Wale Adebanwi
Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, Director, Center for Africana Studies
- Ethnicity
- Nationalism
- Race, Elites, Media, State
- Urban formations
- Intellectual History
David Amponsah
Presidential Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
- African Religious History
- Health and Healing in Africa
- Religion, Politics, and Power
- Colonialism and Empire
- Africa–India Relations
Cheikh Anta Mbacke Babou
Professor of History
- African History and the History of Islam in Africa
- Francophone West Africa from the 19th century
- Contemporary African diasporas in Europe and the United States
Rita Barnard
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
- South African Literature
- Post-Colonial African Literature
Gregory Bisson
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Infectious Diseases
- Patient-Oriented Research
- HIV
- International Health
William Burke-White
Richard Perry Professor Professor of LawInaugural Director, Perry World House
- International Law
- International Relations
- Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Lee Cassanelli
Associate Professor of History
- African history, oral history, and comparative world history
- The Horn of Africa (Ethiopia and Somalia) from the 18th to the 20th century
- Social and cultural transformations in Somalia since 1890:
Ali Dinar
Senior Lecturer
- Sudanese popular culture
- Politics of identity
- History of colonial and post-colonial Africa
Richard Estes
Emeritus Professor
- International and Comparative Social Development
- Strategic and Long Term Planning
- Social Indicators
- Social Reporting
Hocine Fetni
Assistant Dean for Academic Advising, The College, School of Arts and Sciences Adjunct. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
- Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East and North Africa
- Political Instability and Laws of Investment in North Africa
- Law and Social Change in the Middle east and North Africa - Corporation of Islamic Law
Aline Gatignon
Assistant Professor of Management
- Cross-sector Partnerships
- Emerging Markets
- Cooperative Strategy
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Non-market Strategy
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Multi-level Theory
Guy Grossman
Associate Professor of Political Science
- Comparative politics
- Political economy of developing countries
- African politics
- Political behavior
- Causal inference
Michael Hanchard
Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor of Africana Studies, On Leave Fall 2023 Term
- Comparative Politics (Nationalism, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, Political Culture)
- Africana Studies
- Latin American Studies
- Political Theory (Citizenship, Comparative Political Theory)
Marja Hoek-Smit
Director of the International Housing Finance Program Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center Adjunct Professor Real Estate & City and Regional Planning
- Housing
- Finances and Planning
- Eastern and Southern Africa
John L. Jackson Jr.
Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania Provost
- Ethnographic Film and Visual Studies
- Race Theory
- Globalization, Transnationalism, and Diaspora
- Media Anthropology
- Urban Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Performance Theory
- Popular Culture
John B. Jemmott III
Kenneth B. Clark Professor of Communication
- Methods for reducing HIV/STD risks in the black community
Hans-Peter Kohler
Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography, Department of Sociology Research Associate, Population Studies Center University of Pennsylvania
- Fertility and Related Behaviors in Both Developing and Developed Countries
- Social Interactions and AIDS-related Behavior in Africa
Andrew Lamas
Lecturer, Urban Studies Program Lecturer, School of Social Policy and Practice
Mark Liberman
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Linguistics
- Phonetic Evidence for Linguistic Structure
- Phonology and Phonetics of Lexical Tone in West African languages
- Application of Linguistics in Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Ian MacMillan
The Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Organizational Competence
- New Venture Management and Entrepreneurship
Audrey Mbeje
- Discourse analysis and second/foreign language pedagogy
- Foreign language curriculum design and assessment
- Online and text-based material development
- Anaphora, passivization, and tense/aspect in the Nguni languages of South Africa
Ramah McKay
Assistant Professor
- Global Health
- History and anthropology of humanitarianism
- Critical approaches to development
Carol Muller
Professor of Music
- Music
- Gender
- Ethnography
- Gospel and Muslim Music in Philly
- South Africa
- Performance Studies
- New Media and Technology
- Pedagogy
Brendan O’Leary
Lauder Professor of Political Science
- Nationalism
- National and Ethnic Conflict-Regulation
- Democracy
- Democratization and Electoral Systems
Neil Perry Sheth
Assistant Professor Of Orthopaedic Surgery
- Acetablar Bone Loss
- Pelvic Discontinuity
- Osteolysis in Total Hip Arthroplasty
- Antibiotic Coated Artrhoplasty Implants
- Peri-prosthetic Infection
- Orthopaedic Surgery in Global Health
Eve Troutt Powell
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History and Africana Studies, Africana Studies Graduate Chair/Interim Undergraduate Chair
- The relationship between Africa and the Middle East
- History of African slavery in the Nile valley
Theodore Schurr
Professor of Anthropology
- Biological History of and Complex Diseases in African Populations
Heather Sharkey
Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
- History
- Society and Culture of North Africa
- Historical Reflections of religion in North Africa
Sarah Tishkoff
David and Lyn Silfen University Professor
- African Integrative Evolutionary Genomics
Robert Vitalis
Professor of Political Science
- Race and American International Relations Theory
- African-American Internationalist Thought
- The Political and Cultural Economy of the World Oil Industry
- American Expansionism
- History of International Relations and Development Studies
Daniel Wagner
Professor, UNESCO Chair in Learning and Literacy Director, International Literacy Institute and National Center of Adult LiteracyHead, Program in International Education Development
- Cross-Cultural Studies of Cognition and Socialization
- Education in Developing Countries
Josef W. Wegner
Assistant Professor, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
- Egyptian Mortuary Complex and Middle Kingdom Settlement Patterns in South Abydos
- Egyptian Culture and Archaeology
Sharon Wolf
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Quantitative Methods Division
- Poverty and child development
- Risk and resilience
- Early childhood education
- School readiness
- Teacher professional development
- Program evaluation
Dagmawi Woubshet
Ahuja Family Presidential Associate Professor of English
- 20th-Centure American Literature
- African American and Ethnic American Literatures
- Postcolonial and Transnational Literatures
- Global English
- African American Studies
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Poetry and Poetics
- Race, Empire, Postcolonialism
- Transatlantic Studies
- Visual Culture
Tukufu Zuberi
Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies
- Sociology
- Human Rights
- Global Africa
- Africana Studies
- Population and Health
- Film