Standing Faculty

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Tukufu Zuberi

Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, Africana Studies Interim Department Chair

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Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

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

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Marcia Chatelain

Marcia Chatelain

Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, Africana Studies Undergraduate Chair

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Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

Wale Adebanwi

Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, Director, Center for Africana Studies

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David Amponsah

Presidential Assistant Professor of Africana Studies

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 Herman Beavers

Herman Beavers

Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies,

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Vaughn Booker

Vaughn A. Booker

George E. Doty, Jr. & Lee Spelman Doty Presidential Associate Professor of Africana Studies

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Camille Z. Charles

Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, Faculty Director of the Office of Penn First Plus, On leave for AY 2024-2025

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Michael Hanchard

Michael Hanchard

Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor of Africana Studies

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 John L. Jackson Jr.

John L. Jackson Jr.

Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania Provost

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Jasmine Johnson

Jasmine E. Johnson

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies

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Grace Sanders Johnson

Grace Sanders Johnson

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

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Eve Troutt Powell

Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History and Africana Studies, On Leave for AY 2024-2025.

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 dorothy roberts

Dorothy E. Roberts

George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights Professor of Africana Studies, Director, Program on Race, Science, and Society

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Timothy Rommen

Davidson Kennedy Professor in the College Professor of Music and Africana Studies, On leave for AY 2024-2025

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Heather Williams

Heather A. Williams

Geraldine R. Segal Professorship in American Social Thought, Professor of Africana Studies,

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