Provost Wendell Pritchett and Vice Provost for Faculty Anita Allen are pleased to announce the appointment of the twelfth 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.

Faizan Alawi, associate professor of pathology and associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Dental Medicine, teaches oral and maxillofacial pathology, provides quality care to patients, and serves as director of Penn Oral Pathology Services. 

Montserrat C. Anguera, associate professor of biomedical sciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine, focuses her research on how female lymphocytes maintain X-chromosome inactivation, an epigenetic process responsible for equalizing gene expression between sexes.

E. Cabrina Campbell, professor and vice chair for education in the department of psychiatry in the Perelman School of Medicine, has expertise in the management of patients who have severe mental illnesses and serves as the director of residency training for the department of psychiatry.

J. Margo Brooks Carthon, associate professor in the School of Nursing and senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, focuses her research and teaching on the issues of marginalization and inequities in health care.

Margo Crawford, professor of English, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor for Faculty Excellence and director of the Center for Africana Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences, specializes in 20th and 21st-century African American literature, cultural movements, and visual art. She studies radical Black imaginations and the global dimensions of Black aesthetics.

Karen Detlefsen, professor of philosophy and education in the School of Arts and Sciences, focuses her research on early modern philosophy including the history of philosophy of science, the history and philosophy of education, and women in the history of philosophy.

Sandra González-Bailón, associate professor in the Annenberg School for Communication, analyzes the sometimes productive and sometimes problematic ways in which big data/data science and the functionality of various network structures are mobilized to solve vexing problems, emphasizing the inextricable links between data science and social science and between computer code and cultural practice.

Sharon Hayes, professor of fine arts in the Weitzman School of Design, works on developing new representational strategies that examine and interrogate the present political moment as a moment that reaches simultaneously backward and forward, while often addressing political events or movements from the 1960s through the 1990s.

Cait Lamberton, Alberto I. Duran President’s Distinguished Professor in the department of marketing in the Wharton School, researches consumer decision-making, financial decision-making, and work that impacts critical policy issues of importance to higher education, such as student applications for financial aid.

Zachary F. Meisel, associate professor of emergency medicine and director of the Center for Emergency Care Policy and Research in the Perelman School of Medicine, researches prescription drug overdose, guideline adherence, opioid use disorder, patient safety, emergency medical services and patient-centered comparative effectiveness.

Alain Plante, professor and undergraduate chair of earth and environmental science in the School of Arts and Sciences and faculty director of the University Scholars Program, researches soil science, ecosystem ecology and environmental science global change, with a focus on terrestrial carbon biogeochemistry.

Timothy Rommen, Davidson Kennedy Professor and chair in the department of music in the School of Arts and Sciences, focuses on coloniality/decoloniality, the political economy of music and sound, Creole musical formations, tourism, diaspora, music and spirituality and the ethics of intellectual history of ethnomusicology.

Sunny Shin, associate professor of microbiology in the Perelman School of Medicine, focuses on uncovering innate immune mechanisms used by host cells to defend themselves against bacterial pathogens and how bacterial pathogens evade host immunity to cause disease.

Quayshawn Spencer, Robert S. Blank Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Arts and Sciences, specializes in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology and the philosophy of race.

Melissa Wilde, associate professor in sociology in the School of Arts and Sciences, focuses on the ways in which religious institutions respond to social, cultural and demographic change.