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Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon - My joy over the Derek Chauvin verdict was fleeting because I know America
Jared Farmer

An interview with Prof. Jared Farmer - What Can We Learn from Trees?
Chinaza Okonkwo

History Major Chinaza Ruth Okonkwo has been awarded a 2021 Beinecke Scholarship to pursue a graduate education in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Sam Orloff

History Major Samuel Orloff has been named a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow, one of an estimated 12 in the country chosen for a one-year fellowship at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.
Cover: The Muridiyya on the Move. Islam, Migration, and Place Making

Cheikh Anta Babou, a Penn historian of Islam and the modern West African Muslim diaspora, publishes The Muridiyya on the Move. Islam, Migration, and Place Making (Ohio University Press, 2021)
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Mia Bay’s ‘Traveling Black,’ a Look at the Civil Rights Movement in Motion

IN THESE TIMES – Season 2/Episode 2: EMBEDDED IN HISTORY. In this episode, OMNIA takes a look at the laws and policies that legislated Black lives, movement, and security, and consider the lasting impacts of systems including slavery and colonialism

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In These Times: The series used COVID-19 as a platform for a six-episode run in which Penn Arts & Sciences faculty explored the science, social science, and human experiences that shaped events in 2020.

An image from a graphic history of two French women who traveled to Mauritania in the 1930s by Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik.

Graphic histories: Understanding the Middle East and Africa through comics
Still from the documentary "Alone Again in Fukushima"

‘Alone Again in Fukushima’ On the 10th anniversary of the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear facility destruction, a film and discussion hosted by the Center for East Asian Studies looked at the calamity’s reverberations.