Scholars at risk in their own countries find a new home at Penn

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Penn's program fits in with a larger effort to rescue scholars in danger. The Institute of International Education has helped more than 1,100 scholars from 62 countries find new academic homes.

Six scholars from Ukraine, Afghanistan and Venezuela were brought to the country through a program that began in 2021

He found himself in a refugee camp in the United Arab Emirates and nearly a year later in the United States, at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School.a new program in 2021. The university had previously helped scholars, but the crisis in Afghanistan showed the need for a more coordinated, concerted effort, said Scott Moore, practice professor of political science who oversees the program.

In 2023, the institute received nearly 750 applications and awarded 127 fellowships, said Mark Angelson, the institute’s board chair. Other Philadelphia-area colleges that have hosted scholars through the institute’s program include Penn, Rutgers, Drexel, Temple, Arcadia and Villanova, Angelson said.Pavel Golubev, 39, a Russian art historian, had been head curator at a museum in Ukraine when Russia invaded

Katz was worried about Golubev in the Ukraine and offered to bring him to Penn. Golubev was hesitant to leave until he could assure the works at Odessa were safe, but eventuallyin August 2022. Golubev found an apartment, and Katz’s colleagues provided the necessary furnishing and supplies.

 

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