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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 Directors, College House Fellows and House Deans 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 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 |
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Rhina Duquela, |
House Director |
Social justice advocacy & inclusiveness education |
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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 |
| Krystal Strong, College House Fellow |
Assistant Professor, Literacy, Culture, and International Education/ GSE | Formal and non-institutional educational processes; politics and activism; new and social medias in the cultural and political practices of youth in Africa and the African Diaspora |
Fisher Hassenfeld College House |
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Betsy Rymes, |
Associate Professor, Linguistics / GSE |
Linguistic anthropology of education; Language socialization; Multilingualism and TESOL; Youth culture, mass media, and schooling |
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Ebonish Lamar, |
House Director |
Curriculum development, Living and Learning Communities, Social Justice programming/training, University Residential Life operations, First Year transition seminars, Assessment, Program development, Graduate Student professional development, Advising |
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Paul Axelsen, |
Professor, Pharmacology / School of Medicine |
Protein lipid interactions, especially membrane-mediated protein folding and amyloidogenesis; optical spectroscopy, especially infrared, fluorescence, and internal reflection spectroscopy |
| Amalia Dache, College House Fellow |
Assistant Professor, Higher Education Division / GSE | Postcolonial geographic contexts of higher education; Afro-Latina/o/x studies; community and student resistance; college-access experiences of African diasporic students and communities |
Gregory College House |
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Lisa Lewis, |
Associate Professor of Nursing and Africana Studies/ Department of Family and Community Health/ School of Nursing; CHAS Faculty Director
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Reducing racial disparities in blood pressure control; investigating determinants of medication adherence in hypertensive Blacks; developing and testing community-based interventions targeted at improving the behavioral management of hypertension for urban Blacks |
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Lance Wahlert, |
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine; Director, Master of Bioethics Program; Director, Project on Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender Identity; Core Faculty, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Penn; PSOM Faculty Adviser, Minor in Bioethics (SAS) |
Medical Humanities; Bioethics; Queer Studies; English and Irish Literature; History of Medicine; Cinema Studies; LGBTQ health policy |
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Jamiella Brooks, |
Associate Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning | Sociolinguistics; language and power; discourse analysis; anticolonial pedagogies |
Harnwell College House |
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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 |
| Viraj Patel, House Director |
House Director | Social justice advocacy, leadership, Asian American and Pacific Islander community needs and concerns, dialogue facilitation, higher education, civic engagement and activism |
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Adriana Perez, |
Assistant Professor, Nursing |
Cardiovascular health promotion among older diverse populations; culturally-relevant wellness motivation; promotion of healthy aging via sustainable community programs |
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Ivanco Talevski, |
Senior Lecturer, Drawing and Painting / SAS |
Examples of Mr. Talevski's work can been viewed at http://www.ivancotalevski.com/. |
Harrison College House |
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Deven Patel, |
Associate Professor, Religious Studies & South Asia Studies; Undergraduate Chair, South Asia Studies |
Sanskrit language and literature (belles-lettres, epics, and drama); traditions of South Asian grammar and linguistics; the history, aesthetics, and reception of Indian literatures; Indian philosophy and intellectual history; Pali, Prakrit, Hindi and Gujarati language and literature; translation theory |
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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 |
| Mona Merling, College House Fellow |
Assistant Professor, Department of Math | Algebraic K-theory, its applications to number theory and manifold theory, and equivariant stable homotopy theory |
Hill College House |
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Julie Sochalski, |
Associate Professor, Research Faculty, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research / Nursing; Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics |
Variation in patient outcomes and the factors associated with nursing care; impact of nurse-managed comprehensive geriatric outpatient with frail elders |
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Fayyaz Vellani, |
Lecturer in Critical Writing, |
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" |
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Elizabeth Scheyder, |
Lecturer in Critical Writing; Instructional Technology Project Leader, |
Improving instructional technologies |
Kings Court English College House |
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| Victor Preciado, Faculty Director |
Associate Professor and Graduate Chair, Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) / SEAS | Modeling, analysis and optimization of dynamical processes and strategic interactions in large-scale complex networks |
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Jorge Santiago-Aviles, |
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. Electrical Energy Storage Devices, Pseudo-capacitors, Redox electrochemical characterization |
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Rose Malague, |
Senior Lecturer, Theatre Arts / SAS |
Specializations in American theatre and performance, acting theory and pedagogy, women and theatre |
| M'hamed Krimo Bokreta, House Director |
Lecturer, Geology / SAS | Mineralogy; Environment and Technology; Student Learning and Leadership; Advisor to PennScience Journal of Undergraduate Research |
Lauder College House |
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| Campbell A. Grey, Faculty Director |
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 |
| Trina N. Sokoloski, House Director |
House Director | Restorative practices; Residential community development, student engagement, leadership development, staff training |
| Bridgette Brawner, College House Fellow |
Assistant Professor of Nursing | Health disparities in underprivileged communities; family and community health |
| Jennifer Ponce de Léon, College House Fellow |
Assistant Professor, Department of English; Faculty in Latin American and Latino Studies; Affiliated Faculty in Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies and in Cinema Studies; member of the Graduate Group in Comparative Literature | Transnational Latina/o/x and Latin American studies; contemporary art, literature and performance in the Americas; aesthetics; and social theory, including anticolonial and postcolonial thought and the study of social movements; Latinx and Latin American cultural production; Marxist cultural studies; postcolonial and decolonial theory; critical development studies |
Riepe College House |
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Ralph Rosen, |
Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Classical Studies |
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 |
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Sebastián Gil-Riaño, |
Assistant Professor, History and Sociology of Science / SAS |
20th century history of scientific racial conceptions with a regional focus on Latin America and the Global South |
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Amy Stornaiuolo, |
Associate Professor, Literacy, Culture and International Education / GSE |
Literacy and learning in adolescence and adulthood; digital literacies; writing; teachers, youth, and social media; education in global contexts |
Rodin College House |
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Daniel Gillion, |
Presidential Associate Professor, Political Science/ SAS; Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar, Harvard University 2012-2014 |
Racial and ethnic politics, political behavior, public opinion, and the American presidency |
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Kathryn McDonald |
House Director |
Residential life, training and development, student leadership and supervision, college teaching, facilitation |
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Mauro Calcagno, |
Associate Professor of Music / SAS |
Musical dramaturgy and theatricality, performance studies, digital humanities, Baroque opera, the madrigal |
| Jamuna Samuel, College House Fellow |
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Music / SAS | Italian art music of the twentieth century |
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Ariana Chao, |
Assistant Professor of Nursing |
Eating and weight disorders; behavioral, pharmacological, and metabolic/surgical treatment of obesity and binge eating disorder |
Stouffer College House |
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Phil Nichols, |
Joseph Kolodny Professor of Social Responsibility in Business and Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics / Wharton |
Corruption; economic and social development in emerging economies; international institutions, particularly trade |
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Rahul Mukherjee, |
Dick Wolf Assistant Professor of Television and New Media Studies / SAS |
Media, politics and technology; cultural studies; media theory |
| Kellie Jurado, College House Fellow |
Presidential Assistant Professor of Microbiology / Perelman School of Medicine | Disease pathenogenesis of emerging viruses; immunology |
Ware College House |
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Mark Liberman, |
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 |
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Carol Muller, |
Professor of Music / SAS |
South African music; music, gender and religious studies; migration and diaspora studies; critical ethnography |
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Helen Davies, |
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 |