Humanities News Archive
Karen Beckman Appointed to Jaffe Chair. February 1, 2005. Film and feminist theory scholar Dr. Karen Beckman has been appointed the inaugural Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Assistant Professor of Film Studies in SAS.
Nathans’ Book on Jews in Tsarist Russia Wins Third Award. January 2005. The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies has recognized Benjamin Nathans, associate professor of history, with the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize.
Liliane Weissberg named Christopher Browne Professor in SAS. October 12, 2004. Dr. Liliane Weissberg, professor of Germanic languages and literatures, has been appointed the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Sciences, Dean Samuel H. Preston announced.
Sheldon Hackney named David Boies Professor in SAS. October 5, 2004. Dr. Sheldon Hackney, professor and chair of history, has been named the David Boies Professor in SAS, Dean Samuel H. Preston announced.
History Professor Named to American Philosophical Society. May 17, 2004. Professor of history Bruce Kuklick has been elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society, a prestigious learned society founded in Philadelphia in 1743.
Blitzing the Movie Making Business. April 11, 2004. Junior Josh Gorin wins Best Undergraduate Comedy at Ivy Film Festival.
History's Steven Hahn Awarded Pulitzer Prize. April 5, 2004. Hahn, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor in American History, was awarded the prize for his book "Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration."
Two Major Prizes for Professor Hahn’s Book. March 23, 2004. History professor Steven Hahn has received both the Bancroft Prize and the Merle Curti Prize for his new book, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration.
Nathans Wins A Second Prize for Recent Book. March 23, 2004. Associate professor of history Benjamin Nathans has received the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies for his book, Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia.
Weissberg Chosen to Give Fritz Thyssen Lecture. March 15, 2004. Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Liliane Weissberg has been selected to give the prestigious Fritz Thyssen Lecture in Israel this spring.
Penn Professors Paul Hendrickson and Susan Stewart Win National Book Critics Circle Awards. March 5, 2004. Hendrickson's "Sons of Mississippi" won for best nonfiction book and Stewart's "Columbarium" won for best book of poetry of the year.
Romance Languages Professor Garners Prizes for Two Books. January 13, 2004. Professor of Romance languages Joan DeJean’s latest books have earned her accolades from two different learned societies.
McNeil Center Celebrates 25 Years by Unveiling Plans for New Home. December 2003. The McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania celebrated its 25th anniversary this month by announcing plans for its new building.
Chair at University of Michigan named for Penn history professor. October 14, 2003. A professor at the University of Michigan has honored Penn faculty member Mary Frances Berry by naming her chair for Berry.
Chairs for two newcomers to history department. October 2003. Dr. Stephanie McCurry and Dr. Steven H. Hahn, two new recruits to the history department from Northwestern University, have been named the Merriam Term Associate Professor of History and the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History.
Creative writing lecturer wins book award. September 18, 2003. Paul Hendrickson, a lecturer in the Creative Writing Program, has won the 2003 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction for his new book, Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy.
Matter Named Medieval Academy Fellow. April 16, 2003 E. Ann Matter, professor of religious studies and chair of the department, has been named a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. A Lindback Award-winning teacher, Professor Matter is a scholar of the history of the interpretation of the Bible from the Middle Ages to the present and of women in early modern Italy. Founded in 1925, the group is the world’s largest organization devoted to Medieval studies.
Four New Weiler Fellows in SAS. March,30 2003
History Professor Discusses WWII Tale on C-Span March 7, 2003
Penn Historian Thomas Childers Follows an American Pilot's Journey January 16, 2003. In his latest book, In the Shadows of War: An American Pilot’s Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany, Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History Thomas Childers tells the story of an American pilot, a French schoolteacher, and a British secret service agent whose lives converge in a small French village just after D-Day.
McNeil Center for Early American Studies to Have Permanent Home January 9, 2003
Al Filreis to Head New Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
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History Professor Publishes Oxford Encyclopedia of Enlightenment. November 10, 2003. History Professor Alan Charles Kors has published his four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Enlightenment, a work that history chair Jonathan Steinberg describes as “an amazing scholarly and publication achievement.”
Penn English Professor Receives Christian Gauss Award
Penn Center for Africana Studies Announces 30th Anniversary Program Series October 23, 2002
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Center Opens, Latest Step in Expansion of Africana Studies
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September 20, 2002
Penn Music Department Welcomes New Conductor. September 10, 2002
Penn Music Professor Resurrects Chopin June 12, 2002
Penn Professor Solves Mystery from 'Hamlet' February 25, 2002
Penn Historian Explores Early Native Americans January 31, 2002