Natalia Molina awarded 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship
Natalia Molina, Distinguished Professor and Dean’s Professor of American studies and ethnicity at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, has been named a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow, joining a class of 223 scholars, artists and scientists selected from nearly 5,000 applicants worldwide.
Fall 2026 Course Offering
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Faculty Spotlight
Chrisshona Grant Nieva, Assistant Professor (Teaching) in ASE, was recently awarded a USC General Education Teaching Award for AMST 206 The Politics and Culture of the 1960s in 2024-25
Alumni Publication
Nic John Ramos, ASE Ph.D. alum, recently published Health as Property: Racial Capitalism and Sexual Liberalism in Los Angeles
Alumni Spotlight
Ann Ngoc Tran, ASE Ph.D. alum, was awarded the 2025 Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in American Studies, ethnic studies, or women’s studies by the American Studies Association
AMST 365 Leadership in the Community – Internship Gallery
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The Department of American Studies & Ethnicity’s (ASE) mission is to educate in the comprehensive analysis of race and ethnicity and engage students and the public to understand diversity, the consequences of disparity and inequity, and the enactment of community and citizenship at multiple scales in Los Angeles, California, the United States and the world. We seek to investigate and explain stratification based on race, gender, class, sexuality, and religion and examine the texture of lived experience and imagination of varied communities and their struggles towards equity and justice.
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