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

Marybeth Gasman

Professor of Education

• Philanthropy and historically black colleges
• Black leadership
• Contemporary fundraising issues at black colleges
• African-American giving
• Minority Serving Institutions

mgasman@upenn.edu

Howard Stevensen

Associate Professor of Education

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

howards@gse.upenn.edu

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

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

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

Kathleen Brown

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

Angela Duckworth

Assistant Professor of Psychology

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

duckwort@psych.upenn.edu

Daniel Q. Gillion

Assistant 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

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

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

Onoso Imoagene

Assistant Professor of Sociology

• Immigration
• Inter-Ethnic Group Relations
• The African Second Generation in the U.S. and U.K.
• Race and Ethnicity
• Immigrant Educational Attainment and Social Mobility

imoagene@sas.upenn.edu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Christopher Lance Coleman

Fagin Term Associate Professor of Nursing and Multicultural Diversity

colemanc@nursing.upenn.edu

Lisa Lewis

Assistant Professor of Nursing

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

lisaml@nursing.upenn.edu

Ezekiel Dixon-Román

Associate Professor of Social Policy and Practice and Education

• Sociology of education
• Cultural studies
• Quantitative methods

ezekield@sp2.upenn.edu

Aline Gatignon