Penn Professor Camille Z. Charles Named Straus Institute Fellow

Camille Z. Charles , professor of sociology and Africana studies in the School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania , has been named as a 2013-14 Fellow by the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice at New York University. Each year, the Institute brings Fellows from around the world to facilitate high level research and scholarship on topics falling within a broad definition of law and justice. This year, the fellows will address the topic "Racial, Ethnic and Economic Segregation." Charles, who also holds a secondary appointment in Penn's Graduate School of Education , is the author of numerous publications and books, including Won't You Be My Neighbor : Race, Class and Residence in Los Angeles and The Source of the River : The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities . Her research interests are in urban inequality, racial attitudes and intergroup relations, racial residential segregation, minorities in higher education and racial identity. She is a member of the editorial boards of the American Sociological Review and the Du Bois Review : Social Science Research on Race and a past chair of the Penn Faculty Senate. During her fellowship, Charles will complete a book-length manuscript on the diversity of black students at selective colleges and universities in the United States. She will also work to develop a longer-term project that explores racial inequality in Philadelphia, modeled theoretically and methodologically after W.E.B.