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Race & Ethnicity

Race & Ethnicity

How do people with various racial and ethnic identities experience the world? What unique challenges do people of color and immigrants face? Scholars at Annenberg study the ways racism and xenophobia shape our world and how impacted individuals are navigating systems of oppression and fighting for equity.

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Race & Ethnicity

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News

What Can Mainstream Journalism Learn From Prison Journalism?

In their study of the prison publication News Inside, Annenberg Professor Sarah J. Jackson and doctoral candidate Liz Hallgren find lessons for mainstream news.

Azsaneé Truss

Research

13 May 2025

Art and Academia — Making Meaning Beyond Words

Staci L. Jones

Research

12 May 2025

Collaborating With Southern Black Grandmothers to Reimagine Scholarship

Research

15 Jan 2025

Writers of Color Are Leaving the Journalism Industry for Substack. Is It Better There?

A cell phone showing TikTok videos of Kamala Harris sits on a wooden table

Research

13 Sep 2024

Race, Gender, and the Appeal to Youth in the Harris Campaign

Faculty

Murali Balaji, Ph.D.

Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program

Deen Freelon, Ph.D.

Presidential Professor

Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Communication

Nelanthi Hewa, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Collaborative Communication

Daniel J. Hopkins, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences

Zehra Husain, Ph.D.

Research Affiliate, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

John L. Jackson, Jr., Ph.D.

Penn Provost

Sarah J. Jackson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Benjamin Todd Jealous

Professor of Practice, University of Pennsylvania

John B. Jemmott III, Ph.D.

Kenneth B. Clark Professor of Communication and Psychiatry

DeMarcus A. Jenkins, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, School of Social Policy and Practice

Ennuri Jo, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

Jasmine E. Johnson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, School of Arts and Sciences

Lucy March, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on Digital Culture and Society

Siva Mathiyazhagan, Ph.D., M.S.W.

Co-Director, SAFELab

Desmond Upton Patton, M.S.W., Ph.D.

Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) University Professor and Waldo E. Johnson, Jr. Professor of Communication

Julian Quiros, Ph.D.

Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow

Minjae Seo, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg Public Policy Center and Social Action Lab

Tukufu Zuberi, Ph.D.

Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, School of Arts and Sciences

Graduate Students

Kinjal Dave

Doctoral Candidate

Cienna Davis

Doctoral Student

Christiana Dillard

Doctoral Candidate

Staci Jones, Ph.D.

Upcoming Graduate

Thomonique Moore

Doctoral Student

Adetobi Moses

Doctoral Student

Cameron Moy

Doctoral Student

Yingchuan Qu

Doctoral Candidate

Farrah Rahaman

Doctoral Candidate

Lucila Rozas

Doctoral Candidate

Mariela Morales Suárez, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Melissa B. Skolnick-Noguera, Ph.D.

Upcoming Graduate

Taylor L. Smith

Doctoral Student

Silvia Téliz

Doctoral Candidate