FACULTY
Amitanshu Das
Director, GSE Films and Senior Fellow PennGSE
Deborah A. Thomas
R. Jean Brownlee Term Professor of Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania
John L. Jackson, Jr.
Richard Perry University Professor and
Dean of the School of Social Policy and Practice at University of Pennsylvania
Arjun Shankar
teacher, writer, researcher, mediamaker
Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Visiting Scholar, Penn School of Social Policy & Practice
ALUMNI/CO-FOUNDERS
Corrina Laughlin
walker, reader, writer
claughlin@asc.upenn.edu
Debora Lui
media maker, teacher, researcher
deblui@gmail.com
Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan
teacher, ethnographer, filmmaker, flaneur
gdattatreyan@gmail.com
Joanna Siegel
josi@gse.upenn.edu
Mariam Durrani
feminist, ethnographer, teacher, migrant
mdurrani@gmail.com
Matthew Tarditi
empathic educollaborator, producer, ethnographer
matthew.tarditi@gmail.com
Sandra Ristovska
ethnographer, filmmaker, teacher, traveler
sristovska@asc.upenn.edu
Sofía Chaparro
Former teacher, always a student, academic filmmaker, multilingual border girl
sofichap@gmail.com
Veena Vasudevan
writer, arts/tech enthusiast, media maker
veena.vasudevan@gmail.com