W.E.B. Du Bois College House

William Gipson,
Faculty Master

Associate Vice-Provost for Equity and Access; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Religious Studies; Primary Investigator, Jesse Ball du Pont Summer Mentorship Plus Grant

Religious activity on campus; counseling and guidance for students, faculty and  staff; community partnership initiatives; academically-based community service courses

Patricia Williams,
House Dean

College House Liaison to VPUL

Composition and rhetoric; poetry; African American women’s literature; McCarthyism at HBCU’s

Audrey Mbeje,
College House Fellow

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

Fisher Hassenfeld College House

J. Sanford Schwartz,
Faculty Master

Leon Hess Professor of Internal Medicine, Health Care Economics / Perelman Medicine and Wharton

Medical decision making: Evaluation of medical innovations and interventions (comparative and cost-effectiveness); risk communication; changing physician and patient behavior; adoption and diffusion of medical innovation

April Herring,
House Dean

College House Liaison to Wharton

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

Paul Axelsen,
College House Fellow

Professor, Pharmacology / School of Medicine

Protein lipid interactions, especially membrane-mediated protein folding and amyloidogenesis; optical spectroscopy, especially infrared, fluorescence, and internal reflection spectroscopy

Assistant Dean for Academic Advising in the College of Arts and Sciences; Lecturer, Music & Urban Studies / SAS

Experimental musical spaces in the mid-20th century, music and cultural studies, music and urban geography, social justice and community building, working with students to develop personal, intellectual, and job-related goals through skill-building experiences

Gregory College House

Heather Love,
Faculty Master

R. Jean Brownlee Term Associate Professor, Department of English / SAS

Gender studies, modernism, and literary theory; secondary interests in film, politics, visual studies, disability studies, and social theory

Christopher  Donovan,
House Dean

Lecturer, English and Cinema Studies / SAS; College House Liaison to the College

American literature, film and film criticism

Lance Wahlert, College House Fellow

Visiting Faculty Fellow, Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy,
Perelman School of Medicine; Director, Project on Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender Identity

Bioethics and its intersection with LGBTQ issues

Philippe Met, College House Fellow

Professor, French and Cinema Studies/ SAS

Modern/Contemporary French Poetry, Fantastic Literature, French Cinema, Horror Cinema, and Crime Cinema

Harnwell College House

Daniel Bogen,
Faculty Master

Professor, Bioengineering / SEAS

Pediatric rehabilitation engineering—developing new technology to diagnose and treat disabled children, particularly cognitive rehabilitation of children

Suhnne Ahn,
House Dean

Lecturer, Cinema Studies / SAS

Beethoven sketch studies and chamber music, French instrumental music of the early 19th century and Tudor history

Mamie Guidera,

College House Fellow

Sr. Lecturer / Nursing; Midwife, Department of OB-GYN / HUP

The culture and ecology of birth; midwifery theory and practice; midwife and birth attendant education in developing nations

Felicity Paxton,
College House Fellow

Director, Penn Women's Center; Lecturer, Communications / Annenberg

American culture and literature, ritual theory, youth culture, gender studies, creative non-fiction

Harrison College House

Michael Gamer,
Faculty Master

Associate Professor, English / SAS

British literature, drama and theater, literature and the law

Frank Pellicone,
House Dean

Lecturer, Romance Languages / SAS; College House Liaison to SEAS   

Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature

Nicola M. Gentili,
College House Fellow

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

Thomas Safley,
College House Fellow

Professor of Early Modern European History / SAS

The economic and social history of early modern Europe, circa 1450–1750

Hill College House

Kent Bream, Interim Faculty Master

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

Stephanie Weaver,
House Dean

College House Liaison to Student Intervention Services

Child psychology, adolescent depression and anxiety

Lisa Lewis,
College House Fellow

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

Jane Willenbring,

College House Fellow

Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Science

Geomorphology: understanding landscape evolution, degradation of soils and streams, climate change, glacier fluctuations and human impacts on the environment

