Program
Monday, November 17, 2025
Cipriani 42nd Street
110 E. 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017
6:30 - 7:00 pm | Welcome & Check‑In
7:00 - 7:45 pm | An Evening with Penn Program
University Update: J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD
President, University of Pennsylvania
Conversation with: Sarah Gronningsater, PhD
Associate Professor of History
Penn Arts & Sciences
Abby Reisman, PhD
Associate Professor of Teacher Education
Graduate School of Education
7:45 - 9:30 pm | Networking Reception
UNIVERSITY UPDATE BY
J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD
President, University of Pennsylvania
J. Larry Jameson was named President of the University of Pennsylvania in March 2025 after serving as Interim President since December 2023. Previously, he spent 12 years as EVP for the Health System and Dean of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine. As President, Jameson champions Penn’s values and leads the implementation of Penn Forward, its strategic planning initiative. Milestones to date include a new home for interdisciplinary data science; new leadership roles to advance Penn’s work in artificial intelligence, climate science, and the arts; and pioneering academic programs and initiatives. As a physician-scientist, Jameson has studied the genetic basis of hormonal disorders, authored more than 350 articles and chapters, and edited the foremost internal medicine textbook. He holds medical and doctoral degrees from the University of North Carolina.
CONVERSATION WITH
Sarah Gronningsater, PhD
Associate Professor of History
Penn Arts & Sciences
Sarah Gronningsater’s scholarship focuses on the history of American law, US democracy, the American Revolution, African American politics, and the sport of baseball. Her book, The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom (Penn Press, 2024) recently won the James Rawley Award for best book on U.S. race relations from the Organization of American Historians, among other book prizes. She is also the recipient of numerous teaching awards at Penn, including the Dean’s Award for distinguished teaching by an assistant professor. Professor Gronningsater is a graduate of Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Chicago.
Abby Reisman, PhD
Associate Professor of Teacher Education
Graduate School of Education
Abby Reisman studies the teaching and learning of history with a focus on how teachers facilitate classroom discussions about the past. Reisman received her PhD from Stanford University, where she directed the award-winning “Reading Like a Historian” Project in San Francisco, the first extended history curriculum intervention in urban high schools. Her research on how teachers learn and develop as discussion facilitators has been funded by the James S. McDonnell Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the Institute for Educational Sciences. Reisman began her career in education as a classroom teacher in a small, progressive high school in New York City.