Tukufu Zuberi — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations and Professor of Sociology & Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania since 1988.
Founder of his own production company, which produced the film African Independence (2013).
Host of the long-running PBS program History Detectives from 2001 to 2014.
Served as Chair of the Department of Sociology (2007-2013) and founding Director of the Center for Africana Studies (2002-2008) at the University of Pennsylvania.
Holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago (1989).

Biography

Tukufu Zuberi is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations and Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he joined the faculty in 1988. His research focuses on race and African and African diaspora populations, encompassing fields such as social statistics and population studies (demography). His work explores fundamental questions about what it means to be a human, a citizen, and a person.