Dorothy Roberts

About the Author

Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Africana Studies, Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. The author of five books, including Killing the Black Body, a MacArthur Fellow, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.