Penn Arts & Sciences Logo

People

David Amponsah

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
  • African Religious History
  • Health and Healing in Africa
  • Religion, Politics, and Power
  • Colonialism and Empire
  • Africa–India Relations

Herman Beavers

Professor of English & Africana Studies
  • 20th Century African American Literary and Cultural studies
  • Jazz Studies
  • African American poetry and poetics
  • Gender Studies
  • Science and literature
  • Medicine and literature

Mary Frances Berry

Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought

Professor of History and Africana Studies

  • African American History
  • History of American Law
  • History of Law and Social Policy

Anthea Butler

Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies

On-Leave for 2018-2019

Graduate Group Chair, Department of Religious Studies

  • Pentecostalism
  • Evangelicalism
  • African American Religion
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Popular religion and culture
  • Global Christianity

Camille Z. Charles

Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences

Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies & Education

Director, Center for Africana Studies

Faculty Director of the Office of Penn First Plus

 

  • Urban inequality
  • Racial attitudes and intergroup relations
  • Racial residential segregation
  • Minorities in higher education
  • Racial identity

John L. Jackson Jr.

Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology

Professor of Africana Studies

Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice

  • Ethnographic Film and Visual Studies
  • Race Theory
  • Globalization, Transnationalism, and Diaspora
  • Media Anthropology
  • Urban Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • Performance Theory
  • Popular Culture

Grace Sanders Johnson

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
  • Transnational Feminisms
  • Oral History
  • African Diasporic Studies
  • Modern Caribbean History
  • Latin American History

Eve Troutt Powell

Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History and Africana Studies
  • The relationship between Africa and the Middle East
  • History of African slavery in the Nile valley

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

  • Race and Gender
  • Family
  • Criminal Justice
  • Bioethics
  • Sociology of Science
  • Critical Race Theory

Timothy Rommen

Davidson Kennedy Professor in the College Professor of Music and Africana Studies
  • Caribbean Studies
  • Coloniality/decoloniality
  • The political economy of music and sound
  • Creole musical formations
  • Tourism
  • Diaspora
  • Music and spirituality
  • The ethics of style

Barbara D. Savage

Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought

On-Leave for 2018-2019

Professor of Africana Studies

2018-2019 Academic Year:  Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History, Rothermere American Institute

University of Oxford, Queens College

  • Twentieth Century African American history
  • History of American religious and social reform movements
  • History of the relationship between media and politics

Tukufu Zuberi

Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations

Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies

 

  • Sociology
  • Human Rights
  • African and African Diaspora
  • Africana Studies
  • Population and Health
  • Film