{"id":426,"date":"2025-08-07T13:35:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/?page_id=426"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:17:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:17:29","slug":"affiliated-faculty-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/affiliated-faculty-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Affiliated Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n          \n          \n          \n          \n          \n          \n          \n          \n          \n          \n          \n          \n          \n          \n          \n          \n          \n  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--editorial-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--editorial-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n      <div class=\"cards-container\">\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/faculty-search\/ricky-bluthenthal\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ricky Bluthenthal\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2025\/09\/20211103_Davis_Keck_1434-2-1.jpg\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/faculty-search\/ricky-bluthenthal\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  \n                    Ricky Bluthenthal\n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since 1991, Dr. Bluthenthal has conducted community-partnered research on risk behaviors, drug use related health problems (i.e., HIV, HCV, overdose) and harm reduction efforts to prevent these health outcomes among people who inject drugs, men who have sex with men, and other disadvantaged populations. His studies have been funded by NIDA, NIAAA, NIMHD, and the CDC among others. Dr. Bluthenthal has published over 200 manuscripts in peer-reviewed scientific journals and is on editorial board of the\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">International Journal of Drug Policy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Drug and Alcohol Dependence.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Bluthenthal has received numerous awards including the Senior Scholar Award from the Drugs and Society Section and the William Foote Whyte Distinguished Career Award from the Sociological Practice &amp; Public Sociology section of the American Sociological Association. As a graduate student, Dr. Bluthenthal co-founded the syringe service program in Oakland, California and was a founding board member of the National Harm Reduction Coalition.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/annenberg.usc.edu\/faculty\/ben-carrington\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ben Carrington\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2026\/01\/pavelbecker\u252c\u2310_HQ_IMG09940-edited-1-1.jpg\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Associate Professor of Journalism and Sociology<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/annenberg.usc.edu\/faculty\/ben-carrington\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  \n                    Ben Carrington\n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Ben Carrington is a writer and academic, widely regarded as one the world\u2019s leading authorities on the sociology of race, politics and popular culture. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Journalism in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. He has published numerous articles on race, culture and politics, as well as four books, including the critically-acclaimed <em>Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora<\/em> (Sage, 2010). In addition to his scholarly publications, Professor Carrington has written op-eds for publications such as <em>The Guardian<\/em>, <em>The Washington Post<\/em> and <em>The Huffington Post<\/em>. In 2024, Ben Carrington won the American Sociological Association\u2019s \u201cStuart Hall Award for Advancing the Study of Racial or Ethnic Inequality\u201d. He is currently working on two book projects; one on black cultural politics, cricket and the Caribbean diaspora and a second, a socio-political analysis on the state of contemporary America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/christina-davidson\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Christina C. Davidson\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-10.28.05-AM.png\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Assistant Professor of History<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/christina-davidson\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  \n                    Christina C. Davidson\n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Christina Cecelia Davidson\u00a0is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern California. She specializes in African diaspora history, religion, and US empire, with a focus on Dominican and Haitian history. She is the author of\u00a0<i>Dominican Crossroads: H.C.C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation<\/i>\u00a0(2024). Her articles have appeared in edited collections and journals, including the\u00a0<i>Journal of Civil War Era<\/i>, the\u00a0<i>Journal of African American History<\/i>, and the\u00a0<i>New West Indian Guide<\/i>.\u00a0She has received funding from the Fulbright-Hayes DDRA fellowship, the New York Public Library, the Social Science Research Center, and African American Intellectual Historical Society in support of her research. At USC, she teaches classes on Atlantic History, Latin American and Caribbean History, and the Haitian Revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/joan-flores-villalobos\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Joan Flores-Villalobos \">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2025\/09\/FloresVillalobos_Headshot.jpg\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Associate Professor of History<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/joan-flores-villalobos\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  \n                    Joan Flores-Villalobos \n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Joan Flores-Villalobos is Associate Professor in the Department of History at USC. Her work focuses on histories of gender, race, and diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her first book,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennpress.org\/9781512823639\/the-silver-women\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Silver Women: How Black Women\u2019s Labor Made the Panama Canal<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was awarded the American Historical Association\u2019s Wesley-Logan Prize for best book in African Diaspora history and the Organization of American Historians David Montgomery Prize for best book in labor history. Her work has garnered support from the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. At USC, Prof. Flores-Villalobos teaches courses on Afro-Latin America and the African Diaspora, U.S. empire, gender and migration, and the Caribbean.