Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We are so proud to call one of the SAS Commons Society of Fellows in Public Knowledge our own! Congratulations, Allan! sas.upenn.edu/news/ten-pos... 000
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Congratulations to Wolf Humanities Center’s Director, Ayako Kano, who has been named R. Jean Brownlee Endowed Term Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Professor Kano has been at Penn since 1995, and has been a core faculty member in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. 120
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Now accepting applications for 2027–2028 Penn Faculty Research Fellowships on the theme of Empire. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellowships/... 000
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Now accepting applications for 2027–2028 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships on the theme of Empire. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/postdoc 011
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 27/05/2026We are pleased to announce the 33 scholars joining us as Research Fellows for our 2026–2027 Forum on Practice! More on next year's Fellows and their projects coming soon. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/research-fel... 000
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Congratulations to the Class of 2026! 🎉 010
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 04/05/2026The Wolf Humanities Center’s Forum on Truth Mellon Research Seminar hosted its last session on April 28th. 100
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 04/05/2026*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Research Associate Caitlin Adkins is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. 100
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 28/04/2026*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Faculty Fellow Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. 100
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 27/04/2026On Apr 15, Wolf Humanities Center Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Ana Lolua and her “Museums, Socialism, and Power” class (@penn-rees.bsky.social) welcomed artist and Weitzman School of Design lecturer Patricia Renee’ Thomas for “Race and Class Portrayed in Vanitas: A Drawing Workshop on the Still Life." 000
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 24/04/2026*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Penn Faculty Fellow Ada Kuskowski is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. 110
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 23/04/2026*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Christine Woody is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Textual Scholarship Certificate Program at Widener University. 100
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 20/04/2026*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Delbar Khakzad is a social historian of science and religion in the Indo-Persianate world and the Middle East. 100
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Sat 4/18: Graduate students from anthropology and beyond will convene for "Shaken Grounds" to share and discuss their work with a focus on the politics of psychic life. 10 am - 5 pm. McNeil Building 403 (3718 Locust Walk) Guests welcome with registration More info and registration: bit.ly/480AMdO 010
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 10/04/2026*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Penn Faculty Fellow Hardeep Dhillon is Assistant Professor of Asian American History at the University of Pennsylvania. Webpage: live-sas-www-history.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/people/harde... 100
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 09/04/2026April 22: Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI, a book talk with Profs. Sarah Murray (U of Michigan) and Rahul Mukherjee (Penn). Murray's book reveals a pathway that seeded hospitable ideas about AI. Williams Hall 623. Registration required. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/murray 022
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 09/04/2026*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Chris Halsted is a historian of early medieval Europe. His research explores connectivity and trade in eastern Europe and Eurasia, witchcraft, and the intersecting construction of gender and ethnicity. 111
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 08/04/2026April 15: Kelly Writers House presents Speculative Fiction as Truth-Telling, feat. authors Elwin Cotman, Margaret Killjoy, Alex Smith, and hosted by Abbey Mei Otis, Artist-in-Residence at Penn. A Lucid Fiction Program of Kelly Writers House. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/specu... 000
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Fri 4/10 - Sat 4/11: Penn EnviroLab’s Graduate Conference is a biennial event that gathers a community of graduate students and faculty working on environmental research projects. This year, the conference theme is (Un)Doing Catastrophe. For more info and to register, visit bit.ly/41kYdec 010
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 06/04/2026*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Doctoral Fellow Tiffany Nguyen is a Ph.D. candidate in Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in Latin literature, particularly in the early Roman Empire. 110
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 03/04/2026*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Ana Lolua is a historian of the late Tsarist and Soviet Caucasus. 100
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Congratulations to our Undergraduate Research Fellows who presented at this year’s Undergraduate Humanities Forum Conference, “Unlocking the Truth”! 120
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Webb's research interests center on intellectual history and the social history of knowledge production. These themes animate her dissertation project, which studies sixteenth and seventeenth-century Italian academies and their relationships with university learning. 110
