Faculty Advisory Board

Photo of Faculty-Community Award Pepino Beavers Muller

Second Annual Faculty-Community Partnership Award

Dennis DeTurck (Co-Chair)
Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor and Professor of Mathematics, School of Arts & Sciences

John Jackson, Jr. (Co-Chair)
Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Richard Perry University Professor of Communication, Africana Studies, and Anthropology

Terri Lipman (Co-Chair)
Miriam Stirl Endowed Term Professor of Nutrition, Professor of Nursing of Children, and Assistant Dean for Community Engagement, School of Nursing

Regina Austin
William A. Schnader Professor of Law and Director of Penn Program on Documentaries & Law, Penn Law

Herman Beavers
Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies, School of Arts & Sciences; Faculty Director, Civic House and Civic Scholars Program

Eugenie Birch
Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education and Chair of the Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, PennDesign; Co-Director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research (PennIUR)

Ram Cnaan
Program Director for the Program for Religion and  Social Policy Research, Faculty Director of the Goldring Reentry Initiative, and Professor, School of Social Policy & Practice

Michael Delli Carpini
Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication

Karen Detlefsen
Vice Provost for Education; Professor of Philosophy, School of Arts and Sciences

Loretta Flanagan-Cato
Associate Professor of Psychology and Co-director of the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program, School of Arts & Sciences

Vivian L. Gadsden
William T. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education, Director of National Center for Fathers and Families, and Associate Director of the National Center on Adult Literacy, Graduate School of Education

Joan Gluch
Associate Dean for Academic Policies and Division Chief and Professor of Clinical Community Oral Health, Penn Dental Medicine

David Grazian
Graduate Chair and Associate Professor, Sociology, School of Arts & Sciences

Matthew Hartley
Professor of Education and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Graduate School of Education; founding Executive Director of the Penn Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy (AHEAD)

William Labov
John H. and Margaret B. Fassitt Professor of Linguistics Emeritus, School of Arts & Sciences

Mona Merling
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, School of Arts & Sciences

Carol Ann Muller
Professor of Music and Director of the Minor in Jazz and Popular Music Studies, School of Arts and Sciences

Emilio Parrado
Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology, School of Arts & Sciences; Director of the Population Studies Center

Desmond Upton Patton
Brian and Randi Schwartz University Professor; PIK University Professor; School of Social Policy & Practice, Annenberg School for Communication, Perelman School of Medicine; SAFELab Director

Laura Perna
Vice Provost for Faculty; GSE Centennial Presidential Professor of Education and Executive Director of the Penn Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy (AHEAD), Graduate School of Education

Scott Poethig
John H. and Margaret B. Fassitt Professor of Biology, School of Arts & Sciences

John L. Puckett
Professor Emeritus of Education in the Literacy, Culture, and International Education Division, Graduate School of Education

Brian Spooner 
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, School of Arts & Sciences

Andy Tan
Associate Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication; Director of the Health Communication & Equity Lab

Susan Wachter
Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance, The Wharton School; Co-Director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research (PennIUR)

Richard Wender
Professor and Chair, Family Medicine and Community Health, Perelman School of Medicine; Executive Director, Center for Public Health Initiatives, Perelman School of Medicine

Michael Zuckerman
Professor Emeritus of History, School of Arts & Sciences

Netter Center Distinguished Senior Fellows Emeritus:

William Labov

Vivianne Nachmias

Netter Center Distinguished Senior Fellow:

Dennis DeTurck

Netter Center Distinguished Fellows:

Matthew Hartley

Terri Lipman

Carol Ann Muller

John Puckett

In Memoriam

John Gearhart 

Robert F. Giegengack

Francis E. Johnston 

John C. Keene

Frederick Scatena

Albert ("Mickey") Stunkard