Two Penn History Professors Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History Sarah Barringer Gordon and Professor of History Kathleen Brown have won 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships. Out of 3,100 applicants, 175 fellows were chosen on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise. A widely recognized scholar on religion in American public life and the law of church and state, Gordon will use the fellowship to work on her forthcoming book Freedom’s Holy Light: Disestablishment in America, 1776-1876. Brown, a historian of gender and race in early America and the Atlantic World, will use her Guggenheim to work on her book project Undoing Slavery: Abolition and the Argument Over Humanity.

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