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Penn Faculty Fellows

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  Hsiao-wen Cheng

  Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions
  Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

  Project: The Strange, the Queer, and the State: Shifting Categories of Sexual Anomalies from Ancient to Early Modern China

  Hsiao-wen Cheng is interested in histories of gender and sexuality in times and places when the discursive nature of medical knowledge and the power of the state were radically different from those in modern... (more)

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  Karen Detlefsen

  Associate Professor of Philosophy
  University of Pennsylvania

  Project: Passionate Minds: Women, Education and Philosophy in the Early Modern Period

  Karen Detlefsen has two primary research projects. One project focuses on the relation between the  life sciences and metaphysics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, specifically tracing the  evolution of... (more)

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  Julia Wilker

  Assistant Professor of Classical Studies
  University of Pennsylvania

  Project: Hellenistic Royal Polygamy: Procreation, Power, and Prestige

  Julia Wilker is an Ancient Historian with a research focus on the Near East in Hellenistic and Roman times as well as late classical Greece. She is particularly interested in cross-cultural interactions and concepts... (more)

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  Emily Wilson

  Associate Professor of Classical Studies
  University of Pennsylvania

  Project: Athena's Man: Tropes of Gender in the Odyssey

  Emily Wilson works on Greek and Roman literature and its reception and translation, with particular interests in epic, tragedy and philosophy.  She read Classics at Balliol College Oxford, has an M. Phil. in Early... (more)