John H. Pollack
John H. Pollack is Curator, Research Services, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. He has worked in this department since 1995. His responsibilities include providing assistance to students and scholars, and teaching and organizing class sessions centered on the collections. He is also responsible for the Furness Shakespeare Library, which is part of the Kislak Center.
John holds a PhD in English from Penn and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis. He specializes in Early American literature and history, and early modern book history. His research has focused on topics including Native American languages; colonial writings from New France; and Benjamin Franklin and colonial education.
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About the speakers
Adrienne LaFrance is the executive editor of The Atlantic. She was previously a senior editor and staff writer at The Atlantic, and the editor of TheAtlantic.com. Adrienne’s background is in investigative reporting, and she has written about the intersection of politics, media, technology, and information systems for more than 15 years. She is the author of "The Prophecies of Q" (The Atlantic, June 2020).
James McAuley, a Global Opinions contributing columnist at The Washington Post focusing on French and European politics and culture, is a former Paris correspondent for the Post. He holds a PhD in French history from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a BA in history and literature from Harvard University. In addition to writing for The Atlantic and the New York Review of Books, he is the author of The House of Fragile Things, a history of Dreyfus-era France, published by Yale University Press in May 2021. He is also the author of the recent article "France Knows How this Ends" (The Atlantic, January 19, 2021).
Sophia Rosenfeld is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of several books, including Democracy and Truth: A Short History (2019) and Common Sense: A Political History (2011), which won the Mark Lynton History Prize and has been translated into many languages. She also writes regularly for publications like The Nation, as well as many scholarly outlets. She was previously Vice President of the American Historical Association and has held fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. She is currently co-editing a six volume cultural history of ideas from antiquity to the present.
Co-sponsored by the Annenberg School for Communication and the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
