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Dr. Oneka LaBennett Receives USC Dornsife Dean’s Emblem Award

Dr. LaBennett is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Gender and Sexuality Studies at USC Dornsife.

 

Congratulations to Dr. Oneka LaBennett on receiving the inaugural USC Dornsife Dean’s Emblem Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the space of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging.

The award recognizes faculty and graduate students of the Dornsife community 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 building inclusive communities.

Dr. LaBennett is the author of She’s Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn, the only ethnographic monograph on Brooklyn’s Caribbean adolescent girls’ identity mediations vis-à-vis popular culture. Her forthcoming book, Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond, is set to be published by NYU Press in April 2024.

Dr. LaBennett will be recognized at the USC Dornsife Recognition Event on January 31, 2024, from 3:00 -4:30 p.m. at the Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, Room 101.

For more information about Dr. LaBennett’s work, please check her profile here. For more on the award, please check this webpage for details.