College Houses Expertise
The College Houses provide not only a safe place for undergraduates to live and study, but also allow them the unique opportunity to share their home with Penn's outstanding faculty and other scholars engaged in a multitude of intellectual pursuits. Penn's Faculty Masters, College House Fellows and House Deans, along with their partners who serve as House Associates, bring an incredible wealth of expertise into each of the College Houses, as can be seen in this list.
W.E.B. Du Bois College House |
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William Gipson, |
Associate Vice-Provost for Equity and Access; Adjunct Professor, Religious Studies; Co-Primary Investigator for CHORDS |
Religious activity on campus; counseling and guidance for students, faculty and staff; community partnership initiatives; academically-based community service courses |
Patricia Williams, |
Lecturer, Critical Writing Program / SAS; College House Liaison to Nursing; College House Liaison to VPUL |
Composition and rhetoric; poetry; African American women’s literature; McCarthyism at HBCU’s |
Audrey Mbeje, |
Director, Program in African Languages, African Studies Center and Lecturer / SAS; Director of Fulbright-Hays Zulu Group Project Abroad in South Africa |
African linguistics; foreign language acquisition and pedagogy (specialization in African languages); online materials development for foreign language learners |
Duane Thomas, |
Assistant Professor, Education / GSE |
Youth violence prevention research; partnerships-based methodologies; risk and protective factors for urban African American children and youth; development of family strengthening |
Fisher Hassenfeld College House |
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J. Sanford Schwartz, |
Leon Hess Professor of Internal Medicine, Health Care Economics / Medicine and Wharton |
Evaluation of medical technology and practices; health economics and policy; medical decision making; adoption and diffusion of medical innovation |
Sue Schwartz, |
Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, School of Dental Medicine |
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April Herring, |
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Interpersonal and small communication, public speaking, student development, Myers-Briggs Personality Theories, group dynamics, leadership, diversity, behavior-based interviews, experiential education, training and learning outcomes and spirituality |
Michael Weisberg, |
Assistant Professor, Philosophy / SAS |
Philosophy of science as well as public understanding of science; evolutionary biology and chemistry |
Shannon Lundeen, |
Associate Director, Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality |
Feminist theory, gender and sexuality studies, social and political philosophy, feminist philosophy |
Macavan Baird, |
Law clerk for a federal Magistrate Judge in Philadelphia |
Practice of law before federal Magistrate Judges, ethics, comparative philosophy, and ancient Buddhist thought |
Ruth Robbins, |
Associate Dean for Residence Life and Housing, Moore College of Art & Design |
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Deena Skolnick Weisberg, |
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University |
Developmental psychology, specifically children's and adults' understanding of fictional stories and pretend play; cognitive psychology, specifically adults' understanding of science; cognitive science; academic writing |
Gregory College House |
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Heather Love, |
Associate Professor, Department of English / SAS |
Gender studies, modernism, and literary theory; secondary interests in film, politics, visual studies, race and ethnicity, and social theory |
Mara Mills, Associate Master |
2008-2010 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania; Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara |
Sound studies, disability studies,science and literature; the history and politics of telecommunications, biotechnology, and digital media. |
Christopher Donovan, |
Lecturer, English and Cinema Studies / SAS |
American literature, film and film criticism |
Talid Sinno, |
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering / SEAS |
Fundamental atomistic studies of solid state aggregation phenomena |
Leslie Delauter, |
Director, College Houses and Academic Services |
Pre-20th century American literature, religion, and social movements; the Enlightenment, vegetarian cooking, crochet |
David Kazanjian, College House Fellow |
Graduate Chair, Department of English / SAS |
Transnational American literary and historical studies through the nineteenth century, political philosophy, continental philosophy, colonial discourse studies, Armenian diaspora studies |
S. Sonya Gwak, |
