Dorothy Roberts Awarded American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology Dorothy Roberts has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship for her book project Interracial Marriage and Racial Equality in Chicago. For nearly 90 years ACLS has provided fellowships for scholars in the humanities and related social sciences. Roberts is an acclaimed scholar of race, gender, and the law who joined the University in 2012 as its 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor. Her appointment is shared between the School of Law and the Departments of Sociology and Africana Studies in Penn Arts and Sciences. She is also the founding director of Penn’s Program on Race, Science, and Society.

Roberts’ path-breaking work explains the mechanisms and consequences of racial inequities for women, children, families, and communities, and counters scientific misunderstandings about racial identity. Her major books include Fatal Intervention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-first Century; Sex, Power, and Taboo: Gender and HIV in the Caribbean and Beyond; Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare; and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty.