Two
Endowed Chairs for History Professors
School
of Arts and Sciences Dean
Samuel H. Preston is pleased
to announce two chair appointments.
Dr. Barbara
D. Savage, professor of history,
has been appointed the Geraldine
R. Segal Professor of American
Social Thought. She has been
a member of the Penn faculty
since 1995. Her research and
teaching center on African American
history, the historical relationship
between media and politics, and
African American religious history.
She received a Ph.D. in history
from Yale in 1995, and also holds
a J.D. from Georgetown and a
B.A. from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Savage's
publications include Broadcasting
Freedom: Radio, War and
the Politics of Race, 1938-1948 (UNC
Press, 1999) which won the Hoover
Book Award for the best book
in American history in the period
1916-1966. She is currently
completing a book on religion
and African American political
culture in the twentieth century.
Dr. Savage has held fellowships
at the Schomburg Center for the
Study of Black Culture at the
New York Public Library, the
Center for the Study of Religion
at Princeton, and the Smithsonian
Institution.
At Penn,
Dr. Savage has served as undergraduate
chair for the history department
and on numerous faculty search
and advisory committees, including
the Curriculum Committee, the
Faculty Editorial Board of the
Penn Press, and the Advisory
Board of the Center for Africana
Studies. She is currently
a member of the Consultative
Committee for the selection of
the University's next president.
While attending
graduate school, Dr. Savage was
director of federal relations
in the General Counsel's Office
at Yale. Prior to that, she was
counsel to a U.S. Senate subcommittee;
a Congressional staff director;
and a senior staff attorney and
assistant to the president of
the Children's Defense Fund.
Bernard
(C '28, L '31, Hon '69), and
Geraldine, (Ed '30, Gr '78) Segal
created this chair in 1978 when
the late Geraldine Segal completed
her Ph.D. in sociology at Penn.
She was the author of In Any
Fight Some Fall and Blacks
and the Law. The late
Bernard Segal, a former University
Trustee, was one of America's
most respected lawyers and received
Penn's Alumni Award of Merit
in 1977. This chair is interdisciplinary
in nature and is intended for
a scholar of national reputation
whose central interests include
human rights, civil liberties,
and race relations.
Dr. Margo
Todd, who joined Penn this summer,
has been appointed the Walter
H. Annenberg Professor of History,
following her service as associate
professor of history and director
of graduate studies at Vanderbilt
University.
After completing
an A.B. from Tufts University,
Dr. Todd earned her M.A. and
Ph.D. from Washington University.
She teaches courses on British
history, the history of religion
in early modern Europe and Anglo-America,
and intellectual and cultural
history.
Dr. Todd
is the author of Christian
Humanism and the Puritan Social
Order, Reformation to
Revolution: Politics and Religion
in Early Modern England, and The
Culture of Protestantism in Early
Modern Scotland, which received
this year's Longman History Today
Prize for book of the year. She
recently completed articles on
the theological disputes at the
Dutch Synod of Dort, the Scottish
bishop William Cowper, and parochial
education in post-Reformation
Scotland. The latter will
appear in an upcoming Review
of Scottish Culture.
Dr. Todd's
latest research project explores
the history of the royal burgh
of Perth in the 16th and 17th
centuries. She has received numerous
honors for her research on early
modern English and Scottish history
and the culture of reformed Protestantism
in Britain and early America,
including a Royal Historical
Society Fellowship, a National
Endowment for the Humanities
Senior Fellowship, and an American
Council of Learned Societies
Fellowship.
The Walter
H. Annenberg Professorship in
History was endowed by the Honorable
Leonore Annenberg and the late
Honorable Walter Annenberg in
1989. The Annenbergs endowed
many chairs in SAS and made countless
contributions to Penn, including
the founding of the Annenberg
School for Communication in 1958.
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