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Bates Center

Faculty, Students, & Staff

Bates Center faculty are internationally recognized, award winning historians of nursing whose scholarship is supported by federal and foundation grants.

Our faculty teach Penn Nursing history courses, as well as lecture in courses in both the School and across the University. Faculty serve as consultants to other projects on the history of nursing and travel widely to deliver keynote addresses and named lectures.

Center Director

Patricia D’Antonio

Carol E. Ware Professor in Mental Health Nursing

Center Faculty

Cynthia Anne Connolly

Rosemarie B. Greco Term Endowed Professorship in Advocacy
Julie A. Fairman

Endowed Chair, Nightingale Professor in Honor of Nursing Veterans

Center Fellows

J. Margo Brooks Carthon

Tyson Family Endowed Term Chair for Gerontological Research
Julie Sochalski

Associate Professor of Nursing

Adjunct Faculty

Vanessa Northington Gamble

Adjunct Professor of Nursing

Emerita Faculty

Ellen Davidson Baer

Professor Emerita
Joan E Lynaugh

Professor Emerita of Nursing

Center Students

Center Staff

Jessica Clark, Archivist

Elisa Stroh, Administrative Coordinator