieving a leadership role in a discipline or area.
Here is a sampling of the new additions to our faculty:
- A well-known scholar and poet with 26 volumes, Charles
Bernstein has come to our English department from the State
University of New York at Buffalo. His arrival, along with
the presence of our own faculty members, Bob Perelman and
Regan Professor of English Susan Stewart, will place Penn's
program in poetics in the country's front ranks.
- There are four senior recruits in the history department.
The new Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American
History, Steven Hahn, is a scholar of the 19th century
American South, as is Stephanie McCurry, who will hold
a Merriam Term Chair. They join us from Northwestern University.
Margo Todd, a scholar from Vanderbilt University who studies
early modern Britain, will be the Walter H. Annenberg Professor
of History. In addition, Antonio Feros, Associate Professor
of History, is an award-winning teacher from NYU who is
a leading scholar of early modern Spanish history.
- Diana Mutz, a scholar of political behavior and the role of mass media in political communication, has come to the political science department from Ohio State University. This was a joint recruitment with the Annenberg School for Communication, where she will direct the Institute on Democratic Institutions in the Annenberg Public Policy Center. She will be the Annenberg Professor of Political Science and Communication.
Click here to view all the new standing faculty members.