News & Views
Penn Carey Law: History in the Making
Under the leadership of Prof. Karen Tani L’07, PhD’11, the Legal History Consortium drives innovative research and scholarship at the intersection of the law and history.Penn Arts and Sciences: 2025 Dean’s Scholars Named
Congratulations to History major, Eugenia Xu!Mengliu Cheng, Graduate Student Paper Prize of the Association for Asian Studies
Mengliu Cheng has been awarded the Graduate Student Paper Prize of the Association for Asian Studies (East and Inner Asia Council).The Sound of Mormonism: A Media History of Latter-day Saints
New book from Dr. Jared FarmerPenn Today: Senior thesis explores Bayard Rustin’s civil rights vision
Fourth-year Connor Nakamura’s research delves into Rustin’s life, work, and legacy as a thinker and leader.AP: Thousands of followers of a Sufi Muslim brotherhood celebrate a sacred date in Senegal
featuring Professor Cheikh BabouProf Brent Cebul for The New York Review
Bidenomics: Farewell to an Idea?Penn Today: Jimmy Carter remembered
Penn faculty reflect on the legacy of the former president, a Penn honorary degree recipient who led America almost a half-century ago and whose post-presidency was defined by humanitarian work and service.Grad Student Christen Hammock-Jones for TIME: Made by History
"Abortion Has Always Been More Than Health Care""Intimate Technologies of Family Making: Birth Control Politics in Cold War Turkey" by Dr. Seçil Yilmaz
Bulletin of the History of Medicine Volume 98, Number 3, Fall 2024 Johns Hopkins University Press
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
Penn Economic History Forum
The final Penn Economic History Forum event of the year will be a lecture by Claudia Goldin. The event is co-sponsored with the Penn Economics Department and will take place not in our usual time slot and venue but…
Ana Hontanilla, “Voices of Authority and Conflict: The Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo and the Shaping of Slavery (1765-1812).”
Race and Slavery Working Group
Ana Hontanilla, “Voices of Authority and Conflict: The Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo and the Shaping of Slavery (1765-1812).”
Respondent: Adriana Chira
…
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
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.
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.
