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  • Francesca Russello Ammon

    Associate professor of City & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation

    Project: Preserving the City: Urban Renewal and Conservation in Society Hill, Philadelphia

    Francesca Russello Ammon is associate professor of City & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. A social and cultural historian of the... (more)

  • Sebastián Gil-Riaño

    Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science

    Project: Capturing the Aché: Violence, Indigeneity, and Modernization in the Human Sciences during the Cold War

    Sebastián Gil-Riaño is an Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Colombia and raised in Canada, he is a historian of science who studies transnational... (more)

  • Michael G. Hanchard

    Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor, Africana Studies

    Project: Democracy's Gangsters: Racial Rule and the Decline of Pluralism

    Dr. Michael G. Hanchard is the Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor in the Africana Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Marginalized Populations Project.  His research and teaching... (more)

  • David Kazanjian

    Associate Professor of English

    Project: Ante-Possession: The Afterlives of Dispossession

    David Kazanjian is Professor of English and Coordinator and Chair of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory. He is also an affiliated faculty and executive council member in the McNeil Center for Early American... (more)

  • Bakirathi Mani

    Penn Presidential Compact Professor, Department of English

    Project: Diaspora, Race, and Representation in the Family Album Archive

    Bakirathi Mani is the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also faculty in the Asian American Studies Program and in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s... (more)

  • Whitney Trettien

    Associate Professor of English

    Project: From Type to .txt: The Origins of Data

    Whitney Trettien is Associate Professor of English and Faculty Director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. Her first book, Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of... (more)

  • Seçil Yilmaz

    Assistant Professor of History

    Project: Undoing Bastards: Of Polygamy, Kinship, and Family in Modern Turkey

    Seçil Yilmaz is an Assistant Professor of History and Core Faculty at Penn GSWS. Yilmaz specializes in the social and political history of the Ottoman Empire and modern Middle East with a focus on medicine, science,... (more)