Tukufu Zuberi

Tukufu Zuberi is an American sociologist, filmmaker, social critic, educator, and writer. He is the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, and Professor of the Sociology Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Tukufu has appeared in several documentaries on Africa and the African diaspora, including Liberia: America's Stepchild (2002), and 500 Years Later (2005). He has also produced his own documentary film, African Independence that has won a number of accolades at Film Festivals in America. He is also one of the hosts of the PBS program History Detectives. Tukufu has curated two museum exhibits, one at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia (Tides of Freedom; African Presence on the Delaware) and Black Bodies in Propaganda; The Art of the War Poster at the Penn Museum.