To Laugh or Not to Laugh?
04/18/2019
Today's guest post marks an exciting return for Jody Enders, Distinguished Professor of French at the University of California, Santa Barbara and editor and translator of two of Penn Press's… READ MORE
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Bananas, Blight, and Biotechnology
07/19/2016
Today, we have an exciting guest post from Douglas Southgate, Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University and coauthor with Lois Roberts of Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs, which challenges the perception that multinational… READ MORE
The Nature of Workplace Rights
06/08/2016
Katherine Turk, author of Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace, joins us for a guest post today. The first history to foreground Title VII's sex provision,… READ MORE
What’s in a Name? More than You’d Think
05/18/2016
Today we have a guest post from Mitchell Nathanson, who is Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law and author of God Almighty Hisself: The Life and Legacy… READ MORE
The Coming China Crisis: Penn author Richard Vague to speak on May 28
05/26/2015
Drexel University's Center for Public Policy and China Collaborative cordially invite you to a reception and lecture by Richard Vague on "The Coming China Crisis" on May 28, 2015, held… READ MORE
Football, unions, and what it is to be an employee
04/08/2014
Spurred by the National Labor Relations Board's decision stating that Northwestern University's football players are actually university employees and thus able to unionize, the Inquirer ran a story on Sunday… READ MORE
Get Hep Tonight at the Free Library with Zoot Suit Author Kathy Peiss
03/20/2013
Kathy Peiss, Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme StyleThe University of Pennsylvania History Department presents The Zoot Suit in American CultureWednesday, March 20, 7:00 p.m.The Free Library of… READ MORE
Daniel Boyarin Mellon Lectures on the Babylonian Talmud
02/14/2013
Next week, Daniel Boyarin, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity, will give a series of Mellon Lectures on the Babylonian… READ MORE
Around the World with Penn Press
11/12/2012
You may not need a map to see that scholarly publishers like Penn Press contribute to the world's knowledge and understanding, but it does provide an interesting perspective. As part… READ MORE
Announcing the Inaugural Mellon Distinguished Lecture Series
03/22/2012
Penn Press is pleased to announce the Inaugural Mellon Distinguished Lecture Series, sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania… READ MORE
