Field Notes

  • A page from Souvenir of Germantown, 1913 showing “East Sharpnack Street (looking east from No. 79)” and “The home of Our Dealer in Butter and Eggs”

    Reading Buildings Like Documents with Joy Huntington

    News

    11/17/2022 – An interview with ACLS Leading Edge Fellow Joy Huntington, appointed to Historic Germantown for the project "Decolonizing Historic Germantown: Re-Framing Sites, Collections, Landscapes, and Museums," a collaboration with PPEH. Huntington discusses her research into Germantown's early 20th century history as a site of Black businesses and culture using 1913's "A Souvenir of Germantown" booklet.
  • Zade, Faith, and Lorraine bio photos

    Welcome, Academic Year Student Eco-Reps!

    11/15/2022 – The Penn Program in Environmental Humanities is excited to welcome three 2022-2023 Student Eco-Reps for the academic year!
  • Two people stand with their back to the camera, looking at shelves of zines

    The Climate of Concepts: Zine Library

    PPEH Fellows Blog

    11/9/2022 – In this Field Note from PPEH 2021-22 Postdoctoral Fellow Nandita Badami, she shares student work and reflections from her Spring 2022 class, "The Climate of Concepts: How Words Build Worlds." Read on to learn about how this interdisciplinary work led to student-created zines, and more.
  • Under a white tent, a student talks into a microphone held by a reporter with headphones

    Listen Up! Philadelphia Youth Share Their Climate Stories

    News

    10/17/2022 – PPEH's Climate Champions, nine high school teachers working in eight Philadelphia School Di
  • three photos of Christy Choo, Aman Sharma, and Maria Villareal Simon.

    PPEH Welcomes Academic Year Undergraduate Public Research Interns

    Announcement

    10/17/2022 – The Penn Program in Environmental Humanities is delighted to announce our 2022-2023 Undergraduate Public Research Interns for the academic year.