Hardeep Dhillon is Assistant Professor in Asian American History and core faculty in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Dhillon’s research focuses on the history of immigration to the United States, and the laws and legal practices that shape immigrant lives. Professor Dhillon’s current book project, tentatively titled America’s Modern Immigrant Family, studies the legal construction of the mixed-status family.
Chris A. Chambers is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. His research and teaching interests span the history of political thought and political economy; twentieth-century Continental philosophy (especially existentialism, phenomenology, and critical theory); Black social and political thought; and representations of philosophy and politics in literature and film.
Osman Balkan is Associate Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science. His research focuses on the politics of migration, race, and collective memory in Europe and the Middle East.
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.
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.