{"id":3449,"date":"2023-09-06T14:30:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T21:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ase\/?page_id=3449"},"modified":"2024-11-21T12:59:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T20:59:15","slug":"faculty-in-action","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ase\/faculty-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n                              \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          ASE Faculty Achievements, Fall 2023 and Spring 2024\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n      \n      \n    <\/div>\n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Evelyn Alsultany<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-_3NuNXXYuu\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-_3NuNXXYuu\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><b>Evelyn Alsultany<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s book,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9781479857746\/broken\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been chosen as the Arab American National Museum&#8217;s Honorable Mention for the Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Academic Award for 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She also received the Richard A. Yarborough Mentoring Award from the American Studies Association. Selected by the ASA Minority Scholars Committee, the award recognizes Dr. Asultany\u2019s impact on the next generation of scholars. See:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2023\/12\/evelyn-alsultany\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2023\/12\/evelyn-alsultany\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Professor Evelyn Alsultany<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> won two prestigious awards:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alsultany is the recipient of the \u201cGeneral Education Teaching Award\u201d for excellence in teaching in the GE curriculum for 2022-23. She taught the following GE classes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AMST 200, Introduction to American Studies and Ethnicity<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AMST 215, Race and Mixed Race<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AMST 325, The Middle East in Hollywood.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alsultany has also received a USC Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Science research grant for her creative project \u201cSecrets and Hard Truths.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Prof. Evelyn Alsultany\u2019s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> first book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arabs and Muslims in the Media<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was just listed in the LA Times&#8217; &#8220;The 50 best Hollywood books of all time.&#8221; Here is the link:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/books\/story\/2024-04-08\/the-50-best-hollywood-books-of-all-time-ultimate-hollywood-bookshelf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/books\/story\/2024-04-08\/the-50-best-hollywood-books-of-all-time-ultimate-hollywood-bookshelf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-2-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-controls=\"section-1-2-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Alicia Chavez<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-2-_3NuNXXYuu\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-2-_3NuNXXYuu\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><b>Alicia Chavez<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> won the 2023 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Adjunct Faculty Fellowship award.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-3-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-controls=\"section-1-3-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Juan De Lara <\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-3-_3NuNXXYuu\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-3-_3NuNXXYuu\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Professors <strong>Juan De Lara<\/strong>(co-investigator) and Andrew Lakoff (PI) were awarded a grant for their proposal, The City of Life Support: Los Angeles as a Laboratory for Planetary Health, by the USC Office of Research and Innovation (OORI) Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences (HHSS) award program.\u00a0 The award will support an initiative that brings together USC faculty in the humanistic social sciences in collaboration with environmental health researchers to generate a public humanities project focused on the challenges of planetary health as they are experienced in Los Angeles.\u00a0 (September 2024)<\/p>\n<p><b>De Lara<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> received the USC Faculty and Students Awarded Arts in Action Grants to Promote Social Change (February \u2013 December 2024).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Artful Maps for Action\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a joint initiative between the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN), a community organization in Skid Row, and faculty and students from USC. Its objective is to create geo-data collection methods at the grassroots level and find ways to analyze and map the data. Experts including Fran\u00e7ois Bar (USC Annenberg), Juan De Lara (USC Dornsife), Annette Kim (USC Price), and Andrzej Rutkowski (USC Libraries), will provide opportunities for participation by students enrolled in related coursework and those interested in art and advocacy work. LA CAN\u2019s executive director Pete White and food and wellness organizer Todd Cunningham will play a crucial role in co-creating artful maps of Skid Row to increase the visibility of community resources, articulate community demands, and support community action for its most vulnerable members.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-4-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-controls=\"section-1-4-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Sarah Gualtieri<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-4-_3NuNXXYuu\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-4-_3NuNXXYuu\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Sarah Gualtieri <\/strong>published this short essay \u201cLying Down to Stand Up for What is Right\u201d about the die-in at USC to protest the ongoing genocide in Gaza. <a href=\"https:\/\/socialtextjournal.org\/periscope_article\/lying-down-to-stand-up-for-what-is-right\/\">https:\/\/socialtextjournal.org\/periscope_article\/lying-down-to-stand-up-for-what-is-right\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-5-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-controls=\"section-1-5-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Amelia G. Jones<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-5-_3NuNXXYuu\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-5-_3NuNXXYuu\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><b>Amelia