News Archive

Graduate Student Awards

Thursday, April 21, 2022

Chloe Ricks has been named a CTL (Center for Teaching & Learning) Fellow for 2022-23. Tyler Leigh has also been named a CTL Fellow for 2022-23. His fellowship activities will be tied to the Annenberg School.

Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching

Thursday, April 7, 2022

Rudra Sil has been awarded the Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Teaching Awards for Abigail Dym and Nicholas Dias

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Abigail Dym has received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students while Nicholas Dias has been awarded the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students (which is based on student nominations).

Penn students, Indigenous Leaders from Argentina and Chile, and CLALS Director, Tulia Falleti produce the film: Gente de la tierra: Indigeneidad y política en Argentina y Chile (People of the Land: Indigeneity and politics in Argentina and Chile)

Thursday, March 24, 2022

CLALS Director and Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, Tulia Falleti, in collaboration with Mapuche and other Indigenous Leaders from Argentin and Chile, and with students in her class, created a film titled Gente de la tierra: Indigeneidad y política en Argentina y Chile… Read More

Penn Placements 2021-2022

Friday, May 6, 2022

Congratulations to all our recent and soon-to-be Ph.D.'s who will be starting off in new positions this coming Fall (or in some cases already started new positions during the past year)!

Sumitra Badrinathan (Ph.D. 2021) is has accepted a TT position at American University after having… Read More

Hirschmann Named Segal Professor in American Social Thought

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Nancy J. Hirschmann has been appointed Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought. Read more here.

APSA's Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award

Thursday, August 12, 2021

Sumitra Badrinathan's paper "Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India" has been awarded APSA's Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award given to the best paper on political communication presented at the previous year's APSA annual meeting or Political… Read More