http://www.history.upenn.edu/news/index.shtml - May 19, 2013 3:02:09 PM - Dec 2, 2004 11:34:51 AM
Zain Lakhani was awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship .
Sarah Rodriguez was awarded a Marguerite B. Hamer Editorial Fellowship at the McNeil Center.
Noor Zaidi was awarded a Doris Quinn Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
Xu "Sidney" Lu has been awarded a GAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for Fall 2013, and will then be joining the History Department at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga in January 2014.
Peter Pihos won a School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Peter is currently the Berger-Howe Legal History Fellow at Harvard Law School.
Rachel Guberman won a Penn Urban Studies dissertation completion fellowship. Rachel is finishing her dissertation on “The Real Silent Majority: The New Metropolitan Politics in the Rocky Mountain West." She is currently a visiting scholar at Cambridge University.
April 30, 2013
Michael Katz has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society, one of the highest intellectual honors in the United States.
Emily Merrill and James Ryan were selected as Penn Humanities Forum Graduate Fellows for the 2013-14 Academic Year. The theme is "Violence" and will be under the direction of Professor Karen Beckman (Art History).
April 26, 2013
Warren Breckman has been selected as a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Fall 2013
Nina Cohen and Jessie Regunberg were awarded the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students.
Jeremy Dell received an International Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council for the 2013-2014 academic year.
has been awarded a Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Graduate Fellowship for 2013-14. Maryan is working on a dissertation titled "Inciting Free Speech and Racial Equality: The Communist Party and Georgia's Insurrection Statute in the 1930s."
Maryan Soliman who has been awarded a Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Graduate Fellowship for 2013-14. Maryan is working on a dissertation titled "Inciting Free Speech and Racial Equality: The Communist Party and Georgia's Insurrection Statute in the 1930s."
April 7, 2013
Amy Offner won an inaugural course development grant from the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum, for "Thinking about Capitalism: A Social and Global History of Ideas." The selection committee singled out Offner's proposed course for its connection to this year's SSPF theme, the Global Economic Crisis.
Jennifer Rodgers has recently received two separate fellowships for research towards her dissertation. She has received a fellowship for Advanced German and European Studies from the Freie Universitat in Berlin and will be participating in a special Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich this May-June. Jennifer's dissertation is titled "From the 'Archive of Horrors' to the 'Shop Window of Democracy': The International Tracing Service and the Politics of the Paste."