Perry World House Announces Fellows for the 2024–2025 Academic Year, Including Six New Fellows

Perry World House announced its slate of 15 fellows for the 2024–2025 academic year, including many returning professors.

This year, PWH hosted fellows who represent six of Penn’s 12 schools and are experts in the fields of human rights, climate change, democracy and security. Faculty members will conduct global policy research and work with policymakers to address international challenges.

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This year’s six new fellows include Amalia Daché, the first woman to be a professor of Latinx languages ​​in the Graduate School of Education. She has conducted research projects on access to higher education in the context of urban spaces such as Havana, Cuba; Cape Town, South Africa; and Philadelphia and has gained recognition from institutions such as the National Academy of Education.

Other new fellows this year include Parish Assistant Professor of Political Science Berquist, Economics Professor Alessandro Dovis and Penn Compact Presidential Professor of Sociology Letícia Marteleto. Professor of Cinema and Media Peter Decherney, who directs Penn’s Global Documentary Institute, will also join this year’s cohort.

Matthijs Bouw is Professor of the Practice of Landscape Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design. He founded the Amsterdam-based company One Architecture and Urbanism, which is a leader in the use of design for climate adaptation.

The nine returning fellows include Penn Carey Law School professor William Burke-White, who served as the school’s associate dean and first director of PWH from 2014-2019. Previously, he was a non-resident senior fellow in the foreign policy program at Brookings University. He also served on the Secretary of State’s policy planning team in the Obama administration and advised governments, investment funds and law firms.

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Beth Simmons and Lynn Meskell are Penn Integrates Knowledge University’s 18th and 26th professors, respectively. The Penn Integrates Knowledge Program began as an effort to recruit interdisciplinary faculty members, and the designation is awarded only to individuals who hold positions in at least two schools at Penn.

Simmons is a professor of law, political science, and business ethics at Penn and won the American Political Science Association’s Woodrow Wilson Award for the best book published in the United States on government, politics, and international affairs.

Meskell is a professor of anthropology and a professor in the graduate program in historic preservation. She is the Penn Museum’s curator for the Middle East and Asia section and the A. D. White Professor at Cornell University.

Michael Mann is an honors professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Penn and director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and Media. He has won numerous awards related to his work in climate science and climate change, including selection by Scientific American as one of the 50 leading science and technology visionaries, the European Geophysical Union’s Hans Oeschger Medal in 2012, and the Bloomberg News 50 list Most Influential” in 2013.