Faculty

As one of the strongest interdisciplinary Urban Studies programs in the country, we draw on faculty both from other departments and schools at the University of Pennsylvania as well as from practicing professionals in Philadelphia and beyond. The Urban Studies faculty has great breadth and depth of knowledge and expertise. A complete list of current faculty can be found in this directory.

Standing Faculty

Eugenie Birch City and Regional Planning elbirch@pobox.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Lauris Olson Librarian & Coordinator of Social Sciences Collections olson@pobox.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Brent Cebul Assistant Professor of History bcebul@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Dennis Culhane School of Social Policy and Practice culhane@mail.med.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
John Fantuzzo Penn Child Research Center Director/ Education Policy Graduate School of Education johnf@gse.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
David Grazian Professor of Sociology and Communication / Faculty Director of Urban Studies dgrazian@ssc.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Kathleen Hall Graduate School of Education kdhall@gse.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Amy Hillier City and Regional Planning ahillier@design.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Francis E. Johnston Professor Emeritus of Anthropology fjohnsto@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
John Keene Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning keenej@pobox.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Janice Madden Professor of Regional Science, Sociology, Urban Studies, and Real Estate madden@ssc.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Lisa Mitchell Associate Professor and Director South Asia Center lmitch@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
John Puckett Graduate School of Education johnp@gse.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Adolph Reed Professor Political Science reedal@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Mark Stern School of Social Policy and Practice stern@sp2.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Domenic Vitiello City and Regional Planning vitiello@design.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Richard Zettler Department Chair Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations/ Associate Professor rzettler@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage

Lecturers

Doug Bauer The Clark Foundation dbauer@clarkest.com(link sends email) Homepage
James Becker The City School at Spruce Hill jab.phila@gmail.com(link sends email)
Ariel Ben-Amos City of Philadelphia arielba@design.upenn.edu(link sends email)
Richard Berman Urban Studies/Environmental Studies rwberman@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Daniel Biddle The Philadelphia Inquirer danbidd@gmail.com(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Karen Black May 8 Consulting, Inc. kblack@may8consulting.com(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Amy Laura Cahn Conservation Law Foundation alcahn@icloud.com(link sends email) Homepage
Michael Clapper Science Leadership Academy michael.clapper@gmail.com(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Donna Cooper Children First Homepage(link is external)
Marisa Denker Connect the Dots mdenker@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Chandan Deuskar Penn Design cdeuskar@upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Robert Fairbanks Urban Studies Program rfairban@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email)
Paul Farber Senior Research Scholar, Weitzman School of Design paulfarber@gmail.com(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Sabriya Fisher Penn Linguistics sabriya@ling.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Alison Gerig Women's Therapy Center AlisonEGerig@aol.com(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Alec Gershberg Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Urban Studies / Senior Fellow International Educational Development Program, Penn GSE alecian@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Howard Gillette Rutgers Camden hfg@camden.rutgers.edu(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Jane Golden Heriza Philadelphia Mural Arts Program jane.golden@phila.gov(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Greg Goldman Executive Director of Audobon Pennsylvania gregh@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email)
Ira Goldstein Reinvestment Fund ira.goldstein@trfund.com(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Elizabeth Greenspan Penn School of Design llgreens@design.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Nora Gross Penn Sociology & GSE ngross@gse.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Ira Harkavy Netter Center for Community Partnership harkavy@pobox.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Theodore Hershberg The Center for Greater Philadelphia tedhersh@pobox.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Nina Johnson Swarthmore College ninajohnson2010@u.northwestern.edu(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
John Kromer Fels Institute of Government jkromer@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Andrew Lamas Urban Studies Program / SP2 atlamas@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Molly McGlone Assistant Dean for Advising, Professor Music and Urban Studies mmcglone@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Julia A McWilliams Co-Director mcjulia@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Michael Nairn Urban Studies Program mpnairn@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email)
Corinne Packard Beasley NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate Cpackard@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
W.D. Palmer The Palmer Foundation thewdpalmerfoundation@gmail.com(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Brian Peterson Africana Studies/Makuu/Urban Studies peterson@upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage
Andrew Rachlin Reinvestment Fund andy.rachlin@gmail.com(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Mary Rocco City and Regonal Planning mrocc@design.upenn.edu(link sends email)
Casey Ross City Planning caross@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Daniel Rubin The Philadelphia Inquirer drubin@phillynews.com(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Joan Saverino Urban Studies Program saverino@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Elaine Simon Past Director of the Urban Studies Program esimon@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email)
R. Tyson Smith Urban Studies, Sociology tysonsm@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email)
Symme Trachtenberg SP2, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia trachtenberg@email.chop.edu(link sends email) Homepage(link is external)
Fay Walker Upenn School of Design walkerf@design.upenn.edu(link sends email)
Marva Williams Urban Studies Program marvel@sas.upenn.edu(link sends email)