Tahseen Shams is a sociologist of international migration and race/ethnicity at University of Pennsylvania. She studies how migration and global inequalities affect immigrants, particularly those from Muslim-majority countries in the West.
Amanda Pinheiro is an interdisciplinary scholar of the intersection of race, migration, and transnational policy. She investigates the human cost of racially charged migration deterrence policies and practices in the Americas, foregrounding race in global migration research and policymaking. Her current work is a multi-country ethnography that examines how migration policies, imbued with transnational anti-Black racism, displaced Haitians throughout the Americas in the last decade.
Rogers M. Smith is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science. He is the author or co-author of many articles and seven books, including Political Peoplehood, Still a House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama’s America with Desmond S. King, Stories of Peoplehood: The Politics and Morals of Political Membership, and Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S.
Wendy D. Roth is Associate Professor of Sociology. Her research focuses on how social processes challenge racial and ethnic boundaries and transform classification systems. Her book, Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race, examines how immigration changes cultural concepts of race, not only for the migrants themselves, but also for their host society, and for the societies they left behind.
Emilio A. Parrado is the Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology. His area of specialization is social demography, with particular emphasis on international migration and family and fertility behavior. His research explores multiple dimensions of Latin American immigration and adaptation to the United States as well as demographic behavior in Latin America.
Sarah Paoletti, Practice Professor of Law, directs the Transnational Legal Clinic, the law school’s international human rights and immigration clinic. Students enrolled in the clinic represent individual and organizational clients in a myriad of cases and projects that require them to grapple with international and comparative legal norms in settings that cut across borders, legal systems, cultures, and languages.
Daniel J. Hopkins is a Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science. His research focuses on American politics, with a particular focus on political behavior, ethnic and racial politics, state and local politics, and research methods. He is the author of dozens of academic articles as well as the 2018 book, The Increasingly United States: How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized.
Michael Hanchard is a Professor in the Africana Studies Department and Director of the Marginalized Populations Project. His research and teaching interests combine a specialization in comparative politics with an interest in contemporary political theory, encompassing themes of nationalism, racism, xenophobia and citizenship.
Guy Grossman is a Professor of Political Science. His research is in applied political economy, with substantive focus on political accountability, political participation, international migration and conflict processes, and a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa and Israel-Palestine. He is a board member of the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) network and faculty affiliate of Stanford’s Immigration Policy Lab (IPL).
Roberto Gonzales is the Richard Perry University Professor and a Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor, with appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate School of Education. Professor Gonzales is also the founding director of the Penn Migration Initiative, a university-wide effort aimed at advancing and promoting interdisciplinary scholarship and intellectual exchange around issues of immigration policy and immigrant communities.