Temple political scientist Joseph M. Schwartz has been presented with the American Political Science Association's David Easton Book Award for his 2009 work, The Future of Democratic Equality: Reconstructing Social Solidarity in a Fragmented America, in which he accurately predicted the emergence of inequality as a major political issue.

Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary is one of 10 historic sites that students in Assistant Professor of History Seth Bruggeman's "Museums and American Culture" class visit to learn different approaches for telling stories about the past and engaging with the public.