The names of top USC Dornsife students will adorn the wall of Leavey Library in an honor celebrating university-wide students…
The gift creates the Steven and Kathryn Sample Endowment for Ecumenism to support research centered on the foundational…
Howard Wayne Harris proves his 9th grade teacher wrong. Earning his Ph.D. at the USC Dornsife hooding ceremony May 16, he was…
USC Dornsife issued more than 2,500 degrees during Commencement 2013: 1,959 bachelor’s, 326 master's, 81 graduate…
USC Dornsife students win top prizes at the 15th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work. In…
Growing up in the United Kingdom, Kate Flint became fascinated with all things Victorian from an early age. For her, the inescapable presence of the Victorian world lived on in the country’s cities, buildings,… more>
categories: graduate, faculty research, graduate research
tags: art history, graduate, kate flint, painting, photography, victorian literature
In 1951, when bombshell actress Jayne Mansfield publicly dropped the top of her dress, the photographer Arthur Fellig, also known as “Weegee the famous,” was there to capture the moment on film. The caption to… more>
categories: research, faculty research
tags: art, art history, hollywood, humanities, los angeles, museum, museum of contemporary art, photography, richard meyer
Leaving Los Angeles and driving through a string of towns in 2007, Lois Banner arrived at an unassuming house nestled in a quiet neighborhood of Rowland Heights. There she met photographer Mark Anderson. Anderson had come… more>
categories: faculty research
tags: book, gender studies, history, humanities, lois banner, marilyn monroe, photography
Go ahead, gripe. It's not against the law or anything. But have you considered your negativity's impact on others? Constant exposure to a Debbie Downer or Bob Bummer can be like inhaling second hand smoke. It's repugnant, but… more>
categories: research
tags: art, ethics, event, humanities, photography, usc levan institute for humanities and ethics
We've all heard the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words" so often that it has begun to lose its meaning. A single image, according to the saying, can tell a story better than mere text. So how many words is an entire… more>
categories: graduate, graduate research
tags: archive, art, europe, france, history, humanities, paris, photography
Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, was the proto-paparazzo, introducing wartime America to the pleasures of gawking at crime scenes and misbehaving rich people. The first photojournalist to be granted permission to carry… more>
tags: book, manhattan, photography
Starting in March, rarely seen images of the City of Light come to the City of Angels thanks to a partnership of the USC Francophone Resource Center, the Los Angeles Public Library, Otis College of Art and Design and… more>


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