G. Jones <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published a new book, co-edited with Jane Chin Davidson entitled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. See the link here:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-ie\/A+Companion+to+Contemporary+Art+in+a+Global+Framework-p-9781119841807\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-ie\/A+Companion+to+Contemporary+Art+in+a+Global+Framework-p-9781119841807<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Professor Amelia Jones<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> won the prestigious Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students at USC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The award recognizes: \u201cexceptional individuals who go above and beyond what is expected, fostering an engaging, supportive, and inclusive academic environment through their mentorship of colleagues, graduate, and undergraduate students. Professor Jones\u2019 mentorship is extraordinary and is most deserving of this honor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-6-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-controls=\"section-1-6-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Dorinne Kondo<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-6-_3NuNXXYuu\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-6-_3NuNXXYuu\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><b>Dorinne Kondo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> participated in two panels at Harvard University:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNotes from the Field and the Archive: Building Classroom Communities in the Humanities\u201d, Department of English, Harvard University, and invitation from Mahindra Humanities Center, in conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer, and Prof. Glenda Carpio, Chair; October 18, 2023.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invited Participant, \u201cA Celebration of Marcyliena H. Morgan,\u201d Ernest E. Monrad Prof. of the Social Sciences, Prof. of African American Studies, Founder of the Hip Hop Archive and Research Institute at Harvard. Hutchins Center for African and African Research, Harvard.\u00a0 Panel on \u201cWomen of Color Speaking.\u201d December 15, 2023.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Dorinne Kondo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reprised her role as dramaturg for the 30<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> anniversary production of TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES 1992 at the Mark Taper Forum in the spring of 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kondo\u2019s comic drama SEAMLESS was chosen as one of four plays featured in workshop productions for Morgan-Wixson Theater\u2019s New Work Festival, upcoming in late September through mid-October. Based on Kondo\u2019s interviews with her parents, SEAMLESS stages the indeterminacy of history and memory, the afterlife of trauma, and the (im)possibility of knowing the people we love most. Tickets available here:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.ovationtix.com\/trs\/cal\/1221\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/web.ovationtix.com\/trs\/cal\/1221<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kondo\u2019s concept \u201creparative creativity\u201d will be a featured concept at a keynote\/ plenary event at the RACE conference, sponsored by the X at Johns Hopkins University in October.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-7-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-controls=\"section-1-7-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Oneka LaBennett<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-7-_3NuNXXYuu\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-7-_3NuNXXYuu\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><b>Oneka LaBennett<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> received the \u201c2023 USC Dornsife Dean\u2019s Emblem Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the space of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.\u201d The award honors scholars for publications, research, or engagement with the public or academic community that address issues of access, representational diversity, the impact of marginalization or discrimination, and\/or building inclusive communities. Her book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Guyana: <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shaping Race, Gender and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will be published by NYU Press in April 2024.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9781479827022\/global-guyana\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9781479827022\/global-guyana\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-8-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-controls=\"section-1-8-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Natalia Molina<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-8-_3NuNXXYuu\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-8-_3NuNXXYuu\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Natalia Molina<\/strong> wrote an op-ed for the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> published on Nov. 14, 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2024-11-14\/border-czar-tom-homan-deportation-mexican-american\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Natalia Molina<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published an essay in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. See it<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/food\/story\/2023-12-14\/making-tamales-brings-my-family-together-but-can-we-keep-the-tradition-going\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Natalia Molina<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> won the Weber Book Prize given annually for the best non-fiction book on Southwestern America from the Western History Association.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Molina published an essay, in honor of her brother, David, who recently passed away. She writes: \u201cBut sports talk can also transcend small talk and become a shared field of memories, a tie that binds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2023-08-20\/dodgers-five-love-languages-echo-park-los-angeles-california\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2023-08-20\/dodgers-five-love-languages-echo-park-los-angeles-california<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She also published an essay here:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zocalopublicsquare.org\/2023\/08\/14\/tulum-instagram-colonialism-tourism\/ideas\/essay\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.zocalopublicsquare.org\/2023\/08\/14\/tulum-instagram-colonialism-tourism\/ideas\/essay\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Professor Natalia Molina<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> won the prestigious Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students at USC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The award recognizes: \u201cexceptional individuals who go above and beyond what is expected, fostering an engaging, supportive, and inclusive academic environment through their mentorship of colleagues, graduate, and undergraduate students. Professor Molina\u2019s mentorship is extraordinary and is most deserving of this honor.