Tukufu Zuberi, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology and the
Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations
Director, Center for Africana Studies

Professor Tukufu Zuberi Office: 246 McNeil Building
3718 Locust Walk
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Telephone: (215) 573-5169
Fax: (215) 573-2081
Email: tukufu@pop.upenn.edu
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Alternate Website(s):
Center for Africana Studies
The African Census Analysis Project
http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/

Education:

1984-1989  University of Chicago, Ph.D. in Sociology

1982-1985  California State University, at Sacramento, M.A. in Sociology

1977-1981  San Jose State University , B.A. with distinction in Sociology

Research:

  • Mortality in Africa
  • Interracial Contact and Social Status
  • South African Migration System
  • Population and Health
  • Sociology
  • Population studies
  • Africana studies

Selected Publications:

Tukufu Zuberi and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (editors), White Logic, White Methods (New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., forthcoming 2008).

Tukufu Zuberi, “Ageing in Africa,” The Sixteenth annual Celebration of the International Day of Older Persons: Improving the Quality of Life for Older Persons: Advancing UN Global Strategies (New York: NGO Committee on Ageing, United Nations, 2006)

Tukufu Zuberi, “Sociology and the African Diaspora Experience,” Lewis Gordon and J. Gordon (editors) A Companion to African American Studies, ( New York: Blackwell Publishers, 2006)

Tukufu Zuberi, Amson Sibanda and Eric Udjo (editors), The Demography of South Africa, Volume 1 of the General Demography of Africa series, General Editor Tukufu Zuberi (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2005).

Ayaga A. Bawah and Tukufu Zuberi, “Socioeconomic Status and Child Survival in Southern Africa”, Genus Vol. LXI, No. 2: 2005.

Tukufu Zuberi and Amson Sibanda, “How Do Migrants Fare In A Post-Apartheid South African Labor Market?" International Migration Review, 2004, vol. 38, Number 4

Tukufu Zuberi , Thicker Than Blood: An Essay on how Racial Statistics Lie (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press , hardcover 2001, paper back 2003)

Antonio McDaniel, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth-Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995)

 

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