Historian Sara Byala, who is a Senior Lecturer in the Critical Writing Program,
recently gave a talk in the History department at Penn titled "How Teaching Writing
Will Make You a Better Historian."
Dr. Byala's first book, A Place that Matters Yet: John Gubbins's MuseumAfrica in the
Postcolonial World (University of Chicago Press, 2013) uses the largely unknown history
of Museum Africa, in Johannesburg, South Africa as a case study to explore larger questions
of culture in post-apartheid and postcolonial contexts.