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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 Dean |
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 |
| 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 |
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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 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 |
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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 |
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Nadine Gabbadon, |
Assistant Dean for Advising / The College |
Advertising, mass media industries, and the social and industrial construction of age |
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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Christopher Donovan, |
Lecturer, English and Cinema Studies / SAS; College House Liaison to the College |
American literature, film and film criticism |
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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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Katie Barott, |
Assistant Professor of Biology, Department of Biology/ SAS |
Ecology and Biodiversity; Microbiology; Neurobiology, Behavior, and Physiology; |
| Byron Sherwood, College House Fellow |
Senior Fellow, Department of Biology / SAS | Oceanography; Microbial ecology; Microbiology |
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 Dean |
House Dean | 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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Michael Gamer, |
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. |
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Frank Pellicone, |
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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
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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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Deona Hatley, |
House Dean |
Advising and mentoring; athletics; First-Year experience; Fraternity and Sorority life; multicultural affairs; programming and event management; residential life; student conduct |
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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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Krystal Strong, |
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 |
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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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M'hamed Krimo Bokreta, |
Lecturer, Geology / SAS |
Mineralogy; Environment and Technology; Student Learning and Leadership; Advisor to PennScience Journal of Undergraduate Research |
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Rose Malague, |
Senior Lecturer, Theatre Arts / SAS |
Specializations in American theatre and performance, acting theory and pedagogy, women and theatre |
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Victor Preciado, |
Raj and Neera Singh Term Assistant Professor, |
Modeling, analysis and optimization of dynamical processes and strategic interactions in large-scale complex networks |
New 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 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 |
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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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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 |
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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 Dean |
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 |
| 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 |
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Jamuna Samuels, |
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Music / SAS |
Italian art music of the twentieth century |
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Megan Robb, |
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 |
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Phil Nichols, |
Associate Professor, Legal Studies and Business Ethics / Wharton |
Corruption; economic and social development in emerging economies; international institutions, particularly trade |
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Nadir Sharif, |
House Dean |
Multicultural and international student affairs, identity development in college student populations, affinity-based community development |
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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 |
| 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 |
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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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Amanda Atkinson, |
House Dean |
Academic advising; Community building; First-year experience |
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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 |