2025-2026 Academic Year
Application Deadline: March 7, 2025
The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy will award 2 graduate fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year to University of Pennsylvania graduate students with approved prospectuses for dissertation topics in any discipline relevant to the study of democracy, its theory or practice, or related topics of citizenship and constitutional government.
2025-2026 Academic Year
Application Deadline: March 7, 2025
Andrea Mitchell Center Associate Director Ibrahim Bakri was featured on TVNZ Breakfast to discuss the future of Syria and the Middle East after the recent collapse of the Assad regime in Syria.
Mitchell Center Director Professor Jeffrey Green, along with the Penn Political Union, were featured in a recent article by Inside Higher Ed.
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The Daily Pennsylvanian recently published an article spotlighting Poetry and Politics, a new initiative by the Andrea Mitchell Center. Click here to read the full story: https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/11/penn-andrea-mitchell-center-poetry-politics-initiative.
A delegation of Swedish politicians, journalists, think tank experts from Arena Idé, and concerned citizens visited the Mitchell Center to discuss the 2024 U.S. election from a global perspective and examine its implications for the future of democracy. The group, which included a Swedish member of parliament, engaged in an exchange on the international influence of American politics. The delegation was hosted by Andrea Mitchell Endowed Director, Professor Jeffrey Green.
Professor Eric Orts, member of the Andrea Mitchell Center Executive Committee, was recently featured in the Daily Pennsylvanian in an article urging eligible campus community members to register and vote in the upcoming election. He was joined by Professor Kate Shaw of Penn Carey Law. Professor Orts is the Guardsmark Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
The Andrea Mitchell Center was pleased to welcome Congressman Ro Khanna and Attorney General Candidate Eugene DePasquale to Penn on October 10, 2024. This visit was featured in the Daily Pennsylvanian. Click here to read: https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/10/penn-dems-depasquale-khanna-speaker-event.
In his new book, “Bob Dylan, Prophet Without God,” political philosopher Jeffrey Edward Green of the School of Arts & Sciences offers a vision of Dylan as a modern-day prophet, providing an overarching account of the significance of Dylan’s political, religious, and ethical ideas.
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