Wendell Pritchett

He earned a B.A. in Political Science from Brown University in 1986.[7] Pritchett earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1991, and became a member of the Pennsylvania Bar that year.[8] From 1991 to 1992, he worked at the law firm Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen.[9] He earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 under the direction of Walter Licht.[10][11]

For five years, from 1997 to 2002, Pritchett was an assistant professor of history at Baruch College of the City University of New York.[7]

Pritchett was a University of Pennsylvania Law School professor from 2001 to 2009, and is the Presidential Professor of Law and Education at the school.[10]

Pritchett served as Chancellor of Rutgers University–Camden and Professor of Law and History from 2009-14.[12][13] At the time of his appointment, Pritchett became the first Black Chancellor of the university.[14]

In 2012, he was elected president of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities.[10][15] From 2014-2015, he served as interim dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and as a presidential professor.[10][8][16]

In 2017, Pritchett was named Provost of the University of Pennsylvania; he served in the role through July 2021.[8][17]

Pritchett has written two books and many articles on urban history and policy, especially in the areas of housing, race relations, land use, and economic development.[10] His first book was Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews and the Changing Face of the Ghetto (University of Chicago Press, 2002).[10][8] His second book was Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer (University of Chicago Press, 2008).[10]