People
Undergraduate Fellows
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Dhivya Arasappan
Health & Societies and Biology
CAS, 2024
Project: A Climate-Health Revolution: Examining Novel Framings of Climate Change as a Health Crisis
Dhivya Arasappan is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences from Berwyn, Pennsylvania. She is studying Health & Societies and Biology with a minor in Creative Writing. Dhivya comes from a multidisciplinary... (more)
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Victoria Avanesov
Comparative Literature, Art History
CAS, 2026
Project: Victory Over the Sun: Reimagining Russian Suprematist Works Through Visual and Linguistic Reconstruction
Victoria Avanesov is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences from Erie, Pennsylvania. She is pursuing a degree in Comparative Literature, Art History, with a minor in Philosophy. Victoria's primary academic... (more)
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Sergio Emilio Carballido Murcio
Undeclared
CAS, 2026
Project: La Santa Muerte: a revolution to Mexico’s popular religiosity and its national identity.
Sergio is a Religious Studies and Mathematical Economics major passionate about understanding society, cultures, and how people find meaning in things, ideals or beings. One of his dearest quotes is from Hopscotch by... (more)
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Jiayi Li
Intellectual History and Economics
CAS, 2025
Project: Translating the Marxist Teleology into Rural China: The Conceptualization of the ‘Feudal Relation of Land’ and the Agrarian Revolution under the United Front, 1924-1927
Jiayi Li is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Originally from Beijing, he went to high school in Tennessee before coming to Penn. Currently, he is majoring in Intellectual History and Economics with a... (more)
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Olivia McClary
History
CAS, 2024
Project: "A Bootleg Trade": Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Criminality in Birth Control Advertising, 1920-1940
Liv McClary is a rising senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Pursuing a degree in History and Religious Studies, she is the Editor-in-Chief of the Penn History Review, a member of HUAB (History Undergraduate... (more)
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Jean Paik
English
CAS, 2024
Project: Free(dom) Zones: The Gendered Labor and Revolts of Korean Women Factory Workers
Jean Paik is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences from Valencia, California. She is studying English with a concentration in 20th and 21st-century literature. Her research interests include the... (more)
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Liam Phillips
Comparative Literature, Russian and East European Studies
CAS, 2024
Project: In Search of a New Russian Readership: Communal Experience and Literary Form in Mikhail Kuzmin’s Wings
Liam is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences pursuing a degree in Comparative Literature and Russian and East European Studies. He is from Philadelphia. Liam is interested in 19th century and early 20th... (more)
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Tova Tachau
Biochemistry and Comparative Literature
CAS, 2025
Project: Embryos of Possibility in Malevich and Khlebnikov: Russian Futurist Revolutions Beyond Time, Space, and Language, 1913-1917
Tova is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying Biochemistry and Comparative Literature. Her research interests encompass total organic synthesis and drug discovery alongside the Russian Avant-Garde,... (more)
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Hertha Torre Gallego
Health and Societies, Hispanic Studies
CAS, 2024
Project: A Partial Revolution: Engaging with realities of abortion reform in Argentina
Hertha is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences double majoring in Hispanic Studies and Health and Societies, with concentrations in Global Health and Public Health. Originally from Madrid, Spain, her research... (more)
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Zhangyang (Charlie) Xie
Africana Studies; Science, Technology, and Society
CAS, 2024
Project: Grappling Culture: How the Black Panther Party Addressed Colonial and Urban Anxieties through Martial Arts
Zhangyang is a senior majoring in Africana Studies and Science, Technology, and Society. A student of diverse academic interests, his past research focused on religion, history of science, and race. His recent... (more)
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Alex Yim
English
CAS, 2025
Project: Kubo: Korean Flâneurs as Anti-Colonial Artistic and Political Emblems
Alex Yim (he/him) is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences from Orlando majoring in English. His primary research rests in postcolonialism, the theory of the novel, and the practice of literary criticism. Some... (more)
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Yijian (Davie) Zhou
Philosophy and Psychology
CAS, 2024
Project: Revolutionary Subjectivity
Davie Zhou is a senior in College of Arts and Sciences from Philadelphia. He is majoring in Philosophy. He is interested in philosophy of race, philosophy of art, and history of philosophy. He is especially... (more)