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/brittany-friedman\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Brittany Friedman\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-25-at-1.55.07-PM.png\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Assistant Professor of Sociology<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/brittany-friedman\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  \n                    Brittany Friedman\n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brittanyfriedman.com\/about\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brittany Friedman<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California and co-founder of the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.captivemoneylab.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Captive Money Lab<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Recognized as an innovative thinker with respect to how people and institutions conceal harmful truths, her current work examines social control, racial violence, and the underside of government institutions, including prisons, courts, and treasuries. She is the author of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uncpress.org\/9781469683409\/carceral-apartheid\/#:~:text=Carceral%20Apartheid%20will%20shock%20readers,the%20Afterlife%20of%20Mass%20Incarceration\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0and has written for\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TIME Magazine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington Post<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Conversation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Friedman is a &#8217;25-26 Policy Outreach Fellow of the American Sociological Association and an affiliated scholar of the American Bar Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/rossier.usc.edu\/faculty-research\/directory\/shaunharper\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about  Shaun Harper\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-25-at-2.10.33-PM.png\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Provost Professor, Rossier School of Education, Marshall School of Business, and Price School of Public Policy<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/rossier.usc.edu\/faculty-research\/directory\/shaunharper\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  \n                     Shaun Harper\n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shaun Harper is an expert on race, gender, and Black people\u2019s experiences and outcomes in educational, corporate, and policymaking contexts. He is a Provost Professor in the Rossier School of Education, Marshall School of Business, and Price School of Public Policy. In 2022, he was appointed University Professor, a distinction bestowed only to 30 of 4,700 full-time USC faculty members. Harper also is the Clifford and Betty Allen Chair in Urban Leadership, as well as the USC Race and Equity Center\u2019s founder. He served as the 2020-21 American Educational Research Association president and the 2016-17 Association for the Study of Higher Education president. Harper has published 13 books and over 100 academic papers. His research has been cited in more than 26,000 published studies. He has interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, ESPN, PBS, and NPR. Harper has received dozens of top awards in his fields and six honorary degrees. He was inducted into the National Academy of Education in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/edwin-hill\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Edwin Hill\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2024\/11\/Hill.jpg\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Edwin Hill\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Professor in the Department of French &amp; Italian and the Department of American Studies &amp; Ethnicity<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/edwin-hill\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  \n                    Edwin Hill\n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>His book <em>Black Soundscapes White Stages\u00a0<\/em>appeared with Johns Hopkins University Press in 2013. Recent scholarship appears in the edited volumes:\u00a0<em>Sounds Senses\u00a0<\/em>(Liverpool UP, 2021),\u00a0<em>The New Modernist Studies\u00a0<\/em>(Cambridge UP, 2021), and\u00a0<em>Transpositions: Migration, Translation, Music\u00a0<\/em>(Liverpool UP, 2021). Public facing scholarship includes editorial pieces in\u00a0<em>33 Carats<\/em>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>a limited-edition hip hop fanzine. He is also the creator, host, and executive producer of\u00a0<em>Dance Hubs,\u00a0<\/em>an audio docu-series about street dance and spaces of creative movement.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/consortium\/podcasts\/dance-hubs\/\">https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/consortium\/podcasts\/dance-hubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/stanley-huey\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Stanley Huey\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-10.19.05-AM.png\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Professor of Psychology and American Studies and Ethnicity<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/stanley-huey\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  \n                    Stanley Huey\n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stan Huey is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California (USC), with a joint appointment in American Studies and Ethnicity. His research focuses on reducing disparities in behavioral health by optimizing treatments for ethnic minority and high-risk populations, with a particular focus on the effects of culturally-tailored treatments. His research has been funded by the\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Institute of Mental Health<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">American Foundation for Suicide Prevention<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and the\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">William T. Grant Foundation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. He also teaches classes addressing mental health and diversity, and recent courses include culture and mental health, the psychology of African Americans, race and crime, and the psychology of racial bias.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanhuey.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">www.stanhuey.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/kara-keeling\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kara Keeling\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-25-at-2.08.26-PM.png\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Chair of the Division of Cinema and Media Studies<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/kara-keeling\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  \n                    Kara Keeling\n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kara Keeling is Professor and the current Chair of Cinema and Media Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Keeling is author of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9780814748336\/queer-times-black-futures\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Queer Times, Black Futures<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(New York University Press, 2019) and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/the-witchs-flight\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Witch&#8217;s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Duke University Press, 2007) and coeditor (with Josh Kun) of a selection of writings about sound and American Studies entitled <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanquarterly.org\/interact\/beyond_sound.