<p>Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, joined the University of Pennsylvania as its 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and the Law School where she also holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander chair.<br />Her pathbreaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent contemporary issues in health, social justice, and bioethics, especially as they impact the lives of women, children and African-Americans. Her major books include <em>Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century</em>&nbsp;(New Press, 2011); <em>Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare</em>&nbsp;(Basic Books, 2002), and <em>Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty</em> (Pantheon, 1997). She is the author of more than 80 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a co-editor of six books on such topics as constitutional law and women and the law.<br /></p>