Honors College Faculty/Staff

Bio

Professor Hardy taught in Honors from 1996 until his retirement in 2022. His Honors courses included a student researched history of suburb sprawl in Chester County; Climate Change and Sustainability; oral histories of the Honors College, the Vietnam War, and Philadelphia Immigration; and Goin' North: Stories from the First Great Migration to Philadelphia, which won the 2016 American Historical Association Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History. He supervised Honors student internships at placements that included the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, Elwyn Inc, Independence Seaport Museum, and the Pennhurst Memorial & Preservation Alliance. A member of the faculty on the first Honors trips to South Africa (2001), China (2007), and Norway (2015), he since 2017 has been the signator of the Honors College Nobel Peace Prize.