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Q&A: Katz Center fellow Wendy Zierler is a polymath whose hard-to-pin-down scholarly identity brings creative verve to her scholarship

Steve Weitzman pays tribute to departing director of public programs Anne Albert

Q&A: Katz Center fellow Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim opens our eyes to the to the fascinating and understudied medical knowledge networks that run along the Silk Routes

Q&A: Katz Center fellow Uzi Rebhun trains his demographer’s lens on the Jewish American response to Covid-19

Natalie Dohrmann talks with fellow Magdalena Janosikova about her work on the distinct physicality of illness and treatment in Ashkenaz that is often obscured by written sources

2024 winners and finalists developed their research in the halls of the Katz Center and in the pages of Katz Center publications.

An appreciation of Sol Cohen’s life and learning from a devoted student, past fellow, and Penn Ph.D. alumnus

An accomplished Assyriologist and longtime fixture of the Katz Center has passed away

The Katz Center welcomes Mendel Kranz to the position starting in 2025-26

Q&A: Natalie Dohrmann talks with fellow Carla Vieira about her work following Portuguese Jewish doctors back and forth across the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean seas, pausing to look at one significant visitor to eighteenth-century Philadelphia.