Kings Court English College House

Jorge Santiago-Aviles,
Faculty Master

Associate Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering / SEAS; Co-Principal Investigator, ITEST-Nano project; Advisor, IEEE Student Chapter,  Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE); Co-founder, La Casa Latina   

Electro-spinning and nanofiber technology

M'hamed Krimo Bokreta,
House Dean

Lecturer, Geology / SAS

Mineralogy; Environment and Technology; Student Learning and Leadership; Advisor to PennScience Journal of Undergraduate Research

Campbell A. Grey,
College House Fellow

Associate 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,
College House Fellow

Director, Theatre Arts / SAS

Specializations in American theatre and performance, acting theory and pedagogy, women and theatre

Riepe College House

Dennis DeTurck,
Faculty Master

Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Professor of Mathematics / SAS

Mathematics, particularly applications of partial differential equations to problems in differential geometry and physics

Marilynne Diggs-Thompson,
House Dean

Lecturer, Anthropology / SAS

Cultural anthropology; modernization and transformation in Guadeloupe; fertility change, family formation, education, and migration among the French West Indian immigrant communities

Ralph Rosen,
College House Fellow

Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of Classical Studies;
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies / SAS

Greek and Latin literature, especially comic and satirical genres; Greek philosophy and ancient intellectual history; Greek and Roman Medicine; comparative poetics; ancient and modern aesthetics

Betsy Rymes,

College House Fellow

Associate Professor, Linguistics / GSE

Linguistic anthropology of education; Language socialization; Multilingualism and TESOL; Youth culture, mass media, and schooling

Rodin College House

Jay Reise,
Faculty Master

Professor of Music Composition, Department of Music / SAS;
Co-director Penn Contemporary Music ;

President Emeritus, Orchestra 2001

Music composition in the Classical tradition including symphonies, opera, concertos, chamber music; articles on music.

Ryan Keytack,
House Dean

College House Liaison to Nursing

Diversity and sexual conduct education; theater and performance studies; acting, directing, and improvisation; musical theater history; student development and leadership programs

Tanya Jung,
College House Fellow

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

Emily Dolan, College House Fellow

Associate Professor of 18th & early 19th century Music; Undergraduate Chair, Department of Music / SAS

Joseph Haydn and development of the modern orchestra; machinery in French Opera; history of organology; musical and scientific instruments; indie pop music

Stouffer College House

Phil Nichols,
Faculty Master

Associate Professor, Legal Studies and Business Ethics / Wharton   

Corruption; economic and social development in emerging economies; international institutions, particularly trade

Amanda Atkinson, House Dean

Academic advising; Community building; First-year experience
programming; Sophomore year programming; Student judicial
boards

Annette Reed, College House Fellow

Assistant Professor, Religious Studies / SAS

Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and Jewish/ Christian relations in Late Antiquity; angelology and demonology; the redeployment of Second Temple Jewish traditions in late antique Judaism and Christianity; the parallels and overlaps between Jewish and Christian self-definition in Late Antiquity

Juan Jiménez, College House Fellow

Research Associate, Institute for Medicine and Engineering, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine / School of Medicine

Characteristics of blood flow in the cardiovascular system related to the development of atherosclerosis

Ware College House

Mark Liberman,
Faculty Master

Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Linguistics / SAS; Professor, Computer and Information Science / SEAS; Director, Linguistic Data Consortium   

Prosody; the melody and rhythm of speech; speech and language technology; the evolution of language

Utsav Schurmans,
House Dean

Consulting Scholar, University Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology   

Archaeology of early humans in and outside of Africa

Kevin Platt, College House Fellow

Professor. Slavic Languages and Literature; Graduate Chair, Comparative Literature / SAS

Russian history and historiography; history and memory in Russia; Russian lyric poetry.

Helen Davies,
College House Fellow

Professor, Microbiology; Lecturer in Infectious Diseases / School of Medicine; 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