Associate Director for Student Affairs and Academic Advising / SEAS |
Ethnic identity formation |
Nora Johnson, |
Professor of English, Swarthmore College |
Shakespeare; English |
Harnwell College House |
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Daniel Bogen, |
Associate Professor, Bioengineering / SEAS |
Pediatric rehabilitation engineering—developing new technology to diagnose and treat disabled children, particularly cognitive rehabilitation of children |
Suhnne Ahn, |
Penn/Collegiate Affiliations: Musicology Faculty, Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University |
Beethoven sketch studies and chamber music, French instrumental music of the early 19th century and Tudor history |
Kent Bream, |
Medical Director, Sayre Health Center; Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health; Associate Director, Predoctoral Education (Family Medicine); Faculty Advisor, United Community Clinics; Faculty Advisor, Guatemala Health Initiative |
Community health; global health; maternal and neonatal health; cultural studies; visual arts |
Felicity Paxton, |
Lecturer, English and Women's Studies; Adjunct Professor of Communications / SAS and Annenberg; Assistant Director, Penn Women's Center |
American culture and literature, ritual theory, youth culture, gender studies, creative non-fiction |
Adele Fava, |
Senior Project Manager for Capgemini Management Consulting |
Organizational development (organization design, change management, executive training); project managment; Romance languages |
Harrison College House |
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Michael Gamer, |
Associate Professor, English / SAS |
British literature, drama and theater, literature and the law |
Elise Bruhl, Associate Master |
Asst. City Solicitor, Appeals and Legislation, City of Philadelphia |
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Frank Pellicone, |
Lecturer, Romance Languages / SAS; College House Liaison to The College |
Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature |
Nicola M. Gentili, |
Associate Director, Cinema Studies Program; Administrative Director, Penn-in-Cannes and Penn-in-Florence / SAS |
Italian language, literature, and cinema; study abroad; law and business |
Rob Nelson, |
Associate Director, Office of the Provost |
American cultural history, gender theory and history, history of higher education, history and philosophy of religion |
Todd Nothstein, |
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English literature |
Hill College House |
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Julie A. Sochalski, |
Associate Professor, School of Nursing; Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics |
Health politics and policy; health care reform; health care workforce |
Robert Cwiklik, |
Author and biographer |
Biographical writing and literature |
Stephanie Weaver, |
New to Penn in Fall 2007 |
Child psychology, adolescent depression and anxiety |
Lisa Lewis, |
Assistant Professor, Family and Community Health / Nursing |
Behavioral research on patient motivation in creating and sustaining health behavior changes; health care for minority populations; spirituality and health; African American spirituality |
Fayyaz Vellani, |
Associate Director, Critical Writing Program |
The role of law in creating inclusive environments for disabled people, with a particular focus on socio-political and legal frameworks in the UK, USA and Australia. Law, environment and public space: examining notions of equal access and the relationships between representations of identity and various notions of "environment" |
Kings Court English College House |
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Jorge Santiago-Aviles, |
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering / SEAS; Advisor, IEEE Student Chapter, The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE); Co-founder, La Casa Latina |
Electro-spinning and nanofiber technology |
Marta E. Rivas-Olmeda, |
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M'hamed Krimo Bokreta, |
Lecturer, Geology / SAS; College House Liaison to Engineering |
Mineralogy; Environment and Technology; Student Learning and Leadership; Advisor to PennScience Journal of Undergraduate Research |
Campbell A. Grey, |
Assistant Professor, Classical Studies / SAS |
Roman social and economic history, particularly the history of non-elite and marginal populations such as beggars, criminals, and foreigners. |
Rose Malague, |
Director, Theatre Arts / SAS |
Specializations in American theatre and performance, acting theory and pedagogy, women and theatre |
Ann Grey, |
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Riepe College House |
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Dennis DeTurck, |
Dean of the College / SAS |
Partial differential equations, Differential geometry |
