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  • Andrew Carruthers

    Assistant Professor of Anthropology

    Project: Migration and the Push-Pull of "Worlding"

    Andrew M. Carruthers is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses in linguistic anthropology, semiotics, and Southeast Asian Studies.... (more)

  • Reyhan Durmaz

    Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

    Project: Publishing Piety: Syrian Orthodox Community and Religion in Kawkab Amrika in 19th-Century New York City

    Reyhan Durmaz is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include Syriac Christianity, religion and society in late antiquity, hagiography, and Christian-... (more)

  • Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

    Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History

    Project: Tales of Trespassing: Borderland Histories of Iran, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf

    Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on borderland histories of the Middle East, identity politics, and ethnicity. Her current... (more)

  • Sonal Khullar

    W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies, History of Art

    Project: A Million Migrations Now: Art and Citizenship in India's Northeast

    Sonal Khullar is W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She researches the art of South Asia from the eighteenth century... (more)

  • Ramah McKay

    Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science

    Project: Modeling Displacement: Enumerating and Forecasting Migration in an Age of Climate Change

    Ramah McKay is an ethnographer of science and medicine. Her work has asked how practices of knowledge production, expertise, and caregiving are articulated in humanitarian and development spaces. Her first book,... (more)

  • Megan Robb

    Julie and Martin Franklin Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

    Project: Becoming Elizabeth: The Transformation of a Bihari Mughal into an English Lady, 1758-1822

    Megan Eaton Robb is the Julie and Martin Franklin Assistant Professor in Religious Studies. She is primarily a historian of Islam in South Asia, and her work overall investigates Islam in South Asia, viewed from the... (more)

  • Theodore Schurr

    Professor of Anthropology

    Project: Stories of Ancestry, Inheritance & Belonging

    Theodore Schurr is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, a Consulting Curator in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, and the Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology... (more)

  • Nancy Steinhardt

    Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

    Project: Architectural Migration in East Asia: The Period of Mongolian Rule

    Nancy S. Steinhardt is Professor of East Asian Art and Curator of Chinese Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She has broad research interests in architecture and urban planning and has ongoing field projects in... (more)

  • David Wallace

    Judith Rodin Professor of English & Comparative Literature 

    Project: Nationalizing Epics

    David Wallace, a Londoner, has been Judith Rodin Professor of English & Comparative Literature at Penn since 1996; before that he taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of Texas... (more)