USC Dornsife’s history chair William Deverell explores the birth of a modern metropolis with the organization of an…
Recalling encouragement from his mentor Alice Echols, Sean Little ’06 traces his bachelor’s in English to an M.B.A. to a…
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…
Since 2002, USC Dornsife’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture (CRCC) and the USC Libraries have partnered with archives around the world to digitize more than 82,000 historical photographs by Christian missionaries… more>
categories: research, faculty research, undergraduate research, graduate research
tags: center for religion and civic culture, crcc, digital library, grant, impa, international mission photography archive, jon miller, national endownment for the humanities, neh, sociology
From the influence of President Barack Obama to the recession and housing crisis, the needs and realities of the African American community in Los Angeles have changed — and Daniel Walker believes that the Black Church… more>
categories: research, diversity, faculty diversity, community engagement
tags: crcc, humanities, los angeles, publication, religion, usc center for religion and civic culture
Pentecostalism — a religious movement that began in a warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles in 1906 — has emerged as a fast-growing minority religion in the developing world, gaining popularity in the Southern… more>
categories: research
tags: center for religion and civic culture, crcc, don miller, donald miller, humanities, pentecostal and charismatic research initiative, pentecostalism, religion
Not long after Indonesia’s transition from dictatorship to democracy, Christian Hammons was sitting at a coffee shop in Bukittinggi, a city on Sumatra’s tourist circuit. Hammons, who was about to begin his doctoral… more>
categories: research, faculty research, graduate research
tags: anthropology, center for religion and civic culture, crcc, humanities, religion, social sciences
By day, Salim Patel works as a financial analyst for a large retail clothing company. After hours, he serves as a commissioner on the Board of Education in Passaic, N.J. He also helps run an emergency food pantry, which he… more>
categories: research
tags: american muslim civic leadership institute, center for religion and civic culture, community, crcc, event, humanities, religion
The USC Summer Kambun Workshop sponsored by USC College welcomed graduate students from many of the nation’s top universities to study Sino-Japanese texts with prominent Japanese scholars. The August event is an annual… more>
categories: graduate
tags: center for religion and civic culture, crcc, east asian languages and cultures, event, history, japan, joan piggot, language, lori meeks, religion, workshop, writing
While in Manila having dinner, Don Miller engaged in a conversation that sparked an idea that would take him and Tetsunao Yamamori (of Food for the Hungry, an international aid organization) to 20 countries in the global… more>
categories: research
tags: center for religion and civic culture, crcc, humanities, pentecostalism


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