Provost John L. Jackson, Jr. and Vice Provost for Faculty Laura Perna have announced the appointment of the fifteenth cohort of Penn Fellows.

The Penn Fellows Program provides leadership development to select Penn faculty in mid-career. Begun in 2009, it includes opportunities to build alliances across the University, meet distinguished academic leaders, think strategically about University governance, and consult with Penn’s senior administrators.

Amalia Z. Daché, an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education, studies postcolonial geographic contexts of higher education, Afro-Latinx studies, community and student resistance, and the college-access experiences of African diasporic students and communities.

Joe Devietti, an associate professor and undergraduate curriculum chair of computer & information science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, studies computer architecture and programming languages, especially making multiprocessors easier to program by leveraging changes in both computer architectures and parallel programming models.

David Dillenberger, a professor and graduate chair of economics in the School of Arts and Sciences, studies microeconomic theory and decision theory, especially social preferences, models of non-expected utility, and the economics of risk and time.

Kristen R. Ghodsee, a professor and chair of Russian and East European studies in the School of Arts and Sciences, studies the lived experience of socialism and postsocialism, the gendered effects of the economic transition from communism to capitalism, and postcommunist nostalgia in Central and Eastern Europe.

Angela Gibney, a Presidential Professor of Mathematics in the School of Arts and Sciences, is an algebraic geometer who has obtained deep results about moduli spaces of complex curves and vertex operator algebras—core topics that arise in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, and mathematical physics.

Jeffrey Green, a professor of political science in the School of Arts and Sciences and director of the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, is a political theorist with a broad interest in democracy, ancient and modern political philosophy, and contemporary social theory.

Roy H. Hamilton, a professor of neurology in the Perelman School of Medicine, studies the characteristics and limits of functional neuroplasticity in the adult human brain, including how the brain reorganizes itself in response to injury and the brain’s potential for reorganization in order to speed rehabilitation using noninvasive electrical or magnetic brain stimulation.

Blanca E. Himes, an associate professor of biostatistics, epidemiology, and informatics in the Perelman School of Medicine, studies asthma pathogenesis and treatment using biomedical informatics approaches, including genome-wide association studies of asthma and related traits as a lead investigator and as part of large collaborations.

Taku Kambayashi, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine, studies signal transduction pathways employed by cells involved in fundamental immunological processes and in immune-related disorders, especially the mechanistic underpinnings of these processes to identify novel targets for therapeutic intervention or for diagnostic/prognostic value.

Mia Levine, an associate professor of biology in the School of Arts and Sciences, studies the biological forces that drive the evolution of chromatin proteins, which package our genomic DNA yet are wildly unconserved over evolutionary time, and the functional consequences for chromosome segregation, telomere integrity, and genome defense.

Sarah E. Light, a professor of legal studies & business ethics in the Wharton School, works at the intersections of environmental law, corporate sustainability, and business innovation, including the ways in which laws that structure corporations and the marketplace should be considered forms of environmental law and how private actions by business firms can be forms of private environmental governance. 

Beth Linker, the Samuel H. Preston Associate Professor and chair of history and sociology of science in the School of Arts and Sciences, studies the history of science and medicine, disability, healthcare policy, and gender, including research on rehabilitation and on postural abnormalities in early 20th century America.

Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, the Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Africana Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences, studies race, gender, and politics in the Americas, including urban geography and questions of citizenship, intellectual history and disciplinary formation, and the interrelationships among scholarship, pedagogy, and political engagement.

Amy M. Sawyer, an associate professor of biobehavioral health sciences in the School of Nursing, studies health behaviors related to sleep disorders, especially the differences between adults who consistently use treatments for their sleep-disordered breathing and those who do not, the development and testing of a non-adherence risk screening index, and the design/testing of interventions to improve treatment use.

Frank Setzer, an associate professor of endodontics in the School of Dental Medicine, works on the clinical detection, prognosis, and assessment of periradicular pathology, especially apical periodontitis, CBCT imaging and artificial intelligence, and endodontic microsurgery.

Meredith Tamminga, an associate professor and graduate chair of linguistics in the School of Arts and Sciences, studies the ways in which social, temporal, and spatial patterns of linguistic variation reflect the underlying structure of the human capacity for language, using experimental psycholinguistic methods, computational modeling, and the quantitative analysis of natural speech data to learn how speakers store and produce linguistic variables.