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The Rev. Cecil “Chip” Murray of USC Dornsife (left) was recently honored for his work in the community in an event at Doheny Memorial Library hosted by USC President C. L. Max Nikias. Photo by Dietmar Quistorf.

Tested By Fire

October 18, 2012

The Rev. Cecil “Chip” Murray’s first trial by fire happened in the early 1950s. Then a young U.S. Air Force navigator, Murray was in a warplane when it erupted in flames on the tarmac. The pilot escaped the… more>

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tags: c. l. max nikias, cecil “chip” murray, diversity, humanitites, publication, religion, usc cecil murray center for community engagement, usc center for religion and civic culture

USC Dornsife's Laura Pulido stands near the gravesite of Owen Brown in the hills of Altadena, Calif., one of the sites in her new guidebook, <em>A People's Guide to Los Angeles</em>. Photo by Laura Paisley.

L.A.’s Vernacular Landscapes

October 8, 2012

There is a tendency among my friends in Chicago, where I lived for the past eight years, to not see a Los Angeles beyond the Hollywood glitz and the tales of horrible traffic and bodily artificiality. And before making L.A.… more>

categories: faculty research, graduate research, diversity, faculty diversity

tags: american studies and ethnicity, geography, laura pulido, los angeles, publication, social science

Jan Amend, professor of earth sciences and biological sciences in USC Dornsife, will lead an interdisciplinary team of researchers in an investigation into what life teems within Earth's subsurface biosphere. Their approach could become a template for collecting evidence of life or past life on extraterrestrial planetary bodies such as Mars. Photo by Michelle Salzman.

Detecting Life Beyond Earth

September 21, 2012

A team of researchers led by Jan Amend, professor of earth sciences and biological sciences in USC Dornsife, has been selected to join the prestigious NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI), an organization of competitively… more>

categories: research, faculty research, faculty diversity

tags: biological sciences, center for dark energy biosphere investigations, earth sciences, holly willis, jan amend, katrina edwards, kenneth nealson, moh el-naggar, nasa astrobiology institute, natural sciences, north pond, research grant

Nayan Shah joined USC Dornsife from the University of California, San Diego and began his post as professor and chair of American studies and ethnicity this Fall. Photo by Ben Pack.

Fighting for Inclusion

September 6, 2012

Nayan Shah was in South Africa on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship during the most intense period of struggle against apartheid. Black resistors were being beaten, tortured and murdered. It was 1989, a year before South African… more>

categories: faculty research, new faculty, diversity, faculty diversity

tags: american studies and ethnicity, apartheid, humanities, nayan shah, new book, new faculty, norris and carol hundley prize, south africa

Barrios to Burbs

September 5, 2012

A timely new book by USC Dornsife sociologist Jody Agius Vallejo challenges the widespread assumption that Mexican Americans in the United States are persistently poor and uneducated, and do not achieve social and economic… more>

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tags: diversity, immigration, jody agius vallejo, mexican americans, social sciences, sociology

USC Dornsife's Jack Halberstam explores society's evolving gender roles in his book, <em>Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender and the End of Normal</em>, due out this September from Beacon Press. Photo of Halberstam by Assaf Evron.

Feminism Goes Gaga

August 9, 2012

On stage and off, Lady Gaga seems to be an ever-evolving performance piece dominating the media landscape. But in Gaga’s anarchic, gender-bending public persona, Jack Halberstam sees a mirror — one reflecting a… more>

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tags: american studies and ethnicity, book, feminism, gender studies, humanities, jack halberstam, lady gaga, popular culture, social sciences

More than 2,600 young people in California were surveyed for a report by USC Dornsife sociologist Veronica Terriquez. Photo by Laurie Moore.

Civic-minded Undocumented Youth Dream Big

August 6, 2012

For undocumented youth, involvement in civic organizations appears to enhance aspirations and actual educational attainment, according to a report released by the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration based in USC… more>

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tags: center for the study of immigrant integration, chicano and latino studies, diversity, undocumented students, veronica terriquez

"We want undergraduates, graduates and colleagues not to take their visual surroundings for granted. And to think intelligently and questioningly about what use we make of images. And, in a sense, the use that images make of us." - Kate Flint, Provost Professor of English and Art History, leader of the USC Dornsife 2020 research cluster “Seeing 20/20: The USC Visual Studies Research Institute."

The Future...Not What It Used to Be

August 2, 2012

USC Dornsife 2020 calls for professors to identify a theme of great societal importance for years to come and form research groups to investigate solutions. Each cluster includes faculty, undergraduate and graduate students,… more>

categories: undergraduate, graduate, research, faculty research, undergraduate research, graduate research, diversity, faculty diversity

tags: ange-marie hancock, antonio damasio, center for the study of immigrant integration, humanities, john monterosso, kate flint, manuel pastor, natural sciences, research clusters, social science, visual studies graduate certificate, wendy wood

<em>Elsewhere, California</em>, a debut novel written by USC Dornsife’s Dana Johnson, examines assimilation, class and the complications of African American identity. Dana Johnson photo by Ben Pack.

Finding One’s Self in L.A.

July 19, 2012

As USC Dornsife’s Dana Johnson strolled through Echo Park, taking in the downtown Los Angeles skyline and Palm tree-lined lake, the characters, setting and plot of her first novel took shape. Johnson often hiked several… more>

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tags: book, dana johnson, debut, diversity, english, humanities, los angeles

The Liberty Hill Foundation presented Manuel Pastor with the 2012 Wally Marks Changemaker Award. The recognition honors an outstanding individual whose work in the community illustrates Martin Luther King Jr.’s insight that while "the arc of history is long, it bends toward justice." Photo by Carlos Puma

Change Over Charity

May 14, 2012

As a USC Dornsife researcher, Manuel Pastor is dedicated to improving the economic, environmental and social conditions facing low-income, urban communities. In honor of his work, the Liberty Hill Foundation presented Pastor… more>

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tags: american studies and ethnicity, award, center for the study of immigrant integration, csii, manuel pastor, pere, program for environmental and regional equity, social sciences, wally marks changemaker

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