News
New Book from the APC/GSWS Community: Ania Loomba, Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism and Feminism in India
Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism and Feminism in India by Ania Loomba, Professor of English and APC/GSWS Core Faculty, examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India, from the late 1920s, shortly after the communist movement took root, to the 1960s, when it fractured.
Francesca Russello Ammon launches "Preserving Society Hill" website
Francesca Russello Ammon, Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning and APC/GSWS Executive Board Member, developed an interactive map featuring the histories of more than 1,500 properties in Society Hill. Read more in Penn News
Beyond Free Speech and Safe Space: Reimagining Open Expression, Inclusion and Argument
APC 2018-2019 Event Series: Beyond Free Speech and Safe Space
In this moment of heightened reactiveness in public discourses and on college campuses about who is permitted to speak and about what topics, it is difficult to create spaces for nuanced discussion. Who decides what is permissible speech? What is at stake when voices are silenced or speakers are subject to social media surveillance?
Kathy Brown interviewed on WHYY's Radio Times
APC & GSWS Director Kathy Brown was interviewed today about the Penn Slavery Project by Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY's Radio Times - listen to the interview
Nancy Hirschmann highlighted in EUI Life about her Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship
Nancy Hirschmann (Political Science & GSWS Core Faculty) spent the spring semester as a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the EUI, in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, working on her book Freedom, Power, and Disability. Read more about what she has been up to in Florence.
Congratulations to Beth Linker on her NEH Fellowship
Beth Linker, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science and GSWS Core Faculty, received an NEH Fellowship for her project Slouch: The Hidden History of America’s Poor Posture Epidemic. Dr. Linker received a 2015-2016 TCPW research grant from the Alice Paul Center to support this project.
Three 2018 GSWS Majors Graduating Phi Beta Kappa
Congratulations to Meghana Nallajerla, Hillary Nguyen, and Kerry Schellenberger, GSWS seniors graduating Phi Beta Kappa. The GSWS Program and the APC wish them, and all seniors graduating this year, the best in their future endeavors!
GSWS Undergraduate Award Winners Announced
The GSWS Program is pleased to announce this year's undergraduate award winners, Kerry Schellenberger and Alisa Feldman.Schellenberger won the Lydna S. Hart Award in Sexuality Studies, an award dedicated to the memory of Lynda S. Hart, a groundbreaking scholar in feminist performance studies and queer theory.
Monique Perry awarded GSE Excellence in Service to Colleagues & Students
Congratulations to Monique Perry, APC Graduate Student Assistant, on her Penn GSE Student Government Commendation for Excellence in Service to Colleagues & Students. Monique will start the doctoral program in GSE in the fall.