Awards and Job Placement

Curious about employment for USC Ph.D.s? Here are some recent grads with their academic life histories. Feel free to e-mail for more Tales of L.A.:

Sarah Blake
B.A. University of Toronto

Ph.D. USC 2008

Visiting Instructor, Wellesley College, 2007-2008

Assistant Professor, York University, 2008- present

blake@usc.edu

Sandra Blakely
B.A. Brigham Young University 1982, Ph.D. USC 1998
Assistant Professor, Emory University, 1999-2005
Associate Professor and Winship Distinguished Associate Research Professor, 2005-present
sblakel@emory.edu

E. Del Chrol

Ph.D. USC 2006

Assistant Professor, Marshall University, 2006-present

chrol@marshall.edu

Karen Dang
Senior Lecturer, Department of Greek and Latin, Ohio State University
dang.28 @osu.edu

Therese De Vet
B.A. USC 1981 (anthropology; linguistics),M.A. USC 1983 (English), Ph.D. USC 1997
Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, 1998-present

Jessica Dietrich
B.A. Swarthmore 1990, Ph.D. USC 1997
Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamilton College, 1996-98
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, 1998-

Rhiannon Evans
B.A., M.A. University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1991, 1992; Ph.D. USC 1999
Associate Lecturer, University of Tasmania, 1999-

Trevor Fear
B.A. (hons.) Bristol University 1987; M.Litt. Durham University 1991; Ph.D. USC 1999
Visiting Instructor, SUNY Buffalo, 1997-98
Visiting Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, 1998-99
Visiting Assistant Professor, UCLA, 1999-2002

fear@open.ac.uk

Catherine Feeley

Ph.D. USC 2006

Assistant Professor, Bishop's University, 2006-present

cfeeley@ubishops.ca

David Fredrick
B.A. University of Kansas 1982, M.A. University of Kansas 1984,  Ph.D. USC 1992
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Kansas, 1990-91
Assistant to Associate Professor, University of Arkansas, 1991-

dfredric@comp.uark.edu

Phillip Sidney Horky
B.A. University of Michigan 2000, A.M. University of Chicago 2002,  Ph.D. USC 2007
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Introduction to the Humanities Program
Stanford University
Fellow at Center for Hellenic Studies, 2010-2011
Lecturer, University of Durham, 2011
phorky@stanford.edu

Patricia Johnson
B.A., M.A. Cornell University 1977, 1979, Ph.D. USC 1990
Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross, 1990-96
Assistant Professor, Boston University, 1996-

pjjclass@bu.edu

Marie Marianetti
B.A., M.A. (anthropology) California State University 1981, 1982, Ph.D. USC 1990
Visiting Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary (Classics), 1990-93
Assistant to Associate Professor, CUNY Lehman (History), 1993-

Mark Masterson
B.A. Stanford University 1982, M.A.T. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1987, Ph.D. USC 2001
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, 2001-02
Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamilton College, 2002-05
Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), 2005-present

mark.masterson@vuw.ac.nz

Siobhan McElduff
Teacher, Harvard-Westlake School;  and Lecturer, UCLA Extension

Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, 2007-present

Kristina Meinking
Visiting Lecturer, Scriptts College, 2009
Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin, Elon University, 2010
kmeinking@elon.edu

Peter O'Neill
B.A., M.Phil. (ancient history), Jesus College, Oxford, 1993, 1995, Ph.D. USC 2001
Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, 2001-2003
Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Exeter, 2003-

Rosa Cornford Parent
B.A., M.A. (Hons.) University of Auckland, 1989, Ph.D. USC 1999
Research staff, TLG Project, UC Irvine, 1999-2000

Diane Pintabone
B.A. Boston College 1987, M.A. University of Colorado 1990, Ph.D. USC 1998
Lecturer, California State University at Long Beach, 1998-2000
Lecturer, Scripps College, 1999
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, 2000-2001
Teacher, Westridge School, 2001-2002

pintabone@earthlink.net

Philip Purchase
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities, Washington University, St. Louis
ppurchas@wustl.edu

Eleanor Rust
B.A. Indiana University, 1999, Ph.D. USC 2009
Lecturer, University of Southern California, 2009-2010
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati, 2010

Chiara Sulprizio
B.A. University of Washington, Ph.D. USC 2007
Lecturer, University of Southern Caifornia, 2007-2008
Lecturer, Hamilton College, 2008-2009
Research Scholar, UCLA, 2009-2010
Lecturer, Loyola-Marymount University, 2010-present
csulpriz@lmu.edu

Joseph Smith
B.A. University of Rochester (English) 1983; M.A. University of California at Berkeley (Greek) 1986; Ph.D. USC 1997
Visiting Assistant Professor, San Diego State University, 1997-1999
Assistant Professor, San Diego State University, 1999-
Associate Professor, San Diego State University

jasmith@mail.sdsu.edu

Alex Watts-Tobin
B.A. Durham University 1991; Ph.D. USC 2000
Visiting Assistant Professor, Temple University, 2000-2002

googs@temple.edu

Daniella Widdows
B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., USC 2006
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Loyola College in Maryland, 2006-2007

Assistant Professor, Hampden-Sydney College, 2007-
dlwiddows@loyola.edu