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 30/03/2026*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Doctoral Fellow Eleanor Webb is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania where she specializes in early modern European history. 100
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 25/03/2026On March 27, Wolf Humanities Center's Undergraduate Research Fellows present their projects on this year's theme, Truth. Unlocking the Truth is the 25th annual UHF Research Conference. 3/27, Van Pelt Library & online: tinyurl.com/dc9uavu8 wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/unloc... 000
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History – a reading & conversation with author Caroline Tracey and PhD Candidate in English Natalia Reyes A program of the Landscape Architecture lecture series, in partnership with AmLit (English), Penn April 2, 6:30pm, Fisher Fine Arts Library tinyurl.com/4ep8rbnr 010
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Ky Nam Inn Film Screening & Discussion with director Leon Le Penn’s Vietnamese Language Program hosts an exclusive screening of Ky Nam Inn (Quán Kỳ Nam, Vietnam, 2025, 140 min.) followed by a lively discussion with director Leon Le. April 3, 5:15pm, Fisher Bennett Hall 401 tinyurl.com/33dyt79m 000
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 24/03/2026*Fellow Spotlight* Arwen Zhang (CAS, Wharton, 2028) is a 2025-26 Undergraduate Humanities Forum Fellow majoring in Finance and International Studies. Arwen has a strong interest in international business law and community economic development. 100
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 24/03/2026*Fellow Spotlight* Ryan Wolff (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in History and minoring in Hispanic Studies. His research interests consist of American foreign policy, especially mid-to-late 20th-century U.S.-Latin American relations in the Cold War context. 100
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 23/03/2026*Fellow Spotlight* Izzy Welsh (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow and Undergraduate Humanities Forum Executive Board member majoring in English and Cinema & Media Studies. Her academic interests center on memoir, narrative structure, and the ethics of storytelling. 120
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 23/03/2026*Fellow Spotlight* Ella Sohn (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in English with minors in Legal Studies & History and French & Francophone Studies. Her research interests include urbanism, literature, and the concept of personhood across the 20th & 21st centuries. 100
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 20/03/2026*Fellow Spotlight* Eric Ryu (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in History, Health and Societies, and Classics. His primary research interests lie in exploring the intellectual tradition of the American Founding Era and the early republic. 100
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 20/03/2026*Fellow Spotlight* Noa Rubinstein (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in History and International Relations. On campus, her involvements include Penn Hillel, Community Student School Partnerships, and Penn Development Research Initiative 100
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 19/03/2026*Fellow Spotlight* Thalia Graeff (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in History of Art and minoring in Cognitive Science, Fine Arts, and French. Thalia has curated a project bringing together contemporary female artists' books located in the Penn Libraries. 111
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 19/03/2026*Fellow Spotlight* Sergio Emilio Carballido (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow and Undergraduate Humanities Forum Executive Board member majoring in Religious Studies and Mathematical Economics. 100
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 18/03/2026*Fellow Spotlight* Cristina Diaz (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in History and Linguistics, with minors in Art History and Global Medieval Studies. She is interested in historical linguistics and written culture, particularly historiography & religion. 120
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 18/03/2026*Fellow Spotlight* Kara Butler (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in Communication and Anthropology. She is interested in the intersection of wartime propaganda and childhood, which is the focus of her Senior Thesis and Wolf Humanities Center research project. 100
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 17/03/2026*Fellow Spotlight* Max Brody (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in English and Native & Indigenous Studies. Identifying as a first-generation college student, he is interested in rural and Indigenous healthcare advocacy, critical theory, and narrative medicine. 100
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 17/03/2026*Fellow Spotlight* Saanvi Agarwal (CAS, Wharton, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in English, Legal Studies & Business Ethics, and Statistics. Her research examines how South Asian women writers use literary form to reconstruct truth in the aftermath of colonialism. 100
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 16/03/2026The Philomathean Society's Bicentennial Annual Oration WHY PLATO MATTERS NOW Angie Hobbs What does a 2,400-year-old philosopher have to say about fake news, political polarization, and artificial intelligence? Mar 24, 6pm, Bodek Lounge Free and open to Penn community Register: tinyurl.com/bdffvm9k 000
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 16/03/2026ETERNAL SENTINEL Film screening and Q&A with photographer Maryam Ashafri Mar 23 / 11:45a—1:30p / Annenberg 500 Ashrafi's film spotlights journalists who have been wounded or have witnessed deadly incidents involving landmines and IEDs in Iraq and Syria. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/etern... 001
Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 16/03/2026We’re thrilled to introduce our 2025-2026 Undergraduate Humanities Forum Director, Dr. Emily Steiner. Professor Steiner is A. M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. 110