Nancy Hirschmann

University of Pennsylvania professor Nancy Hirschmann has been named a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center and the European University Institute.

Dr. Hirschmann is director of the gender, sexuality and women’s studies program at Penn and director of Penn’s Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality. Her work focuses on the history of political thought, analytical philosophy, feminist theory, the intersection of political theory and public policy.

She received the 2017 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for her book project Freedom, Power and Disability.

As a fellow of the National Humanities Center, Dr. Hirschmann will spend the upcoming fall semester working on her book as a resident fellow at the National Humanities Center campus in Research Triangle Park in Durham, North Carolina. Then she will spend the Spring 2018 semester at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, as a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow.