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Penn Faculty Fellows

  • Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano

    Assistant Professor of History

    Project: A Sea of Gossip: Truth and Imagination in the Early Modern Mediterranean

    Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano is a historian of the early modern Ottoman world. His research focuses on intellectual and cultural history and its connections to literature, poetry, and bureaucracy. His current book project... (more)

  • Julia Alekseyeva

    Assistant Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies

    Project: Cinema-Truth and its Discontents: Prehistories and Afterlives

    Julia Alekseyeva is an Assistant Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She researches interactions between global media and radical leftist politics, with a particular... (more)

  • Hardeep Dhillon

    Assistant Professor of Asian American History

    Project: America's Children and the History of Immigration

    Hardeep Dhillon (she/her/hers) is Assistant Professor of Asian American History and a core faculty member in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines the history of... (more)

  • Ketaki Jaywant

    Assistant Professor, South Asia Studies

    Project: Secularizing Caste: The Anti-Caste Discourse of the Truth Seekers in Nineteenth-century Western India

    Ketaki Jaywant earned her PhD in History from the University of Minnesota. She is a historian of Modern South Asia with research interests in the history of anti-caste critique, liberalism in South Asia, nineteenth-... (more)

  • Ada Kuskowski

    Associate Professor, History

    Project: Legal Truth: A History of Law and Uncertainty

    Ada Kuskowski is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests focus on cultural histories of legal knowledge in France and the Mediterranean during the... (more)

  • Emily Ng

    Assistant Professor, Anthropology

    Project: Religious Sensoria, Psyche, and Post/Secular Truth in Contemporary China

    Emily Ng is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology. She is also an affiliated faculty member of the Center for East Asian Studies and the Asian American Studies Program, and a member of the graduate... (more)

  • Ege Yumusak

    Assistant Professor of Philosophy

    Project: The Epistemology of Everyday Political Conflict

    Ege Yumusak is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on how the social interacts with the psychological. Her current project concerns political disagreement—its... (more)