Welcome Incoming Faculty

USC Dornsife welcomed 19 new faculty members for the 2013-14 academic year. Hailing from universities around the world, this year’s group of scholars are some of the best and brightest in the nation, bringing with them years of experience and research in a wide range of disciplines.

The new faculty members join departments including biological sciences, chemistry, economics, English, French and Italian, physics and astronomy, political science, philosophy, psychology, religion and sociology.

Their research interests range from 19th and 20th century Italian literature to computational, behavioral and neuroimaging techniques. The group includes a world-renowned economist; an Operation Desert Storm veteran who focuses her research on the impact of military-to-military exchange programs on civil-military relations; an expert on Buddhism-state relations in China; and a pair of psychologists who will found the USC Mind and Society Center in USC Dornsife.

Read more about USC Dornsife’s new faculty at dornsife.usc.edu/new-faculty-2013-14

Gian Maria Annovi French and Italian Carol Atkinson International Relations James Boedicker Physics and Astronomy Rosa Di Felice Physics and Astronomy Brian Karl Finch Sociology John Hawthorne Philosophy S. Andrew Hires Biological Sciences Arie Kapteyn Economics Rongdao Lai Religion Ellen Leggett Psychology Naomi Levine Biological Sciences and Earth Sciences Smaranda Marinescu Chemistry Daniel A. Nation Psychology Ann Owens Sociology Daphna Oyserman Psychology, Education and Communication Jonathan Quong Philosophy Elda María Román English Norbert Schwarz Psychology and Marketing Jason Zevin Psychology and Linguistics