Wendell E. Pritchett | |
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| Interim President of the University of Pennsylvania | |
| In office February 2022 – June 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Amy Gutmann |
| Succeeded by | M. Elizabeth Magill |
| 30th Provost of the University of Pennsylvania | |
| In office July 1, 2017 – July 1, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Vincent Price |
| Chancellor ofRutgers University–Camden | |
| In office June 30, 2009 – July 1, 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Roger Dennis |
| Succeeded by | Phoebe A. Haddon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Wendell Eric Pritchett |
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Wendell Eric Pritchett is an American legal scholar and academic. He is currently the James S. Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education at theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School. From February to June 2022, Pritchett served as interim president of theUniversity of Pennsylvania; he is the first Black individual to serve as the university's president.[1][2]
Pritchett previously served as Chancellor ofRutgers University–Camden (2009–2014), Interim Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School (2014-2015), and Provost of the University of Pennsylvania (2017–2022).
Pritchett's father, also named Wendell Pritchett, was a classicalpianist and public school teacher, and his mother Carolyn was a high school English teacher.[3][4] Pritchett grew up inSociety Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to which his family moved in 1967, and attendedFriends Select School.[3][5] He and his wife Anne Kringel, a native of Milwaukee, have two daughters.[5][4] Kringel was the director of the legal research and writing program at the University of Pennsylvania Law School for 20 years.[6]
He earned a B.A. inpolitical science fromBrown University in 1986.[7] Pritchett earned aJ.D. fromYale Law School in 1991, and became a member of thePennsylvania Bar that year.[8] From 1991 to 1992, he worked at the law firmWolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen.[9] He earned a Ph.D. in history from theUniversity of Pennsylvania in 1997 under the direction ofWalter Licht.[10][11]
For five years, from 1997 to 2002, Pritchett was an assistant professor of history atBaruch College of theCity University of New York.[7]
Pritchett was aUniversity 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 ofRutgers 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 theCoalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities.[10][15] From 2014-2015, he served as interim dean of theUniversity 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 wasBrownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews and the Changing Face of the Ghetto (University of Chicago Press, 2002).[10][8] His second book wasRobert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer (University of Chicago Press, 2008).[10]
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