The Department of American Studies and Ethnicity (ASE) at USC is a multi-disciplinary department that investigates the multi-faceted problems of race, immigration, urban geography, culture, power, gender, sexuality and social justice. We engage students and the public to understand diversity, the consequences of disparity and inequity, and the enactment of community and... Read more
LA Times article (11/6/2022) - A View Framed By Echo Park - USC Historian Natalia Molina explores Racial Understanding, How Communities Thrive in L.A.
The Department of American Studies and Ethnicity condemns the recent racist Zoombombings perpetrated against our faculty and students, and others within the USC community. Read more
Studying transational politics, cultural arts, public history, imperialism, linguistic processes, migration, media, or race and ethnicity? Check out our new graduate certificate program.
We are launching our new major in American Popular Culture! For more information about major, please check out the list of requirements here. If you are interested signing up for the major, please contact Kim Vinson at vinson@usc.edu or by calling (213)740-2534 for an appointment.
"I choose to be an American Studies and Ethnicity Major because I knew it would provide me with a different lens of how to best make sense of the world around me. At the same time it has allowed me to establish: effective writing skills, critical thinking analysis, research skills, and all learning from an interdisciplinary framework. In doing so, I feel that I have a variety of options...." Read more
Christina Heatherton '12, an associate professor of American Studies and Human Rights at Trinity College, discusses the history of capital, the making of internationalism, and her new book, Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution, which was officially published in October 2022 by the University of California Press. Read more.
