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Affiliated Faculty Interdisciplinary faculty affiliated with the Solomon Asch Center represent four different local colleges and universities -- Penn, Bryn Mawr College, Swarthmore College, and Drexel University -- spanning nine disciplines: psychology, political science, sociology, anthropology, history, public policy, communication, education, and medicine.
Gordon Bermant Lecturer, Benjamin Franklin Honors Program University of Pennsylvania Psychology and law, the role of judiciaries in political affairs, judicial administration, Buddhist psychology.
Director,
African Studies Center and Berry Term Professor in the Social Sciences University of Pennsylvania Co-Director, Lauder Institute of Management & Int'l. Studies Cross-regional and historical comparative politics of debt and economic reform in the Third World; historical development of states, bureaucracies, and capitalism.
Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania Long-term social and economic change, with an emphasis on the meshings and mutual embeddings of political, economic, and cultural networks and dynamics.
Annenberg Professor Emerita of Social Sciences University of Pennsylvania Sociology of medicine; Social, cultural, cross-cultural,and ethical
Helen Hamlyn Senior Fellow Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA) Survivors of violence; humanitarian intervention Paul Kaiser Associate Director, African Studies Center University of Pennsylvania Religious and ethnic conflict in sub-Saharan Africa.
Igor Kopytoff Professor of Anthropology University of Pennsylvania Cultural anthropology; Africa; history of anthropology; social structure; African religious transformations and African political culture; culture history; economic anthropology. Rob Kurzban
Associate Professor of
Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
The nature of evolved cognitive adaptations for social life, including relatively low-level processes of social categorization as well as higher-level processes including cooperative decision making, discrimination, and morality.
Ann Lesch Professor of Political Science Villanova University Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Egyptian and Sudanese politics, ethnicity and religion in politics.
Professor of Psychology Swarthmore College Psychological suffering, local conceptions of suffering and well-being; and psychosocial interventions in war-affected areas; transcultural approaches to clinical psychology; cultural-specific emotion practices (including suicide and self-harm) in Sri Lanka.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Drexel University Cultural anthropology, issues in health, family, and gender.
Professor of Political Science University of Pennsylvania Identity and history; gender; race; colonialism and post colonialism; tradition and revolution.
Albert Pepitone Emeritus Professor of Psychology University of Pennsylvania Aggression, cultural psychology.
Acting Curator-in-Charge, Asian Section, University Museum Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Pennsylvania Cultural anthropology; political anthropology; applied anthropology; Mongolia; United States of America; Latin America; anthropology of complex societies.
Luce Professor of Language Learning University of Pennsylvania Language policy and language conflict in South and
Southeast Asia, the former Soviet Union, and the United States. More
information about the Consortium for Language Policy and Planning is
available here: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp/ haroldfs at ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Assistant Professor of Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies Program Swarthmore College Northern Ireland, conflict transformation, nonviolent strategy, social movements. http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/lsmithe1/index.htm Professor of Anthropology University of Pennsylvania Middle East, South Asia,
Central Asia; Islam, globalization and conflict.
Advisor to the President and Lecturer in Philosophy and Communications University of Pennsylvania Philosophy of nationalism; public discourse, ideology, and contemporary culture and community; phenomenology, existentialism, and postmodernist thought; psychoanalysis; contemporary issues in higher education. http://www.upenn.edu/pnc/sps.html
Professor of Political Science University of Pennsylvania Middle East politics, historical comparative political economy, American expansionism, the history of international relations theory, African-American intellectual traditions.
Lauder Professor of International Relations, Department of History University of Pennsylvania China and East Asia, world military and diplomatic history.
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