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  • Eiichiro Azuma

    Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History

    Project: Settler Colonization on the Ground: Practicing Hawai‘i-Bred Knowledge in the Sugar and Coffee Economy of Pre-World War II Taiwan

    Eiichiro Azuma is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in Japanese American history; transpacific migration, diaspora, and settler... (more)

  • S. Pearl Brilmyer

    Associate Professor, English & Comparative Literature

    Project: Habit & Sexual Practice

    S. Pearl Brilmyer’s work lies at the intersection of the history of philosophy, science, and literature with a focus on the nineteenth-century English novel. She is the author of The Science of Character: Human... (more)

  • Sara Kazmi

    Assistant Professor, English

    Project: Ante/ Anti-Border: Writing Resistance in India and Pakistan

    Sara Kazmi is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a scholar and translator whose work takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of anticolonial, left, and oppositional... (more)

  • Sarah Lopez

    Associate Professor, Departments of City & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design

    Project: Overburden: Mexican Stone Works Build North America

    Sarah Lopez is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Lopez is a built environment historian of 20th century Mexico and the United States whose research... (more)

  • Amy Offner

    Associate Professor of History

    Project: The Disappearing Worker: Practices of Corporate Restructuring and the Transformation of Class Relations, 1945–2000

    Amy C. Offner is associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas. Her current... (more)

  • Ana Ozaki

    Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Architectural History, History of Art

    Project: Plantation and Plot Practices: Architecture, Everyday Life, and Survival in Brazil

    Ana G. Ozaki is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Architectural History in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines how racial ideologies have shaped... (more)

  • Sophia Rosenfeld

    Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History

    Project: Two Years, Five Books, and Five Women Who Might Still Save Democracy: The Politics of How We Live Now

    Sophia Rosenfeld is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and former chair of the History Department at Penn. Her latest book, The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in the Modern World (2025), was named a New... (more)

  • Donovan Schaefer

    Associate Professor, Religious Studies

    Project: Practical Affects: AI and Pedagogies of Feeling

    Donovan Schaefer is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He began working at Penn in 2017 after a 3-year stint at the University of Oxford. His research... (more)