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-9-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-controls=\"section-1-9-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Lydie Moudileno<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-9-_3NuNXXYuu\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-9-_3NuNXXYuu\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><b>Professor Lydie Moudileno<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> won the prestigious <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ordre des Palmes<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acad\u00e9miques (Order of Academic Palms). This is a national honor conferred by the French Republic honoring the invaluable contributions of eminent academics and educators in academia, education, and scientific inquiry.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-10-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-controls=\"section-1-10-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Viet Nguyen<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-10-_3NuNXXYuu\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-10-_3NuNXXYuu\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><b>Viet Nguyen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s new book,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/groveatlantic.com\/book\/a-man-of-two-faces\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was longlisted for the National Book Award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nguyen will be giving six lectures at Harvard as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-11-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-controls=\"section-1-11-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Manuel Pastor<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-11-_3NuNXXYuu\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-11-_3NuNXXYuu\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><b>Manuel Pastor<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He views election to the academy as a call for scholars \u2014 particularly those early in their careers \u2014 to bring their work to bear on societal challenges. He writes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn a world that faces multiple crises \u2014 climate change, widening inequality and the fragility of our multiracial democracy \u2014 we need more academics to enter what USC Dornsife has termed the \u2018public square.\u2019 Fortunately, this next generation of scholars wants to do exactly that,\u201d he said. \u201cThis award \u2014 which notably was given in the category of public affairs \u2014 gives all of us both a permission slip and a mandate to make sure our work makes a difference.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See the Dornsife story here:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/manuel-pastor-elected-member-american-academy-arts-sciences\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/manuel-pastor-elected-member-american-academy-arts-sciences\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-12-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-controls=\"section-1-12-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Nayan Shah<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-12-_3NuNXXYuu\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-12-_3NuNXXYuu\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><b>Nayan Shah<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been offered the 2024-25 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Distinguished Fellowship from the Huntington Research Library.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-13-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-controls=\"section-1-13-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Karen Tongson<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-13-_3NuNXXYuu\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-13-_3NuNXXYuu\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><b>Karen Tongson<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> received the \u201c2023 Communicator of the Year Award\u201d in the Humanities. The award honors scholars who contribute significant time and effort to meaningfully improve the public\u2019s understanding of issues, influence policy, and\/or raise the level of public discourse around research and scholarship conducted at Dornsife.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-14-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-controls=\"section-1-14-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Jackie Wang<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-14-_3NuNXXYuu\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-14-_3NuNXXYuu\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><b>Jackie Wang <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">received two fellowships:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American Democracy Fellowship at Harvard University\u2019s Charles Warren Center<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Policy Scholar at Howard University\u2019s Center for an Equitable Economy and Sustainable Society<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She also published a new essay collection with Semiotext(e) \/ MIT Press titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/735767\/alien-daughters-walk-into-the-sun-by-jackie-wang\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/735767\/alien-daughters-walk-into-the-sun-by-jackie-wang\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, Prof. Wang was in conversation with Christopher Soto in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L.A. Times.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They discussed artificial intelligence and the craft of writing.\u00a0 See:\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/books\/story\/2023-08-23\/will-ai-replace-writers-christopher-soto-jackie-wang-game-out-the-future\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/books\/story\/2023-08-23\/will-ai-replace-writers-christopher-soto-jackie-wang-game-out-the-future<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-15-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-controls=\"section-1-15-_3NuNXXYuu\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Francille Wilson<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-15-_3NuNXXYuu\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-15-_3NuNXXYuu\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><b>Francille Wilson<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was awarded the Carter G. 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