People
Undergraduate Fellows
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Parker Abt
Executive Board, Wolf Undergraduate Humanities Forum
History
CAS, 2019
Project: Third World America: The Drive to Own a Home in the Colonias of Hidalgo County, Texas
Parker is a senior majoring in History. His primary academic interest is the intersection of American legal and economic history. His historical research has been published in the Gettysburg Historical Journal, The... (more)
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John Aggrey Odera
Executive Board, Wolf Undergraduate Humanities Forum
Philosophy, Political Science
CAS, 2019
Project: The Poverty of Effective Altruism: An Essay in Epistemology and Practical Ethics
John is a Philosophy and Political Science major, and a minor in Classics, Statistics, and German. His chief interests lie in the different conceptions of “the good life” outlined in Aristotelian and Platonic... (more)
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Dillon Bergin
Comparative Literature
CAS, 2019
Project: Artifacts of Apartheid: Student Revolt in South Africa
Dillon is a senior Comparative Literature major with a minor in Journalistic Writing, who studied German Literature in the beautiful city of Freiburg, Germany before transferring to Penn as junior. The focus of his... (more)
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Lea Eisenstein
Health and Societies
CAS, 2019
Project:
Lea Eisenstein is a Health and Societies major concentrating in gender and health and minoring in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. She is interested in the history of science and medicine in the late... (more)
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Fiona Jensen-Hitch
Chair, Executive Board, Wolf Undergraduate Humanities Forum
Anthropology, English
CAS, 2019
Project: Politics, identity, and ethics: an integrated approach to a bioarchaeological collection
Fiona is a senior from Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is studying Anthropology and English (with a concentration in Creative Writing), and minoring in Archaeological Science. On campus she can usually be found at the Penn... (more)
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Lara Jung
Health and Societies
CAS, 2019
Project: Reimagining the Country: A Landscape of Children’s Health and Wellbeing from 1875-1975
Lara Jung is a Senior majoring in Health and Societies, concentrating in Public Health. She has been interested in the health benefits of spending time outdoors as a result of the profound impact nature and the... (more)
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Folasade Lapite
Health and Societies
CAS, 2019
Project: Tampax’s Side Story (TSS): The Influence Menstrual Product Manufacturers Instill in Menstrual Education and its Perception
Folasade is a senior majoring in Health and Societies, with a concentration in bioethics and society, and minoring in Chemistry and Africana Studies. Her research interests revolve around women's health and wellness... (more)
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Celeste Marcus
Intellectual History
CAS, 2019
Project: Jacob Franklin, Father of the British Jewish Press
Celeste Marcus is a rising senior majoring in intellectual history in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her primary academic focus has been the secular enlightenment period, though she has also studied the Haskalah,... (more)
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Derek Willie
English, French
CAS, 2019
Project: Le Livre: Material Dwellings, Metaphysical Pretensions
Derek Willie is an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, studying English and French with a concentration in Literary & Cultural Theory. His interests include nineteenth-century British novels... (more)
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Kako Yamada
Political Science
CAS, 2019
Project: The Pawn in a Game of the Americas: The Stateless Japanese Peruvian’s Fight for Redress
Kako is a senior Political Science major whose project for the Humanities Center will focus on the redress efforts of Japanese Peruvians. She is interested in a multi-modal presentation of her research in the form of... (more)