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and (with Colin MacCabe and Cornel West) a selection of writings by the late James A. Snead entitled <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/9781403911834\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">European Pedigrees\/African Contagions: Racist Traces and Other Writing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). Keeling is currently a co-editor of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/boundary-2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">boundary2: an international journal of literature and culture.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/oneka-labennett\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oneka LaBennett \">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2024\/11\/LaBennett.jpg\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Oneka LaBennett\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Gender and Sexuality Studies,  Director of the Black Studies Center<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/oneka-labennett\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  \n                    Oneka LaBennett \n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Oneka LaBennett is an anthropologist and a leading scholar of Black girlhood studies, the African Diaspora in the U.S., Caribbean migration and Afro-Asian intimacies, popular culture and hip hop studies, Black feminism, and gender and environmental catastrophe in the Caribbean. LaBennett is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9781479827015\/global-guyana\/\"><em>Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond<\/em> <\/a>(NYU Press 2024), <a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9780814752487\/shes-mad-real\/\"><em>She&#8217;s Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn<\/em> <\/a>(NYU Press 2011), and co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/books\/racial-formation-in-the-twenty-first-century\/paper\">Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century<\/a><\/em> (UC Press 2012). Her Op-eds and public commentary on figures such as Vice President Kamala Harris, Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Nicki Minaj have appeared in platforms such as <em>Ms. Magazine, Newsweek, The Guardian, Politico,<\/em> and NBCNews.com. <em>Elle Magazine<\/em> ranked her course, \u201cWomen in Hip Hop,\u201d among the top ten in a list of \u201cCollege Classes that Give Us Hope for the Next Generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/jonathan-leal\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jonathan Leal\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-25-at-2.13.29-PM.png\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Assistant Professor of English <\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/jonathan-leal\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  \n                    Jonathan Leal\n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leal.studio\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jonathan Leal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0is a scholar, educator, and musician born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley, the South Texas region at the border of the United States and Mexico. Now based in Los Angeles, Leal\u2019s work focuses on creative resistances to the bordered world. He earned a PhD in Modern Thought &amp; Literature from Stanford University and is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is the author of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/dreams-in-double-time\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0(Duke University Press, 2023), co-editor of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/cybermedia-9781501357053\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0(Bloomsbury, 2021), as well as\u00a0co-editor of \u201cExercises in Joyful Improvisational Practice,\u201d a special issue of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/liquid-blackness\/issue\/9\/1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">liquid blackness<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Additionally, he is also the co-creator of numerous musical projects, including releases featured in\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pitchfork<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Latino USA<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Democracy Now<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Leal\u2019s writing has appeared in the\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boston Globe<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Journal of Popular Music Studies<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and elsewhere, and he serves on the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/shawn-mcdaniel\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Shawn McDaniel\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-25-at-2.18.22-PM-1.png\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity <\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/shawn-mcdaniel\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  \n                    Shawn McDaniel\n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shawn McDaniel is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Director of Graduate Studies for ASE. Intersecting Caribbean, Latin American, Latinx, and Scottish Gaelic literary and cultural studies and intellectual history, his research and pedagogy explore subjectivity, power, aesthetics, modernism, race, gender, sexuality, and dissidence in print, visual, and sonic cultures of the Americas from the nineteenth century to the present. He is the author of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com\/9780826502292\/centenary-subjects\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Centenary Subjects: Race, Reason, and Rupture in the Americas<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Vanderbilt University Press, 2021), and of a forthcoming book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cuban Chic: Queer Deco and Diasporic Modernism in New York<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Prior to joining the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, he was Assistant Professor of Romance Studies and Latina\/o Studies and the Emerson-Krapels Faculty Fellow at Cornell University.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/lydie-moudileno\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lydie Moudileno \">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2024\/11\/Moudileno.jpg\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Lydie Moudileno\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Chair of the Department of French and Italian and Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French, with secondary appointments in the departments of American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature.