Washington Internships–Now Available
03/11/2009
Washington Internships: How to Get Them and Use Them to Launch Your Public Policy Career Deirdre Martinez 160 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2055-1… READ MORE
Category: Academic Life
Week 1 of the History Matters Bloggers’ Roundtable
03/06/2009
The bloggers' roundtable on History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism began this week with a post on The Adventures of Notorious Ph.D, Girl Scholar. Notorious Ph.D responded to… READ MORE
Nature Reviews Biofutures
03/05/2009
"It is appropriate that a commentary on the possible futures and dangers associated with owning parts of the body — a discussion anchored in biology as information — should be… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–Washington Internships
03/03/2009
In this month's Penn Press podcast, Deirdre Martinez, Director of the Fels Public Policy Internship Program at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Washington Internships: How to Get Them… READ MORE
Historiann and Co. Look at Bennett’s History Matters
02/13/2009
In preparation for Women's History Month, bloggers Historiann, Notorious Ph.D., Tenured Radical, and Another Damned Medievalist at Blogenspiel are joining forces to discuss Judith M. Bennett's History Matters: Patriarchy and… READ MORE
Mellon Modern Language Initiative Grant
02/12/2009
Fordham University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, University of California Press, University of Virginia Press, and University of Washington Press have been awarded a collaborative publishing grant of $1.16 million… READ MORE
Darwin’s Birthday
Today is the 200th anniversary of Charles Robert Darwin's birth. Here in Philadelphia, there are many ways to celebrate, including this year's Darwin Day Free Evolutionary Teach In at the… READ MORE
At Least We All Liked the Song: H-Diplo Roundtable on Eve of Destruction
01/28/2009
Thomas Maddux, Stephen A. Bourque, Jeffrey D. McCausland, and Jonathan Reed Winkler participated in the recent H-Diplo Roundtable Review of Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of Preventive War, the… READ MORE
Pennsylvania Heritage Profiles William Kashatus
01/12/2009
An article on William C. Kashatus appears in the current issue Pennsylvania Heritage magazine. The magazine outlines the career and contributions of the historian and author of a dozen books,… READ MORE
The Inquirer Review of Black Philosopher, White Academy
01/05/2009
Philadelphia Inquirer book critic Carlin Romano had this to say about Bruce Kuklick's new biography of William Fontaine, a ground breaking African American scholar: Black Philosopher, White Academy does credit… READ MORE
