CSII Faculty Affiliates

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Past and present faculty affiliate members are listed in alphabetical order by last name below.

 


Hortencia Amaro

Dean's Professor, Social Work and Preventive Medicine
Associate Vice Provost, Community Research Initiatives
USC School of Social Work
E-mail: hamaro@usc.edu
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Maria Aranda

Associate Professor, Department of Adult Mental Health and Wellness and Executive Director of the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging
USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
Email:aranda@usc.edu
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Reynaldo Baca

Professor, Clinical Education
Co-director, Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research
USC Rossier School of Education                                 Email: rbaca@usc.edu
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Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati

Associate Professor in Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine
Director, Tobacco Education and Material Lab
Co-chair, Capacity Building and Training Committee, Global Health Institute
Director, Community Outreach and Education, Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Email:baezcond@hsc.usc.edu
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Sandra Ball-Rokeach

Professor, Communication and Journalism
Director, Communication Technology and Community Program
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
E-Mail: ballrok@usc.edu
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Estela Bensimon

Professor, Higher Education
Director, Center for Urban Education
USC Rossier School of Education
E-Mail: bensimon@usc.edu
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Laurie Brand

Robert Grandford Wright Professor, International Relations and Middle East Studies 
Director, Center for Middle East Studies
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
E-mail: brand@usc.edu
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Michael R. Cousineau

Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine and Sol Price School of Public Policy
USC Keck School of Medicine
E-mail: cousinea@usc.edu
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Juan De Lara

Assistant Professor, American Studies and Ethnicity
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Science
E-mail: jdelara@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Alicia C. Dowd

Professor, Education, Pennsylvania State University
Senior Research Associate, Center for the Study of Higher Education, Penn State
E-mail: alicia.dowd@usc.edu
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Phil Ethington

Professor, History, Political Science and Spatial Sciences
Co-director, USC Center for Transformative Scholarship
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
E-Mail: philipje@usc.edu
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Niels W. Frenzen

Clinical Professor of Law
Director, USC Law Immigration Clinic
USC Gould School of Law
E-Mail: nfrenzen@law.usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Zach Gassoumis

Research Assistant Professor, Gerontology
USC School of Gerontology
E-mail:
 gassoumi@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

G. Thomas Goodnight

Professor, Communication
Visiting Scholar, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
E-Mail: gtg@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Sarah Gualtieri

Associate Professor, History and American Studies and Ethnicity
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
E-Mail: gualtier@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Ange-Marie Hancock

Associate Professor, Political Science and Gender Studies
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
(formerly Associate Director of USC CSII)
E-mail:
 ahancock@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

Professor, Sociology 
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
E-mail: sotelo@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Stanley J. Huey

Associate Professor, Psychology and American Studies and Ethnicity
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
E-Mail: hueyjr@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Jane Junn

Professor, Political Science
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
E-Mail: junn@usc.edu
Web: Webpage>>

Michele Kipke

Professor, Pediatrics
Vice Chair of Research, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
USC Keck School of Medicine
E-mail: mkipke@chla.usc.edu 
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Josh Kun

Professor, USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism and USC Dornsife Department of American Studies and Ethnicity
Director, The Popular Music Project, USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center
E-mail: jkun@usc.edu
Web: joshkun.com

Lon Kurashige

Associate Professor, History and Spatial Sciences
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
E-mail: kurashig@usc.edu
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Dan Lainer-Vos

Assistant Professor, Sociology
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: lainer-vos@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Morris Levy

Assistant Professor, Political Science 
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Email: morrisl@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Steven Lopez

Professor, Psychology and Social Work
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, USC School of Social Work
E-Mail: lopezs@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Abe Lowenthal

Professor Emeritus, International Relations
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
E-mail: afl@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Tatiana Melguizo

Associate Professor, Education
USC Rossier School of Education
E-Mail: melguizo@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Donald E. Miller

Leonard K. Firestone Professor of Religion, Professor of Religion and Sociology 
Executive Director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture 
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
E-Mail: demiller@usc.edu 
Web: Webpage >>

Roseann Mulligan

Charles M. Goldstein Professor of Community Denistry
Associate Dean, Community Health Programs and Hospital Affairs  
Chair, Division of Dental Public Health and Pediatric Denistry 
Professor of Gerontology, USC Davis School of Gerontology
Email: mulligan@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

 

Dowell Myers

Professor, Public Policy
Director, Population Dynamics Research Group 
USC Sol Price School of Public Policy 
(founding Associate Director of USC CSII)

Email: dowell@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Aerol Arnold Chair of English
Professor, English and American Studies and Ethnicity
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
E-mail: vnguyen@usc.edu 
Web: Webpage >>

 

Gary Dean Painter

Professor, Public Policy
Director of Social Policy, USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation
USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
E-Mail: gpainter@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Rhacel Parrenas

Professor, Sociology and Gender Studies
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
E-Mail: parrenas@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Manuel Pastor

Co-Director, Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII)
Director, Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE)
Professor, Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity 
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
E-mail: mpastor@usc.edu  

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Robert Rueda

Professor, Education and Psychology 
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Rossier School of Education
E-mail: rueda@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Emily Ryo

Associate Professor, Law and Sociology
USC Gould School of Law
E-mail:

Web: Webpage >>

Leland Saito

Associate Professor, Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity 
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
E-mail: lsaito@usc.edu 
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George J. Sanchez

Professor, American Studies and Ethnicity and History 
Vice Dean for Diversity and Strategic Initiatives
Director, USC Center for Diversity and Democracy 
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
E-mail: georges@usc.edu 
Web: Webpage >>

Cherrie Short

Professor of Practice and Associate Dean, Global and Community Initiatives
E-mail: cshort@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Jamy Stillman

Assistant Professor, Education
Rossier School of Education
E-mail: jstillma@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Roberto Suro

Professor, USC Annenberg School of Communication and Price School of Public Policy
Director, Tomás Rivera Policy Institute
E-mail: suro@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Avelardo Valdez

Professor, Adults and Healthy Aging
USC School of Social Work
E-mail: avelardv@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Jody Agius Vallejo

Associate Director, Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration
Associate Professor, Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
E-Mail: vallejoj@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

 

Francille Wilson

Associate Professor, American Studies and Ethnicity and History 
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences 
E-mail: frwilson@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

Hajar Yazdiha

Assistant Professor, Sociology
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
E-mail: hyazdiha@usc.edu
Web: Webpage >>

 

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