Marilynne Diggs-Thompson, |
Lecturer, Anthropology / SAS |
Cultural anthropology; modernization and transformation in Guadeloupe; fertility change, family formation, education, and migration among the French West Indian immigrant communities |
Karen Detlefsen, |
Associate Professor, Philosophy / SAS |
Early modern philosophy, history and philosophy of biology, women in philosophy |
Kok-Chor Tan, |
Associate Professor, Philosophy / SAS |
Social and political philosophy, ethics, international justice |
John Fantuzzo, |
Diana Rausnitz Fiklis Term Professor, Education / GSE |
The design, implementation, and evaluation of school- and community-based strategies for young, low-income children in high-risk urban settings. |
Christine Fantuzzo, |
Experienced masters-level public school educator who teaches ESL (English as a Second Language) courses and works exclusively with international students from over 45 different countries |
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Rodin College House |
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Jay Reise, |
President, Orchestra 2001; Professor of Music Composition, Department of |
Music composition in the Classical tradition including symphonies, opera, concertos, chamber music; articles on music. |
Cecilia Paredes-Reise, |
Photo-performance, sculpture and installation artist; lecturer and art-workshop professor (www.ceciliaparedes.com) |
A Rockfeller Foundation Fellow, she has exhibited her work at the 51 Venice |
Kenneth Grcich, |
College House Liaison to Wharton; Ed.D. Candidate, Higher Education Management |
Student development and identity; the navigation of socioeconomically disadvantaged students in an Ivy League institution |
Tanya Jung, |
Assistant Dean for Advising in the College of Arts and Sciences |
Visual culture studies, especially religious cultures; word and image studies; epistemologies, knowledge-making, and university culture in the Western tradition. Visual artist in painting, printmaking, and 3-D construction and design media |
Ajay Nair, College House Fellow |
Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs |
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Stouffer College House |
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Phil Nichols, |
Associate Professor, Legal Studies / Wharton |
Corruption; economic and social development in emerging economies; international institutions, particularly trade |
Amy Nichols, |
Lecturer, English Language Program |
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Alison LaLond, |
House Dean |
Student-led community service and advocacy |
Ezekiel Dixon-Román, College House Fellow |
Assistant Professor / SPP |
Externalized practices of social and cultural capital; inherited familial social history; the social distribution of learning and development |
Juan Jimenez, College House Fellow |
Post-Doctorate Fellow, Institute for Medicine and Engineering, School of Medicine |
Characteristics of blood flow in the cardiovascular system related to the development of atherosclerosis |
Monica Miller, Associate Fellow |
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Melissa Sanchez, Associate Fellow |
Anatomic Pathology resident, School of Veterinary Medicine |
Microbiology, veterinary immunology |
Ware College House |
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Mark Liberman, |
Director, Linguistic Data Consortium; Trustee Professor of Phonetics, Dept. of Linguistics / SAS; Professor, Dept. of Computer and Information Science; Co-director, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science / SEAS; Faculty Director, College Houses and Academic Services |
Prosody; the melody and rhythm of speech; speech and language technology; the evolution of language |
Nathan Smith, |
Lecturer, Education / GSE and Critical Writing Program / SAS; Educational and Documentary Filmmaker with the Guatemala Health Initiative |
Residential colleges in America; American pedagogy; multiculturalism and ethnography; educational and documentary filmmaking, race, ethnicity, and teacher education |
Helen Davies, |
Professor of Microbiology / Medicine; Ombudsman for Students in the School of Medicine, (00-07); Academic Coordinator, Dept. of Microbiology (85-07); Former National President, Association for Women in Science |
Bioenergetics, on reactions of mitochondrial and bacterial cytochromes; virulence factors of Streptococci and Haemophilus organisms; recruitment and retention of minority group members and women in biomedical careers |
Kevin Platt, College House Fellow |
Associate Professor and Chair of the Slavic Department / SAS |
Representations of Russian history; Russian historiography; history and memory in Russia; Russian lyric poetry |
Ivonne Vidal Pizarro, |
Scientist; Program Administrator, American Association for Cancer Research |
Diversity in the sciences |
