School of Arts and Sciences

Coming soon.

New Faculty Appointments

• Odette Casamayor, Associate Professor
• Fiona Cunningham, Assistant Professor
• Natacha Diels, Assistant Professor
• Yun Ding, Assistant Professor
• Angela Duckworth, Professor
• Barri Gold, Practice Professor
• Emma Hart, Professor
• Sukaina Hirji, Assistant Professor
• Jasmine Johnson, Assistant Professor
• So-Rim Lee, Assistant Professor
• Monica McCallum, Assistant Professor
• Zita Nunes, Associate Professor
• Yumeng Ou, Assistant Professor
• Priya Rajagopalan, Practice Professor
• Charlotte Ren, Practice Professor
• Wendy Roth, Associate Professor
• Anna Schapiro, Assistant Professor
• Xi Song, Associate Professor
• Elly Truitt, Associate Professor
• Corlett Wood, Assistant Professor
• Chenshu Zhou, Assistant Professor

Faculty Promotions

• Mariangela Bernardi, Professor
• Kimberly Bowes, Professor
• Hsiao-Wen Cheng, Associate Professor
• Eva Del Soldato, Associate Professor
• Huda Fakhreddine, Associate Professor
• Tulia Falleti, Professor
• Kimberly Gallagher, Professor
• Glenda Goodman, Associate Professor
• Kathryn Hellerstein, Professor
• Megan Kassabaum, Associate Professor
• Eleni Katifori, Associate Professor
• Jianjing Kuang, Associate Professor
• Julia Lynch, Professor
• Michele Margolis, Associate Professor
• Irina Marinov, Associate Professor
• Ramah Mckay, Professor
• Ann Moyer, Professor
• Anna Rhoades, Professor
• Jennifer Sternad Ponce De Leon, Associate Professor
• Meredith Tamminga, Associate Professor
• Evelyn Thomson, Professor
• Melissa Wilde, Professor

