The USC Dornsife Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life (STPL) serves as a platform for collaborative research, graduate training, and public engagement on problems at the intersection of science, technology, and society.
2024 Science and Technology Studies Summer Research Stipends
USC’s Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life (STPL) is awarding summer stipends of up to $2500 for PhD students who are conducting research on topics related to the social studies of science, technology and medicine. Applications are open to all PhD students in the humanities and social sciences at USC whose work engages these themes, with preference to students who are enrolled or planning to enroll in the graduate certificate program in Science and Technology Studies. Selected applicants will present their research at a symposium in the fall semester. Proposals will be reviewed by our selection committee. For more information, please contact Melany Escobar at: stpl@usc.edu
Upcoming Events
Precarious Ecologies: Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 2pm to 4pm
Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC), 232
A conversation with: Dr. Oneka LaBennett, American Studies and Ethnicity, USC Dr. Julie Livingston, Silver Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University Dr. Shanya D. Cordis, African American & African Diaspora Studies Department, Columbia University.
This event is co-sponsored by the USC Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life and the USC Center for Latinx and Latin American Studies with support from the Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminar Program.
Recent Publications from STPL Affiliates
Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond
Christina Dunbar-Hester, Professor Communication, recently published her third book Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond with University of Chicago Press.
Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory
Cristina M. Visperas, Assistant Professor of Communication, published her first book Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory (NYU Press, 2022).
“A Visual Genealogy of Urban Resilience: From Air War Planning to Climate Adaptation”
Stephen Collier and STPL Director, Andrew Lakoff, recently published the co-authored article “A Visual Genealogy of Urban Resilience: From Air War Planning to Climate Adaptation” in Perspecta 55: Futures Index.
Contact Us
Director of STPL
Andrew Lakoff
lakoff@usc.edu
Associate Director of STPL
Emily Rose Anderson
emilyand@usc.edu