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History and Sociology of Science

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  • Professor Elly Truitt's Class Featured in Penn Today

    April 29, 2025

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  • Koyna Tomar recipient of the 2025 Stallybrass Prize in the History of Material Texts in the Graduate category!

    April 24, 2025

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  • HSOC Senior Rashmi Acharya Among Recipients of the 2025 President's Engagement Prizes

    April 22, 2025

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  • HSOC senior Sade Taiwo Awarded 2025 Sachs Program for Arts Innovation Student Grant

    April 15, 2025

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  • The Washington Post Features Jason Chernesky's (HSSC class of 2020) Federal Workforce Oral History Initiative

    March 28, 2025

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  • Professor M. Susan Lindee among Five at Penn Elected as 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows

    March 27, 2025

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  • Sam Franz named as the 2025-26 CBI Tomash Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute!

    March 24, 2025

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  • Anna Mueser is the recipient of a High Meadows Postdoctoral Fellowship at Princeton University!

    March 19, 2025

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  • Congratulations to our 2025 Dean's Scholars!

    March 19, 2025

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  • HSS Faculty Participate in Feb. 25 Panel Exploring Epidemics in Philadelphia

    February 19, 2025

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History and Sociology of Science
303 Claudia Cohen Hall
249 S. 36th St
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Christine Muller
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Adelheid Voskuhl
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