Devra Moehler

Assistant Professor of Communication

• Political communication
• African politics
• Developing countries
• Citizen participation
• Democratization
• Partisan media
• Elections

dmoehler@asc.upenn.edu

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

kdhall@gse.upenn.edu

Daniel Wagner

Professor, UNESCO Chair in Learning and Literacy

• Cross-Cultural Studies of Cognition and Socialization
• Education in Developing Countries

wagner@literacy.upenn.edu

William Burke-White

Richard Perry Professor

• International Law
• International Relations
• Post-Conflict Reconstruction

wburkewh@law.upenn.edu

Roger Allen

Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization

• Modern Arabic Fiction
• Literatures in the Arab world

rallen@ccat.sas.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

Rita Barnard

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

• South African Literature
• Post-Colonial African Literature

rbarnard@sas.upenn.edu

Sandra Barnes

Professor of Anthropology Emeritus

• Social and Cultural anthropology
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Complex societies, political anthropology
• Religion
• Popular culture
• Historical anthropology

Lee Cassanelli

Associate Professor of History

• African history, oral history, and comparative world history
• The Horn of Africa (Ethiopia and Somalia) from the 18th to the 20th century
• Social and cultural transformations in Somalia since 1890:

lcassane@sas.upenn.edu

Dorothy Cheney

Professor of Biology

• Neurobiology
• Behavior
• Physiology

cheney@sas.upenn.edu

Steven Feierman

Professor of History Emeritus

• History of health and healing in Africa
• Content and uses of orally transmitted knowledge
• The place of knowledge about Africa in the social sciences

feierman@sas.upenn.edu

Hocine Fetni

Assistant Dean for Academic Advising, The College, School of Arts and Sciences Adjunct. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

• Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East and North Africa
• Political Instability and Laws of Investment in North Africa
• Law and Social Change in the Middle east and North Africa - Corporation of Islamic Law

hfetni@sas.upenn.edu

Robert Giegengack

Emeritus Professor of Earth and Environmental Science

gieg@sas.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

Hans-Peter Kohler

Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography, Department of Sociology

• Fertility and Related Behaviors in Both Developing and Developed Countries
• Social Interactions and AIDS-related Behavior in Africa

hpkohler@pop.upenn.edu

Andrew Lamas

Professor, Urban Studies Program

atlamas@sas.upenn.edu

Mark Liberman

Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Linguistics

• Phonetic Evidence for Linguistic Structure
• Phonology and Phonetics of Lexical Tone in West African languages
• Application of Linguistics in Speech Recognition and Synthesis

myl@cis.upenn.edu

Janet Monge

Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Anthropology

• Physical Anthropology of Swahili People
• Neanderthals
• Paleoanthroplogy
• Skeletal Biology

jmonge@sas.upenn.edu

Lydie E. Moudileno

Professor of Romance Languages

Francophone studies, with a focus on the literatures of the Caribbean and Sub-saharan Africa

moudilen@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

Brendan O’Leary

Lauder Professor of Political Science

• Nationalism
• National and Ethnic Conflict-Regulation
• Democracy
• Democratization and Electoral Systems

boleary@sas.upenn.edu

Theodore Schurr

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Biological History of and Complex Diseases in African Populations

tgschurr@sas.upenn.edu

Susan Gennaro

Professor of Nursing

Physiologic mechanisms which may herald preterm birth

gennaro@nursing.upenn.edu

Richard Estes

Emeritus Professor

• International and Comparative Social Development
• Strategic and Long Term Planning
• Social Indicators
• Social Reporting

restes@sp2.upenn.edu

Marja Hoek-Smit

Director of the International Housing Finance Program Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center

• Housing
• Finances and Planning
• Eastern and Southern Africa

mhoek@wharton.upenn.edu

Stephen J. Kobrin

Professor of Multinational Management

• International Political Economy
• Globalization
• Global Strategy
• Impact of the Information Revolution

kobrins@wharton.edu

Ian MacMillan

The Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• Organizational Competence
• New Venture Management and Entrepreneurship

macmilli@wharton.edu

Ann Mayer

Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics

• Comparative constitutional law
• Human rights and globalization
• International human rights law
• Law in the contemporary middle east
• Women’s international human rights

mayera@wharton.upenn.edu

Howard Pack

Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy

• Effects of Foreign Aid on Development Expenditure
• Diffusion of Technology in Developing Countries
• Role of External Economies in Industrial Development

packh@wharton.upenn.edu

Elizabeth Alpern

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

• Childhood Disabilities in Africa
• Social Work Utilization in Pediatric Emergency Departments

alpern@email.chop.edu

Gregory Bisson

Assistant Professor of Medicine

• Infectious Diseases
• Patient-Oriented Research
• HIV
• International Health

bisson@mail.med.upenn.edu

Harvey Freidman

Professor of Medicine

Cell and Molecular Biology

hfriedman@mail.med.upenn.edu

Shiriki Kumanyika

Professor of Epidemiology

• Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention
• Childhood Obesity
• Global Obesity Epidemic
• Food Marketing
• Food and Nutrition Policy
• Health Disparities
• Systems Sciences

skumanyi@mail.upenn.edu

Timothy Rebbeck

Professor of Epidemiology

• Identifying and characterizing cancer genes
• The relationship of allelic variation of cancer genes with cancer occurrence and cancer outcomes
• The role of cancer genes in cancer etiology and outcomes in the context of the demographic, biochemical, environmental, and physiological risk factors

trebbeck@cceb.med.upenn.edu

Donald Silberberg

Emeritus Professor of Neurology

• Clinical Neuro-Sciences in the Developing World
• Child Health and Development in Developing Countries

silberbe@mail.med.upenn.edu

Mahlet Tadesse

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

mtadesse@cceb.upenn.edu