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A new book by anthropologist Deborah A. Thomas and political scientist Nancy J. Hirschmann compiles a series of essays examining citizenship from an interdisciplinary lens. Thomas and Hirschman spoke with Penn Today about these ideas and their 2022 book, “Citizenship on the Edge: Sex/Gender/Race.”

Join us in congratulating Anthea Butler, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, who has received the 2022 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion from the American Academy of Religion.

Dani Smith, J. Peter Skirkanich Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Executive Board member recently published a book co-authored with their sibling, Perry Zurn, of American University, titled Curious Minds: The Power of Connnection. An excerpt of the book is featured in Penn Today. 

Second-year student and GSWS major Antoilyn Nguyen spent their summer as a researcher analyzing labor and delivery charts as part of a long-term cohort study to standardize labor induction for better and more equitable results. Their work was featured in Penn Today.

Jessa Lingel, an associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, says privacy watchdogs are warning Americans who seek abortions that authorities may use their digital data against them. Read the article on Penn Today.                     

Assistant Professor of English and GSWS/FQT Executive Board Member Whiteny Trettien has published her first book. “Cut/Copy/Paste” is an experiment in digital publishing, existing as both a printed object and an open access edition staged on Manifold Scholarship, where the text has been enriched with images, datasets, and other digital assets. Read more at Penn Today.

FQT/GSWS Director Melissa Sanchez and GSWS Major Antoilyn Nguyen comment on the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe. Read the full DP article. 

GSWS/FQT Postdoctoral Fellow Alicia Meyer published a piece on Criminalizing Pregnancy before Dobbs: The Case of Elizabeth Brian at Bridewell Hospital.

SaraEllen Strongman, Assistant professor in the department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Penn/GSWS Graduate Certificate alum, recently wrote about the history of Black Feminist support for abortion rights in the Washington Post. She notes: "As abortion rights become an increasingly significant focus for feminists in the 1960s, Black feminists did not place the same emphasis on them as White feminists did.