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USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Micaela Alicia SmithLecturerContact Information E-mail: micaelas@email.usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-2961 Office: KAP 462 LINKS Curriculum Vitae |
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| Micaela Alicia Smith received her B.A. with Honors in Ethnic Studies from UC San Diego in 2003. As a 2010-2011 Mellon Dissertation Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Smith finished her dissertation and participated in the 18-month Sawyer Seminar Series (SSS) reading group “Property, Race, and Poverty: Paradoxes of the Law and the Possibility of Justice in Contemporary South Africa.” In addition, Smith made significant contributions to the 2010 Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC) Workshop “Techniques of Capital: Property, Self-Creation and Politics in Precarious Times” as well as the 2011 JWTC Workshop, “Ordinary States|States of Ordinariness.” | |
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 M.A. American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2006
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B.A. American Studies and Ethnicity, University of California, San Diego, 2003
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Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series Dissertation Fellow , University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa) , 03/2010-08/2011
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History |
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Lecturer, Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California,
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2012
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