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We're delighted to see a new book from the Wolf Center's (formerly Penn Humanities Forum) founding director Wendy Steiner. The Beauty of Choice (Columbia Univ Press) has been called "an exquisite hybrid of art and criticism." cup.columbia.edu/book/the-beaut…
Big congrats to Wolf's 24–25 Postdoctoral Fellow Lama Elsharif Lama Elsharif لمى الشريف on receiving the 2024 College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Dissertation Award from Purdue for her dissertation, Small Wars of Scarcity: North African Corsairs in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries!
Applications are now open for the MCEAS Dissertation Prize, to be awarded to the author of an exceptional diss. on any aspect of early America before 1850. The award includes $1,500, a ms. workshop at MCEAS, and a book contract with Penn Press . Details: mceas.org/news/2024/08/0…
Philly-area folks, mark your calendars! I'll be giving a talk at Penn Wolf Humanities Center on "Lexical Sleuthing in the Digital Age" as part of their "Keywords" forum. It's at 5:30-7 pm on Oct. 9, and it's free and open to the public! Details to come. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/zimmer