{"id":5818,"date":"2025-09-25T15:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ase\/?page_id=5818"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:48:42","slug":"2025-rtpc-promotions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ase\/2025-rtpc-promotions\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 RTPC PROMOTIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\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>2025 RTPC PROMOTIONS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two of ASE\u2019s most active faculty members who are Research, Teaching, Professional &amp; Clinical (RTPC) faculty members were promoted last year, a significant achievement in their professional careers.\u00a0 Dr. Alicia L. Ch\u00e1vez, was promoted to Associate Professor (Teaching) of American Studies and Ethnicity, having received her doctorate from History at Stanford University in 2010.\u00a0 Dr. Ch\u00e1vez began her career at USC as a lecturer in 2013 and has become a masterful teacher of a wide variety of undergraduate courses, as well as her dedicated oversight of the graduate practicum on teaching for our new Ph.D. teaching assistants.\u00a0 She has also had an enormously stellar service record for ASE, being appointed the Director of Undergraduate Studies since 2019, bringing stability and rigor, while increasing the number of majors and serving on various committees at the department and College level.\u00a0 This past year, her service expanded as Ch\u00e1vez became a stellar member of the department\u2019s Executive Committee, while becoming a dedicated mentor to other RTPC faculty members and directing the ASE Club for undergraduates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition this past year, Dr. Chrisshona Grant Nieva was promoted to Assistant Professor (Teaching) of American Studies and Ethnicity.\u00a0 Dr. Nieva completed her Ph.D. in our ASE Department in 2011, advancing her teaching role in the department beginning with professional teaching assistant appointment, then advancing to her role as lecturer.\u00a0 Nieva is considered a truly remarkable instructor in the undergraduate classroom and has recently taken on the role of directing the ASE Club for undergraduates.\u00a0 She has built a reputation for developing a student-centered and highly interactive classroom environment, taking on the task of building this approach in some of the largest ASE General Education courses.\u00a0 In the coming year, Dr. Nieva is taking on the role of Co-Faculty Coordinator of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program as it moves formally into the ASE Department.\u00a0 Both of these RTPC faculty members contribute their pedagogical brilliance and service commitments to the highest ideals of American Studies and Ethnicity, and the department is much stronger because of their activity.\u00a0 Congratulations to them on their promotions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5818","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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