News & Views
Mengliu Cheng, Graduate Student Paper Prize of the Association for Asian Studies
The Sound of Mormonism: A Media History of Latter-day Saints
Penn Today: Senior thesis explores Bayard Rustin’s civil rights vision
AP: Thousands of followers of a Sufi Muslim brotherhood celebrate a sacred date in Senegal
Prof Brent Cebul for The New York Review
Penn Today: Jimmy Carter remembered
Grad Student Christen Hammock-Jones for TIME: Made by History
"Intimate Technologies of Family Making: Birth Control Politics in Cold War Turkey" by Dr. Seçil Yilmaz
OMNIA: What History Can Be
Penn Today: Patterns of Soviet Jewish emigration in the post-Stalin era with Sasha Zborovsky, History PhD Candidate
Welcome to the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Over thirty historians in the standing faculty with a broad range of research specialties advance our understanding of the past.
Upcoming Events
Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought with Susanna Ferguson
Embodied Histories Working Group on Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Global South
Emily Wang: “Pushkin, the Decembrists, and Civic Sentimentalism”
East European History and Culture Workshop
Emily Wang (German and Russian Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame): “Pushkin, the Decembrists, and Civic Sentimentalism”
In an age of wrenching social change and momentous global challenges, history gives us fresh perspectives, important distinctions, and a sense of how we got here. This year, join Penn historians for lively discussions of the past that seek to better orient us in the present. Because as events unfold, that’s History Speaking, too.
The Penn & Slavery Project teaches us that no colony, state, or well-funded university was buffered from slavery’s reach. Penn’s story is a national story, and one of great importance to our ongoing efforts to come to terms with our nations’s history of slavery.
Featured Students
John Mullan, class of '20
John double-majored in History and Arabic and Islamic Studies.
Carson Eckhard
Carson didn’t come to Penn set on being a History Major. Yet her freshman year she enrolled in “The American South” and there wrote a paper about Southern U.S. universities and slavery.
Archana Upadhyay
I’m a senior from Chicago majoring in World History. I transferred to Penn as a sophomore from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
Bianca Serbin
My name is Bianca, and I’m a senior pursuing the general history major and minoring in French. From a young age, I was certain I wanted to study history. I was influenced by my father, who is a historian and who always encouraged me to value stories about the past.