Ann Farnsworth-Alvear

Associate Professor of History


  • Working-class history

  • Gender studies

  • The Colombian Choco

  • The history of race in Latin America

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Kathleen Hall

Associate Professor of Education and Anthropology


  • Immigration, race relations, and education

  • Citizenship, cultural politics, and national incorporation

  • Class, socialization and social stratification Social theory

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Michael Hanchard

Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor of Africana Studies


  • Comparative Politics (Nationalism, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, Political Culture)

  • Africana Studies

  • Latin American Studies

  • Political Theory (Citizenship, Comparative Political Theory)

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Grace Sanders Johnson

Associate Professor of Africana Studies, On Leave 2024-2025 Academic Year


  • Transnational Feminisms

  • Oral History

  • African Diasporic Studies

  • Modern Caribbean History

  • Latin American History

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

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Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Africana Studies Graduate Chair

Timothy Rommen

Vice Provost for the Arts Martin Meyerson Endowed Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, Professor of Music and Africana Studies, On leave for AY 2024-2025


  • Caribbean Studies

  • Coloniality/decoloniality

  • The political economy of music and sound

  • Creole musical formations

  • Tourism

  • Diaspora

  • Music and spirituality

  • The ethics of style

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Vanicléia Silva-Santos, PhD

Associate Curator, African Collection, Penn Museum University of Pennsylvania

Camila Sena da Luz

Abdias Nascimento Fellow