• Roquinaldo Ferreira

  Henry Charles Lea Professor

  • Black Atlantic
  • Angola
  • Brazil
  • Slavery
  • Abolition

  rfer@sas.upenn.edu

  Website

Graduate School of Education

• Vivian Gadsden

  William T. Carter Professor in Child Development and Education

  • Cultural and social factors affecting learning and literacy across the life-course and within families,
  • Intergenerational learning
  • Relationships between literacy in families and issues of culture, race, gender, and poverty in diverse learning contexts
  • Interconnectedness among families' political, cultural, and social histories and racialized identities

  viviang@gse.upenn.edu

  Website

• Howard Stevensen

  Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education

  • African-American psychology
  • At-risk youth and high-risk boys
  • Family and parental engagement
  • Racial integration and re-segregation

  howards@gse.upenn.edu

  Website

Law School

• Anita L. Allen

  Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law

  • Privacy Law, Theory and Values
  • Legal Theory
  • Contemporary Ethics and Bioethics
  • Mental Illness
  • Accountability
  • Race Relations
  • Gender and the Law

  aallen@law.upenn.edu

  Website

• Regina Austin

  William A. Schnader Professor of Law

  • Torts & Insurance
  • Law & Cultural Studies
  • Minority Legal Feminism
  • Economic Discrimination
  • Documentaries and the Law
  • Visual Legal Advocacy (Production)

  raustin@law.upenn.edu

  Website

School of Arts and Sciences

• Cheikh Anta Mbacke Babou

  Associate 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

  cheikh@sas.upenn.edu

  Website

• Kathleen Brown

  David Boies Professor of History

  • History of Race and Gender
  • History of Slavery and Abolition
  • History of Race Relations
  • Atlantic History
  • History of Women
  • History of Sexuality
  • U.S. History

  kabrown@sas.upenn.edu

  Website

• Angela Duckworth

  Christoher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology

  • Self-control grit achievement psychology character
  • Quantitative research methods

  duckwort@psych.upenn.edu

  Website

• Daniel Q. Gillion

  Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt Presidential Distinguished Professor of Political Science

  • Racial and Ethnic Politics, Political Behavior, Public Opinion
  • Judicial Politics
  • The American Presidency
  • Questions of political participation
  • Institutional influences on citizens' behavior
  • Governmental responsiveness to citizens' concerns.

  dgillion@sas.upenn.edu

  Website

• Marie Gottschalk

  Professor of Political Science

  • Criminal justice
  • Health policy
  • U.S. political economy
  • Organized labor
  • Welfare state
  • Comparative politics of public policy

  mgottsch@sas.upenn.edu

  Website

• Theodore Hershberg

  Professor of Public Policy & History

  • Public school reform
  • Regional issues (city-suburban cooperation)
  • Urban-industrial development
  • African-American urban experience

  tedhersh@upenn.edu

  Website

• Michael Jones-Correa

  President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science

  • political participation and civic engagement
  • immigrant incorporation, naturalization and political mobilization
  • racial and ethnic politics and identity
  • inter-ethnic contact, negotiation and coalition-building
  • urban politics

  mjcorrea@sas.upenn.edu

  Website

• Carol Muller

  Professor of Music

  • Music
  • Gender
  • Ethnography
  • Gospel and Muslim Music in Philly
  • South Africa
  • Performance Studies
  • New Media and Technology
  • Pedagogy

  camuller@sas.upenn.edu

  Website

• Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

  Associate Professor of History of Art

  • Race, gender, sexuality and class
  • The art of the United States and the “New World”
  • Polynesian, Brazilian, and African American art

  gshaw@sas.upenn.edu

  Website

• Rogers M. Smith

  Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science

  • Public Law
  • American political thought
  • Political Thought
  • Race and Gender Politics
  • Citizenship and Immigration

  rogerss@sas.upenn.edu

  Website

• Deborah A. Thomas

  R. Jean Brownlee Term Professor of Anthropology, Graduate Chair

  • Political Anthropology
  • Sovereignty
  • Violence
  • The Afterlives of Imperialism
  • Transnationalism and Diaspora
  • Race and Gender
  • Performance and Popular Culture
  • Culture and Political Economy
  • Popular Culture
  • The Caribbean

  Deborah.Thomas@sas.upenn.edu

  Website

• 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

   

  rvitalis@sas.upenn.edu

  Website

School of Nursing

• J. Margo Brooks Carthon

  Assistant Professor of Nursing

  • History of race and illness (Early 20th Century)
  • Health disparities
  • Healthcare workforce diversity
  • Nursing organization and minority health outcomes
  • Health and social policy

  jmbrooks@nursing.upenn.edu

  Website

• Lisa Lewis

  Associate Professor of Nursing

  • Community-based research
  • Health disparities research
  • Healthy equity
  • Social justice
  • Health behavior change

  lisaml@nursing.upenn.edu

  Website

School of Social Policy and Practice

• Ezekiel Dixon-Román

  Associate Professor of Social Policy and Practice and Education

  • Sociology of education
  • Cultural studies
  • Quantitative methods

  ezekield@sp2.upenn.edu

  Website

Wharton School

• Aline Gatignon

  Assistant Professor of Management

  • Cross-sector Partnerships
  • Emerging Markets
  • Cooperative Strategy
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Non-market Strategy
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Multi-level Theory

  galine@wharton.upenn.edu

  Website