Navigating Urban Waters, With an Interdisciplinary Approach
In a research-based fellowship program this summer, a group of Penn graduate and undergraduate students are creating new narratives of their own, tied to water. For 10 weeks, the fellows, together with faculty members and guest experts, have taken part in a range of collaborative discussions, independent research, river excursions, and field trips to sites like the Seaport Museum as a means of developing new understandings of urban waters that bridge the arts and sciences. To culminate their summer fellowships, they are developing final projects, which they will present later this month.
The summer research group is part of the Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities (PPEH), headed by Bethany Wiggin, an associate professor of German in the School of Arts and Sciences.
“What seems most profound to me about this summer is the kind of learning community that we were able to create,” Wiggin says. “That has had a lot to do with being open to experimental pedagogies, and being willing to say, ‘I’m an expert in this,’ but also owning it when you’re not.”
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