<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/lydie-moudileno\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  \n                    Lydie Moudileno \n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Her research focuses on literary and cultural productions from the Francophone world, in particular the Caribbean, and West and Central Africa, as well as postcolonial France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/admire-mseba\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Admire Mseba\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2025\/10\/CORRECT.png\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Assistant Professor of History <\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/admire-mseba\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  \n                    Admire Mseba\n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Admire Mseba is an assistant professor in the Van Hunnick Department of History at the University of Southern California. He is a historian of Africa with particular interests in the social, environmental and economic histories of Zimbabwe and the broader region of Southern Africa. He is the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Society, Power and Land in Northeastern Zimbabwe, ca 1560-1960<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Athens: OH, Ohio University Press, 2024). His work has appeared in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">African Studies Review,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Journal of Southern African Studies,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0the<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0International Journal of African Historical Studies, African Economic History, the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and in several edited collections. He teaches courses in the deep and recent African past as well as in African environmental and economic history. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/melissa-daniels-rauterkus\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Melissa Rauterkus\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-25-at-1.44.52-PM.png\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Associate Professor of English <\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/melissa-daniels-rauterkus\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  \n                    Melissa Rauterkus\n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Melissa Rauterkus is an associate professor in the Department of English. She writes about and teaches African American literature and literary history. She is the author of\u00a0<\/span><i>Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race: Rethinking Blackness in the African American Novel<\/i>\u00a0(LSU Press, 2020), which won the SAMLA Studies Book Award and received Honorable Mention for the MLA\u2019s William Sanders Scarborough Prize.\u00a0She has published essays in\u00a0<i>African American Literature in Transition, 1990-2000<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/francille-wilson\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Francille Rusan Wilson \">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2024\/11\/Wilson.jpg\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Francille Rusan Wilson\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, History, and Gender and Sexuality Studies.<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/francille-wilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  \n                    Francille Rusan Wilson \n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Wilson is an intellectual and labor historian whose current research examines the intersections between black labor movements, black social scientists, and black women\u2019s history during the Jim Crow era. Her book, <em>The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950<\/em>, was awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize for the best book in African American Women\u2019s history by the Association of Black Women Historians. Wilson was the inaugural director of USC\u2019s Black Studies Initiative\/Emerging Center. In 2023, she was the recipient of the Carter Godwin Woodson Scholars Medallion from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/hajar-yazdiha\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hajar Yazdiha\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-4.jpg\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Associate Professor of Sociology<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/hajar-yazdiha\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  \n                    Hajar Yazdiha\n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hajar Yazdiha is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California and faculty affiliate of the USC Equity Research Institute and Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights. She is currently an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and a former Racial Justice Fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School&#8217;s Carr Center for Human Rights, Global Scholar of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and Ford Fellow. Hajar researches the politics of belonging, examining the forces that bring us together and keep us apart as we work to forge collective futures. In addition to award-winning articles, she is author of the book,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/paperback\/9780691246475\/the-struggle-for-the-peoples-king__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!ub6a0-5dLKYRNkBaribeRQDhMbPeN8Gc_d80NKuc2_leIPUX9npH_kxNF9E6QdoPSVHX2cXxz59jYssuX46W$\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Struggle for the People\u2019s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0with Princeton University Press. She is also a public scholar whose writing and research has been featured in outlets including The LA Times, NPR, Time Magazine, BBC News, The Hill, and The Grio.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/mlondolozi-zondi\/\"  aria-label=\"Read more about Mlondi Zondi\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/461\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design.jpg\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/mlondolozi-zondi\/\" >\n                  \n                    Mlondi Zondi\n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mlondi Zondi\u00a0(assistant professor, comparative literature) is a scholar, performance artist, and dramaturg. They are currently working on a first book that traces colonialism\u2019s effects on bodily integrity in Africa and its Diaspora.\u00a0Published essays by Mlondi appear in <em>TDR: The Drama Review<\/em>, <em>ASAP Journal, Contemporary Literature, Espace Art Actuel,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Liquid Blackness<\/em>, <em>Mortality<\/em>, <em>Performance Philosophy, <\/em>and <em>Safundi<\/em>. Mlondi teaches courses in global Black thought, queer cinema and visual art, and performance theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":306,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-426","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Affiliated Faculty - USC Black Studies Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bsc\/affiliated-faculty-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Affiliated Faculty - 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