Humanities Faculty Features Archive
Classics Instructor Uses Technology to Personalize Teaching. Fall 2004.
Bird’s-Eye
View of the Amazon
Airborne Archaeologist Challenges the Myth of a Pristine Wilderness. Spring
2004.
Soon
to Be a Motion Picture Major
Cinema Studies Premieres at Penn. Spring 2004.
Shirin
Ebadi
Profile in Courage -- and Hope. Winter 2004.
Through a Glass Historically. Winter 2004. Historian's Perspective on the War in Iraq.
Ezra's Dream. Winter 2004. SAS Poets Realize Modernists Vision.
Modern Misuse of "Crusade" Fall 2003.
Multiply What Matters. Fall 2003. Lorene Cary Addresses to the Class of 2003.
Thieves of History. Fall 2003. Looters Sack Iraq's Relics.
Black and White and Read All Over. Spring 2003. Michael Eric Dyson Preaches the Gospel of Race in America.
Reason, Cold and Careful: The Military Response to Terrorism. Winter 2002. Lauder Professor of International Relations Arthur Waldron considers the U.S. military action in Afghanistan as a response to terrorism.
Through a Glass Darkly: On the Misunderstanding of Islam and America and 9/11. Winter 2002. "Islam is a religion that preaches benevolence and forgiveness,” notes Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, assistant professor of history.
The Look of History. Spring 2002
Breaking the Silence. The Rise of Women’s Studies at Penn. Summer 2001.
Lady or the Tramp: The Billie Holiday Myth in a Different Light. Spring 2001.
Reaching Out to Religious Communities: Religion Professor Takes Class Into West Philly. Winter 2001.
Classics: In the Present Tense. Summer 2000.
Legends of the Hall: Telling the Story of the Classical World. Summer 2000.
Old Wine in New Skins: Technology and the Study of Antiquity. Summer 2000.
Mightier Than the Pen: Praising the Language of Film. Winter 2000.
Apocalypse When? Reading the Signs of the Times in Y1K. Fall 1999.
Beyond the End of the World: Myth Making with a Scientific Spin. Fall 1999.
Keeping the Republic: A More Perfect Union of Higher and Popular Education. Summer 1999.
Taking the Academy by Storm: Undergraduate Research Yields Diplomatic Lessons. Summer 1999.
Searching the Soul of Russia. Summer 1999.
How Music Means: Laying Bare the Social Roots of Music. Spring 1999.
Making Knowledge Cool: The Penn Education of Steven Morgan Friedman. Spring 1998.
Creating a Culture of Writing at Penn. Spring 1997.
Reluctant Good Samaritans, or How We Got Into This Fix. Fall 1996
Eugene Narmour: Music Man and Associate Dean. Spring 1996.
Reporting on the Culture Wars: An Interview with Wendy Steiner. Spring 1996.