Mary Pattillo
(she/her/hers)
Professor
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
1998-Present
Mary Pattillo is the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and chair of the Department of Black Studies. Her research focuses on race and ethnic inequities in housing and education and criminal legal studies in Black communities, particularly those in Chicago. Read more about Mary Pattillo.
I am still shocked today, really, when undergrads come to me and say they still haven't had a Black professor at Northwestern. I'm shocked. I'm saddened.”
Mary Pattillo