College House 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 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
William Gipson, Faculty Director	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
Rhina Duquela, House Dean	House Dean	Social justice advocacy & inclusiveness education
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
Robin Stevens, College House Fellow	Assistant Professor of Nursing	Public health communication; health equity; new media and technology; sexual health and substance use among youth of color
Fisher Hassenfeld College House
Betsy Rymes, Faculty Director	Associate Professor, Linguistics / GSE	Linguistic anthropology of education; Language socialization; Multilingualism and TESOL; Youth culture, mass media, and schooling
Ebonish Lamar, House Dean	House Dean	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
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
Nadine Gabbadon, College House Fellow	Assistant Dean for Advising / The College	Advertising, mass media industries, and the social and industrial construction of age
Gregory College House
Lisa Lewis, Faculty Director	Associate Professor of Nursing and Africana Studies/ Department of Family and Community Health/ School of Nursing; CHAS Faculty Director	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
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	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
Katie Barott, College House Fellow	Assistant Professor of Biology, Department of Biology/ SAS	Ecology and Biodiversity; Microbiology; Neurobiology, Behavior, and Physiology; Cell and Developmental Biology; Genetics, Epigenetics, Genomics
Byron Sherwood, College House Fellow	Senior Fellow, Department of Biology / SAS	Oceanography; Microbial ecology; Microbiology
Harnwell College House
Kent Bream, Faculty Director	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
Adriana Perez, College House Fellow	Assistant Professor, Nursing	Cardiovascular health promotion among older diverse populations; culturally-relevant wellness motivation; promotion of healthy aging via sustainable community programs
Ivanco Talevski, College House Fellow	Senior Lecturer, Drawing and Painting / SAS	Examples of Mr. Talevski's work can been viewed at http://www.ivancotalevski.com/.
Harrison College House
Michael Gamer, Faculty Director	Professor of English / SAS	Literature, Business, Art, Politics, Film, Law, and Theater. Teaches classes primarily in British literature, including “Jane Austen and Adaptation,” “Romantic Revolutions,” “The Gothic," “The Romantic Book,” and “Novel and Romance.” These courses tend to read literature in its original context, and ask students to combine economic and tactical thinking — about things like censorship, copyright, sales, and reviewers — with more traditional literary analyses. Additional interests in investment banking, Italian culture, hiking, travel, and all-things London.
Frank Pellicone, House Dean	Lecturer, Department of Italian, Cinema Studies, and English; CURF Fellowship Advisor; Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) team member	Italian Language and Literature; Medieval and Renaissance Literature; Italian/American Studies; Cinema Studies; Nonprofit Administration
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
Deven Patel, College House Fellow	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
Hill College House
Julie Sochalski, Faculty Director	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
Deona Hatley, House Dean	House Dean	Advising and mentoring; athletics; First-Year experience; Fraternity and Sorority life; multicultural affairs; programming and event management; residential life; student conduct
Fayyaz Vellani, College House Fellow	Lecturer in Critical Writing, 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"
Krystal Strong, College House Fellow	Assistant Professor, Education, Culture and Society / GSE	Anthropology of education and politics, youth activism and cultural practices, Africa and the African diaspora, new media and popular culture
Kings Court English College House
Jorge Santiago-Aviles, Faculty Director	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
M'hamed Krimo Bokreta, House Dean	Lecturer, Geology / SAS	Mineralogy; Environment and Technology; Student Learning and Leadership; Advisor to PennScience Journal of Undergraduate Research
Rose Malague, College House Fellow	Senior Lecturer, Theatre Arts / SAS	Specializations in American theatre and performance, acting theory and pedagogy, women and theatre
Victor Preciado, College House Fellow	Raj and Neera Singh Term Assistant Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering / SEAS	Modeling, analysis and optimization of dynamical processes and strategic interactions in large-scale complex networks
New College House
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 Dean	House Dean	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
Ralph Rosen, Faculty Director	Rose Family Endowed Term 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
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
Sebastián Gil-Riaño, College House Fellow	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
Amy Stornaiuolo, College House Fellow	Assistant 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
Daniel Gillion, Faculty Director	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
Kathryn McDonald House Dean	House Dean	Residential life, training and development, student leadership and supervision, college teaching, facilitation
Mauro Calcagno, College House Fellow	Associate Professor of Music / SAS	Musical dramaturgy and theatricality, performance studies, digital humanities, Baroque opera, the madrigal
Hsiao-wen Cheng, College House Fellow	Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions / SAS	Gender & Sexuality; Chinese Religions and Intellectual History; Chinese Medical History; Premodern Chinese Anecdotal Writing
Jamuna Samuels, College House Fellow	Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Music / SAS	Italian art music of the twentieth century
Megan Robb, College House Fellow	Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions, Department of Religious Studies / SAS	Gender and Religion in South Asia; history of Islam in South Asia; Hindi and Urdu Public Spheres; Modernity and Print; 19th and 20th Century Reformist Movements
Stouffer College House
Phil Nichols, Faculty Director	Associate Professor, Legal Studies and Business Ethics / Wharton	Corruption; economic and social development in emerging economies; international institutions, particularly trade
Nadir Sharif, House Dean	House Dean	Multicultural and international student affairs, identity development in college student populations, affinity-based community development
Rahul Mukherjee, College House Fellow	Dick Wolf Assistant Professor of Television and New Media Studies / SAS	Media, politics and technology; cultural studies; media theory
Erin Cross, College House Fellow	Director, LGBT Center; Senior Fellow, Center for Global Women's Health / Nursing; Affiliated Faculty, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program / SAS	Queer, gender, and learning theories in out of school contexts
Ware College House
Mark Liberman, Faculty Director	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
Amanda Atkinson, House Dean	House Dean	Academic advising; Community building; First-year experience programming; Sophomore year programming; Student judicial boards
Carol Muller, College House Fellow	Professor of Music / SAS	South African music; music, gender and religious studies; migration and diaspora studies; critical ethnography
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

W.E.B. Du Bois College House

Fisher Hassenfeld College House

Gregory College House

Harnwell College House

Harrison College House

Hill College House

Kings Court English College House

New College House

Riepe College House

Rodin College House

Stouffer College House

Ware College House