{"id":1790,"date":"2024-03-18T23:33:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T23:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cis\/?page_id=1790"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:30:29","slug":"people-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cis\/people-2\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n\n            \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--stacking-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--stacking-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n            <div class=\"header-container\">\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          The CIS Team\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>The Center for International Studies includes a small central core staff and a faculty program director. Our programs provide financial, intellectual, and logistical support for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students who have an interest in international relations. The center also has established an advisory board of leading individuals and experts drawn from department of Political Science and International Relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    \n            <div class=\"cards-container\">\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          Saori N. Katada, Director\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Saori N. Katada<\/strong>\u00a0is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California and served recently as vice president of the International Studies Association (April 2021\u2013March 2022). Most recent her book\u00a0<em>Japan\u2019s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific<\/em>\u00a0was published by Columbia University Press in July 2020. She is also co-author of two recent books:\u00a0<em>The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 2017), and\u00a0<em>Taming Japan\u2019s Deflation: The Debate over Unconventional Monetary Policy<\/em>\u00a0(Cornell University Press, 2018). She has her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Political Science) and her BA from Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo). Before joining USC, she served as a researcher at the World Bank in Washington DC, and as International Program officer at the UNDP in Mexico City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2023\/09\/Saori-N.-Katada-768x1024.jpg\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2023\/09\/Saori-N.-Katada-768x1024.jpg 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          Matt Stevens, Associate Director\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Matt Stevens <\/strong>is the Associate Director of the Center for International Studies. In this role, he manages the center\u2019s activities in support of the director\u2019s strategic vision. Prior to joining CIS, he served as the senior managing editor at the USC Rossier School of Education, where he edited publications and served as the dean\u2019s speechwriter. He has also worked as an editor for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; as production editor at Stanford University Press; and as managing editor at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, where he collaborated closely with the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. Matt earned a master\u2019s degree in African history from UCLA and a doctorate in Educational leadership at USC Rossier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2023\/09\/Matt-Stevens-768x1024.jpg\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2023\/09\/Matt-Stevens-768x1024.jpg 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          Linda Kim, Senior Program Specialist\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Linda Kim<\/strong> is the Senior Program Specialist of the Center for International Studies.\u00a0Linda spearheads events and assists with funding support,\u00a0communication endeavors, and business transactions.\u00a0She helps to oversee our program for onboarding and assigning undergraduate research assistants to CIS-funded projects with faculty and PhD students. This program\u2014informally called the CIS Institute\u2014has grown to more than 50 undergrads per year, and Linda brings her expertise working in academic communities to enhance the center\u2019s culture of research support. She has worked with faculty, PhD students and undergraduates at UC Irvine, and most recently at the USC Korean Studies Institute. She studied English as an undergraduate at UC Irvine. Linda is also a founding investor of a local social-enterprise that operates as a market, cafe and community space in South LA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2023\/09\/Linda-Kim-768x1024.jpg\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2023\/09\/Linda-Kim-768x1024.jpg 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n        <\/div>\n    \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n       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