Honors

• Jessica Anna, 2021 NSF CAREER Award
• Mia Bay, Bancroft Prize 2022
• Ericka Beckman, 2021 Mellon Fellow
• Mary Frances Berry, 2021 Lewis Award for History and Social Justice from the American Historical Association
• Cristina Bicchieri, elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences 2021
• Aislinn Bohren, 2019 NSF Grant
• Toni Bowers, 2022 SAS Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching
• Kimberly Bowes, 2021 Mellon Fellow; 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship
• Leona Brandwene, 2021 SAS College of Liberal and Professional Studies Award for Distinguished Teaching in Professional Graduate Programs
• Kathleen Brown, Spring 2019 SAS Making a Difference in Diverse Communities Grant; Spring 2019 University Research Foundation Award
• Deborah Burnham, 2020 SAS Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Affiliated Faculty
• Anthea Butler, appointed Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought 2021
• Mary Channen Caldwell, 2021 SAS Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by an Assistant Professor
• Brenda Casper, elected a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America
• Xu Cheng, 2022 Penn Fellow
• Margo Crawford, 2020 Penn Fellow; named Louise W. Kahn Professor for Faculty Excellence
• Julie Nelson Davis, 2021 Guggenheim Fellow
• Joan DeJean, 2020 British Academy Fellow
• Eva Del Soldato, 2022 Mellon Fellow
• Karen Detlefsen, 2019 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant; 2020 Penn Fellow; appointed Vice Provost for Education 2021; Spring 2019 University Research Foundation Award
• Yun Ding, 2021 Searle Scholar
• Anne Duchene, 2021 SAS Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Affiliated Faculty
• Angela Duckworth, 2019 Distinguished Daughter of PA; 2021 Klein Family Social Justice Grant Award; named to Education Week’s Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings 2022; Education Week’s 2020 Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings; Education Week’s 2021 Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings List; Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professorship
• Brighid Dwyer, inaugural SAS Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Irma Elo, Spring 2019 SAS Making a Difference in Diverse Communities Grant
• Roxanne Euben, named Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences
• Zahra Fakhraai, 2021 Rising Star Award from the American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committee; 2021 SAS Dean’s Award for Mentorship of Undergraduate Research
• Huda Fakhreddine, 2022 Mellon Fellow
• Tulia Falleti, Director of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies
• Martha Farah, 2021 Howard Crosby Warren Medal
• Chenoa Flippen, 2021 Provost’s Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring
• Angela Gibney, 2021 Presidential Professor of Mathematics
• Pilar Gonalons-Pons, named Alber-Klingelhofer Presidential Assistant Professor for Sociology
• Glenda Goodman, 2021 Lewis Lockwood Award and Alfred Einstein Award from the American Musicological Society; 2022 Mellon Fellow; Spring 2019 University Research Foundation Award
• Sarah Barringer Gordon, 2019 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
• Marie Gottschalk, appointed Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor
• Amy Gutmann, 2020 GlobalMindED Inclusive Leader Award; 2020 Zemsky Medal; United States Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany; Amy Gutmann Hall named in her honor
• Marci Hamilton, 2019 Distinguished Daughter of PA
• Emily Hannum, appointed Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences 2021
• Sukaina Hirji, 2022 SAS Dennis M. DeTurck Award for Innovation in Teaching
• Nancy Hirschmann, appointed Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought 2021
• Morgan Hoke, 2021 Klein Family Social Justice Grant Award
• Yue Hou, named Janice and Julian Vers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences in 2020
• Donna Huryn, 2021 Philadelphia Chapter of the Association for Women in Science’s Lifetime Achievement Award
• Sara Jaffee, 2021 Klein Family Social Justice Grant Award; 2021 Penn Fellow
• Andi Johnson, 2020 SAS Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Affiliated Faculty
• Grace Sanders Johnson, 2022 SAS Dennis M. DeTurck Award for Innovation in Teaching
• Madeleine Joullié, 2021 honorary degree from Temple University
• Megan Kassabaum, 2020 SAS Dean’s Award for Mentorship of Undergraduate Research; 2021 Excellence Through Diversity Grant; 2021 Klein Family Social Justice Grant Award; 2021 Provost Excellence Through Diversity Fund Award
• Eleni Katifori, 2021 American Physical Society Early Career Award; 2022 Penn Fellow
• Iliana Kohler, National Academy of Medicine Health Longevity Global Grand Challenge Catalyst Award
• Marisa Kozlowski, 2021 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society; 2021 SAS Dennis M. DeTurck Award for Innovation in Teaching; appointed Editor-in-Chief of Organic Letters
• So-Rim Lee, 2021 Korea Foundation Assistant Professor
• Marsha Lester, appointed Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, 2020
• Annia Liang, 2019 NSF Grant
• Beth Linker, named Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Associate Professor in the Social Sciences
• Julia Lynch, Co-Director of the Lauder Institute
• Allyson Mackey, 2021 NSF CAREER Award
• Michele Margolis, 2022 Penn Fellow
• Megan Matthews, 2020 National Institute on Drug Abuse’s Avenir Awards in Genetics and Epigenetics of Substance Abuse
• Mona Merling, 2021 Klein Family Social Justice Grant Award
• Lynn Meskell, Penn’s 26th Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor
• Lisa Miracchi, 2022 National Endowment for the Humanities grant; 2022 Mellon Fellow
• Jennifer Morton, 2022 Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor
• Carol Muller, 2021 Klein Family Social Justice Grant Award; 2021 Provost/Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Award
• Margo Natalie Crawford, Director of the Center for Africana Studies
• Zita Cristina Nunes, 2022 Mellon Fellow
• Amy Offner, 2020 Michael H. Hunt Prize in International History by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
• Amy Offner, Spring 2019 University Research Foundation Award
• Aurélie Ouss, named Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences
• Anna Papafragou, 2022 Mellon Fellow
• Keisha-Khan Perry, 2021 Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor
• Rupa Pillai, 2022 SAS Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Affiliated Faculty
• Mecky Pohlschröder, 2022 SAS Dennis M. DeTurck Award for Innovation in Teaching
• Jennifer Ponce de León, 2020 SAS Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by an Assistant Professor
• Eve Troutt Powell, 2021 SAS Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching
• Karen Redrobe, 2019 Provost’s Excellence Through Diversity Fund Awardee; 2021 Klein Family Social Justice Grant Award
• Avishag (Abby) Reisman, 2022 Mellon Fellow
• Elizabeth Rhoades, 2021 Penn Fellow
• Lauren Ristvet, 2022 Mellon Fellow
• Wendy Roth, 2021 Penn Fellow
• Nicole Rust, 2021 Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences
• Sandra Ryeom, 2020 Stand Up to Cancer Grant
• Melissa Sanchez, 2020 NYC Coalition for the Homeless Compassionate Communities Award; 2021 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching; 2022 Excellence Through Diversity Fund Award; Modern Language Association Award Honorable Mention; named Donald T. Regan Professor of English
• Heather Sharkey, 2021 Mellon Fellow
• Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, appointed Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Chair in 2020
• Ramya Sreenivasan, 2021 Mellon Fellow
• Emily Steiner, 2019 Provost’s Excellence Through Diversity Fund Awardee; 2021 Excellence Through Diversity Grant; 2021 Provost Excellence Through Diversity Fund Award; named Rose Family Endowed Term Professor, 2021
• Emily Steinlight, 2021 Mellon Fellow
• Karen Tani, named Seaman Family University Professor
• Melissa Teixeira, Spring 2019 SAS Making a Difference in Diverse Communities Grant
• Deborah Thomas, 2021 SAS Making a Difference in Global Communities Grant
• Petra Todd, Spring 2019 SAS Making a Difference in Diverse Communities Grant
• Julia Verkholantsev, Spring 2019 University Research Foundation Award
• Anna Weesner, appointed Dr. Robert Weiss Professor of Music 2022
• Simone White, 2021 Creative Capital Award; named Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English
• Bethany Wiggin, 2021 SAS Making a Difference in Global Communities Grant
• Melissa Wilde, 2020 Penn Fellow
• Julia Wilker, 2021 Mellon Fellow
• Heather Andrea Williams, named Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought 2019
• Emily Wilson, 2019 MacArthur Fellow (“Genius Grant”); named College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor