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Affiliated PhD Student

Tayeba Batool

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Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology

About

Tayeba Batool is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation research focuses on the urban and political ecologies of Miyawaki urban forests in Islamabad, Pakistan, by examining the impacts and transformations of a transnational ecological method on local practices, politics, knowledges, and experiences of greening in a postcolonial planned city. She employs participant and institutional ethnography as well multi-modal methods and spatial mapping in her analysis of how the Miyawaki urban forests are discoursed and adapted towards urban climatic resilience, landscape management, or spatial affect and aesthetic. Her preliminary dissertation work piloted methods to study tree care and practices in arboretums and urban spaces, as well as how landscapes shape forest imaginaries, and was supported by the Humanities, Urbanism, and Design Initiative, and Center for Experimental Ethnography at Penn. Tayeba holds a MA in International Affairs from American University, Washington DC. Her master's thesis investigated the politics of conservation, urban heritage, and community identity in the Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan. Prior to her time at Penn, she worked on international development projects in Pakistan that facilitated institutional capacity building, gender equity in economic participation, and private-public sector collaboration.

Affiliated PhD Student

Stephanie Gibson

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PhD Candidate in the History of Art Department

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Areas of Interest

    About

    Stephanie Gibson is an art/architectural historian and cultural critic interested in the ways in which groups and societies construct their monumental landscape. She holds a BA magna cum laude from Emory University and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation looks at monuments of the Black Atlantic to examine the varied ways architects and other designers have responded to the large and important challenges of representing and repairing the trauma and loss suffered by these communities. Her work provides a theoretical framework, rooted in Black memory studies, for understanding the methods and techniques that are utilized in the creation of new monuments that memorialize trauma and pain in an effort to correct the historical record. 

    She has presented her work at conferences including the 5th Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, The Art of Passage: Transnational Encounters and the Convergence of Cultures at the University of Toronto and the 2021 Bermuda Cultural Stakeholder Conference. Her paper “The Same but not Quite: An Exploration of the Mythology and Mimicry of the Bermudian Gombey Costume” was published in the peer-reviewed University of Toronto art journal, The Wollesen.

    Affiliated PhD Student

    Jane Abell

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    Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

    About

    Jane Lief Abell is a thirdyear doctoral student in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores Islam in the United States, with a particular focus on how race and religion inform relations among “native” and immigrant Muslim groups. Currently, she is working with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, an Arabic language and arts organization based in West Philly, and conducting fieldwork in Northeast Philadelphia. Prior to entering graduate school, Jane held several research and editorial positions at the Center for Middle East Studies at Harvard University; Harvard Divinity School; the Berkman Center for Internet & Society; the Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights; and Law People Management, LLC. Jane holds a BA with High Honors in Sociology & Anthropology and Islamic Studies from Swarthmore College. 

    Faculty Fellow

    David Barnes

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    Director of Health and Societies Major and Associate Professor

    About

    David Barnes is an Associate Professor and Director of the Health and Societies Major in the Department of History and Sociology of Science in the School of Arts and Sciences, where he teaches the history of medicine and public health. Prior to joining Penn, Barnes taught for a year at the Institute for Liberal Arts at Emory University and for seven years in the History of Science Department at Harvard University. His current research is concentrated on the history of infectious disease, epidemiology, and public health; nineteenth-century urban European social and cultural history; and the politics of international disease control programs. He has a forthcoming book on the history of the Lazaretto Quarantine Station, located outside of Philadelphia.

    Selected Publications

    Barnes, David. 2014. “Cargo, ‘Infection,’ Cargo, and the Logic of Quarantine in the Nineteenth Century.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 88(1).

    Barnes, David. 2010. “Targeting Patient Zero.” In Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease, 49-71, edited by Flurin Condrau and Michael Worboys.  Montreal, QC and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

    Barnes, David. 2006. The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

    Barnes, David. 2002. “Scents and Sensibilities: Disgust and the Meanings of Odors in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris.” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques 28: 21-49.

    Barnes, David. 1 995. The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France. University of California Press.

    Faculty Fellow

    Jere Behrman

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    William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics

    About

    Jere R. Behrman is W.R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics and Sociology in the School of Arts and Sciences. A leading international researcher in empirical microeconomics with a focus on developing economies, Behrman has been Chair of Economics, Research Associate and Director of Penn’s Population Studies Center, Associate Director of the Lauder Institute, and Associate Director of Penn’s Population Aging Research Center, among other positions in the University. He has been an investigator on over 160 research projects, including 42 National Institutes of Health (NIH) and 14 National Science Foundation (NSF) grants, and has published over 400 articles and 35 books. The unifying dimension of much of this research is to improve empirical knowledge of the determinants of and the impacts of human resources given unobserved factors such as innate health and ability, the functioning of various institutions such as households and imperfect markets, and information imperfections. 

    Selected Publications

    Behrman, Jere R., Susan W. Parker, Petra E. Todd, and Kenneth I. Wolpin. 2015. “Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers: Results from a Social Experiment in Mexican High Schools.” Journal of Political Economy 123(2): 325-64.

    Richter, Linda M., Bernadette Daelmans, Joan Lombardi, Jody Heymann, Florencia Lopez Boo, Jere R. Behrman, Chunling Lu, Jane E. Lucas, Rafael Perez-Escamilla, Tarun Dua, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Karin Stenberg, Paul Gertler, and Gary L. Darmstadt. “Investing in the Foundation of Sustainable Development: Pathways to Scale up for Early Childhood Development. 2017. “ The Lancet.

    Allen, Franklin, Jere R. Behrman, Nancy Birdsall, Shahrokh Fardoust, Dani Rodrik, Andrew Steer, and Arvind Subramanian. 2014. Towards a Better Global Economy: Policy Implications for Global Citizens in the 21st Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Almedia, Rita, Jere Behrman, and David Robalino, editors. 2012. The Right Skills for the Job? Rethinking Effective Training Policies for Workers. Washington, DC: Social Protection, Human Development Network, World Bank. 

    Affiliated PhD Student

    Michael Brinley

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    PhD Candidate, Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

    About

    Michael Brinley is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include sovie history, modern russian history, historic preservation, citizenship and urban studies. Prior to coming to Penn, he received his MA from the University of Washington and hi BA from Pepperdine University.

    Emerging Scholar

    Elizabeth Bynum

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    Project Researcher, Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation

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      About

      Elizabeth Bynum is a Project Researcher at the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation. She received a PhD in Music and Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Elizabeth conducted fieldwork at the Gnaoua and World Music Festival in Essaouira, Morocco. Through that project, she asked how festival organizers reimagine Morocco’s relationship with other regions in Africa and connect Gnaoua music to its sub-Saharan roots. In graduate school, her research interests have focused on questions of musical preservation in Mexico. Her dissertation project builds on that interest by exploring the conceptual and practical links between environmental and music/cultural conservation in Mexico City. 

      Faculty Fellow

      Camille Zubrinsky Charles

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      Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies, and Education

      Walter H. and Leonore C. Anneberg Professor in the Social Sciences

      Director, Center for Africana Studies

      About

      Camille Z. Charles is Walter H. and Leonore C. Anneberg Professor in the Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies, and Education, and Director of Center for Africana Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences. Her research interests are in the areas of urban inequality, racial attitudes and intergroup relations, racial residential segregation, minorities in higher education, and racial identity. 

      Selected Publications

      Kramer, Rory A., Brianna Remster, and Camille Z. Charles. In Press. “Black Lives and Police Tactics Matter.” Contexts, Summer: 20-25. (https://contexts.org/articles/black-lives-and-police-tactics-matter/).

      Charles, Camille Z, Rory Kramer, Kimberly Torres, Rachelle Brunn-Bevel. 2015. “Intragroup Heterogeneity and Blackness: Effects of Racial Classification, Immigrant Origins, Social Class, and Social Context on the Racial Identity of Elite College Students.” Race and Social Problems 7(4).
      Kramer, Rory, Ruth Burke, sand Camille Z. Charles. 2015. “When Change Doesn’t Matter: Racial Identity (In)consistency and Adolescent Well-being.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 1(2).

      Charles, Camille Z., Douglas S. Massey, Mary J. Fischer, and Margarita Mooney, with Brooke A. Cunningham, and Gniesha Y. Dinwiddie. 2009. Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

      Charles, Camille Zubrinsky. 2006. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Race, Class and Residence in Los Angeles. New York: Russell Sage. 

