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‘Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India’
Painting from 18th century shows an Indian banker being carried in a carriage and surrounded by armed entourage.

Late 18th century portrait of banker Vakhatchand Jhaveri and his armed entourage, painted on the inner marble wall of the Jain temple Ajithnath Derasar in Ahmedabad, India.

(Image: Courtesy of Sudev Sheth)

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    • ‘Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India’

    A new book by Sudev Sheth, senior lecturer in history and international studies, looks at how the leaders of one of the most dominant early modern polities lost their grip over empire.

    Kristen de Groot

    Two scholars on bridging difference to speak about the Middle East
    Three people sit on a stage in front of a screen reading Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania.

    (Left to right) Scholars Omar Dajani and Mira Sucharov shared how they find ways to communicate across differences in a conversation at Perry World House moderated by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.

    (Image: Courtesy of Perry World House)

    Two scholars on bridging difference to speak about the Middle East

    In a conversation hosted by Perry World House, Omar Dajani, a Palestinian-American professor of law, and Mira Sucharov, a Canadian-Jewish professor of political science, shared their experience working together and discussed how despite their different views, they find ways to communicate and look for what they have in common.

    Penn Today Staff

    A Penn Libraries and Penn Dental Medicine collaboration
    A bookplate depicting Saint Apollonia, patron saint of dentistry.

    A bookplate from the collection of Hermann Prinz depicting Saint Apollonia, patron saint of dentistry.

    (Image: Courtesy of Penn Libraries)

    A Penn Libraries and Penn Dental Medicine collaboration

    A look back at the history of the Dental Library sheds light on the formation of the new Center for Integrated Global Oral Health.

    From Penn Libraries

    India, culture, and society
    Three students gaze at the front of the class, laptops open

    In India, Culture, and Society, students looked at a range of materials and practices to consider how national and cultural identities coalesce.

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    India, culture, and society

    In a class taught by doctoral candidate Akhil P. Veetil, students explore the culture that defines a nation.

    Kristina Linnea García

    Orthodox America
    Standing, Joseph Wilbur leaves through documents in a folder; Sam Herrmann crouches near by

    Joseph Wilbur, center, researched the names behind a parish directory at the Historical Society, finding that the priest who compiled the directory went on to publish books and that the parish itself decamped to Elkins Park, where they built a new church.

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    Orthodox America

    In Orthodox America, students explore the history of Orthodox Christian communities influencing American religious, political, legal, and literary landscapes.

    Kristina Linnea García

    Through first-year seminar, a glimpse of Black queer traditions
    Dag Woubshet leading a class of students.

    Associate professor of English Dag Woubshet leads students of the course “Black Queer Traditions” in Fisher-Bennett Hall. 

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    Through first-year seminar, a glimpse of Black queer traditions

    Dagmawi Woubshet, an associate professor of English, led a new first-year seminar in the fall that explores Black queer media and its intersection with history and politics.
    ‘The Tame and the Wild’ 
    (Image: Courtesy of Harvard University Press)

    A new book by historian Marcy Norton—“The Tame and the Wild, People and Animals After 1492”—looks at the colonization of the Americas through the lens of European and Native American beliefs about animal life.

    (Image: Courtesy of Harvard University Press)

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    • ‘The Tame and the Wild’ 

    Historian Marcy Norton’s new book looks at the history of human-animal relationships in Europe and Native America and how they became entangled after 1492.

    Kristen de Groot

    The Endangered Species Act at 50
    herring swimming

    (On homepage) River herring, also known as alewives, swim in a stream in Franklin, Maine. The fish were once headed for the endangered species list but have been making a comeback in some U.S. states.

    (Image: AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

    The Endangered Species Act at 50

    Ahead of the anniversary, experts from four schools across the University share their thoughts on the landmark legislation.

    Kristen de Groot

    Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s legacy
    Three people stand in front of a bookcase full of books in burgundy binding, the man on the left is wearing judge robes and has his right hand in the air, the woman on the right is in judge robes and has her right hand in the air and left hand on a bible and a man in the middle wears a suit and tie, is holding the bible and is looking at the woman

    Sandra Day O’Connor is sworn in to the Supreme Court by Chief Justice Warren Burger as her husband John O’Connor looks on.

    (Image: Courtesy of U.S. National Archives)

    Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s legacy

    Three Penn experts—Annenberg Public Policy Center director Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Marci A. Hamilton of the School of Arts & Sciences, and former Penn Carey Law School dean Ted Ruger—share their thoughts on the history-making justice.

    Kristen de Groot