PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts Named A 2024 MacArthur Fellow

PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts

PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts was named a 2024 MacArthur Fellow. Professor Roberts is a legal race scholar and public policy researcher "exposing racial inequities embedded in social service systems and uplifting the experiences of people caught up in them. Click here to learn more about her work and the MacArthur fellowship."  

Dorothy Roberts is a legal race scholar and public policy researcher focused on “exposing racial inequities embedded in social service systems and uplifting the experiences of people caught up in them.” Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School, where she is the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is also founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society.

Click here to learn more about her work and other 2024 MacArthur Fellows. The MacArthur Fellowship, an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a five-year grant to individuals who show exceptional originality in and dedication to their creative pursuits.