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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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All Race & Ethnicity News

Azsaneé Truss

News

Art and Academia — Making Meaning Beyond Words

Upcoming graduate Azsaneé Truss’s scholarship reaches people through image, sound, and story.

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

The Annenberg School at 3620 Walnut Street at dusk

News

4 Sep 2024

Professors Sarah Jackson and Desmond Patton Awarded NSF Grant To Create Cross-Institutional Program Supporting STEM Researchers From Underrepresented Backgrounds

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

Olivia González, Ph.D.

George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow

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.

Postdoctoral Fellow, 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

Malav Kanuga, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Media, Inequality and Change Center

Lucy March, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on Digital Culture and Society

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

Co-Director, SAFELab

Christopher Muhawe, J.S.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Brian and Randi Schwartz University Professor

Julian Quiros, Ph.D.

Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow

Cerianne Robertson, Ph.D.

George Gerbner 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 Student

Cienna Davis

Doctoral Student

Christiana Dillard

Doctoral Candidate

Arlene C. Fernández

Doctoral Candidate

Staci Jones, Ph.D.

Upcoming Graduate

Thomonique Moore

Doctoral Student

Adetobi Moses

Doctoral Student

Cameron Moy

Doctoral Student

Yingchuan Qu

Doctoral Student

Farrah Rahaman

Doctoral Candidate

Lucila Rozas

Doctoral Candidate

Mariela Morales Suárez

Doctoral Candidate

Melissa B. Skolnick-Noguera, Ph.D.

Upcoming Graduate

Taylor L. Smith

Doctoral Student

Silvia Téliz

Doctoral Candidate