Bernard G. Segal, C’28, L’31, HON’69, and Geraldine R. Segal, ED’30, GR’78

The late Bernard G. Segal, C’28, L’31, HON’69, and Geraldine R. Segal, ED’30, GR’78 established the Geraldine R. Segal Professorship in American Social Thought in 1978. The late Geraldine R. Segal completed her Ph.D. in sociology at Penn and was the author of In Any Fight Some Fall and Blacks in the Law. Bernard Segal, a former University Trustee, was one of America’s most respected lawyers and received Penn’s Alumni Award of Merit in 1977. The professorship is interdisciplinary in nature and awarded to a scholar of national reputation whose central interests include human rights, civil liberties, and race relations.