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\n Peter C. Mancall, Principal Investigator<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Peter C. Mancall<\/strong>\u00a0is a historian of early North America, the early modern Atlantic World, and Native American history. He has written five\u00a0books<\/a>, edited ten others, and has written for\u00a0American Heritage<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, as well as historical journals, and his work has been featured on NPR’s \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d and \u201cThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/a>.\u201d Current projects include\u00a0American Origins<\/em>, which will be volume one of the Oxford History of the United States, and\u00a0Lord of Misrule: Thomas Morton and the Tragic Origins of New England<\/em>, which is under contract with Basic Books. In 2012 he delivered the inaugural Mellon Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania; a revised version of his lectures will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2015.\u00a0 He is USC Distinguished Professor, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute<\/a>, Professor of\u00a0History<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Anthropology<\/a>, and Economics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n William Deverell<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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William Deverell<\/strong> is an American historian with a focus on the nineteenth and twentieth century American West. He has written works on political, social, ethnic, and environmental history. He is the founding director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West<\/a>. He is one of founding directors of the Los Angeles Service Academy<\/a>, a high school outreach initiative that teaches high school students about the infrastructural networks of Southern Callifornia. He also directs the USC Libraries Collections Convergence Initiative. Current projects include the Chinatown History Project and the West on Fire Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Sean Fraga<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Sean Fraga<\/strong>\u00a0is an environmental historian of the North American West and eastern Pacific Ocean during the long nineteenth century. He specializes in connections between U.S. imperial expansion, Native sovereignty, technology, and the environment. Fraga\u2019s digital humanities research focuses on digital mapping and on scholarly uses of augmented reality.<\/p>\n

Fraga\u2019s book project,\u00a0Ocean Fever: Steam Power,\u00a0Transpacific Trade, and American\u00a0Colonization of Puget Sound<\/em>, is under contract with Yale University Press for publication in the Lamar Series in Western History.<\/p>\n

Fraga is the project director for Booksnake<\/a>, a multidisciplinary experiment in mobilizing augmented reality as an interface for scholarly research. Booksnake lets researchers, educators, and students view digitized archival materials in the real world, making it feel like digital items are physically present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Ann Marie Yasin<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Ann Marie Yasin<\/strong> specializes in Roman and late antique architecture and material culture and holds a joint appointment in the departments of Art History and Classics.\u00a0Her particular research interests include experience and perception of the built environment, decorative and epigraphic landscapes, commemoration, urbanism, material culture of religion, and long histories of display and reception of sites and artifacts.<\/p>\n

Yasin\u2019s writing on social and political dimensions of sacred architecture and art includes her first book,\u00a0Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult, and Community\u00a0<\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2009), and more recent studies on memory and sacred landscapes, spatiality and perception of devotional graffiti, and architectural frameworks of early Christian relic installations. Her current book project,\u00a0Re-Building Histories: Architectural Temporality from Augustus to Justinian<\/em>, investigates correlations between architectural restoration and notions of continuity, change, monumentality and ephemerality from the first to sixth centuries CE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Former Council Members\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Lisa Bitel<\/a><\/strong>, Dean’s Professor of Religion and Professor of Religion and History<\/p>\n

Cavan Concannon<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Religion<\/p>\n

Philip J. Ethington<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of History, Political Science and Spatial Sciences<\/p>\n

Alice Gambrell<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of English<\/p>\n

Akira Mizuta Lippit<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0T.C. Wang Family Endowed Chair in Cinematic Arts; Vice Dean of Faculty; Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Comparative Literature<\/p>\n

Lisa Pon<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Art History<\/p>\n

Daniel Richter<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Classics<\/p>\n

Vanessa R. 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