Vandana Gopikumar, PhD, Co-Founder of The Banyan and The Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health, will receive the 2018 Penn Nursing Renfield Foundation Award for Global Women’s Health for her work in helping women with mental health problems in India. She co-founded both…

http://www.upenn.edu/teachin/#schedule For the Teach-In, Data Refuge Stories teams will conduct mapping and storytelling actions, across campus staged at central locations of interdisciplinary knowledge production and circulation. At each Data Refuge Stories site, teams comprised…

http://www.upenn.edu/teachin/#schedule Universities have found themselves enmeshed in debates around immigration policy over the past year, as students, alums, faculty, scholars and researchers have been caught up in Executive Orders seeking to halt entry to the United States of…

Zines have been a powerful tool for feminist politics and communities, and for gathering historically-marginalized voices, practices and ideas. How can zines help articulate a feminist set of ethics for teaching? What would a zine for feminist pedagogy be able to teach us? This…

Dawn Teele studies the economic and psychological factors that drive women to seek political office. In a new research project, "Nudging Women to Run," Teele, along with scholars at Rutgers University, Yale University, and the University of California, Berkeley, surveyed alumnae…

http://www.upenn.edu/teachin/#schedule Throughout the Teach-In, Monument Lab collaborators will present research projects from Penn students in the Civic Studio course, including final projects that offers guidance on the creative and civic impulses of monument making; a first…

http://www.upenn.edu/teachin/#schedule The popular media sometimes portray American universities as places where discussion of racial matters is conducted along narrow, politically correct lines of thinking. The reality is of course quite different. Current research on race is…

http://www.upenn.edu/teachin/#schedule Knowledge is the lifeblood of the university. Its progression may be marked from the crucible of its creation to its dissemination to a larger public, and, finally, to the use to which it is put. A half-century after the campus teach-ins…

Dr. Jaime Cantrell is a recent visiting assistant professor of English at the University of Mississippi and current faculty affiliate at the Sarah Isom Center for Women’s and Gender Studies and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, while serving as the Program Coordinator…

Snorton traces how flesh figures one route into the proverbial question of how matter matters. Snorton is a Penn alum, with a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture, with graduate certificates in Africana Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies.