1. Tukufu Zuberi was born on April 26,1959 and is an American sociologist, filmmaker, social critic, educator, and writer.
16 Facts About Tukufu Zuberi
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Tukufu Zuberi is one of the hosts of the long-running PBS program History Detectives.
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Tukufu Zuberi is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, professor and chair of the sociology department, and professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Tukufu Zuberi received a bachelor's degree from San Jose State in 1981, a master's degree from Sacramento State in 1985, and a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1989.
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Tukufu Zuberi has been a visiting professor at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, and the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
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Tukufu Zuberi's research focuses on race and African and African diaspora populations.
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Tukufu Zuberi has conducted research in the fields of social statistics and population studies.
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Tukufu Zuberi has been a guest lecturer at colleges and universities and on television programs.
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Professor Tukufu Zuberi is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, and Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Tukufu Zuberi curated Tides of Freedom: African Presence on the Delaware at the Independence Seaport Museum.
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Tukufu Zuberi produced and directed five interstitials for inclusion in the Tides of Freedom gallery.
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Professor Tukufu Zuberi curated the redesign of the Penn Museum Africa Gallery "AFRICA GALLERIES from Maker to Museum".
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Tukufu Zuberi directed ten interstitials for inclusion in the AFRICA GALLERIES from Maker to Museum gallery.
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Tukufu Zuberi has headed the African Census Analysis Project, a project initiated by the United Nations to advance the process of census enumeration in Africa.
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Tukufu Zuberi is a host on the PBS television program History Detectives.
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Tukufu Zuberi is the writer and producer of African Independence, a feature-length documentary film that highlights the birth, realization, and problems confronted by the movement to win independence in Africa.