Affiliates

Daniel Gillion is the Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt Presidential Associate Professor of Political Science.  Gillion completed his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester, where he was the distinguished Provost Fellow.  He has been a Ford Foundation Fellow and Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar, a CSDP Research Scholar at Princeton and most recently an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for 2018-2020.  His research interests focus on racial and ethnic politics, political behavior, political institutions, public policy and the American presidency.

Lance Freeman is the Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor of City and Regional Planning and Sociology. Neighborhoods are what fascinates him and motivates his research. He studies how neighborhoods change and evolve over time, the role neighborhoods play in people’s lives, and he is exploring how we can use social media and other new technologies as tools to study neighborhoods. His study of neighborhoods is motivated by an aim to learn how we can use this knowledge to plan and build better and more equitable places.

Tulia Falleti is the Class of 1965 Term Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program, and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. She is the author of Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America and, with Santiago Cunial, of Participation in Social Policy.  She is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism, and Latin America Since the Left Turn.

Camille Z. Charles is Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies and Education and Director of the Center for Africana Studies.

Fernando Chang-Muy is the Thomas O’Boyle Lecturer in Law. He also teaches courses at the Fels Institute and the Graduate School of Social Policy and Practice on topics such as US Immigration Law, International Human Rights and Refugee Law, and Non Profit Leadership. He is author of numerous articles on diverse topics dealing with immigration & refugees, public health and management, and is co-editor of the text Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees.

Courtney Boen is an Assistant Professor and Axilrod Faculty Fellow in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate Group in Demography. Dr. Boen’s research focuses primarily on the social determinants of population health inequality, with particular attention to the social factors producing racial-ethnic, immigrant-native, and socioeconomic health inequities. Currently, Dr.

 Domenic Vitiello is Associate Professor of City Planning and Urban Studies. He teaches The Immigrant City for undergraduates and Migration and Development for graduate students.  His recent research has focused on the destruction and preservation of Chinatowns in the United States and Canada; migrant-led transnational development in the U.S., Mexico, and West Africa; and migrant communities’ engagement in urban agriculture around the world.  His most recent book is an edited volume with Tom Sugrue, Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States.