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
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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
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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