      Affiliated PhD Student

      Alisa Chiles

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      Assistant Curator, PENN Museum

      PhD candidate in the History of Art Department

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        Penn IUR Scholar

        Daniel Aldana Cohen

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        Director of the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative

        Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California

        About

        Daniel Aldana Cohen is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, where he directs the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2, and co-directs the climate + community project. He is the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green Deal (Verso 2019), which received glowing reviews in The New York Review of BooksForeign Policy, the Los Angeles Review of BooksScience for the People, and elsewhere. He works on the politics of climate change, investigating the intersections of climate change, housing, political economy, social movements, and inequalities of race and class in the United States and Brazil. As Director of (SC)2, he is leading qualitative and quantitative research projects on Whole Community Climate Mapping, green political economy, and eco-apartheid. In 2018-19, he was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He was also co-founder and co-PI of the Superstorm Research Lab, in New York City. 

        Selected Publications

        Wachsmuth, David, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Hillary Angelo. 2016. “Expand the frontiers of urban sustainability: Social equity and global impacts are missing from measures of cities’ environments friendliness.” Nature 536(7618): 391-393.

        Cohen, Daniel Aldana. 2016. “The Rationed City: The politics of water, housing, and land use in drought-parched São Paulo.” Public Culture 28(2): 261-289.

        Faculty Fellow

        John DiIulio, Jr.

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        Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society

        Faculty Director, Fox Leadership International

        About

        John DiIulio is the Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society in the Department of Political Science and Faculty Director of Penn’s Robert A. Fox Leadership Program for undergraduates. Over the last quarter-century, he has won several major academic and teaching awards including the 2010 Ira Abrams Memorial Award and the 2010 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. He has also chaired his academic association’s standing committee on professional ethics. Outside academic life, he has developed programs to mentor the children of prisoners, provide literacy training in low-income communities, reduce homicides in high-crime police districts, and support inner-city Catholic schools that serve low-income children. He has been a Research Center Director at the Brookings Institution, the Manhattan Institute, and Public/Private Ventures. During his academic leave in 2001-2002, he served as first Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. He is the author, co-author, and editor of over a dozen books and several hundred articles.

        Selected Publications

        DiIulio, John. 2014. Bring Back the Bureaucrats. Templeton Press. 

        DiIulio, John, James Q. Wilson, and Meena Bose. American Government: Institutions and Policies, 14th edition. Wadsworth-Cengage.

        DiIulio, John. 2007. Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint for America’s Faith-Based Future. University of California Press.

        Fellow

        Ira Goldstein

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        President, Policy Solutions, Reinvestment Fund

        About

        Ira Goldstein, Ph.D., is the President of Policy Solutions at Reinvestment Fund, a results-oriented, socially responsible community investment group. Since 1999 when he joined Reinvestment Fund, Dr. Goldstein has conducted detailed spatial and statistical analyses in many cities and regions across the US. Those studies are used by local government to craft policy responses and allocate scarce resources based on assessment of the local real estate market conditions. He also has conducted studies of evictions, mortgage foreclosures and abusive lending practices and developed a novel approach to measuring actionable gaps in a community’s childcare environment. His work supported civil rights and consumer protection cases brought by federal, state and local governments. Before joining Reinvestment Fund, Dr. Goldstein served as mid-Atlantic Director of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity for the US Department of HUD.

        For more than 30 years, Dr. Goldstein has been a Lecturer for the University of Pennsylvania’s Urban Studies program. He instructs undergraduates and graduate students in research methods, statistics, and housing policy.

        Selected Publications

        Maybe it Really Does Take A Village: Supporting the creation of high-quality unsubsidized affordable rental housing in legacy cities with Emily Dowdall, Jacob Rosch and Kevin Reeves

        Evictions in Philadelphia with Al Parker and Rhea Acuna

        Demographics and Characteristics of Middle Neighborhoods in Select Legacy Cities with William Schrecker and Jacob Rosch. In Brophy, Paul C. (ed). 2016. On the Edge: America’s middle neighborhoods. NY: The American Assembly

        Making Sense of Markets: Using Data to Guide Reinvestment Strategies. In Federal Reserve Bank of SF & the Urban Institute (eds). 2014. What Counts: Harnessing data for America’s communities.

        Lost Values: A Study of Predatory Lending in Philadelphia. 2007. Philadelphia: Reinvestment Fund.

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